St. Louis: S. H. Sonneschein, 1871. Ex Library First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 400pp. Disbound book block with back strip intact. Weekly magazine publishing 26 issues from January 1st to June 30th, 1871 (all published, lacking Nos. 7 and 26. Reviewed by the Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes and praised..... More
Paris: Delangle Frères, 1824-34. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spines. marbled endpapers. Fascinating edition of the works of the most famous French Enlightenment writer, essayist and philosopher of all times. It includes: Vol. 1 : Biographie. Vol.2 : Mémoires. Vol..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [8], 359pp. Full purple calf with gold-tooling on spine and edges and gold borders on covers. Bound by Morrell. Gilt lettering on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Expertly rebacked retaining original spine. Ex-libris of Lucy Smith Battson..... More
Darmstadt: C. F. Winter'schen Buchdruckerei, 1900. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 25 (1)pp. Re-cased with new endpapers, retaining original gilt-illustrated gray original wraps. Black publisher's device and lettering on cover framed by gilt Jugenstil flowers. Illustrated title page and decorative dedication page. Text pages with delicate Jugendstil frames, printed in pale..... More
Breslau: Jesaias Fellgibel Buchhändler, 1689. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Bound in vellum with handwritten title on spine. Double page frontispiece engraving. Decorative title page, head and endpieces, initials. 1 double plate engraving, (2, 2, 2, 32)pp., (6)pp., 1 plate A I, 192pp., 2 plates, 150pp., 1 plate, 160pp., 1 plate A II..... More
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Published Privately by the Oriole Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. "To my friend,- Joseph J. Cohan,- with fraternal greetings from Joseph Ishill, Berkeley Heights, N. J., July. 1929.- " 20/450. Quarto. xlvi, 299 (1)pp., 15 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original half vellum over decorative colored paper boards..... More
Den Haag: De Baanbreker, 1931. First Dutch edition. Softcover. Octavo. 158pp. Original plum wraps with light blue design and lettering on cover, in original dustjacket with elaborate photomontage on cover, white lettering on spine. Cover design by Cesar Domela. An anthology of works by the well known German racing reporter..... More
London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1819. Second edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 156pp. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling and lettering on red leather label of spine. Variant title page w/o first line of second edition "Antiquitates Curiosae:", the fourth line "Old Sayings, Proverbs," the eighth line..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924-1926. First editions thus. Softcover. Small octavos. Nine separate titles of the scarce "First Series" of "The Hogarth Essays". These are pamphlets ranging in length from 24 to 48 pages, with woodcut covers printed in either black or green on card stock wrappers. All are housed..... More
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Gray Peck on front free endpaper. Octavo. 495pp., 9 leaves of plates. Original black cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait. Title page with black triple..... 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
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
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
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (vi) [1] 296pp. 32pp. (publisher's ads). Housed in a custom maroon pebbled leather pull-off case, with gilt lettering and raised band on the spine. Period orange cloth boards with decorative motifs and ruling in black running along the top..... 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
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905. Softcover. Duodecimo. 222pp. Bound in a beautiful period grey-brown morocco binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover, with raised bands, and gilt stamped motifs and lettering on a red label on the spine. Top edge of the book block in gilt. Gilt..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 4 3/4"). VI, [2], 399, [1]pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full vellum, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Composed in only seven weeks as a 'respite' from the harassing labor of writing "Cromwell," Thomas Carlyle's "Past and Present"..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972. First paperback edition. Softcover. Octavo. xxiv, 409 (2)pp. Original black stiff wraps with white, yellow,red and green lettering on cover and spine. Collection of essays on black aesthetics including contributions of thirty-three writers, including Langston Hughes "The Negro Artist and the..... More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1999. First edition. Softcover. Brief inscription by author on half-title. Octavo. xxvii, (1) 74pp. Original tan glossy wraps with black lettering on cover. "By the mid-twentieth century, aggressive measures had begun to shore up the image o blackness. Expressions of pride in an African heritage..... 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
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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
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. (4) 222pp. Original cream wraps with red lettering on cover, protected by a loose outer wrapper of transparent paper folded over. Half-title, reverse blank; title page printed in red and black. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review," by permission of Messrs Chapman..... More
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New York: Random House, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 114/ 390 Signed on colophon by Vojtech Preissig. Folio. 25(4)pp. Original black cloth over beige boards with brown lettering on spine; housed in matching slipcase. Decorative endpapers. Original color linoleum cut by Preissig on half-title. Frontispiece linoleum cut by Preissig. Decorative ruling..... More
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Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli, 1958. First edition. Softcover. "Für mausi mit allen guten wünschen Max Bill am jahresende 1958" on front free endpaper. Octavo. 84pp. Original cream wraps with black lettering on cover and spine, in original glassine dustwrapper. Publication in appreciation of the Swiss architect, artist, painter, typographer and..... More
Paris: René Vandenberg, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 83pp. Top edge gilt. 3/4 leather over decorative paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Red and black lettering on illustrated title-page. Fascing work by one of the major figures in Belgian magic realism (fantastique quotidien), profusely illustrated with..... More