New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 239,(3)pp. Turquoise cloth printed in deep turquoise and red. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy . The dustwrapper is price-clipped; it has a trace of roughness on the upper edge and two tiny closed marginal..... More
Baldwin, MI. Genese Depot, WI, et al. n.p., 1951-1972. Hardcover. Two volumes, three-ring notebooks bound in blue cloth. Monthly mimeograph sheets on weaving, with a sample or samples mounted along with instructions for duplicating them. The earliest issue is named 'Warp and Weft' edited by Prophil,(two complete issues frtom Volumer..... More
London: Dean and Son, n.d. [ca. 1855]. Early Edition. Broadside. 8 leaves, printed on one side only. 7 large woodcut illustrations, and a small initial vignette, all hand-colored. Paper wrappers, included in the collation. Back wrapper lists Dean and Son's Sixpenny Toy Books; large closed tear in bottom margin with..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961). Marcia Brown. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated (32pp.) Green cloth. Spine titles in dark green and red. Red title on upper board along with a vignette of plants and small animals. Illustrated endpapers. Printed throughout in color with illustrations cut in wood..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1946. Garth WIlliams. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 16mo., approximately 2.5 by 4 inches, not including the fur; the box is about 3½ by 5 inches. A charming small book in pictorial boards with color illustrations throughout by Garth Williams. The book has its original real..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1968. Garth WIlliams. Hardcover. 16mo. Slightly smaller than the first edition at 2¼ by 3¼ (without the fur) in a box about 3¼ by 4½ inches. A charming small book in pictorial boards with color illustrations throughout by Garth Williams. The book has its original real..... More
Williamsburg, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1984. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Limited edition. Hardcover. State Proof Issue. Illustrated with sixteen wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, and finely printed by Harold P. McGrath. A fine set in a fine publisher's clamshell cases. One of 15 copies from a...... More
New York & London: Longmans, Green & Co; Edward SArnold & Son, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (xii), 339,(1)pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth,m gilt titles on spine and upper board. Illustrated with photographs and two folding maps. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. More
New York: Alfred A> Knopf, 1922. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. 243pp. Green linen-textured cloth printed in yellow and red. Top edge red. Translated from the Danish by David Pritchard. A spectacular copy. As bright and shiny as the day it was first put on sale. The dustwrapper has..... More
New York: Tandy-Thomas Company, n.d. (1909). Hardcover. Folio. Illustrated by etchings after Walworth Stilson, and etched by the Harwell-Evans Co., NY. The etchings are nearly 5 by 6 inches and tipped onto the full 8 by 12 inches pages of heavy laid paper, each within an embossed frame. Vellum spine..... More
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(1),342,(1)pp. The text is followed by 9 tables, of which the last is a large folding table. Published with the monthly numbers of the Gleanngs in Science and the Journal of the Asiatic Society. Modern full crushed morocco. Spine in six..... More
London: J. Egerton, et al, 1794. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,(2),vi,286,(2)pp. Errata slip bound in at rear. The final leaf is a publisher's advertisement. Contemporary full polished calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt; leather lettering label, gilt, gilt borders on boards, marbled endpapers. Pp. 283 and..... More
London: Kegan Paul. Trench, Trubner & Co.,Ltd. 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8),198pp. followed by 15pp publisher's catalogue. Dark green cloth, gilt spine title. Part of the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method series edited by C. K,. Ogden. First edition of Buchanan's 1925 thesis of the same..... More
New York: John W. Eggers; The Winthrop Press, 1914-1917. Softcover. 14 Thornton Burgess Miniature Books in their original box. The books are approximately 2 3/16 by 2 7/8 inches, stapled wraps, all with a cover illustration in color and other color illustrations in text. Each book has 12 pages including..... More
Racine, WI: Whitman, (1929). Illustrated by Nina R. Jordan. First edition. Hardcover. Square 12mo. 24pp. Illustrated in full color. Illustrated paper over boards. Inner hinge repaired, ink spot on title page from gift inscription dated 1933, light edge wear, else this is a very good copy. In the scarce dustwrapper..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Half deep blue morocco, spines in six compartments, gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, by MacDonald of NY. A fine set in lovely bindings. More
Burma: n.p., 19th cent. Hardcover. Parabaik, (accordion, or concertina-style) book. Four by six inches (closed) but 6 by 58 inches fully opened. Heavy handmade paper pasted to form 32 panels containing 8 double page paintings per side for a total of 16. Bound into carved wooden covers. The covers depict..... 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
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
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo., 238pp. Yellow cloth printed in red. Plain endpapers. Erosion of the glazed cloth in the outer hinge gutters and the bottom edge, else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped. It is rough along the edges..... More
London: John Murray, 1815-1816. Hardcover. Bound volume containing works by Lord Byron. 'Giaour' is the 14th edition, L. 1815. 'Siege of Corinth' is the 3rd edition, NY, 1816. 'The Prisoner of Chillon is the first edition, L., 1816, bound without half title or ads, and recto of p. 61 blank..... 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
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: Chapman and Hall, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 372pp plus publisher's catalogue dated November, 1877. Gray cloth, gilt spine title, boards printed in black. Endpapers partially pasted down, first two pages partially detached, and others reinforced with what appears to be archival tape. A purple War Srvices stamp on..... More
