1947. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1947. 8vo, 309, [1]pp. plus color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip, original cream illustrated and printed dust jacket, top edge blue; color frontispiece and 24 plates in black and white at the... More about John Martin 1789-1854: His Life and Works
1945. London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by... More about The Life of Jonathan Martin, Incendiary of York Minster with some account of William and Richard...
1981. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981. 8vo, x, 210 pages. Full green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very good. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p.359. More about Mind Forg’d Manacles. Evil in the Poetry of Blake and Shelley
1907. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Large 4to, xix, 549 pp. with 24 color plates, 12 other plates and 66 illustrations. Full crushed blue morocco extra, covers gilt, backstrip panelled in gilt, gilt edges, backstrip slightly faded, signed by Bayntun Riviere. § Edition de luxe limited to 560... More about The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels... Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
1898. London: J.M. Dent, 1898. 8vo, xxiv, 638 pp, 12 color plates (with the original tissue guards), 90 b/w full-page and text illus., green pictorial endpapers all by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt pictorial green cloth. Upper hinge split, gift inscription dated Christmas 1898, bookplate. A pretty copy in a bright binding. § First edition. More about The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
1898. London: J.M. Dent, 1898. 8vo, xxiv, 638 pp. with 12 tissue-guarded color plates, 90 b/w full-page and text illustrations, and green pictorial endpapers all by Rackham. Original gilt pictorial green cloth, gilt top, dust-jacket, a very good copy in a worn dust-jacket. § First trade edition. More about The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
1968. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Oblong small 8vo, (32)pp. with a decoration on title and opening initial letter of text, in red. Original purple morocco-backed boards lettered in gilt, very good. § 400 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem, this being one of 80 copies in the de... More about An Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Poem. Translated into modern English with an introduction by R. G. Barnes
1909. London: Constable and Co., 1909. 12mo, 16pp. Full page illustration following title-page. Original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, with red border on both covers. Pages untrimmed and bordered in red. Mild browning to endpapers. Very good. § First edition, first printing. More about George Meredith 1909
1873. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1873. 8vo, 296 pp. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Cloth a little worn, faint staining of the outer margin throughout. A very good, sound copy. § First edition of this engaging account of the early days of San... More about Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the “Spring of ‘50”
1844. London: George Virtue, Ivy Lane, 1844. Thick 4to, 236 pp., t.e.g., a wide margined copy. With vignette title page, frontispiece portrait, map, 78 full page steel engravings, woodcut engravings in text by W. H. Bartlett. Original blue cloth gilt, very skillfully recased. § First edition of this collection of... More about The Danube. its History, Scenery, and Topography... Splendidly Illustrated, From Sketches taken...
1955. c. 1955. Cast bronze sculpture approx 7 x 7 x 5 inches. § Portrait sculpture of William Blake. “Based on the life mask taken in 1823 by James S. Deville a phrenologist, when Blake was in his sixty-sixth year, Baskin’s bronze portrait of 1955 is extremely faithful to... More about Head of Blake
1972. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Small folio, (60) pp. Illustrated title page and color illustrations thoroughout. Pictorial boards, slightly worn, ink inscription on front free endpaper “Nina from Channing Xmas 1972”. Signed by Leonard Baskin at the front. § First edition, signed by the artist. Leonard Baskin’s first... More about Hosie’s Alphabet. Pictures by Leonard Baskin. Words by Hosea Tobias & Lisa Baskin
1961. London: Heinemann, 1961. 8vo, xxx, 144 pp, with a colored frontispiece. An ex-library volume in original black boards, with accession number and small stampt to title, and loan return details slip and card pocket tipped inside rear cover. With a small accession number slip remnant to base of spine... More about Selected Poems of William Blake
1900. New York: Russell, 1900. 4to, x, 190 pp. Color frontispiece and 15 two-color plates within the pagination. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a really good copy of a book rarely found in even adequate condition. In a new box. § First edition, in the first state binding with... More about A New Wonderland. Illustrated by Frank Ver Beck
1910. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. Large 4to, 296 pp. Original light blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Front pastedown inscribed “Carolyn Beadel: from the Bush Girls, Aug 12 - 1911”. Complete with 16 full-colour plates as inserts and many black and white illustrations throughout. Some wear to boards... More about The Emerald City of Oz
1908. Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1908. Slim 4to, 256 pp. Light blue cloth boards with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers printed in yellow and black. Some small nicks and minor warping to lower cover, some wear and minor soiling to upper cover, slight general rubbing. Headcap and tail bumped, binding slightly... More about Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
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1952. London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More about Modern Reading. Edited by Reginald Moore. [no.] 21
3419. [London]: R.A. Walker, 34 Oakley Crescent S.W., 1920. 4to, 7 pp., frontispiece. Original printed wrappers as issued. Unopened. Bookplate of Nina Ranger Herzog. § Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed in purple ink by the author. Derry describes, page by page, the contents of a scrapbook containing sketches... More about An Aubrey Beardsley Scrapbook. With an Illustration to Ibsen’s “Ghosts”
1831. London: William Pickering, 1831. 8vo., lxviii, 239 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled... More about The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. The Poetical Works of James Beattie
1833. Plattsburgh [NY]: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to (218 x 135 mm), 280 pp., three wood-engraved figures in text. Original tan paper-covered boards, linen backstrip, printed paper label, quarter brown morocco slipcase, a very good copy of a fragile book. § First edition, first issue, of what has been termed... More about Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion
8518. London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847-8. Two vols, 8vo., xii, [1]-320; xii, [1]-304 pp., title-page printed in black and red, ten hand-colored etchings and 120 woodcuts to each volume, including frontispieces. Contemporary half dark-blue calf ruled in blind, marbled paper boards, backstrip lettered and ruled... More about The Comic History of England
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Kay Easson’s copy, signed and with her annotations and underlinings. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More about Blake’s Humanism
1900. Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some... More about Blüthe und Frucht in dekorativer Anordnung. Nach der Natur aufgenommen. Eine Sammlung von...
1975. New York: Viking Press, [1975]. 8vo, (7), 487pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, tiny stain on backtrip, edges just browned. § Advance reading copy with insert from the publisher. Signed by Bellow, who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The... More about Humboldt’s Gift
1933. New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. MCMXXXIII [1933]. 8vo, 155pp. with black and white and color illustrations. Original beige buckram, black and gilt eagle device on upper cover, gilt lettered backstrip, original card slipcase, slightly worn. Very good with just a touch of rubbing to the backstrip. § Number... More about A Book of Americans. Illustrated by Charles Child
