New York; Nd[ca.1920]: Brentano's. Small Quarto. 64 leaves, illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie with 12 tipped in illustrations each with captioned tissue guards. The rich work of Thomas Mackenzie is now recognized as one of the major forces in the Golden Age of Art. His sumptuous Aladdin and his wonderful lamp... More about Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Philadelphia. Nd[ca.1933]: Lippincott. Octavo. 42 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of Rackham plates. Having tasted the fruit sold by the goblins, Laura is consumed by insatiable hunger until her sister obtains a cure at great sacrifice. Bound in maroon cloth with color illustrated pastedown to upper board, spine faded. A very... More about Goblin Market
(Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, 1994). Quarto. 511 pages, index.Illustrated throughout in color and in black and white. Houze was the former Curator of the Winchester Arms Company. Besides full access to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and the Olin Corporation, the author was able to consult with each major institution... More about Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Its History & Develpment from 1865 to 1981
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First American Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. 338 pages. Reviewed by the Guardian: "Extraordinary....a masterly novel...the classic themes of love, death, and fate are explored with elegant intelligence in what is perhaps his best novel so far"..The Sunday Times..... More about The Infatuations; a Novel (Signed By the author on the Title page
Morley, Missouri; (2016): Acclaim Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author on mounted plate. 320 pages, photographs of the victim, the major characters, the scene of one of the fascinating crimes in Kentucky. As Ann Rule told the author before her death, she said the... More about A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle; The Murder of Verna Garr Taylor and the Kentucky Honor...
Boston; (1869): O.S. Fowler. Small Octavo. 171 pages. While today phrenology is regarded as a pseudoscience, it had many famous believers in its day including Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman who noted its in his preface to Leaves of Grass. Later, when it was issued, the... More about The Practical Phrenologist; and Recorder and Delineator of the Characters and Talents of C.M....
Indianaolis; (1904): Bobbs-Merrill. First Editon. Octavo. 2nd issue with Braunsworth & Company, imprint with four dots. 96 unnumbered pages, illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and decorated by Margaret Armstrong. with the rare unrecorded dust jacket in near fine condition and in the original box. Green A cloth, with no lettering... More about Out to Old Aunt Mary's
Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the author. The present copy is number 165. 243 pages, illustrations and dust jacket design by Les Edwards. The story begins with a vividly written prologue in which a German U-boat (they were often call 'Iron... More about The Night Boat (signed By the Author, (#164 of 750 copies
(Mill Creek, Washington; 2017): Vault Books. First Edition. Small Octavo. Limited and signed by the author. 123 pages. Snapshot is a science fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a copy assigned to Snapshot Duty. Besides one his most fascinating tales, there is an interview with Brandon Sanderson in the past... More about Snapshot (signed, #289 of 1000 copies
Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2019. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 400 copies signed by the author. The present copy is number 117. 97 pages, Atmosphæra Incognita is a beautifully detailed, high-tech rendering of a tale as old as the Biblical Tower of Babel. It is an account, scrupulously imagined... More about Atmosphæra Incognita (Signed, Limited Edition, (#117 of 400 copies
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Limited Edition. Tall Octavo. 138pp. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Valenti Angelo who illustrated and did the hand-illuminations. The Song of Roland is an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. A small... More about The Song of Roland
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. First Edition. Small Quarto. First published in Naples and in the Neapolitan dialect by G. Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637. The following version follows the translation... More about Stories from the Pentamerone
London; (1926): John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 125 copies. The present copy is number 93 and illustrated in color and in black and white by Frank Brangwyn. This edition printed on hand-made paper, and with two extra illustrations in color for a total... More about The Bridge, a Chapter in the History of Building
New York; (1909): Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 525 copies. The present copy is number 59 and signed by Willy Pogany the illustrator. Based on the first edition text of Edward Fitzgerald and illustrated with 24 full page color illustrations tipped-in, text in oriental... More about Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Presented By Willy Pogany
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 56(1)pp., illustrated with drawings in black and white by Boris Artzybasheff depicting the creatures within the author's poetry. Padraic Colum was an Irish-born American poet and one of the great figures in the revival of literature in Ireland. He was a.... More about Creatures
New York; (1923): George H. Doran Co. First Edition. Small Quarto. First American edition. 103pp., selected from the poems of Rose Fyleman, with 12 color plates tipped in and 12 other illustrations. Bound in red pictorial gilt cloth lettered in gilt, one bumped corner. A very nice copy with no names or bookplates. More about The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1936. Quarto. 412 (1)pp., an early edition illustrated by Harry Clarke with 8 tipped in color plates and full page illustrations in black and white. Includes many of Poe's stories; MS. Found in a Bottle, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in... More about Tales of Mystery and Imagination
London: T.C. And E.C. Jack, 1910. Thick Quarto. 286pp., 50 tipped in plates reproduced in color from Turner's paintings and drawings. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), an English Romantic painter, printmaker and considered one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting... More about Turner's Golden Visions
London; 1894-1897: George Allen, Ruskin House. Limited Edition. Quarto. In six volumes with original wrappers bound in. Limited to only 1000 copies on hand-made paper for the US and England. Volume one contains an 83p. editor's preface which explains the early copies of The Faerie Queen with examples of title... More about Spenser's Faerie Queene
London and Edinburgh, (1919): T.N. Foulis. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 350 numbered copies. The present copy is number 143. This edition was reprinted from Fitzgerald's translation published in Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine and beautifully illustrated with decorative textual borders by Brangwyn along with 15 color tipped in plates... More about The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London; nd [ca.1919)]: Constable and Co. Ltd. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 575 copies signed by Rackham. 170pp., illustrated by Rackham with 16 beautiful tipped in color illustrations with tissue guards [present. Several of the stories presented are based on the work of Francis James Child. Bound in 1/4 vellum... More about Some British Ballads
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First Edition. Quarto. First Rackham trade edition. 125(1)pp. illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 50 color illustrations tipped on to dark brown heavy card stock at the rear with tissue guards present. Barrie met publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies at ten years old along with his four... More about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1928. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 300 copies, the present copy is number 111 on Holland van gelder zonen paper. 50pp. With an introduction by Arthur Symonds, illustrated by Alastair with five illustrations tipped-in onto a silver foil leaf with tissue guards present. While this cop... More about The Fall of the House of Usher
London; Nd(ca.1913): G. G. Harrap & Co. Small Quarto. no pagination. illustrated by Willy Pogany in black and white, color, and with 8 tipped in color plates. beautifully bound by Bayntun in full dark blue morocco illustrated with color onlays, raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, all edge... More about The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan After the Drama of Richard Wagner
London; nd: Hodder and Stoughton. Limited Edition. Large Quarto. Limited to only 750 copies signed by the illustrator Edmund Dulac, with 20 tipped in color plates with tissue guards present. There was a French translation of this work published but the exhibition or sale of this title in France was... More about The Bells And Other Poems