1992. Berlin: Kommissionsvertrieb Wasmuth, 1992. 8vo, xxi, 423pp. With 53 b/w plates at the end. Original green cloth lettered in gold on the upper cover and backstrip, as new. § § Only edition, long out of print and all but unavailable in the US. Without the errata sheet at the..... More
1992. Berlin: Kommissionsvertrieb Wasmuth, 1992. 8vo, xxi, 423pp. With 53 b/w plates at the end. Original green cloth lettered in gold on the upper cover and backstrip, as new. § § Only edition, long out of print and all but unavailable in the US. Without the errata sheet at the..... More
1877. [San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #131); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to..... More
1853. London: John van Voorst, 1853. Sm. slim 8vo, xvii, 120, (4, ads.)pp. Color frontispiece (partially slightly faded). Original grey-green cloth rebacked, front end-paper creased, internally clean and sound. § First edition of this early book on the subject. John Cocks was the first to discover the red seaweed Stenogramme..... More
1817. London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and co., Shakespeare Press, 1817. 3 vols., royal 8vo, [vi], viii, ccxxv, 411; [iii], 537; [iii], 547 pp. 38 engraved plates including the plate almost always missing, two double-page; 35 text illustrations printed on India paper and mounted on pages; one..... More
1940. Cleveland: 1940. Single sheet, folio, in the original frame. § "In commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing, this sheet was planned and distributed by The Cleveland Club of Printing House Craftsmen during the annual Fifth District Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, May 17 and..... More
2022. New York: Grolier Club, 2022 Slim 8vo, 40, (1)pp. Portrait of Eliot by Bernard Fuchs reproduced in the text. Original white wrappers, upper cover printed in green with an original watercolor decoration. As new, in a plain envelope. § Limited to 100 copies designed and printed by Jerry Kelly..... More
1818. Paris: P. Blanchard, 1818. 12mo, viii, 264 pp. Six copperplate engravings. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, backstrip decoratively stamped in gilt, backstrip label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, yellow ribbon marker. Binding rather rubbed and flaking at crown and foot of backstrip, endpapers toned, pages with occasional spotting, but overall..... More
1911. Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. 12mo, 16pp. Printed in red and black. Original stiff card binding with paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Occasional soiling, small bump to the base of the spine. In the original green printed slipcase, worn. Very good. § A attractive printing by Mosher..... 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
1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as..... More
1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine, small abrasion to the mat. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we..... More
1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as..... More
1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as..... More
1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as..... More
1913. London: Riccardi Press, 1913. Tall slim 8vo, (4), 79, (2) pp. Finely printed on hand-made paper with an elaborate wooodcut border to the opening Sonnet. Original boards, cloth backstrip damaged at foot with slight puncture and tear. § Limited to 1000 copies, this is #10. Internally a lovely printing..... More
1930. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930. 8vo, 33pp., with a frontispiece and 3 plates after Rothenstein and Beerbohm. Original red cloth, a very good copy in a damaged slipcase (one panel missing). § Limited to 515 copies, of which 500 are for sale. With facsimile note loosely inserted, "With apologies..... More
1924. New York: Doubleay, Page & Company, 1924. Sm. 8vo, 144pp. Original grey-green boards, orange backstrip darkened. A bit worn and tips rubbed. § First edition of this collection of hilarious satirical poems. Signed by the author on the title page. Adams was a renowned newspaper columnist with some famous..... More
1968. [United States?]: A Bee Dee Publications, 1968. Sm. 8vo, staple bound, 80, (1), pp. Seven black and white illustrations. Original pink illustrated wrappers. Light scuffing to the wrappers, internally fine. § "Marked for entrapment in a homosexual world!" Gay pulp novel with cruel initiations, fashion fetishes, and a happy..... More
1920. Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd, Nottingham, Nottingham, 1920. 4to, 319 pp. 20 tipped in color plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Rust colored decorative cloth with gilt titles to backstrip and upper board. Binding shaken, cloth a little rubbed, backstrip dulled..... More
1919. London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, [1919]. 4to, ix, 240 pp. 12 tipped-in colour plates, each with tissue guard, green and black decorated title-page and numerous illustrations printed in green throughout the text. Original full green cloth, gilt titles on front cover and backstrip, pictorially gilt-stamped..... More
1929. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 4to. Frontispiece and 9 colored plates. Black cloth spine, batik paper boards, gilt lettering. Minor offsetting to plates, else a fine copy without dust-jacket in the original numbered slipcase, lightly worn. § First large paper and first illustrated edition, one of 775 copies signed..... More
1883. London: Bell, 1883. 6 vols, sm. 8vo, full green crushed morocco extra, red moire silk endpapers, dentelles, a fine set bound by Riviere with the backstrips uniformly faded (as always) to brown. § Second edition, with alterations in the Text and Glossary. With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas..... More
1797. Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson (and Walker), 1797-1805. 2 vols. 8vo, xxx, (2), 335, (1); xx, 400 pp.; with 233 woodcuts of birds in the text, and around 170 vignettes in woodcut showing scenes of British rural life. Old tree calf rebacked, some paper repairs. § True first edition of volume..... More
1775. London: Printed for John Wilkie, 1775. Slim 8vo, x, (2, prologue), (2, epilogue), (2, errata and dramatic personae), [1], 2-100 pp. Full crushed green morocco extra signed L. Broga, backstrip panelled in gilt, gilt edges. Backstrip browned, very good. § First edition, first issue with p. 79 unnumbered and..... More
