Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. 8vo, 279 pp. 8 color plates. Navy cloth with illustrated plate to upper board, gilt decoration and lettering to backstrip. A very good copy with light rubbing to the board corners. § Riverside Bookshelf series. First published in 1870, Aldrich's semi-autobiographical novel..... More
California, U.S.A., 2014. 20 x 19.5 inches. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. Loosely mounted to illustration board. Verso has a label with the artists contact information. Fine condition. § Yukimi Sasago Annand is a calligrapher and text artist living and working in Southern California. Annand studied communication design and..... More
London: J. Major, 1836. 2 vols., royal 8vo. (i-v), vi-xxxii, (4),(1) 2- 556 pp.; (2), 557-982 pp.+ 44 pp. index. 10 plates. Later polished brown calf, gilt backstrips, red and green labels, gilt edges, bookplates of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition, the regular edition which was printed in an edition..... More
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San Francisco: 2003. 15 x 11 ins. Written in blue ink on handmade paper heightened with watercolor. Framed and glazed. Fine condition. § A beautiful calligraphic artwork of one of the most famous love poems in English, beginning “My true love hath my heart and I have his”. Georgianna Greenwood..... More
San Francisco: 2016. 13 x 9 ins. Original calligraphic manuscript in blue and green heightened with gold. Signed and dated. Fine condition. § Original calligraphic presentation of Blake’s aphorism “He who Sees the Infinite in all Things sees God,” taken from There is No Natural Religion. Thomas Ingmire (San Francisco)..... More
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2000. 10 x 15.25 inches. Chinese ink, gold leaf on gesso, and watercolor on Sanders 90 lbs. C.P.. Signed and dated on lower front in pencil. 2 labels taped to verso, one with artist’s contact information, and another card with a printed, illustrated portrait of the artist..... More
The Grolier Club, 2015. 4to (11 x 8.25 inches), 318 [1] pp. numerous color illustrations. Hightower and Koch Antiquarian types. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Stiff paper wraps, illustrated in full color on upper cover. New. § Trade edition. Detailed descriptions of one hundred famous children’s books and related..... More
Ireland, [no date, c.1994]. 13 x 19.75 inches. Black, blue, metallic inks, and colored pencil on paper. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower right. The verso has the artist's name written in pencil at top edge of the mat, and a piece of kraft colored note paper with..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. 8vo, x, (2), 103 pp. with frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Shepard. Original red cloth, boards stamped and panelled in gilt, backstrip gilt lettered, top edge gilt, in the original illustrated dust jacket. Cloth bright, upper tip of lower board bumped, endpapers clean, lightly-penciled bookseller..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Large 4to, xix, 549 pp. with 24 color plates, 12 other plates and 66 illustrations, the plate at 254 is badly offset from the text as always (in every copy we’ve seen or read about). Full crushed blue morocco extra, covers gilt, backstrip..... More
London: Enitharmon Press, 1977. Slim 8vo, 67 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket printed in red and blue. A very good copy with occasional foxing and a hint of fading to the spine of the dust-jacket. § First edition, a pleasing copy of this collection of poems. Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), was a...... More
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. 8vo, xxxi, 380, (1, ad.)pp. Frontispiece portrait of DGR from a photograph in Cheyne Walk. Full crushed blue morocco extra, backstrip richly gilt, raised bands, gilt top; backstrip aged to butterscotch brown. A lovely binding by C & C McLeish signed in the back. §..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. 4to, (24) chromolithographed pages, many heightened with gold. Contemporary gift binding of green morocco panelled with blind and gilt rolls, gilt turn-ins, green floral endpapers. Boards professionally rehinged, one corner worn, light age-toning. Very good. § Second impression. Designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1926. 8vo, lxxxiv, 454, (14) pp. Full polished green calf gilt by Riviere and Son, backstrip with red leather labels and fish ornaments, gilt turn-ins, block printed endpapers, all edges gilt. Backstrip and upper board faded, joints lightly rubbed, internally fine. § An..... More
Goldkronach, Germany, 2013. 11.75 x 11.75 inches. Blue and black inked background, with red and white inked calligraphy in both English and German on paper. The piece is partially affixed to a hinged, windowed mat. Fine condition. § A work of bilingual calligraphy by German calligrapher Andrea Wunderlich, presenting a...... More
