London: Early English Text Society, 1871. Hardcover. 8vo. xix,(1),208pp. Contemporary tan buckram, gilt spine title. Original wraps bound in. A very good copy. Edited form Robert Thornton's Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, This is the Alliterative Morte Darthur, dating from the latter 14th or early 15th centuries. A new..... 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
Barcelona: Sadagcolor, 1973. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 105pp. Printed self-wraps. One of 200 numbered copies of which this is copy No. 50. Finely printed facsimile of Wynkyn de Worde's 1502 printing of the Descrypcyon of Englonde (includes Wales, Scotlonde and Irlonde), which is the latter part of his..... More
New York: Routledge, 1998. First US edition. Softcover. 8vo. xxv, (8), 570pp. Printed wraps. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Ten pages at the very beginning have some ink notes and underlining, else this is a very good copy. A diverse collection of mediaeval Arthurian literature and history, form Latin..... More
Ulm: Daniel Barthomolaei et Filium, 1744. Hardcover. Small 4to. (xxii),226pp. Engraved frontispiece (Druides) and one additional engraved plate (Druides et Druidissae). Bound to style in quarter leather; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Scarce work on Druids edited by the author's..... More
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. [6]pp, followed by 25 full page facsimiles from the Gutenberg Bible at the General Theological Seminary, New York, and published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. One of 2000 copies. Paper over boards, gilt. A...... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxix,(1),132pp. Cloth spine gilt title, drab green paper over boards, top edge gilt. Light wear and a crease to the spine, a few pencil marginalia, else a very good coy. The is the French original of a lost Elizabethan translation..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1839. Hardcover. 8vo. 296pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1839, comprising Volume VII , No. 71, through No. 82. Each issue but December is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for July and August, which each have two, plus there is a frontispiece..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1840. Hardcover. 8vo. 288pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1840, comprising Volume VIII , No. 82, through No. 94. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for April, which has three, for a total of 14 plates. With an engraved title..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1841. Hardcover. 8vo. 296pp. plus 16pp index. Bound issues from January through December, 1841, comprising Volume IX , No. 95, through No. 106. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for March and April, which each have two, for a total of..... More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, (1902). Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on..... More
Lugd. Bat. (Leiden): Franciscum Hackium, 1648. Early Edition. Hardcover. Small, thick 8vo. (xvi),644,xl pp. Engraved title page. Bound to style in quarter maroon morocco; spine ruled in simple gilt lines; brown lettering label, gilt. 'Cum veteris Scholiastae, & Variorum Commentariis Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio'. Nice edition of Juvenal and Flaccus. The..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 750pp.Deep red color cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Map endpapers of Arthur's Britain. Illustrated. Printed in two colors throughout. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well... More
London: Early English Text Society, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Large, thick 4to. First edition. Gilt-lettered cloth boards. Facsimile of the 473-leaf manuscript. Cloth lightly rubbed, else this is a fine copy. Except for the introduction by Ker, the book is comprised entirely of photographs of the celebrated manuscript. The introduction..... More
Philadelphia: Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc., (1946). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xx, 583pp. Maroon textured cloth, gilt. Table of Contents includes The War Years and Post-War Forecasts, Design and Construction with an article by Frank Lloyd Wright, Equipment, Management, Television. Post-War theatre plans include theatres in California and Hawaii (plus designs..... More
New York: Platt 7 Munk, (1941). Eulalie, Victor G. Becker and Arthur O. Scott. Softcover. 4to. 8 by 10 inches. Unpaginated. Red cloth with a full color paste-on to the upper bord showing the pig family. Illustrated throughout in color. Neat ink stamp on the fornt pastedown; the first page..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 254pp. Full brown leather, spine title in gilt, upper board blocked with Remington's signature in gilt and a vignette of a cow skull in blind. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white and with a full color frontispiece/..... More
Valencia: Mediterraneo, 1950. Two volumes. The first is in original stiff wraps, color frontispiece of Cervantes, 205pp. The second is in quarter leather, gilt spine, leather lettering label, gilt, light cloth boards, marbled endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies, from a total printing of 554. Volume one has light soiled..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1965). Hardcover. Folio. 78pp. Printed in color throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Beige endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Later state, with $15.00 on the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sendak on..... More
Berkeley: University of California, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes slipcased. Edited and with a critical apparatus by James W. Spisak, dictionary of names & places by Bert Dillon. Based on the William Matthews' work with the Pierpont Morgan Copy of William Caxton's edition of 1485. With 16pp. of facsimiles..... More
London: Printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (ii),lxxiii,(ix),364pp. Bound to style in full calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gil. Title page strengthened at the outer margin; light soil; some old ink names on the t.p. else a...... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type..... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type..... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Publisher's original cloth in a small diaper design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type 'H' (Tomlinson). Krupp (p.23) ascribes an appearance date of 1836..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Asbury edition. Hardcover. 8vo. li,(3),169,(1)pp. Yellow cloth printed in Aquatone by the Edward Stern Co. Top edge stained green. Illustrated. Index. This is the first cocktail recipe book published in the United States, first appearing in 1862. The 1928 edition is the..... More
