Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963-1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavos. Light blue printed dust jackets with dark blue lettering on front covers and spines. Dark blue paper covered boards, with blind stamped publishers device on front covers, and gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Pages of some volumes uncut along bottom edge. The... More about The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (complete in 5 vols
Madrid: Tipografía de Archivos, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 716 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Text in Spanish. Amazing reference work, being a bio-bibliography of Spanish literature of the Canary Islands. Agustín Millares Carlo, (1893 - 1980) was an academic and paleographer. A professor at a number... More about Ensayo de Una Bio-BibliografÃa de Escritores Naturales de las Islas Canarias (Siglos XVI, XVII y...
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/700 Unnumbered. Original gray dustjacket over gray half cloth with illustrated yellow paper-covered boards and red lettering on spine. Richly illustrated with 85 entertaining drawings by alexander Calder, edited and introduced by James Johnson Sweeney. DJ sunned along top, bottom and spine... More about Three Young Rats
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. The Author's edition. Hardcover. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8"). XII, [13]-314, [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 1); VIII, 335, [1], [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 2); 403, [1], [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 3); 250, 15, [1]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 4); 197, [3], 48pp (Adv.) (Vol. 5). Contemporary half... More about The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson. Vol. I. Early Poems, and English Idylls; Vol. II. Locksley...
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Paris: Raoul Mortier, 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/260. Quarto. 60, [2] loose pages, as published. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed wrappers. Book housed in a paper covered chemise, with black lettering on spine. Chemise housed in its matching paper covered slipcase. Laid in a handwritten letter... More about Le Jet d'Eau [INSCRIBED, SIGNED, WITH ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER, AND POEM BY THE AUTHOR
London: George Allen: Ruskin House, 1894. Walter Crane. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/650. Folio. Unpaginated. Gilt decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Heavy chipping, fraying and tearing to spine. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration, staining and scuffing to boards. Hinges starting. Decorated title page. Page following title repaired along... More about Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merry Wives of Windsor Presented in Eight Pen Designs by Walter...
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New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 63, [1]pp. Half red cloth over paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Book housed in its original paper covered slipcase with pictorial title label laid in. Title page inscribed and signed by Truman Capote. Printer's device on title page... More about The Thanksgiving Visitor [Inscribed and signed by the author
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948–1957. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original blue cloth with blind-stamped emblem on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spines, vols.1-6 in four slipcases with descriptive text and photographs on paper labels pasted to green and tan paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispieces. Letter A printed to..... More about George Washington: A Biography. 7 Vols. (Complete
London: G. Wilkie, 1781. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxvi, 285, 336pp. Original full speckled tan calf with gilt ruled, tooled framing of cover and richly gilt decorated spine with gilt lettering; fine Bayntun binding. Gilt leather edges and orange paper edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engravings in both volumes. Decorative head... More about The Tales of the Genii: or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar. 2 Vols
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London: E. Archer, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Signed by author on colophon. Limited edition 86/100, privately printed. Quarto. 10 (1)pp. Original, printed marbled wraps. Notable short story on the Irish civil war by Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), the Irish novelist who was a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. His perhaps... More about Civil War [SIGNED
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 206pp. Illustrated white dust jacket, with black, red and blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Black cloth over black blind-stamped illustrated paper boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Stated "first edition", and "97532468" on the verso... More about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 440/475, Large Octavo. 59 (1)pp. Original gray half cloth over decorative boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers and title page. 'Letters written by Oscar Wilde during the summer of 1897 after his release from prison to Robert Ross, who had approached... More about After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
London: William Reeves, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 45 (1)pp. Eriginal tan wraps with dark blue lettering bound in contemporary yellow cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Yellow endpapers. Written on May 31, 1895, six days after Wilde was convicted in order to contradict the opinion that Wilde's... More about Apologia Pro Oscar Wilde
NP: The Limited Editions Club, 1937, 1935. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. 12vo. 1/1500. 2 volumes, both in double cases. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Both volumes signed by Angelo on colophon. Kadish of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi bound in purple leather w/slight fading at edges. Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam bound in yellow leather... More about The Kadish of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi & The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam [SIGNED
Surrey, England: Circle Press Publications, (1978). Ronald King. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/250. xi. 58pp. Elephant folio. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original blue cloth slipcase. Minor discoloration to slipcase. Illustrated title page. Signed by Ronald King. A wonderful edition with original full page color screen images designed... More about The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
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New York: Signet, 1968. First paperback edition, forth printing. Softcover. Octavo. 221pp. (3). White photo-illustrated wrappers with black and blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke in pen on the title page. This a first paperback edition of the seminal science-fiction masterpiece 2001: A.... More about 2001: A Space Odyssey [SIGNED
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 399, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with gold lettering to front cover and spine. Top edge yellow. Title page inscribed and signed by Jack Finney. First edition of this science fiction novel which describes a.... More about Time and Again: An Illustrated Novel [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED
London: Joseph John Leathwick, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxvii, 40-117 (1)pp. Original full blue morocco with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Light brown endpapers. First edition of this translation by H. H. Young. Story of two biblical characters by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian who... More about Eleazar and Naphtaly, an Hebrew Tale
Paris: Dechalotte, 1948. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/999 numbered copies. 4to. 159pp. Original cardboard wrappers ith black lettering to front wrapper and spine in original glassine jacket. Seated in original beige cardboard slipcase. Top and bottom page edges untrimmed. Pages unbound and unopened. Watercolored full-page frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Illustrated initials... More about Fragments d'un Paradis (Les Anges). Poeme. Illustrations de Pierre Fonteinas
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/174. Octavo. 59, [3]pp. Original decorative glassine over half cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Book housed in its original paper covered box. Limitation page numbered and signed by editor Elbert Hubbard II. Decorative... More about Crimes Against Criminals [Signed
Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag, 1923. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 175, [1]pp. Printed wrappers. Scarce first edition of this most famous work by Franz Jung, German writer, economist and politician also kwown under the pseudonyms of Larsz Franz and Frank Ryberg. Unfortunately, the original photo-montage cover by John Heartfield is missing and... More about Die Rote Roman-Serie / Band IX : Die Eroberung der Maschinen
München: F. Bruckmann A.G., 1919. Alfred Cossmann. Vorzugsausgabe (Deluxe edition), Ausgabe II. Hardcover. 1/100. 4to. 98pp. Three-quarter gold-lined vellum over paper-covered boards in original dust wrapper. Gold lettering on cover and spine. Minor age wear and some staining on binding. Chipping, tearing and staining on dust wrapper. 1 1/2" x.... More about Der Landvogt von Greifensee [SIGNED BY ALFRED COSSMANN
London: Printed by W. B. for Richard Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn, 1708. Tenth Corrected. Hardcover. 8vo. 282 + 2 pp. of advertisements. Leather boards with decorative etching and raised bands on spine. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580 - 1645) poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden... More about The Visions of Don Francisco De Quevedo Villegas, Knight of the Order of St. James
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 195pp. Illustrated blue, white and green dust jacket, with white lettering on front cover and spine. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The book is a first edition copy of the second book in the world... More about Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
Edinburgh, London: Robert Cadell, John Murray & Whittaker & Co., 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Original burgundy three-quarter leather over burgundy cloth with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edges. Marbled endpapers. Bayntun Binders. Frontispiece engravings by G. B. Shaw and others... More about Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. 10 Vols