NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1981). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. There is a trace of sunning across the top else this is a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has trace of wear at top and bottom edges at the folds else this is..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxv,(1),27-84pp. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones' Third Issue. Half-title is present. The 'Extract', pp. 73-84, is present. Both Extracts are sometimes attributed to John Mitford. Nicely bound to style in quarter calf, spine gilt; leather lettering label, gilt; marbled..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903-1910. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. These titles have traditionally suffered cracked inner hinges because the textblock was..... More
Washington: GOvernment Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 76pp. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Red pebble-grain cloth, gilt title on the upper board. The cloth is well worn else this is a very good copy. With a bookplate of the War Department assigning this copy to Geo. Van Orden, Captain..... More
Madrid: Juan Herrera, 1599. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (14), fol. 1-271, (1). Woodcut of the arms of Don Luys Faxardo on the title page. Full vellum, ties, manuscript spine title Illustrated with woodcuts, including several full page plates of the sphere of Ivan Sacrobosco, another illustrating both solar and lunar..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853. Illustrated by S[eth] Eastman, Capt., U.S.A. Hardcover. Thick 4tos.. Vol I: [6], (i - ii), iii - xviii, 13 - 568, [2 (blank)] pp. Vol II: [4], (i - vi), vii - xxiv, 17 - 608, [2 (blank)] pp. Vol III: [4], (i-iv), v...... More
London: R and J Dodsley, 1764. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. viii, 345, (9); (8), 392pp. Contemporary calf boards nicely rebacked with leather lettering labels, gilt. Illustrated with engravings and with a vignette of a kingfisher on the title pages. A very good set. ESTC T92444. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1885). First US edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. xxvii, 528; x, 483pp. Index, Ads. Probably printed in England for Harpers at the same time as the Sampson, Low issue. Pagination is identical and the setting appears to be as well. Illustrated with over 100..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1997). Hardcover. Special edition. 8vo. White cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Deep red endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Rear corner lightly bumped else a fine copy. The publisher's glassine jacket is present; it has two short closed marginal tears and a...... More
Irvington-on-Hudson: Harvey House, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, gilt opine. 4to. 223pp. Illustrated and with tipped-in color plates, all of fore-edge paintings. In fine condition. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a couple of tape remnants on the flaps, else is in near fine condition. One of the definitive..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 251pp. Red cloth, gilt spine title, and gilt upper board illustration by Rackham. First state, with the missing 'r' on p. 198. Spine sunned, rear inner hinge cracked, else this is a very good copy. Name of..... More
New York: The Ecco Press, (1981). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Stated first edition. White cloth, gilt spine titles. Trace of wear along bottom edge else a fine copy. fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped; it has some light soil else is fine as well. Inscribed by the author..... More
New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The..... More
n.p. Graz, 1966. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Darl cloth with gilt title. 164 pages; 26 b/w and 60 tipped-in color illustrations. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is significantly rubbed else is in good condition. One of 250 copies. Authentic reproductions, in color, of sixty costumes worn in forty-one..... More
San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1980. Lela Dowling. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 32p. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles on the upper board. Four illustrations (2 full page) by Lela Dowling. One of 35 hardbound numbered copies signed by the author on an affixed limitation slip. A fine copy. The..... More
