[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.....
London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. First UK edition, first impression. Small quarto. Grey cloth, gilt embossed on spine and front panel. 128 pp. Frontispiece photograph, and dust jacket photos by Gisele Freund. 136 black & white photo and facsimile illustrations. Inscribed on title page, "Inscribed to Pearl Letz - With.....
Cazenovia, NY: Eva Thoby-Marcelin, 1966. First edition, thus. Etchings portfolio, hand printed by the artist R. E. Marx [1925-2020] in blue and black on Rives paper, each of the ten etchings numbered and signed 26/80 in an edition limited to 80 copies only. The type was handset in 18 pt.....
London: The Hogarth Press, [1982]. First UK edition. Small octavo. Reddish-grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, edges trimmed. White illustrated dust jacket by Angelica Garnett, printed in yellow, brown, and black. Fine, in equally fine dust jacket. First UK edition of essays originally written for "Good Housekeeping" magazine in 1931-1932.....
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1984]. First UK edition. Green cloth, gilt spine. 181 pp. Half-tone photographs in text. Fine, in near fine dust jacket illustrated by the author. First edition. Angelica Garnett, daughter of Vanessa Bell and niece of Virginia Woolf, was a child of Bloomsbury. Duncan.....
New York, Hollywood, London, Toronto: Simon French, Inc., [1976]. Spiral bound, printed card wrappers. 99 pp. Possibly an Advanced reading copy; typed title taped to spine, else very good. Scarce. First edition. "BLOOMSBURY by Peter Luke was first performed at the Phoenix Theatre, London, England; Wednesday July 10, 1974" -- page.....
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004. First edition. Octavo. Green cloth, spine and upper panel blind-stamped; illustrated wrap around dust jacket. Decorated end papers. Graphic illustrations by Sue Coe, text by Judith Brody. Inscribed and illustrated by Coe on the title page, with offsetting to facing blank page, "For.....
London: Printed for Richard Simpson at the Three Trouts, and Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1695. First edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary calf with a calf overlay repair, now peeling; red and gilt title panel to spine. Boards firmly attached, newer end papers. [8], 320 [i.e......
[N.p.]: Frontier Press, 1970. Tall octavo. Printed wrappers. 98 pp. Reprint. First published by Robert McAlmon's Contact Publishing Co. in 1923 in France. The work alternates sections of prose and free verse musing on the theme of renewal in its many forms. Very slightly toned at spine edge, else fine.....
St. Paul, Truck Press, [1977]. First edition. Printed wrappers, text in black and red. 64 unnumbered pages.Printed and bound in a limited edition of 700 copies by the author at Membrane Press, Milwaukee [WI], June and July 1977. Fine.
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Pictorial wrappers. 196 pp. Reprint of the 1921 edition with the "examined and certified" official photographs included in the text. The text includes the correspondence between Conan Doyle and E. L. Gardener of the Theosophical Society, Conan Doyle's "independent evidence beyond that commonly accepted," and.....
Boulder & Normal, Black Ice Books (Fiction Collective Two), 1994. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering; publisher's decorated and printed dust jacket. 219 pp. Delany’s once‑suppressed novel, written 1969 - 1973 and issued here in its first hardcover publication. Notice from the dust jacket's rear panel: "Because it contains.....
52 Tavistock Square, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London in twentieth century 3/4 red morocco and red cloth, back in six compartments, gilt lettered in the second and third, dated “1925” in sixth, five raised bands, top.....
New York: Viking:, 1966. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 435 pp. Very good or better in a bright unclipped dust jacket whose price was altered by the publisher. First edition, Book of the Month Club Selection. Dame Rebecca's tale was made into a mini-series by the BBC.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 300 hardcover trade copies; 125 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the editors. 22 copies lettered A......
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 300 hardcover trade copies; 125 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the editors. 22 copies lettered A......