Rare books from Old Saratoga Books

London: Gerald Duckworth Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner signature (N. M. Darling) and . date on front free endpaper, jacket and several pages lightly soiled.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Acton was a vibrant member of the Aesthetic movement and a pal of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard, Lady Cunard and many others. An Indian Ass is the author's second book, and second book of poems, published while he was still a student at Oxford. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages .

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

Detroit: F. B. Dickerson Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and soiled, front hinge cracked, . tear to front pastedown endpaper.. 1912. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Dark green cloth stamped with black border and gilt lettering on front boards and gilt lettering on spine. Many photos and illustrations, including several color plates. A comprehensive veterinary science book covering horses, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, and dogs. "Compiled from the most successful Veterinarians in the world and also containing nearly Three Hundred Tried and Tested Remedies and Receipts". ; 840 pages .

Montpelier, VT: Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press. Good with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings, spine sunned, . boards heavily worn, spine cracked.. 1882. Hardcover. Subtitle: Including a County Chapter, and the Local Histories of the Towns of Montpelier, -- Capital of the State, East Montpelier, Barre, Berlin, Cabot, Calais, Fayston, Marshfield, Middlesex, Moretown, Northfield, Plainfield, Roxbury, Waitsfield, Warren, Waterbury, Woodbury and Worcester. Hayes Lord, Col. James and Nabby Langdon, Gen. Ezekiel P. Walton, Mrs. Prussia Persons Walton, Samuel Prentiss, and many others. Numerous other illustrations of Vermonters and buildings. Maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1200 pages .

New Haven, [CT]: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned and some finger soiling, boards . lightly worn, owner name on front pastedown, first gathering loose.. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown gilt-blocked cloth. Tipped-in front free endpaper printed advertisement for Forest and Stream Publishing Company publications (strip at lower corner removed). Howes H-666. An autobiography by the author at 73 years of age, relating his experiences as a cabin boy on the brig Shepherdess, adventures in California during the 1849 Gold Rush, and many saltwater fishing trips. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages .

Paris: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good; Boards lightly worn, penciled notes on front free endpapers.. 1864-66. Hardcover. Four bound volumes of the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale Zoologique D'Acclimatation, each bound in green cloth with red leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt. Two of the volumes bear the bookplate of Lady Dorothy Nevill (name covered over with black crayon). Text in French. A few illustrations in each volume. First Volume: 1864. lxviii, 1-500, 709-804 pp. Includes articles about alpacas, fish eggs, the Siamese Crested Fireback, silkworms, and aquaculture. Second Volume: 1865. lxxix, 768 pp. Includes articles on horsemeat production, oyster farming, Arabian horses, gourami fish, pine trees, and Chinese-Merino sheep hybrids. Third Volume: 1865. lxxix, 608 pp. Includes articles on introducing beef cattle in the Rio de la Plata region, pheasants, cochineal bugs, and currasows. Fourth Volume: 1866. lxxx, 61-716 pp. Includes several articles about a… Read More

London: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper . clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in.. 1914. 1st English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated and with an introduction by Hugh Elliot. Green ruled cloth. Titles stamped in gilt on spine. xci, 410 pp. + [2] pp. publisher’s ads. “Presentation copy” embossed on title page. “Sir F. Keeble, Hammels, Boars Hill, Oxford”, which indicates previous owner was Sir Frederick Keeble, the noted British botanist and professor. One of the most influential books in the history of evolutionary theory, this book was first published by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in Paris in 1809. It contravened Christian dogma about how plants and animals were divinely created in final fixed states and not transformed over time according to environmental factors. Lamarck also theorized that more complex forms of life derived from simpler ones. The 1809 first edition of this work is… Read More

Paris: A. Maestricht and J. P. Roux & Compagnie. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, light foxing and toning to . text block.. 1791. Hardcover. An 18th century biography of the French aristocrat born in the 17th century, rebound in a 19th century binding. Text in French. Uniformly rebound in three-quarter dark green cloth with black and white marbled sides. Black leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt and floral flourish stamped in gilt in center spines. xvi, 316 pp; 342 pp; 314 pp. Silk ribbon markers. A set as dashingly handsome as its subject, Louis-Francois-Armand du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1696-1788) , who was (often) a member of King Louis XV’s court, a soldier, diplomat, and celebrated womanizer. It is thought that the notorious character of Valmont in the 1782 classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses is based on Richelieu. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and have silverfish damage, one inch . split to head of spine, front hinge cracked, penciled prices on verso of . front free endpaper, pages toned and a few pages soiled and foxed.. 1888. Second Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Later printing (eighteenth thousand). Dark green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Brown coated endpapers. X, 519pp, + 32pp list of publisher’s titles dated February, 1888 plus [1]pp pink leaf printed on recto only with list of additional Darwin titles inserted between pp.6-7 of publisher’s ads. Engraved vignettes throughout text. Includes Darwin’s two-page preface dated June, 1845 and his one-page post-script dated Feb. 1st, 1860. Handsome photogravure and engraved owner bookplate on front pastedown of F. E. Dinshaw featuring portrait of woman in sari surrounded by acanthus leaf roundel. Dinshaw was a prominent Mumbai businessman in pre-partition India. Separate printed… Read More

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed, hinges cracked, pages toned and foxed, shaken. 1912. First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in blind and with two color center cameo of man in loincloth looking at house on stilts stamped on front boards. Titles in gilt on spine. xvi, 334pp. Bibliography, index, glossary. Folding map of the British Somaliland protectorate and adjacent lands at rear. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. The author spent ten years in the Colonial Medical Service in British Somaliland and describes the people, geography, wildlife, livestock, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Beograd, Serbia: Mathematicki Institut SANU. Good; Covers rubbed and bumped, pages worn.. 1996. First Printing. Softcover. 9788680593203 . Mathematical equations. A short biography of Kurepa together with 48 of his mathematical papers on Set Theory, Discrete Mathematics, General Topology, and Number Theory. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 621 pages .

NY: Beginnner. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, gift inscription on front . free endpaper, jacket lightly soiled and rubbed.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial glazed boards. Dr. Seuss' classic easy reader. Contains all the first printing points as per Younger/Hirsch 64. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages .

NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, water spot on front boards, spine cracked, some light fingersoiling.. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Vibrant illustrations by the author. Though she is best known for her soothing titles like Pat the Bunny and Junket is Nice, this bizarre and terrifying tale involves a little boy named Billy Buckingham who climbs a tree dressed in his American Indian costume to avoid having his loose tooth pulled out by a string by his mother. His maternal uncle spins a tale about a brave Native American named Mr. Buckingham who endures dismemberment by various accidents until he is only a disembodied head being spoonfed strawberries by his Caucasian granddaughter. Makes Struwwelpeter seem tame. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Nashville, TN: The Battery Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Faint rubbing to boards.. 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. 0898393124 . Photos, maps, illustrations, appendices. vii, 483pp. Green cloth binding. Reprint of this 1949 military history title about the elite First Marine Division and their history in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Map endpapers. ; Battery Press Elite Unit Series; Vol. 34; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Poor dust jacket; Spine cocked, page tops spotted, owner name on . front free endpaper, sticker liftoff on front jacket flap, jacket heavily . tattered and torn, with yellowed tape repair to rear panel.. 1964. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Blindstamped red cloth with maroon topstain. Mustard endpapers. Five-lines on colophon page, $3.95 price on front jacket flap, no isbn number on rear jacket panel The delicious adventures of young Charlie Bucket and his fabulous tour of Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory. Includes references to pygmies and Ooompa Loompa illustrations later edited from this title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages .