New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 8vo, (vi), 242, (1) pp. Original quarter cloth with blue boards lettered in gilt, a few light marks to the backstrip. Original unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel faded, some worming, largely to the rear panel. § First US edition. Based on the New Zealand novelist’s..... More
Great Britain, John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo, 122 pages. Fifteen black and white plates by Michael Ayrton. Original blue cloth with black plate and gold lettering on the spine. Slight tearing on upper jacket spine, and pages somewhat loose, fair condition. § First edition. Rigby Graham, Romantic Book Illustration in England..... More
London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by author..... More
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London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. § Contains Bawden’s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings. More
London: Macmillan, 1970. 8vo, 245 pp. Printed wrappers, age-toned, very good. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1261, gives a list of the essays herein contained, authors including such as Malkin, Lamb, and Linnell, up to Kathleen Raine. More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. 16mo, (8) pp. unpaginated, gray paper wrappers, upper cover printed in blue, very slightly toned. Small dealer pencil note to top margin of title page and lower margin of final page, otherwise clean and near fine. § First separate edition, published five months after..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1960. 8vo, 48pp. In cream-colored wrappers with printers' logos in red, title in black. Covers lightly soiled, spine sunned. Very good. § First edition. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of..... More
London: “Fun” Office, 1885. Small 8vo, vi, 149 pages, illustrated throughout. A.N.s. by Leland tipped in between front endpapers, with tissue guards; original pen & ink sketch by Leland tipped onto flyleaf. Engraved bookplates of the Dalziel family and of William Harris Arnold. Contemporary deep red straight-grain patterned calf, backstrip..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2000. 8vo, unpaginated. Illustrated in full color throughout. Original wrappers. Fine. § Reprint. Walter de la Mare's retelling of this tale originally from the brothers Grimm. Kevin Hawkes is an author/illustrator of over 50 acclaimed picture and chapter books including the New York Times best seller..... More
New York: Chanticleer Press, Inc. 1949. 4to, 79 pp. plus 106 pages of plates. Color frontispiece. Full red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket with light chipping to edges. Very good. § First printing. More
Locust Valley, New York: J. J. Augustin Publisher, 1960. 4to, x, 374pp. Original yellow coarse cloth binding, stamped in brown to top board, with brown paper label stamped in white affixed to backstrip; frontispiece from a photograph of Archer Taylor, illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles in black and white..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880. 8vo, 347pp. Original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, chipped at foot of backstrip, otherwise good. § First American edition in book form; the story was first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879, and then by Chatto & Windus in London as..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1930. 8vo, 111 pp. With facsimiles of original letters and documents. Original decorated cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine. Inlaid Grabhorn label in small manilla envelope: “From the Library of Robert Grabhorn, 1900-1973, Printer.” A very good copy. § One of 350 copies printed..... More
London: Peter Lunn, 1945. 8vo, 117 pages. With ten full-page color plates and illustrations in the text. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition, sprung but a very good copy. More
London: John Murray, 1827. 8vo, [8], 179, [1] pp., wood-engravings in the text. Original boards, with later paper backing, worn, tear at backstrip head, upper joint cracked and barely holding, occasional foxing within. § First edition. An unusual medical biography of five 18th century English physicians, narrated by a walking..... More
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. Slim 8vo, [64]pp., one full-page b/w illustration by Joy Lloyd. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, dust-jacket slightly worn and chipped. § First edition, limited to 285 copies, this being #194 signed by the author. The Grayson Books series No. 10. "Ó Faoláin was born..... More
London: Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1927. Small 4to., [viii], 9-46 pp. Original violet-blue paste-paper boards, paper backstrip label, unopened. Slightly rubbed at extremities of binding, label toned; internally very good. § First Edition thus; number 8 of 250 copies on Binda hand-made paper. "The original English text of the poems..... More
London, Grey Walls Press, 1949. 8vo, 244 pages. Four black and white plates by Mervyn Peake. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine, dust jacket. Edges foxed, slight soiling on top of dust jacket and creasing in spine of jacket, gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1949. §..... More
New York: McClure, 1904. 8vo, 344 pp. Original black cloth, stamped in orange, yellow and green. Minor sunning to backstrip, minor edgewear. § First edition of Porter’s first book, in original cloth. A collection of stories of revolution and adventure in Latin America, this book is known as the origin..... More
Stoney Down Corfe Mullen, Dorset: Seven Acres Press, 1927. Small 4to, (3), [60] pp., printed in red and green and black, woodcut on title-page, unopened. Original calf-backed boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. As new. § Limited to 150 copies printed in Paradiso. Haberly, an American Rhodes’ Scholar, designed, printed, illustrated..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. 4to, 163 pp. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Green cloth with round, green pictorial inlay to upper cover illustrated in gilt, gilt lettering to backstrip. A fine copy in the original, slightly chipped glassine and fine slipcase. § Copy #1290 of 1500..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Thick 8vo, 543 [1]pp. Original dark blue buckram, stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Photocopy of a review from the Bibliographical Society of America loosely inserted. Near fine. § First edition. While more..... More
Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press & London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934 8vo, vii, 324pp. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip, original unclipped light gray dust jacket stamped in black. Some uniform browning throughout, bookplate affixed to front pastedown, erratum bound in, some shelf wear. Very..... More
Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press & London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934 8vo, vii, 324pp. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip; some very slight browning to edges, lacking dust jacket. Very good to near fine. § First edition. Arranged alphabetically by author, with appendices containing further..... More
