Boston: Jordan Marsh, (1898) but 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 212pp. Four color plates by René Quentin. Pictorial cloth. Spine sunned else a fine copy. Pinocchio is presented here in the first US edition with colored plates but a piracy of the original with no attribution to Collodi. Even the..... More
London: Printed for Private Distribution, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. l, 183,(1)pp. The final page is a list of additions and corrections. Illustrated with 22 full page magnificent chromolithographed plates, 18 uncolored plates, and text illustrations. Contemporary half leather binding by Riviere, spine in 7 compartments with raised bands, gilt;..... More
Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian and Piet, 1860. First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 192pp. Green embossed cloth with remnants of gilt on the spine. Lacks front free endpaper. Textblock generally soiled, cloth soiled with a piece lacking on the upper board, boards warped. Only a poor copy, but scarce. We have marked..... More
Holguin, Cuba: Cuadernos Papiro, 2018. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 12 leaves of handmade paper bound by hand in a thick handmade paper covers made from water hyacinth with a branch incorporated into the upper cover, and with ties made with dried stems and jute. The final leaf gives..... More
London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737. Hardcover. Second edition, improved. 12mo. xii, 526,(62) pp. Contemporary spotted calf, spine gilt with red leather lettering pieces. Hinges neatly repaired, some rubbing and scuffing of edges and bands, else a very good copy. The first edition was published in 1736. Engraved fishing..... More
Cádiz: Revista Médica, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 224pp. followed by 29pp of appendices. Contemporary quarter leather, spine gilt, marbled ans embossed paper over boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Inner hinge and spine neatly mended, edges worn, else this is a very good copy. The scarce first printing of Castro's..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio (16 by 10x17½ inches). (3),111,(3)87,(4)pp., the text leaves hinged at the top and printed on one side only. Copy XXI of 100 specially bound copies (from a total printing of 155), signed by the artist and with extra illustrative material. A...... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in near fine..... More
Williamsburg, MA: Cheloniidae Press, (1984). Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Finely printed by Harold McGrath and illustrated with eleven wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Designed by Alam James Ropbinson and Arthur Larson, the text based on the 1845 Witney-Putnam edition. The Deluxe Edition of 60 copies printed on vintage Bodleian..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Full Vellum Edition, one of 26 lettered copies. This is copy O/Z. Bound in full cream-colored vellum. Twenty-six bird portrait wood engravings by Robinson are arranged alphabetically. Each engraving is accompanied with an initial letter and the Latin and common names hand..... More
Florence: Kunsthistoriches Institut / Harvard University Center, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 483pp/ Red cloth block in gilt on the spine and upper board. Illustrated throughout in color. Index. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Seventeen approaches to the painters of the New World, with emphasis on the Florentine..... More
Buenos Aires: Mitchell's English Book-Store, 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii, 115pp. plus 24 color plates. One of 1870 numbered copies (from a total printing of 2000 copies), This is number 1441. The text is a facsimile in 8vo of the Ackermann edition, London. 1820, complete with 24 full color plates. Finely..... More
Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Walter Owen, 1978. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 264pp. followed by an index. Illustrated. Bound in brown and cream cowhide with an illustration and the title impressed on the front board. Ribbon marker. In Spanish and English. Short gift inscription, and ownership initials and date else a...... More
Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 60pp. Blue cloth, gilt title on upper board. Ownership blindstamp else a fine copy. Patrick Pearse was President of the New Ireland Literary Society. This is his first book. The lectures are: Gaelic Prose Literature; The Folk-SOngs of Ireland;..... More
Parsonstown (Birr): King's County Chronicle, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 344 pp followed by 24pp of ads. Later red cloth, gilt spine, title from original binding onset onto upper board. Folding colored map of the county. A very good copy. The first King's County Directory. A short history, then extensive..... More
London: Davud Nutt, 1887. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 8vo. xx, 70 pp. Printed in black and red. Two engravings of the title persons. Stiff plain boards covered with a dustwrapper. Trace of soil to the wrapper but essentially a fine copy. With the engraved bookplate of Charles B, Foote..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. 8vo. (x, 200)pp. Red cloth, gilt spine title, gilt rules on the upper board. A fine copy. One of 375 signed and numbered copies, this copy out of series and marked 'Presentation Copy' before the author's..... More
London: J. Harris, successor to E. Newberry, 1808. Wraps. 12mo. Printed wrappers. 16pp. Eight hand-colored original plates, including the frontispiece. Some edge-fraying to plates, contemporary ms. ownership name on reverse of frontispiece, original printed blue wrappers, rubbed and faded, edge-frayed in places, old ms. price at head of upper cover..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth printed in back on the spine and upper board. The cloth has slight aging to the boards and spine, age toning on the endpapers and pastedowns,a penciled nots on the front free endpaper, but it is..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this is copy No, 230. Leather spine, gilt; vellum boards,the upper board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design. A publisher's note is followed by a note on..... More
(Rome): Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi), 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 13 by 18 inches. Engraved title/dedication to and with portrait of Queen Christina followed by an engraved depiction of Raphael, who died in 1520. These are followed by 52 etchings which reproduce Raphael's paintings and..... More
London: David Nutt, 1902-1912. Hardcover. Eight volumes 12mo. Brown cloth blocked with a design in blue, green and gilt on the upper boards. Tristan is two volumes the remaining titles are one volume each. The first four titles are later printings; the last three are first printings. Unusual to find..... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. One of 250 copies from a total edition of 260 copies. Half-borders and 163 initials by William Morris, engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper et al. Woodcut press device in Colophon. Printed in red, black and blue in Troy type..... More
Patavino (Padua): M. Cerdonis, 1482. Hardcover. 4to. 69 of 70 leaves, lacking folio 1 (supplied in facsimile). Initials throughout in red and blue, some with fine penwork decoration. Inner margin worming nor affecting the text. Contemporary unsophisticated binding of beveled wooden boards and pigskin thongs. Metal clasp partially perished as..... More
San Antonio: n.p., n.d. (1929). Wraps. Oblong folio. Printed stiff orange wraps. Printed introductory page followed by nineteen stiff pages with mounted original photographs. The photographs range in size form 6½ by 8 to 7½ by 9 inches. Some are of testimonial letters the rest are pictures of the Tobin..... More
