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Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1966. First edition. Octavo. Pale green printed card wrappers; 27,[3]pp. Frontispiece portrait. Lightly sunned at edges, coated paper for portrait has toned edges, else very good. First edition. A concise yet pointed exposé on Thomas J. Wise, the infamously industrious bibliographical forger whose manufactured pamphlets infiltrated major.....
New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, [2004]. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five.....
Hackney, London: The Stourton Press, 1988. Private, Limited Edition. Tall, thin octavo. Red cloth, gilt stamped spine. Frontispiece photograph of Rylands tipped-in. Privately printed for Lord Rothschild, limited edition № 32 of two hundred. Signed by Lord Rothschild on the Rylands photograph "Victor Rothschild," in black ink, and signed below.....
London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition. Octavo. Coffee-brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's device of a bowl with monogram in blind on lower board. First edition, first impression. Introduction by Virginia Woolf, pages 9-16, published here in the year her A Room of One's Own was published. Top.....
Princeton, NJ: Francis P. Harper, 1913. First edition. Small octavo. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine. viii,215,[1]pp. Introduction by the author. Laid in to the book is a rare prospectus, and a letter from the collector James Osborne Wright to a Mr. Tapley stating the book "does not altogether please me. It.....
Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1976. Purple cloth, spine gilt. Illustrated. Fine in faintly used dust jacket.First edition (of two) of this breakthrough in imprint bibliography/history. One of ca. 650 copies comprising the American issue, from a total of about 1000 copies. Addenda list with the number of copies printed and.....
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. First American edition. Small quarto. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. 128 pp. 136 black and white illustrations. Bibliography, chronology, list of illustrations, and index. Dust speckled at top edge, remainder mark at bottom, else a very good copy in a good, unclipped.....
New York: Random House, [2003]. Octavo. Maroon paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. 347,[5] pp. First edition, later printing. Nafisi offers a portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and a glimpse inside the lives of women in revolutionary Iran. About fine, in a near fine dust jacket.
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London: Privately Printed, 1911. First edition. Octavo. xx, 164 pp., with a frontispiece portrait of William Lilly, the 17th-century English astrologer. This is Volume II only of F. Leigh Gardner’s three-volume bibliography of occult literature. Bound in publisher’s blue cloth, gilt title stamped at the upper right of the front.....
[Southport, UK]: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003. First, limited edition. Yellow card stapled wrappers, paper label. 28 pp. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, of which 50 copies have been signed by the author on the title page. This is the fourth in the Virginia Woolf.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Duodecimo. Quarter bound in leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, deep green and black marbled boards. Georgeous green and gilt endpapers. Original wrappers printed in black, bound in; silk place marker. 268pp. Bibliography. Leather rubbed at crown and.....
London: Martin Secker, 1930. First edition. Brown cloth, gilt spine. T.e.g. [2],43,[4] pp. Fine, without the printed dust jacket. Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–46). West was the daughter.....
New York: Grolier Club, 2004. Octavo. Decorated green & yellow wave pattern. Black and white illustrations. Bookplate tipped onto turn-in flap of front panel. 54pp. Fine. First edition, limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. From the collection of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, Bloomsbury collector, William.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, [nd. ut c. 1917-18]. First edition. Printed self wrappers. 31,[1]pp. Generally, international essays and books of non-fiction regarding the authors' view of the "Great War"; a series of Pamphlets are listed, and "Maps of War Areas." None are illustrated in catalogue, mostly with prices listed. A......