London: S. Fores, February 24, 1786. Stiff Wraps. 25 x 39 cm. Colored engraving signed WM 1786 lower left corner. King George III and his wife Charlotte riding toward Windsor; vividly colored, bright and fresh. Road marker toward Slough is ignored as the King's cane points straight to Windsor Palace..... More
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
London: S.W. Fores, April 19, 1786. Boards. 27.5 x 37 cm. Hand colored lithograph from S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse. Caption in right corner read "Man Traps & Spring Guns. Brightly colored print, colors fresh and clean. More
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
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St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh 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 best-known members of the Mir..... More
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
London: Macmillan, 1911. First edition. leather_bound. 107, 114 pages. Folio, 41 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 99 of 250 signed by the author on the copyright page. A "true and authentic account of the birth, life, and death of the notorious adventuress, sometime Emy Lyon, but ultimately the wife of Sir William Hamilton." 30 color..... More
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
Paris: Piazza, 1925. Hardcover. 76 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 211 of 775 on Velin Pur Fill. French translation by N. Andreieff. Half-title printed in bistre and gilt, decorative title, one headpiece, four section titles, four chapter openings, all printed in colors and gilt, 20 colored lithograph..... More
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
Mexico City: Ferrocarril Mexicano, 1919. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated, approx. 80 pages. Oblong 8vo, 23.5 x 17 cm. A curious, elegantly printed souvenir of a major railroad company, Ferrocarril Mexicano displaying the works of two major Mexican notables, a poet and artist.-- Ledesma the painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist, and..... More
St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1899. Stiff Wraps. Folio, 33 x 23 cm. Four color lithographed plates, decorative initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Vasnetsov. Six accordion-folded leaves, [leporello style] with a printed page as front cover and another as rear cover. Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated work, published on..... More
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
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
St. Petersburg & Berlin: Petropolis, (1922). First edition. Original Wraps. 75 pages. 16 x 12 cm. This second collection of poetry, 943 poems, composed between 1915 and 1922, published shortly after Mandelstam moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow with his new wife Nadezhda. Here he express the inner exile of the poet..... More
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..... More
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. 178 (X1) pages. 20 x 14 cm. Notes and Introduction by H.L. Mencken. One of 1475 copies designed by W.A. Dwiggins, a signed presentation copy to Harry Richel in ink on front free endpaper by Mencken, dated 1937. More
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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
London: Kerby & Son, 1856. First edition. leather_bound. 88 pages. 17 x 13 cm. Four black and white etchings by Cruikshank with original red cloth cover decorated and lettered in gilt laid-in at rear. Bound by Worsfold, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs..... More
London: John Tilly for R. Montagu, 1736. First edition. leather_bound. 76 pages. 28.5 x 21.8 cm. Hand colored engraved frontispiece depicting Albin on a horse surrounded by insects and arachnids. 53 hand colored plates by Smith, Basire and others. The hand colored plates are stunning, particularly that of the Flea..... More
New York: Arbor House, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Rice on title page. Bright, fresh copy in unclipped dust wrapper. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 354 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Rice on title page. Bright, fresh copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Dampstain to free endpapers at rear. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 554 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Rice on title page. Bright, fresh copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Slight nick to backstrip head of dust wrapper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 570 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed on title page by Rice. Bright, fresh copy in unclipped dust wrapper. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 467 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Laid-in is a card signed by Anne Rice depicting a New Orleans home at 2524 St. Charles Avenue. Bright, fresh copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Slight bump lower front cover corner. More