Recent Arrivals from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo (21.5 cm), 284 pages. Bound in gray-tan cloth with dust jacket. Top edge of the text block shows light toning, and a small spot of faint staining. Binding and dust jacket appear almost as-new - containing only miniscule signs of wear and toning. "'Looking for Mr.… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. (21.5 cm), pp. viii. [2], 105, [1]. The binding and the dust jacket show minor wear to the extremities. A small tear (1 cm) is present on the upper edge of the rear jacket. The bottom corner edge of the rear board contains a (12 x… Read more about this item

New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1938. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. (23.5 cm), pp. vii, [3], 228. With a color illustration of Galileo preceding the title page and numerous black and white illustrations accompanying the text. Bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. Binding displays minor wear; the lower corner tip of the… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. Hardcover. See Description. Fortieth thousand. 8vo (198 mm), pp. [2], xxxiv, [2], 13-280, a-i, [1]. Bound in pale green publisher's cloth. Rubbing and wear are present to the extremities; spine caps are frayed. An area on the front board (bottom quarter) is lightly dented, causing some tearing/splitting on the verso paste… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Hardcover. See Description. Small 8vo (193 mm), pp. 254, [4 pages of adverts]. With 9 wood-engraved plates including the frontispiece and 24 wood-engraved illustrations accompanying the text. Plates are counted in the pagination. Bound in original cloth with a decorative gilt spine and a scene in gilt on the front cover depicting villagers making… Read more about this item

Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins, 1865. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (191 mm), pp. viii, [1], 12-400. With 12 illustrations including what is apparently an extra frontispiece titled "capturing the responsible party in the treatment of Union prisoners" which is not mentioned in the list of illustrations. The "certificates" leaf is present in the front. Bound in publisher's brown… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1921. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (205 mm), pp. v, [1], 5-262. With 4 color plates including the frontispiece. Bound in blue publisher's cloth. No dust jacket. Front cover contains an illustrated paper on-lay framed by a gilt floral design. Binding shows minor rubbing to the extremities. The front cover illustration displays a… Read more about this item

Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (21 cm). Copywrite, 1915, pp. 38. With 3 black and white photo plates and 20 silhouette vignettes of fairies. Two plates depict the Delaware Water Gap and Mount Minsi. 1 plate shows the Caldeno Falls. Bound in dark gray/black papered boards. No dust jacket. The title… Read more about this item

Ottowa / New York: Dovehouse Editions and Binghampton / Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. Hardcover. See Description. First English Edition. 8vo. (223 mm), pp. [2], 379, [1]. Dovehouse Studies in Literature, volume 5 and Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, volume 152. Bound in green cloth with gilt Assyrian relief image on the front cover. No dust jacket… Read more about this item

Menasha, WI: The Collegiate Press George Banta Publishing Company, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo (20 cm), pp. [8], 251, [3 pages of adverts]. With 2 fold-out illustrations depicting 1.) "Lewis machine gun .30 U.S. Govt. MFG. by Savage Arms Corp. Utica N.Y." and 2.) Colt automatic gun - sectional view model 1914." Numerous black and… Read more about this item

New York: A.J. Johnson, 1872. Hardcover. See Description. Thomas Nast, F.B. Carpenter. Small folio (28 cm), pp. xlvii, [1], 711, 7*, [1], 712-1159, [1], [8-page family register], 21, [1]. With 6 steel engraved plates - 4 by Thomas Nast including the frontispiece, 1 by F.B. Carpenter, and 1 unsigned. A fold-out color map of "Palestine" follows p. 1126, and a… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. Hardcover. See Description. First Edition, sixth impression. 8vo. (23.5 cm), pp. x, 126. Complete with 7 stereoscopic illustrations in the envelope attached to the rear inner board. Bound in maroon cloth. No dust jacket. Binding displays areas of mild rubbing, fading and discoloration. Endpapers are lightly age toned. The half-title (verso) and the title… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. (242 mm), 384 pages. Bound in quarter aqua blue publisher's cloth with blue boards. Faint toning and miniscule spotting are present to the upper edge of the text block (including one tiny aqua blue speck). Binding and dust jacket are in practically as-new… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1906. Hardcover. See Description. First French Edition? Tall 8vo. pp. vii, [1], 449, [3]. With 24 photo plates including the frontispiece and color illustrated extra title or front wrap. A fold out sheet with a small map is included in the rear. Bound in publisher's cloth with gilt title and Buddhist swastika on the front… Read more about this item

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (236 mm) pp. [2], 463, [3]. Limited edition #66 of 600, signed on the half title by George Clayton Johnson, Dennis Etchison and Christopher Conlon. Bound in cream publisher's cloth with dust jacket. As new. Binding and jacket show hardly any wear. Interior pages are… Read more about this item

Cooperstown: Stereotyped and published by H. & E. Phinney, 1828. Hardcover. See Description. 16mo in 8's (92 mm tall in boards). pp. 322 + 282. First section consists of the Psalms; the second section contains hymns with separate title page and pagination. The title for the hymns reads: "Hymns and spiritual songs in three books. by Isaac… Read more about this item

Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press, 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to (312 mm). Limited edition, large paper copy with wide margins; pp. xiii (in fact, 15), [1], 161, [1]. With 5 plates including the frontispiece "printed from the same plates used in Hon. C.W. Upham's work." No statement other than "limited edition" appears to indicate… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. First American edition. . Hardcover. See Description/Dust Jacket Included. First American edition8vo. (24 cm). pp. [6], 376, [2]. Bound in publisher's half black cloth with black papered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Eleven-year old Marianne Cadogan lives with her stern and often absent father in a big house by the… Read more about this item

London / New York: Routledge and Sons / E.P. Dutton. Hardcover. See Description. Stated third edition, no date [but c. 1890]. Tall 8vo. (227 mm), pp. 389, [1] with 8 wood engraved plate illustrations. Plates are counted with the pagination. Title page contains a small illustration of "a peasant woman of Livinallungo." 18 wood-engravings are also included with… Read more about this item

London: J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell [et al.], 1813. Hardcover. See Description. Eleventh edition (1813 printing). 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I, pp. xxiv, 121, [1], 461, [1]. Volume II, pp. [2], 612. Bound in full modern tan calf after period style with spine gilt in 6 compartments. Interior pages are generally very clean with occasional faint foxing.… Read more about this item