New York: Brentano's Publishers, (1924). 1st US edition (Benkovitz A10). Benkovitz quotes van Vechten implying a print run of 300 cc. xi, [1], 126 pp. Richards' TLs, on his 8, St Martin's Street letterhead, laid-in, dated May 30th, 1924. Color frontis, on coated paper, by Robert E. Locher. Tissue guard..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. 1st edition. [10], 81, [5 (blank)] pp. Partially unopened. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Linen cloth spine over gold marbled paper boards; black stamped title lettering to spine. Mauve paper dust jacket. This copy of Field's first book with a presentation inscription to the ffep..... More
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London: Paget & Co., Publishers. 1843. 3rd edition. 1st published in 1842 (cf. NCBEL III, 960). [6], 593, [1] pp. 8vo. Period olive green half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. A pastiche on Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock. More
Ca early 1900s. Divers sizes. All now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. A small group of materials, including three blueprints, an original black and white photograph, several loose leaves of original pencil sketches, various additional ephemera, etc.... evidence strongly suggests all from the files of Lyman Gilmore, Jr...... More
London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1860. 1st edition. 2 volumes (xx, 343, [1]; . Illustrated with copies from his own sketches. Vol I with frontispiece of a facsimile mss sheet. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" Gilt-decorated half-vellum bindings with marbled paper boards, black leather spine labels. Marbled edges. Pale..... More
Monachii: Apud Melchiorem Segen, Bibliopolam, & Nicolaum Henricum, 1629. 1st edition. [12], 202, [6], 203 - 667, [9] pp. Errata p. 608. Colophon p. 609. Illustrated with 13 [of 14] copperplate engravings by Sadeler. 24mo: a - 2f^12. Last 3 leaves blank. 5-3/4" x 3-1/4". Period full pigskin with elaborate..... More
Utica: Printed for the Authors, by Seward and Williams. 1811. 1st Edition (American Imprints 24360; Wegelin, 1378). Not found in the Harris Catalogue. 138, [2] pp. "Vales of Peace: A Pastoral, in Two Epistles": pp [103] - 138. Frontispiece lacking. T.p. ornament. 2 tailpieces, p. 130 & p. 138. "The..... More
London: Longman Orme Brown Green & Longmans, 1839. 1st edition (Howes H300; Sabin 44696; Sadleir 'Excursions', pg 89 & 'XIX C. Fiction 1575; Wolff 4514). 3 volumes ([iv], 321 [no publisher catalogue]; [iv], 319; [iv], 312). 12mo. 4 3/4" x 8". Original brown cloth spine, paper spine labels & brown..... More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1713. 1st edition. [24], 109, [3] pp. Publisher adverts last 3 pages. Folding plate. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo: A^8 a^4 B - H^8. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Period full brown calf boards with later respining to style. Modern eps. "Fr. Wrangham" written in..... More
San Francisco: Frank Eastman & Co., Printers, 1886. 1st Printing (Rocq 9081). PRESENTATION copy, with printed author presentation slip tipped-in at front. 20 pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's printed grey paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Rodgers employed by the U. S. Coast..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. 1st revised and extended edition. One of 600 copies printed in July 1937. [13], 299, [2 (blank)] pp. Intratextual illustrations. 9-3/4" 6-1/2". Salmon cloth binding with title label pasted to spine. Gilt printed lettering to title label. Signed by "J. R. Knowland" -- Joseph Russell..... More
