Lady Chatterley's Lover
Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. Pirated edition. Hardcover. 365 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 1000. Title printed in red and black, clean, very fresh copy, wide text margins. More
Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. Pirated edition. Hardcover. 365 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 1000. Title printed in red and black, clean, very fresh copy, wide text margins. More
London: Punch Office, 1876. First edition. leather_bound. 192 pages. 12 x 9 cm. Frontispiece, a large, color lithograph fold-out entitled "The Modern Babylonian Marriage Mart, plus full color title. Profusely illustrated with wood-cuts in the text. Note(s): Single issue of an annual which was published 1844-1881 (NUC pre-56 NP0646834) --..... More
London: S.W. Fores, 1802. Stiff Wraps. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with publisher note at bottom right, "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido, arms raised, rails, "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts, the one for..... More
London: Townsend, ca 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 15. x 12.5 cm. Lacks title. 184 hand colored plates numbered 493-676 with numerous examples of fashion styles per plate. There is also one dress pattern plate; plates interleaved with descriptive text. The style had a fitted bodice just below the bust..... More
Buenos Aires: Govone, 1947. 137 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 250 of a total edition of 311. Full page black and white illustrations by Lydis. Lydis was known for her lithographic depiction's celebrating lesbian and bisexual relationships. She was influenced greatly by Foujita whom she..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Illustrated by Edy Legrand. Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie; with an Introduction by Edmond Jaloux. NEWMAN & WICHE 226. Marbled boards and white, quarter calf with brown leather spine label. Backstrip darkened, spine label nicked at foot. More
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush. More
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 35 x 23.5 cm. Designed by John Cheim. Twenty color and one black and white illustration. Exhibition information, biography and bibliography. More
London: Macmillan And Co, 1910. leather_bound. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. One hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Sixteen Coloured plates from Drawings by Alfred Rawlings. Sixteen mounted color plates, including frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guards and 100 black and white text text illustrations (12 full page). In an..... More
London: J. Dodsley, Mess. Baker and Leigh, J. Walter, T. Cadell and J. Wilkie, 1769. First edition. leather_bound. 288 pages. 21 x 13.2 cm. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Mordant. In London her home on Hill Street had become the premiere salon in London. Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund..... More
New York: John F. Scovill, 1862. Hardcover. 208 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. One preliminary leaf, [9] - 208. Frontispiece, plates, hand colored botanical engraved plates. additional steel engraved and woodcut text illustrations. Contains music, fiction, poetry and religious content. Backstrip an early restoration, ornately decorated covers in gilt floral..... More
Np: 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career..... More
Paris: Chez Janet, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 13.5 x 8.5 cm. 11 engraved color fashion plates, plus color title page. Eight page events calendar for the year 1818 at rear. Interior contents generally clean. Where to go and what to see in France for the year. Text in..... More
1843: E.H. Butler, Philadelphia. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 16 x 11 cm. Half title, frontispiece and host of full page black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Scattered, intermittent foxing, mostly marginal, yellow endpapers. Covers and spine decorated in gilt and blind with spine in gilt arabesques..... More
NY: Independent Curators, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 63 pages. 28 x 23 cm. Illustrated in black and white. Biographical references. More
Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrations by Pierre Vidal, 20 eaux-fortes hors texte with tissue guards. Also, a plethora of tipped-in process head and tail pieces, vignettes, and hand-colored plates. Original illustrated wrappers in Art Nouveau style by Leon Rudnicki bound-in..... More
Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 13 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 235 signed by Welty. This work first appeared in a slightly different form in the November 1941 issue of "Junior League Magazine." Two illustrations. Welty describes how her early years reading..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 19.5 x 12 cm. Clever spoof "Widow. Noun. Feminine at times. Singular Always." Bright, clean copy, interior illustrated and decorated in black and red. Bookplate. More
London: Thomas Tegg, August 6th 1807. Woodward, William. Wraps. 24 x 34 cm. Hand colored etching. Fellow far left says, "Why Jack you terrible Turk I could not believe it if I had not seen it -- Five Wives at once -- why you will get yourself into a pretty..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First American edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Backstrip nicked head and foot. Paper spine label. Interior contents clean, tiny owner signature front free endpaper. More