Hamburg Paris: Hoffmann und Campe, Dubouchet & Cie. 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 421pp. Professionally re-cased retaining original three quarter leather spine over brocade black silk paper boards with floral and animal motifs, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled edges and modern stiff light brown end and free endpapers..... More
![Die Tragödie des Menschen (The Tragedy of Man) [INSCRIBED]. Imre Madách, Jenö...](/pictures/thumb/43768.jpg?v=1546561200)
Budapest, Leipzig: Dr. Georg Vajna & Co., 1933. First German Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Mohácsi on half title. 54/100 numbered by hand. Octavo. 207 (1)pp. Rebound in three quarter Morocco over decorative paper retaining original cover bound in; spine with gilt tooling and lettering, raised bands. Decorative endpapers. "The Tragedy of..... More
München: Verlag Avalun, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 214/300. Small Folio. Unpaginated, 80 leaves. Original gray cloth with dark gray lettering on cover. A yearbook of new German lyrical word-art with eleven multicolored original woodcuts by Georg Braumüller and Ernst Neumann as well as two in-text lithographs by Hans Heise. Publisher's..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892 & 1894. Artists Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 750 copies. Complete in 9 volumes (consisting of seven volumes of "The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier" & 2 volumes "Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier" by Samuel T. Pickard). Octavo. Brown cloth, title-label with..... More
London: Printed for private circulation, 1894. First edition. Softcover. 35/75. Octavo. 11pp. Original gray wraps with blue, decorative ruling and lettering on cover. Black and red lettered title page. Decorative head and end piece with historiated initial letter. Of this work seventy-five copies have been printed for private circulation of..... More
![The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1832). 4-Vol. set (Complete) [WITH] Yarrow Revisited...](/pictures/thumb/41482.jpg?v=1473981964)
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1832 (The Poetical Works); 1835 (Yarrow). New edition (Poetical Works); First edition (Yarrow Revisited). Hardcover. Large 24mo (6 x 3 3/4"). XLVII, 342, [2]pp (Vol. 1); XV, [1], 377, [1]pp (Vol. 2); XI, [1], 358pp (Vol. 3); [6], 357, [1]pp (Vol. 4);..... More
Paris: David, Prault, Durand, 1750. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 16mo. cxxxiij. 159pp. 357pp. Contemporary leather with gilt ornaments and title plate to spine. Head and tail of spines slightly bumped and rubbed. Cracks and lining to spine. Corners rubbed and partly worn. Minor scuffing and rubbing to boards. Yellowing..... More
![Poems [INSCRIBED]. Matthew Arnold](/pictures/thumb/42368.jpg?v=1490829886)
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854. Second edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. (xxxix) 255pp. + 24pp. of the original publisher's ads at the rear. Blue-green cloth boards with blind stamped motifs on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Publisher's ads at interior covers. The half-title is inscribed..... More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1969-1999. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. White and burgundy illustrated dust jackets with black lettering on the covers and spines. Green cloth boards, with gilt stamped publisher's device on front covers (vols. 1-4) and gilt lettering on spines. This set contains 15 of 17 volumes in..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: The Paget Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 162,(6)pp. Acetate dust wrapper. Red cloth with paper spine label over black boards printed in red, yellow & blue. Illustrated with 20 drawings by Bukowski. One of 200 deluxe copies(this is #112), signed & numbered by Bukowski on the..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1695. Editio novissima (New edition). Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8"). [34], 980, [68]pp; [12], 214, [16]pp. Contemporary full morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Additional engraved title by Joseph Mulder, after a drawing by Jan Goeree. Title page..... More
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Unpaginated (12 leaves). Tan/faded green boards, with dark green lettering on front and back covers. The publication is a collection of 13 poems by the acclaimed author, written between 1904 and 1924. This is a first edition printed by the famous..... 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
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: Printed by W. B. for Richard Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn, 1708. Tenth Corrected. Hardcover. 8vo. 282 + 2 pp. of advertisements. Leather boards with decorative etching and raised bands on spine. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580 - 1645) poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden..... More
London: NP, 1774. Hardcover. 2 volumes in one. 8vo. xv,144,3pp. Original brown mottled calf with rebacked tan leather spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Corners and edges worn. Some staining and discoloration to boards. Two Ex-Libris to front endpapers. Inscribed by previous owner. Hinges starting. Front endpaper almost detached. Marbled endpapers..... More
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Proctor Valley (Catskills, NY): NP, 1860-1863. Manuscript. Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. [144]pp. Original gilt-stamped half morocco over blind-stamped purple cloth notebook. Gold-ruling along joints. All edges gilt. Handsome hand-written copy book of poems written by a young girl whose name is unknown. Begun in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, on..... More
Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1919. Second edition ( Sechstes bis zehntes Tausend). Softcover. Octavo. 37 (9)pp. Original green wraps with drawing by Schwitters in two colors, black and red lettering on cover. Volume 39.-40. in the series "Die Silbergäule (The Silver Horses)." Originally published in Herwarth Walden's "Der Sturm" in 1919..... More
Jerusalem: Peter Freund, 1941. First limited edition. Softcover. Signed Ludwig Strauß and numbered 160/200 on title page. 20 leaves. Original red half cloth library tape over textured burgundy stiff wraps with framed black lettering on cream label of cover. "This edition, as long as a publication of an extensive collection..... More
![In Memoriam [SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR]. Alfred Tennyson, Henry van Dyke, Harry Fenn](/pictures/thumb/41589.jpg?v=1480988403)
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 6"). XXXIII, [1], 229pp. Uncut. Original illustrated cloth, with brown lettering to front cover. Top edge gilt. Illustrated title signed by illustrator Harry Fenn.* Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. This splendid edition of Tennyson's "In Memoriam"..... More
Paris: Éditions de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile, 1926. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/705. Quarto (9 x 7"). 220, [4]pp. Uncut and unopened. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece in two states. Publisher's device on title page. "Le Spleen de Paris" is a collection of 50 short prose..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First printing. Fine. 4to. 85,(3)pp. Plain aquamarine dust jacket. Black cloth with paper spine label over decorated boards printed in four colors. Title page, like the front cover, is also printed in four colors. Edition limited to 750 copies (this is #49), numbered..... More
![Hommage Aux Demoiselles Redige Par Mme. Dufrenoy [RARE]. Madame Dufrenoy, Adelaide Gillet Billet](/pictures/thumb/17839.jpg?v=1434441376)
Paris: Chez le Fuel, n.d. [ca. 1821]. Hardcover. This work is rare: OCLC only lists one library as owning a later edition. 24mo. 1646 (12)p. Gilt illustrated paper covered boards in slipcase with matching design. All page edges gilt. Engraved title page, protected by tissue guard. Collection of prose and..... More