Allahabad: Printed at the Allahabad Mission Press, 1871. vi,172pp. Large octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Title printed in red, green and black. Text in double columns. Illustrations. Crown of spine has shallow loss, uniform toning to textblock, a few hand smudges, but a good copy. First edition. A translation.....
[London: The Author/Artist, ca. 1997]. [1],10,[1]pp. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm). Loose sheets, printed on rectos only. Enclosed in plastic zip-top bag. Fine. First edition. Here the prominent designer and educator undertakes an unconventional analysis of objects, features and events in a London neighborhood, ranging from "Phone Box Calling Cards,".....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. vi,260pp. Small octavo. Brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. Ink name, lower fore-tip of upper board skinned, still a good, bright, tight copy. The 28th thousand, revised and enlarged, with a "Preface to the Twenty-Sixth Edition." The first edition appeared.....
York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington ... Newcastle upon Tyne: reprinted by Order of the Proprietor, 1759. [2],42pp. Octavo. 19th century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, partially untrimmed. Bookplate, extremities rubbed, scattered foxing and old vertical crease (prior to binding); a good copy. Denoted the "Third Edition,".....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. [2],xii,[2],631,[3]pp. Quarto. Gilt burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Many facsimiles. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. First edition, trade issue. Slightly shaken, cloth somewhat rubbed and lightly marked, but a good copy.
Cambridge: Types Ac Sumptibus Academicis, 1816. 112pp. Disbound. Very good. First edition. A relatively early consideration of the attempt at interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics via the Rosetta stone by the Cambridge linguist.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. Gilt cloth. Slight offset to endsheets from jacket flaps, spine very slightly cocked, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, in very good, modestly soiled dust jacket. First edition. Biographical sketches of serial and professional murderers: William Burke, J.-B. Troppmann, G. J. Smith, Henri Désiré Landru, and.....
[Norfolk]: New Directions, [1954]. Cloth. Frontis, illustrations. First edition, U.S. issue. Two old tape ghosts on front pastedown, covers slightly bowed, edges faintly flecked, otherwise a good or better copy, in a moderately soiled dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends.
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1842. [4],xi,[1],323,[1];[4],[5]- 135,[1],*55,[1],[4]pp. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. Publisher's plum cloth, decorated in blind. Foxing throughout, binding sunned at extremities, small spot and narrow 4 cm drip mark from crown of spine, crown and toe of spine a bit frayed; otherwise, a good, sound.....
San Francisco: Mrs. Olivia Kingsland, [nd. but ca 1910]. 20pp. Printed wrapper. Some creasing at corners, divinity library duplicate release stamps on upper wrapper, a good to very good copy. First (?) edition. OCLC locates 14 copies spread between two entries (which seem to refer to the same publication, although.....
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1869. 139,[1]pp. Small octavo. Three-quarter crimson crushed morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Trace of wear at crown and toe of spine, front free endsheet bears several tipped-on clippings and is neatly detached at the gutter, otherwise a fine copy. The uncommon first edition of this well-known monograph.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [ 1969]. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue. With an initialed author's compliments card taped to the free endsheet. A bit bowed, else near fine in a dust jacket with flaring to top edge.
London: A. C. Fifield, [1908]. xv,[1],275,[1]pp. Large octavo. Plum cloth, stamped in gilt. Portrait, maps and plates. Bookplate on pastedown, trace of foxing to endleaves, spillmark on top edge at spine, affecting the top inner edges of the plates and adjacent leaves, extremities a bit sunned; still, a good, sound.....
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci editor, 1969. Folio (35.5 x 24cm). Black silk, decorated and lettered in gilt with pictorial onlays. Printed on pale blue Fabriano. Illustrated with color tipped-in plates. Spine somewhat sunned, otherwise near fine in slipcase. First edition thus, printing Calvino's "Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati" ("The Castle.....
Garches, France: Editions Arnaud Seydoux, [1985]. Two volumes. [6],70,[6]pp. plus fifty plates; 73,[1] pp. plus folding plate. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. A few stray marks to wrappers, otherwise about fine. First edition. The tinted plates reproduce the cards with great fidelity.
Venetiis: In Typographica Pinelliana, 1625. [12],157,[4]pp. (lacking preliminary blank; [cross]4 bound out of place after pi4, and wanting the terminal signature a1-4, the latter printing "Posteritati ex rebus à Leonardo Donato Venetiarum..."). Quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Engraved title and 32 engraved plates. Woodcut historiated initials and decorative.....
Princeton: Bollingen Series LVI / Princeton University Press, [1970]. Stiff pictorial wrapper. A very good copy. First wrapperbound printing of the corrected second edition. With the February 1971 ownership inscription of poet / translator Cid Corman.
London: Printed for R. Basset ... 1702. [24],458,[6]pp. Octavo. Old paneled calf, rebacked at an early date to style. Extremities worn and joints a trifle weak, occasional scattered foxing, and mild discolorations, lower blank corner of C3 torn away, and shallow marginal losses to b2, still a good, sound copy.....
New Hyde Park: University Books, [1962]. Large octavo. Cloth. Photographs. First US edition (first published in the UK in 1951). Bibliography compiled by Edward N. Fitzgerald. A very good copy in near very good, lightly shelfworn dust jacket with internally mended short edge-tear.
London [etc]: Rider & Company, [1951]. 316pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Plates. Second impression. Includes a preliminary bibliography by Gerald Yorke. Extremities a bit rubbed, small splashmark on spine affecting a couple of letters in the subtitle, a good reading copy.
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., [1898]. Red cloth, elaborately decorated in black, t.e.g. Frontis and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. Light rubbing to edges, inner hinges cracking, otherwise very good. First edition of this exploration of the bird deity motif in a number of cultures. Signed by the author.....
[Berkeley & London: Weiss & deHartington, Booksellers, 2006]. 56pp. Octavo Printed wrappers. Fine, printed slip laid in. First edition. One of 100 copies printed. A descriptive and substantially annotated catalogue of 77 titles from the 18th through the 20th century condemning the solitary vice. Bibliography. Preface by deHartington. The collection.....
Paris: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. viii,143,[1],128,104;107,[1],116,148pp. Six parts bound in two volumes. Octavo. Full crimson crushed levant, spines gilt extra, a.e.g., by Cuzin. Joints rubbed, with faint old ink drip marks on lower board of one volume, light occasional foxing, otherwise a very good set. First illustrated Renouard edition.....
Shanghai: T'Usewei Printing Press, 1914 - 1926. Two parts in eight volumes (of thirteen published through 1938 ?). Open-sewn cloth backed printed boards. Heavily illustrated with hundreds of plates and facsimiles printed via chromolithography. Extremities of boards worn, a few corners bruised, spine labels largely chipped away, volume 5 shaken.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, [ 1938]. Cloth, paper label. Second, revised and enlarged edition, after the first of 1928. A classic text, reprinted frequently in following decades. Very good, in slightly defective dust jacket.
