Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in fine, bright..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1892. Illustrated by Maud Humphrey. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 12 full page chromolithographed plates (including the title page) plus in-text color illustrations, all printed on one side only on heavy paper. The binding is a red cloth spine, printed paper boards (both upper and lower)..... More
London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1831. First edition. 2 volumes. Small 4to. ix,(1),400;xi,(1),402 pp. Contemporary polished calf boards, marbled edges; nicely rebacked in calf with spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, red leather lettering labels, gilt, and gilt author and volume numbers. Frontispiece of the Al-Hambra..... More
London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Black victorian cloth, paper label. Neatly rebacked in matching cloth (not quite as sunned as the original) with original spine laid-on. Original yellow endpapers retained. Label and original spine soiled and chipped else a very good copy in modern..... More
Hakodate, Japan: The Hakodate Kyodo Bunkakai, 1953. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 2 volumes, 8vo. 174;102pp. Purple stiff paper wraps bound Japanese style with string ties. Double fold pages, printed paper titles, Japanese on volume 1 and English on volume 2, Volume 1 is a facsimile manuscript of Kojima's original..... More
Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1976. Line drawings by A. R. H. Canlis. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 455pp. Illustrated throughout. Embossed paper over boards blocked in silver on the spine and upper board. Decorated endpapers based on a kimono fabric design. Introduction by Neil K. Davey. Contents: Part I: All of the..... More
Albuquerque: Parjarito Publications, (1980). First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated (20 pp.) Glossy illustrated boards printed in two colors. Charmingly illustrated throughout. A bilingual children's story, with English on one page and Spanish on the next. The great bell in the church of San Agustín in Tucson stopped tolling after..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. First US edition. Very good. 2 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in original boards: drab cloth spines, paper over boards, remnants of printed lettering labels. Expected wear at edges, some soiling, else a very good set. The first American edition of the third of Morier's..... 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
Marpurgi Cattorum (Marburg): Typis & Sumptibus Josephi Dieterici Hampelii, 1646. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (x),315,(xxv)pp. Original full vellum over boards; manuscript spine title. With woodcut vignette to title, initials and ornamental devices. Chief work of the Frisian scholar Popma which elucidates with great subtlety meaning and importance of synonyms. Contains..... More
London: Richard Sare, 1696. Hardcover. 8vo. (8),344pp. Full contemporary calf, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, the boards with light blind tooling on the borders. Bound without spine title. Branded ownership initials on the text block edges (WT?) Lacks front free endpaper, last 60pp have light stain on..... More
London: Printed for and sold by J. Newbery; R. Baldwin; J. Brindley; G. Woodfall; and M. Sheepey, ca. 1750. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 62pp. Usually attributed to Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761), a Church of England bishop. Bound to style in quarter leather, marbled paper boards, leather lettering label, gilt. The title..... 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
