London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First book form edition, first state. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). xvi, 288pp (Vol. 1); 289-624pp. (Vol. 2). Contemporary full blind-stamped leather, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. All paper edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Charles Dickens engraved by... More about The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 2-vol. set (Complete and Extra-Illustrated with 59...

Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1942. 57.-73. Tausend. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated wrappers. A hilarious look at "Soldiers life" through caricature. Profusely illustrated with full page b/w drawings. Inscribed by previous owner to inside of front wrapper. Wear, chipping, rubbing and some tearing to wrappers. Bottom corner of back wrapper clipped. Two... More about Barlog's lustige Soldatenfibel

Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. LXVIII, 281, IX, 353, XII, 407pp. 3/4 leather over cloth with gold lettering on title-labels laid on spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece protected with tissue-guard in each volume. Title-pages in red and black lettering. Attractive edition of this classical work... More about The History of Gil Blas of Santillana rendered into English by Henri Van Laun revised and...

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/700 Unnumbered. Original gray dustjacket over gray half cloth with illustrated yellow paper-covered boards and red lettering on spine. Richly illustrated with 85 entertaining drawings by alexander Calder, edited and introduced by James Johnson Sweeney. DJ sunned along top, bottom and spine... More about Three Young Rats

London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2"). xiv, [2], 624pp. Contemporary 3/4 burgundy calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled paper edges. Engraved frontispiece and additional title. Originally serialized between 1842 and 1844, Charles... More about The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

München: Dreimasken Verlag, 1921. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 128,[7]pp. Original wraps with red and black lettering cover, black lettering on spine. First edition of Feuchtwanger's 'melancholic comedy' in four acts. In his play, Feuchtwanger measures reality with his humanistic ideals, interpreting historical events of the time as a contradiction to..... More about Der Amerikaner oder Die entzauberte Stadt. Eine melancholische Komödie in vier Akten

London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. New Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. VIII, 127, [1]pp. 3/4 green calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold-tooling and lettering on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original illustrated wrappers bound in. Scarce and fascinating work being a compilation of humorous and fictious stories... More about Tales of the Trains : Being Some Chapters of Railroad Romance

Paris: Gibert Jeune / Librairie D'Amateurs, 1939. Daniel-Girard. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/3000. 8vo. 275pp. Tan wrappers with attached illustrated dj in glassine jacket. Tearing and chipping to glassine. Two-inch closed tear along head of spine. Fore -and bottom page edges untrimmed. Pages unopened. Minor age yellowing along outer edges of... More about Scènes de la Vie de Bohème

NP: NP, N.D. Softcover. Small 8vo. Unpaginated. Orange paper binding with caricature on and Japanese calligraphy on cover. In original glassine. Satire correspondence between Tojo and Hitler; first part with English and Japanese side by side, and response with English and German. With caricatures of both figures in the text..... More about Adolf, Wo Bist Du?

Dresden: Max Fischer's Verlagsbuchhandlung, nd (ca. 1880). Softcover. 8vo. 104pp. Original color-illustrated wraps. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Pages unopened as issued. Fritz Reuter was a novelist from Northern Germany who was one of the most prominent contributors to "Low German" literature. Work contains Inspector Bräsig's letters to the author..... More about Briefe des Herrn Inspektor's Bräsig: Urgeschicht von Meckelnborg