Fiorenza [Florence]: Nella stamperia de' Giunti, 1574. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5 1/2 x 4". 76pp. [1]. Rebound in modern vellum boards. Decorative woodcut illustrated title page. Written by an anonymous author, this obscure and intriguing Italian Renaissance comedy in five acts, tells the story of Alonso, a Jew (a..... More
Leipzig: W. Druglin, 1881. First. Hardcover. Small folio. 354 pp. All edges gilt. Cream colored parchment paper richly decorated in gold on front and rear boards. Bevelled edges. Minor bumping to corners and rubbing to head and tail of spine. Slight foxing to pp. 97 and 97, rest of text..... More
Frankfurt, Berlin und Leipzig, Wien: J. B. Wallshaufser [Kummer], 1790/91. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 144, 83, 68, 112pp. Bound in textured brown paper-covered boards with black lettering on red label of spine. Additional label w/o descriptor at tail of spine. Frontispiece engraving by J. Kibler SC. A rare collection of..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. Second edition (The Phoenix Library). Hardcover. Small Octavo. [6] 265 [8]pp. Original blue-green cloth with blind-stamped image and ruling on front cover. Gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine. Contains the plays "To Have The Honor; Ariadne, Or Business First; Portrait of a Gentleman in..... More
München: Drei Masken Verlag, nd (1921). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1 of 70 copies with Roman numerals. Original illustrated handstiched publisher's deluxe vellum binding, brown title-label with gold lettering. Screened image of one of Geiger's etchings on front cover. Top edge gilt. Deckled bottom edge. Marbled endpapers. Title-page with original signed..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, (1908-1909). Limited edition. Jubiläumsausgabe. Hardcover. 1/1000. 4to. 405,[1],pp. Full leather with blind-tooled decorations on front-and back board as well as spine. Gold-embossed title on cover. Raised bands. Clasps missing, but remnants of leather strips on edge of back board; two gold studs on fore edge of front..... More
![Item #56147 The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band, and Its Sequel, The Men from the Boys [SIGNED]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56147_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791503823)
Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2003. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. xii, 245, [1]pp. Illustrated pink, black and white glossy paper wrappers. Signed by Crowley on the title page. A collected edition containing both Crowley's original 1968 groundbreaking LGBTQ play and its sequel The Men From The Boys. The original work..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). XXI, [1], 261, [1]pp. Uncut. Later 19th-century gilt-lined 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding signed by Zaehnsdorf* on inside of front free endpaper..... More
Moscow (Москва): Ogiz Gos. izd-vo khudozh (Государственное издательство художественной литературы), 1941. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. 171, [1]pp. White paper wrappers, with illustrated woodcut border and text in black and brown. B/w woodcut illustrated frontispiece and title page. Smaller illustrated woodcut headpieces at the beginning of every act and an..... More
London: Grant Richards/ Archibald Constable & Co., 1901-1926. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavos. Light green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spines. Five of the books have a gilt top edge. Pages uncut and/or unopened. This is a collection of 9 first edition copies of plays and collections of..... More
Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 128pp. Modern decorative paper-covered boards wit gilt ruling and lettering on black label of spine. The first draft of this one act comedy was written in 1768/69, the second draft in the summer of 1769. It premiered in 1777 with Goethe..... More
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
![Item #22495 Civil War [SIGNED]. Liam O'Flaherty](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22495.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693416561)
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
![Item #41032 La Nausée (Nausea) [WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH IN TWO STATES BY GOERG]. Jean-Paul...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/41032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1468534544)
Paris: André Sauret, 1951. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/300. Quarto (9 x 6 5/8"). 319, [3]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over printed printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers, with red and black lettering to spine and front cover. Laid in, a tissue-guarded second state (on China paper) of the frontispiece, being an original..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Strand, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 152pp. Original decorative blind-stamped brown leather with decorative gilt ruling on covers, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled back endpaper. Green ribbon marker. Saul is a theatrical tragedy in five acts published for the benefit of the British..... 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
London: Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, 1692. Second edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. [16] 199 [3]pp. Rebound in later quarter Morocco over red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Modern cream endpapers. Dryden play based on legend of King Sebastian of Portugal surviving the battle of Alcazar... "a powerful drama whose themes..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1912. Hardcover. Quarto. 405 (1)pp. Original hand bound full vellum with gilt lettering on cover and spine with copper clasps with vellum ribbons, housed in cream paper-covered slipcase with gilt lettering on green label on spine. Gilt top edge. Title page and block designed with black ruling..... More
New York: Harper Bothers, 1887. Hardcover. Folio. Deluxe publisher's trade binding of full calf with decorative gold stamping, a.e.g. In original decorative box. 177 pp. Ten heliogravure plates, screened on tissue, some tipped-in, with tissue guards. Numerous text illustrations, some full page. Good condition. More
München: F. Bruckmann A.G., 1919. Alfred Cossmann. Vorzugsausgabe (Deluxe edition), Ausgabe II. Hardcover. 1/100. 4to. 98pp. Three-quarter gold-lined vellum over paper-covered boards in original dust wrapper. Gold lettering on cover and spine. Minor age wear and some staining on binding. Chipping, tearing and staining on dust wrapper. 1 1/2" x...... More
Otto v. Praze, 1920. Limited ed. Softcover. 1/300. 16mo. 28pp. Gray paper board wrappers with black illustration and lettering to cover in mylar jacket. An Oscar-Wilde-classic, magnificently translated and delightfully illustrated with a b/w painting to each page. Czech. In fine condition. More
![Item #16376 Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke [RARE FULL LEATHER EDITION]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16376.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428616443)
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1921. Later edition (201. bis 230. Tausend). Hardcover. Small 8vo. 31pp. Contemporary green leather wrappers with gold bordering. This is the rare leather bound edition whereby the pages are printed on thick cotton rack paper. It is a special edition, referred to in German as "Vorzugsausgabe". Wonderful work..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). Later 19th-century paper covered boards, with printed title on spine. Tipped in on inside of back cover by the binder, three unused original printed labels for the book. First edition, first state of Lord Byron's three dramatic..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Company; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991-2005. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers over paper covered boards. First edition, first printing (except "H" is for Homicide, 1st edition, 5th printing) of these volumes from the fascinating chronological series of mystery novels set in and around..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. 417/800 numbered by hand. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original vellum boards with gilt-stamped framed illustrations on cover and gilt lettering on spine after a design by Aubrey Beardsley. Gilt top edge. Illustrated endpapers by Aubrey Beardsley, applied first in this edition. Text printed in red and..... More