1764. London: Printed for Robert Horsefield, 1764. 12mo, (13), 10-234 pp. Full contemporary mottled calf, ruled in gilt, backstrip panelled in gilt with thistles and red leather label, marbled endpapers. Upper joint cracked but firm, backstrip darkened, boards and tips a little rubbed, internally very good. With the ink ownership..... More

1911. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 8vo, 340, (2), 4, ads) pp. Title page tipped in as is the page between 270 and 271 (as called for). Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, with mounted color plate, top edge gilt, backstrip a little dulled and worn, boards faintly..... 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

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

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

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

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

1760. London, 1760. 9 vols. 8vo, with an engraved frontispiece in vols. 1 and 3. Contemporary calf, generally rubbed and lacking one label, in a new custom case by Coriander Reisbord. § Fifth edition of vol. 1, second edition of vols. 2 and 3; vols. 5, 7, and 9 signed..... More

1969. San Francisco: David Magee / Antiquarian Books, [1969]. 2 vols., 4to, xii, 103; vi, 103 pp., each with color frontispiece and a loosely inserted notice from the compiler announcing the sale of the contents en bloc. Original patterned wrappers, illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Backstrips..... More

1948. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 2 vols., thick 8vo, [x], 532; [iv], 533-1067 pp. Blue buckram with paper spine labels, labels slightly browned, lacking slipcase. § Limited to 1000 sets of which this is #345. Sandburg's first attempt at a novel, telling the story of America from..... More

1936. New York: Reynal and Hitchock, 1936. Large 8vo, xiv, 290pp. With a frontispiece and 64pp. of photographs. Original cloth, dust-jacket, a very good copy. § First edition, presentation copy inscribed to his friends Frank and Mabel Deering with a letter to them from Genthe giving them the book, and..... More

1837. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo, xvi, 609, pp. Forty-two plates, including frontis and engraved title-page. Without ads. Old half green morocco, gilt top, bookplates of Thomas Stillman and Jessie Stillman Taylor. Joints and headcap worn, first signature starting, plates considerably browned and some loose; a good only copy..... More

1987. Oakland, California: Amphibian Press, 1987. Tall 8vo, (24) pp., printed rectos only. Red printed wraps, staining to the outer edge and margin, faintly visible on the outer wraps, more apparent on the interior flaps and first and final pages. § First (only) edition. Number 49 in an unsigned edition..... More