London: Charles J. Skeet, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (6),384,(2)pp. Red cloth embossed in blind and in gilt on the spine and upper board. Nicely rebacked with most of the original spine laid on. A very good appearance with the gilt bright. With the bookplate of the Reginald George..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, Folio. Green sand-grain cloth intricately decorated in black and gilt on the spines and upper boards. All edges gilt. Illustrated by 525 engravings on wood drawn by E. Riou, and 10 maps from drawings by the author. Upper..... More
New York: The American Chess Bulletin, n.d. (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (8),130,(6)pp. Maroon ribbed cloth gilt title on the upper board. Wear to the edges and corners, spotting and soiling to the text block, the final page detached and laid-in, and the rear free endpaper lacking. A well..... More
New York: The American Chess Bulletin, n.d. (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (8),130,(6)pp. Maroon ribbed cloth gilt title on the upper board. Light wear and sunning else a near fine copy. "Comprising over one hundred and twenty-five of his best tournament and match games at chess, together with the..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes. xxi, (3), 707,(1), (6pp of ads); xvii,(3),808, (4pp)ads)pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt medallions on the upper boards, floral endpapers. Complete with 17 maps, 4 in Vol. 1, and 13 in Vol. 2. Scattered light foxing and..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. As new in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated by Dave McKean. First printing with full number line. Newbery Prize winner for 2008; in first state jacket without the sticker. And now the 2009 Hugo Award winner. Signed by the author and by..... More
London: David Nutt, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 96pp. Original cloth blocked in blue, green, black and gilt on the upper board. 1898 inscription on the frent free endpaper else a near fine copy. No. 1 in the Nutt series of "Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur'"... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blue printed paper over boards. Trace of sunning at the edges else this is a fine copy. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and is first state, without the Newbery Award sticker. It is lightly sunned at edges..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth; spine printed in copper. Stated first edition. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. Trace of soil to the edges else this is a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is rough along the top else it is..... More
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 153pp. Brick colored buckram, gilt spine title. Wear to edges and corners; inner hinges cracked but firm, else a very good copy. Extensively annotated in pencil by a former owner. Inscribed in pencil on the half title..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939-1940. First US editions. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edges stained red, fore-edges untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers of the first volume illustrated by Robert Lawson. Near fine copies with..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
London: Robt. Riviere & SOn, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated. Finely bound in red calf, sumptuously gilt on the spine and both boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Riviere. More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy..... More
n.p. (Los Angeles): n.p., (1923). Hardcover. 8vo. 146pp.. Blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear and soil. stain in front endpaper gutter, 1931 clipping pasted to front pastedown recounting the 1931 death of Edward Towne, a Cheyenne newspaperman, who in 1892, accompanied as a staff correspondent a...... More
New York: Jenkins & Thomas, Printers, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 8vo. 139pp followed by ads. Printed wraps. 7 plates as called for. The rear wrap repeats the plate of Sitting Bull. Wraps somewhat soiled and with old tape reinforcement within and without, else this is a very good copy..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Illustrations by Sears Frank. Color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, text illustrations in black and white. Cloth sunned around edges else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper has chips at the..... More
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited, n.d. (1858). Hardcover. Thin small folio. Red cloth blocked in gilt. Letterpress text of 50 pp. preceded by 24 full page engravings and an engraved title page all from sketches by Thomas Allom. The binding is soiled and well worn, the gilt..... More
New York: Street & Smith, (1943). Wraps. 68pp, counting the pictorial wraps. Comic book format. Printed throughout in full color. Text pages are browned as usual for the poor paper used; The cover is well rubbed, the inner hinge taped at an early date, and has separated from the text..... More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xiv, (15)-802, iv pp. Green textured cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board. Map of Southern States as well as many illustrations throughout by J. Wells Champney. Travel in Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Missouri..... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. n.d., ca. 1880. Hardcover. Large thin 4to. Upper board in full color chromolithography; rear board in single color and listing the five books in the Pantomime Series. 10pp of text, with the two remaining blanks serving as front and rear pastedowns. With a full color chromolithographed..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Limited edition. Hardcover. Original blue buckram boards, dark blue pigskin spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, Cockerel marbled endpapers. A fine copy in the publisher's printed box which has only a trace of soil. One of 2000 numbered copies, of which this is number..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 160pp. Dark gray cloth with the title on the spine in orange and a rendering of Mayan glyphs on the upper board. Extensively illustrated. A near fine copy. A catalogue of selections from the Grolier Club exhibit of 1971..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865-1866. Second edition. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark cakf. Spines in fivex compartments, gilt; marbled paper boards, endpapers and edges. Later green morocco lettering labels, gilt. Joints rubbed, light wear to the boards, light foxing to the endpapers and preliminaries else this is a...... More
Paris: Ernst Henri, Editeur, n.d. (1925). Loose plates. Folio, 11 by 15 inches. Portfolio of 40 loose plates. Paper over boards, cloth spine, printed paper label, cloth tie. The plates are printed in full color and mounted to a gray card with a printed black border. Portfolio well worn, and..... More
