Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1953. 8vo., 60 ff., title page and four woodcut illustrations by Mallett Dean, hand coloured by Dorothy Allen. Paper-backed marbled boards titled in red on backstrip. Bookplate. Backstrip sunned. A very good copy in the original clear acetate wrapper. § One of 160 copies hand-set in..... More
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo, 366 pp., illustrated throughout. Original green cloth, ex-library copy with bookplate and edges stamped "ship's library". A bit worn and soiled, tear to last leaf without loss, a solid reading copy. § First edition. Description of travel to Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras). Appendix..... More
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 issue..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Oblong small 8vo, (32)pp. with a decoration on title and opening initial letter of text, in red. Blue paper boards, gilt lettering to backstrip. Bookplate. Slight toning to the boards, fine internally. § One of 400 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. A poem..... More
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
Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. 12mo, 16pp. Printed in red and black. Original stiff card binding with paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Occasional soiling, small bump to the base of the spine. In the original green printed slipcase, worn. Very good. § A attractive printing by Mosher of..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, xii, 126 pp. Frontispiece, plus 49 color plates each mounted on heavy cardstock with captioned tissue guards all bound at the end. Red cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to backstrip. Rebacked and recornered with original cloth laid down, boards..... More
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 children’s..... More
Northampton, MA: J. P. Dwyer, 1976. 8vo, 77pp. illustrated. Quarter brown morocco, marbled boards. as new, backstrip very slghtly faded. § Unique copy, out of series (but of the de luxe edition of 50 copies), inscribed by Leonard Baskin to his sister Pearl (Rabinowitz)" "Artist's copy. Pearl with Leonard's love..... More
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, and..... More
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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
[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 by..... More
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 endpapers..... More
London [i.e. Paris]: 1770. Sm. 8vo, [8], 239 pp. Early blue boards, red edges, backstrip with original brown label lettered in gilt, three later paper library shelf labels. § First edition of a rare title from the elusive Beauclair, which seems to be genuinely scarce. Given the false imprint, one..... More
San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. § Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route to..... More
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
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
[London: Leadlay, 1931]. Folio, title leaf, contents leaf, facsimile "Note by Max," and 5 mounted color plates. Original parchment-backed portfolio; plates loose as issued. Covers a bit soiled and worn, internally fine. § Limited to 900 copies, this is #403. This portfolio commemorates Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. "Sentiment is..... More
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 minor..... More
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 novel..... More
Venice: Andrea Arrivabene, 1557. 12mo, (60), 259, [260, colophon with woodcut]pp. Original stiff vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, small split along label, very early ink inscriptions on title and verso (faded) and a modern one at the end. § A pretty little edition of this immensely popular book, a foundational..... More
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 Benét's..... More
[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. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of..... More
