Berlin: Soncino-Gesellschaft, 1929. RARE LIMITED EDITION OF 200. Hardcover. 1/200 Unnumbered. Quarto. 57 (1)pp. Beige quarter cloth over brown paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine. Foredge untrimmed, as issued. "Spendendruck," printed by Menko Max Hirsch exclusively for the participants of the Soncino-Gesellschafts 1929 annual meeting. Limitation page: "Handpressendruck der... More
New York: Macmillan, 1903. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 231pp. + 2 pages of publishers ads. Green illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Pages uncut, with top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. This is a second printing of the first edition, published the same... More
Paris: J. Chevrel, 1911. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/300. Quarto (10 1/4 x 6 1/2"). [4], xxxii, 382, [4]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece. Book housed in its marbled paper covered slipcase. Originally published in 1862, Jules Michelet's "La Sorcière" is a.... More
Wien: Gesellschaft für vervielfätigende Kunst, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Elephant folio. [2], 36, [1], followed by 57 blank leaves. Original illustrated front wrapper bound in three-quarter leather over black cloth. Decorative endpapers. Front and rear boards detached but present, lacking spine and rear wrapper. Rolandsknappen is a legendary tale... More
London: J. Nichols, 1782. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 6"). [4], xxii, [2], 231, [1]pp. Uncut. Modern grey linen with gilt-lettered leather title laid on spine. "Two Dissertations" was edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt for the benefit of Musgrave's family, and published two years after the author's death. Samuel... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927. Alastair. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 68pp. 1/1050 copies. Decorated tan cloth with gilt title to cover and spine in original slipcase with cover plate. Spine sunned. Some staining and discoloration to boards. Upper corners bumped. Staining, discoloration and some rubbing on slipcase... More
London: [T. Fisher Unwin], 1912, 5672. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 82 (4). Original illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on cover. Initial lettering by A. Field. Profusely illustrated with distinctive reproductions of photographs, prints, and drawings by Lucien Pissarro, Isaac Rosenberg, Boris Schatz, and others. Front cover illustration by Frank Emanuel... More
Warsaw: B. Kleckin, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 241pp. Original illustrated beige cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black on spine. Dark brown endpapers. Duotone frontispiece portrait. Rare first edition of the Yiddish translation. Novel on the subject of soldiers' difficulties to reintegrate into normal life after having... More
![The Bibliography of Tennyson: A Bibliographical List of the Privately-printed Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate from 1827 to 1894 [WITH] Grolier Club Exhibiton Pamphlet & Chromolithograph. Richard Herne Shepherd.](/pictures/thumb/41547.jpg?v=1481677432)
London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1896. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/35. Quarto. (vii) 88pp. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Edges uncut. This is #27 of a limited number of 35 copies of this large paper edition, printed on special paper. The publication is a beautifully printed comprehensive... More
![Valse des Fleurs: A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868 [SIGNED]. Sacheverell Sitwell, Henry Moore, Reynolds Stone.](/pictures/thumb/39143.jpg?v=1434442585)
York: The Fairfax Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/30. Quarto. X, [2], 90, [6]pp. Uncut. Original half cream calf over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Book housed in a slipcase designed by Henry Moore. Decorative endpapers and title page. Limitation page hand-signed by both Sacheverell... More
London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 154pp. + 2 pages of publishers ads. Contemporary green full morocco boards. Covers with stamping and gilt ruling. Spine with gilt stamped floral designs and lettering. The book is a beautifully bound first edition, second state copy, indicated by the presence... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1908-1910. Hardcover. Small octavos. Green 3/4 calf over green cloth boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Spines have been sunned to a tan color uniformly. Beautifully marbled endpapers and with the top edges in gilt. Portrait engraving frontispieces of Tennyson and his wife Emily, in... More
![Poems [The Endymion Series]. Alfred Tennyson, Eleanor F. Brickdale.](/pictures/thumb/41510.jpg?v=1474412812)
London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/75. Quarto (9 x 5 3/4"). X, 402, [4]pp. Original full linen, with red and black lettering to spine. Red-lettered decorative front wrap. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated title page in red and black lettering. This limited edition of Alfred Tennyson's poems is... More
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
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 SLIPCASE AND SHRINK WRAP]. Kurt Vonnegut.](/pictures/thumb/42528.jpg?v=1493337503)
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
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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963-1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavos. Light blue printed dust jackets with dark blue lettering on front covers and spines. Dark blue paper covered boards, with blind stamped publishers device on front covers, and gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Pages of some volumes uncut along bottom edge. The... More
New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, 338 (2), viii (i), 524 (4)pp. Original blue cloth with Gyles decor and gilt lettering on spines. Top edge gilt. Volume I: Lyrical Poems. Volume II: Dramatical Poems. "When I was in America two or three years... 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]. Maurice Toesca, André Fougeron.](/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