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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1891-1892. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good/none as issued. A very good, complete limited edition in 32 volumes. Limited to one thousand copies, this set being number 271. Green cloth boards with paper label. Top edges gilt. Various conditions, but all very good. Fraying to most crowns, and hinge starting on some volumes. Bumped and… Read more about this item

London: J. Banners, W. Slackman, F. Rennington, W. Jones, T. Newton, and R. Bland, ca. 1790. Later printing. Full calf. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus later printing of Milton's opus magnus. Full calf with minor loss at crown and foot of spine. Includes 'The life of John Milton' by Elijah Fenton. Frontis, xviii,[2],316p.,12 engraved… Read more about this item

Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/missing. A very good plus first edition. Missing dust jacket. Blue cloth binding with silver title stamping. Dust marks to page edges, top edge painted orange. Endpapers toned, minor foxing. Tiny "Times Book Club" ink stamp on rear pastedown. 297 pp. 5 x 7&1/2 inches… Read more about this item

[Wiesbaden]: Insel-Verlag, 1954. First Thus. Pictorial boards. Fine/near fine. A fine two-volume set of the German translation in near fine dust wrappers. First thus in this translation. Text in german. Green pictorial boards with a ribbon marker in both volumes.Volume I dust wrapper shows a small hole on front, both dust wrappers have label residue on lower spine.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. A very good plus first edition in a good plus dust jacket. Red cloth boards with facsimile signature. Mild shelfwear at head of spine. Multiple closed tears (one at 2.5") and creases on dust jacket at top and bottom edges Small dampstain to front of… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus later printing by the Knickerbocker Press. Red cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. head and tail of spine folded lightly. Very light scratch to back cover. Mild rubbing to corners. Foxing to page edges. Binding is sturdy and square.… Read more about this item

New York: Illustrated Modern Library, 1943. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. Warren Chappell. A near fine Illustrated Modern Library edition in a very good, original slipcase. Blue quarter cloth under blue paper boards with fine Warren Chappell illustration centerpiece on cover. Top edge painted blue. 3 digit number neatly inked on first free end paper. Small Levinson's… Read more about this item

New York: Little Leather Library, 1921. Redcroft Edition. Leatherette. Very good. A very good promotional Little Leather Library Redcroft Edition circa 1921. Green and copper embossed leatherette binding showing shelf wear and rubbing at head and tail of spine, and corners. Leatherette still supple. Toning to pages. Binding tight and square. 94 pp. 48mo, 3… Read more about this item

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1869. Nouvelle Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. Beautifully bound partial set in green half leather over black and green marbled paper boards. Gilt title on spine. Four raised bands. Rubbing to edges and bumped corners of paper boards on some volumes. Mauprat showing rubbing to spine. Blue marbled end papers. Previous owner's inscription… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. First printing. Very Good. This edition is limited to 750 copies and the type has been distributed. Unnumbered copy. Quarter cloth leather spine with grey paper boards. Corners wearing, leather missing 1/8" at head of spine. Leather has a long thin indentation on front.… Read more about this item

London: Harper & Bros., 1904. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. F. Strothman. Title page reads: London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers : : MCMIV. Red cloth boards with yellow title and full color printing of Adam at his journal with 2 monkeys. Seven gatherings with printer's signature marks. Covers soiled from handling. Sunning to spine.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, ND [ca. 1864]. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good first edition thus. Decorative brown cloth boards stamped in black and gilt, brown endpapers, brown edge decoration. "Alta Edition" imprinted on upper front cover. Last page shows an archaic number "1" stamped in center of page, somewhat below the words, "The End." Dust… Read more about this item