![[Book #36334P] Live Coals; or, Faces From The Fire. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ACHETA, LOUISA...](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1867. First Edition of this strange, fanciful and even bizarre production; illustrated extensively with chromolithographs. Quarto; publisher’s cloth; rebacked with new endpapers; minor wear and foxing; very good. A good copy of the prospectus is laid in, with many subscribers’ names filled in, primarily royalty..... More
[Book #36334P]
London: Harrap, 1936. First Edition, thus. Publisher’s vellum with gilt lettering and decoration; minor smudging and wear; small label inside the back cover; very nearly a fine copy in a lightly worn publisher’s slipcase. One of 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. More
[Book #25984P]
London: David Bogue, 1851. First Edition. “With Twenty Illustrations, Drawn from the Stuffed Animals Contributed by Herrmann Ploucquet of Stuttgart to the Great Exhibition. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; some spotting; shaken; very good. The illustrations (frogs, cats, weasels, etc.), including the fold-out frontispiece, are black and white. More
[Book #28243P]
No place of publication: J.C. Riker, n.d. [c. 1859]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher’s leather, decorated in blind and in gilt. Spine worn, foxing; overall very good. Illustrated with five hand colored floral plates and a title page printed in gilt. A typical gift book, with many of the blank leaves..... More
[Book #36990P]
![[Book #37422P] Letters to Miss Margaret Brooks. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, GEORGE A. BARTLETT](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37422p.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700153464)
No place of publication: privately printed, n.d. [ca. 1899]. First Edition. Original illustrated paper-covered boards; a bit rubbed; very good. Each page of text features an illustration by Gordon Grant, primarily of lighthouses in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. More
[Book #37422P]
London: Ackermann, 1837. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; titled in gilt; front hinge started; modern (1949) ownership inscription on the the front free endpaper; some foxing; very good; with 12 engraved caricature plates. More
[Book #36989P]
London: Methuen, 1933. First Edition. Humorous drawings, very English, most of which appeared in Punch and the Tatler. Very good in a dust jacket with some chipping. More
[Book #35570P]
Paris: Lucien Vogel, n.d. [1919]. First French Edition; printed in London. Unopened; an excellent copy in a very good, but very fragile dust jacket, with some chips and tears. More
[Book #31651P]
New York: Pantheon, 1947. First American Edition. Near fine in a chipped dust jacket. More
[Book #29439P]
Paris: Curmier, 1836. First Edition. Two volumes in one. Chromolithographed frontispiece; with numerous illustrations with tissue guards; the text within ornamental borders. Very occasional light spotting, else near fine, in full tooled leather; some rubbing to extremities. More
[Book #24449P]
London: Heinemann, n.d. (c. 1919-1920). First Edition. A very good or better copy in a chipped dust jacket. More
[Book #29438P]
London: Heinemann, n.d. (c. 1919-1920). First Edition. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with very light wear. More
[Book #36216P]
![[Book #37423P] Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous From A to Z. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, EDMUND DULAC](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37423p.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700150672)
London: Frederick Warne, 1908. First Edition. Neat gift inscription on the front free endpaper: only the slightest wear; an unusually fine, attractive copy. More
[Book #37423P]
Paris: Denoel et Steele, 1930. First Edition. Wrappers; one of 800 copies. Fine in the original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with mildly erotic and generally amusing pochoir drawings. More
[Book #13509P]
New York: Lieber & Lewis, 1922. First (apparently only) Edition of this portfolio of theatrical caricatures by one of the lesser-known, clearly neglected, New Yorker artists. Measuring roughly 19 x 12 1/2”, consisting of a thick cardboard, cloth backed folder (worn) with a title leaf and 37 caricatures, each of..... More
[Book #35576P]
London: Macmillan, 1891. First edition with Thomson’s illustrations; large paper copy, of which only 300 were printed; publisher’s cloth with paper spine label; minor foxing and cloth fading; nearly fine in the publisher’s printed dust jacket with a Thomson illustration on the front panel. A large chip extends from the..... More
[Book #35761P]
No place of publication [Berlin]: Blaetter fuer die Kunst, 1899/1900. First Edition of this quarto-sized production, designed and illustrated by Melchio Lechter; an exceptional, beautifully printed example of German art nouveau. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; some fraying at the extremities; very good. This copy is not numbered (”ohne nummer”) in the..... More
[Book #35777P]
London: D. Bogue, n.d. [c. 1825]. First Editions; bound together with their front wrappers in mid-19th century cloth backed marbled stiff wrappers. Each part features six plates of comic illustrations on the subject. Minor foxing; very good. More
[Book #19576P]
![[Book #37427P] Among Us Cats. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, W. E. HILL](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37427p.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700157137)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Front hinge cracking; some cloth wear; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed "To Fran Russell from Bill Hill/ December, 1926." Below the inscription, the author/illustrator has drawn three cats dressed in evening wear, captioning below, " 'Tom, I've seen Grant's Tomb, the Brooklyn..... More
[Book #37427P]
![[Book #37401P] Ups and Downs on Land and Water. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, AUGUSTUS HOPPIN](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37401P.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700509963)
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Oblong folio; publisher’s illustrated cloth; some cloth wear; shaken; a good to very good copy. Humorous cartoons of European travel. More
[Book #37401P]
New York: The Harbor Press, 1941. First Edition. Very good in the publisher’s slipcase, in similar condition but splitting. Inscribed by the artist in 1956. More
[Book #35037P]
London: Field And Tuer, 1887. One of 100 deluxe copies, numbered and signed by the publishers. Each of the eight illustrations is represented by two proofs. The front hinge is cracked; an old catalogue description is pasted inside the front cover; boards and spine worn; good. More
[Book #28730P]
London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First Edition. Illustrated with eight plates by Leech (including the frontispiece). Small folio; publisher’s cloth; minor foxing; generally minor cloth wear and fading; bookplate; largely very good. In the preface Leech points out that “Nobility” and “Mobility” are a single letter apart, and that names can..... More
[Book #35474P]
London: Longmans, Green, 1930. First Edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed by the artist. Small folio; very slight foxing of the endpapers; fine in a chipped and wrinkled dust jacket. More
[Book #36441P]
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., 1927. Very minor foxing and wear; gift inscription; nearly fine in a very good, publisher’s gift box lacking a blank side panel of the lid. More
[Book #32136P]