Springfiled MA: Gurdon Bill, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An early biography of Lincoln published soon after his assassination. Publishers brown cloth, double-blind ruled covers, beveled egges, gilt titles to spine. A few short knicks spine ends. Solid copy. No names, inscriptions of bookplates. CIVIL WAR. More
Boston: Dana Estes. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. nd, circa 1905. Five volumes only of the Illustrated Cabinet Edition of the works of Jane Austen: MANSFIELD PARK Vol I and II; PERSUASION; LADY SUSAN THE WATSONS LETTERS Vol I and LETTERS Vol II. Light green cloth, Arts and Crafts style floral..... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 7 parts in 9 volumes - original edition 1901, half faux-vellum over brown covers, sides untrimmed. This copy with duplicate frontispieces portraits of Horace from etchings by W. H. W. Bickell (3), James Fagan, Edmund H. Garrett, Howard Pyle, with the extras..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 1st British Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, 1250 copies, this unnumbered. Half-leather over floral-patterned covers. First British edition after the first Belfast 1897 edition. Leather worn, especially spine ends. Firmly bound, good reading copy. More
various. 1st Edition. Hardcover. TAPESTRY BOOK COLLECTION PLUS UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT A collection of 81 major titles, plus 14 exhibition catalogs on tapestry, in all its features - historical, technical, artistic and cultural - assembled by an independent student of the form over 30 years. The collection includes all the major..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1946. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. 7 volumes complete simply yet elegantly bound in half black leather over black cloth, gilt ruled spines. 1500 copies, this #847. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second impression with corrections Aug 1954 after the first printing May 1954. SIGNED BY EDITH EVANS, who played the female lead, Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg, in the original production that premiered at the Aldwych Theatre on 30 April 1954. Under the Dame's signature..... More
London: Printed for Printed for Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, 1761. First English Edition. Hardcover. A very nice set in contemporary leather bindings of first Englsh- language editions of Voltaire translated from the French by T. Smollet, Rev. Mr..... More
NY and New Haven: Calder Foundation and Yale Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An as new copy of the softcover edition, and as uncommon as the harcover. Stiff, glossy pictorial cover, 287 pages, handsomely photographed by Robledo, sensitive to both form and texture of Calder's often whimsical but naturalistic..... More
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967. The hard-to-find hardcover edition of this MOMA publication on Pollack 148 pp, 120 illustrations, color foldout of the Lucifer canvas. As new in near fine dustjacket. More
NY: The Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Both parts, two volumes. Lots of b&w and colored illustrations plus tipped-in color plates. Internals in both near fine. Yapped (overlapping) edges of cover of volume 1 chipped/ worn. NATIVE AMERICAN CRAFT ART. More
Kansas City: Fred Harevy, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ND (1913). Brown, quarter cloth over brown paper boards with vertical pictorial pastedown of boy with flute. A fine, apparently unused copy, sparkling pages of 32 colored prints. The collectible copy. AMERICAN INDIANS NATIVE AMERICAN ARIZONA TAOS NAVAHO PUEBLO NEW MEXICO NAVAJO..... More
NY: Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy - as new in fine dustjacket. More
NY: Harper Collins, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, as new in near fine dustjacket. More
London: Methuen and Co, 1898. The uncommon first edition, issued in two volumes, contemporary red, half leather, gilt to spine, marbleized endpapers, gte, sides untrimmed. A few spots to the title page and frontispiece in volume 1, else near fine. Leather to spine scuffed a bit. Solid bindings, binder unknown..... More
NY: Fine Editions Press, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author Knight (1893 - 1956) to poet Edwin Carlile Litsey, one-time poet laureate of Kentucky on the ffe and dated 29 Nov 1943 at the University of Kentucky. More
London: The Favil Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Litsey's first book, signed by her on the ffe in the year of publication: " . knowledge of love that through all time lights up the mortal heart, For Jim. Yours, Sarah" Dustjacket worn, book lightly foxed here and there." Litsey was..... More
London: Downey & Co. Ltd., 1898. 1st Edition This =. Hardcover. A handsomely three-quarter leather bound set of The Thornton Edition with anonymous binder stamp "Bound in England'. Cordovan red leather over marbelized covers, double-ruled, endpapers to match, gte, rest untrimmed. Internals gently toned. Some hingewear here and there. Not..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. 1st Trade Edition Thus. Hardcover. First trade edition of the limited edition Dulac-illustrated edition. Brown cloth (faux leather-like) with elaborate gilt decorations front and spine, blind-stamped on rear. 30 tipped-in color plates with tissue-guards. Some "threading" of cloth at spine tips, front hinge. The gentlest..... More
London: Published for T. Cadell . et al. 1823. Hardcover. Handsomely bound, 3 volumes set of the poems collected in this new edition for publishers Cadell and others in 1804. Blue, polished full leather,blind-tooled inner boarder framed by decorated quadruple rules front and rear covers, more gilt and red leather..... More
NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute and The Henry Street Settlement, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The uncommon hardcover edition. Book apparently unused, dustjacket has a few closed tears else near fine. Design and typography by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, dustjacket art by Ivan Chermayeff himself. More
London: Printed for T. Davies...Becket and De Hondt ... and T. Cadell, 1771. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, complete. 8vo, contemporary full calf, gilt titles and devices to spine, red leather labels. Ownership copy of (1756 - 1838), landowner and slave trader St. Kitts, with his bookplate pastedown each volume..... More
London (and) Cambridge: Published by A Millar, The Strand, London; W Thurlbourn and J Woodyer, Cambridge, 1762. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary full speckled calf, 5 raised bands, gilt and red leather label to spine, 203, title page printed in red and black with a quotation from Tasso. WorldCat identifies..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Desilver, 1821. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Stated Fourth American Edition on title page. Small 8vo, full leather, blind-tooled and gilt-stamped front and back. 324p. With 6 full page engravings, drawn by R. Westall R.A., various engravers. Moderate foxing throughout. Boards detached and half of spine perished. We..... More
London: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh... T. Davies... and L. Davies, 1769. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes, 8vo, full, speckled calf, gilt to spine, 5 raised bands, red and black labels, sides stained red. [ii], x, 487, [15]; [ii], vi, 501, xi. In Volime II, page 449..... More