1940. Boston: Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Merrymount Press, 1940. 8vo, xvi, 411 pp. Embossed brown cloth, gilt monogram to upper cover and lettering to backstrip. Backstrip a little rubbed, crown chipped, slight paste show through to endpapers, otherwise clean and a square. In the..... More
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2..... More
1980. Dallas: Neiman Marcus,1980. Folio, xiv, 270 pp. Maps and diagrams throughout, including one fold-out, by David Fuller, and a portrait of Dobie by Andrew Hoyem. Printed in black and red with gold initials drawn by Sumner Stone. Original quarter goatskin and handmade Mexican bark paper. A little musty but..... More
![Item #108168 [Homeward Bound], or [Frühlingsgewitter]. Leo Frank](/pictures/thumb/108168.jpg?v=1619471742)
1925. [circa 1925]. Color woodcut 9 x 14” on handmade Japanese paper, mounted. Some creases where the glue from mounting was thicker, otherwise very good. Signed in pencil by the artist. § From an edition of about 75. Leo Frank (1884-1959) was an Austrian artist.Leo and his twin brother, Hans..... More
1985. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1985. 8vo, xiii, 765pp. Blue printed wrappers. Some edgewear. Ink signature of Roger Easson to title page. Very good. § Fourth edition. The chapter on William Blake is by Mary Lynn Johnson. Bentley, BBS, p.528: “Dense, comprehensive, and valuable.”. More
1896. [Chicago]: printed at the Auvergne Press by William H. Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams, 1896. Very slim 8vo, 27, (2, colophon and note)pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, chipped at head and foot of spine, neatly restored. Bookplate on front pastedown. Inscribed by the publisher. § Edition limited..... More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
1876. Hartford: J.B. Burr, 1876. Very thick 8vo, 1084 pp., with 17 portraits and other plates. Original cloth rather worn, front hinge split but holding, backstrip lettering almost worn away. A complete if battered copy. § First edition. A much-used title as copies located are all in very worn condition..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. Folio, [100] pp. Portrait. Initial letters in red. Quarter red cloth, decorative boards, paper spine label. Very good. § One of 350 copies, printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press. Edited by Franklin Walker. "None of the letters here..... More
Boston and Tokyo: J.B., Millet Company, 1897-98. 10 vols., large 4to, 382pp. text, and 10 color flower collotypes by Kazumasa Ogawa, 60 hand colored albumen photographs, 10 color art reproduction woodblocks (one at the rear of each volume), numerous (c. 200) hand-colored albumen text illustrations (photographs); table of contents at the..... More
![Item #123388 The Creole's Crime: A New Orleans Detective Story. [and] The Great Adams Express...](/pictures/thumb/123388_1.jpg?v=1619472030)
1887. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887 [and] n.d. 2 vols., 8vo (140 x 218 mm), 127; 128 pp. Original color-printed wrappers; ads on lower and inner sides of wrappers and verso of title pages. Both vols. wrappers darkened, spine panels deteriorated; Express Robbery upper wrapper detached and lacking lower..... More
1980. New York: Vantage Press, [1980]. Slim 8vo, 69pp. Original green buckram, dust-jacket, fine. § First edition, printed in a small number of copies. A marvellous account of a fictional tournament won by the legendary Australian “Digger” Jimmy Campbell. D&J37750. More
1929. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Small 4to, xiii, [2], 519pp. Original red cloth stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Some light staining to boards, backstrip faded as usual, outer edge of p. 519 missing, not..... More
1971. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971. 8vo, xiii, [2], 519pp. Original mint Cambridge light blue cloth, stamped in gilt to backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Fine. § Reprint of the 1928 first edition. Divided into sections on practical bibliography, subject bibliography, library science, general reference..... More
