![Katholiczke modlitby z rozlycznych kniech... [Catholic prayers from various books]. Manuscript...](/pictures/thumb/124585.jpg?v=1642726176)
1763. 1763. 8vo, 152 pp. numbered by hand. Contemporary full polished calf, pannelled in gilt. Every page filled with manuscript in black and occasionally red ink within ruled borders. Calf wormed, warped, and wrinkled, but binding sound; ink browned with some bleeding; faint, illegible inscription on front free endpaper. Separate..... More
1806. Various publishers, notably Marshall in Newcastle. Other places including Edinburgh, Paisley, Kilmarnock, Falkirk and Glasgow. [c. early 19th century]. 82 chapbooks bound into 4 volumes, in half green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, backstrips panelled in gilt with red leather labels. 3 vols. measure 164 x 100 mm, one..... More
1818. Paris: P. Blanchard, 1818. 12mo, viii, 264 pp. Six copperplate engravings. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, backstrip decoratively stamped in gilt, backstrip label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker. Backstrip lightly rubbed, board corners worn, pages with occasional spotting, but overall a sound, unsophisticated copy with the early..... More
1886. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. January 1886 - October 1888 [and] London: The Chiswick Press, January 1889 - October 1892. 4to. 28 volumes illustrated by woodcut and photogravure, in the original printed wrappers. Expectable browning to the untrimmed edges and occasional foxing and offsetting; issue no. 9 front..... More
1930. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1930. 12mo, [20]pp. With a full-page illustration by Julian Links, and a title-page dedsign by Links. Original limp vellum lettered in gold, paper slipcase with printed label, a fine copy. § Edition limited to 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press by the..... More
1851. Paris: Lemercier, 1851. Folio, 18 x 14 ins., 3 (of 12) separate lithographic plates, hand-colored, each matted and framed. Title printed beneath each plate. § Three plates (4, 9, and 11) as listed below. The complete book with all twelve plates is a rare and important color-plate book --..... More
1776. London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 vols., 4to, 12 x 9.25 inches or 305 x 240 mm (large-paper?), top edge just trimmed, other edges untrimmed; [12], 510 pp.; [4], 587, [588, ads] pp. Volume I: A(4) a(2) B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S(4) T(4) (-3T4 (blank), as usual); Volume II..... More
1926. New York: [c. 1926]. Folio, 20 specimens (18 single and 2 double leaves) in 18 glassine envelopes, each specimen with a small typed label neatly affixed; all housed in a stiff paper portfolio, printed label on upper cover; portfolio, envelopes and leaves in very good condition as assembled, with..... More
1909. London: Burns and Oates, 1909. 8vo, 91, iv (publisher's ads)pp. Original brown buckram stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. A little rubbed and worn, endpapers toned, pages clean. Book plate of San Francisco society woman Celia Tobin Clark. § First edition, regular copy, published two years after..... More
1904. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 8vo, [vii], 113 pp. Original plain boards in printed paper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned and soiled, a clean copy within. Very good. § Limited to 100 copies on Japanese Vellum, of which this is #47. First American edition (there was also a...... More
1935. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. 12mo, 10 pp. Original marbled paper covered boards and printed backstrip label. Label browned, otherwise a fine copy. § One of a hundred copies printed for private circulation. A celebratory printing by Nash of an account of the church service held upon the..... More
1935. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. 12mo, 10 pp. Original marbled paper covered boards and printed backstrip label. Label browned, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. § One of a hundred copies printed for private circulation. A celebratory printing by Nash of an account of the church service held upon..... More
![Selected Poems of Alice Meynell [with an A.L.S. by the author to her publisher, John Lane]. Alice...](/pictures/thumb/124589.jpg?v=1641581738)
1930. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., n.d. [1930]. 8vo, xi, 58 pp. Original green cloth, gilt device on upper board, gilt title on backstrip; backstrip faded, faint light stain to lower corner of both boards, endpapers toned, without dust-jacket. Inscribed and extra-illustrated by Wilfrid Meynell (see below). § Inscribed..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2021. Slim 8vo, 27 (2)pp.Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 illustrations partly in color. Original blue wrappers à la Daniel, as new. § Limited to 1100 copies set in Fell type and printed on Mohawk paper, design and typography by Jerry Kelly. An excellent short..... More
1923. [San Francisco: Privately printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1923]. Sm. Folio, [13]pp. First page printed in blue and black. Vellum paper wrapped boards, laurel wreath stamped in gilt on upper cover, lacking original ties, boards spotted, internally fine. § Fifty copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Inscribed by..... More
1958. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. 4to, (iv), 80, [2], pp. Original quarter linen with blue paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the original plain dust-jacket, spine panel lightly toned and chipped at head and foot. § One of 400 copies printed at the..... More
1958. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. 4to, xxi, 99, [1], pp., color frontispiece and 6 other illustrations including a reproduction of Julia Margaret Cameron's photograph of Tobin and pages from Tobin's manuscripts. Original quarter linen with blue paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the..... More
1958. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. 4to, xxi, 99, [1], pp., color frontispiece and 6 other illustrations including a reproduction of Julia Margaret Cameron's photograph of Tobin and pages from Tobin's manuscripts. Original quarter linen with blue paper-covered boards. A near fine copy, board..... More
1901. Canton, Pennsylvania: The Kirgate Press, 1901. 12mo, unpaginated, [16]pp. Photographic frontispiece of Cardinal Newman. Plain paper spine and red paper-covered boards lettered in gilt. Binding lightly scuffed, scattered foxing within, a nicely printed gift book. Presentation inscription dated 1953 on front free endpaper and small bookstore ticket of Paul..... More
![Sir Walter Scott 1832-1932: A Centenary Address [and] A Forgotten Antiquary. John Buchan, William...](/pictures/thumb/124175_1.jpg?v=1641576782)
1932. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1932. 8vo, vi, 27 pp. Fold-out facsimile of one of Scott's letters as frontispiece and 3 illustrations. Quarter red leather and green paper-covered boards. Backstrip faded and spotted, rust-shadow of paperclip to preliminaries, otherwise fine. § One of 300 copies printed by..... More
1845. England: early Victorian period, c. 1845. 114 bone tiles with engraved letters in black, enclosed in the original mahogany box with bone panel on the sliding top lettered SPELLING ALPHABET. In very good condition, slight wear to some of the discs but no loss. § Of considerable rarity complete..... More
1870. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870 8vo., (vi), 250, 23, 24, (3, ads) pp. Original brown cloth, pencil inscription dated 1871 on free endpaper, binding somewhat worn, spine askew; very good. § First edition in English. This edition includes two appendices; the first 23 pp. by Margaret Sweat titled “The Novels..... More
1910. Printed for his Family & Friends, 1910. 12mo, 78 pp. Title page in red and black. Original brown boards, lettered and bordered in gilt. A little bumped and scuffed, front free endpaper excised. Bookplate of Richard Montgomery Tobin (whose sister Agnes Tobin was a close friend of Alice and..... More
1931. Longmans, Green & Co., 1931. 8vo, xiii, 336 pp. Original green cloth, printed paper labels on backstrip and upper cover. Backstrip faded, hinges cracked, pages clean, a good copy inscribed by the author. § First edition, reverently inscribed by the author to Celia Clark, a member of one of..... More
1941. New York: Random House, 1941. 8vo, (x), 156 pp. Original black cloth, titled in gilt on upper board backstrip; lacking dust-jacket, small ticket of Newbegin's bookstore, San Francisco, on rear paste down. Cloth little dusty but internally a nice clean copy inscribed by Jeffers. § First edition, inscribed by..... More
