Harper's: NY, 1860-1865. 6 Vols. Illus.; ads, each 16 x 11.25", half red leather; marbled boards, vp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities lightly worn, hinges loose, some tears to pp, some spotting, last issue (Dec 30, 1865) is missing everything but first cover and verso, else a very nice set..... More
Oxford University Press: NY, nd. 7.25 x 5, full limp leather, aeg, 1087 pp + Concordance + index + maps, covers heavily worn, extremities bumped and badly fraying, hinges cracked, contents (especially endpapers) badly waterstained, pp creased, a poor, loose copy of the Red Letter Edition of the King James..... More
np (London?), nd (c. 1330). Hardcover. 5.5 x 3.25", later limp vellum, 98 vellum leaves plus two blanks plus later front endpaper, pages numbered at bottom at a later date starting at "1" (though there is some concern that the first leaf is missing), some fading to ink but largely..... More
Humphrey Phelps: NY, 1832. 16 x 20", folded into a 5 x 2" gilt-lettered leather folder, colored in outline, one tear at a fold repaired and now browned (at right margin and into the Atlantic Ocean, not at land) else a nicely preserved example; map shows the US to Arkansas..... More
Privately printed, 1992. Cartoons, 9.5 x 8, gilt lettered padded leather, 377 pp, covers a bit worn and soiled, inner hinges cracking, some finger soiling to text block, some yellow spots in text block near rear of book else a nice copy of this very scarce and important book, published..... More
London, 1700. Hardcover. 7.5 x 4.5", full leather, 376pp, covers very worn and waterlogged with old paper adhesions to front cover, front outer hinge cracked, rear cover and last two leaves detached (but present), bottom inch of spine cover detached (but present), title page browned around the margins, textblock toned..... More
Harry N. Abrams: NY, (1977). Hardcover. Illus., 12 x 9", black cloth, 258pp with index, spine ends a little bumped else a nice, clean copy in a yellowed and rubbed dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF A SNAKE, INSCRIBED "Pour Anne & Peter, cordialement..." AND SIGNED "Alechinsky" BY..... More
Joannis a Sommeren, et al: Amsterdam, 1685. 104 (of 105) copper engraved plates + frontis + additional engraved title page, 21 x 15, old half vellum and boards, slightly raised bands, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, panels and label gilt tooled unpag. Covers extremely shelfworn, rubbed, creased, spotted..... More
The Company of Stationers: London 1820. 5.25x3", full period reddish-brown straight-grain morocco, decoratively ruled gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, ink name, bookplate, piece of preliminary page cut out, shows some wear but an attractive copy. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING BEING A VIEW..... More
Riccardi Press/Philip Lee Warner/The Medici Society: London, 1914. Hardcover. Illus. by John Tenniel, 9 x 6", gilt-ruled crushed brown morocco with five raised spine bands; teg, SIGNED BINDING BY ZAEHNSFORF, 131pp, extremities a little rubbed, hinges a bit rough and tender, old stain on rear cover (hardly noticeable), textblock edges..... More
Paris (1956). B/w illus, 14.5 x 10.5", pict boards, spine defective, covers very worn (esp at edges), contents very loose, eps soiled, spotted & stained, ffep wrinkled, title page a touch soiled. MISSING ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS!!! (except for cover) BUT BOLDLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED TWICE BY MARC CHAGALL (ONCE IN..... More
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas: NY 1934. 7.5 x 5", cloth, 371pp, couple minor pencil notes, ink name, spine darkened, in edge-chipped dw with chip at top of back panel with cello-tape repair, minor edge tears, spine darkened, some wrinkling. FIRST EDITION. More
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Coward-McCann: NY, 1928. Hardcover. Illus., oblong 10 x 7", pict boards, unpaginated, minor extremity wear else a nice, clean copy in an extremity-worn slipcase. LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES (this one #105) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Missing the called-for original wood-engraving signed by the author, though. More
Printed for the Author at the Artists Press: London 1906. 94 plates; 102 text illu, 13.25 x 10.5", elaborate blind-tooled oasis morocco, ribbed spine with wooden boards and engraved clasps, teg, subscribers' list, a bit worn with scribbled-out name on fep. LIMITED TO 270 NUMBERED COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER... More
Ticknor, Reid and Fields: Boston 1850. 7 x 4.5", later 3/4 red leather by Brentano's, top edge gilt; marbled end papers, 322pp, small ding in spine, erasure on fep, title worn & soiled with spotting that continues next few pp, pp321-322 in facsimile, minor text spotting, lacks publisher's list, new..... More
(Paramount 1946). Nice 14.5x23" sketch accomplished in watercolor and gouache showing Stanwyck wearing a periwinkle gown with parasol. More
(Embassy 1966). 17 x 14", goache & ink on Head's illustration paper, light soiling/smudging, light creasing near corners, paper removed from a sketchbook. Sketches show Elke as "Kay Bergdahl" wearin different syles of evening attire, each bears Heads' costume notations in heavy grease pencil: "Kay #4 Cocoanut Grove scene 111"..... More
np, nd (c. 1968). Approximately 10 x 8, b&w portrait of Kennedy by Philippe Halsman, matted and framed to 14 x 12, not examined out of frame but appears very nice. INSCRIBED "FOR DANIEL MULCAHY WITH BEST WISHES" AND SIGNED BY ROBERT KENNEDY. Magic Marker signature a bit light. It..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Co.: np, 1941. Frontis portrait in vol. one, 8.75 x 5.75", gilt-dec maroon buckram; teg, covers lightly edge-worn, hinges loose else nice copies in rubbed, soiled, toned and edge-worn and edge-torn dustjackets. Missing vols. 8-10, 17, 20-21, and 28. But LIMITED TO 1010 NUMBERED SETS, SIGNED BY..... More
J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, (1960). Hardcover. 8.25 x 5.5", green cloth backed boards, 296pp, spine ends lightly bumped else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and extremity-worn dustjacket with a hint of moisture at bottom of rear panel. Ninth Impression in an Eighth Printing Dustjacket, but INSCRIBED "To Marian Osmond..... More
Methuen & Co.: London, (1926). Hardcover. Illus. by Ernest H. Shepard, 7.25 x 5", gilt-ruled and gilt-pict limp green leather; aeg, 158pp, spine a little sunned, extremities lightly worn, small spot in margin of foredge for last few pages, a few other light spots but still a remarkably well preserved..... More
![WORKS OF WALTER PATER]. Walter Pater](/pictures/thumb/11-f5pater.jpg?v=1567543516)
Macmillan & Co: London & NY, 1893-1898. 8 Volumes. 7.75 x 5.25", gilt-ruled green morocco w/elaborate gilt inner dentelles, aeg. Includes: The Renaissance, Appreciations, Marius the Epicurean I & II, Plato & Platonism, Greek Studies, Gaston de la Tour, Imaginary Portraits. More
![A Dish Of Apples [with original signed drawing by Arthur Rackham]. Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Rackham](/pictures/thumb/99-4605.jpg?v=1556810461)
Hodder & Stoughton: London, (c. 1921). Illus. by Arthur Rackham including three in color. 8.5 x 7", pict grey cloth, 77pp, covers well rubbed and darkened (esp. spine). Extremities bumped and frayed, hinges loose, pp finger soiled and used. WITH ORIGINAL SKETCH ON FRONT BLANK OF AN OLD WOMAN LOOKING..... More
np (London), 1902. Hardcover. Frontis + 15 color plates by author, 5.25 x 4", pink pictorial boards, unpaginated, covers a bit rubbed, front cover a bit sunned, spine and top edge of front cover a bit soiled, end papers foxed else a nice copy, in a custom-made, lightly worn, splitting..... More
