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
Williamsburg, MA: Cheloniidae Press, (1984). Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Finely printed by Harold McGrath and illustrated with eleven wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Designed by Alam James Ropbinson and Arthur Larson, the text based on the 1845 Witney-Putnam edition. The Deluxe Edition of 60 copies printed on vintage Bodleian..... 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
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
Santa Fe: Prees at thePalace of the Governors, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, (13-) 93, (3) pp. Printed from thirty-four two-color woodcuts carved by Baumann beginning in 1927. Cloth spine, printed paper label, printed paper over boards in a. special “reliquary” binding by Priscilla Spitler, 7.25 x 9.75 inches..... More
Santa Fe: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2021. Limited edition. Wraps. Folio. Translated by Lynn Sures. Illustrated with Caruso's line drawings. Finely printed on a hand press by Tom Leech with Bembo type on paper he and Lynn Sures made in ITaly using watermarks replicating marks used..... More
Williamsburg, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1984. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Limited edition. Hardcover. State Proof Issue. Illustrated with sixteen wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, and finely printed by Harold P. McGrath. A fine set in a fine publisher's clamshell cases. One of 15 copies from a...... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. A magnificent binding incorporating panels by Margarete Seeler. The eight cloisonné panels and the cloisonné figure of Christ were commissioned by Chauncey Stillman in 1960. In 1983, Mr. Stillman caused the nine panels to be incorporated into hand-wrought metal covers and affixed to the leather binding..... More
London: R. Wilks, 1816. Hardcover. 12mo. 3 volumes. xxiv [25]-326; xvi [17]-381; xvi [17]377pp. Engraved title pages in each volume. Engraved frontispiece of the Death of Sir Launcelot present in Volume 1, of the Parting of Tristan and Isolde in Volume 2, and of Prince Arthur Obtaining the Sword in..... More
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1917. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 517pp. Illustrated with 16 full page illustrations by Arthur Rackham. One of 250 numbered copies; this is number 240. Finely bound in full crimson morocco, the upper board inlaid with a black morocco base bearing a representation of the sword..... 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. Rebecca Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 by 2½ inches. Unpaginated. Every other set of facing pages blocked in a letter of the alphabet in gilt, the letters artfully surrounded by fairies or putti and foliage. One of 200 copies, this one unnumbered. Bound in full honey-colored morocco, the..... More
Santa fe: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2008. Mark Van Stone. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. One of 65 numbered copies (this being No. 42) finely printed by Tom Leech at the Palace press. Signed by both authors on the colophon. Finely bound by Rosalia Galassi in..... More
London: The Macmillan Co., 1894, 1895. First editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. 212, 238pp with 2pp publisher's catalog at rear of volume 2. Volume 1 with tissue guarded frontispiece by W. H. Drake and numerous illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and Frenzeny. The Second Jungle Book with numerous..... More
Paris: La Connaissance, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full vellum over semi-rigid boards. Spine and boards gilt with onlays of red, blue and green. Top edge marbled. Vellum clasps. Finely printed by Charles Nypels, master printer of Maastricht. Frontispiece portrait of Du Bellay engraved by Henri Jonas. Printed letterpress with..... More
