Dessau: auf Kosten der Verlags-Kasse und zu finden in der Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1782. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo. 304pp. 261pp. Paper covered boards. Famous work on the satirical work "Horazen's Briefe", translated from the Latin by renowned German poet and novelist, C.M. Wieland (see below). Serious..... More
New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 385/600. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with black reproduction of Erich Heckel's title page on cover and black lettering on spine, housed in a plain cardboard slipcase. Second title page woodcut by Erich Heckel with German text. Wilde wrote this ballad..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904. First edition. Softcover. 84/200 - Octavo. 30pp. Original green wraps with blue, decorative ruling and blue lettering on cover. Red, green and black lettered title page. Historiated head piece and initial. "These pages contain a Reprint of Mr. Oscar Wilde's Introduction (L'Envoi) to Rose-leaf..... More
Ojai: Dillingham Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Beatrice Wood on half-title. Quarto. Original black cloth with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Burgundy endpapers. Illustrated half-title. Color frontispiece. Autobiography of one of the acclaimed American ceramists. She is characterized as..... More
Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 87 (1)pp. Full vellum with beveled edges with gilt lettering on spine. Title page with arabesque headpiece and cherub. Decorative wood engraved initials. Printed at the Elston Press, New Rochelle, New York. Play in three parts. Masque of Love is a...... More
Bamberg: J. G. Sickmüller, 1841. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. VII, [3], 192pp. Original paper wrappers with contemporary handwritten title on spine. Scarce and fascinating work being a directory of Bamberger topographical-historical illustrations in woodcut, engraving, lithography, etc. with historical-artistic-literary notes. Some age-wear on wrappers with front cover missing and back..... More
London: Fontainebleau, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. 67pp. Beautifully illustrated gilt embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine bumped and worn. Minor discoloration and scuffing to boards. Corners rubbed. Inscription by the author (including small ink drawing) to blank page preceding title page..... More
Berlin: Ernst Pauly, 1913/14. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 64pp. Original illustrated beige wraps with black lettering on cover. Illustrated decorative endpapers. The story of the Café des Westens presented in literary form with in-text b/w illustrations and four pasted down b/w reproduction of artwork by Emil Orlik, Walter Trier, Rob..... More
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, Georges Briffaut, Éditeur, 1929. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/395. Folio (12 1/2 x 8 1/2"). [4], 113, [3]pp. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Engraved frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative initials. Book housed in its original cloth covered slipcase. Originally..... More
Paris: The English Press, 1793. Fifth edition, corrected. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 5"). [4], 304pp. Original full calf, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Written by Joel Barlow (1754-1812), an American poet, diplomat and politician who supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian, "Vision of Colombus" opens..... More
Amsterdam: André de Hoogenhuysen, 1692. Third edition. Hardcover. Second volume (out of 2). 12mo. 813pp. Original full calf with gilt lettering on red leather title-label. Raised bands on spine, with gold decoration. All red paper edges. Engraved vignette on title-page. Decorative tailpiece. Fascinating second and last part of the memoirs..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 6 1/2"). xviii, 389, [1]pp. Contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Original printed wrappers bound in. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to Charles Lévêque, dated December 24..... More
Hamburg: Verlag der Börne'schen Schriften, 1862. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decorative border and gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on cover, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Glossy yellow endpapers. Ribbon markers. Frontispiece steel engraving in volume twelve. Börne received his PhD with his dissertation..... More
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1948. Limited ed. Softcover. 1/ 1585. Large 8vo. 97 (2)pp. Glassine covered wrappers with black and brown lettering to wrappers and spine. Some browning to wrappers. All page edges untrimmed. Ex-libris plate to front endpaper. Woodcut illustrated frontispiece. Many pages unopened. In French. In very good condition. On..... More
Darmstadt: März Verlag, 1969. Softcover. 4to 419 pp. Stiff double wrappers with cut-out grid over multicolored image. Tiny chips on cut out and edges. The text, including poems, is illustrated with b&w photographs, comic strips and pages of facsimile by various literary snd graphic artists. Signature of previous owner. In..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Vol.1: 245pp. + (6) pages of other works by the publisher. Vol.2: 251pp. Vol.3: 250pp. Vol.4: 235pp. Maroon cloth boards with black ruling and beveled edges. Gilt lettering on spines. From the library of Lady Alice Shaw Stewart. The set..... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1866. First book edition. Hardcover. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4"). 96pp (Text), 12pp (Publisher's advertisement). Uncut. Original blind-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Frontispiece. Vignette on title page. Originally published in the London "Times," Thomas Carlyle's inaugural address at Edinburgh University on April 2..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Large Duodecimo. xxvii, 259, 16pp. Original green pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped ruling and decor on cover, gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Original green pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped ruling and decor on cover, gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Macmillan logo opposite title page..... More
New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (2) 400pp. 40 plates. Original brown leather with blind-stamped decorative ruling an tooling, and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Half-title engraving. Decorative and historiated head and end pieces. Seven..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, N/D. Arthur Severn. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Red cloth with gilt and black decorations. Gilt decorated spine. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Corners rubbed. Small stain to front cover. Hinges starting. Supernatural fantasy illustrated with 6 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Severn. In good..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Chance and Co., 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. (2) 344pp. Original green calf with blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece engraving "Montezuma shows Cortes his Idols by D. O. Hill..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. First edition thus. Wrappers. 1/975. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Housed in publisher's blue-gray folding paper covered cardboard portfolio with paper labels on front cover and spine, with red lettering. Blue-grey wrappers, stabbed and tied at inner margin, with paper labels on front cover. #269..... More
Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 163 (1)pp. Original color illustrated tan paper-covered boards with green and brown lettering on cover and brown on spine, protected in modern mylar. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated title page. Illustrated initials. New translation by Klabund with many hand printed full page and..... More
New York: Thomas F. Madigan, Inc., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Original half vellum over blue paper covered boards, with facsimile of Mark Twain's signature printed on front board and gold lettering on spine. Ex-libris of Lucy Smith Battson (ex Lucy Doheny) on free front endpaper. Inscription of..... More
Bristol: J.M. Gutch, 1812. Reprint. Hardcover. 4to. [xii],178,[10]pp. 1/2 brown cloth over blue paper covered boards, brown leather label with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Title page vignette. Imprinted at London for R.S. 1609. Bristol: reprinted for J.M. Gutch. A play by Thomas Decker with a 12 p. introduction..... More