![The Works [COMPLETE in 30 volumes]. Victor Hugo.](/pictures/thumb/21734.jpg?v=1434441472)
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1892. Holland Paper Edition, Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. 8vo. Original gold-stamped black morocco, gold-decorated spine. Inside of front and back boards in leather with gold-floral stamped doublures. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed, as published. Dark blue silk moire free front... More
Leipzig: W. Druglin, 1881. Hardcover. Small folio. 354 pp. All edges gilt. Cream colored leather 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 clean. Decorative... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Company, 1829-1833. Hardcover. Complete in 48 volumes. Octavo. Vols. I - VII bound in three-quarter gold-ruled red morocco over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Vols. XVIII - XLVIII in three-quarter gold-ruled burgundy morocco over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled... More
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. ii, 514, [8]pp. Original blue cloth with gold-stamped image of "Liza crossing the ice" titled in Yiddish lettering "Aliza antloyft mit ihr kind ibern eyz." Gold decorated spine. Frontispiece reproduction of a photographs in sepia-tone of Harriet Beecher Stowe... More
![Krotkaja [WITH ORIGINAL ETCHINGS & SIGNATURE(S) BY WILLI GEIGER]. Fjiodor Dostojewskij, Alexander Eliasberg, Willi Geiger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, illust.](/pictures/thumb/29535.jpg?v=1434441916)
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
Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1822. Neue Ausgabe (New Edition). Hardcover. Octavo. (3) 239 (1)pp. Original red shaded Morocco with gilt tooling on cover, spine, cover and inside edges, gilt lettering on spine printed on heavy vellum. Gilt edges. Light blue endpapers. Frontispiece color copper engraving. Goethe's most successful publication during his lifetime... More
Warszawa (Warsaw): Nakladem Ksiegarni Powszechne, 1906 [i.e 1907]. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 347, [5]pp. Contemporary 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Raised bands. Original illustrated wrappers by Lewand bound in. Decorative initials. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit... More
Berlin: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1915. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Large Quarto. 313 (1)pp. Original blue pebbled full morocco, with gilt-stamped geometrical design on covers and lettering on brown leather label of spine. Edges and inside covers with gilt-stamped ruling of leather, stamped "AD" at rear, orange endpapers. Contains sixty original text lithographs... 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
![Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, In Five Acts. With Notes / The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem [BINDING SIGNED BY ZAEHNSDORF]. Lord Byron.](/pictures/thumb/41410.jpg?v=1473892087)
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
New York: Bantam Books, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Small Octavo. 192pp. Original silver illustrated wraps with black lettering on the cover; protected by modern mylar. Photo-illustrated title page. Exceptional production by the American architect and inventor in collaboration with producer Jerome Angel and designer Quentin Fiore. Experimental book full of... More
![Les Métamorphoses ou l'Asne d'Or [21 ETCHINGS BY MARTIN VAN MAELE, AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 COLOR PLATES BY ALEXANDER ROTHAUG, A WIENER WERKSTATTE ARTIST]. Luce Apulée, Jean de Montlyard, Jules de Marthold, Martin van Maele, Alexander Rothaug, Apuleius, Color.](/pictures/thumb/44160.jpg?v=1533775543)
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/750. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). [8], xlviii, 328pp. Uncut. Later 3/4 olive morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Ribbon marker. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece. Title page... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1955). Stated First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 243pp. Original decorative brown cloth-backed boards. Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. The content discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try... More
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1915. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/200. 12mo. 72,[2],pp. Paper-covered boards in original cardboard slipcase. Some discoloration to boards and slipcase. Minor tearing and chipping on slipcase. Frontispiece is an original drawing by Ferdinand Schmutzer protected by decorated cloth guard. Signed by Schnitzler and Schmutzer on blank page preceding... More
London: Grant Richards/ Archibald Constable & Co., 1901-1926. Ex-Library, 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... 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
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
![Valse des Fleurs: A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868 [SIGNED]. Sacheverell Sitwell, Henry Moore, Reynolds Stone.](/pictures/thumb/39143.jpg?v=1434442585)
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
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
![Civil War [SIGNED]. Liam O'Flaherty.](/pictures/thumb/22495.jpg?v=1438645937)
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
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
![La Nausée (Nausea) [WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH IN TWO STATES BY GOERG]. Jean-Paul Sartre, Edouard Goerg, Original.](/pictures/thumb/41032.jpg?v=1468540656)
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
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
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 158pp. Blue-green cloth over blue paper covered boards, as issued (not green, as many have insisted). Black lettering on white labels, at front cover and spine. This is the first edition of the play by James Joyce. The story is related... More