![Ilias [The Iliad] and Odyssea [The Odyssey]. FINE BINDINGS, HOMER](/images/noimage.png)
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]
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1860. First Edition (? We locate later editions in 1863 and 1866). Publisher’s hand-colored boards; Some foxing and wear; gift inscription; very good. Clever rhymes are illustrated; printed on rectos only; there is a brief mention of baseball, among other ball games. More
[Book #35560P]
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]
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]
London: The Studio, 1932. First Edition. Publisher’s vellum backed boards; minor foxing; hinges cracked; very good. More
[Book #35557P]
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. One of 1200 numbered copies. Spine faded, else fine in a broken publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #35556P]
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]
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]
London: Seeley and Co., 1885. First Edition. Minor ink inscription inside the front cover; slight foxing; very good. More
[Book #35553P]
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition; bound by Mudie in half-calf and marbled boards; rubbed; very good. More
[Book #35551J]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. First Illustrated Edition; “Birthday Edition;” one of 600 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. About fine copy in the publisher’s slipcase, which is very good. More
[Book #35545P]
London: Collins, 1930. First Edition. In publisher’s lighter blue cloth. Fine. More
[Book #35544P]
New York: Scribner’s, 1952. First Edition. Tape and tape stains on the cloth and endpapers from a previously attached jacket, else fine in a fine, but clearly supplied, dust jacket. More
[Book #35543P]
New York: Minton, Balch, 1929. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with numerous chips. More
[Book #35541P]
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First Edition; presumed first issue binding. Minor cloth soiling and wear; a little page staining; very good. A superb association copy; inscribed by the author, “To H.G. Wells, the Sandpark [?] Philosopher. Oct. 1902. W.W. Jacobs.” Contains one of the most anthologized and finest of..... More
[Book #35540P]
New York: Putnam’s, 1926. First American Edition. Gift inscription; cloth spotted; very good in a dust jacket with a thumbnail-sized chip at the foot of the spine. More
[Book #35539P]
London: William Heinemann, 1923. First English Edition; identical in content with the American edition. Very good in a shabby, split dust jacket; in a clamshell box. With the ownership signature of Cornelius Weygandt dated IV-6-1923; he has also annotated the contents with notations on the volumes in which the poems..... More
[Book #35538P]
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. First Edition. BAL 8732. Publisher’s cloth; (BAL notes several cloth variants, without assigned or assumed priority). This copy doesn’t appear to conform to any of those; in “S” purple cloth, without stamping. Presentation copy, but the top of the front free endpaper..... More
[Book #35537P]
New York: Scribner’s, 1911. First Edition; first issue. A fine, bright copy with the preferred and probably earliest state of the binding with a gilt top edge; in the rare dust jacket which has some tiny chips; in excellent condition, not restored or repaired. In a custom quarter-morocco clamshell box..... More
[Book #35535P]