Paris: Sign of the Rainbow, 1920. First Edition Thus. Soft cover. 8vo, cross-hatched string over balck faux-leathger covers, paper label front. Limited to 729 copies. Some loss of string on covers, internals near fine. Printed for Emile Paul Brothers. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Printing Office, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1896 edition with the printed decorative cover with the imprint Judd & Detweiler Printers, Washington DC dated 1898, rebound in full red leather in India. Essay covers pages 757 - 1041 of the Smithsonian journal, with some dampstaining throughout. Amply illustrated..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Fifth edition in uncommon pape-backed boards, with original spine paper label. Paper over spine has had some repairs done some time ago. The book is protected in a brown cloth wrapper with leather label; book in wrapper..... More
Printed for Private Distribution, 1904. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. First edition, limited, #36 of 100 copies printed on imperial Japan paper. Vellum spine and corners over olive-green paper backed board, 8vo, ix, 152 (1), illustrated with 19 sepia plates, including frontispiece. Printed at the DeVinne Press. Near fine copy in..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second issue with "ribbon": corrected on page 253. 8vo, xii, (13)-249,(1),(3) advertisements, with three engraved plates, including frontispiece. Rebinding copy, in original or old calf front cover detached, ffe torn, front leaves (through x) sprung, foxed throughout, but all..... More
Haverhill MA: C. C. Morse & Son, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mustard cloth, gilt titles. Light wear to bottom edge front cover. Internals fine. No owner names or markings. More
NY: Grafton Press, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth covers darkened about edges and some fading of cloth in a few spots along spine front cover. Internals fine. More
NY: Grafton Press, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth covers, gilt titles front cover. An unused, apparently unread copy, in original glassine. New Hampshire poetry. More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A splendid production with many tipped in plates. The dustjacket spine is faded as is often seen with this title. Internals near fine - no owner names or markings and desirable thus. More
Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1912. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. This edition limited 130 copies, this number 10 and initialed by Strang on the limitation but missing the frontispiece, an etching of Mr. Granville Barker, signed by the artist. This edition is an update to the 1906 which includes all..... More
London: Orr and Smith, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xxii, 270 (6). 49 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9", tissue guards laid-in. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon with his bookbinder ticket upper left corner front pastedown, 6 raised bands. Leather..... More
London: Orr and Smith, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Three early volumes (1836, 1837 and 1840, each 8vo and uniformly bound with a combined total of 138 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9", tissue guards laid-in. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon..... More
London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, xii, 280, 48 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9" colored plant illustrations, with tissue guards laid-in, plus 8 woodcuts of plants. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon with his bookbinder..... More
London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1837. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, vii, 289, 41 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9" colored plant illustrations,with tissue guards laid-in, plus 30 woodcuts of garden tools, plants and diagrams. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon..... More
NY: Central Park Conservancy, 1985. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The uncommon 1985 DRAFT EDITION published by the Central Park Conservancy itself that preceded the 1987 final edition published by MIT. Tall folio, pictorial paper covers, stapled spine, 93 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w historic and contemporary (showing the decline of..... More
NY: Crown, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 136 pages, illustrated. A fine copy, custom-bound by an unknown binder under the commercial auspices of Weitz Colman a defunct high-end specialty store in midtown Manhattan, in full light-green, polished leather with gilt decorations and titles. Modest surface wear. A handsome presentation..... More
London: The Office of the Times, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete set - five volumes printed 1935 - 1948 - each volume uniform in format and binding, each volume individually titled. Each in original dustjackets which are variously chipped or with spines tanned. Still quite presentable and uncommon in complete..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. MacDonald's 1883 fantasy published as part of MacMillan's New Children Classics series with illustrations by Nora Unwin, and first edition thus. Front gutter partially revealed, else better than very good in unclipped, moderately worn dustjacket with a slightly sunned spine and..... More
Antuerpiae: Apud Henricum & Cornelium Verdussen, 1724. Early Printing. Hardcover. 1724 edition of the oldest Latin-Spanish dictionary attributed to de Salas, which first appeared in 1671; Worldcat records editions in 1695 and 1714, and identifies only 3 libraries (all in Spain) with this 1724 printing attributed to two publishers, Apud..... More
NY: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Medora Edition, #53 of only 500 copies printed. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and cougar image front cover. 4to, xvi, 318, sides untrimmed, illustrated. Some crinkling of cloth at spine ends, front cover a little tender. No names, bookplates..... More
NY: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. As new copy, in clear acetate wrapper, in light cardboards slipcase as issued. 4to, tan rough-weave cloth, green label w. gilt titles spine, 407, (2). Inscribed by Lincoln Kirstein on the colophon in rear with..... More
NY: William Morrow, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Loose sheets place in clamshell box. Inscribed by Waldman to a close friend and patron: "To George In appreciation for your commitment to the arts. All the very best Max Waldman NYV 3/78" This edition limited to 200 copies, this copy numbered 41..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A posthumously published children's title by Rawlings about an African American girl in Florida. A fine, apparently unread copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket. More
Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society Publishers, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce juvenile maritime novel by Robert Carse (c1904 - 1971) known for his books on the sea, based on his early adult years as a commercial seaman. This story about a trio of young people caught up in piracy..... More
anonymously hand-printed and illustrated, 1822. Hardcover. Replicas of the first 58 volumes of Curtis Botanical Magazine rendered, in hand-colored floral illustrations and holographic text edited from and amended to the original text by an anonymous English artistic hobbyist and rebound (likely early 20thC) in 24 volumes. William Curtis' first volume..... More