New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1870. Napoleon Sarony. Jefferson edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 32pp. Black and gilt decorated maroon cloth. Beveled edges. Discoloration, rubbing and white stains to boards. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Corners bumped and worn. Minor age yellowing to pages not affecting text or plates..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 185/1000. Octavo. 133pp. Original black cloth with gilt facsimile signature of Oscar Wilde and gilt lettering on spine with tan glassine wrapper, protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece facsimile manuscript page. Some time after the publication of his essay, of the same title..... More
Hartford, Conn. Privately Printed (at the Sherwood Press), 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 1/225 This copy out of series. Octavo. 45 (3)pp. Green cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label on spine. The essay was written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford in 1879. The original manuscript was considered lost..... More
Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 116 (1)pp. Original blue cloth with illustrated cover and red and blue lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on title page with red and black print. Includes the stories "The Birthday of the Infanta" and "The Star-Child." Text framed..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xiii) (1) 460pp. + 2 fold-out maps. 3/4 tan calf over pebbled burgundy cloth board, with gilt, ruling, tooling and lettering on the spine. Edges of the book block in red. Photo-illustrated frontispiece. The work is British General Francis..... More
Braunschweig: Fürstliche Warenhaus-Buchhandlung, 1772. Revised and authorized by the author. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes, as issued. 8vo. 355pp. 379pp. Marbled paper covered boards of the time. Red page edges. Illustrated title pages. Printed on high quality cotton rag. Printers devices. Illustrated initials. Works of poetry by renowned German poet..... More
Paris: NP, 1943. Limited ed. Softcover. Small 4to. 1/150. Illustrated tan wrappers in original glassine jacket. Chipping, tearing and some discoloration to glassine. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. A great work of philosophy, dealing with various topics, from Goethe through pure love to paradise. Beautifully illustrated with 7 b/w pencil..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. 8vo. 196pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Illustrated endpapers. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Decorated title page. illustrated with tipped-in full page color reproductions of..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1964. Ben Shahn. Limited ed. Hardcover. Horizontal 8vo. Unpaginated. Gray boards with slight bowing. Some wear to cover. Otherwise, in good condition. Illustrated with drawings (some color) by Ben Shahn. Signed by the artist. More
Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, n/d. Neuausgabe. Hardcover. 5 volumes. 264pp. 252pp. 188pp. 238pp. 227pp. Three-quarter vellum over orange paper-covered boards. Labels in green and red with gold lettering on spine. Binding by A. Köllner after a design by Hugo Steiner-Prag. Staining on spines. Scuffing, minor age wear and staining on boards..... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (2) 282pp. Bound in brown leather, Birdsall binding, with gilt ruling on covers, gilt ruling, decor and lettering on spine; raised bands. Original green cloth binding bound in at rear. Gilt top edge. Gilt dentelles with binder's stamp. Green endpapers..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1895. New edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xliii, 370, ix, 413, xx, 422, xi, 414, xiii, 392pp. Original 3/4 leather over decorative tan cloth with gilt tooling and lettering on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece gravure in Vol. 5. "Don Quixote" with notes, original and..... More
Milano: Edizione d'Arte FELIX, 1966. Gustave Dore. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Unpaginated. Red maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original paper-covered black slipcase. Minor stains to parts of spine and along spine on front board. Scuffing and some rubbing to slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece. "What you are..... More
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NP: Chapman and Hall, No Date. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii (i), 311, viii (i) 254pp. Original three quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling and lettering on label of spine. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece engravings, first with tissue guard. Illustrated with b/w engravings by George Cruikshank and H. K...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901-1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. LI, [1], 203, [1], IX, [1], 290, XV, [1], 211, [1], XIV, 228, XXI, [1], 293, [1], XVII, [1], 141, [1], XIII, [1], 253, [1], 268, XXVII, [1], 217, [1], XII, 314, XXI, [1], 254, XII, 274pp. Uncut. Contemporary three-quarter calf..... More
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Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1974. First edition. Loose_leaf. Signed Brigitte Hanf and John Fuller with hand numbered 78 on cover card. 78/250. Octavo. (1) 26 cards. Original plastic sachet with 27 printed cardboard cards. Twenty-six exquisite b/w linocuts (6 1/4 x 5") by Brigitte Hanf, accompanied by humorous four line stanzas..... More
Boston: Bibliophile Society Privately printed, 1911. First Limited edition. Hardcover. "E. B. Butler with regards of W. K. Bixby St. Louis 3/21/12" on front free endpaper. 160/200 hand-numbered and initialed WKB.(Quarto. (2)24pp. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Laid in a typed letter on Bixby letterhead to E...... More
München: Friedr. Bruckmann's Verlag, ND (ca 1882). Dritte Auflage (Third edition). Hardcover. Folio (12 1/8 x 9"). [4], 139, [1]pp. Original gilt and black stamped burgundy cloth. with gold lettering to front cover, and red lettering to spine. All paper edges gilt. Decorative endpapers, half-title and title page. Decorative head-..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836-38. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 304, [4], XVI, 304, [4], XVI, 304, [4]pp. Full green morocco with gold-stamped decoration and borders on covers and gilt lettering and borders on spine. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Engraved vignette on each title-page, protected with a tissue-guard. Scarce and..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, (1854). First edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes. 8vo. 344pp. 364pp. Three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. Gold embossed decoration and leather title labels to spines, all page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Both volumes have black and white reproductions of drawings by J. Stephenson..... More
México: [s.n.], 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Unpaginated. Original green leather with gold lettering on covers. Green moire endpapers. Title page in blue lettering. Decorative headpieces. Text within decorative blue frame. The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (xvi) 339pp. 3/4 red leather over marbled paper boards, gilt lettering and tooling on the spine. Raised bands. The work is an examination of daily life and the settlements in Upper Canada (comprising what is now known as Southern Ontario)..... More
London: Whittaker and Co., 1837. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,203pp. Gold-lined three-quarter morocco over maroon cloth with gold decorated spine. Raised bands. All gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Harry B. Koch on inside of front board. Frontispiece. Henry David Inglis (1795-1835) was a Scottish author. Some of his works, such as..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. First series (Vol. I): xii,338,[1]pp. Second Series (Vol. II): vii,288pp. Third Series (Vol. III): vi,364pp. Original calf with gold decorated spine. Maroon and red title-labels with gold lettering. Raised bands. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Illustrated title-page. Decorative initials. The..... More
München: Droemer Knaur, (1974). Hardcover. 8vo. 312pp. Green-yellowish cloth with title label in original dust jacket. Inscribed by author in blue ink on free front endpaper: "Coelum non arrimarn mui taut gni trans mare currint" (?) (Horaz). Meinem verehrten Freund und Kollegen Cornelius Schnauber sehr herzlich Frederick Kohner, und ebenso..... More