Authors starting with A from The Kelmscott Bookshop

Philadelphia:: Joseph Crukshank,, 1783.. Hard Cover.. First American edition. Good in contemporary full leather with front board detached and rear joint cracked. There is no title label to the spine or boards. The boards are worn with bumped corners. Antiquated writing in pen to end pages and title page. Damp stain to top margin of rear endpages and occasional spotting and browning to text. Chipping and creasing to end pages and title page. The hinges were repaired at some point, though the effects o... more information

New York:: Robert Carter and Brothers,, 1873.. Very good minus in original purple cloth with gilt lettering. Light rubbing at corners and spine ends, some fading and soiling to boards. Sunday school bookplate on front pastedown, owner names on front flyleaf and early blank. One plate has been colored in by a previous owner. Literature. LIT4/03061. ... more information

London, MDCCLVI,. VG pamphlet. Bottom front corner of cover and title page creased upwards1/2, thread connecting bottom half of spine undone; Binding loose. some light staining to the righthand margin of the text, occasionally spills into text, but text by and large unaffected. General history. GENHIS02/012600. ... more information

London:: Jarrold and Sons,. Hard Cover.. Grey illustrated edge worn paper boards with red title to front board and pink title to white spine. Chipping and creasing to boards and spine. Minor rubbing to boards. Interior is clean and bright with many illustrations and advertisements. Includes fold-out map of Cambridge. 1 page of advertisements missing at rear. 143 pages +advertisements. TRA/040308. Very Good. ... more information

Paris:: Chez la Veuve Desaint,, 1775.. Hard Cover.. Bound in contemporary mottled brown leather with gilt designs to spine along with red title label. Missing free front endpaper and last page of the "Approbation" in rear. Interior is in very good condition with tight textblock and foxing. A few pages in middle have light dampstaining to margins and edges of text. Antiquated signature of previous owner in pen on the front endpage and title page. An attractive book. 437 pages. REL/033010. Very ... more information

Pittsburgh:: University of Pittsburgh Press,, 1977.. Vg in blue boards/black spine/frontis/No Dj issued/Volume in the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography BOB1509211. ... more information

New York:: Random House,, 1958.. ... more information

New York:: Random House,, 1958.. First Printing. Very good tan linen 8vo., faint darkening to edges, b/w photograph pastedown to front board. In very good d.j. (soiling and spotting, spine faded, though little chipping). Interior is mostly clean w/only a little bit of spotting. illustrated w/several b/w photos, including frontispiece. 146 pp. Drama. DRA/11143. ... more information

Philadelphia:: John C. Winston,, 1896.. Salesman's dummy copy. Very good in illustrated grey cloth boards with flaps. Illustrations in black and white. Second dummy, Child's Life of Christ, at rear, with illustrated paper boards and two-tone color illustrations. American History. AMH1/6270. ... more information

Port Washington, NY:: Kennikat Press,, 1969.. Reprint edition. Fine in green cloth. English History. ENG2/8231. ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1990.. Hard Cover.. Near fine in near fine grey illustrated dust jacket with red and black title to front and spine panels. 8vo. 278 pp. General History. EEUR71072. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. ... more information

Manchester:: Abel Heywood and Son,, 1908.. VG in side-stapled wraps/many illus. English Travel. TRA71021. ... more information

London:: J.M. Dent,, 1911.. Hard Cover.. Very good in black leatherette boards with gilt title to spine. 132 pages. LIT/101010. Very Good. ... more information

State College, PA:: The Carnation Press,, 1969.. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author. About fine in a very good+, price-clipped dustjacket. Dustjacket slightly faded at spine, with two faint spots to front panel and slight darkening to lower edge of rear flap. Drama. DRA1/02121. ... more information

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1954.. Very good tan boards; pages bright and clean. American Revolutionary History. AMEREV/10262. ... more information

Berlin:: Verlag von Julius Springer,, 1918.. Very good wrap with good dustjacket. Front cover has a private library stamp and the book contains several illustrations. German Literature. GEL1/11140. ... more information

The University of California Press,, 1989.. Very Good in a very good, bright green dust jacket. The study of a town over the course of a century. 301 pp. French History. FREHIS/6182. ... more information

Paris:: Librairie Academique Perrin,, 1966.. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Boards slightly tanned along top edges and at base of spine. French. FRE1/1072. ... more information

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1969).. Hard Cover.. Good + in Good + DJ. ... more information

New York:: Carroll and Graf Publishers,, 2007.. Hard Cover.. 8vo. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean, bright interior. Illustrated dust jacket with black spine panel and gold title to spine. 472 pages. AMERBIO/062207. Fine in Fine dj. ... more information