Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1923. First edition. Softcover. 4to. (18),150pp. Stiff printed wraps. Backgrounds, lyrics (in Irish Gaelic), English translations and music for 80 traditional songs from the Gaeltacht. Light wear else a very good copy. More
Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, (1917). Illustrated by Dorothy Dulin. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 32pp. Green cloth blocked in yellow and black with the title and, on the upper board, an illustration of the tailor by Dulin. Light wear to the edges, crease on the rear board, some fingering soil, a...... More
Rhododendron, OR: Pressed Duck, (1977). Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Thin oblong 4to. Unpaginated (12pp.) Stiff card covers with a black and blue jay pasteon to the upper cover. Charmig artist book about a jay, each page illustrated with airbrush prints, and in colors that start of a pale blue..... More
London: J. M. for Rich. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Pauls Church-yard, 1681. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (28),291,(1)pp. 19th cent. full calf by Hering of Regent Street. marbled endpapers and edges. Author's name from Wing; sometimes erroneously attributed to David Craufurd. Bound without portrait or errata..... More
London: Tilt, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. Twenty-four subjects on a folding sheet enclosed by printed paper boards with the title design and date (1836) on the upper board and a portrait of Tilt with '1836' on the wall behind him, on the lower board. With contemporary handcolored plates. Cohn, p...... More
London: T. Tegg, 1819. Etching. Original etching with contemporary hand-coloring. Approximately 10 by 13 inches in frames 16½ by 19½ inches. Glazed and framed in a striped wood frame, cream colored cloth mat and a dark green inner mat by Creative Galleries, Los Angeles. The frame is black with a...... More
Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1891. Wraps. 8vo. 16pp in printed wraps. The upper wrap is glossy stock printed in black and with the hand written "With Compliments" along the top, presumably form the author. The rear wrapper and spine strip appear to be of a later date. In..... More
San Francisco; Denver: The Colt Press; Allan Swallow, 1942;1950. Limited edition. Two works bound in one. 'The Helmsman' is one of 300 copies and is signed by the author on the title page. Brown cloth printed in green on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 639; xii,653pp. Contemporary half green morocco. Spines in four compartments, the lowest taking up half of the spine and tooled in a decorative floral design, which starts in the first compartment. The other two compartments contain the..... More
Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1564. First Latin edition. Hardcover. Folio. (xx),205pp. Printer's device on title; woodcut initials. First Latin edition translated by John Grodecius. The dedicatory matter is followed by a Life of St Cyril, a discussion of his works and an index. Early 19th century marbled paper boards, later..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Orange cloth. Spines blocked in black and gilt. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper, else in near fine condition with only traces of wear along the bottom. The dustwrappers have some chipping along the edges and rubbing at the folds, else..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Black cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and on the upper board. Illustrated throughout, both in text and full page. Three of the full page illustrations are in color. The endpapers have tape marks where the dustwrapper was..... More
Chichester: P. Binstead, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 124pp. Original cloth spine, blue paper boards. Vignette on title pages, three illoustrations in text and two engraved plates. Errata sheet bound in. The cloth is in a motled design. HInges cracked but firm and some loss to the cloth especially..... More
Prague: n.p., 1930. Sepia photograph, 4 by 5½ inches, showing Vladimir Nemirovich-Denchenko in his study. The photograph is inscribed to Soviet actor Mikhail Zharov. There is a short inscription on the front, and a longer one on the reverse, where Danchenko praises the actor as a magician and wizard..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x,462pp. followed by 8pp of publisher's ads. Original brick-colored cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in black on the covers. Pale yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated. Index. Some wear to the hinges and boards else a near..... More
In the Savoy: T.N. for Henry Harringman, 1678. Hardcover. The Second impression whereunto is added a Table. 4to. 734pp. followed by the Table (15pp.) Bound to style in quarter calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. marbled paper sides, vellum tips. Fine copy. ESTC..... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2014. Limited edition. Fine. 16 pages, sewn paper covers. This is a favorite poem of audiences by Santa Fe’s fourth Poet Laureate. Calligraphic cover, title page and initial letter by Judythe Sieck, with decorative elements based on Muybridge’s Horses in..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1948. Limited edition. Wraps. 12mo. Unpaginated (20 pp.) Wraps with printed label. A fine copy. One of 120 copies printed at the private press of Muir Dawson. The Dr. R of the title is Rosenbach. Ernest Dawson founded Dawson's Book Store in Los Angeles in..... More
var. Five items relating to Glen Dawson: 1. Glen Dawson's Centennial Birthday Party, 2012, single sheet folded program; 2. Glen Dawson at 100, single sheet invitation to the party, 2012; 3. Glen Dawson at 100: three sheets listing his achievements and covering the time from 1905-2012; 4. "The Hills of Home", a finely printed..... More
New York: Random House, (1940). Illustrated by the author. First edition in English. Hardcover. Large thin folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color throughout Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Light edgewear else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped, has some wear..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Folio. 40pp. Illustrated in color by the author throughout. Cloth spine, pictorial boards, and endpapers. Edges and corners worn; inner hinge partially split, upper board lightly bowed, residue of plate on rear pastedown, else a very good copy. With..... More
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481-1482. A single printed leaf from the first collected edition of the 13th century English scholar. (from Shropshire) . The leaf measures approximately 10½ by 16 inches, with large margins, though the inner margin has been cut. Printed on both sides, rubricated in red and blue, and..... More
Guadalajara: Taller Gráfica de Comala, 2019. Illustrated by Nacho Gómez Arriola. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 12pp finely printed letterpress on handmade paper, and embellished with a tipped-in photograph and several linocuts in color engraved by Nacho Gómez. Accompanied by a portfolio of prints by Nacho: Chile, Maiz, Cacao, Frijol, Aguacate..... More
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,(17-)304pp. With the four folding engraved plates, as called for. Publisher's green embossed cloth in a floral pattern, paper spine label. Edges, hinges and spine tips worn, label partially perished, ownership stamp to title page, occasional light foxing..... More
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1487-1488. Leaf. A single leaf, a little larger than 8 by 13 inches, printed in black on both sides. The reverse contains a manuscript O in red. 60 lines in two columns. The title on the obverse reads: II De Mutuis Petitio. And the rubricated section on..... More
