Rare books from Old Saratoga Books

London: Gerald Duckworth Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner signature (N. M. Darling) and . date on front free endpaper, jacket and several pages lightly soiled.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Acton was a vibrant member of the Aesthetic movement and a pal of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard, Lady Cunard and many others. An Indian Ass is the author's second book, and second book of poems, published while he was still a student at Oxford. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages .

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

London: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper . clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in.. 1914. 1st English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated and with an introduction by Hugh Elliot. Green ruled cloth. Titles stamped in gilt on spine. xci, 410 pp. + [2] pp. publisher’s ads. “Presentation copy” embossed on title page. “Sir F. Keeble, Hammels, Boars Hill, Oxford”, which indicates previous owner was Sir Frederick Keeble, the noted British botanist and professor. One of the most influential books in the history of evolutionary theory, this book was first published by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in Paris in 1809. It contravened Christian dogma about how plants and animals were divinely created in final fixed states and not transformed over time according to environmental factors. Lamarck also theorized that more complex forms of life derived from simpler ones. The 1809 first edition of this work is… Read More

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and have silverfish damage, one inch . split to head of spine, front hinge cracked, penciled prices on verso of . front free endpaper, pages toned and a few pages soiled and foxed.. 1888. Second Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Later printing (eighteenth thousand). Dark green blindstamped cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Brown coated endpapers. X, 519pp, + 32pp list of publisher’s titles dated February, 1888 plus [1]pp pink leaf printed on recto only with list of additional Darwin titles inserted between pp.6-7 of publisher’s ads. Engraved vignettes throughout text. Includes Darwin’s two-page preface dated June, 1845 and his one-page post-script dated Feb. 1st, 1860. Handsome photogravure and engraved owner bookplate on front pastedown of F. E. Dinshaw featuring portrait of woman in sari surrounded by acanthus leaf roundel. Dinshaw was a prominent Mumbai businessman in pre-partition India. Separate printed… Read More

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed, hinges cracked, pages toned and foxed, shaken. 1912. First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in blind and with two color center cameo of man in loincloth looking at house on stilts stamped on front boards. Titles in gilt on spine. xvi, 334pp. Bibliography, index, glossary. Folding map of the British Somaliland protectorate and adjacent lands at rear. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. The author spent ten years in the Colonial Medical Service in British Somaliland and describes the people, geography, wildlife, livestock, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Beginnner. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, gift inscription on front . free endpaper, jacket lightly soiled and rubbed.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial glazed boards. Dr. Seuss' classic easy reader. Contains all the first printing points as per Younger/Hirsch 64. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards and endpapers lightly dampstained, jacket . price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and lightly dampstained on interior.. 1966. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound in green cloth. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. Jacket art by Bill Logan. The Caribbean-born author wrote this prequel about the characters in Charlotte Bronte’s classic, Jane Eyre, which made both TIME magazine’s list of 100 Best Novels and Modern Library’s list of 100 Best 20th Century English-Language Novels. The book also served as the basis for the 1993 film directed by John Duigan. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

Folding Books Ltd. Very Good; Boards modestly worn and splayed, owner name and April 1962 . date inked on rear cover.. N.D.. Hardcover. A pop-up book with six scenes from the Puss in Boots fairy tale. Illustrated in color by Kathleen Hale, famous for her Orlando the Marmalade Cat children's series. The pop-ups are all vibrant, clean, and in good working order. They open up into a decorative "carousel" which can be tied by the blue ribbons bound into the illustrated paper-covered boards. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, water spot on front boards, spine cracked, some light fingersoiling.. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Vibrant illustrations by the author. Though she is best known for her soothing titles like Pat the Bunny and Junket is Nice, this bizarre and terrifying tale involves a little boy named Billy Buckingham who climbs a tree dressed in his American Indian costume to avoid having his loose tooth pulled out by a string by his mother. His maternal uncle spins a tale about a brave Native American named Mr. Buckingham who endures dismemberment by various accidents until he is only a disembodied head being spoonfed strawberries by his Caucasian granddaughter. Makes Struwwelpeter seem tame. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Nashville, TN: The Battery Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Faint rubbing to boards.. 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. 0898393124 . Photos, maps, illustrations, appendices. vii, 483pp. Green cloth binding. Reprint of this 1949 military history title about the elite First Marine Division and their history in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Map endpapers. ; Battery Press Elite Unit Series; Vol. 34; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cocked, corners rounded, . pages toned, jacket edgeworn.. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Early printing of this bestselling novel, later made into the 1949 film starring Gary Cooper as idealistic architect Howard Roark. Red cloth titled in gilt on front boards and spine. . First edition is NOT printed on copyright page, but Rand's disclaimer is. Printing errors on pp 9, 321, 381, 480. Later state jacket with Rand's photo and three review blurbs on rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 754 pages .

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned, soiled, and worn.. 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 numbered copies. A lengthy narrative poem by Alfred Young Fisher, a longtime Smith College professor and James Joyce and Shakespeare scholar, whose first wife, M. F. K. Fisher, is better known. Book design and striking orange and black illustrations by noted designer Alvin Lustig. Black blindstamped cloth. xxiv, 304pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Museum of Modern Art. Very Good; Rear jacket flap creased.. 1967. Softcover. One of 2,000 numbered copies (#208). Stapled black card covers with red illustrated glossy jacket. Short descriptive text in Italian and English on rear jacket flap. Artist book by the Italian designer with black and translucent pages, pochoir color, stamping, die-cut holes, threaded through with a red string. Measures 8.5 x 8.5 inches. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Poor dust jacket; Spine cocked, page tops spotted, owner name on . front free endpaper, sticker liftoff on front jacket flap, jacket heavily . tattered and torn, with yellowed tape repair to rear panel.. 1964. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Blindstamped red cloth with maroon topstain. Mustard endpapers. Five-lines on colophon page, $3.95 price on front jacket flap, no isbn number on rear jacket panel The delicious adventures of young Charlie Bucket and his fabulous tour of Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory. Includes references to pygmies and Ooompa Loompa illustrations later edited from this title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages .

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn and soiled, gift inscription . on front pastedown endpaper, some scattered soiling.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. vii, 119pp. Lively black and white illustrations by Vera Neville accompany this animal tale about the tricky Lazy Liza Lizard and how she is frequently outwitted by Mr. Snake and Mr. Frog. Green cloth binding. A scarce vintage children's title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .