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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by Charles Keene
London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. First Edition. Bound by Root in full polished calf; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; some cover spots; spine darkened; very good. More
[Book #35572P]
New Arrivals
The Judgment of Larose
New York: Macaulay, 1935. First American Edition. With “Naughton Jones.” Two leaves torn, without loss; very good in a dust jacket with a faded spine and a large chip at the crown. More
[Book #35571P]
Potted Char and Other Delicacies
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]
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
Hammersmith (London): Kelmscott Press, 1895. First Edition. Two volumes; publisher’s paper-covered boards with a cloth spine and printed paper label; minor binding wear; very good or better; the text is especially clean and bright. This set has the tipped-in errata slip following the final page of text in the first..... More
[Book #35568P]
Japanese Fairy Tales
Tokyo: Hasegawa, n.d. (1900 -1920?). Five volumes; publisher’s crepe paper bindings; each volume retaining its original tissue wrap; a fine set in the original cloth folder (spotted) with bone clasps and a printed paper label. The Bibliography of American Literature in "A Note on the Japanese Publications" describes the "insoluble"..... More
[Book #35567P]
Sword & Blossom Poems
Tokyo: Hasegawa, n.d. [1912?]. First Editions (?). Three volumes; stiff, illustrated wrappers; the bindings and contents are illustrated by Japanese artists, or, at least in Japanese style. Aside from very minor discoloration and wear, a fine set in the original cloth folder (spotted) with bone clasps. More
[Book #35566P]
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes. With Embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser
New York: Henry Holt, 1934. First Edition; American issue. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. The illustrator passed away in 1921. Fine in a worn publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #35565P]
Solstice and Other Poems
New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition; limited issue; one of 325 copies printed by Grabhorn and signed by the author. Offsetting on the endpapers; fine in the original plain dust jacket, which is lightly used. More
[Book #35563P]
The Star of Seville
Wales: Gregynog Press, 1935. First Edition. Publisher’s leather, decorated and titled in gilt; one of 175 numbered copies. Only minute wear and offsetting on the endpaper edges from the binding. More
[Book #35562P]
Ilias [The Iliad] and Odyssea [The Odyssey]
Amsteldaedami [Amsterdam]: Officina Wetstentaniana, 1707. Two volumes. Finely bound (likely 19th century) in red full straight-grain morocco; simply decorated in gilt; raised bands; all edges gilt; marbled paper endpapers; bookplates; an exceptionally attractive set with only the slightest wear. Each volume prints the text in both Greek and Latin, and..... More
[Book #35561P]
The Holy Bible
London and New York: Nonesuch Press/ Dial Press, 1924-1927. Limited to 1200 copies. Five volumes; comprising the Old and the New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha; publisher’s bindings; very good. More
[Book #35559P]
Eros and Psyche
Wales: Gregynog Press, 1935. First Edition. Woodcuts from designs by Burne-Jones. Three hundred copies were printed. Publisher’s pigskin; only a few slight marks; about fine; in the publisher’s box (label worn, minor smudging) and with the original prospectus (creased) laid in. More
[Book #35558P]
The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler
London: The Studio, 1932. First Edition. Publisher’s vellum backed boards; minor foxing; hinges cracked; very good. More
[Book #35557P]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Introduction by Edmund Blunden
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. One of 1200 numbered copies. Spine faded, else fine in a broken publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #35556P]
Songs Of The Sea: From Rudyard Kipling's Verse
London: Macmillan, 1927. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Kipling. Very good, lacking the jacket and slipcase. More
[Book #35555P]
A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea and China
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First Edition. One 375 numbered copies signed by Hunter and Elmer Adler. Spine scraped, else fine in the number matching, worn and faded publisher’s slipcase. Complete with the bound-in paper samples. More
[Book #35554P]
A Canterbury Pilgrimage
London: Seeley and Co., 1885. First Edition. Minor ink inscription inside the front cover; slight foxing; very good. More
[Book #35553P]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition; bound by Mudie in half-calf and marbled boards; rubbed; very good. More
[Book #35551J]
Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1902. First Edition; first issue (dated 10/02) publisher’s catalogue. Bookplate; cloth water damaged; overall good. Includes “Heart of Darkness.”. More
[Book #35550P]
The Waste Land
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition; publisher’s flexible cloth; with the stamped number (198) 5mm in height; “mountain” correctly spelled on page 41 (a state within the first printing); one of the first 500 copies. Signed by the author on the title page; nearly very good in a...... More
[Book #35548P]
The Soul of Kol Nikon
N.P. [London]: [privately printed], n.d. [1914]. First Edition of this short fantasy novel; in Bleiler; 107 pages; bound in plain binder's cloth with the author and title on the spine; minor spine repair; very good. A regular edition was not published until 1923 by Collins; this edition must have been..... More
[Book #12946P]
A Visit from St. Nicholas. Illustrated From Drawings by F.O.C. Darley
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1862. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers; minor soiling and tears; very good. Among the earliest separate printings, the illustrations by Darley, together with those of Nast, have become the popular, accepted image of Santa Claus. More
[Book #35547P]
Australia; with Other Poems
London: Hurst, Robinson, 1825. “Second Edition. With Additional Poems.” Publisher’s boards; spine heavily chipped; some page staining; good to very good. Inscribed “Washington Irving, Esq: - With the Author’s Compliments.” 1840 owner’s ink inscription on the title page and in pencil underneath the presentation. More
[Book #35546P]
Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Illustrations by H.M. Brock
Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. First Illustrated Edition; “Birthday Edition;” one of 600 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. About a ine copy in the publisher’s slipcase, which is very good. More
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