Welcome

Locating hard-to-find, out-of-print, rare & collectible books. Specialists in collection-building  for individuals, libraries and institutions. If you can't find what you are looking for, try browsing by topic, or send a request.

Top Prices Paid for Fine Collections. Especially interested in scholarly and unusual or antiquarian libraries consisting of Literature, Medicine, Natural History, Theology, Science (German also!) Philosophy and Military titles.  

Featured Items

Issued in 1878 by Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith, publishers of the New York Weekly ("The Leading Story and Sketch Paper of The Age"), the decorated boards are of brown cloth with a picture of Tom The Bootblack (the title of one of the reprint versions) on the front. There may have been a green variant. Spine depicts a setting sun, an arrow heading straight - on the vertical - for its target, the words "Illustrated" about three-quarters of the way down the spine, and "The American News Co." at spine's bottom.Corners lightly bumped, and only a very occasional boy-like thumb-smudge or crimped corner to page. Slight spine lean. Chapter headings appear at the top of every page, and on p. 249 what should read "Hugh Betrays His Principal" reads instead "Hugh Aetrays His Principal." Clean, bright copy of one of Alger's scarcest titles, and hardest for collectors to come by. THE WESTERN BOY, OR THE ROAD TO SUCCESS
Alger, Horatio (Jr.)
NEW YORK: Street and Smith, 1878. Issued in 1878 by Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith, publishers of the New York Weekly ("The Leading Story.. more
Price: $950.00
THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING : (CLAVICULA SALOMONIS)
Mathers, S. Liddell MacGregor (Translator)
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1984. MacGregor's now-classic 1909 translation (from seven manuscripts in the British museum) of a much older work of mysticism. Contains spells.. more
Price: $65.00
THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS OR, ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART OF WAR (Revised, Corrected Edition) Translated from the Latest Edtion, Revised and Corrected by the Author: With Illustrative Notes, by Henry Coppee.
Marmont, Marshal (Duke of Ragusa)
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. First published in Paris in 1845, as DE L' ESPRIT DES INSTITUTIONS MILITAIRES, this English translation comprises "a condensation of.. more
Price: $1,750.00
BUDDHAS OF THE CELESTIAL GALLERY
Shrestha, Romio and Ian A. Baker (Introduction by Deepak Chopra)
San Rafael, California: Mandala Publishing, 2011. "Awaken the divine within and in each single person you meet in your life," reads the quote on the back.. more
Price: $75.00
Topic Notification


© Aardvark Books 2012
powered by Bibliopolis