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
![The Thanksgiving Visitor [Inscribed and signed by the author]. Truman Capote.](/pictures/thumb/28968.jpg?v=1510962164)
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
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
![Civil War [SIGNED]. Liam O'Flaherty.](/pictures/thumb/22495.jpg?v=1438645937)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. Hardcover. Small quartos. Vol. 1: (xii) 629pp. Vol. 2: (ix) 620-1337pp. Vol.3: (ix) 1340-1919pp. Grey over blue buckram boards, with gilt stamped bow illustration on front cover. Black lettering on spine. The 3 volume set is the famous and controversial scholarly edition by Gabler, which... More
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
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
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
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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. Ex-Library, first edition. Hardcover. Large square octavo. (xliii) [1] 152pp. + 148 pages in Arabic. 3/4 black pebbled leather over dark blue pebbled leather boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge in black. The book is an English language translation of the original letters and... More
London: NP, 1774. Hardcover. 2 volumes in one. 8vo. xv,144,3pp. Original brown mottled calf with rebacked tan leather spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Corners and edges worn. Some staining and discoloration to boards. Two Ex-Libris to front endpapers. Inscribed by previous owner. Hinges starting. Front endpaper almost detached. Marbled endpapers... More
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Proctor Valley (Catskills, NY): NP, 1860-1863. Manuscript. Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. [144]pp. Original gilt-stamped half morocco over blind-stamped purple cloth notebook. Gold-ruling along joints. All edges gilt. Handsome hand-written copy book of poems written by a young girl whose name is unknown. Begun in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, on... More
![Way Down South [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Clarence Muse, David Arlen, Blanding Sloan, Woodcuts.](/pictures/thumb/39941.jpg?v=1450761251)
Hollywood: David Graham Fischer, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 416/1000 with an elaborate 12 line inscription to Murray by David Arlen on limitation page. Quarto. 145 (2)pp. Original punch-tied, cloth-backed pictorial boards. Illustrated title page. Illustrated with 17 striking full-page woodcuts on colored stock as well as 10 full-page b/w and... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1924–1930. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Ca. 9800pp. Original yellow cloth with green tooling on cover, tooling and lettering on spine and green publisher's logo on back cover. Green top edge. 15 frontispieces. Publisher's logo on title pages. Historical and critical edition still considered the best edition of... More
Otto v. Praze, 1920. Limited ed. Softcover. 1/300. 16mo. 28pp. Gray paper board wrappers with black illustration and lettering to cover in mylar jacket. An Oscar-Wilde-classic, magnificently translated and delightfully illustrated with a b/w painting to each page. Czech. In fine condition. More
New York: Published by the author, 1961. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/91. Large quarto. 201 leaves. Original half gray handmade paper over tan fiber boards with hand-printed red woodcut art tipped on front cover. Black hand-lettering on spine. Hand-printed relief woodcut illustrations by John Ricklefs: five double page two-color (black... More
![La Nausée (Nausea) [WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH IN TWO STATES BY GOERG]. Jean-Paul Sartre, Edouard Goerg, Original.](/pictures/thumb/41032.jpg?v=1468540656)
Paris: André Sauret, 1951. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/300. Quarto (9 x 6 5/8"). 319, [3]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over printed printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers, with red and black lettering to spine and front cover. Laid in, a tissue-guarded second state (on China paper) of the frontispiece, being an original... More