Garden City: Doubleday, 1918. Cream wrappers, printed in green. A few small spots to wrappers (likely inherent in the paper stock), else a very nice copy. First separate edition in book form, one of seventy-five copies printed for U.S. copyright purposes. More
London & New Castle, DE: The Bibliographical Society / The Printing Historical Society /Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 472pp. Large octavo. Gilt navy cloth. First edition. Black & white facsimiles. Contents include sources, the evolution of the craft of type- casting and punch cutting, biographies of selected punch-cutters, the methodology utilized... More
New York: Hillary House, [1962]. Two volumes. Blue cloth, spine gilt. Unaltered and unabridged reprint of the 1896-97 edition. Spines a bit faded, otherwise a very good copy in a cracked and rubbed, but essentially sturdy card slipcase. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1933. Quarto. Gilt polished buckram. Black & white facsimiles. Endsheets moderately foxed, spine sunned, cloth over lower board has a bubble, otherwise about very good. First edition. One of 350 copies. Includes additions, corrections, bibliography, register of printers, table of authors, and... More
Oxford: Printed by J. Vincent, 1851. 22,[2]pp 12mo. Printed self-wrapper. Old paper backing along spine, some dust smudging to spine and edges, a good, sound copy. First edition. A good association copy, with the small oval stamp of Oxford bibliographer and collector, Falconer Madan. OCLC locates two copies between two... More
![IMPORTANT ADDITIONS FOR SPRING - 1935 THE MODERN LIBRARY ... A COMPLETE LIST OF 236 TITLES ... [wrapper title]. Modern Library - Catalogue.](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT81749.jpg?v=1550614282)
[New York: Random House], 1935. [12]pp. 12mo. Printed self wrappers. This copy bears the order form imprint of the Yale Co-Op. Fine. More
New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1892. 26,[4]pp. Printed wrapper. Wrapper a bit dust soiled, soft vertical crease, small divinity library duplicate release stamp in bottom margin of upper wrapper, but a good copy. First edition. Derry-born Thompson, then Mississippi's Episcopalian diocesan bishop, had served as rector of New York's Christ Church... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1938. Quarto. Polished buckram. Facsimiles. Modest foxing to endsheets and edges, prelims and the final four leaves, a very good copy. First edition of this resumption of the project begun by Proctor and temporarily halted by his disappearance in 1903. Limited to 350 copies. Preface by... More
[Np]: Filthythumb Press, 1968. Large octavo. Pictorial wrappers. First edition in this format, the translations uncredited. Lower fore-tip slightly bumped, modest tanning to wrapper edges, otherwise very good. More
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Copeland & Day, 1894. [10],66,[2],15,[2]pp. Small quarto (23 x 18 cm). Medium olive greenish brown silk over boards, with gilt decorations on upper and lower boards and spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece, and 12 illustrations. Some tanning at gutters, boards toned... More
Brooklyn, NY: [Published for the Author by Fowler and Wells], 1856. iv,[5]-384,[1]pp. Small octavo. Original dark grayish-green cloth, stamped in blind, spine decorated, and upper board lettered, in gilt. Portrait. Neatly rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down (slightly dull, and with shallow losses at crown and toe, with attendant..... More
New York & London: Michael Todd Co., Inc., 18 November 1955. [1],158,[4] leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil-printed production company wrappers. Ink note on upper wrapper, a few smudges and curled corners, but a very good copy. Copy #31 of this unspecified preproduction draft of... More
Bruxellis: Apud Ant. Collaer Bibliopolam, 1778. 32pp. plus engraved title and 30 engraved plates. Quarto (28 x 19.5 cm). Full grayish tan crushed levant, upper board decorated in blind with cathedral-style motif, with twin inlaid lighter morocco circular window panes, signed by William Anthony on rear pastedown. Fine in half-morocco... More
London: Printed for John Watts, 1733. [12],318,[6]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked in matching calf, with raised bands and gilt labels. Engraved frontis (signed "G. Van der Guchte"). Early stamped insignia on front pastedown, modest tanning, but a very good copy. First edition in English of a significant imaginary voyage... More
[Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1991]. Thick quarto. Three quarter plum cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper spine label. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts (7 full- page). Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in folding cloth box with hasps, in company with enclosures. Small label smudge in lower corner... More
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1940. Paper over boards, printed label. Tiny nicks at two fore-tips, small, faint spot on upper board, otherwise near fine. First boardbound edition, preceded by a four page leaflet printing. One of three hundred and fifty copies printed. Steinbeck's reply to issues pertaining to GRAPES OF... More
![HOMAGE TO WALT WHITMAN "PENSIVE ON HER DEAD GAZING" [manuscript caption title]. Pamela Spitzmueller.](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT75877a.jpg?v=1550530184)
[Np: The Artist, 1994]. Folding, multipanel construction (23 x 15.5 cm folded; 151 x 76 cm extended). Stencil, photocopy, watercolor and acrylic paint, vintage and modern papers, and ink on board surfaces. About fine. Signed, dated and titled by the artist, and with manuscript embellishments throughout the work. A unique... More
Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, Ltd., Summer, 1970. Quarter blue morocco and cockerell paper over boards. Title-page collage by Walter Hamady. A faint patch of darkening to spine, otherwise fine. First edition. One of a total edition of 200 numbered copies, printed in various colors on blue-grey Shadwell paper by... More
[Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2007]. Quarto (22.5 x 22 cm). Open-sewn boards, with mounted framed digitally modified religious image. Illustrated in color throughout. Fine. First edition. Copy #3 of 25 numbered copies, signed and dated by the artist. Printed via Epson Inkjet ultrachrome on BFK Rives. A significant artist's... More
Paris: Éditions du Bois Sacré, 1929. clxxxiii,[1]pp. Small folio. (225 x 255 mm). Printed wrappers. Frontis. Illustrated with original colored engravings, ornamental initials, and with decorative head and tail-pieces in color. Two leaves show minor marginal foxmarks, Fine, but without the slipcase. First edition with these illustrations From an edition... More
New York: William Drenttel, 1992. Cloth and typographically decorated boards, paper spine label. Photograph. About fine in marbled paper slipcase. First edition. From an edition of 226 copies designed by Stephen Doyle and printed on BFK Rives in six colors at the Stinehour Press, this is one of 26 lettered... More
[Cottondale, AL: Ex Ophidia Press, 1986]. Small folio (33.5 x 21 cm). Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Illustrated with three original etchings. Fine in glassine wrapper and clamshell box, the latter with a few faint spots on the upper lid. First edition in this format. Illustrated with three... More
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870. xi,[1],282,[1]pp. Large octavo. Bound in contemporary deep green smooth morocco, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Year of publication ownership inscription and date on binder's endsheet, some wear to upper joint and edges; still, a good copy, internally very good. First edition of Rossetti's first published collection..... More
London: Printed by the Paragon Printing Works, Stepney Green, 1916. 12mo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Wrappers darkened and a bit frayed along spine, with narrow chips to the fold, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce and fragile book. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition of the poet/painter's... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Two volumes. 243,[1];iv,[4],[5]-228pp. 12mo. Original publisher's plum muslin, printed spine labels. Spines sunned and labels a bit rubbed, small nick at fore-edge of lower board of vol. II, loss (8mm at its deepest point) at crown of spine of vol. II extends 2cm along the..... More
