NP: Various, 1912–1928. Various. Hardcover. Collection of four books of poetry, one novel, one essay, and a speech on the occasion of the commemoration for the liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor Friedrich Nauman by the Thuringia aristocrat Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff; various handwritten letters and notes by author, and ephemera..... More
![La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading [WITH 15 HAND-COLORED COPPER ENGRAVINGS]. Oscar Wilde, G....](/pictures/thumb/40562.jpg?v=1522363829)
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/225. Large quarto. 25, [1] loose pages (Preface), XLV, [7] loose pages (Text), as issued. Original glassine over decorative dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Book housed in its publisher's paper covered chemise and decorative paper covered slipcase. Stunning limited edition of Oscar Wilde's "The..... More
Boston: Loring, (1875). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 125pp. Original gold-stamped brown-purplish cloth with gold lettering on spine. Horatio Alger, Jr. was a 19th-century American author who was best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from poverty or humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security..... More
![Neben der Heerstraße. (Next to the Army Street) [WITH ORIGINAL WOODCUTS BY E. L. KIRCHNER]....](/pictures/thumb/48334.jpg?v=1630948568)
Zürich: Grethlein & Co., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 434 (1), 4pp. Original red half cloth over salmon boards with Kirchner woodcut on cover and black lettering on cover and spine. Top edge purple. Publisher's device on half-title. Kirchner woodcut on title page, twenty-two woodcuts in text; all including cover..... More
Paris: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis, 1954. Limited edition. Paperback. 1/430. Quarto. 90, [2]pp. Unopened copy. Original glassine over blank wrappers in illustrated dust-jacket. Title page in burgundy and black lettering. Picasso illustrated this essay of Diderot’s with four portraits of the great thinker, whose mind “anticipated and epitomized moral, psychological..... More
Berlin: Verlag Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. 52/750 on Japan Vellin paper. Octavo. 216, xxii pages, 33 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Yellow top edge. Illustrated endpapers by Max Pechstein. Frontispiece original b/w lithograph by Lovis..... More
![Poems [WITH A SIGNED LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR]. Alfred Lord Tennyson](/pictures/thumb/42109.jpg?v=1490137642)
London: Edward Moxon, 1848. Fifth edition. 12mo. (viii) 372pp. (2). Contemporary maroon morocco boards. Stamped motifs and lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. The front cover is missing. A signed letter from Tennyson to a friend, regarding his travel plans, dated "June 13th 1869", has been pasted onto the..... More
Amsterdam: Jean Catuffe, 1739. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 92pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and borders on spine. Decorative endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initial. Second edition of Voltaire's critical essay on the life of Molière and his plays..... More
Paris: Librairie Orientale et Americaine, Maisonneuve Freres, Editeurs, 1926. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [2], lxxvi, 498, [4]pp (Vol. 1); [2], xxiv, 556pp (Vol. 2); [2], 587, [1]pp (Vol. 3). Modern light blue cloth, with white lettering to spines. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Originally..... More
![La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]. George Barbier, Albert Flament...](/pictures/thumb/39602.jpg?v=1474928739)
Paris: Meynial, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 137, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces, and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921, "La Guirlande..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Octavo. XIV, [2], 609, [1]pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. First edition, second issue of this fascinating work, profusely illustrated with forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. The..... More
![Le Serpent dans la Galère [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND THE ARTIST]. Georges...](/pictures/thumb/36906.jpg?v=1434442310)
New York: Curt Valentin, 1945. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/425. Folio. 100, [2]pp. Original half grey cloth over illustrated paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by Georges Duthuit and André Masson, and dated September 17, 1945. Illustrated title page. Decorative initials. Collection of..... More
Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1927. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/525. Unpaginated. 25 double-folded leaves. 3/4 orange buckram over tan paper boards, with debossed gilt-accented illustrated roundel on the front cover. Gilt decorated motif on the back cover. Interior covers in gilt. Yellow ribbon marker. One of a limited edition of..... More
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 64pp. [2]. Tan printed wrappers with black modernist typography on the front cover. This collection of poems by acclaimed Soviet-Yiddish poet Itzik Fefer (1900-1952), was the author's third published collection. The title of the work seems to be in reference to the poet's..... More
[Mexico City]: Fondo de Cultura Popular A.C., 1952. First Mexican edition. Softcover. Octavo. 128pp. Illustrated white, black and red paper wrappers, with black and red lettering on the front cover and spine. Original cover designed for this edition by acclaimed Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Scarce first Mexican edition of the..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, (1908-1909). Limited edition. Jubiläumsausgabe. Hardcover. 1/1000. 4to. 405,[1],pp. Full leather with blind-tooled decorations on front-and back board as well as spine. Gold-embossed title on cover. Raised bands. Clasps missing, but remnants of leather strips on edge of back board; two gold studs on fore edge of front..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv, 1194,xxii, 1221, xvii, 1012 (1), xx, 826, xiv, 923pp. Original printed dustjackets over red cloth with silver tooling and gilt lettering on spine, brodart protected, volume four with modern mylar. "The importance of Victorian periodicals to modern scholars can..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911-1912. The Viking Edition, limited to 256 copies. Hardcover. Complete in 16 volumes. Octavo. Three-quarter cream cloth over paper-covered boards with printed title-label. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Ribbon marker. Some pages unopened as issued. Signed by publisher on limitation leaf in..... More
![The Royal Martyr: or, the History of the Life and Death of K. Charles I. [WITH] Eikon Basilike,...](/pictures/thumb/39361.jpg?v=1566429863)
London: Richard Royston, 1693. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (1) 12, 288 (10), (1) 14, 272, 54pp. Modern brown leather with gilt ruling on covers, gilt tooling and lettering on spine; raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispieces. Dedicated "To The Kings most Excellent Majesty Charles II. By the Grace..... More
Paris: Les Cent Une, 1974. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/122. Large quarto. 100, [8] loose pages, as issued. Uncut. Pages within printed wrappers in a decorative cloth chemise, housed in a matching decorative slipcase. Illustrated with four tissue-guarded original etchings by Jean Jansem, this striking edition of Jules Laforgue's "L'Imitation de..... More
![The Art of Papermaking [SIGNED]. Joseph De Lalande, Richard MacIntyre Atkinson, trans](/pictures/thumb/22683.jpg?v=1434441504)
Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/355. 118pp. Three-quarter bronze floral decorated brown leather over brown burlap, gold lettering on spine. Unique color mottled/marbled endpapers. Forepage edges untrimmed as issued. The first English language translation of 'Art de Le Papier' by Joseph..... More
![Hell House [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]. Richard Matheson](/pictures/thumb/44898.jpg?v=1551390643)
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated grey and blue dust jacket with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Dark blue cloth over black paper boards with silver and blue lettering on the spine. Not price clipped. Top edge of book..... More
Leipzig: Gottl. Weigel, 1814. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii. 354(2)pp. Half leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine. Minor wear to leather and boards. Decorated page edges. Signature of previous owner to endpaper. Two-inch closed tear to bottom edge of endpaper. The original edition of works taken from manuscript notes of Richard..... 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