New York: D. Appleton, 1881. 8vo, 231, [viii] ads pp. Illustrations by Frederick Church and James Moser. Original red cloth stamped in gold and black, a unusually bright, near fine copy with only faint soil to the backstrip and lower board. Enclosed in a modern, custom box. First edition, first... More about Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903. 8vo, (1, ad), [x], 327 pp. Original green cloth, illustrated in green, pink, white and gray. Binding slightly faded, tips and backstrip ends lightly worn, upper hinge strengthened, closed tears in three leaves. Enclosed in a modern, custom box. First edition... More about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [with] ALs from Wiggin to a friend
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Small 4to, 366 pp. with 174 black and white illustrations including frontispiece, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt decoration to spine and upper cover, binding lightly rubbed, board tips and backstrips a touch worn, endpapers renewed(?), overall... More about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)...by Mark Twain. With One Hundred and...
London: Methuen and Co., 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928. 8vo, 4 vols., x, 100 pp.; xi, 158 pp.; x, 103 pp.; xi, 178 pp. In original blue, green, red, and rose cloth, covers stamped and panelled in gilt, backstrips gilt lettered, top edges gilt. A few trivial closed tears and spotting... More about When We Very Were Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner
Edmonton: William Muir, 1887. Folio, 17 plates, richly hand colored. Original printed wrappers dated September 1887, backstrip renewed, gilt top, fine. Limited to fewer than 50 copies, this copy numbered #11 signed, priced and numbered by Muir. Based on three different copies. With the frontispiece “The Ancient of Days,” which... More about Europe a Prophecy
Paris: 1st décembre, 1841. Single sheet folded into 3 pp, 8.3/4 x 10.5 ins, written in ink. In good condition. An interesting letter to an unnamed recipient about his father’s tomb, payment for the property, and the details of payment and proper titles and other legal details. Hugo expresses anger... More about Autograph letter signed
London: William Pickering, 1847. Small 4to, xxix, 268 pp., color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow, and black; wood-engraved initials. Early half black calf, gilt backstrip, red label, marbled boards, a very good copy beautifully cleaned and restored by Court Benson. First edition of Byrne’s work on Euclidean geometry... More about The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used...
London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as issued)... More about The Gates of Paradise. For Children. For the Sexes
San Fransisco: John Windle, 1999. Tall slim 8vo, 48 pp., 8 plates, hand-sewn in Japanese paper, finely printed with illustrations depicting some of Blake’s original drawings and proofs, and the complete set of published prints. The edition is limited to 512 copies (this copy #121), copies numbered I-XII (sold out)... More about A Troubled Paradise William Blake’s Virgil Wood Engravings By Robert N. Essick. To Which Is...
c. 1890. Oil painting on unprimed redwood panel, 9.5 x 45", signed T. Hill, with painted title "Grizzly". Minor wear to board edges, a few light scuffs to the upper surface, very good. An unusual "portrait" of the famous "Grizzly Giant" sequoia tree in Yosemite National Park by one of... More about "Grizzly" California Redwood Tree
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Royal 8vo, xvi, 398, (4) pp.With a frontispiece and 24 plates. Original quarter parchment, very good. #605 of 1480 copies, beautifully printed and illustrated. Bentley, BB, 2981 A: “scrupulously use[d] contemporary accounts of Blake which had not appeared in print before. This is a very... More about The Life of William Blake
n.d. [c.1900]. Gelatin silver print, 10 5/8 x 13 7/8", unsigned; slightly darkened, some waviness in the margins, very good. Original photograph by William Keith of Collis P. Huntington. William Keith (1838-1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900) was one of the Big... More about Portrait of Collis Potter Huntington
Judy Chicago, 1979. Folio, 10 1/2 x 17”, 10 pp., cover illustration printed in red and black, illustrated throughout. Unbound and folded, as issued; minor foxing to p. 5-6; very good. A large format exhibition catalogue from the first exhibition of this work by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Features an... More about The Dinner Party. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art March 16-June 17, 1979
Boston: 1854. Broadsides, 7 1/2 x 19” wood and lead letterpress printing, in protective sleeve; very good. Two playbills from 1854 featuring “Mr. Forrest,” in “Damon and Pythias or The Test of Friendship,” and “Gladiator!” Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was the first American-born star of the U.S. stage. His feud with..... More about Two Boston Theatre Playbills
San Francisco: 1955. Single black and white photograph, 13 1/4 x 10 3/8”, mounted on 1/8” thick board. Signed by Ansel Adams to lower right-hand corner, with his studio stamp, ‘131 - 24th Avenue San Francisco,’ and "Neg. No. AA-COM-1-83" to the back. Very good on a slightly toned board... More about Marion Brown delivering a load of tan bark from the sheds across from the tannery
London: Picture Post, 6th June 1953. Thin folio, 82 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Rebound, pictorial paper wraps affixed to card stock and taped together. Ex-library copy with bookplate, call number in white to upper wrapper, and library book pocket. Good complete copy. Vol. 59, No. 10. Special issue... More about Picture Post Special Coronation Souvenir Number One
Harvard Yard: The Lowell House Printers, 1966. Broadside illustrated with a block print by Charles Poster. First edition. The winning entry in the Lowell House Literary Competition of 1966. One of 80 numbered copies (Number 33), signed by Pennington and initialed by Poster. More about A Pilgrimage
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[London : Dalla Stamperia di Gul. Bulmer, 1801]. Thick 4to, [2], [1], pp. 1-721. Printed in English and Italian. Contemporary red straight-grained goatskin, flat spine banded with double gilt rules, single gilt rule to the margins of the boards, some foxing to the preliminaries, binding repaired and refurbished, still showing... More about An Investigation into Principles, &c. [title from Worldcat
London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1979. 8vo, xv, 116 pp with 91 black and white illustrations. Very good in acetate protective jacket to wrappers. See Bentley, BBS, 613. This presents her massive “Blake and Tradition” (1968) in abbreviated form. More about Blake and Antiquity
London: Penguin Books, 1947. Slim 8vo, 16 pp. 17 full-colour plates. Green illustrated paper-covered boards. A very good copy with library markings including shelf number on upper cover, bookplate in front and pocket in back. Gift inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Envelope containing four small Christmas greeting cards pasted... More about The Compliments of the Season
San Francisco: The Cloister Press, 1929. Slim 8vo. 123 pp. Vellum-backed red paper boards with printed label on upper board, backstrip toned, boards a little faded, front free endpaper excised. Occasional pencil notes identifying the subject of a poem, apparently by someone close to the author. First printing. One hundred... More about Water and Wine
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1873. 8vo, 296 pp. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Cloth a little worn, faint staining of the outer margin throughout. A very good, sound copy. First edition of this engaging account of the early days of San Francisco written... More about Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the “Spring of ‘50”
London: John Murray, 1818. 8vo, xvi, (ii), 257, (1), (2, ads) pp. Uncut in the original drab paper boards, printed paper label on backstrip. A good copy, binding quite worn, chipped, and spotted, backstrip cracked, occasional foxing. First edition, second issue. The copy of one Mrs Turner, with her signature... More about Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth
Newark, N.J.: Charles E. Graham & Co., n.d. 8vo, [32] pp. Color illustrations throughout by Lang Campbell. Olive ribbed cloth printed in white with pictorial plate on upper cover. Pictorial endpapers including printed "bookplate", owner's details completed by hand (one Billy Froham of Newton, Mass.). Near fine copy with white..... More about Uncle Wiggily and the Beaver Boys
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. 8vo, [i-vi], [7]-215 pp. Original purple blind-stamped publisher’s cloth with gilt-stamped central medallions and backstrip, brown coated endpapers, cloth a little worn, crown of backstrip chipped, cloth on hinges just beginning to split, rear endpaper neatly excised. A sound, unsophisticated copy. First edition, first printing..... More about The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
