1996. Barcelona: Moleiro Editor S.A., 1996. 2 vols, folios. Facsimile volume containing 396 pp., with 242 miniatures embellished with gold and silver. Brown leather with red leather backstrip, gilt lettering, leather slipcase, with some splitting along upper edge. Commentary volume containing 332 pp., text in Spanish, with full color illustrations..... More
1929. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 8vo, black cloth over purple boards, lettered in gilt; in the original green dust jacket, with an illustration of Judas to the upper in blue. Near fine, unclipped dust-jacket very good with a darkened spine panel and a little edgwear. Inscribed by Jeffers on..... More
Rochester: Published by S. Caddel, Gazette Office, 1831 lithograph, 5.5 x 7.5 inches § John Any Bird Bell was the youngest person officially to be hanged in the 19th century, at the age of 14. The principal witness against him, was his co-murderer (of Richard Taylor, aged 13, for 9..... More
1834. London, England: John Wilson, October 1834. Folio, 9 3/4"" x 6 3/4 inches, 16 pp. Thread binding, some toning. § A catalogue of 16 pages and almost 800 books sold by John Wilson, in what was most likely his going out of business sale. On the first page..... More
1816. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. 3 vols., sm. 8vo in 12s, (173 x 105 mm), [4], 322, [1, blank]; [4], 351, [352, printer's imprint]; [4], 363, [364, ads.] pp. Very early half calf, rebacked to style, blue/grey boards, tips scuffed. Ink signature in each volume of "Mr. Murray..... More
1802. Chichester. Printed by J. Seagrave, and sold by him and P. Humphry (et al.) for W. Blake, 1802. Frontispiece, 250 x 174 (sheet), 175 x 160 (platemark) mm, printed in black on wove paper. Recently cleaned, trimmed close to the right plate mark but not touching it, other margins..... More
2020. Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 8vo, (6 x 9 inches), 114 pp. Full stiff vellum ruled in gilt, blue cloth box, by Claudia Cohen. As issued, new (sold out before publication). § Limited to 15 copies bound by Claudia Cohen in stiff vellum, with a slipcase box. These copies include..... More
1478. Venice: Nicholaus Jenson, 1478 (before 6 May). Four folio vellum leaves (ca. 320 x 238 mm) extracted from a printed book, each leaf preserved in mylar L-sleeve. Each leaf 2 cols., 48 lines, printed in red and black; 2-line initials in manuscript alternating in red and blue, and long..... More
1971. London: Trianon Press, 1971. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase a trifle worn. § Limited to 590 copies, this copy no. 4. Bentley, Blake Books, 202. More
2019. Boston, MA: Godine, 2020. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), 256 pp. full color illustrations throughout. Red cloth,spine titled in gilt, in color illustrated dust jacket. § The trade edition of a sumptuous celebration of children’s picture books as art and literature. How do simple words and images make..... More
1932. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932. 8vo, [iv], 480 pp., with title-vignette. Original tan cloth lettered in orange to upper board, backstrip lettered in blue, with original pictorial dust jacket, top-edge orange. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks at the edges, remnants of the original glassine..... More
1800. undated. Original watercolor with pen and ink. Image cropped to 4 x 5 7/8 ins. Signed lower left. Mounted on paper and matted to 12 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches. Fine condition. § A small, attractive watercolor, signed by Rowlandson, showing women sorting baskets of mulberries. To the left..... More
1865. London: William Tegg, n.d. [c. 1865]. Thick royal 8vo, civ, 767 pp. With a frontispiece and 7 full-page plates on stiff paper. De luxe binding of full red hardgrain morocco extra, gilt-panelled backstrip, gilt edges, a very superior de luxe binding in fine condition. § Tegg printed numerous edition..... More
1913. New York: Brentano's, 1913. Sm. thick 8vo, xxxiv, 353 pp. Full brown crushed morocco extra, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top. A fine copy nicely bound. § A good edition of Wilde's poems, complete with 'Ravenna' at the end, in a handsome binding. More
1951. Princeton, May 5, 1951. 2 pages, 278 x 214 mm on his embossed Mercer Street stationery with the original transmittal envelope. Signed "A. Einstein" in black ink. In fine condition. [With] 12 pp. information pamphlet published by the Federation for the Repeal of the Levering Act in 1950, creased..... More
1852. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 vols, 8vo, [iii], vi-x, [1], 13-312; [i-iii], iv, [1], 6-322 pp. With six engraved plates by Hammett Billings (three in each volume)Original publisher’s brown cloth over boards. BAL B binding with vignette on top cover..... More
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1960. London: Bancroft & Co. Ltd., n. d. [circa 1960s]. [Panascopic Model Book #312] Folio (324 by 227 mm), 1-7, [1] pp., published without title page. Bound in colour-printed pictorial card covers, pages stapled. Lower cover unfolds to form the base a large full-colour pop up of a medieval castle..... More
1915. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Slim 8vo, 63 pp. Quarter vellum with brown paper covered boards, decorated title stamped in gilt to upper and lower boards. Bookplate of Myra Lumbard Palache on front paste down and her name dated December 23, 1915 on front free endpaper. Preliminaries lightly foxed, vellum..... More
1765. Paris (1765). 41 pages of descriptive text & 52 loose plates with their accompanying 23 textsheets from the volume of plates. Slight browning to margins, a little spotting otherwise very good. § The 52 plates and descriptive text for the entry of Forges ou Art du Fer from volume..... More
1954. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1954-1960. 4 vols. thick 8vo, pp. xvi, 492, with 3 b/w plates; xvi, 476, with numerous b/w plates and line drawings; x, 414, with 4 b/w plates; xxi, 506, with numerous line drawings. Original quarter cloth and hessian boards, dust-jackets, signature in each volume of..... More
1852. London: Edward Moxon, 1852. Thin 8vo, 16 pp. Original stitched blue paper wrappers, with maroon string. Two water stains on front cover, minor foxing and strain to hinges; good. § The first edition, and the first independent publication of Tennyson’s after being appointed poet laureate by Queen Victoria. "His..... More
1601. London: Wm. Hawes, 1601 [1814]. Folio, engraved title page, 14, [ii, subscriber list], [i, index], and 243 pp. of engraved sheet music. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, and red morocco labels to backstrip stamped with date and title in gilt. Boards are rubbed and faded, joints are cracked, poor..... 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
1956. Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1956. 4to., viii, 43 pp. Quarter vellum, illustrated designs on front cover. In slipcase. As new, a perfect copy. § One of 130 copies printed by the Allens in hand-set Romanée on handmade paper. Illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes & side borders by Mallette..... More
1855. New York: Appleton, 1855. 8vo, 824 pp., frontispiece view of Montgomery Street, 6 engraved plates, numerous text illustrations, large folding map of California and the Southwest. Red pebbled morocco bordered in gilt, upper board stamped with the name Waldo F. Postel. Covers rubbed with a few stains, joints worn..... More
