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
![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
![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
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
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
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