London: Self Published, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii,240 pp. Brown paper-covered boards protected by modern plastic, which is attached to endpapers. Age wear to boards. Heavy chipping to spine, most of backstrip missing. Hinges starting. Page edges uncut, as issued. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages..... More
Augsburg: Maro, (1997). First (limited) German edition. Softcover. 1/2500. 8vo. 27, [1]pp. Tan wraps in original color-illustrated dust wrapper. Color frontispiece. Delightful fictional short story by T. C. Boyle in which the author spends an evening with Jane Austen, her sister Cassandra, as well as a character from one of..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/250 out of series. xxxi, 45 (1), 47 (1)pp. Original quarter vellum over tan paper-covered boards plus string bound 12mo. blank wraps, both housed in tan paper covered wooden slipcases, the latter with vellum spine fitting..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [2], 142, [2]pp. Contemporary 3/4 olive cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. First edition of these paired poems which are meditations on the nature of religious faith in an..... More
Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich, 1803. Later printing. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. xxi, 312, xii, 332pp. Original full calf with gilt tooling on red frame of cover and gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Turquoise endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Edited by Karl Reinhard this 2 volume luxury edition of Bürger's Sämmtliche Schriften contain Bürger's complete..... More
München: Fr. Bassermann, 1901. 27th to 29th Thousand. Softcover. 8vo., 65 pp. Original illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover. Title page vignette. Written in 1881 Plisch and Plum is one example for a genre often used by Wilhelm Busch: Boy's Stories, namely this kind where boys would have to..... More
Berlin: Officina Serpentis, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Ernst Hohenemser on front free endpaper. Quarto. (2) 84 (1)pp. Original plain stiff wraps. Possibly a proof copy of the 1920 publication of Catull's poetry published by the famed Berlin handpress Officina Serpentis, founded 1911 by Eduard Wilhelm Tieffenbach. The dedication poem..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1914. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. 712pp. 760pp. Half vellum over gold-stamped paper-covered boards with gold decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Minor age wear and scuffing on binding, staining on spines. Slight age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Delightful German publication from 1914 of the famous tale..... More
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Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1982. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Letter O of 26 lettered copies from an edition of 330, signed by Cheever on colophon. Octavo. 29 (2)pp. Original illustrated tan cloth with brown lettering on spine, housed in matching cloth slipcase. Illustrated title page printed in green and..... More
London: William Pickering, 1847. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (clxxxvii) 369, 447pp. Olive green stiff cloth boards, with blind stamped illustrations on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Side edge uncut. This is NOT the edition of 2 volumes in 3. This is complete in 2 vols. The book is as..... More
Topeka, Kansas: Crane and Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (xii) 351pp. (1). Illustrated tan cloth boards with brown lettering on the front cover and spine. Frontispiece photo portrait of the author in b/w. The fascinating work is the author's memoir of his time spent on the plains of..... More
Berlin: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde Wegweiser Verlag G.m.b.H, ND [1928]. Private publication. Hardcover. Large octavo. 579, [1]pp. Original 3/4 calf over illustrated paper covered boards. Top edge green. Ribbon marker. Publisher's logo on title page. Illustrated initials. Exquisite German-language edition of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," magnificently illustrated..... More
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New York: Random House, 1990. Second printing. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). xiii, [1], 237, [5]pp. Original illustrated and photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth and dark grey paper covered boards, with three red stars embossed to front cover, and gold lettering to spine. Inside of front cover inscribed and signed..... More
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n/d. Hanns Anker. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. 438pp. 411pp. 446pp. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt-decorated spine and title-plate. Abrasions and rubbing to binding. Wear to edges. Corners rubbed. Some water staining to top edge of back cover on Vol.II. Ribbon markers. Delightful 3 volume..... More
Philadelphia: Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Son, 1897. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. 8vo. 365pp. Three-quarter gold-lined leather over green cloth with gold decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-page edge. Beautiful publication of this novel by Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). Volume V, Realists of the series "Roman Contemporain."..... More
Berlin: Eshkol, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 200pp.(2). Original blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering, printers vignette and decorative ruling. "Sefer Sha'shu'im" by Joseph ben Meir Ibn Zabara: "(b. About 1140) , physician and Hebrew writer. Born in Barcelona, Ibn Zabara was a contemporary of some of the Tibbon..... More
Lille: Castiaux et Blocquel, libraires associes, (not mentioned, ca. 1820). First edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. in 1. 24mo. 152pp. 156pp. 147pp. 125pp. Half leather over marble board. Scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine. Tears to back cover. Hinges starting. Text within decorated frame. Text in French. Cover in good..... More
Boston: William F. Gill & Company, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 leaves, 288pp. Original green pebbled clothe with gilt facsimile signatures of authors and decor on cover, gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispieces and title page for each story with additional volume title page containing publishers..... More
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Rose endpapers. Collaboration of Dine (artist) and Padgett (text) juxtaposing oddities of the American psychological sphere in text and mostly pencil drawings and collages on glossy egg shell colored paper..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin LTD., 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 287 (1)pp., 13 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original orange cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on half-title. Color frontispiece. Personal account of Australia's Light Horsemen and their involvement in the Sinai..... More
Montreal: Charles Scribner (privately printed and issued), 1929. Trugo, Lui. Limited ed. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes. Unabridged translation from the French by Ernest Dowson, Photogravure and drawings by Lui Trugo. Decorated brown cloth with gilt. Limited to 1,500 copies. Both volumes: Head and tail of spine and edges slightly bumped..... More
London: J. Tonson, 1717. Hardcover. 8vo. (18) 536pp. Contemporary tooled and stamped leather with red label at spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Ex-libris Lord Lilford. Printers devices. Illustrated initials. Great collection of works on poetry and some poems. Age wear to binding. Binding starting to split alongside spine, but still firmly..... More
Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 1/800. Crown 8vo. 131pp. Green-patterned cloth boards backed in orange buckram with paper titling label. Woodcut illustration on the title page and frontispiece photograph of Zeitlin. Typography by Saul and Lilian Marks. Newspaper clipping put inside book on front..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 31pp. Original rose colored paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover. Frontispiece drawing of Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. First edition of the anonymously published version of this wok. "by T.S. Eliot" in pencil on title page. The manuscript for this..... More
Boston: John W. Luce, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 155 (2)pp. Original decorative paper boards with light brown lettering on labels on cover and spine, in matching dustjacket, brown lettering on spine. With a foreword, an appreciation by Havelock Ellis: "There are few more delightful books in the world..... More