1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More
2020. NY: Grolier Club, 2020. 4to, color frontispiece and full-page color illustrations for every entry. Beige wrappers, upper cover printed in black and red. New. § A fascinating catalogue, each entry show a famous book by a famous author from Maya Angelou to Virginia Woolf and a children's book by..... More
1949. Cleveland: Hyacinth Press, 1949. Slim 8vo, 11 pp., with a frontispiece and 8 plates (7 mounted). Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine, head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies..... More
1821. London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol, Shakespeare Press, And Sold By Payne And Foss, Longman, Hurst And Co..., 1821. 3 vols., royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxv, [3 leaves], 462, lxxix, [1] errata; 2 p.l., 555; 2 p.l., 622, lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates (incl. portraits;..... More
1842. London: Bohn, 1842. Tall thick 8vo, (2), [i-vii], vii-xiv, 618, 63, (1), xxxiii pp. Full pebbled brown morocco with gilt fillet borders, gilt turn-ins, gilt-panelled backstrip, raised bands, gilt top, rebacked retaining original backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown of Francis Frederick Fox and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First combined edition..... More
1838. London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2–436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437–39) 440–1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels..... More
1936. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, 29 pp. Text printed within red borders; marginal notes and illustrations printed in blue. Quarter red cloth and blue paper-covered boards. Board corners lightly worn, text unmarked; a very good copy. § A chapter taken from Jackson's longer work The Anatomy of..... More
1914. London: John Lane, 1914. Folio, 112 pp. Quarter vellum, with gilt decoration and lettering, grey paper boards somewhat stained and worn, endpapers toned, contents very good. Bookplate of Cecil E. Byas; gift inscription on the half title. § No. 13 of 320 copies. An extremely handsome production recording the..... More
1989. University of California, Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1989. 8vo, 88 pp. Original printed wrappers, backstrip slightly rubbed, name in pencil on flyleaf, very good. § Number 37 in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Printed by the..... More
2002. NY: Grolier Club, 2002. Sq. 12mo, 47pp. stapled into violet wrappers. Fine. § 1500 copies printed by the Ascensius Press. Unillustrated; useful for the excellent biographical and bibliographical notes. More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
2015. 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..... More
1644. Paris: Rolet le Duc, 1644. Two books in one: 8vo, 4 leaves, 164 pp; 1 leaf, [Extraict du Privilege du Roy]; 10 leaves, 717, 71 [Appendix, Table] pp. Contemporary limp vellum with hand lettered label on backstrip. Very early illegible ownership inscription on the rear pastedown. Bookplate of A.R.A...... More
1933. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. 8vo, 235 pp., limited to 1351 copies, this copy no 403, with full color frontispiece and 8 black and white illustrations. Folding facsimile of Lamb's "Dream Children" inserted into pocket on the rear pastedown. Cloth backed spine lettered in dark blue, blue boards..... More
1738. London: Printed for T. Osborne..., 1738. 8vo, [ii], vii [xii, contents], 402 pp. Contemporary calf, backstrip consolidated and upper hinge with slight splitting but quite firm, a good sound copy. § First edition of the first Library Manual in English and one of the earliest (if not the earliest)..... More
1936. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, xiv, 55 pp. Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, decorated paper boards. Paper rubbed and worn at foot of boards, a few age spot to the endpapers; very good. § Preface by Francis de Miomandre. "This manuscript was originally written by..... More
1812. London: W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1812. 8vo, 17, [3], [iv], 284 (i.e. 283)pp. Original blue wrappers bound into later quarter parchment and gray boards. A few pencil notes of prices and a summary of some prices in the same hand at the back, ink signature on..... More
1813. London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813. 8vo, [i-iii], (1), [1]2-119, (1) pp., 2906 lots. Half red calf and marbled boards, backstrip with gilt rules and title, uncut. Cover is rubbed, edges and corners bumped and chipped, faint foxing, contemporary manuscript annotations in ink throughout, tape repair to p. 115; very..... More
1818. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1818. 8vo, xii, 190, (1) pp. complete with addenda and publisher's catalogue on terminal leaf. An untrimmed copy in a sympathetic modern binding of half calf with backstrip lettered in gilt and brown cloth sides. Some staining and what even may be..... More
1834. London, England: John Wilson, October 1834. Folio, 9 3/4"" x 6 3/4 inches, 16 pp. Thread binding, some toning. § A catalogue of 16 pages and almost 800 books sold by John Wilson, in what was most likely his going out of business sale. On the first page of..... More
