New York: Lawrence E. Spivak / B.G. Davis, 1945-1976. Softcover. Wrappers. Collection of eighty-seven issues. Covers are illustrated in color from 1945-1953. Small quarto. Vol. 8, #33, Aug. '46 is missing the back cover & front cover is loose at one staple; Vol. 11, #55, June '48 has tape on..... More
![Enoch Arden [WITH A STRIKING FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY MARTIN FROST] [SIGNED BY THE ARTIST]. Alfred...](/pictures/thumb/45721.jpg?v=1562370440)
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4"). [6], 178pp. Contemporary full red morocco stamped in gilt and black on covers and spine, and gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Stricking fore-edge painting by Martin Frost depicting Buckingham Palace. The painting can be..... More
Philadelphia: Billstein & Son, 1892. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 34pp. [3]. Beige-grey wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Signed by Horace Traubel in ink on the title page. This work records the content of the statements, speeches and readings made by those present at the memorial of acclaimed..... More
Paris: Devambez, 1929. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/20. Folio (13 1/2 x 11"). 137, [5]pp. Original glassine over decorative dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Book housed in its original chemise, with title label to spine. Chemise itself housed in its matching slipcase. Color illustrated title page. Originally published in 1895, "Les Villages illusoires"..... More
Madrid: Librero - Anticuario, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. sm. 8vo. Two volumes in one. 436 (2) pp. + 252 (2) pp. Three-quarters brown cloth binding over decorated boards. Spine sunned. Shelf wear throughout. Hinges starting to crack but holding. Faded decorated page edges. Browning to pages throughout not affecting text..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904. First edition. Softcover. 116/200 - Octavo. 30pp. Original gray wraps with blue, decorative ruling and blue lettering on cover with blue cloth wrap around chemise housed in black half leather slipcase with gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Printed on wove paper with red..... More
NP: self published, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 46 leaves, unpaginated. Original decorative beige paper-covered boards, protected in modern mylar. Hand-illustrated title page. Three poems with decorative initials. A calligraphic rendering of eighteen of With's esoteric poems by the hand of the author on uncut, handmade paper and dedicated..... More
Venice: Pietro Maria Bertano, 1638. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [12], 472 [i.e. 480]pp. Full 19th-century floral motif cloth. All edges red. Title-page with engraved vignette. Illustrated woodcut vignette on title page. Decorative initials, headpieces and tailpiece. Woodcute vignette on first page. "Il Decameron" is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni..... More
Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1972. Limited Second edition. Hardcover. 1/1100. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original tan cloth over decorative paper covered boards, with black lettering on spine. Book housed in its original decorative paper covered slipcase. Captivating poetic work by Octavio Paz, the famed Mexican Nobel laureate, whose poetry was influenced by Marxism..... More
München: Julius Schröder Verlag, 1921. Limited Deluxe Edition (Vorzugsausgabe). Hardcover. 1/205 copies, signed in pencil on limitation page by German painter & graphic artist, Adolph Schinnerer. Large 4to. 98pp. Decorative gold-stamped Japan vellum with vellum stitching on spine and beveled gilt-stamped dentelles. Hand bound by Buchbinderei Knorr & Hirth, München..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899, 1902, 1901, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. All 1/450. Quartos. Original quarter Japanese vellum over blue paper boards with red and black lettering on spine, raised bands, in original printed dustjacket. Matching slipcase with printed label in red and black on spine. Title pages printed..... More
Paris: Hetzel, ND [ca 1905-1910]. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], 434, [2]pp. Elaborately decorated publisher's binding of red cloth, stamped in gilt and printed in black and green on the front and spine. (The head of an elephant in the upper left corner of the front panel with pictorial scenes..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). XXI, [1], 261, [1]pp. Uncut. Later 19th-century gilt-lined 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding signed by Zaehnsdorf* on inside of front free endpaper..... More
Berkshire: Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty, 2010. Facsimile edition, after the original edition. Hardcover. 1215/1980. Folio. 764 (3), 47 (1)pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, with companion book in black half leather over dark green boards with black..... More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1923. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1500. Folio (12 x 9 1/4"). 102, [2]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over illustrated dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Illustrated title in red and black lettering. Book housed in its original tan cloth slipcase. Illustrated with nineteen tissue-guarded mounted polychrome plates, as well as..... More
Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1763. Editio Altera, Emendatior. Hardcover. 2 works bound in one. 8vo. [8],507,15],pp. xxvii,223,[8,]14,pp. Original blind-stamped vellum, titles in brown lettering on spine. (R. Louwth ae Sacra Hebraeor; Poesi C. N. Michaelis). "De sacra poesi Hebraeorum" and "Poesi" in Latin with some Hebrew, 14 pages of "Drey..... More
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1942. 57.-73. Tausend. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated wrappers. A hilarious look at "Soldiers life" through caricature. Profusely illustrated with full page b/w drawings. Inscribed by previous owner to inside of front wrapper. Wear, chipping, rubbing and some tearing to wrappers. Bottom corner of back wrapper clipped. Two..... More
Gottingen: Abram. Vandenhoeck, 1741. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 191, 13pp. Original spotted calf with gold ruling along edges of covers. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Vignette on title page. Decorative initials and head and tailpieces. In 1740, Voltaire helped to publish Frederick's "Anti-Machiavel," a political treatise arguing that the..... More
Antwerpen: De Sikkel, 1926. Limited First edition. Paperback. 1/110. Quarto. 93, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Publisher's logo on front cover and title page. This remarkable illustrated work by Karel van de Woestijne (1878-1929), a Flemish writer who was strongly influenced by the Tachtigers and the French..... More
Leningrad: Издательство Писателей в Ленинграде (Izdat. Pisatelej), 1929. First edition. Softcover. Square 12mo. 93pp. [3]. Illustrated grey stiff paper wrappers, with blue and black lettering on the front cover. A first edition of this masterpiece work of avant-garde Russian poetry from Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936). The eleventh and final book of..... More
London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,238pp. Green cloth with gold-samped Art Nouveau design on front and spine, including title in gold on spine. According to the compiler, Vacaresco, this volume is made up of "tales and legends of our dear country (Romania) ...[collected..... More
London: Dean & Munday, ca 1820. Softcover. 24mo. 4.5x3". 30pp. Yellow printed wrappers with black lettering on the front and back covers. Decorative border on the front cover. Woodcut frontispiece. This is a pocket-size illustrated English-language version of the French fairy tale "Riquet With the Tuft", the first known version..... More
Lugduni (Lyon): Officina Hug. A. Porta, Sumptibus Ioan. Degabiano & Sam. Girard, 1603. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 3/4"). [8], 1426pp. [Mispagination: Page 947 numbered 647, pages 949 to [1076] numbered 499 to 626. Pages [1077] on, numbered 1027 to 1426]. Later full spotted calf, with gold..... More
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/750. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). [8], xlviii, 328pp. Uncut. Later 3/4 olive morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Ribbon marker. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece. Title page..... More
Tölz, Germany: Bremer Presse, 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. 134/270. Quarto. 242 (6)pp. Original three quarter vellum over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Printed to heavy handmade paper with bottom and foredge uncut. The printing components have been procured by Johannes Hoops based on the..... More