1914. London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1914. 8vo, 278 pp. Original maroon cloth, backstrip and upper cover titled in gilt. A very good copy, backstrip slightly sunned, a few light bumps ands scuffs to the lower board, front hinge tender. § First edition of Joyce's first prose work, a collection of..... More
1994. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1994. Large folio, 22 x 24 inches. Three large color woodcuts printed on Japanese paper. Beige cloth boards, goatskin spine. Fine in beige cloth folding box. § Copy #142 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Paz and Balthus. "In awarding Octavio Paz the..... More
1726. Cambridge: Printed by Corn. Crownfield, and sold at London by J. Wyat, T. Edlin, in the Strand; and T. Cox in Cornhill, 1726. 8vo, (8), xxxi, (1) - list of plates and errata, 386, cxliv - Appendix, (8) - index. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates, 5 of..... More
1650. Rothomagi [Rouen]: Sumptibus Ioannis Berthelin Bibliopolae, 1650. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, (12), 403, (41); (12), 154 pp. First book with numerous woodcut illustrations; second book with engraved initials throughout. Full calf, backstrip richly gilt with red label, marbled endpapers, textblock stained red, green ribbon. Boards rubbed, headcap chipped..... More
1894. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894. 8vo, (vi), 301 pp. Original decorative cloth, a trifle rubbed, faint stain on upper board, a little shaken, a few leaves slightly spotted. § First edition, published the year after Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and the year before Jude the Obscure, in..... More
1836. London: William Pickering, 1836. 8vo., viii, 236 pp., 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 endpapers. Joints and..... More
1807. London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. 8vo, xvi,81, (3, ads)pp. Original printed boards, rebacked. The upper cover printed with the title of the above work together with an advert for another Stockdale publication (Elijah’s Mantle), and further titles listed on the lower cover. § Fourth edition, printed in the same..... More
1970. Cambridge: Heffer, 1970. Oblong small folio, viii, 88 pp., color frontispiece and 74 illustrations. Original brown cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition (also issued in wrappers). Bentley, Blake Books, 703. More
1975. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. 8vo, 190pp. Original cloth, dust jacket. Very good. § First edition, signed by Williams on the half-title in a shaky later hand. More
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1887. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887 [and] n.d. 2 vols., 8vo (140 x 218 mm), 127; 128 pp. Original color-printed wrappers; ads on lower and inner sides of wrappers and verso of title pages. Both vols. wrappers darkened, spine panels deteriorated; Express Robbery upper wrapper detached and lacking lower..... More
1879. New York: James Miller / London: B. Quaritch, 1879. 8vo, (vi), v, 319, xvii ("addenda") pp. Allegorical woodcut frontis. and a few illustrations in-text. Original brown bevelled cloth, backstrip gilt-lettered, image of an arm holding a whip gilt-stamped on upper board and blind-stamped on lower, brown coated endpapers. A...... More
1838. London: Robert Tyas, 1838. 12mo, [1-5], 6-76, (4, publisher's ads) pp. With four plates by John Leech. Original publisher's cloth over card stock, upper cover stamped and lettered in gilt, edges gilt. Cloth lightly sunned and worn, front hinge cracked, a bit shaken, contemporary inscription and dealer notes to..... 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, some browning throughout as usual, binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition (though there were 15 copies printed..... More
1899. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8vo, 213, (1, imprint)pp. Original salmon cloth stamped in gold, backstrip dull, internally very good. Wilmerding bookpate upside down in back. § First edition, one of 1000 copies. “Although Wilde's third play opened in 1895, it was not published until four years later and after..... More
1882. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Extra-illustrated with about 100 plates (many colored), some two to a page inlaid to size, plus the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. Dark green straight-grain morocco extra, covers ruled in gilt..... More
1880. London: Macmillan, 1880. 2 vols., 8vo, xvii, 431; ix, 383 pp., with a portrait frontispiece on India paper in each volume and numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped designs. A fine copy of this attractive binding with the binder’s ticket “Bound by Burn & Co” at the..... More
1853. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1853 - August 1855. 8vo, 24 parts in 23, with etched titles, frontispieces, 44 etched plates, 43 wood-engraved vignettes, and 76 wood-engraved initials, all by Doyle; original yellow printed wrappers, three with early ownership names on uppers, all more or less worn at edges..... More
1852. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. 3 vols., 8vo, 344; vi, 319; vi, 324 pp. Publisher’s fine ribbed cloth with printed paper labels on backstrip, white endpapers, blanks preceding the half titles of vols. 2 and 3. Boards rubbed, board tips a little bumped, labels rubbed and darkened but..... More
1865. (circa 1865-81). Wood engraving, on single half-sheet of handmade Arches paper 19”, engraved area 4 x 2 1/4”, fine archival frame; a fine impression. § Edition unknown; a lovely original wood engraving, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved probably by William Morris. Burne-Jones prepared some seventy drawings largely intended..... More
1816. York: Printed for the Author and Sold by Wm. Alexander, 1816. 8vo, viii, [9]-265 pp. 19th century half green calf, marbled cloth boards, backstrip gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Binding rubbed with some wear to the corners, endpapers and title-page foxed, pages lightly so. Armorial bookplate of Sidney Edward..... More
1894. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894 [c.1898]. Sm. 8vo, vi (ads, including pastedown), x, [9]-346, (ix)-xxvii (ads, including pastedown) pp. With 75 black and white illustrations by Rackham plus illustrations by other artists. Original blue cloth, lettered in red and black, upper board with the image of sunrise behind an..... More
1905. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. 12mo, xxvi, 75 pp. Title page in red and black, deckle edges. Blue paper wrappers, upper cover illustrated in red and black. Wrappers evenly toned, internally fine without markings or ownership marks. § An attractive printing of Lang's retelling of the medieval French..... More
1903. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. 12mo, 77, (1, colophon) pp. Title page in red and black. Paper wrappers printed in red and black over stiff card, in the original slipcase with floral paper sides. A fine copy with a hint of toning to the upper cover, slipcase worn..... More
1906. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906. 12mo, 54 pp. Title page in red and black. Green paper wrappers over stiff card, decoratively printed and lettered in gilt. Light wear to wrappers, former owner's name and shadow of a lost bookplate on the front free endpapers. § A sweet little..... More
1903. Oak Knoll: printed by the Author, 1930. Pamphlet (142 x 190 mm), 24pp. Three photographic illustrations and two other in-text illustrations. Original string-bound blue wrappers. With the original mailing envelope revealing this copy was sent from Oak Knoll to the Union League Club of San Francisco in December 1930..... More
