New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1922. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. One of 750 copies. Brown cloth. Gilt title on spine and upper board. With bibliographical notes, reproductions of specimen pages and a listing of all know copies of the Gutenberg Bible. And with a separate facsimile leaf incorporating Psalm 23... More
New Yorjk: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. xxxii,(3),280pp. Red cloth, gilt spine titles. Index. A fine copy. Dustwrapper is clipped and with closed tears and rubbing along the bottom with partial loss of publisher's imprint. More
Connecticut: Sign of the Stone Book; Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxviii,327,(3)pp. Red leather spine,, gilt. Marbled paper sides, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson. With marginal comments and markings from a copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. A fine copy... More
Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1957. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (82)pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine, Finely printed by Jacob Hammer on dampened Hayle handmade paper. One of 200 unnumbered copies. Many copes are signed; this is not. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase. More
London: Edward Arnold, Essex House Press, 1901. Woodcuts by William Strang. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 87pp. Finely printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies of which this is No. 82. The text is a translation by Sir Thomas Challoner form the Reign of Elizabeth and edited by Janet... More
Venice: In Aedibvs Alsi et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1522. Hardcover. 12mo. 204 leaves. Contemporary vellum, ink name on spine. Anchor and dolphin device on title page and last leaf. Contemporary ownership name at base of title page. Engraved bookplate of Alfred Petit on the front pastedown. A very good copy... More
Haarlem: Joh. Enschesé en Zonen for the LEC, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Large 4tos. The Iliad is bound in red cloth, gilt spine titles; the Odyssey in blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Finely printed pursuant to the design of J. van Krimpen in an edition of 1500 copies. Each volume... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golkden Cockerel Press, 1925. Wood engravings by John Nash. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 35, (3) pp. Vellum spine, decorated paper over boards. One of 380 numbered copies of which this is no. 361. Light wear to edges and corners else a near fine copy, finely printed... More
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1972. Limited edition. Wraps. Folio. One of 140 copies finely printed on handmade paper from the Wookey Hole mill in England. The paper was made to the specifications of the Allen Press, with the watermark of the Press, and the book was printed damp on an... More
London: The Vale Press, 1902. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. Finely printed by C. S Ricketts. Ransom reports that the edition was 310 copies. Later whit e leather tooled in blind on the spine and both boards in a pattern reminiscent of a Renaissance design. White unsigned, the binding is almost... More
Boston; Lexington: David R. Godine; The Anvil Press; Stamperia Valdonega, 1978, Limited editions. Hardcover. Two volumes, 4to. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mardersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. the second volume is numbered 550 copies, of which this is No... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1959). Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Limited edition. Hardcover. Translated by Lord Berners, edited by G. C. Macaulay, and with an introduction by Sidney Painter. 4to. 748pp. Binding of buckram, spine in red and gilt, upper board with spears blind embossed, and the remainder of... More
East Aurora: Roycroft, 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. One of 920 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard; this is copy No. 755. Nicely bound in full orange morocco, title in blind on the spine, and the binding signed 'Denny'. In a custom clamshell case of buckram with the embossed... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. With Six Engravings in Colour by Dorothea Braby. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 95,(1)pp. Bound in two types of cloth, one green the other rose, gilt spine titles and gilt emblem on the upper board, Top edge gilt. One of 360 numbered copies, of which this... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864. Hardcover. 12mo., 272pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title and blind rules on beveled boards/ Chocolate coated endpapers. Some pencil notations, light wear to the edges and corners else a very good copy. The major part of this small volume is devoted to Bridges'... More
London: The Astolat Press, 1904. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (4),42, (2)pp. The Oakleaf Series. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Finely printed letterpress in red and black. Boards warped,, soiled and worn at corners, lacking front free endpaper; a good copy only. The text block is fine but for the half title... More
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 456pp. Publisher's black patterned cloth; gilt spine title; plain endpapers. Errata page tipped-in at rear. One of 1000 copies of the first edition. A fine, bright copy, with only the barest traces of wear, notably at the head of... More
New Castle: Cheap Street, (1983). Illustrated by Alicia Austin. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in quarter morocco, handmade paper boards and silver spine titles. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. A fine copy. One of 44 copies of the Publisher's Edition, from a total edition of 177 copies. Signed by both... More
Chicago (?): Blue Ribbon/Pleasure Books (?), ca. 1935. Stiff card. Two sheets of card joined by a paper spine enclosing a folded card sheet with a Pop-Up of Flash in a sword fight with Prince Barin. Pencil and ink with gouache and overlaid with a fixative. On the outer cover... More
New-York: Hopkins & Morris, 1825. Wraps. 8vo. 40pp. Printed paper wraps. Wraps well soiled and worn; binding nearly perished; pages rough and soiled along the edges but not affecting text. A fair copy only. Preserved in a custom clamshell case. Begins with a excerpt from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia... 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
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. First edition, first printing. Thick 4to. xv,(1),400pp. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with photographs. Index. Bibliography. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Laid-in are two letters typed letters signed by White addressed to Professor Reeve Parker of Cornell... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, end papers illustrated by Robert Lawson. There is no dust wrapper. Only the presence of... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xi,(1)399,(1); v-viii,398. Five engraved plates: Teneriffe, Port Cook, South Shetland, Cape Horn and Ascension. Two maps. The map in volume I shows the track of HMS Chanticleer; the folding map in Volume II shows The Isthmus of Darien, now Panama... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xxxi,(1).784pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, including two folding maps in the rear pocket depicting the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918. The biding is in very good... More
