New York: Derby, & Jackson, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 425pp. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth embossed in blind on the boards and with gilt title on spine. Yellow coated papers. Wear at edges and spine tips, occasional light soiling, else a very good copy. Alice Cary, with her sister Phoebe..... More
Evanston: The Shori Private Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 49,(3)pp. Hand printed on Ticonderoga Laid Text paper using types after Garamont. Bound in full marbled sheep. spine gilt with a red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a slipcase covered in decorated paper. The binding is like..... More
Brussels: Éditions du Nord, 1925. Illustrated by S. Sauvage. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (296)pp. Half blue-green morocco. Gilt rules on the boards; decorated paper panels, marbled paper endpapers. Spine intricately gilt with onlays of red leather in the decorations, and of brown and flesh colored in a representation of the..... More
Paris: Georges Servant, 1924. Illustrated by Jean Droit. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (150)pp. Finely bound in half deep blue morocco. Spine in six compartments with title in gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy. Illustrated with brilliantly colored aquarelles of Jean..... More
Paris: Le Musée du Livre, 1927. Illustrated by Ramiro Arrue.`. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 339, (3) pp. Half deep blue morocco, brightly decorative paper and endpapers. Spinetooled simply but effectively in gilt, with a small beige onlay. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Trace of wear else a fine..... More
Chester River Press, 2011. Illustrated by Avery Lawrence. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. 550pp. Black cloth, gilt spine titles. Homer's Greek is faced with Pope's English. Illustrated with fifty color plates showing scenes inspired by the text and in the style of Greek vases, A fine copy in fine dustwrappers and..... More
Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1932. Illustrations by Charles Guérin. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 169, (11)pp. Half green morocco binding signed by Flammarion. Spine intricately gilt with red and green onlays, gilt rules on the boards, marbled paper panels and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned else a fine..... More
Roma: Imprimerie Polyglotte, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 323pp. Illustrated. Full scarlet morocco intricately tooled in gilt on the boards, spine in sic compartments, gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Deep blue-green endpapers. Upper hinge nearly invisibly strengthened else this is a fine copy of a lovely binding by..... More
Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. PIazza, 1932. Illustrated by Jean Droit. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, (3), 247, (1)pp. Half green morocco, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine in five compartments, intricately gilt with a central lozenge reminiscent of the story, top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy..... More
Paris: Éditions de la Pléiade, 1928. Illustrations by Vasily Choukhaeff. Limited edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 149,(10)pp. Half deep blue-green morocco by Flammarion. Spine in five compartments with raised bands, intrivately gilt, gilt lines on the boards with marbled paper panels and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in pleasant color pastels..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1979). Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(3),393pp. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Frontispiece portrait; map endpapers and frontispiece map of Shanghai 1861-1863. Ownership blindstamp on title page, a stray ink mark on the margin of page vi, else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is now price-clipped;..... More
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1879. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxviii,280pp. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in black and gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Cloth well worn and soiled, especially the corners, spine tips and spine; rear inner hinge cracked; else a good copy with a very good textblock. More
n.p. (China): n.p., n.d. (1940's?). Red paper approximately 6 x 10 inches intricately cut in the shape of a fan, with two cats on stones under bamboo on one side, and flowering plants with a butterfly on the other. A fine example of this art, with no defects noted, in..... More
Albany: Joseph McDonough, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. Folding map. Cloth backed boards, printed paper labels on upper board and on the spine. One of 500 copies. Howes J266. "The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river." --Jenkins Basic Texas Books..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x,(2),287pp. Frontispiece portrait of Don Carlos. Blue T-grain cloth, gilt spine title. Neat ownership name dated 1931, a few pencil notations, else a very good copy. Definitive biography of this New Spain priest, poet, non-fiction writer, mathematician, historian, philosopher, cartographer..... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1942. Drawings by Frank Anthony Stanush. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 236. Reddish cloth printed in black. Dark pink endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated. Index. Neat ownership name and date (1944) on the front pastedown. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a clean split on the..... More
Denver: The World Press, Inc., 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, (194)pp. Reddish brown cloth blocked in dark blue on the spine and upper board. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy. The dustwrapper lacks a small piece along the top margin affecting the border lines, and another in the bottom..... More
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xvi, 292pp. Illustrated by R. J. de Boisvray. Contemporary quarter green calf, spine in five compartments, gilt, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine is rubbed in places, light wear to the corners and edges else this is a very good copy. Stories..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1995-97. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. 3 volumes. First editions, first printings. 8vo. Map endpapers. Fine copies in fine, unclipped dustwrappers. The complete Arthurian trilogy. Each volume has been signed by Cornwell on the title page. More
Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, (1913). Limited edition. Near fine. 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..... More
Bangor, ME: Eastern Corporation, 1947-1949. Broadside. Ten lithographed sheets of type faces on various paper manufactured by the publisher. Grayda and Batnam on Atlantic Ledger; Goudy Old Style on Atlantic Bond; Calligraphy on Atlantic Antique Laid; Alternate Gothis and Franklin Gothic on Manifest Bond; Binny & Ronaldson on Manifest Bond;..... More
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
