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 page. 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
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
Paris: Libraires Associe's pour les Usages du Diocese d'Evreux, 1741. Hardcover. 12mo. 477,(1)pp. Woodcut of episcopal arms on title page. Contemporary full calf. Spine in six compartments, with raised bands. The compartments are gilt with floral tools, except the second, which contains the title. Marbled endpapers. Corners and hinge neatly... More
Paris: Impresis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officij Ecclesiastici, 1635. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a-e8, i4, A-2E8, a-h8 [40], 440, [122] pp. Engraved vignette on title page, Printed in black and red throughout with occasional specimens of four-line Gregorian chant (black notes on red staves). Each month starts with woodcut initials, the individual... More
(Venice?): ca. 1700. Broadside. Single leaf 8½ by 13½ inches containing a portion of the Office for DOminica in Albis containing Responsories and the Magnificat Antiphon. Red four-line staves, 12 to a page, with black chant notes and red rubrics and initials. Two large red initials on the obverse, and... More
Matriti (Madrid): Apud Joachinun Ibarra, 1772. Hardcover. 12mo. (2), 604pp. Full contemporary sheep. Spine and boards tooled in gilt. Page edges gilt and gauffered. With one (of 2) brass clasps (only the rear catch remains of the missing upper clasp). Title page in black and red, and with an engraved... More
Edinburgh (?): (unk), 1783. Hardcover. 12mo. iv, 190pp. Remnants of full calf binding. Mostly in Latin with a section of the appendices in English. There are only two leather remnants of the original binding left on the boards, but enough to confirm a simple binding with a blind rule around... More
Paris: La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1990. Fernando Botero. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 161,(3)pp. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board, the latter having an illustration of a bull in addition to the title. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, with 74 illustrations on full... More
NY: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1850. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt and blind. spine 7 full page plates. Lightly foxed and a little cocked else a very good copy. More
n.p., The Chivalry Bookshelf, (2001). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 123,(1)pp. Printed wraps. Originally translated into English by Caxton, and now rendered into modern English from a copy in the British Library. Also includes the Anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie. A fine copy. More
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, 4to. Issued in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England by William Caxton. Each volume is bound in full calf in period-style by the Eddington Bindery. Spines in five compartments with raised bands. Titles... More
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1866. Illustrations engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 710pp. With 100 illustrations by A. B. Houghton, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Translated form the Spanish by Charles Jarvis. First edition with these illustrations. Pleasant modern binding of half navy blue morocco, spine... More
