Warsaw: Kultur-lige, 1921. Second edition. Hardcover. 1/3500. 8x6". 315pp. [4]. Rebound red-brown cloth over textured-paper boards. Original blue and black cover with black lettering pasted on the front. This book is a collection of 21 fairy tales from Hans Christian Anderson, translated into Yiddish by Der Nister (Pinchus Kahanovich) the..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 152pp. Illustrated red and blue dust jacket with blue lettering on the front cover, red lettering on the spine. Orange buckram boards with red lettering on the spine. Illustrated frontispiece. A first edition of Geoffrey Trease's first novel, in a...... More
Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag (Cotta), 1846. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. lviii,495pp. 608pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Very slight age wear on binding. Marbled page edges. Ribbon markers. Modern endpapers. Signed by previous owners in pencil on blank page preceding title, and..... More
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München: T. J. Vizgirda, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated on colophon. 528/560. 4to. 28pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over tan paper-covered boards with brown lettering on cover. Artist book illustrated with nine original woodcuts by Vaclovas Ratas, initials in plates, hand-set letterpress text. Translation revised by Mark J. Kinney..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. XVII, 3975 [1]pp. Original half leather over illustrated paper-covered boards with blind-stamped lettering and tooling on spines, housed in variant color, paper-covered slipcases. Illustrations on title pages. Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this copy is numbered 1420..... More
London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,238pp. Green cloth with gold-samped Art Nouveau design on front and spine, including title in gold on spine. According to the compiler, Vacaresco, this volume is made up of "tales and legends of our dear country (Romania) ...[collected..... More
Berkshire: Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty, 2011. Facsimile edition, after the original. Hardcover. 477/1250. Folio. 309 (2), 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine, gilt edges, with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on..... More
Bristol: Liliput Press, 1980s. First edition limited to 100 copies. Hardcover. 41/100 Signed on colophon. Miniature book (1 3/8 x 1 1/8"). 2 leaves, 45pp., 1 leaf Original red leather with gilt decor and ruling on covers, gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Color-illustrated..... More
Tel Aviv: Eretz, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 137pp. Original illustrated cloth with brown lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Green ruling on each text page. Children's book with 43 short stories and 24 b/w full-page drawings on the wisdom of animals. The stories include one story on human beings..... More
Moscow: Coalco [Vasily Anisimov], 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Folio. 209pp. [1]. Housed in a custom dark blue leather clamshell box, with blind-stamped decorative tooling to the covers, a circular pictorial inlay on the front, gilt lettering and raised bands on the spine. Interior of the box in blue suede..... 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
Schenectady, NY: James H. Barhyte, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vi,[1],304pp. Gilt-stamped brown cloth with lettering in gilt on spine. Blind-stamped decoration on front board. 32 short stories of the Japanese fairy world. Illustrated with 11 reproductions of drawings in b/w by Ozawa of Tokyo. Each plate is protected by..... More
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, n.d. Softcover. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated string-tied wrappers with red and white lettering. Printed on crepe paper, in chirimen-bon (ちりめん本) style. French fold double leaves. This work is #22 in the series of English-language translations of traditional Japanese folk tales, published by Takejiro Hasegawa in the late..... More
Paris: Genets Jeune, 1822. Hardcover. 4 volumes in two. 12mo. 219pp. 182pp. 173pp. 250pp. 1/4 leather over paper covered boards with gilt lettering on red to spines. French translation of the literary classic “Gulliver's Travels.” Gulliver's episodic series of adventures on far off island satirize European politics and parody the..... 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
Hartford, Conn. Silus Andrus; Andrews & Judd (Vol. 2), Circa 1833. Hardcover. 24mo volumes. viii, 313 + 293 pp. Leather gilt stamped binding. Beautiful frontis piece on first volume with b/w facsimile of engraving by A. H. Butterworth of Robinson Crusoe making a canoe with caption beneath that reads "I..... More
New York: Random House, 1964 stated. First printing Limited Edition. Hardcover. 466/500. Octavo. 82 [5]pp. Original olive cloth cover with gilt lettering on cover and spine, and debossed floral design, in original light olive dustjacket with brown lettering on spine, this hand-numbered 466; housed in original illustrated olive slipcase with..... More
New York: Matones/ Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 96pp. Red textured cloth boards, with gilt debossed lettering publisher's device on the front cover as well as the spine. Illustrated title page on black and red. The work is the first volume ("Mayzele Ganev un Andere")..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Willy Pogany. Hardcover. 8vo. 196pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Illustrated endpapers. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Decorated title page. illustrated with tipped-in full page color reproductions of..... More
México: [s.n.], 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Unpaginated. Original green leather with gold lettering on covers. Green moire endpapers. Title page in blue lettering. Decorative headpieces. Text within decorative blue frame. The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. First series (Vol. I): xii,338,[1]pp. Second Series (Vol. II): vii,288pp. Third Series (Vol. III): vi,364pp. Original calf with gold decorated spine. Maroon and red title-labels with gold lettering; raised bands, protected by modern mylar. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Illustrated..... More
Toronto: The Musson Book Company, n/d. Edmund Dulac. First trade edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 128pp. Gold decorated sienna cloth and spine. Gold faded on spine. Head and tail of spine chipped. Wear to corners. Some scuffing and minor rubbing to boards. Tipped-in frontispiece. This work is considered one of the..... More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1919. First French language edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 x 6 1/2"). X, 268, [2]pp (Text), 11 leaves (Plates). Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. First French-language edition of Stephen Langdon's controversial interpretation of a Sumerian poem found on a tablet, and which, according to the author..... More
Bonn: Adolf Marcus, 1853. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,595pp. Olive cloth with gilt-decorated spine. Head and tail of spine chipped. Staining and scuffing to boards and spine. Corners rubbed. Stamp of previous owner on title-page. Sporadic foxing throughout. Hinges starting. Text in Gothic. Binding in fair, interior in overall good condition. More
NP (Boston): NP (Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers), ca. 1905-1920. Teheran Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 17 volumes. Pale olive green cloth, spines age toned and with stained paper labels. Title pages printed in black & red. Each volume has a frontispiece and several text plates, all with tissue..... More