NP: NP, 1862. Privately Printed. Softcover. 24mo (6 3/4 x 5 1/4"). VIII, 112pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original blue wrappers. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Scarce pirated edition of Alfred Tennyson's poems written between 1830 and 1833. This work is attributed to the London bookseller John Camden Hotten, who advertised..... More
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xviii, 19-651 (5)pp. Original three-quarter light brown pebbled leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling, blind-stamped tooling on spine; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Two frontispiece engravings with tissue guard. With two hundred and thirty-four illustrations..... More
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Izdanie T-va A. F. Marks, n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. 12 volumes bound in 4. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Library inventory labels pasted down near tail on spine on 2 volumes. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Text in Russian. Overall very good condition. Rare. Gleb..... More
New York: Mehr Likht, 1910. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 190 pp. Original paper wrappers. Book is very rare, as OCLC only lists three libraries world wide that own this work. Frontis piece portraying a b/w steel engraving portrait of Goethe mounted on front endpaper. Lovely decorative title page. This is..... More
![Fates Worse than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s [SIGNED] [NEW IN PUBLISHER'S...](/pictures/thumb/42528.jpg?v=1552603365)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/250. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). 240pp. Original full cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Book housed in its publisher's slipcase. "Fates Worse than Death" is a collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by Kurt Vonnegut..... More
![Gertrude Stein. A Bibliography [SIGNED]. Robert A. Wilson](/pictures/thumb/13930.jpg?v=1524094918)
New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1974. Limited Edition. 1/100. Deluxe edition. 8vo. xii. 227pp. The Phoenix biliographies, VII. Tan suede with light yellow lettering to cover and spine. Minor rubbing to bottom edges. Pasted-in unpublished photograph as frontispiece, depicting Gertrude Stein. Signed by Bob Wilson (compiler). Handwritten and signed inscription..... More
![The Presidents I Have Known From 1860 to 1918. [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Simon Wolf](/pictures/thumb/25059.jpg?v=1573173582)
Washington D.C: Byron S. Adams, 1918. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [18], 464pp. Original cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Simon Wolf. Two original typed letters signed by author pasted on fly leaf and on last page. Both letters are addressed..... More
NP: NP, 1761. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xxxvi, 374 pp. Half leather over brown marbled boards. This 1761 edition is a facsimile of the 1527 edition. It is written according to the definitive text by Francesco D'Amaretto Mannelli taken from Boccaccio's original. With several steelplate engravings, including a frontispiece of Boccaccio..... More
Madrid: Tipografía de Archivos, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 716 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Text in Spanish. Amazing reference work, being a bio-bibliography of Spanish literature of the Canary Islands. Agustín Millares Carlo, (1893 - 1980) was an academic and paleographer. A professor at a number..... More
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/700 Unnumbered. Original gray dustjacket over gray half cloth with illustrated yellow paper-covered boards and red lettering on spine. Richly illustrated with 85 entertaining drawings by alexander Calder, edited and introduced by James Johnson Sweeney. DJ sunned along top, bottom and spine..... More
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. The Author's edition. Hardcover. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8"). XII, [13]-314, [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 1); VIII, 335, [1], [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 2); 403, [1], [4]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 3); 250, 15, [1]pp (Adv.) (Vol. 4); 197, [3], 48pp (Adv.) (Vol. 5). Contemporary half..... More
![Le Jet d'Eau [INSCRIBED, SIGNED, WITH ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER, AND POEM BY THE AUTHOR]....](/pictures/thumb/39142.jpg?v=1434442584)
Paris: Raoul Mortier, 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/260. Quarto. 60, [2] loose pages, as published. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed wrappers. Book housed in a paper covered chemise, with black lettering on spine. Chemise housed in its matching paper covered slipcase. Laid in a handwritten letter..... More
London: George Allen: Ruskin House, 1894. Walter Crane. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/650. Folio. Unpaginated. Gilt decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Heavy chipping, fraying and tearing to spine. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration, staining and scuffing to boards. Hinges starting. Decorated title page. Page following title repaired along..... More
![The Thanksgiving Visitor [Inscribed and signed by the author]. Truman Capote](/pictures/thumb/28968.jpg?v=1510962164)
New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 63, [1]pp. Half red cloth over paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Book housed in its original paper covered slipcase with pictorial title label laid in. Title page inscribed and signed by Truman Capote. Printer's device on title page..... More
![Civil War [SIGNED]. Liam O'Flaherty](/pictures/thumb/22495.jpg?v=1438645937)
London: E. Archer, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Signed by author on colophon. Limited edition 86/100, privately printed. Quarto. 10 (1)pp. Original, printed marbled wraps. Notable short story on the Irish civil war by Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), the Irish novelist who was a major figure in the Irish Renaissance. His perhaps..... More
![Lintsheray (Kleyne Bibliotek. No.4)/ Lincz (Mala Biblioteka, No.4) [Lynching]. Joseph Opatoshu,...](/pictures/thumb/46341.jpg?v=1576893943)
Warsaw: Yidish bukh/ Idisz Buch, 1958. Softcover. Duodecmo. 47pp. Tan and grey wrappers with illustration of the author and text in black and white on the front cover. The work is Polish-born Yiddish writer Joseph Opatoshu's (1886-1954) short story dealing with the lynching of a young black man in the..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 206pp. Illustrated white dust jacket, with black, red and blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Black cloth over black blind-stamped illustrated paper boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Stated "first edition", and "97532468" on the verso..... More
Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 440/475, Large Octavo. 59 (1)pp. Original gray half cloth over decorative boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers and title page. 'Letters written by Oscar Wilde during the summer of 1897 after his release from prison to Robert Ross, who had approached..... More
London: William Reeves, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 45 (1)pp. Eriginal tan wraps with dark blue lettering bound in contemporary yellow cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Yellow endpapers. Written on May 31, 1895, six days after Wilde was convicted in order to contradict the opinion that Wilde's..... More
NP: The Limited Editions Club, 1937, 1935. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. 12vo. 1/1500. 2 volumes, both in double cases. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Both volumes signed by Angelo on colophon. Kadish of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi bound in purple leather w/slight fading at edges. Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam bound in yellow leather..... More
Surrey, England: Circle Press Publications, (1978). Ronald King. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/250. xi. 58pp. Elephant folio. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original blue cloth slipcase. Minor discoloration to slipcase. Illustrated title page. Signed by Ronald King. A wonderful edition with original full page color screen images designed..... More
![2001: A Space Odyssey [SIGNED]. Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick](/pictures/thumb/44845.jpg?v=1551390639)
New York: Signet, 1968. First paperback edition, forth printing. Softcover. Octavo. 221pp. (3). White photo-illustrated wrappers with black and blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke in pen on the title page. This a first paperback edition of the seminal science-fiction masterpiece 2001: A...... More
![Time and Again: An Illustrated Novel [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Jack Finney](/pictures/thumb/44970.jpg?v=1552603952)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 399, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with gold lettering to front cover and spine. Top edge yellow. Title page inscribed and signed by Jack Finney. First edition of this science fiction novel which describes a...... More
London: Joseph John Leathwick, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxvii, 40-117 (1)pp. Original full blue morocco with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Light brown endpapers. First edition of this translation by H. H. Young. Story of two biblical characters by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian who..... More
Paris: Dechalotte, 1948. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/999 numbered copies. 4to. 159pp. Original cardboard wrappers ith black lettering to front wrapper and spine in original glassine jacket. Seated in original beige cardboard slipcase. Top and bottom page edges untrimmed. Pages unbound and unopened. Watercolored full-page frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Illustrated initials..... More