MY DOG TULIP
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy in price-clipped dustjacket very lightly soiled and a wee tanned to spine. Sharp copy. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy in price-clipped dustjacket very lightly soiled and a wee tanned to spine. Sharp copy. More
NY: The Century Co, 1917. Raemaekers, Louis. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 of 2 only. Cloth boards, gilt-pressed author name in uncommon cloth (canvas) wrapper with like gilt pressing. Title label flaked from spine else a fine unnumbered copy (1000 printed). gte, sdes untrimmed, 30 full color tipped in plates..... More
NY: Privately printed for the author, 1926. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered. large 4to, blue cloth, gilt titles front and spine, gte, sides untrimmed, 153 p. illustrated with plates, map, facsimiles. Sound copy, internals quite nice. More
Toronto: M. F. Feheley, 1976. Brown Cloth. Edges and corners sharp on binding and dw. Color paintings and illustrations throughout. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Early Printing Thus. Hardcover. Early printing of the Peter Pan story in Scribner's "Little People" edition with Rackham's famous illustrations - 5 colored plates, 15 line drawing in text. Green cloth covers, titles stamped in darker green. Pictoial dustjacket, prce-clipped, soiled and..... More
London: Mansell Publishing with Sotheby's, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, slight wear at corners. Solid, clean copy. More
London: William Heinemann, 1925. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The scarce limited edition of this Boulestin title, only 20 copies, this numbered 6 and signed by Boulestin on the limitation page. Printed on hand-made paper, with a special frontispiece designed by J. E. Laboureur. 8vo, sides untrimmed, boards covered in distinctive..... More
NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated..... More
St. Louis: Fred P. Kaiser, 1902. Hardcover. Complete 10 volume sets, "University Edition" , green cloth, gilt-stamped titles spine, gilt top edge, sides untrimmed. Apparently unread. (Can you blame them?) The kind of set, typically sold by subscription turn of the century before last, that rich people would have bound..... More
Washington: GPO, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, 352 pages, illustrated, original owner name 1903 date on the flyleaf. A fine copy. More
London: Winsor and Newton. Fourteenth Edition, Revised and Augmente. Hardcover. 12mo, yellow half calf (turned tanned), marbled edges. nd (circa 1890s). Water-colours painting is stated 14th edition, 50pp, 18 illustrations. Oil painting is 77pp, illustrated. The Winsor and Newton catalog for brishes, pencils, drawng papers, paints, etc. is 101pp, amply..... More
Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Press, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete set. Purple, faux-satin cloth stamped in gilt, cheaply produced set. Spines a wee soiled - volume 10 soiled more than the others - but sound all around. Women from the man's point of view. Anachronism, chauvinism, sexism rule. A real timepiece. More
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1936. First Edition. Red Cloth. Edges and corners sharp. Minor bump to bottom spine end. Binding tight, text clean. Some black and white photographs. Model copy. More
La Jolla CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Stiff pictorial wraps. Exhibition catalogue orgnazied by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art November 21, 1981 - January 3, 1982. More
London: George Allen, Ruskin House, 1897. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition, 6 uniform volumes, gte, sides uncut. All parts, including pictorial, pink covers, bound in decorative binding of cream cloth with pictorial inset stamped in gold and titles in red to each volume. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Spines were..... More
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd, 1923. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Uncoomon one act play by publisher Darton with practical theatre instruction by Rutherston. 8vo, French-style paper covers, 61 (1), printed at the Chaucer Press, sides untrrimmed. Inscribed by Darton on the ffe; " With the Author's compliments, best..... More
Chicago: The Chicago Burlington & Quincy RR; The Northern Pacific Ry.; The Great Northern Ry. First Edition. Soft cover. Scarce. Covers lightly toned, a few smudges at spine and cover edges. Previous owner signature lower right corner front cover. Black & white photographs throughout. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Solid clean copy, lacking dustjacket with bookplate on ffe. More
London: Oxforrd University Press, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy in unclipped, soiled dustjacket with a few chips at edges. 8vo, tan cloth, orange spine label, xiv,457, b&w photos, plates, maps (2 folding). More
The Riverside Press, 1904. First Edition. Paper Boards. Number 232 of 330 copies. Pages uncut. "B R" for Bruce Rogers on emblem on title page. Vellum spine darkened. Some wear to corners of covers. Two or three brown spots on first few pages. Text clean. No previous owner markings or..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1983. Hardcover. Later printings, all after firsts of 1958-1961, 1963. Volume 1, sixth impression, 1983. Volume 2, fourth impression, 1978. Volume 3, second impression, revised edition 1965. Volume 4, third impression of the revised edition of 1967. Volume 5 and 6, short stories introduced and edited..... More
NY: Doubleday, 1916. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. First US on British sheets. Solid copy, Quarter faux-vellum (browned) over brown-paper backed boards. More
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co, 1862. 1st Edition Thius. Hardcover. Expensive production in its day. Wide 8vo, brown textured cloth w/ elaborate blind-stamped perimeter to gilt-stamped centered titles in rectangular array, beveled edges, aeg. Printed on heavy stock, each text block with capital colored in red or blue and..... More
NY: Saxton and Miles, 1844. First Edition. Publishers Cloth. First eedition, 12mo, 240p, publisher's brown ribbed cloth, blind pressed front and rear, gilt to spine. Moderate foxing throughout, yet firmly bound. More