London: Printed by the Ballantyne Press for Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. Octavo. Limited edition, one of 220 copies, 200 of which were for sale. Original full vellum, spine and boards decorated in a minimalist rectilinear gilt design by Charles Ricketts. Edges untrimmed. Vellum boards slightly discolored with age.....
Brooklyn, NY: Conditions, 1977-1990. First editions. Seventeen issues in sixteen original perfect bound volumes in publisher's illustrated card wrappers (Issues 11/12 published as a double issue in 1985). A complete run of this seminal feminist and lesbian literary journal. Minor foxing to top edge on volumes four and five, volume.....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Black boards, gilt spine; pictorial dust jacket . xvi,[2],194 pp. Black and white half-tone 16 page center insert photo gallery of images, including maps; black and white in-text photos throughout. A fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket. First.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. Quarto. Publisher's original full red buckram, Eliot’s facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the upper board, spine lettered in gilt, housed in the publisher’s original red cloth slipcase with printed paper title label. xxxii,[4],[2],3-155,[1] pp. Text in black and red. Spine slightly sunned, small horizontal.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 420 pp; 56 color plates, 163 back-and-white text-figures, photos and maps. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated treatment of the Antennariidae, or frogfishes represents 15.....
Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Original green illustrated printed card wrappers. Foreword by Michael Tilson Thomas. Profusely illustrated with original black and white photographs throughout. Light rubbing and edge wear to wrappers; typical minor creases at corners, spine uncreased. Signed by legendary composer Aaron Copeland on the.....
Hartford: Huntington & Hopkins, 1823. First. 12 mo. Bound in contemporary full sheep, brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. 344 pp. Extremities rubbed, boards scuffed, boards cracked at spine, small piece missing from top of spine; moderate foxing and toning throughout, some chips to the lower edges of the.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Octavo. Three quarter red morocco, marbled boards; six spine panels with raised bands, panels decorated in gilt, black morocco spine label stamped in gilt; marbled, coated endpapers. Full color frontispiece. xxii, 524 pp. Half-title present. Illustrated with three additional color lithograph plates, four tinted monochrome.....
New York: Legal Momentum, 2007. First edtion, first printing. Quarto. Pictorial covers. Complex pop-ups, and removable historical facsimiles in full color explore key milestones in U.S women's history, spanning from the suffrage movement and the fight for Title IX to the rise of female leaders in politics, business, sports, science.....
Paris & Lyon: Chez C. P. Berton, N. Crapart / Lyon: Chez Bruyset-Ponthus, 1776. First edition. Small octavo. Contemporary full marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label in gilt, board edges in gilt. Complete with the large, folding, engraved map of the West-Central African coast, which serves as.....
London: Printed for J. Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street; And H. Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1713. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blind stamped full calf binding, gilt tooled spine. Half title, factotum initials, head and tailpieces, marginal notes, errata (page 148), folded contemporary hand-colored map by.....
Windham [Conn.]: Printed by John Byrne, for the Author, 1795. First edition. Six books in two volumes. Octavo. Original contemporary leather binding, red leather spine labels, Vol. 2 label partially present; ex-library with bookplates affixed to front pastedown, some neat numbering, and embossed library stamp to title pages; some offsetting.....
Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. c. 1745. First edition. Mezzotint engraving, printed in color, finished by hand, 12.75 x 8.25 inches, platemark (approx); 15.25 x 9.5 inches, overall (approx). Neatly disbound in some earlier century, else a very vibrant example of a hand colored mezzotint engraving. The.....
Paris: Chez P. Dufart, Libraire, 1835. Original 19th century stipple engraving on handmade rag paper, partially printed in color and finished with original hand-watercoloring. Printed on recto only, approx. 24 x 16 cm (9.5 x 6.25 in). Strong, distinct plate mark present. Clean print with no toning or foxing to.....
Paris: Chez P. Dufart, Libraire, 1835. Original 19th century stipple engraving on handmade rag paper, partially printed in color and finished with original hand-watercoloring. Printed on recto only, approx. 24 x 16 cm (9.5 x 6.25 in). Strong, distinct plate mark present. Clean print with no toning or foxing to.....
[Gif-sur Yvette, France]: Editions Frontieres, [1990]. First edition. Thick octavo. Decorated boards. 712 pp. Black and white photos and descriptive diagrams. Text predominantly in English with some introductory letters in French. The papers and progress of Particle Physics and Astrophysics presented at a momentous conference in France celebrating the the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First American edition. Octavo. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering and elephant on upper panel, gilt tiger on rear, blindstamped designs, gilt animal vignettes and lettering to the spine. t.e.g. xvii,[3],303,[3] pp. Frontispiece, and 34 illustrated plates. Designated as a "Printers Copy" on front.....
Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. c. 1745. First edition. Mezzotint engraving, printed in color, finished by hand, 12.75 x 8.25 inches, platemark (approx); 15.25 x 9.5 inches, overall (approx). Left edge retains sewing stabs, neatly disbound in some earlier century, else a very vibrant example of a......
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First edition. Small octavo. [4],289,[3] pp. T.e.g. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of the poet and children's author Eugene Field affixed to the front pastedown four full years after his death. Half crimson pebbled morocco over pink and cream mottled paper boards.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition, second state. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-decorated and embossed front board; greige endpapers. [2],624,[2] pp. Illustrated with 316 illustrations by John Harley, Edmund Henry Garrett, and A. B. Shute. Wear to the spine at crown and toe, and fore.....
London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate Street, 1739. First edition. Small octavo. [2],44,[2] pp. Likely disbound from a pamphlet collection with vestiges of the leather spine present; outer leaves dust soiled with occasional spots; internal pages near fine. Original price intact on title page.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1985]. First edition, first printing. Large octavo. Blue embossed boards, orange cloth spine. Twenty dazzling full-color portraits of dragons by Leonard Baskin, "with the help of his son Hosie he brings us a glorious gathering of dragons from all mythologies and literature: ranging from the.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Large octavo. Red cloth, image stamped in gilt on front panel. Text and full color illustrations by Gerrard in a style he describes as "small, highly detailed watercolors, remorselessly whimsical, and often Victorian/Edwardian in subject." Winner of the Fiera di Bologna Graphic.....
New York: Macmillan, [1993]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Full color illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Fine copy in equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Not intended as a bedtime story for the very young but a humorous repetitive rhyming story for slightly older children.
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Limited edition. Cream-colored card wraps with lapped edges, printed in brown on upper panel and spine. 88pp. Old World Series. First edition, thus; edition limited to 925 on Van Gelder paper. Title page in red and black; ribbon bookmark laid in. About fine, enfolded.....