London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 299, 370 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Profusion of tinted plates by Thackeray. Front covers and spines of original edition bound-in. As a contributor to Punch Thackeray often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. Thackeray’s work is critical... More about Comic Tales And Sketches
Paris: Pierre Larrive, 1949. 229 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 89 (total edition of 422) on Chiffon De Bellegrave with an extra suite of 23 color lithographs. This novella written just prior to the French Revolution does not contain the obscenity notable in his later works. Pristine... More about Justine Ou Les Infortunes De La Vertu; Gravures Sur Pierre En Couleurs De Schem
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Marcus Stone. First edition. Hardcover. 320 & 309 PAGES. 22.5 X 15 cm. 40 engraved plates, illustrated by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue, but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat, and his illnesses... More about Our Mutual Friend
Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1963. Erni, Hans. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 23 pages in text. 68 illustrations, three in color, all printed recto only. Limited edition, copy 25 of 50 with an original numbered etching 25/50 signed by Erni laid-in. Text translated from the German by P. Lafue. More about Peintures En Relief De Hans Erni by Walter Ruegg
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 446 pages. 27 x 20.5 cm. Large Paper edition, copy 164 of 315. Frontispiece, a color full page lithograph of T.E. Lawrence by Eric Kennington, plus 18 additional full page illustrations, some are color lithographs. Folding map [Sudan Sketch Map with original glassine... More about Revolt In The Desert
Rochester: Leo Hart, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 81 pages. 27.5 x 21. Limited edition copy 60 of 1250 signed by Kent with twenty-one black and white and sepia wood engravings with additional extra suite of 21 plates housed in plain period custom box. The latter were originally an accompaniment to... More about Venus And Adonis by William Shakespeare
Paris: Aux Bureaux Du Journal Amusant Des Modes Parisiennes de la toilettte de Paris et du Petit journal pour rire, 1867. Wraps. 24 pages. 24 x 33 cm. Images printed recto only, presenting mythological feminine dress, Gallic-Roman and ending with 1830 Restoration attire. There are twenty full page hand colored... More about Les Filles d'Eve. Album de Travestissements Plus ou Moins Historiques
Paris: Imp. Lemercier, ca 1855. Hardcover. 24 leaves. 12 x 20 cm. 24 captioned concertina- bound black and white lithographs of Parisian street scenes, the prominent boulvards of Paris in leperello style, the entire publication extending 182 inches, the first depiction is the Boulevart De La Madeleine -- others include... More about Les Boulevarts de Paris
Hamburg: Henricus Kunraht, 1672. Second edition. Hardcover. 20.5 x 16.8 cm. *4 **2; A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 Gg2. As in other copies of the second edition, p.42 reads 24, and p.207 reads 213. Woodcut printer's device, Roman, italic and Hebrew type. Spinoza was excommunicated in 1656, and thereafter adopted the the Latin... More about Tractatus theologico-politicus
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1909. Hardcover. 21.5 x 16 cm. Autograph Edition, copy 96 of 750, signed by Mary A. Ward in Volume I. The author, born to a prominent Australian family removed to England when she was five years of age, her father was Tom Arnold (English Professor)... More about The Writings
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1888-1894. Hardcover. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Large Paper Edition, copy 125 of 400, containing the Writings (7 volumes), and Samuel T. Pickard's, Life and Letters (2 volumes) with the bookplates of C.L. Huntley. Whittier was perhaps best known for his Anti-Slavery position early in the... More about Writings
Worcester: J. Grout, Jr., Nd. Wraps. 24 pages. 14 x 9 cm. Illustrated with ten wood engravings, most are full page. Interior contents clean, nick to front cover margin. More about Parley's Poetical Present
London: John Murray, 1825. First English Edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 21.5 x 13 cm. With half title, the unsigned Preface is by Benjamin Disreali, one of his first appearances in print. Four pages of adverts at rear dated Oct. 20, 1825. Bookplate on free front endpaper. Bound by Root &... More about The Life Of Paul Jones, From Original Documents
New York: Higgins & Kellogg, Nd. Wraps. 24 pages. 15 x 10 cm. Fourth Series, No. 12. Illustrated with wood engravings. First chapter on the Mohawk Chief Kiodago And His Christian Wife. Text generally clean. More about Romance Of Indian History; Or,Thrilling Tales In The Early Settlement of America
Zurich: Drucke von Josef Stocker, 1984. Erni, Hans. leather_bound. 56 pages. Folio, 51 x 41 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 150 with four original prints each signed by Erni housed in a rear pocket. Text in French and German with numerous black and white lithograph drawings by Hans Erni... More about Le Bestiare Spirituel Das Geistliche Tierbuch; Kompositionen und Illustrationen von Hans Erni
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1997. Bresson, Henri-Cartier. Hardcover. 17 leaves Folio, 37.5 x 36 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 copies singed in pencil by Henri-Cartier Bresson, designed, set in Monotype Walbaum and printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The four photogravures by Bresson printed by Jon Goodman. Text... More about Three Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal; Photographs By Henri-Cartier Bresson
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Neel, Alice. Hardcover. 32 pages. 39 x 28 cm. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies, this copy not numbered, signed by Raphael Soyer in pencil. Designed by Ben Shiff, printed at the Anthoesen Press with mould-made paper by The Cartiere Enrico Magnani. With the... More about The Fall Of the House of Usher; Illustrated By Alice Neel
London: John Murray, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. 14 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. With half title and one page advertisement. With Francis Lewis Randolph's bookplate and shelf label. "Very rare, in any condition -- the half-title is usually lacking." RANDOLPH p.40.. "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in... More about Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1973. Sendak, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy on free front endpaper in blue ink, "To David Greeve - Maurice Sendak Jan. 74." A tale from the Brothers Grimm illustrated with color plates on each page. More about King Grisly-Beard; Translated by Edgar Taylor
New York: Harper & Row, 1951. Sendak, Maurice. Hardcover. 182 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Signed presentation copy in blue ink: "To The Eddy Coillection Maurice Sendak." Black and white illustrations, the story and adventures of two French girls on a farm with talking animals. More about The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Ayme; Translated From The French By Norman Denny
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. Sendak, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 186 pages. 24 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. The adventures of Sharp-Ears, the enchanting heroine of the author's classic Czech novel of human and animal relationships deftly poised between poetry and farce. Decorated color... More about The Cunning Little Vixen by Rudolf Tesnohlidek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Sendak, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 332 pages. 18 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Maurice Sendak. Translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Segal and Sendak chose twenty seven of 210 stories. Signed presentation copy on... More about The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak
Np: Np, ca 1521. Van Leyden, Lucas. 11.5 x 7.5 cm. One copper engraved plate. BARTSCH B55. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as a very accomplished engraver. Born in 1494, the engravings herein are early efforts by a highly... More about Christ in Limbo
Np: Np, ca 1524. Van Leyden, Lucas. 12 x 7.5 cm. One copper engraved plate. BARTSCH B13. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as a very accomplished engraver. Born in 1494, the engravings herein are early efforts by a highly... More about Cain Killing Abel
Paris: Society Des Cent-Une, 1938. Derain, Andre. First edition thus. Hardcover. 311 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 101 Roman numbered copies on Verge de Maillol of a total edition of 135. This named copy for Madame Maurice Muret printed on limitation page. Preface by Marcel... More about Heroides; Translated by Marcel Prevost