New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 323 pp. The forward was written by his sister Anna. These letters were chosen from a large number of letters. Included are a few to or from his parents, admiral Cowels his brother-in-law. These letters show accounts of his youth..... More
London: for the Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to 1500 copies. The present copy is #98 and not signed, 304 pp. translated into English verse by various hands, edited with an introduction and notes by James Laver and the black and white somewhat macabre drawings are..... More
[Grosett and Dunlap, 1973, New York. First Edition. Quarto. Limited (no limitation stated), signed by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller on behalf of the photographers, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and several other well known photographers. This work describes Marilyn in the various stages of her short life and with photographs..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 529pp., engraved illustrations with captioned tissue guards along with other photographic images. Roosevelt was most content wandering the grounds of the unknown. While there are several beasts that will kill man, he also mentions those unforeseen creatures that are..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 2000 copies signed by the illustrator Donald McKay. The present copy is number 1256. This book was specially made with special paper from Germany, and specially designed fabric for the binding, and printing by the Pynson Printers. Bound in pictorial..... More
London; (1930): Jonathan Cape. First Edition. Octavo. The author's second graphic novel told through his beautiful woodcuts without words. His first book was published in 1929. The story about a slave trader whose family is cursed by a demon-faced drum he steals from an African, leading to a descent into..... More
New York; (1929): Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. First Edition. Octavo. The first American wordless or graphic novel beautifully Illustrated throughout in black and white woodcuts. Its story tells of a poor artist who signs a contract with a masked stranger, who gives him a magic brush, with which the..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, xxiii, 351 (1) pp. illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. This is Carlyle's most enduring and influential work, first published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834. Sartor Resartus satirizes the pursuit of a truth that does not really exist, as..... More
New York; ()982): Farrar, Straus, Giroux. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 450 copies. The present copy is # 55 signed by the author and the illustrator. Frontispiece, 83, (2) pages. This story was originally written in the Jewish DailyForward in 1969. In 1981, the authhor worked on the translation, and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 375 large paper copies. The present copy is number 157. Portrait frontispiece, 491 pp. Illustrated by the author with photographic images, the endpaper map is from a drawing made for the book by Lincoln A. Lang. It was Roosevelt himself..... More
Austin; (1983): Jenkins Publishing Co. And the Pemberton Press. Limited Editioin. Thick Quarto. Limited to only 65 copies. The present copy is number III, signed by author John Jenkins and designer William R. Holman.648 pp. illustrated, with an appendix which includes a checklist of Texas bibliographies. The plan of this..... More
London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908. First Edition. Small Quarto. First edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 134 pp. illustrated with 40 exceptionally beautiful color plates tipped in with tissue guards present. His work is noted for his magical pen and ink drawings, which were..... More
London: Macmilland and Co., 1876. First Edition. Small Octavo in Fours. First Issue, with "Baker" rather than "Butcher". 83 pp., (1) pp. publisher's ad, illustrated with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.original covers bound in after ad. The popular poem of about a crew of ten attempting find the Snark, an..... More
Munich; (1927): Kurt Wolff. Square Octavo. 2nd edition, with 25 full page woodcuts by Frans Masereel, no pagination (2) pp. publisher's advertisements inserted at the end. This is the first graphic novel or wordless book by the Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972). Later, in 1929, an American artist and author..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First Edition. Octavo. First state with all issue points by Smith. 625pp. illustrated by H.K. Brown with 40 plates of which eight are the dark plates, three line errata, B2 instead of BB2, and more. Bound from the original parts (stab marks visible) in 3/4..... More