Paris: SHakespeare and Company, 1927. First trade edition. Stiff card wraps. 16mo. Unpaginated, Pale green paper over boards printed in black. A fine copy. The poems were previously published in an edition of 13 copies on handmade paper. Slocum A24. More
Lutetiae (Paris): Fédéric Morel, 1578. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (16),118,(8 blanks). Recent full brown leather spine in six compartments, gilt; antique marbled paper in a non-pareil design inlaid on the boards; double marbled endpapers. A fine copy. With Toscano's tribute to Marcilhac-sur-Célé, the Cryptae MAssiliacensis Topographia, present at pp. 119-124..... More
London: Thomas Newcomb, 1687. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Title page in red and black. Complete with 30 engraved plates, of which 28 are double page, one is folding and one is full page. Newly bound to style by the Hullah Bindery in full calf stained in the Cambridge style, tooled..... More
New York: Reymal & Hitchcock, (1934). First US edition. Hardcover. First printing. Blue cloth printed in dark blue. Pictorial endpapers, Maroon top stain. Light fading of the cloth due to age else a near fine copy. The maroon dustwrapper is present with the first issue price of $1.50 on the..... More
London, New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton Co., n.d., ca 1910. Only edition. Hardcover. Square 4to. (12)pp. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. Stories of airships told in verse, featuring four full color pop-up scenes; each scene with a pop-up airship on a color background drawing. Upper cover with a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Tan cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Pictorial blue endpapers with a white spider web. Illustrated by Garth WIlliams, First printing with the first edition statement and proper code on the copyright page. The..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. xv,(1),298pp. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Photographic endpapers. ALl illustrations and the two maps present. Photographs mostly by the author. Color plates and drawings by Walter A. Weber, A...... More
New York: Book League of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (1-6),7-252,(4)pp. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Maroon cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. A stain near the top of the rear pastedown, inner hinge neatly mended, else a fine copy with only..... More
Trenton, NJ: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Stapled wraps. 8vo. Green stiff printed wraps. 11pp plus (9)pp. with tipped-in 'decalomanias'. Also laid in are two additional decal sheets titled 'Novelty! Transfer Picture-Album' One of 50 copies; probable only edition. Inscribed by the author on the inside of the front cover..... More
London: Printed for John Fairburn, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xxiv, 489pp. Illustrated throughout with wonderful full-page hand-colored plates by George Cruikshank. Full crimson morocco binding by Bayntum. Spine in six compartments,gilt. The boards with interlocking gilt frames reminiscent of Grolier, Inner dentelle gilt rules with floral tools at..... More
Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of..... More
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with four color plates by W, Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum, spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties, else a very good..... More
München: T. J. Vizgirda, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 28pp. Cream-colored textured paper over boards blocked with title on the upper board. Artist book illustrated with nine original woodcuts by Vaclovas Ratas, initials in plates, hand-set letterpress text. Volume XXVII of "Lithuania - Country and Nation." Light age-toning else a...... More
London: Grant Richards, 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Bound in red goatskin inlaid with shapes of purple, beige and black goatskin and single gilt spot, by Arthur Johnson, smaller shape on lower cover, spine titled in gilt, a.e.g., signed & dated "A.J. 1977" at foot of rear turn-in..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1897). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,341,(1)pp. Bound in purple T-grain cloth ands locked intricately with gilt on the spine and upper board in a design by Will Bradley. Top edge gilt. A few marginal pencil notes else a fine copy. Bambace, Will H. Bradley..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orne, 1804. First edition. 8vo. x, 260pp. Contemporary half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title and gilt rules on the bands; marbled paper boards in the Spanish Marbler pattern. Light rubbing to edges and hinges, else this is a very..... More
London: John Murray, 1830-1832. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes 8vo. Illustrated. Engraved frontispieces, the frontispiece of volume two hand-colored. Half leather, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. The frontispiece of volume one is foxed else this is a near fine set. In spite of the note on volume..... More
Greenville, MS: The Levee Press, 1948. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed paper over boards. One of 750 (from a total of 775) copies numbered and signed by Eudora Welty. This is number 136. The boards are soiled else this is a very good copy. Inscribed on a preliminary blank by..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Childe Hassam. Tall octavo. White cloth beautifully decorated in gilt by Sarah Wyman Whitman (also issued in green cloth, the white seems less common). A little overall age-toning on the boards, trace of wear..... More
London: H. Grevel & Co., n.d., ca. 1900. Very good. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/2 inches; 254 x 343 mm.). [2] pp. of text plus eight colored lithograph plates with movable parts, each with a tab to set the scene in motion. The eight moveables are all completely functional..... More
Holguin, Cuba: Cuadernos Papiro, 2018. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 12 leaves of handmade paper bound by hand in a thick handmade paper covers made from water hyacinth with a branch incorporated into the upper cover, and with ties made with dried stems and jute. The final leaf gives..... More
Philadelphia: A. Winch, (1860). Wraps. 12mo. 88pp. Illustration on the front cover of E. W. Dixey in his role in "Pilgrim Fathers". Illustrated with three full page woodcuts of Dixey in various roles, including a repeat of the cover illustration, String bound wraps. Song lyrics without music throughout, most of..... 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
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
Concord; Boston: n.p./Ticknor and Fields, 1852, 1862. Hardcover. Single page autograph letter. Although unaddressed, it is obviously to Thoreau's first publisher, arranging to dispose of the unsold copies of his first book. In his journal he describes how he had to take back and pay for nearly unsold copies, which..... More
