New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (c. 1965). Early Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, early printing, with FG on the copyright page. Original printed cloth. Bookseller label on free front endpaper, else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine with only a trace of wear at the edges, . It..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textured paper over boards, gilt spine title A fine copy. The dustwrapper is clipped. It has a little wear along the edges, a short closed marginal tear along the top rear, and a trace of foxing on the rear panel, else..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. Aside from two tiny stains at the edges of the upper board, and a bit..... More
NY: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). First edition. Fine. Glazed pictorial boards printed in color. Pictorial endpapers in color. Four fabulous and detailed double-page pop-up scenes, plus full and partial page black & white illustrations throughout. The boards are ever so lightly soiled else this is a fine copy with fine..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (14),51,(1)pp. The half-title is present with its advertisement on the reverse. Also present are the Prologue and the Epilogue. The earliest copies lack these leaves, but an unsigned leaf was inserted after A4 headed "Prologue to the OPERA, Spoken by..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898. First edition. Oblong folio. 95pp. Deep green cloth spine blocked in orange and gilt with the title and a representastion of excalibur; green paper bpards also blocked in orange and gilt. All edged gilt. Illustrated. Trace of sunning to the board papers else this..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2015. Illustrated by Jessie King. Limited edition. Very good. Facsimle of the first Jessie King edition of 1903. 8vo. cvii,(1),379,(1). Publisher's light blueleather imitating the orignal light bue cloth, blocked on the spine and upper board with illustrations by King in black and gilt. Top..... More
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co., 1917. First trade edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout. These elements and the text printed in ochre and black. Contemporary..... More
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co., 1917. Limited edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, No. 115 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout..... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, large 8vo. ccxcv,(1), 321,)(1); 495,(1)pp. Half polished calf. Spines in six compartments, with raised bands, tooled in gilt and with black leather lettering labels,m gilt. Marbles boards, edges, and endpapers in a non-pareil pattern. Engraved frontispieces. Lengthy memoir by nephews..... More
London: John Murray, 1818. Hardcover. Bound with: Prospectus and Specimen, London, 1818. Two parts in one. Stated second edition of Cantos I & II; first edition of Cantos III & IV. [ii], 61pp. Ads. Later calf spine, red lettering label, gilt; original marbled paper boards. Corners and edges lightly worn..... More
London: Early English Text Society, 1864. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. viii,(1),19pp plus a single page glossary. Recent binding of quarter dark blue morocco, gilt spine title, deep blue sand-grain cloth. Inscribed by Furnivall on the half-title: 'The Rev. E. H. Knowles, with the Editor's compts. Octr. 20, 1864.' One of the..... More
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (14), 152pp. Finely bound by BIrdsall of Northampton and London in full scarlet morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; gilt inner dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; original covers bound in at rear. Chromolithographed..... More
London: J. Bowyer, et al. 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, light brown lettering label, gilt, edges sprinkled red. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present..... More
London: J. Bowyer, et al. 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled panelled,calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, red morocco lettering label, gilt. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present (including Isaac Newton)..... More
London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments..... More
Londini: Typis Gulielmi Bulmer et Socii, 1806. Hardcover. 4to. xxxii,237,(6)pp. Engraved frontispiece, three full page engraved plates, and a large hand-colored folding map. Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, gilt title, gilt rules on the boards and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. With the..... More
London: Printed for William Miller, 1806. First edition in English. Hardcover. Large 4to. 2 vols. (12),cxcii,220,(4);(6),440,(4)pp. Indices. Complete with 59 engraved plates (including a hand-colored folding map) and a second large, hand-colored folding map at rear of Vol. II. Errata page is present. Old calf over marbled boards (rubbed), tips..... More
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary marbled paper boards nicely rebacked in quarter leather, red leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in..... More
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt; black leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce..... 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
New York: United States Book Company, (1891). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 263pp. MAroon cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on upper board. Top edge gilt. Corners and hinges worn,cloth lightly soiled, else a very good copy. BAL 9375. More
Au Mans: Ed. Monnover, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 4 volumes. 8vo. 530;lx,571,(1)309,(1);311-831,(1)pp. Three volumes in 4. Contemporary brown cloth, gilt spine titles. Decorative as well as typeset title pages in each of the three volumes ( the last contains no title as it is a continuation of volume 3). Large..... More
San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1998. Broadside. A Broadside, finely printed by Asa Peavy in red and black on a Legion Letterpress in an edition of 208 copies. Wood engravings by George Walker. The text is from 'A Crowne-Garland of Goulden Roses', London, 1612. This is the first printing of the..... More
Evanston, IL: Freya Reeves Lambides, 1986-1987. First edition. Stapled wraps. Volume II, Numbers 1-4, a complete set of the second volume of this Arthurian Quarterly. Number 1 focuses on Merlin; Number 2 celebrates 500 years of Caxton's Malory, and also an essay on Lancelot. Number 4's theme is: The Many..... More
