n.p. Phonograph Records, Inc., (1946). Three unbreakable 78rpm recordings of this sound drama played by George Lipton and Company. Housed in the original record folder with an illustration on the front cover showing an attempt to pull a sword from a stone, a castle, a dragon and Merlin. The records..... More
New York: Tudor, 1969. First US edition. Hardcover. Folio. 155pp, Light green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and upper board. Original Chagall lithograph bound in. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a little roughness along the top edge, especially at the spine tips, else is near fine... More
New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 514pp. Publisher's brown T-grain cloth gilt spine title, boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpaper. Engraved frontispiece. Cloth well worn and soiled, especially at the joints, edges, tips and corner, some light staining to the textblock else..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c. 1940. 8vo. xxvi,(2),214pp. Gray cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Light wear; a very good copy. This is Sander and Ward's abridgment of Malory, but preceded by a 26 page introduction valuable for its discussion of Arthur stories before Malory, Courtly..... More
Dublin: Hospitals Trust, Ltd., 1935. Single engraved sheet on watermarked paper for the Cambridgeshire race at Newmarket, England on October 30, 1935. Price: 10?-; ten shillings sterling. Countersigned K. Lynch. A fine copy. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1896. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 577,(1)pp. followed by publisher's ads. Green pebbled cloth, glt spine title. Five star maps in pocket at rear. General light wear, the maps have a partial separation at one of teh folds (no loss) else this is a good copy..... More
Dublin: 1848. Hardcover. Bound volume containing: The United Irishman, Vol. I, No.1 through Vol. I, No 16; The Irish Tribune, Vol. 1, No. 1 through Vol. I, No. 6; The Irish Felon, Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. I, No. 5. Interspersed throughout the volume are numerous added portraits, articles and documents, such..... More
n.p. Hollywood Archives Collectibles, c. 2003. Single card 5 by 7 inches. Full color reproduction of a scene from the movie with an original 35mm cel from the negative mounted. One of an unstated limitation. IN fine condition. More
London: Constable and Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, 4to. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 483 illustrations in the text. xl,(2),272;viii, (2), 273-838pp. {ublisher red cloth, gilt spine titles. A near fine set with only traces of sunning to the spine and wear to the corners. Names and address..... More
Republic of Korea: Ministry of Culture and Information, 1970. Wraps. Square 8vo. Green and cream colored self wrappers. A near fine copy. Includes Sangback, The Origin of Korean Aphabet 'Hanhul'", with a facsimile of "Hun Min Jong Um', and then "Early Movable Types in Korea" with 29 plates. More
.n.p. LIFE, ca. 1944. Wraps. Folio. Six pages in color reproducing sixteen of Denslow's drawings, as well as eleven incorporated into the text, from the first edition of the first Oz book. The pages are adhered to stiff paper wraps, and are an extract from a larger periodical. There is..... More
St. Petersburg: Wesenberg, ca. 1850. Albumin photograph on card shoowing Russian painter Vasily Shebuyev (1777-1855). In 1803, Shebuyev was studying in Rome, but three years later, he was recalled to Saint Petersburg to participate in decorating the Kazan Cathedral. He became Rector of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy..... More
Prague: n.p., 1930. Sepia photograph, 4 by 5½ inches, showing Vladimir Nemirovich-Denchenko in his study. The photograph is inscribed to Soviet actor Mikhail Zharov. There is a short inscription on the front, and a longer one on the reverse, where Danchenko praises the actor as a magician and wizard..... More
London: By Order of the Trustees, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Large folio. 21pp. of introduction followed by 60 facsimiles, some full page. Black cloth spine, gilt title, drab paper boards. Printed at the University Press, Oxford. One of 500 copies from a total edition of 650. Cloth has some..... More
London: Fishers, Son, & Co., n.d. (ca. 1840). Illustrated by Thomas Allom. First edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes, First Series and Second Series. 4to. 2 engraved maps (1 double-page), 2 engraved titles, & 94 engraved plates. In an unsigned contemporary, but likely publisher's, full pebbled morocco. Spines in six compartments, tooled..... More
Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1818. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 201,(1)pp plus 2pp publisher's announcement of a forthcoming medical book. Two charts are present: The West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island. This is one of the first accounts of Korea by a European. Later full deep blue..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1971. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige cloth, dark purple spine title and upper board illustration. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is unclipped and show the original $5.95 price. We note only a trace of roughness at the head of the spine..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Two volumes. Full contemporary red leather, spines in five compartments with gilt tooled bands; boards intricately tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Joints and edges rubbed, and the upper board of volume one has some black (ink?) speckles..... More
n.p. (London): W. D. in R. M., 1649. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. ((8),236,(12); then (2), Folding frontispiece present, as is the portrait opposite p., 203. Modern full black morocco, boards and spine tooled in blind, black lettering label,m gilt; boards with a raised lozenge bearing a crown and "C. R."..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and BLanchard, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 12mo. iv, 240;33pp. Publisher's purple cloth, printed spine labels. First state, Ownership name in pencil on each title page. The cloth has sunned to brown on the spines and around the board edges; the labels are nearly perished; there..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. (1819). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover. Three volumes, 8vo. Illustrated with 80 colored plates. Full maroon morocco, spines in six sompartments with raised bands, gilt, the boards tooled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt. The original cloth covers are bound in at..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1991. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 144pp. Maroon cloth spine, gilt; cream-colored boards. A fine, as new copy in a fine, as new and unclipped dustwrapper. Stated first edition with complete number line. Newbery Medal winner. First state jacket without the award sticker. More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, var. A folder containing a large number of items, all related to the Rampant Lions Press: 1. Bookplate printed for King's College Library; 2. Sparrow, John, "Lapidaria Octava", 1/200 copies; 3. Munby, A. N., Book-collecting in the 1930s. Inscribed by Sebasian Carter, the printer; 4. "In the Beginning", Prospectus; 5. "In..... More
(Pasadena): The Clinker Press, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. blue cloth spine, marbled paper boards, color illustration paste-on to the upper board. (iv), 52, (6) pages. One of 50 numbered copies; this is No. 4. Signed by printer Andre Chaves on colophon. Postscript by the printer follows text. Bound..... More
Paris: Librairie Ancienne, 1912. First edition. Softcover. Original wraps printed in red and black. Large folding map of Cornwall. Material covered includes the Celtic origin of Tristan & Iseult, their names, diverse remarks on the Mabinogion, Morgan, and Cornwall. Paper toned and cover lightly soiled, small separation at upper rear..... More
