New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Green T-grain cloth blocked in black, light green and gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with drawings printed in red, and the title page in red and black. Neat ink name of former..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. (4, 1-10),11-74,(2)pp. Green cloth blocked in silver on the spine and the upper board; all edges gilt. Illustrated with the occasional half-tone at the beginning of a poem. Light wear to the gilt on the board, small stain on the upper outer page..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (4), 390pp. Nineteenth century binding of half morocco; spine in six compartments, gilt title and bands, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Bookplate of Holcombe Ingleby. Publication date of MDCCCXXIV at foot of title page erased and replaced..... More
Londini: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al. 1783. Hardcover. Editio Decima Quarta. 8vo. (20),631,(125)pp. Contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Title page in red and black. Hinges, corners and edges nicely repaired; leather and lettering label, including gilt, rubbed;some contemporary notes; some..... More
London: John Pine [Iohannes Pine], 1733-37. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Contemporary full crimson leather, intricately tooled in a 'cottage' design on all boards. Sometime rebacked in matching leather. The reback is itself a work of art: The spines are in 6 compartments, separated by raised bands tooled in gilt..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Gray linen spine, printed paper label, pale blue paper boards. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press on handmade paper. One of..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1898-1900. Hardcover. Four volumes, 12mo. Vellum spines, gilt; drab paper over boards. Dramas or Masques. Based on the printing dates and list of titles facing the title pages, Merlin is the first separate printing, revised from the version first published in 1891 in Launcelot and..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Vellum spine, gilt; drab paper over boards. A Romantic Drama. A very good copy showing only light wear. First published in 1898, this is the second printing. BAL 9387. More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, (1902). Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 315, (1) pp. Bound by Bayntum of Bath in polished green calf, spine in six compartments, intricately gilt, red and black lettering labels, gilt, gilt rules on boards, gilt inner dentellers, all edges gilt, marbles endpapers. Original green cloth boards bound..... More
London: WIlliam Heinemann, 1913. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Hardcover. Thick 4to. 549pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Rackham. Finely bound by Sotheran in half blue Levant morocco, spine in six compartments, intricately gilt; blue cloth boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Trace of sunning to the spine but..... More
Hollywood: Hollycrofters, 1937. Limited edition. Stapled wraps. Folio. Stapled wraps. Unpaginated (8pp.) Finely printed on rag paper in an edition of 50 copies. Hand set in 16 point Poliphilus roman with italic Blado. "These to type faces are of great historic interest. The Poliphilus derives its name from the famous..... More
New York: HArper & Brothers, 1892. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full vellum over boards blocked in gilt with Yapp edges. Illustrated by Harry W. McVickar. One of 250 numbered copies of which this is number 99. Vellum significantly mottled else this this is a very good copy. Presentation copy from..... More
Paris: SHakespeare and Company, 1927. First trade edition. Stiff card wraps. 16mo. Unpaginated, Pale green paper over boards printed in black. A fine copy. The poems were previously published in an edition of 13 copies on handmade paper. Slocum A24. More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Hardcover. Green cloth printed in black. A near fine copy with only traces of wear. The dustwrapper is sunned to a pleasant tan color on the spine, else it is in near fine condition and not price-clipped. Facsimile of the first..... More
East Aurora: Roycroft, 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. One of 920 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard; this is copy No. 755. Nicely bound in full orange morocco, title in blind on the spine, and the binding signed 'Denny'. In a custom clamshell case of buckram with the embossed..... More
London: Robt. Riviere & SOn, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated. Finely bound in red calf, sumptuously gilt on the spine and both boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Riviere. More
London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Black victorian cloth, paper label. Neatly rebacked in matching cloth (not quite as sunned as the original) with original spine laid-on. Original yellow endpapers retained. Label and original spine soiled and chipped else a very good copy in modern..... More
London: The Macmillan Co., 1894, 1895. First editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. 212, 238pp with 2pp publisher's catalog at rear of volume 2. Volume 1 with tissue guarded frontispiece by W. H. Drake and numerous illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and Frenzeny. The Second Jungle Book with numerous..... More
London: Davud Nutt, 1887. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 8vo. xx, 70 pp. Printed in black and red. Two engravings of the title persons. Stiff plain boards covered with a dustwrapper. Trace of soil to the wrapper but essentially a fine copy. With the engraved bookplate of Charles B, Foote..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, (1956). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 186pp. Black cloth, lavender spine title. Ownership name on the front free endpaper dated September 7, 1956, else a fine bright copy. The dustwrapper has a couple of small chips at the edges and is light darkened at the spine..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Lang, 1790. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First US edition. vii,(6),12-502pp, with p. 529 misnumbered as p. 527. Original full marbled sheep; spine with simple gilt rules and with a red lettering piece, gilt. Some mainly marginal staining at the beginning and the end, signatures F through L...... More
London: Longman, Hurst, 1817. Hardcover. Two large 8vo volumes. (4),lxiii,(3),xxxix,(1)383,(1);(4)495,(1)pp. Printed from Caxton's edition of 1485. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England. First edition with Southey's notes. Each volume with a large woodcut on the title page showing a knight and a dragon..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy..... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 268. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed in..... More
