New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Hardcover. 4to. x,110pp. 15 plates, some in color. The colored plates are chromolithographed. Additional illustrations in text. Publisher's brown buckram printed in red, black and gilt. Decorative endpapers. All edges red. Boards worn and soiled, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip laid-on. The..... More
Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, (1913). Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 145 copies on paper. (There were 8 copies on vellum, according to the colophon.) Folio (15 3/4 x 11 inches; 400 x 280 mm.). xxii, 500 pp. Finely printed on a new make of Batchelor paper in red and..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1866 (1865). Second edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, Spines lightly sunned, else this is a very good set. Contemporary name of former owner. The second edition, dated 1866 on the title pages of volumes 1 and..... More
London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1814. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to.(16),xxvii,(1),544. Illustrated with plates based on drawings in a manuscript of the original romance. Edition limited to 175 regular copies and 25 large paper copies. Even though this copy has very generous margins, we believe it is one of..... More
London: J. M. Dent, 1893-94. Aubrey Beardelsy. First edition. Wraps. Twelve original parts in green wrappers. Regular issue: one of 1500 copies. Full page and double page illustrations, rubricated initials, borders and in-text decorations by Aubrey Beardsley in his first major commission. The wrappers are generally lightly soiled and..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1858. First edition. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt; leather lettering pieces, gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers; red edges. Armorial bookplates. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. Illulstrated by Anna-Marie Ferguson. Hardcover. Thick tall 8vo lxxiv, 950pp. Glossy pictorial boards, yellow endpapers. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Originally published in 2000 by Cassell & Co. Noteworthy for the introductory material: The Foreword and Introduction, Bibliography and Anna-Marie Ferguson's discussion..... More
Oak Grove, MN: MIchael E. Coughlin, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 32pp. Black cloth spine, red cloth boards, printed label on the upper board, deep red endpapers. Finely printed by Michael E. Coughlin on a Kluge platen press on Mohawsk Superfine Eggshell paper. The typeface is Garamond, and the..... More
London: T. Tegg, 1819. Etching. Original etching with contemporary hand-coloring. Approximately 10 by 13 inches in frames 16½ by 19½ inches. Glazed and framed in a striped wood frame, cream colored cloth mat and a dark green inner mat by Creative Galleries, Los Angeles. The frame is black with a...... More
Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing, 1934. First edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. (43),(1)pp. Finely printed in black, red and blue under the direction of Leonard Jay at the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Printed by students in the Letterpress Machine classes. Set in Garamond. Illustrated with wood engravings by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 327,(1)pp. Black cloth spine, silver title; white paper over boards, silver title on upper board. Trace of aging on the edges else a fine copy. Translated form the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. Inscribed by the..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Pleasantly bound in full scarlet morocco, the spine in seven compartments, gilt, with raised bands. The boards with gilt borders, titles, and an inner gilt rectangle with..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Cobalt blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, the upper board elaborately decorated in gilt and black. The illustrations were reprinted in 1869 as part of the Idylls..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. State A, but bound in blue cloth instead of black. The boards blind-stamped with a floral border enclosing an arabesque floral design. The spine is stamped in gilt and blind. At the top is an angel holding the Grail, followed..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 126pp. Red ribbed cloth; gilt tile on spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. A prose description of Abbey's frieze in the Boston Public Library. Cloth unevenly sunned on the board and spine gilt darkened else a very good copy. Laid..... More
Chisinau, Moldava (Кишиневь): Protodeacon Anisim, 1927. Hardcover. 4to. Foliated. (5),9-188 ff. Thick boards covered in calf and decorated with nailheads. Frontispiece of King David writing. Contains the Psalms arranged in kathismata, then two other sections follow. Printed in Old Slavonic in red and black throughout. The colophon states that Psalter..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Black cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and on the upper board. Illustrated throughout, both in text and full page. Three of the full page illustrations are in color. The endpapers have tape marks where the dustwrapper was..... More
Moscow: Uchpediz, 1957. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper over boards in color. Alphabet endpapers with illustrations next to each letter. Printed in full color throughout. Light wear and rubbing to the binding. Annotated throughout by a former student in pencil, so a good copy only but scarce. This..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrations from the frieze in the Boston Public Library by Edwin Austin Abbey. 26 Illustrations finely printed on tissue and mounted on guards. Text by Ferris Greenslet. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Cloth worn at edges and..... More
London: Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. Third printing. Three volumes. Green buckram spines blocked in gilt; glossy paper boards with an illustration of Arthur and the sword in the stone in the foreground. A fine set. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 56. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed..... More
Houston: Christian Anti-Communbism Crusade, (1961). First edition. Stapled wraps. 7 by 10 inches, printed in full color on newsprint, two staples. A tiny abrasion at the foot of the first page, a contemporary book store imprint on the front page else this is in near fine condition. Scarce comic from..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Unpaginated (36pp.). Orange cloth spine, glossy illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and, indeed, illustrated throughout in full color. A fine copy with only a trace of wear along the bottom..... More
México: Ediciones Singulares, 1966. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Text in three sections, Spanish, English and French. Illustrated with phoographs and maps. The binding is unusual: It has a smooth leather spine, gilt titles. But the upper and lower boards are molded from chips of jade in resin to create an..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition. Very good. 12mo. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. Harper's Family Library No. 106. Second issue with the dot over the eye missing and broken type on page 9. Spine tips worn but a very good copy of this iconic work. Contemporary..... More
