The Warlord Chronicles: Excalibur
New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper of the final chapter in Cornwell's Arthurian Trilogy. More
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The Romance of Tristram of Lyones & La Beale Isoude
London: George R. Harrap & Company, [1913]. First edition. Fine. 4to. . (iv), 157, (3)pp. Beige cloth blocked on the upper board in a design in colors by the illustrator; black spine title. Top edge gilt. Color printed endpapers. Four pp. of color frontismatter; full page color plates and numerous... More
Appletons' Cyclopædia of Drawing, Designed as a Text-Book for the Mechanic, Architect, Engineer, and Surveyor....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. xiv, 410pp. followed by a 6pp publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth, black lettering label on spine, gilt. Binding generally soiled with corner and edge wear, and the title page has light soil, else the textblock is very good, showing... More
Daring - Revealing - Ladies' Secrets - Fully Illustrated
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. A copy of William Bishop, Winged Peace, published by Viking in 1944 has had a window neatly excised in the textblock leaving the remaining text as a frame. Blue cloth, soiled and worn, with two labels on the upper boad. When opened, one sees right through..... More
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
NY: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Second state, without the erroneous 's' on page 59. Pictorial green cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in gilt, black and blue on the upper board. Floral endpapers. Light wear to the corners and edges, inner hinges neatly... More
Cartel para Celebrar los XX Años del Museo de Filatelica de Oaxaca
Michoacán: Taller Martín Pescador, (2017). Limited edition. Broadside. Broadside. 50 by 65 cms (19 by 26 inches), finely printed by Juan Pascoe on light blue Del Ponte stock on his Washington 1639 press in Castellar type with titles in Bembo. This lettepress sheet features an affixed full color reproduction... More
Las Cartas de Frida Kahlo al Doctor Leo Eloesser en la Bóveda del Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca
Michoacán: Taller Martín Pescador, 2018. Limited edition. Broadside. Broadside. 50 by 65 cms (19 by 26 inches), finely printed in red and black by Juan Pascoe on heavy Del Ponte stock on his Washington 1639 press in Castellar type with titles in Centaur Bembo. This superb example of fine... More
Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xiii,(1),402; xi,(1),496pp. Illustrated with 18 full page colored lithographs, numerous woodblock illustrations in text, and five folding maps. Contemporary binding of crimson morocco, spines in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt, top edges gilt, marbled... More
Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult
Paris: l'Edition d'Art, 1922. Illustrations de Robert Engels. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Numerous color-printed illustrations by Robert Engels. One of 500 unnumbered copies from a total edition of 650. Spectacularly bound in full calf. Spine in six compartments, intricately gilt, and with red and green lettering labels, gilt. The boards... More
Le Morte Darthur: The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, The Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolorous Death and Departing out of this World of Them All.
London: J. M. Dent, 1927. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardelsy. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. One of 1600 copies, the third edition of Malory with Beardsley's illustrations. Black cloth, the spine and boards intricately gilt with the iconic Beardsley water-lily illustrations. This edition contains more material and ten more drawings than the... More
Arthurian Tetrology: The Story of King Arthur; The Story of The Champions; The Story of Sir Launcelot; The Holy Grail
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903-1910. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. This is essentially a near fine set. These titles have traditionally... More
The Story of Cloth: Compiled as a Practical Handbook for Men Who Sell Men's CLothing
Rochester, N.Y. Hickey-Freeman Co., c. 1925. Hardcover. Thin 4to. 37pp. Brown cloth spine, gilt title, paper over boards with title embossed in gilt and dark brown on the upper board. With two pages (35 and 37) containing nine fabric samples each, with identification (e.g., homespun, Cassimere, Londonaire, etc.) and page... More
The Book of Common Prayer, according to the Use of the Church of England, Translated into the Mohawk language,... Ne Kaghyadouhsera ne Yoedereanayeadagwha ....
Hamilton (Ontario): Ruthven's Book and Job Office, 1842. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 455pp. Contemporary binding of full leather, gilt spine title with gilt rules on the spine. Presentation inscription dated 1984 else a fine copy with only a trace of wear. With English and Mohawk on facing pages... More
Poems
London: Edward Moxon, 1857. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. First illustrated edition. 4to. (1-vi), vi-xiii, (xiv-xvi), (1), 2-375, (376) cardstock pages. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W. J. Linton, etc., after D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. Holman Hunt, etc. A lovely and pleasant binding by Zaehnsdorf... More
Persia and the Persian Question
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 639; xii,653pp. Contemporary half green morocco. Spines in four compartments, the lowest taking up half of the spine and tooled in a decorative floral design, which starts in the first compartment. The other two compartments contain the... More
Handwritten Speech; Dances with Wolves; Library Tour Ephemera
2002. Five items relating to Michael Blake and his Library Tour of 2002: 1. "Dances with Wolves", NY, Newmarket Press, 1991. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine, clipped dustwrapper. 2. Blank notebook with Blake's holograph library speech on the first 10pp. The remaining pages are blank. Some pages have been removed... More
Lot of William Morris Ephemera, Mostly Relating to the 1996 Centennial
var. var. var. Over a dozen pamphlets, cards and papers relating to William Morris: 1. Catalog, "Celebrating William Morris', the Exhibition in the Huntington and Scott Galleries, 1996-1997; (3 copies) 2. Typed speech introducing Alan Jutzi of November 12, 1996, presumably written by Dr. Charles Monnell; 3. Postcard invitation to "William Morris &... More
Le Morte Darthur
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. Illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Small folio. Blue linen spines, gilt spine titles, blue and white patterned paper boards. With the Preface of William Caxton. Edited, with a bibliographical note, by A. W. Pollard. Designed and... More
Horizontal Yellow
Santa Fe: Writers' Editions/The Rydal Press, c. 1935. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tan buckram, printed spine label, yellow endpaprs. One of 400 numbered copies printed by the Rydal Press and signed by the author. 84pp. In the summer of 1922, Johnson visited New Mexico for the first time. Attracted by... More
In Silence
Ithaca, NY: n.p., n.d. Apparently a unique copy, one of Fernando Llosa's beautiful one-of-a-kind artist books. Fourteen mounted Indian ink washes by the artist loose in case. The mounts are 8 inches square. The illustrations vary considerably in size. Each mount is initialed by the artist on the reverse, and..... More
Guinevere
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. 41pp. Illustrated with nine full page steel engravings by Doré. Later binding of blue buckram, gilt spine title. Occasional very faint trace of foxing, mainly on the tissue guards, the first tissue guard with an..... More
A Catalogue of Books Bound by S. T. Prideaux Between MDCCCXC and MDCCCC With Twenty-Six Illustrations
Spring Valley, NY: Town House Press, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 20pp. followed by the plates. Facsimile of the 1900 catalogue published by Prideaux and Adams in 1900. One of 300 numbered copies. This is number 59. Nicely bound in full green morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with raised... More
Le Morte Darthur: The History of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
Boston and London: Ralph T. Nale and Co.; The Medici Society, n.d. (1920s). Illustrated by Sir Russell Flint. Hardcover. 8vo. 432, 539pp. Two volumes in one. Glossary. This is the one volume edition of Flint's celebrated edition of Malory. It was first published in a four volume limited edition in... More
Poesie del Padre Maestro Francesco Lo-Cicero Palermitano
Roma: Dalla Tip. R. C. A.; Presso I Salviucci, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 198,(2)pp. Lo-Cicero was a Theologian and a Director of the Third Order of St. Francis. The bulk of the beautiful Italian poems in this volume are sonnets and canticles. The author's dedication to the Duke of... More
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