Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. 8vo, 471 pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on backstrip, in dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Very good. § First edition. Publisher’s complimentary copy, with enclosure slip. One of the most important 20th-century literary and photography books, an extended essay on..... More

Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1963. 4to, 47 ff. with 16 two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original printed boards. A near fine copy, prospectus loosely inserted. Bookplate. § Limited to 130 copies. The two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton are designed to represent the main characters' various emotional states. Likewise..... More

London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. Sm. 8vo, iii-vii (lacks half-title), [1], 524, [1]pp. Modern full diaper calf panelled in gilt, backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt with 4 raised bands, a lovely retrospective binding by Dusel. Light scuff on upper board, early name on title page; a clean and..... More

London: Lawton Gilliver... 1729. Sm. slim 8vo, frontispiece, A-F4; [1-3], 4-47, [48]pp. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. A very good clean copy. § First edition, 3rd issue (Foxon B387, Williams "D" copy). A complicated book of which there seem to be at least 6 variant issues..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. 2 vols. 8vo, xi, (3), 338; (vi), 341 pp. Frontispiece. Finely bound without the ads in half calf and marbled boards, backstrips gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bindings a little scuffed but respectable, scattered foxing, bookplates depicting an angler (after Thomas Bewick) of..... More

London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to., xl, 293 pp., v, cli, engraved frontisportrait. Rebacked, full diced calf, gilt rules, dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, backstrip with raised bands stamped in blind and gilt. Corners and edges of boards are rubbed and chipped, minor foxing..... More

London: Rivington [and 40 other booksellers], 1805. King Richard III. Single plate, some toning and spotting but very good condition. § Engraved by Neagle after Fuseli from the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays (save only the elephant-folio Boydell perhaps) and quite rare. More

London: Rivington [and 40 other booksellers], 1805. Troilus and Cressida. Single plate, slight spotting, very good condition. § Engraved by Neagle after Fuseli from the best illustrated collection of Shakespeare’s plays (save only the elephant-folio Boydell perhaps) and quite rare. More

London: J.W. Parker, 1839. Slim 8vo, 18 pp. Disbound and now stitched in plain brown paper wrappers titled by hand. Faint stain to final page; very good. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps, whose entire life was dogged by financial problems..... More

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880. 8vo, 347pp. Original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, chipped at foot of backstrip, otherwise good. § First American edition in book form; the story was first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879, and then by Chatto & Windus in London as..... More

New York: St, Martin’s Press, 1991. 8vo, xviii, 263 pp. With a frontispiece, 21 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original black cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § First US edition, well illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 535. More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1991. 8vo, xviii, 263 pp.With a frontispiece, 21 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. As new. § First edition, well illustrated. Dwells on Blake’s “divided personality” and “paranoia”. Bentley, BBS, p.535. More

Boston: David R. Godine, [2000]. 8vo, xi, 99, (1)pp. Original decorated cloth covered boards in gold, brown and yellow, lettered in brown to backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket lettered in orange and beige to top cover and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text in black and..... More