St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1902. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 12 pages. 31.5 x 25.5 cm. Seven chromolithographed illustrations with tissue guards (including 2 full-page), decorative borders printed in brown, and an initial, all after Bilibin. Original chromolithographed pictorial wrappers. Bilibin was one of the... More about Peryshko Finista Yasna-Sokola. [The Feather of Finist the Falcon

St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1901. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, 8 chromolithographed illustrations (including 3 full-page), decorative borders printed in brown, all after Bilibin. Brilliant, very fresh and bright copy with no faults. Backstrip renewed. More about Tsarevna Leygushka (The Frog Princess

London: W. S. Fores, August 6, 1803. Wraps. 25.5 x 35.5 cm. Colored lithograph with Napoleon's head (Rogue Boney) on a pitchfork. The prospective invasion of England during the Napoleonic Wars readily resolved. The ladies at the bottom searching bodies of dead French soldiers say, "why this is poor finding... More about After the Invasion __The Levee en Masse_ or Britons Strike Home

London: Robert Dighton, December 6, 1792. Stiff Wraps. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Colored engraving drawn and etched by R. Dighton. Signed by Stephen Kemble in red ink (faint) lower left corner of imprint. George Stephen Kemble (21 April 1758 – 5 June 1822) was a successful English theatre manager, actor... More about Hamlet in Scotland

London: E. Jackson, 1786. Boards. 28.5 x 26.5 cm. Portrait of lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck holding "Material for the Life of Sam Johnson L.L D." and out from his right pocket, "Ogden On Prayer." In the copy below the image, Boswell makes claim to... More about The Journalist; With A View of Auckinleck _ or the Land of Stones

Petrograd: I.I. Bilibin, 1904. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 16 pages. Folio, 38.4 x 31 cm. Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg. Front cover and five full-page color lithograph illustrations. Bilibin was one of the best-known members of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group. He was the greatest illustrator of... More about Volga

Berlin & Gdansk: Slovo, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. 31 x 25 cm. Illustrated with lithographs by B. D. Grigoriev. Lithographed title, 19 full-page lithographs, illustrations in text. Grigoriev , a brilliant social cartoonist also exhibited with Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. Some of his most delightful pictures... More about Detskii Ostrov (Children's Island

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. A production of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. 97 full-page photographs with accompanying text. Abbott began her education at Ohio State University before moving to New York to study sculpture... More about Changing New York; Text by Elizabeth McCausland

London: Macmillan, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 269 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Large paper copy, wood engraved frontispiece and title page, ten wood engraved plates, numerous wood engraved head and tail pieces and initials. GORDON N. RAY 246. "It is perhaps the best of Crane's more ambitious works. The book... More about Household Stories From The Collection Of The Bros: Grimm; Translated From The German By Lucy...

Fyfield: Oak Tree Press, 2006. Hardcover. 26 x 20 cm. Deluxe edition comprising eight volumes. The first five titles with an additional plate signed and numbered by the artist: Coetzee, J.M. "Life and Times of Michael K," illustrated in black and white lithograph by South African artist Colbert Mashile. Roman... More about Volumes 1-8

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 491 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Frontispiece, additional pictorial title and fold out map (repaired at fold) of Paraguay. According to Burton's introduction he made two visits to the war zone, in 1868 and the following year. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay were pitted... More about Letters From The Battle-Fields Of Paraguay

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. 221 pages. 27 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 168 of 1500 signed by Grosz. Selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman, illustrated with water color and line drawings by Grosz. NEWMAN & WICHE 67. Very fresh bright copy, only flaw -- a few spine letters blurred. More about The Voices Of The City and Other Stories

New York: Phaedra, 1967. First Russian Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The translation was the only one prepared by Nabokov himself and includes a postscript that appears only in this edition. The literary sensation of Lolita The publication of Lolita -- in which the author invented the... More about Lolita [First Edition in Russian