New York: George W. Bricka, 1922. New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. 370 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Sixty-five color reproductions and 150 monotone illustrations: all are tipped-in, printed recto only. First edition, 1912, with this, the preferred edition containing a plethora of posters from World War I when the medium..... More
New York: Viking, 1958. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 558 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Published June, 1938, one month previous to the English edition with $2.50 dust wrapper price. Covers, clean, bright and fresh; dust wrapper nicks at head corners, and one small nick at front cover left head. Pinkie..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 29 x 23 cm. Unpaginated. All color plates are lithographs. Old fashioned entry book for entering dates of Baby firsts. This unused copy clean with no owner entries. The author, mother of actor Humphrey Bogart was an illustrator, water colorist..... More
Mount Vernon: The Golden Eagle Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 102 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 39 of 111. With A True Story of Crime in Connecticut by the Whilom Poet Jack T[racy] Winterich. Book talk with a good bit of information on Sherlock Holmes. Mostly unopened..... More
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1898. Stiff Wraps. [IX] 96 pages. 18 x 10 cm. Frontispiece, a Samuel Palmer etching to the First Eclogue reproduced in Abertype. Limited edition one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum. Bright, fresh copy, unopened. More
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1903. Stiff Wraps. [3] 91 pages. 18 x 10 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 100 on Japanese vellum. Bright, fresh copy. More
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1900. First edition. Stiff Wraps. [viii] 85 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 37 of 50 on Japanese vellum. Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of David Gray, title page printed in red and black. Clean, fresh copy, More
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1900. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 77 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 25 of 50 on Japanese vellum. Small owner book label dated 11/23/00 on front free endpaper. Title page printed in red and black, mostly unopened. More
Paris: Maeght, 1967. Fiedler, Francois. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. 28 pages of French text by Pierre Descargues. Covers and six double page color lithographs, one a large fold-out, plus eight pages of black and white illustrations. Laid-in, two issues of Derriere Le Miroir Chroniques for..... More
Paris: Maeght, 1961. Fiedler, Francois. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. 18 pages of French text by Jean Grenier, plus 15 pages of black and white of his work (Peinture). Two double page and four single page color lithographs (including the cover) accompany the Grenier text. More
Paris: Maeght, 1959. Fiedler, Francois. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 30 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. French text by Octave Nadal. Covers and six double-paged color lithographs by Francois Fiedler -- Hungarian by birth, protégé of Miro who never achieved the wide acclaim in the gallery of Aime Maeght. Fresh..... More
Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug, 1922. El Lissitsky. First edition. Hardcover. 38 pages. 33 x 33 cm. A notable review of the early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. As Berlage notes the Wright "after Sullivan, his master, has entirely freed himself from European architecture." Bound as a blockbook, LE COULTRE 4-11d;..... More
London: Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1905. First edition. Hardcover. [2], 95, [3] pages. Large folio, 49 x 36.5 cm. Limited edition copy 225 of 250. 50 plates printed recto only, each with descriptive data on a full page preceding the image. Produced and printed by the Autotpe Company. More
Boston: James S. Osgood And Company, 1877. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. 255 pages. 15 x 11 cm. Born in Maine this was Orne's first novel written when she was nineteen years old in the tradition of American literary regionalism, stories with local color in and around the southern seacoast..... More
Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Andreyev, a depressive who attempted suicide more than once, led a tortured yet prolific life. He came into his own around the turn of the century after Gorki gave him some encouragement. Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun..... More
London: Thomas Bensley & Printed for the Author & J. Hatchard, 1800, 1818, 1815 [respectively]. First edition, First edition & Second edition [respectively]. Hardcover. Paginations respectively: [2] 93 pages (frontispiece plate) * [4] 135 pages * [XVI] 143 pages (frontispiece map). The few notes Montalieu "wrote for her children,and which..... More
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, May 1927. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. 735 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Orig. green paper wrappers lettered in white bound-in. Interior contents fresh and bright. Laid-in an envelope to Mrs. W.H. Dall dated Febuary 14, 1936 from 561 Boylston St. in Boston with The Saturday Review of..... More
Rochester: Leo Hart, 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 21 x 15.5 cm. Typography by Will Ransom and the Chinese characters by Sang Ho. Limited edition, copy 921 of 950 copies printed on oriental Okawara paper, signed by Wilfred Jones. Unopened, bright and fresh copy. More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Palmer, Samuel. First edition. Hardcover. 270 pages. 17 1/2 x 12 cm. ECKEL pp.135-136. The efficacy for Dickens in this journey and vacation with his family: his encounters with Italy's colorful street life that captured his imagination and is described here. Two pages of adverts..... More
London: Printed For Thomas and George Underwood, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. ii,ii, 85 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Two page dedication to Lord Viscount Melville (First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty). Frontispiece diagram, and last page advert for the author's, "Treatise On The Gulf Stream," etc. Finlayson outlines the importance..... More
Los Angeles: The Pegacycle Lady, 1975. Pildas, Ave. First edition. Hardcover. 27 x 22 cm. Limited edition copy no. 14 of 25 sets. Signed by Pildas and the publisher. 12 original silver photographs by Pildas, each signed in ink on verso within the limitation rubber stamp. Each photograph housed in individual..... More
London: J. and R. Tonson, 1761. leather_bound. 30 x 25 cm. First Baskerville edition, engraved portrait frontispiece after Kneller, 3 engraved plates after Hayman, woodcuts of medals, with the rare 'Directions to Binder' leaf usually lacking. 13 woodcuts of coins. DIBDEN noted, "He who hath the Baskerville edition hath a...... More
Boston & Cleveland: John R. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 15 pages in text. Folio, 45.5 x 30 cm. Forty seven lithographed plates, 32 of which are chromolithographs. The superb plates were printed by Bufford's of Boston presenting simple wooden designs of country churches in..... More
Paris: Editions Vincent Freal & Cie, 1932/1950. First editions. Hardcover. Vol. I: (vi) 45 pages. 51 text illustrations and 96 gravure plates. Preface by Jean Porcher. Vol II: (x) (viii) 65 pages. 56 text illustrations, 4 colour plates and 102 gravure plates. 32.5 x 25 cm. Essentially published by the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. Extra illustrated with numerous inserted engravings. Mrs. Siddons, the sister of John Kemble, the actor was a force on the English stage in her own right, "and probably the one great tragedy queen that Britain ever produced. She first attracted attention in the..... More