Offenbach am Main: Huber und Herpel, 1970. [8] leaves, all but title printed on rectos only. Oblong folio (33 x 42 cm).Cloth backed printed boards. Light sunning to upper board, otherwise about fine, without the slipcase. Distinctive bookplate of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño on the front pastedown. One of 120 numbered copies.....
[Vienna]: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1991. 1051,[5]pp. Thick quarto (30.5 x 22 cm). Cloth backed printed boards. Occasional illustrations. Minor hand-soiling to white boards, trace of rubbing to spine lettering, otherwise abut fine in slightly sunned slipcase with die cut window. First edition of this dictionary of idioms.....
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[Postmarked:] Paris. Sunday, 3 May, postmarked 1840. One page, plus address. Folded quarto letter-sheet, in ink. Postally used, abrasion from absent seal in extreme corners, signs of repair along vertical fold, otherwise good. The Hungarian pianist and composer (1811- 1880) writes from Paris to 'Monsieur Lidel" at 99 Great Portland.....
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1924. [16]pp. Small folio (35 x 22 cm). Stapled printed wrapper. Modest creasing, extreme lower blank corner of rear wrapper nearly detached, slight rumpling, very good. Second edition. One of ca. 11,000 copies printed by Rudge utilizing ornaments and typography by Bruce Rogers.
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New York & Philadelphia: Japan Paper Company, [1920s - 1930]. Seventeen bifolia, folio (32.5 x 25 cm) to octavo (25.5 x 18.5 cm), most untrimmed. Some creases at a few extreme corners, some dusting at edges, a few small edge tears and one snag at one top edge, but very.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [no earlier than 1922]. Cloth. Portrait. A very good copy without dust jacket. Inscribed on the free endsheet to the then 19 year-old future literary scholar and OSS agent: " Norman Holmes Pearson with the compliments of the Author June 1928." Offset reprint from the.....
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San Francisco: Press in Tuscany Alley, [1978]. [4]pp leaflet (25.5 x 16 cm), with laid in specimen leaf. Fine. The prospectus for one of the highlights of the Press, the Wilsons' edition of Stevenson's A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, illustrated by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. The edition consisted of 500 copies.....
London: Wordsearch Ltd, 1990 - Winter 1994. Whole numbers one through fifteen (Vols 1-4). Fifteen issues. Quarto (30 x 23.5 cm). Stiff color pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated throughout, frequently in color. About fine. The first fifteen numbers of this trilingual quarterly showcase of innovation in design, typography, multi-media, publishing and.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Facsimiles. Two tiny bumps at slightly dusty top edge, bottom foretips slightly worn, otherwise near fine in used plain shipping wrapper. First edition. One of 750 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press. Original prospectus, invoice and notice laid.....
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Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1974. Three large folio sheets, folded to quarters. Printed in red, black and faint grey. Quite fine. An attractive group of specimen sheets for this limited edition, consisting of the half- title and colophon (with wood engraving by Baskin and conjugate leaves), and pages [29].....
[Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Co., 1971]. Three volumes. Thick quartos. Full publisher's faux- leatherette, stamped in black and gilt. Illustrations and plates (some folding). Facsimile reprint of the 1771 Edinburgh first edition. Bit dusty, bump to crown of one spine, else a near fine set, without slipcase.
Paris: Chex Melmieu, [1949]. Printed wrapper, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A few small spots in upper corner of rear wrapper panel, small chips around toe of spine, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 100 copies on pur fil, in this case instead of being numbered, the justification is.....
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little Brown and Company, [1962]. [52]pp. plus 22 blank pp. Quarto (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Gathered, folded, largely uncut signatures. Illustrations. Very near fine. F & Gs of the first edition of this collection of considerations and images of these (occasionally) under-appreciated animals: the.....
Japan: Think The Earth Project, 2002. 166pp. Folio (42.5 x 30.5 cm). Printed boards. Heavily illustrated in color. Fine in very lightly soiled card slipcase with pictorial label. First edition of this, the second public release by the Think The Earth Project. Text in Japanese and English. The photographs, presented.....
New York: Andrews / Nelson / Whitehead, [nd. but possibly ca. 1976?]. Twenty-two leaves laid into printed stiff paper folder (30.5 x 23 cm; 12 x 9 inches). About fine. An excellent selection of handmade, mouldmade and machine made quality papers, each with either a printed identifying caption line or.....
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714. Volumes one, three, four and five (of six). 12mo. Contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, gilt labels. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Vertue after the painting by Pignard. Early armorial bookplate on three pastedowns (P. Rickard), pencil scrawl on verso of front free endsheet of first.....
Boston: E. Littlell & Company, Oct. - Dec. 1849. [4],619,[1]pp. Large, thick octavo. Very worn and chipped three-quarter calf and cloth (cloth soiled and substantially lifted from boards below). Front and rear free endsheets excised, terminal leaf with jagged tears at bottom edge, costing some words, top edges and forecorners.....
London: Printed by H. Goldney for Messieurs Rivington ...[et al], 1780. lxiv,180,[2]pp. Volume one only, of two. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt label. Engraved portrait. Enraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very pretty example, about fine.
New York: Harms, Inc., 1926. 8pp. Quarto. Highly pictorial self wrapper. Sheet music - for "Sleepy Head" -associated with the Philip Loeb production. Wrapper about fine.
[North Hills, PA]: Bird & Bull Press, 1967. Large octavo. Half gilt-lettered brown morocco and decorated boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Illustrations, photographs. Fine. First edition. With five bifolia of handmade paper samples bound in. One of five hundred numbered copies printed by the author on a variety of.....
Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. Cloth and patterned boards, paper spine label. Frontis portrait. Minor wear at spine ends, tiny spot on front pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. One of eight hundred copies. This copy bears Edelstein's 1968 signed presentation inscription. In addition to.....
Ditchling Common, Sussex. 1934. Small quarto. Stiff dark brown wrapper with wraparound printed label, fore and bottom edges wholly untrimmed. Illustrated with two wood-engravings by David Jones and other facsimiles and illustrations. Modest tanning and a trace of foxing to the label, otherwise a very good to near fine, unopened.....
[Tarzana, CA: Pennyweight Press, 1977]. 28pp. Miniature (4.8 x 4cm; 1 7/8 x 1 1/2"). Red calf, lettered in gilt, decorated in blind. Title-page device and five hand-painted color gouache illustrations, illumined in gold, letterpress text. Minute repair at crown of spine, otherwise very good to about fine. Copy #4.....
[Hammersmith]: Doves Press, May 1911. Small quarto. Linen-backed boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Private armorial bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise very near fine. First edition of the second catalogue (of three) of the press's publications to date. With an introduction and additional comments by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. A manuscript.....
London: Maggs Bros. 1959. [32] leaves. Square octavo. Quarter gilt parchment and handmade paper over boards, incorporating a botanical specimen on each board, edges wholly untrimmed. Illustrations and inserts. Fine in lightly soiled box with reinforcement at corners. First edition. Copy #71 of one hundred numbered copies, produced by Mason.....
