London: Pickering & Co., 1886. Small slim 4to, printed blue upper wrapper serving as the title-page, [12] leaves with illustrations printed lithographically in reddish-brown highlighted in black, of which 3 are colored. Early full brown morocco binding by Riviere, dark green glazed endpapers, backstrip lettered in gilt, lower cover rehinged..... More

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. 8vo, xxiv, 270, ii (publisher’s booklist)pp., with Blake’s engraved frontispiece of Sir Joshua Reynolds design “The Graphic Muse.” Original blue-grey boards, spine slightly darkened and worn at edges. § First edition, a very scarce book, especially in boards. With the bookplates of Gilbert Redgrave and George..... More

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 8vo. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers, without the illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; moderate spotting to top text block edge and a small, faint stain on the lower wrapper. § First edition, first printing with original price "Francs..... More

July 1990 and March 1993. Two one-page letters in the original airmail envelopes. The first typewritten and hand signed with extensive manuscript postscript, the second written in ink. Letters creased as expected; the stamp has been clipped from one of the two envelopes; very good. § Two letters written by..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo, (iv), 410 pp. Original brown embossed cloth, brown coated endpapers. Rebacked, cloth a little rubbed, but sound and square; name in pencil on front free endpaper. 2 pp. A.L.S. signed "O W Holmes," Boston, December 5, 1880, and typewritten transcription tipped in. Letter with..... More

London: May, 1965. Slim 4to, (46)pp. unpaginated. Stapled blue wrappers lettered in white. Small stain (intentional?) on upper cover. § First edition, writers forum poets number 11. Issued from 262 Randolph Avenue London W9 (now a rather fashionable area of Maida Vale next to St. John's Wood), these slim volumes..... More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches), 329 pp. over 200 full-color illustrations. Hand-numbered and signed by the author. Red cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine, with decorative endpapers photo-reproduced from hand-painted paper by Eric Carle. § From the regular edition..... 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

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. 2 vols. 8vo, 188, 223pp. Original green printed wrappers, backstrips slightly worn, some edge-wear to the joints, and with a small portion of the lower left corner of the upper wrapper of vol.1 sympathetically repaired. New quarter green morocco clamshell box lettered in gilt. A...... More

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957. 8vo, 172 pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge. § Number 33 in the Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 1.200" above "Francs 900" blacked out on lower cover. Iris..... More

NY: Grolier Club, 2012. 8vo, 43 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Dark green wrappers. § A survey of the literature on hearing in all its aspects. More

Lyon: Guillaume Roville, 1581. 2 vols. in one, thick 8vo, 339, 54 index; title-page, 154, [10 index]pp. Title-page with the printer’s device, verso arms of Du Choul, 602 figures of which 4 are full-page, in the first part and 37 full-page illustrations in the second. Woodcuts by Pierre Eckirsch also..... More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903. 8vo, (1, ad), [x], 327 pp. Original green cloth, illustrated in green, pink, white and gray. Binding slightly faded, tips and backstrip ends lightly worn, upper hinge strengthened, closed tears in three leaves. Enclosed in a modern, custom box. § First..... More