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
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. Hardcover. 12mo. 250pp. Green cloth printed in black. A fine copy with only the trace of wear and with the paper browned as usual form this publisher. The dustwrapper has a closed tear and crease on the rear else is in near fine..... 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
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1959). Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Limited edition. Hardcover. Translated by Lord Berners, edited by G. C. Macaulay, and with an introduction by Sidney Painter. 4to. 748pp. Binding of buckram, spine in red and gilt, upper board with spears blind embossed, and the remainder of... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. With Six Engravings in Colour by Dorothea Braby. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 95,(1)pp. Bound in two types of cloth, one green the other rose, gilt spine titles and gilt emblem on the upper board, Top edge gilt. One of 360 numbered copies, of which this... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864. Hardcover. 12mo., 272pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title and blind rules on beveled boards/ Chocolate coated endpapers. Some pencil notations, light wear to the edges and corners else a very good copy. The major part of this small volume is devoted to Bridges'... More
London: The Astolat Press, 1904. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (4),42, (2)pp. The Oakleaf Series. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Finely printed letterpress in red and black. Boards warped,, soiled and worn at corners, lacking front free endpaper; a good copy only. The text block is fine but for the half title... More
