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
1970. Bibliographical Society of America, 1970. 8vo, 16pp.Very good in gray wrappers. Inscribed offprint from vol 64, Fourth Quarter, of the Papers of The Bibliographical Society of America, from Bentley for George Goyder. Very good in stapled wrappers. § Bentley's thorough analysis of the two facsimiles dates both before 1825..... More
1981. Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981. 8vo, (20 pp), 3 with letterpress, the remainder blank, but one with Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s inscribed dedication of this copy to Terry Buckley. Near fine in original green calf over marble papered boards. § #59 of 100 copies in all, of a poem..... More
1821. London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep, backstrips lettered..... More
1733. London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733. Thick 8vo, xvi, 700, lx (index) pages. Original calf, final two leaves creased, lacking rear free end-paper. § William Blake’s copy, signed on the title-page “William Blake his Book” in brown ink. The signature corresponds almost exactly with the example reproduced..... More
1938. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. 8vo., 153 pp. Inscribed by the author to Beverly Hills bookseller Max Hunley on front free endpaper. Some pencil annotations throughout. Red buckram, gilt title on backstrip, covers very lightly worn, very good. § First edition of this classic bibliography of..... More
1890. Greeley: The Greeley Tribune Press, 1890. Tall 8vo, (i-v) vi-x, (1)-448 pp., 26 plates including five portraits and one facsimile. With errata following preface. Original blind-ruled blue cloth, gilt-lettered backstrip slightly faded. A few faint cover stains. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “Greeley. Dec. 25th 1892 / Presented by..... More
1945. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1945. 8 vols., 8vo (8.25 x 7 inches), various paginations. All volumes inscribed by the author. Color pictorial paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip in original dust jackets (lacking one). Dust-jackets with slight toning and rubbing, some wear and occasional tears to spines and tips..... More
1901. Oxford: University Press Oxford, 1901. 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue paper boards with vellum backstrip. Inscribed "to Junius S. Morgan, from the editor, in remembrance of much kindness." Endpapers spotted, a very good clean copy. § Limited to 200 copies printed at the University Press by Horace Hart for..... More
1980. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 8vo, 129 pp. Original plain boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust-jacket. Inscribed by Mary Cheever, dated June 22 1981, autograph letter from her to the same recipients laid in. Dampstaining to the letter, upper and outer margins of..... More
1979. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979. 8vo, 188 pp. Original yellow boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, near fine in a original unclipped dust-jacket, partly toned. Inscribed by Cheever on the front free endpaper “For Ted and Ruth with love and thanks for many things, Susan”. §..... More
1851. London: Printed and Published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, [1851]. 12mo, 16pp., self wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Cruikshank on the title: “C. Sibley Esq. with the regards of Geo. Cruikshank”. Lightly foxed, in slim yellow folding box. § First edition. Illustrated with fourteen..... More
1880. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated..... More
1957. Oxford: OUP, 1957. 8vo, xx, 143 pp., 77 illustrations. Original blue cloth, with printed dust jacket with some chipping, inscribed in ink at front endpaper with Piers Gascoigne 1988. Fine. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1448: “These suggestive attempts to apply modern psychological distinctions to Blake’s art are..... More
1977. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. Large 4to, xxxii plus 75 full-page plates and 6 other illustrations. Silver illustrated wraps with curling to edges. Bumping to corners. Inscribed to the American Blake Foundation from “Bob and Jenijoy” on title page. Very good. § Bentley, BBS, p.215: “useful introduction... slightly..... More
1975. London: The Collector Ltd., 1975. 8vo, 17 pp, plus 5 tipped-in black and white plates. Inscribed by Essick to Roger and Kay Easson. Very good in wrappers. § Offprint from The Book Collector vol. 24, no. 4. The text is the definitive proof that the 1813 small folio printing..... More
1968. New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1968. 8vo, 86 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Pictorial boards in unclipped dust jacket, jacket slightly toned, extremities worn, 1 cm tear to upper panel of jacket. § First edition, inscribed by the author “to Donald Alan Larkin Best-wishes..... More
1962. New York: Channel Press Inc, 1962. 8vo (10.25 x 6.75 inches), 64 pp. Illustrated by Barbara Remington. Inscribed by the author. Pictorial boards with pictorial endpapers, lower board bumped. Pictorial dust-jacket price-clipped and slightly browned with some wear, top of spine chipped. § First edition, inscribed “to Heather..... More
1990. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1990. 8vo, 142pp. Burgundy cloth. Inscribed at front by the author. Very good. § First edition. More
1985. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1985. 8vo, 173pp. Frontispiece plus 9 illustrations. Burgundy cloth. Inscribed at front by the author. Very good. § First edition. Anecdotally rare, as of March 2009 only one copy online, for $200. Seems silly for a paperback, especially as WorldCat lists..... More
1906. 1906. Original watercolor painting on paper, 9 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches. Signed and dated by Albert Guillaume, and inscribed, “Au Docteur Balzer un témoignage de reconnaissance et de bien vive sympathie.” Upper margin with publication notes, lower margin with lines of dialogue, presumably accompanying the illustration. Mounted on..... More
1996. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. 4to., [32] pp., blind-stamped purple boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very bright, clean copy, unclipped. Inscribed by the illustrator, “Especially for Peggy and Kevin. I hope you enjoy Books until ‘chickens grow teeth...’, 1998.” § A cafe keeper in a small French village cannot escape..... More
1767. London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, et al., 1767. 8vo, xxxix, [1 ad], [1]-283 pp., engraved frontis. and one full page engraving (Anne Stonhouse funeral monument), woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Contemporary full speckled calf, backstrip with red and black labels lettered in gilt. Binding worn, upper board..... More
1997. The Ohio State University Libraries, 1997. Oblong 8vo., [20] pp., b&w comics and illustrations throughout. Illustrated orange paper wrappers. Pamphlet, staple bound. Inscribed drawing by Nicole Hollander laid in. Lightly stained; very good. § First edition. The cover illustration by Nicole Hollander was first published as the cover for..... More
1963. Garden City, NY: Double Day and Company, 1963. 8vo, xi, 176 pp. Original red cloth in original red, blue, and black printed dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, spine panel faded. Very good. § First edition signed by the author with an inscription: “To Ruth (but not Ted) Because Ruth obviously shares..... More
