Philadelphia, Nd(ca.1851): Joseph Allen. Small Octavo. 244pp., 12pp. publisher's catalog, frontispiece of Washington and 5 other engravings. A very nice copy without foxing, names, or bookplates. There are, however, small initials bb.3/9. Bound in full calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label gilt, light wear to corners..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Octavo. In four volumes. 392, 404, 400 and 420pp., Illustrated. Last page of volume four has the "to the Binder" which states "The binder is requested not to regards the directions printed in the first and second volumes, but to follow those herewith given". Listing the..... More
Liverpool, England: Printed for the Author by Blake & Mackenzie, 1905. Quarto. Text in English and Spanish. 260 pages, illustrated with several photographic images, plus (40) pages of ads (including one for Blake & Mackenzie who advertise as both lithograph and letterpress printers. One of the best books on the..... More
Np/nd (ca.1906): Caxton Publishing Company. Small Octavo. xlvii, 290 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations by Jesse M. King whose illustrations are much like those of Aubrey Beardsley, with frontispiece and vignette title by A.S. Hartrick. Bibliographic references and index. W. B. Yeats reminds twentieth-century readers that Spenser's "genius..... More
New York; (1942): Creative Age Press. First Edition. Octavo. 8th printing, inscribed by the author in English and Arabic. 292pp. illustrated with photographic images. When the author was a young boy, he had a carving of the perfect Arabian horse. This is the story of his search which took him..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, 322pp., revised. The author had changed a few new passages to The Land of Heart's Desire and the Countess Cathleen which were written before he had any real experience and made changes to more suit the public performance. A very nice copy..... More
New York: The Century Co, 1907. First Edition. Small Quarto. Later printing, 270pp. with 52 illustrations in color and in black and white, along with a few photographic images by Maxfield Parrish with printed tissue guards present. The author explains why Italian Villa gardens are so beautiful. Italian architects always..... More
Boston: John W. Luce and Co., 1906. Small Octavo. 136(1) pp., illustrated with 13 black and white erotic drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. His illustrations always depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. Sadly, he died at the young age of only 25. A handsome copy bound in black pictorial..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930. Small Quarto. Frontispiece, xviii, 65, (5) pp). Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with sixteen beautiful erotic drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Written in French in 1892, it was in full rehearsal by Madame Bernhardt at the Palace Theatre when it was prohibited..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo. First issue with a period between talk" and "this," on page 112, line 11. There is no printer's imprint on the copyright page. The story begins, by surprise, a small European coastal town is overrun by an invading army with..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 220pp., illustrated with photographic images by Robert Capa. Steinbeck and Capa decide to travel to Russia. While ordinary people as well as experts were telling each other all about Stalin's plans and communist intentions, one was trying to find out what..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 1500 copies signed by the author. 750 copies of the 1500 were for private distribution. The story is set in Salinas Valley in Northern California where two families, the Hamilton family and the Trask family, both of whom..... More