1902. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. 8vo, xiii, 504, (6, ads) pp. With 8 black and white illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original beige cloth titled in red and gilt and with design of holstered pistol intertwined with a lariat. Cloth slightly toned, backstrip with minor wear to foot..... More
1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. Square 4to, 275 pp. Original red cloth printed in black and gold, square and clean with a little age-toning and a scuff to the head of the backstrip. In the original dustwrapper, price $3.50 intact, lightly soiled with a few short closed..... More
1928. New York: Coward McCann, 1928. 8vo, 149 pp. + colophon. Portait frontispiece photograph of Wilder by Doris Ulmann. Blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, plain blue dustwrapper, wrapper split along upper hinge but preserved in mylar. Virtually as new. § First edition, copy number 19 of 775 signed by..... More
1969. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969. 8vo, 164 pp.With a color frontispiece and 23 plates of which 6 are in color. Original brown cloth. § First edition in English. Bentley, BB, 3004B (with a scathingly sarcastic note). More
1910. London: Dent, 1910. 4to, 168 pp, with 22 plates. Very good in original pale green cloth, darkened at edges, top edge gilt. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books 2957A. "a pioneering study of Blake's iconography, of great historical and intrinsic importance." More
1928. London: J. M. Dent Ltd, 1928. Small thick 4to, 301 pp., with 4 color plates, 55 monochrome plates, and 20 reproductions from manuscripts. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, some foxing around edges; very good. § First edition of an attractive and well-produced book with fine illustrations. Bentley, BB..... More
1957. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. 8vo, (10), (50, including 33 illustrations of the holdings on display), pp.Near fine in original colored wrappers. § “Nine drawings for Paradise Lost, accompanied by a verse for each one; Eight drawings for the masque, Comus, accompanied by stage directions and script; Seven..... More
1957. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. 8vo, (10), (50, including 33 illustrations of the holdings on display), pp. Neat ink notes on half title. Near fine in original colored wrappers. § “Nine drawings for Paradise Lost, accompanied by a verse for each one; Eight drawings for the masque..... More
1975. New York: Dover, 1975. 4to, xxi (Commentary and bibliography), 95 pp (full text facsimile with illustrations, reduced to 66% actual size). Original illustrated wrappers. As new. § An important commentary by two noted scholars. LaBelle was the first female tenured professor at Cal Tech. Bentley, Blake Books A515. More
1936. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1936. Slim 8vo, vi, 54 pp. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. § Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. No limitation note but 1000 copies printed. O’Day, p. 94-95. More
1899. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8vo, 213, (1, imprint)pp. Original salmon cloth stamped in gold, one corner creased, slightest of soiling to covers, ink signature at front “Winifred M.F. Carritt Christmas 1900”. Blue quarter morocco slipcase. § First edition, one of 1000 copies. “Although Wilde's third play opened in..... More
1898. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Slim 8vo, [4]. 31ff. Printed on hand-made paper on one side of the page only. Original quarter white buckram, mustard boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a good copy slightly soiled and backstrip browned. § First edition, one of 800 copies on handmade paper. This..... More
1894. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894. Small 4to, [xiv], 154, [1] pp. Original salmon buckram, covers with gilt-stamped decorations, gilt top, backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt, scattered foxing, a lovely copy enclosed in a quarter blue morocco slipcase. § First edition (though there were 15 copies..... More
1930. San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1930. Sm. slim 8vo, iv, 34 pp. Original purple quarter morocco and boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, backstrip refurbished. Internally as new. § Limited edition, signed in purple ink by Virginia Woolf on the colophon page. Presentation copy, inscribed by David Magee in pencil..... More
1922. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1922. 2 vols., 4to, xiv, 98; 105, (1, colophon)pp. Blue-gray paper over boards with green cloth spine and paper label on backstrip. Blue-gray paper slip case, badly split. § Limited to 100 copies numbered from 51-150: this is #57. Vol. 1 is Poems..... More
1948. New York & London: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1948. 8vo, viii, 246, (1, colophon) pp. Original blue cloth boards, titled in silver on backstrip, publisher’s blindstamp on upper cover. A few light scuffs to the cloth but with bright gilt, sharp corners, and internally clean. Original dust-jacket with $2.75..... More
1927. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 8vo, 235 pp. illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Original grey boards printed in green and black, map endpapers, original dust-jacket with $2.50 price intact. Dust-jacket somewhat worn, backstrip panel with some worm holes and a 1-inch tear to top of lower joint. Internally..... More
1936. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1936. 4to, 116pp. Illustrated with 70 b/w plates. Original grey boards, red cloth backstrip, fine. § A fine cope of the first printing of this important exhibition of illustrated books from the collection of Ambroise Vollard. More
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1839. [London]: Printed and Published by J. Fairburn, Featherstone, Street City Road [and] Published Oct[obe]r 1st, 1839 by J. Fairburn, 110 Minories. Two handcoloured prints, each bordering calligraphed bible verses, name and date. The first (384 x 486 mm) shows “Paul Preaching at Athens”, six smaller scenes from the Book..... More
1931. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. 8vo., [x], [1]-122 pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original red cloth with lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge red, original silver, black , and red dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is only partially intact with some of the upper and..... More
1935. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935. 8vo., vi, [1], 304, [1 colophon] pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original gray cloth lettered in black, backstrip decorated in red and lettered in black, original pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some minor chips at edges, and a faint..... More
1930. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. 8vo., [1]-162 pp., title-page printed in black and orange. Original full gray cloth lettered in gilt, with vignette figure of a seated woman stamped in red to the upper board, original gray dust jacket printed in red, top edge red. Dust jacket..... More
1813. London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813. 8vo, [i-iii], (1), [1]2-119, (1) pp., 2906 lots. Half red calf and marbled boards, backstrip with gilt rules and title, uncut. Cover is rubbed, edges and corners bumped and chipped, faint foxing, contemporary manuscript annotations in ink throughout, tape repair to p. 115; very..... More
1830. London: William Pickering, 1830. 8vo., lviii, 252 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled..... More
1844. London: William Pickering, 1844. Two vols., 8vo., lvii, 298; vi, 334 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt..... More
