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
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 by..... More
1857. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. 8vo, vi, 403 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a remarkably good copy with two bookplates, in a quarter red morocco box. § First edition, scarce, an interesting association copy of this ground-breaking feminist work, inscribed by Watts Phillips, the popular..... 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
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
1920. London: William Heineman, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920. 4to, 110 pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Color silhouette vignette title page, color frontispiece plate mounted within a black-and-white pictorial border, 3 double page and 2 single-page silhouette drawings with color, and 6 double-page and..... More
1901. Evanston: William S. Lord, 1901. 8vo, 63 pp. Finely bound by Riviere in full blue crushed morocco, ornately gilt, top edge gilt. A fine copy, perfectly preserved in a slightly battered slipcase. § First unabridged edition, one of 10 copies on Japanese vellum, numbered and signed by the author..... More
1928. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 8vo, (2), xvi, 96 pp. Signed proof of an original etching and 5 photogravure plates by Tuttle. Original quarter cream cloth and plain paper boards, priced ticket of Stanley Rose's bookshop on rear pastedown (see below). A fine, unopened copy in the worn..... 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
1968. San Francisco, City Lights, 1968. 12mo, 144 pp. Original black cloth boards lettered in gilt and silver, in black card slipcase. Slight sunning to backstrip, slipcase fore edge very lightly worn, no marks of former ownership; very good. § Signed by author, number 171 of an edition of 500..... 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, 173 pp. 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..... More
1940. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Sm. folio, 245, [246, colophon] pp. Sixteen color plates mounted within dark green borders, with captions, on heavy paper. Original patterned boards backed in gilt lettered beige buckram, top edge gilt others uncut; one corner bumped otherwise a fine, clean, unopened copy in..... More
1921. London: Martin Secker, [1921]. Small slim 8vo, 53, (6, ads. and colophon etc.)pp. With a tipped-in portrait frontispiece of Graves after Ben Nicholson. Original yellow and black speckled boards, backstrip rubbed and chipped losing half the printed label. Withal internally sound and clean. In a quarter red morocco box..... 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 Halperin, “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 from his..... More
1922. London, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., [1922]. 4to, viii, 207 pp. 24 color plates with 16 mounted onto thick paper, each with a tissue guard plus 20 line drawings in the text. Original white cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover and backstrip, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Cloth a...... More
1898. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898. 8vo, viii, 343, (8, ads) pp. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper board and backstrip. Cloth a little bumped and spotted, endpapers toned, else a very good copy with terminal publisher's advertisements dated Autumn 1898. § First edition, inscribed by..... 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. § The catalogue from An Exhibition of Cartoons by Nicole Hollander at The Ohio State University..... More
