Sanctiago del Canto: Medina del Campo, 1597. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 480 folios plus beginning and endiings, unfoliated. Contempoary full leather binding tooled in blind and with remnants of gilt. Later manuscript spine label fairly well perished. Introductory folios and subsequent first eleven folios have been remargined along the..... More
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. Limited edition. Limp Vellum. 4to. 182 pp.. Hand-illuminated initial letters in red, blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. (4to), original orange vellum with orange ties, gilt spine title; printed in black and red; in publisher's marbled..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1907). First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Cloth backed pictorial boards showing Jocko, the teasing monkey, hanging from a tree and pulling the tails of two lions. 142pp. Illustrated in color throughout and printed on one side of the page only. Gift inscription "from Aunt..... More
Vindobonae (Vienna): Josephi Nobilis de Kurzboeck, 1780. Hardcover. 8vo. 52,(iv)pp. Woodcut chapter heading and tailpiece. Folding hand-colored frontispiece entitled 'Prospectus Thermarum Gasteinensium.' Bound to style in quarter leather, gilt; vellum tips; marbled paper boards. A fine copy. Scarce early discussion on the healing powers of the Gastein waters, long before..... More
n.p. (Caen): n.p. (Chalopin), n.d. (ca. 1800). First Separate Edition. Wraps. 12mo. 12pp., stitched binding, woodcut headpiece of stars & portrait medallion, original self-wrappers, upper wrapper with title within border of woodcut typographic ornaments, lower wrapper with woodcut illustration of Mercury appearing before ladies outside a temple and a handled..... More
Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1953. Hardcover. Two volumes, large 8vo. xiii, (1), 810; viii, (2), 811-1692pp. Finely cound in full crimson morocco by Maurin. Spine in 4 compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and titles, gilt gules on the boards and board edges, gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt..... More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xi(i),876,(iv)pp. Black cloth spine, dark gray paper over boards, both blocked in copper foil. A fine copy without the usual sunning. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. Inscribed by the author in the title page..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First English edition. Hardcover. First English edition. 12mo. Original brown cloth blocked in gray and black. Top edge gilt. 314pp. followed by a 6 page publisher's catalogue. Lacks ffep, cloth has a couple of small bubbles, else this is a very good to near fine..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1975). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 287pp. Blue cloth spine, gilt title; green paper over boards. Trace of sunning along the top else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a trace of wear, but is near fine as well. Inscribed..... 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
Frankfort: John Godfrey Conrad, 1729. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one. Text of the Commentatio in Latin and French; text of the Statutes in English and Latin, Folio, pp. [viii], 89, [i], [iii], 4-8, [i], 2-40, [vi]. Main title in red & black with engraved vignette, plus vignette title..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. lvi,448pp. 18 plates and a large folding map. Rust colored cloth in a sand-grain patters, gilt spine title, gilt vignette on the upper board. Brown coated endpapers. Inner henges cracked, the rear with an old tape reinforcement; the map..... More
Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. 180pp. Original brown cloth, nicely rebacked to match. Significant wear and staining to the cloth as well as the textblock, which has foxing and some dampstaining throughout. Early discussion of cholera from a resident of Cincinnati, which suffered a great..... More
(London): Stodder and Houghton, n.d. (1914). Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 4to. Full vellum blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 23 colored plates. A fine copy, with the ribbon ties intact. In a leather-backed clamshell case, spine in six compartments with raised bands..... More
London: Curwen Press; Limited Edition Club, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. White cloth, gilt spine title. Gilt vignette on upper board. Color plates by Marie Laurencin, who signed the colophon. Translated by Edmund Gosse. A fine copy. The publisher's slipcase has some staining on the rear else is in very..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, (2), 289,(1)pp. Red cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board, color paste-on to the upper board with gilt frame lines. Illustrated with four full page plates by E. L. Blumenshein. Top edge gilt. A near..... 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
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1955. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Volumes 1 to 3 of the Far West and Rockies Series. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Fine, bright copies. Volumes 1 and 2 have been inscribed by LeRoy Hafen on the front free endpapers. Laid in is..... More
n.p. Art Hazelwood, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Concertina style, 8½ by 10½ inches expanding to 8½ by 170 inches. Printed on the obverse of the pages only. Four seasons in Zuni Pueblo: Rain Dance, Monsoon, Shalako, and Winter. Each season is presented in three panels plus a panel with the..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 340pp.Red T-grain cloth, gilt spine title. A fine, bright copy. With the publisher's plain dustwrapper, also fine. Laid-in is an original 3 x 5 inch photograph of the author at the grave of Sacajawea with the in inscription along the..... More
London: Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd., 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 281,(1) pp. Fifty one plates, 7 are in color and mounted, the rest in black and white. In addition, there are numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. Finely printed on handmade paper. Half-morocco binding, the spine in six compartments with..... More
London: F. Gyles, et al, 1729. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (vi),251,(xxi),52,(xxxvi)pp. Title page in red and black. Beautifully printed on laid paper with ample margins. Engraved head and tail pieces; index. Contemporary full calf; spine in 7 compartments with raised bands. Old theological college stamp on the front blank. Edges..... More
New York: Random House, (1956). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan textured paper boards blocked in black and gold, and with a paste-on of Lunt and Fontaine on the upper board. Illustrated with scenes of the Broadway play. The paste-on is a little rubbed else this is a near..... More
n.p. Nesfa Press, c. 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo, (6), 76,(1) pp. plus the 8 page Dragondex at the end compiled and designed bny Wendy Glasser. Blue cloth, spine printed in silver. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is fine as well. Signed by Anne McCaffrey on the page facing the..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1808. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. 280pp. "Translated from the French". Four full page hand colored plates of native costume, one trimmed closely. Index. Bound to style in quarter calf, black leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards; vellum tips. A very good copy. The final..... More
