1518. San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this..... More
1807. London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. 8vo, xvi,81, (3, ads)pp. Original printed boards, rebacked. The upper cover printed with the title of the above work together with an advert for another Stockdale publication (Elijah’s Mantle), and further titles listed on the lower cover. § Fourth edition, printed in the same..... More
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
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. 8vo, 126 pp. 16 color plates, some lacking tissue guards. Green cloth with illustration pasted onto upper board, gilt lettering to upper board and backstrip. § First American edition. More
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
1972. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Small folio, (60) pp. Illustrated title page and color illustrations throughout. 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
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
1910. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. Large 4to, 296 pp. with 16 full-color plates and many black and white illustrations throughout. Original light blue cloth with pictorial paste-on, pictorial endpapers. Front pastedown inscribed “Carolyn Beadel: from the Bush Girls, Aug 12 - 1911”. "This book belongs to" page unused. Boards..... More
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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
V.p., v.d. -Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good. -Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very..... More
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
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
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 the..... More
2004. NY: Grolier Club, 2004. 8vo, 54 pp. Illustrated. Wavy green/yellow patterned wrappers. As new. § Limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. A lovely and useful little booklet. More
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
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143. More
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
1944. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. 8vo,191 pp. Original green cloth, lettered in brown on backstrip and with publisher’s device on upper cover, cloth faded in places, internally very clean. Original clipped dust-jacket, faded in places and with some wear to the top edge. Very good. § First Edition..... More
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
1940. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. 12mo, (iv), 8 pp. One copy in original wraps, near fine with a little toning, signed by Benét on the half title. One copy in original boards, boards toned, backstrip worn and dampstained. § Both formats of the first edition of..... More
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More
1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. 8vo, xix, 393pp, with illustrations. Very good in original dust-jacket, worn at edges. § First edition. The Bible until Bentley’s BB and Essick’s various books came along. Bentley, BB, 686. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. § One of 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the PML; this catalogue was written by G.E. Bentley with an introduction by Charles..... More
1964. New York: The New York Public Library, 1964. 8vo, 63pp, extensively illustrated throughout. Near Fine in original wrappers. § The only significant study of the subject. More
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges. One of 1500 copies, with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp. § Limited to 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the Morgan Library; this..... More
