Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio (16 by 10x17½ inches). (3),111,(3)87,(4)pp., the text leaves hinged at the top and printed on one side only. Copy XXI of 100 specially bound copies (from a total printing of 155), signed by the artist and with extra illustrative material. A...... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in near fine..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Full Vellum Edition, one of 26 lettered copies. This is copy O/Z. Bound in full cream-colored vellum. Twenty-six bird portrait wood engravings by Robinson are arranged alphabetically. Each engraving is accompanied with an initial letter and the Latin and common names hand..... More
Florence: Kunsthistoriches Institut / Harvard University Center, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 483pp/ Red cloth block in gilt on the spine and upper board. Illustrated throughout in color. Index. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Seventeen approaches to the painters of the New World, with emphasis on the Florentine..... More
Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 60pp. Blue cloth, gilt title on upper board. Ownership blindstamp else a fine copy. Patrick Pearse was President of the New Ireland Literary Society. This is his first book. The lectures are: Gaelic Prose Literature; The Folk-SOngs of Ireland;..... More
London: J. B. Brown, etc, 1791. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,82pp. followed by 3pp Appendix. Later bound to style with tan paper spine, printed paper label, drab gray paper over boards. Half title soiled else a fine copy. The supposed voyage of Madoc, or Madog, was very popular in Elizabethan..... More
London: J. Harris, successor to E. Newberry, 1808. Wraps. 12mo. Printed wrappers. 16pp. Eight hand-colored original plates, including the frontispiece. Some edge-fraying to plates, contemporary ms. ownership name on reverse of frontispiece, original printed blue wrappers, rubbed and faded, edge-frayed in places, old ms. price at head of upper cover..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth printed in back on the spine and upper board. The cloth has slight aging to the boards and spine, age toning on the endpapers and pastedowns,a penciled nots on the front free endpaper, but it is..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this is copy No, 230. Leather spine, gilt; vellum boards,the upper board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design. A publisher's note is followed by a note on..... More
(Rome): Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi), 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 13 by 18 inches. Engraved title/dedication to and with portrait of Queen Christina followed by an engraved depiction of Raphael, who died in 1520. These are followed by 52 etchings which reproduce Raphael's paintings and..... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. One of 250 copies from a total edition of 260 copies. Half-borders and 163 initials by William Morris, engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper et al. Woodcut press device in Colophon. Printed in red, black and blue in Troy type..... More
Patavino (Padua): M. Cerdonis, 1482. Hardcover. 4to. 69 of 70 leaves, lacking folio 1 (supplied in facsimile). Initials throughout in red and blue, some with fine penwork decoration. Inner margin worming nor affecting the text. Contemporary unsophisticated binding of beveled wooden boards and pigskin thongs. Metal clasp partially perished as..... More
San Antonio: n.p., n.d. (1929). Wraps. Oblong folio. Printed stiff orange wraps. Printed introductory page followed by nineteen stiff pages with mounted original photographs. The photographs range in size form 6½ by 8 to 7½ by 9 inches. Some are of testimonial letters the rest are pictures of the Tobin..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1915). Photoplay Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with scenes from D. W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation" starring Lillian GIsh. 8vo. 374pp. Red cloth printed in black. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has been professioinally restored at the spine tips and folds, and presents a fine appearance..... More
Boston: The Pilgrim Press, (1925). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp. White cloth printed in black. Frontispiece of the author. Light rubbing and soil to the cloth else this is a very good copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: To Mr. & Mrs. Grice in memory of a pleasant visit..... More
Zurich: Attenhofer & Cie. n.d. (ca. 1880). Hardcover. Twenty-two carte-de-vista style albumen hand-colored photographs bound accordion style in a red cloth folder, gilt. The photographs depict ladies in traditional Swiss dress from various Cantons: Geneva, Neuchatel, Valais, Vaud, Schaffhouse, Bale, Soleure, Frybourg, Zouc, Glaris, Berne-Brienz, Thourgovie, St. Gall, Appenzell, Argovie..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textured paper over boards, gilt spine title A fine copy. The dustwrapper is clipped. It has a little wear along the edges, a short closed marginal tear along the top rear, and a trace of foxing on the rear panel, else..... More
Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, n.d. Limited edition. Hardcover. Single sheets 10 by 12 inches, printed letterpress, hand-colored, numbered and signed by the artist. Each illustration is accompanied by a separate sheet telling the story of the shield. A fine set housed in the publisher's black cloth clamshell case, printed..... More
London: Richard Hett, 1780. Hardcover. 8vo. 236, (4)pp. Finely bound by an unnamed binder thought to be in Liverpool. Full crimson morocco. A slim keyroll gilt border surrounds a distinctive flower and urn tool. In the center of the upper board is tooled "John Brown, Esqr., Mayor, 1782." The smooth..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (4), 390pp. Nineteenth century binding of half morocco; spine in six compartments, gilt title and bands, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Bookplate of Holcombe Ingleby. Publication date of MDCCCXXIV at foot of title page erased and replaced..... More
Flafstaff: Northland Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xv,(1),98,(2)pp. Cream-colored cloth, black spine title. A fine copy. I publisher's slipcase, which is near fine with only a trace of soil. One of 55 numbered copies, uncut, bound at Silverlake Bindery, with an original watercolor by Don Perceval. This is number..... More
London: R, Baldwin, 1789. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. x, (vii), 206, 209-508, pp. 6 engraved plates, 4pp. of descriptions and 12pp. of adverts. Sometime nicely bound in quarter leather, spine in six compartments tooled in blind with raised bands, red leather lettering labels, gilt, marbled paper boards. The..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii, (1), 211,(1)pp. Green cloth, gilt spine title and gilt rule and device on the upper board. Glossary, Index. Aside form some foxing on the top edge and fore-edge, a fine bright copy, without any underlining or notes so often..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth blocked in red and black. Publisher's ads present in rear. Frontispiece illustration and tissue guard, which has lightly offset to the the title page. Cloth somewhat rubbed and soiled else thsi is a very good copy. Bookplate of former owner..... More
London: James Robins & Co., 1827-1828. First edition. Wraps. Five issues. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Each with an original woodcut. Three are unquestionably by Cruikshank, with his original signature; the remaining two are in his style and are likely by him as well. No. 1, January 1827, 'King of the..... More
