1911. Paris: J. Chevrel, 1911. Large 8vo, xxxii, 382, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece and 14 other plates by Martin Van Maele, 54 woodcut vignettes by Eugène Dété. Original printed wrappers, lightly soiled, spine creased, wrappers beginning to separate from text block at front joint, minor offsetting and foxing; a very..... More
1911. Paris: J. Chevrel, 1911. Large 8vo, xxxii, 382, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece and 14 other plates by Martin Van Maele, 54 woodcut vignettes by Eugène Dété. Three quarters crushed red morocco with marbled paper boards and endpapers, backstrip gilt with five raised bands tooled in gilt, top edge gilt..... More
1615. Paris: Jean Millot, 1615. Sm. 8vo, vi, 325, (3) pp. Engraved title page followed by typographic title-page with woodcut vignette; headpieces and initials. Full polished calf gilt c.1900 with ribbon marker and earlier marbled endpapers. Calf a little rubbed, some scattered foxing but generally very good. Ownership inscription of..... More
1678. London, printed for Thomas Dring, 1678. 8vo (7 x 4 ins), [24], 1-240; [10], 1-42, [12], the last page is the Errata with a catchword (TO) which is a printer's error. Engraved frontispiece to Vinetum, three engraved plates, small marginal woodcut, engraved frontispiece to Apiarium. Rough but appropriate early..... More
1927. San Francisco: December 13, 1927. Single issue, 12 pp., age-toned, creased and with some edgewear and closed tears but no loss of text. § The admirably extensive first (only?) issue of the school newspaper of Grant School in San Francisco, written by the students. The full name, principal, or..... More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
1733. London: P. Meighan, 1733. 8vo, xxiii, [1], 368 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary blind paneled calf, front hinge strengthened, front endpaper removed, unlabeled backstrip with raised bands, extremities rubbed with some loss of calf. A sound copy with old manuscript shelf mark in red on front pastedown and title page..... More
1917. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. Large 4to, xxiv, 517 pp. With 16 color plates with descriptive tissue guards, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout. Original vellum stamped in gilt, decoration to upper board and backstrip. Some discoloration to vellum, upper hinge strengthened, contents bright and clean..... More
New York: Knopf, 2000. 8vo, (8), 337pp.Yellow boards, brown backstrip, dust-jacket, essentially a perfect copy. § First American edition. British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day, which sold over a million copies and was the basis of a wonderful film starring Anthony..... More
1927. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1927. 4to, 28 plates hand-colored. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Fine as issued, faint pencil signature of William B. Marshall on front cover. § About 50 copies published. The second Muir facsimile of this title (the first being 1885), inscribed by Muir “Made in Great..... More
1923. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923. Slim small 8vo, 137, [138-140] pp. Original drab boards printed in black and red. A fine copy, signed by Buber on the title-page. § First edition of Buber's most widely read work, initially translated into English in 1937 as I and Thou. A key work in..... More
1820. Paris: Chez Belin-Le-Prieur, 1820. 12mo, xii, 264 pp. Publisher's advertisements (pp. i-vi) included in pagination. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt rules, backstrip decoratively stamped in gilt, red morocco backstrip label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker. Six copperplate engravings. A bit worn at extremities, upper 2" of..... More
1805. Chichester: J.Seagrave for Richard Phillips, 1805. Bound with The Death of Abel, "A New Edition," London: Vernor & Hood, 1803, translated from the German of Salomon Gessner by Mary Collyer. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo, (6), 212, (1, index)pp., with 5 plates designed and engraved by Blake; xii, (2)..... More
[Tokyo: c. 1935?] 4to, folding, with prints tipped-in to every other page. Pale blue cloth, label pasted onto upper board. § Album of reduced size prints, likely made for the tourist market. More
[Tokyo: c. 1935?] Small oblong 4to, folding, with 2 postcards slotted into each page. Upper board covered with illustrated paper, with label pasted on. § Album of postcards, likely made for the tourist market. More
1789. Bipontinae [Zweibrücken]: ex Typographia Societatis, 1789-93. 10 vols., 8vo. Greek text. Full contemporary mottled calf, backstrip with contrasting morocco labels for titling and volume numbers, blue speckled edges. Minor age-toning, some skillful repairs to joints and headcaps; a very good set. Extensive manuscript and typewritten indices tipped in to..... More
2020. Whittington, UK: Nomad Letterpress and The Society of Wood Engravers, 2020. Folio, 325 x 250 mm, 100 pp., printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Monotype Perpetua (Series 239) cast by Neil Winter at the Whittington Press in an addition of 340 copies. Numerous illustrations in black and white throughout..... More
1929. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton, 1929. Small 4to, 28 color plates and 25 pages of text. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket chipped and torn along edges; very good. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley, Blake Books, 39. More
1999. San Francisco: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, 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. Enclosed in a folding quarter cloth box as issued. § De luxe..... More
1868. [London: John Camden Hotten, 1868]. 4to, 27 hand-colored plates over lithographic ground, printed on special paper reproducing Blake’s original paper. Original quarter dark-green morocco a bit worn, backstrip panelled in gilt, occasional foxing as usual, a good copy. § The first facsimile of a Blake book (excepting only a...... More
1803. Chichester: J. Seagrave for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Large 8vo (22.7 x 14.2 cm.), xii, 165 pages. With 6 engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt titled backstrip, marbled edges, minor rubbing to backstrip and corners, faint darkening to preliminary & final..... More
1922. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. 8vo, 107 pp. Frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. Green cloth boards, decoration in gilt, green, white and pink to upper cover and backstrip. Some spotting to upper cover, corners bumped, very slight toning to interior, otherwise very good. § A lovely..... More
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1907. 4to, 144pp. With a frontispiece and 35 three-tone plates and illustrations in the text. Original brown cloth stamped in dark brown, some slight soiling to covers, corners bumped, a good copy in the second issue binding. § First book edition of this collection of..... More
London: William Heinemann, London, 1918. 4to, xviii, 76pp. With 9 tipped in color plates by Rackham and numerous other monochrome illustrations. Frontispiece creased. Original beige boards stamped in gilt on the upper cover, quarter vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, covers somewhat soiled and dull, corners bumped, backstrip recently repaired, page..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932. 4to, 288 pp. Title page illustrated in brown and black, with 12 color illustrations with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Original box with full-color illustration pasted onto upper, recently restored. Some slight discoloration to boards, internally bright..... More
