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
Brussels: Éditions du Nord, 1925. Illustrated by S. Sauvage. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (296)pp. Half blue-green morocco. Gilt rules on the boards; decorated paper panels, marbled paper endpapers. Spine intricately gilt with onlays of red leather in the decorations, and of brown and flesh colored in a representation of the..... 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
Paris: Le Musée du Livre, 1927. Illustrated by Ramiro Arrue.`. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 339, (3) pp. Half deep blue morocco, brightly decorative paper and endpapers. Spinetooled simply but effectively in gilt, with a small beige onlay. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Trace of wear else a fine..... 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
Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, (1913). Limited edition. Near fine. One of 145 copies on paper. (There were 8 copies on vellum, according to the colophon.) Folio (15 3/4 x 11 inches; 400 x 280 mm.). xxii, 500 pp. Finely printed on a new make of Batchelor paper in red..... 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
Boston and New York: Lee & Shepard; Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xii),224,(i)pp. Original publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on the boards with vignettes of the Red (front) and White (rear) Queens within triple gilt borders; spine title in gilt with an ornament and..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. First US edition. Very good. 2 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in original boards: drab cloth spines, paper over boards, remnants of printed lettering labels. Expected wear at edges, some soiling, else a very good set. The first American edition of the third of Morier's..... 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
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, n.d., ca. 1870. Hardcover. New edition. Illustrated by George Scharf, Jun. with original drawings and drawings from the antique. Bound by Mudie of London. Half dark green morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. Marbled paper boards, endpapers and edges in a...... More
London: George G. Harrap, 1929. Arthur Rackham. Limited edition. Hardcover. Full vellum; gilt. Top edge gilt. No. 476 of 575 copies of the English edition, out of a total edition of 775 copies. 12 mounted color plates by Rackham. Signed by Rackham. The vellum is pure cream-white. Neat gift inscription..... More
(Tacámbaro, Mich.): Taller Martín Pescador; Juan Pascoe, 2019. Limited edition. Wraps. Small 4to. 44pp. Finely printed by Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbina on Tamayo de Ponte paper in an edition of 140 copies, though the printer has told us that the actual number is less than that. This is number..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, (1956). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 186pp. Black cloth, lavender spine title. Ownership name on the front free endpaper dated September 7, 1956, else a fine bright copy. The dustwrapper has a couple of small chips at the edges and is light darkened at the spine..... More
