Wilde And The Nineties An Essay And An Exhibition
Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1966. First edition. Paperback. 65 pages. 23 1/2 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Edited by Charles Ryskamp. More
Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1966. First edition. Paperback. 65 pages. 23 1/2 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Edited by Charles Ryskamp. More
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1805. First American edition. leather_bound. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Scattered foxing, ownership signature dated 1807 and pencil notations on back free endpaper and pastedown dated 1806. Nicks to corners and backstrip head and foot. More
Paris: Editions De La Galleria Carpenter, 1945. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpinned. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited editions copy 6 of 43 sur velin pur chiffon du Marais (of a total edition of 991). In addition to the seven gauchos with text there are five additional by Jean Hugo without..... More
Frankfort, Ky: Whipporwill Press, 1983. Hardcover. 13 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 32 of 125 in Garamond type, signed by j. Hill Hamon. More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Printed for Random House. Hardcover. 86 pages. 29 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 250 printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper, title and initials designed by Anna Simons. Title page printed in red and black as are initial letters. Interior contents very fresh..... More
Lunenburg: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 300 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Introduction by Roderick Stinehour. Illustrated in color and black and white. Index of Titles. Index of Names. Limited edition, copy 49 of 1200. More
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. 221 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 34 of 360 signed by Faulkner, printed on W. and A. all rag paper. A collection of short stories -- Doctor Martino, Fox Hunt, The Hound, Death Drag, There Was..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 383 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Bright, very clean copy with seven short stories including, "The Bear." PETERSON A21d. Price clipped dust wrapper. More
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 247 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. $3.00 price on front cover flap, dust wrapper designed by McKnight Kauffer. PETERSON A24b. Overall, a very bright, fresh copy. His first novel published since "The Hamlet" in 1940. More
New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 305 pages. 20.4 x 14 cm. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser. Unclipped dust wrapper with $4.95 price. Faulkner turns the corner to comedy with a heroic journey from Jefferson, Mississippi to Memphis. A bright, fresh almost as new copy. More
Paris: Jacques Estienne, 1717. leather_bound. 526 pages. 16 x 9.5 cm. Twenty-six engraved plates mostly after Giffart, large folding map, engraved head piece. A biting attack on absolute monarchy, and one of the most popular works of the century. BRUNET Vol. II, pp. 1212-1213 gives this edition praise: "De Toutes..... More
Berkeley: Univ.of California Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Appendix includes a Chronology of the Life and Major Writings of Clemens Brentano. Selected Bibliography. Index. Considered to be one the most "musical" of all German Romantic poets, this study probes the nature of his "melody" and "tonality." More
New York: Macmillan, 1931. Lewis, Allen. First edition. Hardcover. 213 pages. 21 1/2 x 18 cm. Wood engravings by Allen Lewis. More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Tegetmeier, Denis. Hardcover. 175 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 365 of 500. Six engravings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier. The text followed is that of the edition of 1743. Leather bookplate of Micheline & Mervyn Parkhouse printed in gilt, and..... More
London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. leather_bound. 83 pages. 19 x 12 cm. First edition of Fielding's first play and second publication. Love in Several Masques was quite the triumph for the 20-year-old Fielding. It opened on February 16, 1728, in Drury Lane, with Colley Cibber and Mrs. Oldfield in..... More
London: A. Millar, 1743. First edition. leather_bound. 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp.. 26-27. "The first..... More
New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1902. Hardcover. 22 x 14,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 307 of 1000 of the Edition De Luxe. Interior contents fresh and clean and perhaps never read. Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden, a descendent of the Harriet Beecher Stow family. Chips and scuffs to spine paper..... More
London: W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne et al, 1784. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces in each volume by Colyer, a well-known engraver working in London during the later 18th and early 19th centuries who at one time was official engraver of the queen, plus additional..... More
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 148 pages. 2456 entries. Thirty-eight languages are covered, with virtually complete coverage in English and Russian. Index of Names. The most complete bibliography of Solzhenitsyn published. More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. Hardcover. More
London: George G. Harrap, 1930. Pogany, Willy. Hardcover. 172 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. 12 tipped-in full page color plates and 46 mounted gilt decorated against a black background with gold borders. Partly unopened. Bright, fresh copy. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1913). Rene Bull. leather_bound. 75 pages printed recto only. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Hand bound by Joseph E. Zuffant Jr.,for The Monastery Hill Bindery with his label mounted to inside front free endpaper. Twenty four tipped in color plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrations after Rene..... More
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Dulac, Edmund. Hardcover. Approx. 124 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. The American Limited edition, copy 40 of 200 with book label of Paul Elder, San Francisco back cover free endpaper (recto). Printed from the second edition. Twenty mounted color plates within decorative..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1960. Baskin, Leonard. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 5 leaves. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300, a keepsake printed by Esther & Leonard Baskin & Richard Warren. The translation is by Francis Steegmuller. A letter from Gustave Flaubert to Maxime du Camp dated June 19..... More