The TALE Of TSAREVICH IVAN, The FIRE - BIRD And GREY WOLF.; Retold in English by Irina Zheleznova.
Moscow: 1977. 1st printing thus. 11, [1] pp. Illustrated in color. Small folio. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4". Color printed paper covers, stapled.
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The PEARL.; Newly Translated by John F. Crawford with Andrew Hoyem including the Middle English text printed interlinearly from the British Museum manuscript Cotton Nero A.x Its four illustrations printed in facsimile together with a commentary on the poem.
San Francisco: Grabhorn - Hoyem, 1967. 1st Edition. Limited to 225 cc. 125 pp, printed in red & black. Jeffrey Thomas bookslip laid-in 4 color-printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-3/8". Quarter vellum over blue linen covered boards. This edition the first to have color reproductions of the illustrations appearing in the original manuscript.
The POETRY Of EDGAR ALLAN POE.; With an Essay on His Poetry by Andrew Lang.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. xxvi, 172 pp. Frontis of the Raven. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Period tan half-calf binding with green marbled paper boards & eps. TEG.
SOME THOUGHTS On The ORNAMENTED MSS. Of The MIDDLE AGES.; By William Morris. Printed on his Albion Hand Press, with an Account of its Travels from the Closing of the Kelmscott Press to the Present Day. Issued on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of William Morris' Birth March 24th, 1934.
New York: Privately Printed. Press of the Woolly Whale, (1934). 1st edition thus. [8], 20, [2] pp. Drawing of the press by Warren Chappell. 8vo. Vellum spine over stamped grey paper boards. This the first book to be hand printed on [Morris'] Kelmscott 'Chaucer' Press by the Press of the...
PROGRAMME A PERFORMANCE For MRS. RAY'S BENEFIT, On Wednesday Evening, March 10, 1852.; Richelieu, or The Conspiracy. To be Followed by Songs, Glees, and Duetts, buy The Sable Brothers. The evening's entertainment fo conclude with High Life Below Stairs.
[n. p.]: 1852. 1st printing. Single sheet of silk, with lace embroidered edge trimming. 10-1/4" x 5-1/2". Housed in simple light brown wooden frame [12" x 7-1/2"]. "Gimbel Brothers" framing ticket to verso. "Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy is an 1839 historical play by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It portrays...
BENJAMIN PIERCE: Astonomer, Mathematician. 1809 - 1880.
[Boston]: [The Riverside Press], [1880]. 1st separate printing (BAL 8951; Currier & Tilton, pp. 176-177). Printed from the setting of type used for the December 1880 Atlantic Monthly, and limited to 100 cc. Broadside, 10" x 6". Housed in a custom brown cloth chemise, with gilt stamped lettering to spine...
BLOWING CLEAR.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1930. 1st edition. [6], 333, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Light blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Blue dust jacket.
The PEEL TRAIT.
New York: D. Appleton - Century Co., 1934. 1st edition. [8], 309, [3 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Light blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Map eps. Dust jacket.
The ARISTOCRATIC MISS BREWSTER.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1927. 1st edition. [6], 403, [7] pp, with 2 pages of adverts at rear. Crown 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Dust jacket.
UNCLE EZEKIEL: And His Exploits on Two Continents. Beadle's Dime Novels. No. 16.
New York: Beadle and Company. 141 William Street. (1861). 1st edition (Johannsen DN-16). 123, [1 (blank)], [5] - 8 pp. Last 4 pages an excerpt from "Madge Wylde", forthcoming Dime Novel No. 17. Frontispiece. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers (Type II-DN). Rear wrapper lists through...
CRUMBS From The MASTER'S TABLE; or, Select Sentences, Doctrinal, Practical, and Experimental.
New-York: D. Appleton, Clinton-Hall. 1831. 1st Edition (American Imprints 8179; Rosenbach 761; Welch 4665). "Stereotype" issue. 192 pp. 24mo. 2-3/4" x 2-1/8". Original publisher's rust-colored cloth binding with [remnants of a] printed paper title label to spine. The first book published by Appleton.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES In WONDERLAND [And] THROUGH The LOOKING GLASS, And What Alice Found There. Two Volumes.
New York: Random House, (1946). 1st edition thus. [10], 150, [2]; [10], 165, [3] pp. Illustrated by John Tenniel, colored by Fritz Kredel. 8vo. Blue / red quarter cloth bindings, over patterned cloth boards, with pictorial onlay to each front boar. Publisher's box.
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Grimm's FAIRY TALES By The Brothers Grimm. [with] Andersen's FAIRY TALES.; Translated by Mrs. E. V. Lucas, Lucy Crane and Marian Edwardes. Translated by Mrs. E. V. Lucas & Mrs. H. B. Paull.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1945). 1st Edition thus. 373, [3 (blank)]; 343, [1 (blank)] pp. Grimm illustrated by Fritz Kredel; Andersen illustrated by Arthur Szyk. 8vo. Andersen bound in green cloth; Grimm in red. Each with color pictorial eps. Both housed in a green paper-covered publisher slipcase.
The WOGGLE - BUG BOOK.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. 1st edition, first printing (Baumiana pp. 82 - 84; Bienvenue, pp. 217 - 219). INSCRIBED by the author on the copyright page. 46, [2] pp. Color illustrations by Ike Morgan, said by Bienvenue to be executed "in a vibrant comic-page style, and his...
ESSAYS. By Mr Goldsmith. Collecta revirescunt.
London: Printed for W. Griffin in Fetter Lane, 1765. 1st Edition. vii, [1 (blank)], 236, [2 (publisher advert leaf)] pp. P. 107 misnumbered as "1"; 201 as "20". T.p. copperplate vignette. 12mo. Period full calf binding with maroon leather spine label in second compartment. Speckled edges.
CINQ SEMAINES En BALLON Voyage de Decouvertes end Afrique. Par Trois Anglais. [bound with] VOYAGE Au CENTRE De La TERRE.
Paris: Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation, J. Hetzel, Editeur. 1867. Early edition, first published in 1863 / 64. 267, [1 (blank)]; 220 pp. Separate dated t.p. for each work. Vignettes par MM. Riou et De Montaut. Imperial 8vo. 10-3/4" x 7". Original publisher's black pebbled leather spine with gilt lettering...
FOUR LECTURES.; The Civil Service as a Profession (1861); The Present Condition of the Northern States of the American Union (1862 or 1863); Higher Education of Women (1868); On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement (1870).
The Folcroft Press, 1969. Reprint edition. 139 pp. 8vo. Marbled paper boards, with printed paper title labels to spine & front board.
PASSION - FLOWERS.
Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields, 1854. 1st edition (BAL 9409). Later issue, with January 1854 catalogue at rear. [2 (blank)], iv, 186, [4 (blank)] pp. 8 page publisher catalogue, dated January 1854, tipped-in to rear endpapers. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine &...
John Bartlow's Study on- DIVORCE; The Saturday Evening Post. November 1, 1958 - 15¢.
Curtis Publishing Co., 1958. 1st Printing. Broadside, color lithographed. Artwork by John Falter. 28" x 21-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Falter was a mainstay artist for the Post, with his first Saturday Evening Post cover appearing September 1, 1943. So began a 25-year relationship with the magazine...
GEMLIN AMERICANUS. A Scrap Book Collection of Gremlins.
[New York?]: B. F. Jay & Co. Publishers, (1942). 1st printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/artist. Unpaginated, though 48 pages. Laid-in, a piece of letterhead stationery, "The GREMLINS will get you if you don't WRITE SOON! [gremlin drawing to the left]. Each entry illustrated, for a total of 22...
The FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Lord Byron's Suppressed Poem.
[Hollywood, California]: Privately Printed, [1937]. 1st edition thus. 16 pp. 8vo. 7" x 5" [18 cm x 13 cm]. Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The Adam & Eve story, rendered into verse. Place & year of publication from OCLC, see 13356679.
TEN THOUSAND A YEAR. A Novel.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (n. d.). Later edition, ca 1870. 547, [4] - 16 pp. Text double column. Publisher adverts last 13 pages. 2 plates preced title page. 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. '... the most famous novel about the law...' - Wolff.
The DOVES' NEST And Other Stories.
London: Constable & Company Limited. 1923. 1st trade Edition (Kirtpatrick A6), reputedly preceded by "twenty-five copies sent out as travellers' samples" xxiii, [1 (blank)], 196, [4] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Gray/blue cloth binding, blue lettering to top board and back strip. Dust jacket.
THOMAS PAINE: A Bibliographical Check List of COMMON SENSE With an Account of Its Publication.
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973. Reprint. 124 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Grey cloth binding.
The ARKHAM HOUSE COMPANION: Fifty Years of Arkham House.; A Bibliographical History and Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House / Mycroft & Moran Including the Revised and Expanded Horrors and Unpleasantries.
Mercer Island WA: Starmont House Inc., 1989. 1st edition. xv, [1 (blank)], 184 pp (including Index). 4to. Pictorial composition hardback binding. Issued without jacket.