William H. Adams' Antiquarian Books

Uncommon Books at Reasonable Prices

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Winter 2024 Featured Books

Each season, we feature some special treasures to showcase in our Featured Books section. Take a scroll through the items on this page and contact us with any questions! Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries; By Thomas Johnes; London, 1808; Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 13 Volumes. “The most learned translation of Froissart and the first edition in English since Lord Berner’s in 1523.” $1,000.00  Very Good, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse; 1930, Doubleday, Doran. Stated 1st edition. $125.00 Principles Of Political Economy John Stuart Mill; London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 6th Edition, 1865; 2 volumes, Prize Binding. $500.00 The Lancet. Vol. 1 October 4, 1828 -March 28, 1829. London, Mills, Jowett, and Mills; 1929. $500.00 Fifteen Decisive

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Spring 2023 Featured Books

Each season, we feature some special treasures to showcase in our Featured Books section. Take a scroll through the items on this page and contact us with any questions! A Dictionary of the English Language [Sixth Edition] Johnson, Samuel. Published by J.F. And C. Rivington [et al.], London, 1785. 2 volumes quarto. Portrait, half title present in volume 1. Original calf boards in good condition, First quarto edition, and the first to include the frontispiece portrait. $1,200.00  William Tell Told Again; by P.G. Wodehouse ; Illustrated by Philip Dadd. Good. 1st Edition. “William Tell Told Again” by P.G. Wodehouse. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (viii), 105, (1), (2) (ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 15 plates (each with captioned tissue

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Fall 2022 Featured Books

Each season, we feature some special treasures to showcase in our Featured Books section. Take a scroll through the items on this page and contact us with any questions! A Compleat And Humorous Account Of All The Remarkable Clubs And Societies In The Cities Of London And Westminster… from the R——L S——y Down to the Lumber Troop, &c. Their original with Characters of the most noted Members, containing great variety of entertaining Discourses, Frolicks, and Adventures of the principal managers and members, a work of great use and curiosity. Compil’d from the original papers of a Gent. who frequented those places upwards of twenty years; Edward Ward; London; Printed for the Author and sold by Joseph Collier at Shakspear’s Head in Ludgate Street; 1745. Full

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