New York: Derby, & Jackson, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 425pp. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth embossed in blind on the boards and with gilt title on spine. Yellow coated papers. Wear at edges and spine tips, occasional light soiling, else a very good copy. Alice Cary, with her sister Phoebe..... More
Evanston: The Shori Private Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 49,(3)pp. Hand printed on Ticonderoga Laid Text paper using types after Garamont. Bound in full marbled sheep. spine gilt with a red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a slipcase covered in decorated paper. The binding is like..... More
Paris: Georges Servant, 1924. Illustrated by Jean Droit. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (150)pp. Finely bound in half deep blue morocco. Spine in six compartments with title in gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy. Illustrated with brilliantly colored aquarelles of Jean..... More
Chester River Press, 2011. Illustrated by Avery Lawrence. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. 550pp. Black cloth, gilt spine titles. Homer's Greek is faced with Pope's English. Illustrated with fifty color plates showing scenes inspired by the text and in the style of Greek vases, A fine copy in fine dustwrappers and..... More
Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1932. Illustrations by Charles Guérin. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 169, (11)pp. Half green morocco binding signed by Flammarion. Spine intricately gilt with red and green onlays, gilt rules on the boards, marbled paper panels and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned else a fine..... More
Roma: Imprimerie Polyglotte, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 323pp. Illustrated. Full scarlet morocco intricately tooled in gilt on the boards, spine in sic compartments, gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Deep blue-green endpapers. Upper hinge nearly invisibly strengthened else this is a fine copy of a lovely binding by..... More
Paris: l'Édition d'Art H. PIazza, 1932. Illustrated by Jean Droit. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, (3), 247, (1)pp. Half green morocco, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine in five compartments, intricately gilt with a central lozenge reminiscent of the story, top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, (1979). Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(3),393pp. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Frontispiece portrait; map endpapers and frontispiece map of Shanghai 1861-1863. Ownership blindstamp on title page, a stray ink mark on the margin of page vi, else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is now price-clipped;..... More
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1879. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxviii,280pp. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in black and gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Cloth well worn and soiled, especially the corners, spine tips and spine; rear inner hinge cracked; else a good copy with a very good textblock. More
n.p. (China): n.p., n.d. (1940's?). Red paper approximately 6 x 10 inches intricately cut in the shape of a fan, with two cats on stones under bamboo on one side, and flowering plants with a butterfly on the other. A fine example of this art, with no defects noted, in..... More
Albany: Joseph McDonough, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. Folding map. Cloth backed boards, printed paper labels on upper board and on the spine. One of 500 copies. Howes J266. "The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river." --Jenkins Basic Texas Books..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x,(2),287pp. Frontispiece portrait of Don Carlos. Blue T-grain cloth, gilt spine title. Neat ownership name dated 1931, a few pencil notations, else a very good copy. Definitive biography of this New Spain priest, poet, non-fiction writer, mathematician, historian, philosopher, cartographer..... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1942. Drawings by Frank Anthony Stanush. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 236. Reddish cloth printed in black. Dark pink endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated. Index. Neat ownership name and date (1944) on the front pastedown. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a clean split on the..... More
Denver: The World Press, Inc., 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, (194)pp. Reddish brown cloth blocked in dark blue on the spine and upper board. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy. The dustwrapper lacks a small piece along the top margin affecting the border lines, and another in the bottom..... More
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xvi, 292pp. Illustrated by R. J. de Boisvray. Contemporary quarter green calf, spine in five compartments, gilt, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine is rubbed in places, light wear to the corners and edges else this is a very good copy. Stories..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1983). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First trade edition with the Wrightson illustrations. Small folio. 192,(2)pp. Red paper spine, gilt; green paper boards, gilt title on the upper board. Deep blue endpapers. There are some spots on the textblock edges and a gift inscription..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (c. 1965). Early Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, early printing, with EFG on the copyright page. Original printed cloth. Bookseller label on free front endpaper, else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is lightly worn at the head of the spine and at the upper fold..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895. Hardcover. First edition thus, as a preliminary version was published in 1890. 12mo. 195pp. Yellow buckram blocked in black and silver. Buckram soiled, rear inner hinge crack, light on the upper nargin of the last dozen pages, but a very good copy. "Indespensable..... More
New York: John Wiley & Son, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 45pp followed by publisher's catalog. Brown cloth embossed in blind on the boards and in gilt on the spine and upper board. Neat ownership name dated 1872 on the front free endpaper, else a near fine copy. More
New York: Random House, (1956). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan textured paper boards blocked in black and gold, and with a paste-on of Lunt and Fontaine on the upper board. Illustrated with scenes of the Broadway play. The paste-on is a little rubbed else this is a near..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. With Illustrations by Howard Willard. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),337pp. Beige colored buckram, spine printed in dark red. Map endpapers. Black and white illustrations in text. Light aging else a near fine copy. Signed by the author on a preliminary..... More
México, D. F. Manuel Porrúa, S. A. Librería, 1978. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 57,(9)pp. followed by 10 full page plates of the Mayan Codex. Printed wraps. Light wear but a very good copy. One of 1000 copies. The plates show the entire codex, and the text of D. Martínez explains..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2004). First edition, first printing. Fine. Oblong folio. (188)pp. Textured paper over boards, gilt spine,. Illustrated throughout in color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a tiny closed marginal tear on the rear panel else is in fine condition. Created and Illustrated by Terryl Whitlatch..... More
Petrograd: 1923. Single sheet of heavy wove paper 13 by 18 inches with blue, red, green and gold calligraphy congratulating the circus orchestral director on twenty years of service. Addressed to Dear Colleague Stanislav Martinovich Novitsky from the Guild (Collective) of Circus Workers, and signed by what appears to be..... More
Russia: 1917-1918. Three pieces of ephemera: 1. Mortgage, Imperial Bank, 1917, bearing a 5 kopek stamp. Coupons n the reverse have not been completed. 2. Letter regarding an inheritance, 1918, with three 50 kopek stamps. 3. Resident Certificate, 1918, All have been folded but are in very good condition. More
