London: J. Bowyer, et al. 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, light brown lettering label, gilt, edges sprinkled red. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards and endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a short closed marginal tear on the upper panel, just above the "K" in "King", a trace of sunning to the spine, else it..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. BCE. Hardcover. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is lightly darkened on..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo., 238pp. Yellow cloth printed in red. Plain endpapers. Erosion of the glazed cloth in the outer hinge gutters and the bottom edge, else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped. It is rough along the edges..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Gray linen spine, printed paper label, pale blue paper boards. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press on handmade paper. One..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons LImited, 1927. Limited edition. Fine. Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this copy unnumbered. 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 the designs..... More
New York: Brentano's, n.d. (ca. 1913). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Lavishly illustrated in the medieval style by Evelyn Paul with 8 full page color plates, 8 tipped in textual color plates and other decorations, including historiated initials. Music by Alfred Mercer. In publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt on the..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1975. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's printed cloth. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is in fine condition and is first state, without the Newbury Award sticker. Signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. More
NY: Atheneum, 1977. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition (so stated). Original printed cloth. Trace of sunning along top edge else a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. Fifth and final volume of the Dark is Rising sequence..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1966). First edition, first printing. Fine. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper over boards printed in deep green. Dark blue endpapers. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped; it is lightly soiled else very good. Stated first edition on the copyright page as needed for a...... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1866 (1865). Second edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, Spines lightly sunned, else this is a very good set. Contemporary name of former owner. The second edition, dated 1866 on the title pages of volumes 1 and..... More
London: J. M. Dent, 1893-94. Aubrey Beardelsy. First edition. Wraps. Twelve original parts in green wrappers. Regular issue: one of 1500 copies. Full page and double page illustrations, rubricated initials, borders and in-text decorations by Aubrey Beardsley in his first major commission. The wrappers are generally lightly soiled and..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1858. First edition. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt; leather lettering pieces, gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers; red edges. Armorial bookplates. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of..... More
Oak Grove, MN: MIchael E. Coughlin, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 32pp. Black cloth spine, red cloth boards, printed label on the upper board, deep red endpapers. Finely printed by Michael E. Coughlin on a Kluge platen press on Mohawsk Superfine Eggshell paper. The typeface is Garamond, and the..... More
Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing, 1934. First edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. (43),(1)pp. Finely printed in black, red and blue under the direction of Leonard Jay at the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Printed by students in the Letterpress Machine classes. Set in Garamond. Illustrated with wood engravings by..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Pleasantly bound in full scarlet morocco, the spine in seven compartments, gilt, with raised bands. The boards with gilt borders, titles, and an inner gilt rectangle with..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Cobalt blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, the upper board elaborately decorated in gilt and black. The illustrations were reprinted in 1869 as part of the Idylls..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. State A, but bound in blue cloth instead of black. The boards blind-stamped with a floral border enclosing an arabesque floral design. The spine is stamped in gilt and blind. At the top is an angel holding the Grail, followed..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 126pp. Red ribbed cloth; gilt tile on spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. A prose description of Abbey's frieze in the Boston Public Library. Cloth unevenly sunned on the board and spine gilt darkened else a very good copy. Laid..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrations from the frieze in the Boston Public Library by Edwin Austin Abbey. 26 Illustrations finely printed on tissue and mounted on guards. Text by Ferris Greenslet. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Cloth worn at edges and..... More
London: Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. Third printing. Three volumes. Green buckram spines blocked in gilt; glossy paper boards with an illustration of Arthur and the sword in the stone in the foreground. A fine set. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 56. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed..... More
New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., (1904). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 101pp plus 9pp of ads. Gray buckram, gilt spine title, upper board blocked in giult and red with a representation of the grail. Frontispiece. Light soil, spine darkened, but a very good copy. 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
