1907. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. 8vo, 633, (4) ads pp. With three full page black and white illustrations by Alonzo Kimball. Original red cloth, the upper cover and backstrip lettered in gilt. A little worn, but a pleasant copy with a picture of Wharton pasted to the front... More about The Fruit of the Tree
1895. London: Macmillan, 1895. 8vo, viii, 184pp. 4pp. ads. Frontispiece and twenty-two other plates, coloured full-page map. Original red cloth, gilt, very good. § First edition, third impression. “The book narrates in detail how the death of Chitrals ageing Chief Aman ul-Mulk in 1892 caused uncertain conditions in the region... More about The Relief of Chitral
2018. Connecticut River Valley: SAW Press, 2018. Roy. 8vo, 11 x 7.5 ins., half-title, title, introduction, color print, funeral service text over color print, half-page print with text, obituary 2 leaves printed on one side, 6 portraits with letterpress, blind-stamped coffin with text, colophon. Separate folder with single sheet 28... More about Ashes to Ashes A Homecoming Celebration for the Unburied
2018. Connecticut River Valley: SAW Press, 2018. Roy. 8vo, 11 x 7.5 ins., half-title, title, introduction, color print, funeral service text over color print, half-page print with text, obituary 2 leaves printed on one side, 6 portraits with letterpress, blind-stamped coffin with text, colophon. Separate folder with single sheet 28... More about Ashes to Ashes A Homecoming Celebration for the Unburied
1841. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1841. 12mo, engraved frontispiece and t/p (not by or after Blake), viii, 280pp. Full period dark red polished calf, gilt edges. § A sweet (and seemingly very uncommon) edition of this long-lived crowd pleaser first published in 1742, later illustrated by William Blake, and still in... More about The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
1929. New York/London: Fountain/Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo, 159 pp. Original brick-red cloth with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a folding case. Bookplate of Stuart Schimmel on front paste down, signature of Robert Hunter on front free end paper. § First edition, large paper issue, number 116 of... More about A Room of One’s Own
1906. London: Methuen & Co., n. d. [1906] 4to., 24 leaves, illustrations printed on rectos only, pictorial paper boards with red cloth backstrip. Corners slightly chipped, boards shows minor shelf wear, internally bright with minor foxing around margins; very good. § First edition of this scarce title. In this parody... More about Petrol Peter. Illustrated by A. Wallis Mills
1931. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 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 lower cover torn away. Inscribed... More about The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act
4. Publications of the Society of Bibliophiles at Brandeis University. Number 4. Waltham, Massachusetts, MCMLXX. 4to, 24pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brown wrappers lightly worn, else fine. § Copy #39. An English translation by Dr. Edmund Rosen of the story of creation as told in the Nuremberg Chronicle... More about The Work of Six Days & the Sanctification of the Seventh Day
1957. San Francisco: 1957. Folio (10 x 15 inch), 57 pp. with dozens of original playbills from the stage productions of the San Francisco-based Interplayers bound in, tipped in, or laid into a rear pocket. The endpapers are from a production of Hamlet. Handmade Tovil paper with deckle edges. Chapter... More about Printing For Theater
1923. Olney, Bucks: Thomas Wright, 1923. 8vo, 39 pages. Four leaves of illustrations. Original gray cloth. Glassine jacket. Backstrip a trifle darkened; a very good copy. § First edition, a scarce work by the eccentric Wright in the form of a conversation between Wright and 3 children about Blake. Bentley, Blake Books, 3013. More about Key to Blake: Blake for Babes. A Popular Illustrated Introduction to the Works of William Blake
1947. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Folio, unpaginated. Original cloth-backed boards lettered in grey, light wear to the spine ends and board edges, lower corner of the upper board bumped, in the original unclipped dust jacket, toned, spine panel faded, professionally restored. Very good. § No. 168... More about Fifty Photographs
1891. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1891. Sm. 4to, (8), 159 pp., pictorial title-page, 4 plates, and numerous illustrations and decorations in text by Ricketts and Shannon. Original pictorial cloth gilt, covers a bit discoloured but nicely restored by Coriander Reisbord. § First edition, 1000 copies printed. Although... More about A House of Pomegranates
1999. New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999. 8vo, xxiii, 285pp. Illustrated throughout, including all the known portraits of Dibdin. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, Jeffrey Thomas’s copy inscribed to him by Windle and with a few ephemeral items about Dibdin inserted in xerox copies. § First and to date the... More about Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847: a Bibliography
2000. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo, 24 cm, xvi, 71 pp. Illustrated with a tipped-in color frontispiece portrait, two other portrtaits, and b/w illustrations of the title-pages of the books. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, as new. Inscribed to Jeffrey Thomas by the author. § This second... More about Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1759-1797: a Bibliography of the First and Early Editions, With...
1951. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. 8vo, (vi), 441 pp. Original quarter green-gray cloth with blue boards lettered in black. Original dust-jacket with $3.50 price intact. Very good copy in a slightly worn dust-jacket with a few chips. § First edition of West's third novel. West was a.... More about The Witch Diggers
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 about The Virginian. A Horseman of the Plains
2000. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 2000. Presumably dreamed up by Tate Publishing to accompany the Blake Exhibition in 2000. Each pack contains three identical self adhesive colored designs of the tiger tatoo figure itself from "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience, approximately 7.5 x 4 cm. This is enclosed in... More about Removable tattoo pack of "The Tyger" design
1923. Olney, Bucks: Thomas Wright, 1923. 8vo, 39 pp, 4 leaves of illustrations in black and white. Very good in original gray cloth, with spine slightly darkened. § First edition, a scarce work by the eccentric Wright in the form of a conversation between Wright and 3 children about Blake. Bentley, BB, 3013. More about Key to Blake: Blake for Babes. A Popular Illustrated Introduction to the Works of William Blake
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 about Blake's Vision of the Book of Job
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, 2954. More about Blake’s Innocence and Experience. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts…
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 about William Blake Water-Color Drawings
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 about Water Color Drawings - William Blake; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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 about Night Thoughts or the Complaint and the Consolation. Illustrated by William Blake. Text by Edward...
1930. San Francisco: Helen Gentry, 1930. 12mo, printed self-wrappers, (15)pp. Unopened, as new. § A scarce little pamphlet based on material suggested by Wilbur Macey Stone who had it from the New York Sun, January 18, 1914. More about The Two Deaths of Oscar Wilde. The Leaflet Number Two November 1930
