Titles starting with S from Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Knopf. 1988. First edition, 8vo., fine in jacket. ... more information

London: Chapman and Hall. 1868. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, 50-[51]; 20 folding plates; spine ends cracked, front hinge starting, else good or better in orig. purple cloth; ex-MHS. ... more information

Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle. 1844. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles in each volume; slight scuffing, but a handsome set in publisher's full black pebble-grain morocco with gilt stamped urns on upper and lower covers, elaborate gilt fillets on smooth spines in 5 panels, gilt lettered in 2. Designed as a continuation of Dr. Aikin's British Poets, with biographical and critical notices. ... more information

Venice: Antonio Zatta. 1771. Only edition; 12mo, pp. [2] [1]-116; the leaf following the title bears a (undecipherable by me) cryptogram; full contemporary vellum, red morocco label on spine; orig. ribbon marker intact. Alston XII, 79 locating only the Berkeley and Univ. Minn. copies; NUC the same. “Apparently published as a criticism of Baretti's Italian-English dictionary, which was first published in 1760 and appeared in a new edition in 1771. However, most of the words listed are either archaic... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton. 1905. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 330; gravure frontis, many plates; very good in orig. blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.; ex-MHS. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. 1852. 8vo, xii & 233-[234]pp., illus. title-p.; general rubbing, corners nicked, else very good in contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards, tan morocco label on spine. ... more information

New York: The Grolier Club. 1940. Edition limited to 500 copies "printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press," 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 37; frontispiece illustration; original printed tan wrappers; some wear and soiling with light vertical crease throughout; good and sound. This copy with penciled inscription on front cover: "Dolly Hamill: This might make a good reference book for you--Jack [illegible]." Also inscribed, in same hand, above first entry, Acquaviva: "Priced by Doc Rosenbach... more information

Boston: Ticknor and Co.. 1888. 8vo, pp. [4], 482; spine perished, green cloth sides preserved; sound; ex- MHS. Interesting text. ... more information

London: Fielding and Walker. 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontis and 15 engraved plates; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; joints slightly cracked, but in all a very good,sound copy. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo). ... more information

Boston: privately printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers at the Merrymount Press. 1916. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. vii-[viii], 94-[96]; ornamented title-page; orig. half black cloth, light wear to extremities, some browning to endpapers from acidic later chemise, else fine. Smith 439. ... more information

Cantabrigiae: typis academicis. 1705. 3 volumes, folio (39 cm), pp. [22], 932; [2], 775; [2], 718, [36]; text printed in Greek and Roman character and double column throughout, engraved vignette title printed in red and black in vol. I only, half- titles only in vols. II-III, as issued, engraved headpiece (repeated in each volume) and 3 engraved historiated initials (also repeated) after Simon Gribelin; a nice copy in full late 18th- or early 19th-century turkey morocco, with triple gilt-ruled borders, gilt... more information

[Monterey, KY]: Larkspur Press. 1991. Edition limited to 1000 copies, this 1 of 100 hand-bound in boards, tall 8vo, pp. [4], 13, [2]; title-page printed in black and brown; a crisp, nearly new copy in original brown, silver, and red paste-paper covered boards, paper label on front cover printed in black and brown; with previous owner's name discreetly penned at top of first blank. Poems exploring the spiritual aspects of land and nature, by the Kentucky novelist, professor, farmer, and environmentalist ... more information

Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee. 1948. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 322; a fine copy accompanied by two variant dust jackets by Ronald Clyne printed on different paper stocks and carrying dissimilar photographs of the author on the back panel. This copy inscribed by Derleth on the front free endpaper: "For Waring Jones, Sincerely, August Derleth." ... more information

New York: Daniel Cooledge. 1834. 32mo, pp.192; orig. blue cloth, publisher's red paper label applied to upper cover; label faded, minor foxing, good and sound. First published in London in 1782. 2 copies of this edition in NUC. ... more information

London: Morgan and Scott, n.d.. [ca. 1900]. Large 8vo, 2 p.l., unpaginated songster in perhaps 800pp., bound with: The Christian Choir, by Sankey and James McGranahan. L., n.d., pp. [4], 5-111, [1]; together, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, slightly later full vellum gilt by Birdsall of Northhampton (signed in gilt on the turn-in), spine in 6 compartments, gilt-decorated in 5, titled in 1, covers with quadruple gilt border, fleurons in the corners, enclosing red and blue hand-painted initials "M.F." in the cen... more information

AntuerpiÊ: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti. 1640. 12mo, pp. [48], 358, lxxii, [62]; engraved title-p., contemporary full calf. red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine, bottom of spine chipped, with loss of approx. 1/2 inch, the whole a bit rubbed and worn, else good and sound. Account of the Council of Trent. Oxford only in OCLC. ... more information

Zurich: Hatje Cantz. [2001]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 307, [1]; illustrated throughout in color and black & white; original maroon suede; fine copy. ... more information

Amsterdam: Scheltens & Giltay. n.d. [ca. 1930]. 8vo, pp. 256; 16 photographic plates including frontispiece; original blue cloth-backed boards, cover and spine lettered in gilt; leaning slightly, edges of boards discolored, margins of plates have a yellow hue, else very good in dust-jacket with light dampstain mostly at spine and small chips at edges and folds. Translated from the English by J. Van Reensema. Johnson, along with wife OAS, popularized camera safaris and an interest in African wildlife thr... more information

New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 183; very good in original maroon cloth, spine gilt-lettered. The history of the Indian civilization through the media of food habits. ... more information

[Minneapolis: The Lund Press. 1937]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 128; 3 plates from photographs, 6 illus. in the text; fine copy in a slightly chipped dust-jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Poetry and some prose on Indian legends, including that of Hiawatha. ... more information