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New York: Norton and Co., 1932. First edition as noted.
Signed by Hamilton to the half-title. Tight, unread copy with some toning to the spine and board edges; very good indeed in substantially complete good dust wrapper with toning, rubbing, some chipping and a few slight tears.
An uncommon first in dust wrapper and an even scarcer signature.

First printings of the graphic version of Harari's best selling survey of the entire length of human history.
Both volumes include a specially designed label, each signed by Harari.
Illustrated boards, no dust wrapper as issued. Both volumes near fine with a little bumping and small smudge to front cover of volume 2.
Note: these are heavy books and will require additional postage.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. Limited Edition 632/ 742 copies (700 for sale), printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on Zanders handmade paper. Slight browning to board edges else fine without dust wrapper as issued.

First printing of first edition and uncommon thus.
A cornerstone of legal thought, Hart's work has been hailed as "the most important work of legal philosophy written in the twentieth century". It has remained "one of the most influential texts of analytical legal philosophy", as well as "the most successful work of analytical jurisprudence ever to appear in the common law world".
A nice, unmarked and fine copy. Unclipped dust wrapper is very good indeed with a few edge tears and rubbing along top of front panel and a small, barely noticeable sticker to bottom of spine.

Limited edition 229/310. Though not called for, this copy inscribed by Hass and signed by Trethewey.
Fine in sewn wrappers. An attractive publication.

Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1966.
Limited edition, one of 500 Copies, printed on Fabriano Paper in Monotype Van Dijck. Illustrated with 19 Mounted Letter Press Facsimiles of Title pages in Red and Black on Paper closely Simulating those used by Mosher.
This is the printer's copy, inscribed by Baskin and presented to Stanley Clifford "with the affection of" Leonard Baskin, dated 1967. Clifford started as a hand leather bookbinder at Bennett Book Studio in Manhattan. He came to be respected as one of the finest craftsmen practicing this trade, a reputation that allowed work to follow him to Deer Isle, ME where he and fellow islander Leonard Baskin became close friends, attracted by a mutual interest in the book arts.
Ironically, an unbound copy in 20 signatures. Some staining to rear page and signature spines.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1963. Sixth Impression. Previous owner's name in pencil, spine little slanted, boards slightly rubbed. Near fine in near fine price clipped dust wrapper with toned spine.

Very good, spine tips and corners rubbed. Internally fine with no markings.

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First Edition. Fine in like dust wrapper.

Knopf: New York 1990. First Edition. Author's Binding, a specially bound copy in quarter leather to be presented to close associates of the author. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, five raised bands, gilt titling. Inscribed by the poet to friends from his time at Amherst on the Frost Fellowship.A fine copy.

Suntup Editions, 2021.
Numbered edition, limited to 250 copies signed by artist Thomas Canty. This is a presentation copy marked "PC" without a number.
Quarter cloth binding with custom designed letterpress printed sides, and a foil stamped spine label. Endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra, and the edition is printed offset on Mohawk Via Vellum. Fine in slipcase.

Neat name, spine leaning a bit, otherwise a fine unmarked copy in dust wrapper, clipped at corners (price still intact), one open and one closed edge tear and a few small chips. Overall, a very attractive copy of this classic, difficult to find in hardcover.

Charleston (SC): 2014. Facsimile of First Edition, created by photographing both the original "bannered" edition and the "disclaimered" edition. Limited edition, this is #20 of 200, though the book is scarcer than even the limited print run would suggest. A Fine copy in printed wrappers.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. One of the 445 copies bound in quarter cream parchment with blue cloth boards. Title and device in gold on the spine. Illustrated with two watercolour paintings and 40 crayon drawings.
Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Flint on the colophon. Additionally, Sir William has inscribed the copy for his sister Charlotte: "My dearest Lottie's copy of my Herrick, from Willie, April 1955".
Flint's reference to "my" Herrick indicates how personal a venture this book was for him. As press proprietor Christopher Sanford explains in Cock-a-Hoop:
"This was a book that I printed for the artist at his request and expense. Indeed the type was already set when he asked me to make it a Cockerel, and all the subsequent details of its production were exactly to his specifications. The illustrations were no commission for Sir William but as he maintained a long-sustained labour of love, a painter's tribute to a great poet."
Spine a little discolored, boards… Read More

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Later Printing. 1972 winner of Nobel Prize. Slight mottling to front board, otherwise an unusally nice, square copy. About fine in like dust wrapper (spine ever so slightly faded, area of slight darkening, trifling edgewear).

Inscribed to Bill Smith and signed by Hofstadter. While not definitively established, the recipient could be fellow historian William E(rnest) Smith, whose work The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics is cited by Hostadter as a source and influence on his interpretations on anti-bank views (pages 355-56).
Some pencil annotations sprinkled sporadically throughout the book. A very good copy in 60% present dust wrapper (missing the back panel and half of spine). A complete but good only dust wrapper from the third printing, published in 1949, is also included (picture of front panel is from first printing dust wrapper, picture of back panel is from third printing, picture of spine is an overlay of both).

First Edition of the first volume of Huxley's autobiography.
A signed presentation copy inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Huxley for Corliss Lamont. Lamont, featured on pages 197-198 of the book, was the youngest son of Thomas W. Lamont, Huxley's banker and future Chairman of J. P. Morgan. In 1924, the younger Lamont was a paying guest in Huxley's house in Oxford. He and Huxley continued to correspond, and in the book Huxley describes him as "an uncompromising anti-establishment and anti-religious humanist". Having previously edited a collection of essays published under the title The Humanist Frame, there may have been no greater compliment for Huxley to pay than to call someone a humanist.
As was his custom, Huxley has signed again under his name on the title page.
Regrettably, Lamont noted approximately 25 passages of interest to him with a red ink line in the margin (including, perhaps understandably, the passages about him). The book also has a musty odor to it.
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