London: Martin Secker, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 215 (1)pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering in dark brown protective dustjacket and modern brown chemise and slipcase with gilt lettering and ruling on red leather label on spine. "Most of these articles were written for newspapers and have appeared in..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1931. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1/2000. Small 4to (10"). 97pp. Green linen, embossed with gilt emblem to front plate and with gilt lettering to spine, in original dust jacket. Marks and minor discoloration to dj. 1" tear to middle, 1/2" tear to head and 1/2" tear to tail..... More
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, ND (ca. 1900's). Hardcover. 12mo. 96pp. Original quarter-cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Collection of 45 poems by Austrian poet, Nikolaus Lenau (Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau), who was a typical representative in German language literature of the pessimistic Weltschmerz. Poems accompanied by delightful..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1891. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 40, (4) 643-796, 41-78pp. Original illustrated tan wrapper with black and white lettering on cover, black and red on spine. This issue labeled The Southern Number containing Leon's work and "Negro Superstitions" by Sara M. Handy, an essay by Thomas..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886-1887. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3 Volumes. 1/300. 4to. 433pp. 483pp. 447pp. Beige paper covered boards with paper title labels on spines. Engraved frontispieces at front of each volume, with tissue guards. Pages uncut as issued. Spines sunned and heads and tails bumped. Hinges starting on volume..... More
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New York City: Roving Eye Press, (1959). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1 of 125 numbered copies of a limited edition of 1000 printed in Vogue type. Folio. [8],10,26pp. Tan cloth with illustrated paste-down on front and back cover. Signed by W. Lowenfels and A. Refregier on half-title page. Inscribed by previous..... More
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New York: Bantam Books, 1995. Hardcover. Quarto. [6],454 pp., [1]. Original illustrated dust jacket, red and gilt lettering on cover and white lettering on spine. Maroon cloth over black paper boards, gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author George Lukas, this fantasy novel is the continuation of the movie "Willow", written..... More
(Italy): Universidade de Coimbra, 1967. Limited Edition. Softcover. 4to. 650pp. Original printed wrappers. Acta Universitatis Conimbrigensis. Obras Poeticas de Estavao Rodrigues de Castro. Doutor em Medicina pela Universidade de Coimbra Professor Catedratico da Universidade de Pisa 1560-1638. A major contribution to Portuguese studies on new Christians on the Iberian peninsula..... More
Paris: Henrichs, An XI (1803). First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). cxxiii, [1], 259, [1]pp. Contemporary quarter calf over paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Ribbon marker. A collection of poems purporting to have been written in the 15th century by Clotilde de..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). VI, 313, [3], [2]pp (Publisher's advertisement). Original olive pebbled cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. This first edition of John Stuart Mill's authobiography sheds a valuable light on the life and works of one..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2"). XI, [1], 166pp. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt-lettered title label on spine. Raised bands. This first edition of Milnes' "Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems" highlights how meditative and..... More
Cambridge: The University Press, 1923. William Blake. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 32pp. Cream cloth over decorated boards with cover paste-down. Gilt lettering to spine. Original mylar jacket. Tear to head of spine on mylar jacket. Boards slightly bowed. Minor rubbing to edges and corners. Wonderfully illustrated with 6 full page..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, (1958). Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 630pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust wrapper. Head and tail of spine and bottom corners slightly bumped. Minor discoloration of dust jacket. Small tear at top corner of dust jacket. Top corners of pages creased starting..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Octavo. viii, 53 (1)pp. original blue paper-covered boards with black lettering on paper label of spine, in original plain printed dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. "The Pilgrims of Hope was originally written for and contributed..... More
NP: NP, N.D. Softcover. Small 8vo. Unpaginated. Orange paper binding with caricature on and Japanese calligraphy on cover. In original glassine. Satire correspondence between Tojo and Hitler; first part with English and Japanese side by side, and response with English and German. With caricatures of both figures in the text..... More
Breslau: Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1804. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 466pp. Marbled paper covered boards with red label at spine. Red page edges. Printed on high quality paper. Letter exchange between acclaimed Enlightenment philosopher Christian Garve and Swiss theologist and church song composer Georg Joachim Zellikofer (for both: see below). Minor..... More
Dresden-Radebeul: VEB Druckfarbenfabrik, n/d. Reprint. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. Cloth spine over decorated paper-covered boards in dust jacket. Some closed tears, chipping and staining on dj. Facsimile of the original work published in 1733 in Nürnberg by Johann Andrea Endters seel. Erben. Bookplate on inside of front board "500 Jahre Buchdruckerkunst..... More
Berlin: Verlag der "Frauen-Rundschau" Schweizer & Co., ND (ca 1910). First edition. Hardcover. 158, [2]pp. Original illustrated cloth with black lettering on spine. Elegant binding signed by Wilh. Kämmerer, bookbinder in Berlin. Collection of spiritual essays on sociability, health and beauty, dancing and games, wisdom, famous quotations, etc.. This work..... More
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (xv) 272pp. Textured dark brown leather boards with gilt ruling on the covers. Spine with gilt lettering on a black label, and gilt-stamped floral motifs. Brown speckled edges of book block. Gilt tooling along the edges of the covers. Engraved frontispiece. The work..... More
New York: Brentano's, (1920). Harry Clarke. Hardcover. 8vo. 127pp. Decorated tan cloth. Head and tail of spine chipped. Some discoloration and minor staining to boards. Ex libris of Clarissa Howe on inside of front board. Illustrated half-title and title-page. Color frontispiece. Wonderful collection of poetry by authors such as W...... More
Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1921. First German edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 77 (3)pp. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards with red lettering on spine protected by modern mylar; red ribbon marker. Fourteen stories and a prelude translated from the Danish with twelve b/w drawings by George Grosz, three of them full page. Drawings include his..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd/Left Book Club, 1937. Book Club editon. Softcover. Octavo. (xxiv) 264pp. Orange wrappers, with black lettering on front cover and spine. This is the first book club edition of the nonfiction work by George Orwell. The book is divided into 2 parts. The first part examines and..... More
New York: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers. 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial dust-jacket over black cloth, with white lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating work being a book of poems by Padgett along with many b&w drawings and collages by Jim Dine who..... More
Los Angeles: The Odyssey Book House, (1940). First edition (VERY FIRST COPY PRINTED). Hardcover. 8vo. 607pp. Red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Long inscription in blue ink by Ruth Parsons and Valcour Verne on free front endpaper to their friends who inspired this work (* see below)..... More
Alençon: E. Renaut de Broise, 1887-1888. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). [4], vi, 446, [2]pp. Modern blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Original printed front wrap bound in. A collection of 117 original texts from the following Indian tribes of North-western Canada: Chiglit Eskimos (2)..... More