London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society/ Riccardi Press, 1909. Authorized Edition [Limited edition]. Hardcover. 1/17. Quarto. [7 leaves] 16pp. [23 leaves]. Limp vellum binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Green string ties. Copy #6 from a limited edition of 17 copies printed on..... More
Budapest: Az Athenaeum R. Tarsulat Kiadasa, 1893. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. Folio. 231, [1]pp. Original richly decorated, illustrated and multicolored cloth, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. First published in 1861, Imre Madách's major work "Az ember tragédiája" (The Tragedy of Man) is a dramatic..... More
![Item #36899 Fermé la Nuit [W/ 5 COLOR ETCHINGS]. Paul Morand, J. Pascin, Text](/pictures/thumb/36899.jpg?v=1568420267)
Paris: NRF (Nouvelle Revue Française), 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 1/370. Quarto. 238, [4]pp. Contemporary 3/4 morocco over decorative paper covered boards. Original wrappers bound in. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Book housed in a decorative paper covered slipcase. Fermé la nuit (Closed All Night), considered to be a male counterpart to Ouvert la..... More
Санкт-Петербург (Saint Petersburg): Эдуарда Гоппе (Eduard Goppe), 1895. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). [4]pp (Title and text), 30 leaves (Plates). Contemporary gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to front cover. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Fly leave boldly signed by pianist and music educator Télémaque Lambrino (1878-1930), and..... More
![Item #8757 Insomnia or the Devil at Large [SIGNED]. Henry Miller](/pictures/thumb/8757.jpg?v=1563226927)
(Albuquerque): Loujon Press, (1970). Henry Miller. First edition. Hardcover. Portfolio. 1/385, signed by Miller. Edition G. Consists of an approximately 19" x 34" wooden portfolio box. The front cover of the box, which slides out through slitted grooves in the larger portion of the box, has sustained marginal water damage..... More
![Item #47669 Morte La Bete... [ILLUSTRATED W/ 30 AQUARELLES (POCHOIRS)]. Henri Duvernois, L....](/pictures/thumb/47669.jpg?v=1635982372)
Paris: Collection de Arts/ Les Editions G. Crès & Cie, 1926. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/45. Quarto. 80pp. (interleaved w/ 11 plates) [1] (+ additional 11 plates). Original white heavy stock paper folded jacket, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, protecting the white paper wrappers. As stated on..... More
Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1909. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/330. Folio (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"). [6], 134, [2]pp. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped full vellum, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Tipped in color frontispiece. Illustrated title page in black and gold lettering. Originally published in London..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. XX, 120pp. Uncut. Original 3/4 leather over buckram, with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Brown and black lettering on title-page. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Fascinating work on the home and favorite places..... More
Antwerp: Hendrik Aertssens, 1622. First edition. Octavo. [star]8 A-2B8 (=208 leaves). [16], 392, [8]pp., 76 numbered full-page engraved plates. Half-title, engraved title; text within ruled borders; woodcut ornaments. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges; manuscript lettering at spine. Fine copy. First edition of this collection of meditations on the life of Jesus..... More
Londres: NP, ND (ca 1770). Hardcover. 12mo. XVIII, [19]-122, [10], 118, [2], [4], V, [3], [7]-129, [9], 132, [2]pp. Original spotted calf with gold lettering on spines. Two engraved frontispiece portraits of La Fontaine. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Remarkable edition of La Fontaine's "Contes," lively stories in verse, grazing and..... More
![Item #14435 Poèmes Fantasques [SIGNED BY PUBLISHER]. Jean Rameau, Ary Gambard](/pictures/thumb/14435.jpg?v=1434441330)
Paris: Ed. Monnier & Cie Editeurs / Librairie d'Art, 1883. Ary Gambard. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Quarto. 114, [2]pp. Copy partly untrimmed. Original printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Book resting in an illustrated paper-covered portfolio with burgundy string ties, and marbled endpapers. Limitation page hand-signed in ink by Monnier..... More
Paris: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis, 1954. Limited edition. Paperback. 1/430. Quarto. 90, [2]pp. Unopened copy. Original glassine over blank wrappers in illustrated dust-jacket. Title page in burgundy and black lettering. Picasso illustrated this essay of Diderot’s with four portraits of the great thinker, whose mind “anticipated and epitomized moral, psychological..... More
![Item #48563 Almanach auf das Jahr 1920 [W/7 ORIGINAL GRAPHICS]. Fritz Gurlitt](/pictures/thumb/48563.jpg?v=1637802563)
Berlin: Verlag Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. 52/750 on Japan Vellin paper. Octavo. 216, xxii pages, 33 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Yellow top edge. Illustrated endpapers by Max Pechstein. Frontispiece original b/w lithograph by Lovis..... More
![Item #39602 La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]. George Barbier,...](/pictures/thumb/39602.jpg?v=1474928739)
Paris: Meynial, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 137, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces, and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921, "La Guirlande..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Octavo. XIV, [2], 609, [1]pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. First edition, second issue of this fascinating work, profusely illustrated with forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. The..... More
München: Julius Schröder Verlag, 1921. Limited Deluxe Edition (Vorzugsausgabe). Hardcover. 1/205 copies, signed in pencil on limitation page by German painter & graphic artist, Adolph Schinnerer. Large 4to. 98pp. Decorative gold-stamped Japan vellum with vellum stitching on spine and beveled gilt-stamped dentelles. Hand bound by Buchbinderei Knorr & Hirth, München..... More
Antwerpen: De Sikkel, 1926. Limited First edition. Paperback. 1/110. Quarto. 93, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Publisher's logo on front cover and title page. This remarkable illustrated work by Karel van de Woestijne (1878-1929), a Flemish writer who was strongly influenced by the Tachtigers and the French..... More
London: Dean & Munday, ca 1820. Softcover. 24mo. 4.5x3". 30pp. Yellow printed wrappers with black lettering on the front and back covers. Decorative border on the front cover. Woodcut frontispiece. This is a pocket-size illustrated English-language version of the French fairy tale "Riquet With the Tuft", the first known version..... More
n.p. Constable & Co., 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This copy is 1/25 lettered copies of an edition of 1025 copies: "Of this edition one thousand and twenty five copies only have been printed. A thousand are numbered 1-1000, and twenty five are lettered A-Y. This is lettered copy (...)." [from..... More
Paris: André Delpeuch, 1927. First limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Quarto. 200, [6]pp. Uncut. Modern half tan cloth over marbled paper covered boards with silver lettering on title label. Top edge red. Frontispiece. First edition of this rare Chagall illustrated title. Number 142 of 500 copies printed on Velin de Rives..... More
New York: G.P Putnams Sons, 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/281. Quartos. Vol.1: (xvii) [1] 364pp. Vol.2: (xv) [3] 370pp. [1]. Full tan calf bindings with gilt-stamped motifs on the covers. Spines with brown labels and gilt lettering. Top edges in gilt. Pages uncut. Decorative maroon and gilt endpapers. This set..... 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
Lviv: Ksiegarni H. Altenberga (Altenberg Publishing), [1904]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 149pp. [2]. Illustrated grey buckram boards with lettering, decorative motifs and borders in black. Blind-stamped ruling on the back cover. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated title page. This work collects four sections from the Old Testament, translated into Polish by Jerzy..... More
London: George Allen: Ruskin House, 1894. Walter Crane. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/650. Folio. Unpaginated. Gilt decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Heavy chipping, fraying and tearing to spine. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration, staining and scuffing to boards. Hinges starting. Decorated title page. Page following title repaired along..... More
Paris: Dechalotte, 1948. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/999 numbered copies. 4to. 159pp. Original cardboard wrappers ith black lettering to front wrapper and spine in original glassine jacket. Seated in original beige cardboard slipcase. Top and bottom page edges untrimmed. Pages unbound and unopened. Watercolored full-page frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Illustrated initials..... More