London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- two fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952. xx,399,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- three fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Small quarto. Gilt red cloth. Plates, facsimiles and folding plates. Hint of tanning from binding at endsheet gutters, else fine in glassine wrapper, and slightly dust toned slipcase. First edition. One of 650 copies printed. A landmark exhibition, being a selected survey of radical, dissident.....
Paris: Chez Jules Renouard, 1834. xvi,582,[6],lxviii,[4]pp. Large, thick octavo. Original drab wrappers, printed spine label, edges untrimmed. Two portraits. Three plates (one folding) and five folding facsimiles. Upper wrapper detached, with chipping along joints, single closed crack in spine, wrappers a bit darkened, offset from first portrait to title, otherwise.....
New York: Scribner, 1895. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial onlay, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. Cloth a bit sunned, some flecking to cloth sizing at edges, crown and toe of spine frayed; internally very good. First edition. Frontis and cover illustrations by Will Bradley. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total.....
[San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985]. Small folio. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. Tipped-in specimen leaves. Fine. First enlarged edition, being a faithful reproduction of the original Allen Press bibliography, with additional descriptions of books published after the bibliography's appearance, and checklists of ephemeral printings compiled by Steven Corey. Includes.....
[San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985]. Small folio. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. Tipped-in specimen leaves. Fine. First enlarged edition, being a faithful reproduction of the original Allen Press bibliography, with additional descriptions of books published after the bibliography's appearance, and checklists of ephemeral printings compiled by Steven Corey. Includes.....
New York: Van Nostrand... [ nd]. Quarto. Cloth. Facsimile edition, printed photo-offset, of the 1969 original. Edges a trace dust marked, else very nice in dust jacket with short inner edge mend.
New York: Van Nostrand... [ nd]. Quarto. Cloth. Facsimile edition, printed photo-offset, of the 1969 original. Near fine in very good, somewhat sunned and smudged dust jacket.
[Np: Privately Printed, no earlier than 2005]. Narrow small quarto. Pictorial wrapper. Frontis and photographs (some color). Foreword by Terry Belanger. First edition. Fine.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. xiii,[1],[4]-117pp. Small octavo. Gilt decorated stiff card over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and 26 plates (many in color). Large bookplate of Judge John Wesley Warrington, slight dusting along top edge, minute tear at toe of lower wrapper spine fold, otherwise very.....
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1921. 68,[2]pp. plus four plates. Decorated house-style printed wrapper. Illustrations and facsimiles. Slight tanning to wrapper and small nick to spine, otherwise unusually nice. Two sessions, consisting of 441 lots, to be sold without reserve. Neatly priced throughout in red pencil, quite often with buyers identified.....
Concord, CA: Heron House, 2010. Large quarto. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind. Frontis, illustrations and facsimiles (including a majority in color). A fine copy. First edition. From a total edition of 250 copies, this is copy #18 of 25 with an extra leaf inserted in.....
Sauk City: Arkham House, Summer 1967 through Winter 1971. Whole numbers one through eight (of 10 published). Eight issues. Small octavo. Printed self- wrappers. Illustrated. About fine. Edited by August Derleth and staff. The first eight numbers of this short-lived Arkham House periodical, combining promotional efforts with original contributions in.....
Paris: R. Lainé et J. Havard, February 1866. 72pp. Large octavo. Pale blue plain wrapper. Upper wrapper neatly detached, a bit of creasing and use at extremities, otherwise very good. With the ink ownership signature of A.N.L. Munby on the upper wrapper, beneath an earlier ink inscription: "Monsieur de Slane.".....
Rome: Tip. delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1886. vii,[1],34pp. Small folio. Printed medium blue wrapper (backed with heavier paper). Loss from top edge and fore-corner of the upper printed wrapper, bookplate inside front wrapper, small number label and some pencil notes in upper spine corner of front wrapper, light use;.....
Shelley House, Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1935. Folio. Full dark brown cowhide, stamped in gilt. Illustrated with facsimiles, specimen leaves, photogravures and collotypes. Trace of offsetting from binding to endsheets, a few minor foxmarks to endsheets, minor rubs to spine, otherwise a fine copy in slipcase. First edition of Hornby's.....
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1872. xxxii,335pp. Quarto. Handsome three quarter grey morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, original printed wrapper bound in. An excellent copy. Edition deluxe of the second edition, revised and considerably enlarged. One of 108 copies printed on large paper (this being one of 100 on vergé).....
New York: Anderson Galleries / Mitchell Kennerley, President, 1918 - 1928. Various paginations. Bound up in polished buckram, gilt label, most with fore-edge index tabs. Upper forecorner of wrapper of first catalogue torn away, otherwise very good or better. An excellent nonce collection of the catalogues of ten important pre-market.....
[New York]: Geo. W. Leavitt & Co., 1880. 67pp. Large octavo. Printed parchment paper wrapper. Wrapper slightly torn at rear panel and lightly soiled, uniform tanning, very good. Leavitt, who died in 1877, was an important manufacturer and botanist, and one of the most important benefactors for the Brown University.....
Paris: A. Durel, Libraire, 1908. 44pp. plus supplement of [8],32,[24] plates. Quarto (30 x 20cm). Gathered, loose signatures, laid into plain folded outer wrappers. A few margins dusty, with shallow nicks are chips to fore-edges of a few leaves, priced throughout, very good. An elegantly gotten up catalogue for this.....
Edinburgh: T. Nisbet, 13 November 1855. [4],80pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Somewhat tanned, scattered pencil marks and a few prices realized, short closed tears in fore-edges of a few leaves; good only. The auction consisted of 2194 lots sold over a span of six sessions; a sale on.....
North Hills, PA: San Serriffe Publishing Co., Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Cloth and decorated paper boards. Fine. First, limited edition of 350 copies, each copy numbered "1". A spoof by Henry Morris of several contemporary private presses, including his own Bird & Bull. Prospectus laid in.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1971. xvi,521pp. Thick octavo. Gilt buckram. First edition of this essential annotated reference to over 2700 works of fiction related to California. Bookplate, top edge faintly foxed, else near fine in dust jacket (crease to front flap).
London: Printed for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club and Published by Bernard Quaritch, 1978. Quarto. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Twenty-four plates, one folding. Bookplate on front pastedown offset to free endpaper, upper board rubbed and sunned, else very good. Second (revised) printing. A study of the lives and collections of.....
