NY: LimitedEditions Club, 1945. Hardcover. 252 pp. 8vo, color illustrations by Gorndon Ross. Prefactory notes by William Makepeace Thackeray.Limited edition, copy 214 of 1500, and signed by Ross. NEWMAN & WICHE 172. More about The Sir Roger Coverley Papers
London: George Routledge, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 252, 277, 290 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This is Ainsworth's last novel. He was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. Popular in his lifetime, his novels sold in large numbers. he is described by S.M. Ellis as one of the most... More about Stanley Brereton
London: William Heinemann, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, copy 197 of 275 signed by the author. Orig. marbled boards and cloth. Near fine. More about At All Costs
Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Libraries, 1973. First edition. Paperback. 28 pages. 23 x 15 cm. One of 450 copies. Ex-Library. More about Richard Aldington 1892-1962 A Catalogue of The Frank G. Harrington Collection of Richard...
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Hadaway, W.S. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 20 x 11.5 cm. Text printed recto only with decorations by W. S. Hadaway and printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Bookplate of "Collection Of Merrymount Press Books Made By Max Farrand." Very fresh, bright copy with... More about Father Jerome's Beautiful Book
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. Rogers, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Printed by the Riverside Press with typography by Bruce Rogers. Owner inscriptions and bookplate. ROGERS 87. WARDE 41. More about Ponkapog Papers
Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 18 x 12 cm. This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Ad leaf here contains two titles in the "Ragged Dick Series," plus three in "Campaign Series."... More about Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks
Paris: Editions Fournier, 1946. Hallo, Charles. Paperback. 174 pages. 22 1/2 x 17. Original colored wood engravings by Charles Hallo. Limited edition, copy 561 of 900. Preface by Sacha Guitry. Fresh, bright copy. More about La Vie Drole
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Rogers, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. Seven leaves printed recto only. Limited edition, one of 325 copies. Each page with decorative red border. Designed by Bruce Rogers. WARDE 177. Nicks to backstrip extremities,wear to joints. More about Christmas Epithalamium
Paris: Chez Claude Barbin, 1683. First edition. leather_bound. 165 pages [*2, A8-L8]. 18 x 12 cm. Twenty-seven etched plates, including 3 part title plates, each part containing eight tales of the "Happy, Deceived, Unfortunate Lovers"; a precursor to later romantic novels. This copy bound sequentially -- Trompez, Malheureux, Heureux. Includes... More about Les Amans Heureux, Trompez, Malheureux
Paris: Gallimard, 1929. Tanguy, Yves. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 122 pages. 23.4 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 138 of 150 on verge de arches paper, of a total edition of 240. Aragon, a founding member of Surrealism and noted communist intellectual. Two surrealist, tipped-in black and white lithographs by... More about La grande Gaite Avec 2 dessins D'Yves Tanguy
New York: The Thisle Press, 1959. Hardcover. 418 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 409 of 1500 signed by Marian Parry. Pen and ink drawings by Marian Parry in colors and black and white. With an Introduction by Dudley Fitts. Laid-in the Monthly Letter of the LEC, and... More about The Birds
Lunenburg: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. 360 pp. 4to, illustrated with line engraved portraits by Leonard Baskin, Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, Introduction by Horace M. Kallen. Limited edition copy 866 of 1500 signed Baskin. NEWMAN & WICHE 355. Bright, very crisp copy, backstrip slightly darkened. More about Politics & Poetics
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 154 pages. 19 x 13 cm. An early effort from the Press, the 6th publication. Some spotting of endpapers. Limited edition, one of 1200. There was a second edition the following year of 1500 copies. CHANTICLEER 6. More about The Puppet Show
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1903. First edition. Paperback. 62 pages. 12mo, limited edition one of 425 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Bright, clean copy. More about Eugenie De Guerin
Chipping Camden, London & New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First American edition. leather_bound. 387 pages. Folio, 36 x 28.5 cm. One of a small number of copies printed on vellum for the American market, The Trinity Edition with a hand illuminated presentation leaf to Anna L. Wilson tipped-in. With... More about The Book Of Common Prayer, And Administration Of The Sacraments & Other Rites &...
NY: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. More about Nones
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. 62 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 330 of 1500, signed by John Austen. Wood-engravings by John Austen. Translated from the Greek by William James Hickie. With an Introduction by Gilbert Seldes. Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen in Haarlem, Holland. NEWMAN & WICHE 85. More about The Frogs by Aristophanes
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. Austen, John. 142 pages. 332 x 26 cm. Twelve color, full-page lithographs by John Austen, as well as a host of black and white illustrations in the text. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. Limited edition, copy 240 of 500 signed by John Austen. Lovely... More about Manon Lescaut from the French of L'Abbe Prevost
Newton, PA: Bird and Bull Press, 1994. Schanilec, Gaylord. Hardcover. 100 pages. 25 1/2 x 20 cm. Limited edition copy 92 of 150 on Arches mouldmade paper with ten tipped-in wood-engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. In a separate gray board portfolio are an additional framed and titled set of the ten... More about Five Short Stories: The State of Grace, The Dwarf, Rue De L'Evangile, Legend of Poldevia, The...
London: Cresset Press, 1928. Hardcover. 198 pages. Folio, 39.5 x 26. Limited edition, copy 17 of 250 on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Printed in red and black with wide text margins. Titles and initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, book-label... More about The Essayes Or Counsels Civill And Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban
Np: Aldergate Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 59 pages. 25 1/2 x 20 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 with an original etching by Peggy Bacon, with lettered tissue guard, "The Widow and the Grass Widow," plus drawing in the text by the author. Firm, clean copy, owner inscription of Paul Johnson, publisher and typographer. More about Funerealities
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Hardcover. 77 pages. 24 X 16 cm. Sketch by Jane Bissell and color illustrations by Arvilla Parker. Reprinted from the edition of 1856. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, with original Grabhorn announcement laid-in. Free endpapers toned. GRABHORN 212. More about The Duke of Sacramento A Comedy in Four Acts
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 51 pp. Doctoral Dissertations Written Under the Direction of Hyder Edward Rollins. Topical Index. A tribute to Rollins, for nearly twenty years, Gurney Professor of English, Harvard University. Lists all his publications, ranging from the Elizabethans to Keats. More about Hyder Edward Rolins A Bibliography
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1922. Original Wraps. 4to, with brilliant color illustrations by J. Hamman. Limited edition, copy 450 of 590 on velin de cuve paper. Text in French. Orig. illustrated wrappers flaked at backstrip extremities. Slight embrowning at front cover head. Very good. More about Le Peche Veniel Conte Drolatique