NEW Arrivals For July 2023 from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

Large octavo, viii, 648 pp. Contemporary full vellum with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown of Reverend William Grice (1813-1885). Scattered foxing. Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Raffet. Text in French. Binding firm. Large 8vo. A very attractive copy in a splendid binding. First edition of this richly illustrated life… Read more about this item

First American Edition. Leather. No Jacket. 338, [1] pp. 12mo. - over 7¾" - 9¾" Full period brown calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label (light wear; text has some browning and foxing - especially the title page). A nice copy in period dress. THE FIRST PSYCHIATRIC BOOK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. The first American edition reprints the second… Read more about this item

First U.k. Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp [4], 250, [2], [7] plates. Bound in contemporary quarter red leather over grey papered boards, Spine sympathetically rebacked by the Heritage Bindery with a refreshed label. The sheets are chiefly translated from a small French work, by Jauffret. Aimed at young people with the facts communicated in a question and answer mode. A very… Read more about this item

RARE, last copy seen at auction 1983, no other copies in current commerce. xv, 202 pp. " With the Compliments of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press" slip laid in. Very Good Plus, corners bumped and with small rubs. Weston's examination of the roots of the King Arthur and the Holy Grail legend. It was one of the books… Read more about this item

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); pale blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-519,[1]pp. Faintest suggestion of foxing to text edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy with a small ownership stamp of J.C. Sealy on the front pastedown. Dustjacket is unclipped with a hint of sunning to spine, and some faint, scattered foxing… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp xxxvi, 494. Original publisher's decorative olive green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on a printed slip on the front endpaper with added hotel address hand-written, '[With Bernard Shaw's compliments] I have sent a copy to the Dean, G.B.S. [4 Whitehall Court, London S.W.1] The Malvern Hotel.' Social reform. Attractive dust… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1874. Two volumes. Octavo, original full brick cloth. Housed in custom clamshell box. A near fine copy with some moderate foxing to the title page of volume 2, else clean and bright throughout with string hinges. From the library of Vincent Henry Stanton (1846 - 1924) who was Regius professor of Divinity at Cambridge University who also lectured… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. 12mo,. bound in full havanan speckled calf, smooth back decorated with golden fillets and florins, title piece, red slices (binding of the time), XXVI + 588 pp. An excellent copy. Original edition of this anonymous charge against the Society of Jesus, proposing to expose "the seditious doctrine of the Jesuits that authorizes attacks on the sacred person of… Read more about this item

Two Octavo volumes. Publisher's original cloth, bright gilt-stamped spines dispalying some staining to the covers and spines. A FIRST EDITION of this cross-cultural history of women at war, with truly global coverage, the heroines hailing from regions as diverse as the Amazon, Arabia, Ethiopia, India, and Ireland, and the conflicts including the Crusades, the Thirty Years' War, and the revolutions… Read more about this item

8vo. 156 pp. 11 portraits of forensic experts (9 photographic, 2 lithographic). Publishers Original wrappers now Mylar protected. First edition, uncommon, of this history of criminology and compilation of forensic understanding. Citing 11 of the most re- nowned and prolific experts on the subject, the author outlines criminal theory, biological and social causes of crime, types of of- fenses, and… Read more about this item

First UK edition of this witty, ironic and complex tour de forceâ (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in an unclipped near fine dust jacket with a little creasing and slight yellowing to the spine. "This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a… Read more about this item

Two volumes. 8vo. xxxiii, [i], 415; xiii, [i], 474 pp., plus 6 pages publisher's advertisements. Publisher's cloth, author and title in gilt on front covers and spines. An excellent fine set. First edition. White was one of the founders of the conflict thesis, which states that science and religion have historically been in conflict, and tried to prove it here.… Read more about this item

1st Edition 1917. 1st issue with the spine lettered in gilt and front cover lettered in blind. Very rare with the wrapper. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. enry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. In-8 bound canvas, 404 p. (Half-title present) A very good copy with some foxing in an uncut largely unread text. Original Blue paperback front & rear covers preserved In a brown gilt-stamped cloth binding. A comprehensive study of demonology. His final anti-Satanism diatribe, Gougenot, explains here the evidence of the supernatural world and its necessary inclusion of evil… Read more about this item

Collation: Complete with all pages o [4], VIII, 280 (i.e., 284) o 31 plates, plus engraved title page Language: French Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~10.5in X 7in (26.5cm x 17.5cm) .1843 1ed Divine Fairy Tales Illustrated PERSIA Arabia Turkish ART Rheal Poems Sebastien Rheal's Divine Enchantments of the East and North was a famous and highly popular 19th-century… Read more about this item

First Edition. 8vo., Brown cloth, slightly rubbed at the edges, a few scratches at the surface, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Bound with a forward lean and former owner's stamp at the edges and on the front endpaper, old glue on the rear endpaper with the publisher's advertising slip laid-in. Overall, a bright very good to… Read more about this item

Thick octavo, original blue cloth. First edition of Robinson's theory of a middle ground ("imperfect competition") somewhere between monopolies and perfect competition, which would explain unemployment. John Maynard Keynes' biographer relates that Joan Robinson (an ardent disciple of Keynes) "and several others formed a 'circus' which met weekly for the discussion of the Treatise, and R. F. Kahn retailed to… Read more about this item

8vo, 146pp., Original quarter black cloth with blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. A near-fine copy in a nice unclipped ($2.75) dust-wrapper with some light minimal wear. First edition, first printing. Text free of marks. Eight lectures on atomic weapons and the relationship between science and the wider culture of our times by… Read more about this item

Octavo, original Publisher's maroon cloth. A good to very good copy with a bright spine and strong inner hinges. Internally clean and complete. Housed in a custom clamshell box. FIRST EDITION of this groundbreaking analysis of heredity by the founder of eugenics, with the first appearance of his coined word eugenics (page 24), with an original photographic frontispiece of composite… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Bloud et Barral, 1899. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Small 8vo, printed wraps, very good, light tanning and wear. 64 pp. The author also wrote books on demonic possession, and psychological states associated with such phenomena. An intresting study on the topic. Housed in a brown slipcase with chemise.