London and New York: The Medici Society/Macmillan, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. Cloth spine, gilt; decorated paper boards. 30 pages. 6 tipped-in color plates by Jacynth Parsons. Finely printed on Little Chart Handmade paper. A very good copy with only a trace of wear. One of 400 copies signed..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, c. 1888. Hardcover. First Little, Brown edition, and likely the first complete American edition of Lear's nonsense works. 8vo. xii, (1) (25)-85, (2), (7-37, (2), 7-41pp. Red cloth, gilt title and vignette on upper board. A fine, bright copy. The dustwrapper mirrors the upper board of the..... More
Newton, Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (4),119,(1). Purple buckram spine, gilt; blue patterned cloth boards. Finely printed on hand-made Matchelor paper. Illustrated with wood engravings by Horace Walter Bray. Onlky a trace of subing to the binding; the spine is unfaded; a near fine copy. In..... More
London: A&C Black, 1936. Hardcover. 8vo. (134)pp. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Bound in full dark blue polished calf by Riviere. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and brown lettering labels, gilt. Gilt tooling on the boards of a dotted frame with intricate floral ends, surrounded by a double gilt..... More
London: Macdonald, 1976. First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black textured binding, gilt spine titles. Red endpapers. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped and is in fine condition as well. SIgned by Anne Rice on the front free endpaper. More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Gray cloth boards printed in blue. Top edge yellow. Light wear to the edges and corners else a very good copy. In the first state dustwrapper showing Gone with the Wind as the second title in the second column. It..... More
Concord: Gazette Press, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Miniature: 1⅛ by 1½ inches. 16pp. Full blue morocco, gilt title on upper board and gilts rules on both boards. A fine copy. Dedicated to the Hon. Lewis Cass. Welsh 8385. Scarce. Basically an anti-Franklin Pierce pamphlet, issued on election day, November 2..... More
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1971). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, (1), 298pp. Cloth spine printed in gilt and red, decorated paper over boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a bit of rubbing and soil, else near fine. A modernized version of..... More
Pasadena, CA: Grant Dahlstrom, 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xlii, (2), 50pp/ Cloth spine, gilt title, plain red paper boards and endpapers. Illustrations by Harold E. Spencer. Some spots on the cover paper, else a very good copy. Clearly a limited edition, though the limitation is not specified. Polidori's original..... More
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 84pp. Recent full black leather tooled in blind with gilt spine titles; marbled endpapers. Bound without half title else a fine copy.' First edition, the first issue of the corrected page xiv, and the second issue of the corrected title..... More
Berkeley: University of California, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes slipcased. Edited and with a critical apparatus by James W. Spisak, dictionary of names & places by Bert Dillon. Based on the William Matthews' work with the Pierpont Morgan Copy of William Caxton's edition of 1485. With 16pp. of facsimiles..... More
Rome: De Carlo, 1946. Limited edition. Wraps. 4to. 265(3)pp. Printed wraps over flexible card. Untrimmed text block. Paper age-toned else this is a very good copy. The wraps seem to be parchment. One of 323 numbered copies signed y the author. This is number 78. A note on the title..... More
London: Nicholas Prevost (I - III); William Jackson for Claude du Bosc (IV); Claude du Bosc (V-VII), 1731-1739. First edition in English. Hardcover. Seven volumes in six. Folios. xx,412,(113)(1); viii, 345,(1)(17)(1); x,444,(29); (ix)(3)514(2)(13)(1); (viii)470,(22); (2)228(8); (vi)164(vii)pp. Illustrated with 222 copper-plate engravings, many double page. The numbering of the plates is..... More
Coventry: J. Turner, n.d., ca. 1810. First edition. Wraps. 12mo. 29,(1)pp. FPrinted wraps. Hand color frontispiece of Coventry Cross, and also hand colored Elephant and Tower vignette on the title page. Fold out plate, also hand colored, of the procession at Coventry, with Lady Godiva astride her horse. Spine partially..... More
London: H. C. for Thomas Dring, 1684. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. lxx, (4), 128, (8)pp. Contemporary half leather, spine in 6 compartments, gilt, marbled sides. With three full page portraits: The frontispiece, a full page engraving of a carriage driven by Satan and drawn with griffins, carrying the Queen and..... More
Gaylordsville (CT): The Slide Mountain Press, 1930. Limited edition. Folio. 104pp. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Finely printed by James and Hilda Wells at the Slide Mountain Press on Bishopstoke handmade paper in a numbered edition of 450 copies. This is number 352, signed by the author and the illustrator..... More
Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1809. First US edition. Disbound. Imperfect but complete. 12 full page hand colored engravings 4 by 4¼ inched retrieved form the original booklet, not mounted on rough cut paper and preserved in a clamshell case, accompanied by two remnants of the original wrapper with title. The..... More
London: J. M. Dent, 1893-1894. First Beardsley edition. Hardcover. 4to. Two volumes. Publisher's cream-colored cloth, gilt. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley throughout. One of 1500 copies from a total issue of 1800 copies. Rebacked with the original spines laid down, cloth worn at hinges and edges, only a good binding but..... More
London: Addey & Co., 1856. First edition. Fine. Small 4to. xi, (xii-xvii),18-158pp. Half scarlet morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands and tooled in gilt; red cloth sides in a pebble grain pattern, gilt bordedr rules, and title on the upper board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers in a...... More
Berlin: Krol & Straus, 1914. Stapled wraps. 12mo. 20pp. Printed wraps. Spine reinforced else in very good condition. Printed at the bottom of the upper wrap is "Machine gun emplacement.) Valid untilContemporary handwriting throughout showing the owner's movements. One fold our slip lists and dates various military maneuvers, Stamps and..... More
London: Collins, 1958. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Bookplate on the front pastedown else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is lightly sunned, more so on the spine, else is in near fine condition as well. The first compilation of White's..... More
San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, c. 2018. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Large thick folio. 333, (1) pp. Glossy pictorial boards. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Laid in is a 'bookplate' card of a Purple Dragon signed by Stout in purple felt pen. Also in fine condition... More
Severna Park, MD: Bay Media, Inc., c. 2008. Illustrated by Phyllis Saroff. First edition. Hardcover. Tall thin 4to. Unpaginated (32pp.) Glossy pictorial boards. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper:"To all grandma's and grandchildren..." More
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. Limited edition. Limp Vellum. Also 24691 AALL. 4to. 182 pp.. Hand-illuminated initial letters in red, blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. (4to), original orange vellum with orange ties, gilt spine title; printed in black and red;..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1985. Limited edition. Deluxe issue. One of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist, this being copy no 4. 8vo. Quarter green crushed morocco over gray birch-veneer boards, bound by Gray Parrot, with text printed letterpress in two colors on T. H. Saunders..... More
