Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Hardcover. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt spine title and gilt facsimile of Burrough's signature on the top board. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait. A fine bright copy with only a trace of the dustwrapper flap offset onto the free endpapers. With the..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes. iv,310;319pp. Publisher's embossed cloth, gilt spine titles, yellow endpapers. Spine tips and corner worn else a very good set. Clans, Catholics, Witchcraft, Convenanters and more. More
Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 85,(3)pp. Cream-colored cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Dark green end papers. Authored by Martin H. Bush but with an essay and commentary by Ben Shahn. Illustrated, One of 200 signed copies, of which this..... More
London: T. Dean & Son, n.d. (ca. 1850)Large 8vo. The Alphabet of Flowers is followed by. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Original brown cloth boards, gilt. Printed endpapers advertising other Dean publications. The text contains three parts: Alphabet of Flowers (26pp), Verse and Picture Alphabet (32pp) and Stories Abut the..... More
WIltshire: Libanus Press, 1987. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (12)pp. Finely printed on dampened Amatruda paper in an edition of 475 copies. Wood engravings by Phillida Gili. In an artist binding of brown morocco spine, handmade paper boards and with an oval on the upper board of puckered morocco with..... More
London: George Bell; Macmillan; H. Virtue, 1898-1925. Malcolm Bell, Sir Edward Byrne-Jones. 8vo. 151pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Illustrated. Half green morocco, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. Spine sunned, hinges rubbed else a very good copy. Bookplate of H. L. Doolittle. Sir Edward..... More
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 72pp. Lacks first half-title. Modern black morocco spine, marbled paper boards, leather letting label, gilt. Bound without the final blank, so the state is unknown, but it is likely second state. Occasional light foxing else in very good condition. Both half titles..... More
London; New York: John Murray; Van Wynkle & Wiley; Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1814-1819. First editions. Hardcover. Bound volume containing works by or attributed to Lord Byron from 1814 to 1819. 'Lara' is the 4th edition, L. 1814. 'Poems by Lord Byron' is the first US edition, NY, 1816. 'The..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 437pp. Preface by W. H. Prescott. Later binding of brown textured cloth, gilt spine title. A near fine copy. Ostensibly a travel narrative told in 54 letters, it describes the politics, people, and landscape of Mexico through the eyes of a...... More
n.p. (Mérida, Yucatan): n.p. (Hu'un), n.d. Stiff card wraps. An accordion book in the style of a Mayan Codex. Closed, it measures 4 by 4½ inches. The covers are of stiff card made of handmade Mayan paper; the text, printed on both sides, is on handmade Mayan paper by Hu'un..... More
New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 303pp. Green cloth printed in black. Map frontispiece of China, Burma and Northern Siam. Light toning to the endpapers else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It depicts an elephant and natives in tones of gray, red..... More
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 476pp. Illustrated with six copper engraved folding plates (including the frontispiece). Contemporary full calf. Sine in 6 compartments, gilt; red lettering label, gilt. Upper hinge neatly and strengthened; wear at spine tips and corners; else a...... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley [and] published for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. 19th or early 20th c. half leather. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt; Cloth boards; Marbled endpapers; Top edge gilt. Errata slip present after dedication page, and scarce..... More
Santa Monica: Intervisual Books, Inc., 2000. Illustrated by the author. Hardcover. First printing of the revised edition. 4to. 12pp, each in full color and with movable elements. Paper engineering by James Roger Diaz, Tor Lokvig, and John Strejan. First published in 1981 by Philomel. This is a fine copy with..... More
Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, Ltd., 1988. Illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Brightly illustrated in color. Illustrated glossy pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well, and clipped. Signed by Eric Carle on the page facing the title..... More
New York: Philomel Books, 1991. Illustrated by Eric Carle. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. 68pp. Printed in color. Glossy pictorial boards, colorful decorated endpapers. A collection of poetry about dragon and other fantastical creatures, featuring authors from Browning and Blake through McCaffrey to Shakespeare and Sato. Each..... More
Los Angeles: Angelus Press, (1935). Softcover. Introduction by William S. Hart. Stiff textured wraps bound with a lariat. Slight scuffing, marginal stain on portrait. Folded pages, one torn along the top (no loss). A near fine copy. Prints Carr's remarks on the passing of Will Rogers. Inscribed on the ffep..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Hardcover. 4to. xiv,(2),530pp. plus (2)pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated with an engraved folding aquatint frontispiece, 16 engraved aquatint plates and an engraved hand-colored map (all plates with tissue guards). Contemporary speckled calf; red lettering label, gilt; spine tooled in gilt and with gilt rules on the boards..... More
var. John S. Carroll et al. 1960's (?). The group consists of a typed letter from Carroll, dated 1973, signed, enclosing specimens of letterpress printing. Clifford Burke, Looking at Fine Printing, Cranium Press, 1975, 12pp. Printed Card: A New Type 1976 from The Printer's Shop. Printed Card: Typographic Design, Piping Rock Press John S...... More
Boston and New York: Lee & Shepard; Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xii),224,(i)pp. Original publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on the boards with vignettes of the Red (front) and White (rear) Queens within triple gilt borders; spine title in gilt with an ornament and..... More
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Early Edition. Hardcover. Fiftieth Thousand and thus the second edition. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt, with the title on both spine and upper board, and the publisher's imprint and a floral device in gilt, a floral border in gilt..... More
Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. First edition. Stiff card wraps. The Letter-Writing pamphlet is 4 by 3". 39pp. State first edition. Publisher's ads appear on pages 36-39, and the last page is blank. This state is not described by Williams, else it bears the earliest possible date of 1890, with..... More
New Yorjk: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. xxxii,(3),280pp. Red cloth, gilt spine titles. Index. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is clipped and with closed tears and rubbing along the bottom with partial loss of publisher's imprint. More
London (Londini): Typis J. Flesher, 1650. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6),418,(2),72,(12)pp. Contemporary full vellum; manuscript title; later (but still early) leather lettering pieces, gilt. One leaf with a chart of the Saxon alphabet. Also contains Somner's annotated version of Lipsius' glossary: "Guilielmi Somneri, Cantuariensis, ad verba vetera germanica, a v...... More
Mérida, Yucatan: Dante, (2000), but 2013. Limited edition. Softcover. Oblong folio, softcover, approximately 13 by 17 inches, including borders. Eight full color prints by Castro Pacheco: La Siesta (1992), Los Músicos (1979), Los Amantes (1992), Mujeres Platicando (1992), Mujer en Rojo (1979), Mujer en Blanco (1990), Mujer Recargada (1985), and..... More
