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
London & New York: Ernest Nister; Dutton & Co., n.d., ca. 1890's. Stiff card. Single die-cut sheet brilliantly printed by chromolithography in Bavaria. 4 by 6 inches. It depicts an anthropomorphic sunflower, eyes closed, mouth pursed, with a bow and tab beneath. On the tab is printed You are the..... More
Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. The Book of Job was translated form the Original by Rabbi Abraham Elzas; Elbert Hubbard provided comments on the text. 8vo. 152,(4)pp. Cloth spine, gilt spine title; paper over boards, gilt title on the upper board. Title page in two colors; text..... 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
Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1893. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and on the upper board. 245pp., followed by information from the American Humane Society and preceded by the four page address of George Angell of the American Humane Society. Illustrated with black and..... 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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (6), 24pp followed by 44 plates by Lemercier & Co. Green cloth decorated in gilt and dark green on the upper board and in gilt on the spine. The cloth is rubbed at the edges and hinges; there is a...... More
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
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: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. viii, 462pp. Finely bound by Riviere in dark green straight-grain morocco. The spine is in five compartments, gilt with raised bands. Each raised band is double with an onlay of crimson morocco tooled with a gilt floral rule..... 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
Taipei, RC: National Palace Museum. Hardcover. 4to. Accordion book printed in color on one side reproducing the Ch'ing Dynasty Handscroll, the originally painted between 1736-1795 and depicting a festival on the river. The reproduction measures 35.6 by 1152.8 cm. (14 inches by 37.8 feet). Finely bound in patterned silk boards..... 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
London, et al: Rider & Co., n.d., ca. 1940's. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with 11 plates and 3 drawings. Index. 198pp. Covers magic arfts among the Celts; Druids; Spells & Charms; Spirit World; Necromancy; the Cult of Arthur; the Mystery of the Grail; and Second Sight..... More
New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., (1904). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 101pp plus 9pp of ads. Gray buckram, gilt spine title, upper board blocked in giult and red with a representation of the grail. Frontispiece. Light soil, spine darkened, but a very good copy. More
n.p. (Portland, OR): The Chamberlain Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated [22] pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine with dark brown spine titles, gray endpapers, rough cut fore-edge. The type is handset Goudy Bold and the paper is Hosho. Sarah Chamberlain designed and printed the book and..... More
London: Longmans, 1929. Hardcover. Index. 16 photographs of hitherto unread manuscripts. The first Latin text taken direct from the earliest manuscripts together with the first literal translation of a parallel Welsh Chronicle. With a discussion of Geoffrey's Native Sources and the Ancient British Book which he claimed that he translated..... More
