NY: R. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1835. 1st Edition or early edition. Hardcover. A real book. An original edition, 1835 (with 1827 copyright) in original binding - black quarter leather, gilt titles overt blue paper boards. Covers worn and scuffed, some foxing internally but solidly bound. Small 8vo. xii +..... More
Indianapolis or NY: Bobbs-Merrill or MacMillan, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER COLLECTION. A group of 15 titles written by and owned or inscribed to immediate family members by prolific author Henry Kitchell Webster (1875 - 1932). Webster, who lived in Evanston, Illinois, set most of his novels in..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1901. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Handsome edition, limited to 1000 copies, this set unumbered. 4 to, uniformly bound in half, navy blue moroccan over blue cloth, raised bands, gilt to spines, which are slightly faded, sides untrimmed, blue/black marbleized endpapers. Internals fine: many volumes uncut. Publishing of..... More
NY: New York Graphic Society, 1977. 1st Edition Facsimle Limited. Hardcover. Facsimile edition of original 1930 work. Folio, quarter leather and cloth, near fine (slightest abrasion leather spine), internals as new, in lightly sunned slipcase 12 b&w photographs by Adams, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo. #304 of 950 copies. SIGNED..... More
London: William S. Orr, 1850. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes uniformly bound late 19thC red, full moroccan leather, blind rules covers, dentelles, and blind devices, gilt titles, raised bands to spine, aeg. Covers moderately worn, internals fine. More
London: Cassell, Peter, Galpin, 1882. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in one. Stout 4to. Contemporary green leather binding. gilt titles spine. Light foxing confined to prelims/title and rears. More
London: John Murray, 1914. Parson, Alfred (drawings by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2 folio volumes. Publisher's pebbled, mauve half leather over mauve cloth, raised bands, gilt to spine. gte, sides untrimmed. Covers moderately worn and scuffed. Internals near fine. A handsome, solid set. More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. Sowerby, John Edward et al. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. The third edition. 12 volumes plus index volume. Publisher's green cloth front and back covers, gilt to front. Brown moroccan spine gilt titles and devices. Hundreds of floral illustrations. Internals fine, except for index where the..... More
London: Groombridge, 1856. Voyez, G. (plates by). Penney (bound by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 353p + 1p + 10p, with 7 chromolithographed plates (each with tissue guard), including frontis and fully illustrated title page by G. Voyez and numerous line drawings. Rebound by Penney, Binder, Darlington with binder's ticket upper..... More
NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1850. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xvi + 359 + 16p adv. Rebound in red, half moroccan leather over red linen, raised bands, gilt titles an devices spine, gte, originalk cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, half pebbled leather over marbelized boards, gilt titles spine, 338 9. Solid copy. More
London: Joseph Thomas, 1841. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, full olive French levant morocco, wide gilt line border on sides, gilt panelled back, inner gilt borders, teg, sides uncut, bound by Popelin. Leather has faded to brownish-olive at spine. Internals fine. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a number of..... More
London: Printed for Andrew Bell, 1710. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Fifth edition, 8vo, xxx + 323 + (7). contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind. Missing prelims, frontispiece repaired, 6 engraved plates, 5 of them foldouts. Internals, including foildouts, better than very good. More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. and F. Rivington, et al, 1769. 15th Edition. Hardcover. Fifteenth edition 8vo, lxvi + 382 + index + 1p adv. likely early 19thc calf with single rule in gilt, raised bands, red leather label spine. Covers heavily worn, with some loss..... More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, London, 1732. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition. 8vo, xvi + 252 + 4p publishers' listings, frontispiece engraved by Pine, contemporary speckled panelled calf with rules and ornaments in blind, gilt dentelles and cover edges. Front cover hinge partially revealed..... More
NY: John F. Scovill. A. D. Bloodgood (bookbinder). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Undated, c 1850, 14 hand-painted floral prints. Scattered foxing, toning throughout. Bound in quarter leather over green pebbled cloth, giult to spine, which is cracked, dried, covers still holding. Bookbinder ticket rear pastedown for A.D. Bloodgood Bookbinder and Printer..... More
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1975. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 140 copies. Fine. Discrete bookplate front pastedown. Publisher's prospectus for the title laid-in. More
NY: Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2500 copies, folio. An apparently unread, unused set, fine in slipcase. No names, bookplates. Extra shipping charges will apply). More
London: 'The Bazaar' Office, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. undated, likely 1885 (from date in catalog in rear) and assumed perhaps second edition (first 1879/80?) that Dalziel later comprehensively expanded into a 3 volume work published in 1897. Publisher's mauve cloth, decorated in gilt, with silver title front, front cover and..... More
London: Bradbury Evans. John Leech. Hardcover. undated, c1860, 2 volumes in one, rebound in half leather, broken binding, signatures in groups separated from binding... either suitable for rebinding or as a breaker for the 20 hand-colored plates. 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A superior copy, first edition, half leather, front cover paper label with woodcut vignette in original dustjacket stamped in black with same. Laid-in is two-sided advertisement for the book designed with woodcuts by Seaver too. SIGNED BY SEAVER on verso ffe. Some toning..... More
NY: Oquaga Press, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy, unnumbered but personally signed by Radenkovitch on the limitation page with a lengthy contemplation about youth to a marreid couple of fellow artists and dated West Cornwall (CT) 1957. More
Chicaho: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon FDR title, this noteworthy as it bears the book plate of The Amalgamated Book Club, the members library of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), a labor union founded in 1914 famous for its socialist bent. It merged with the..... More