London(?): Nelson & Sons(?), n.d., ca. 1874. Hardcover. Four linen-backed chromolithographed alphabet books sometime bound in rust-colored cloth, without title page. The alphabets are illustrated by animals, birds, people and biblical characters, accompanied by a verse describing each character. Slight wear to binding; alphabets near fine, bright and delightful. Scarce..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt; leather lettering pieces, gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers; marbled edges. Bookplates of Pierpont Van Deveer Davis. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it..... 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
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1983). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First trade edition with the Wrightson illustrations. Small folio. 192,(2)pp. Red paper spine, gilt; green paper boards, gilt title on the upper board. Deep blue endpapers. There are some spots on the textblock edges and a gift inscription..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. 41pp. Illustrated with nine full page steel engravings by Doré. Later binding of blue buckram, gilt spine title. Occasional very faint trace of foxing, mainly on the tissue guards, the first tissue guard with an..... 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; New York: John Murray; Van Wynkle & Wiley; Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1814-1819. First editions. Hardcover. Bound volume containing works by or attributed to Lord Byron from 1814 to 1819. 'Lara' is the 4th edition, L. 1814. 'Poems by Lord Byron' is the first US edition, NY, 1816. 'The..... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6), 332pp. followed by 8pp publisher's catalogue. Contemporary purple T-grain (or a variant of it) cloth blocked in gilt on the upper board and spine. The frontispiece was designed by Cruikshank especially for this book. Additional..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Florence K. Upton. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates (including the title page), numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages,else a very good copy..... More
1988. Two items relating to the groundbreaking of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, California, on November 21, 1988. The items are: 1. Official progam for the ceremony of blue card cover, 4pp., and 2.Gorham Sterling bookmark given to the invited guests, in..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (c. 1965). Early Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, early printing, with EFG on the copyright page. Original printed cloth. Bookseller label on free front endpaper, else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is lightly worn at the head of the spine and at the upper fold..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1971). Leo Politi. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Pictorial boards showing Emmet on the upper board and the street where he lives on the rear board. A fine copy, and with the correct first printing code A.2-71 (RZ)beneath the copyright date. The dustjacket..... More
London: Effingham WIlson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. vii,(1),100pp. Hand colored frontispiece, plus six lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; cloth boards; vellum corners; marbled endpapers. With the original wrappers bound in at the rear. Without the publisher' s...... More
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1843. Hardcover. 8vo. xix,(1),562pp. Illustrated with plates and maps, the plate with tissue-guards. Finely bound in full navy morocco, spine in five compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt; the boards with gilt borders and gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. The unsigned binding is almost certainly..... More
Boston and New York: Lee & Shepard; Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xii),224,(i)pp. Original publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on the boards with vignettes of the Red (front) and White (rear) Queens within triple gilt borders; spine title in gilt with an ornament and..... 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
Boston: Thomas J. Flynn & Company, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 219pp. Original brown cloth blocked in gilt. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of author. Basically an exposition of the ancient Irish religious system prior to Christianity (and thereafter as 'fairy lore'). The first book edition of..... More
London: Dean and Son, n.d. [ca. 1855]. Early Edition. Broadside. 8 leaves, printed on one side only. 7 large woodcut illustrations, and a small initial vignette, all hand-colored. Paper wrappers, included in the collation. Back wrapper lists Dean and Son's Sixpenny Toy Books; large closed tear in bottom margin with..... More
Paris: Maison Quantin, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio. 245, (3)pp with nearly every page illustrated with full color aquarelles from the author's jewel-link watercolors. 150 illustrations. Custom binding in full dark blue morocco, gilt titles, the upper board with a recess contains leather onlays depicting a domed building against..... More
London: George Allen, 1895-1897. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Six volumes, bound from parts. 85 full-page black and white illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed on handmade paper by Charles Wittingham at the Chiswick Press. Ivory colored buckram, gilt spine, and with the upper boards blocked in gilt..... More
Mejico: J. Ojeda, 1839. Hardcover. [i-ii] iii-vii, 302, [2, index] pp. Small 8vo. Original full Mexican tree sheep, tan leather label, gilt, and spine ruled in gilt. Lightly rubbed, light dampstain on the foredge margin not affecting text, else a fine copy. Second printing after the first printing the year..... More
London: WIlliam Smith, 1848 (and 1844). Hardcover. Two volumes in four, extra-illustrated with the insertion of the illuminated plates from Humpheys' "Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart" in addition to the hand-colored plates of this edition. Dark green levant morocco, spines in five compartments, intricately gilt, board tooled in gilt and..... More
Mexico: 1860's. Stiff card. Set of 24 alphabet lottery cards, about 1½ by 3 inches, lithographed in black on white stock and mounted on stiff card. The 24 cards cover the entire Spanish alphabet, except for Rr, and are complete as issued. Each card shows a lithographed scene, sometimes attributed..... More
San Francisco: Kneedler-Fauchère, n.d. (1950's). Hardcover. Folio. Black cloth spine bound with cloth ties; printed paper over boards. Text contains three pages of explanation and illustrations of Japanese papermaking, as well as samples of the three basic materials: Khozo (Broussonetia kijinoki), Mitsumata (Edgeworthia papyriferae) and Gampi (Wikstroemia sikokina). This is..... More
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer, 1743. Hardcover. Comprising Vol 1: Observations on Egypt; Vol 2 part 1: Observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia; Vol 2 part 2: Observations on the Islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece and some other..... More
