London / New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. / Dodd Mead and Company, 1929. 1st edition thus. vii, [1], 291 pp. 12 inserted plates & other intratextual illustrations by Frank C. Papé. Royal 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering/decorations. Pictorial eps by Pape. Black dust jacket with silver..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1926. 2nd edition. 49 pp. Frontis, textual illustrations + 13 full-page plates, Folio. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering & cover device. Slipcase. Intended as a companion volume to Goudy's previous work, The Alphabet. More
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1972. 1st edition thus. LIMITED to 600 copies, of which this is number 434. 66, [6] pp. Many b/w illustrations throughout. 10-7/8" x 7-1/4". Red burlap cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Illustrated endpapers. Plain white paper DJ, title hand-inked to..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. 1st thus. "Memorial edition" [10], [7] - 28 pp. The illustrations & cover by Francis G. Attwood. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 7-1/4". Decorative paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket, with design matching that of the boards. A reissuance of a parody of Jacob Abbott's..... More
London: MacMillan and Co., 1886. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 1437). Large Paper Copy, limited to 250 cc. vii, [5], 447, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-5/16" x 5-3/4". Original green publisher's cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Harrison a professor of law that wrote on literary subjects... More
Syracuse NY: School of Journalism Syracuse University, 1936. 1st edition thus. Limited to 500cc. Unpaginated (though 19 pp). Lg 8vo. Olive green wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Text set in Bertham, the 100th typeface designed by Goudy, which was specially cast by Goudy for this publication..... More
New York / Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt / Cranston & Stowe, 1887. 1st edition. [2], 300, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth binding with black and gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and cover. More
New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1914. 1st edition (Miller, p. 53). Not in the NCBEL, Gimbel, nor the BM extract. viii, [2], 237 pp. 7 illustrations from photographs, 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8". Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. 1st edition. 206 pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Hardback. An interesting compilation of Dickens' poetical efforts. More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1896. 1st edition thus. Review copy. 203 pp. 12mo. 6-1/16" x 4". Blue cloth binding with black lettering. Review slip from Macmillan (US distributors) tipped-in to front. More
Philadephia: Porter & Coates, (1884). 1st edition thus. Unpaginated. Illustrated. 7-3/4" x 6-1/4". Publisher's deluxe decorative boards with silver title lettering & graphic stamped to front board. White cloth spine. AEG. More
San Francisco, Cal. Published by Frederic M. DeWitt, (1900). Third Edition. Cf. Cowan II, p. 168 & Rocq 9139 for the 1897 first edition. Not in the Norris Collection Catalogue, nor the Streeter Collection catalogue. 144 pp. Advertising. Illustrated "by nearly twenty engravings." With large folding map [26-1/4" x 21-1/2";..... More
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. 1st edition (BAL 6282; Kramer 69; Wright III, 2013). 512, [4] pp. T.p. printed in orange & black. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & boards. TEG. A Merle Johnson "High Spot of American Literature"..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 1st edition. "Presented by the Publishers" oval stamp to t.p. v, [1 (blank)], 124 pp. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping to front cover. Handel "was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1897. 1st edition. Large Paper copy. ix, [3], 245, [3] pp (including Index). Frontis. Head- tailpieces. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's tan quarter leather binding over blue-grey cloth boards. Contains much background material on each title. More
London: J. Mitchell, Bookseller and Publisher to Her Majesty, 33, Old Bond Street, 1855. 1st Edition. xv, [1 (blank)], 327, [3] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Period half-vellum binding with marbled paper boards & eps. Red edgestain. Gilt stamped leather title label to spine. More
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New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938. One folded sheet. 23 x 16 cm. Printed self - wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
