London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover. First edition with these illustrations. (8),51,(1)pp. Vellum spine, gilt; blue paper boards. One of 525 copies on Watman handmade paper. With twelve full page dark, brooding and delightful illustrations engraved on wood by Donaldson. Vellum and boards lightly soiled else a.... More
San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Illustrated by Alicia Austin. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth blocked in deep red and black. printed cloth. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. One of 333 signed copies this is number 15. In addition is it inscribed to Russ Swanson ("with much love" and signed by... More
London: Kegan Paul, Tranch & Co., 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. [2], xlvi, 367, [1] pp. (8vo) 24.8x16.3 cm (9¾x6½"), three-quarter gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & cloth, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf. A fine copy with only a trace of... More
London: J. Bowyer, et al. 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. First edition in English. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely full morocco early twentieth century binding by the French Binders. spine in six compartments, gilt' gilt inner dentelles; all edges gilt. A fine copy. Geoffrey's Historia dates from the 12th..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,173,(1)pp. Folio. Full vellum tooled in gilt and bullion the spine and upper board; top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with twenty full color tipped-in plates by Brickdale. A fine, bright copy..... More
Cambridge, MA: Dunster House Bookshop; Samuel Marcus Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. (32)pp. Decorated paper over boards; printed paper label. One of 100 copies; this is copy 92. Worn at spine tips and corners; cover paper somewhat browned with age; The texblock in very good condition; printed letterpress on Strathmore laid paper. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1933). Brandywine. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt, with a color paste-on. xvi, 313pp. Trace of aging else a fine, bright copy. The Brandywine Editions of Pyle's works were produced on the eightieth anniversary of his birth by five famous artists who had been pupils of Pyle. The... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. 265pp. Black cloth with gilt titles and vignettes on the spine and upper board. Illustrated, with some illustrations tipped-in. Neat pencil ownership name. A fine copy. The scarce dustwrapper has a nick at the font upper corner and... More
Boston: The Gorha Press, 1907. Decorations by Theodore Brown Hapgood. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 42,(2)pp. Red cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Blind stamp of former owner on front free endpaper. The tissue guard has some foxing which has transferred to the frontispiece and the title page, else... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy... More
NY: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1964-1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First editions, first printings. Five volumes. The complete set of the Prydain Cycle. "The Book of Three" is near fine in the publisher's purple paper boards; the dustwrapper is not clipped and has the original price of $3.75, lightly... More
London: Thomas Hookan, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. Full polished calf by Riviere & Son. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and green lettering labels. Boards riled in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Coated endpapers. A few scuff marks to the leather, minor... More
London: Longmans, 1929. Hardcover. Index. 16 photographs of hitherto unread manuscripts. The first Latin text taken direct from the earliest manuscripts together with the first literal translation of a parallel Welsh Chronicle. With a discussion of Geoffrey's Native Sources and the Ancient British Book which he claimed that he translated... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. Slipcased. One of 20 copies signed by Owens and Sayenko in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. The volumes are in fine, as new condition; the slipcase has a tiny bump on one corner else is fine. The main... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Three stiff cards 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. These cards date from about 1930 and were distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemene Housman. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Contemporary full sheep in a pleasing light blue color, spine title in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. A trace of rubbing and... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxix,(1),132pp. Cloth spine gilt title, drab green paper over boards, top edge gilt. Light wear and a crease to the spine, a few pencil marginalia, else a very good coy. The is the French original of a lost Elizabethan translation... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. Hardcover. The text of Caxton, edited by Strachey. A reprint of the Globe edition of 1868, with changes, corrected and reprinted in 1868, 1891 and later printings. Green cloth. Gilt spine title and gilt vignette of a castle on the front boartd, all bright... More
London: Walker and Edwards, 1816. Hardcover. Two volumes. Engraved frontispieces and dual title pages, one engraved in each volume and one typeset. The engraved titles and frontispieces have offset to each other and are lightly stained else the text blocks are clean. Recent artist binding by Þ (signed on... More
London: The Scolar Press in association with the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. Unpaginated. Finely bound in full l crimson morocco. Spine and boards tooledcin gilt, leather inner hinges, marbled endpapers, top edge red. A fine copy. One of 500 numbered copies (this is number 409)... More
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co., 1917. First trade edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout. These elements and the text printed in ochre and black. Contemporary... More
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Wraps. 12mo. Frontispiece. Seventh edition. ON Van Gelder paper in a printing of 550 unnumbered copies. Bound in full morocco, spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt. Gilt tooling on boards. Decorated endpapers. Gilt rubbed in placed, lettering and bands... More
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1913. Wraps. 12mo. Frontispiece. Vellum paper covers with Lapp edges. Spine and upper board printed in brown. One of 550 copies. A couple of spots on the spine else this is a very good copy. More
Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1957. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (82)pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine, Finely printed by Jacob Hammer on dampened Hayle handmade paper. One of 200 unnumbered copies. Many copes are signed; this is not. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase. More
