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London: Heritage Press, n.d. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
London: Heritage Press, n.d. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound at rear. Eliot's third and many think best novel.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, blindstamped with gilt lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers. BAL 5226; Myerson A24.1.a. This copy with the battered type at the bottom of page 230 and the "1" on the half title page. Emerson's superb book on his.....
Boston: James Munroe, 1841 & 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. First Editions of Emerson's two essential collections of essays, each uniformly bound in later 3/4 brown morocco leather and boards with gilt rules, gilt-lettered spines with five raised bands, top edges gilt. Half-title in first volume, second volume bound without advertisements.....
Photograph. Carte-de-Visite (2-1/2" x 4") photograph of Ralph W. Emerson. A distinguished bust-length profile by Allen [Boston], boldly SIGNED on verso: "R.W. Emerson." Signed photographs of Emerson are very scarce.
@1880s. Framed Photograph. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This photograph was in.....
Madrid: Imprenta de Gaspar y Roig, 1852. Hardcover. Large duodecimo (6-3/4" x 10-3/8") in calf-backed marbled boards; 168 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut of the author on the title page and 26 woodcuts in the text. With the early bookplate on the front pastedown of Mariano Nougués Secall, a Spanish.....
[1894]. First Edition. Manuscript. The proofs of one of Field's best-known poems consisting of 6 long rather fragile printed leaves with the heading "Sharps and Flats" on the top of one page, the title of his weekly newspaper column, neatly bound into a lovely full brown morocco leather folder with.....
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1900. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") attractively bound by A. Cuzin in full mustard morocco leather, the boards with leather inlays of lily pads, flowers, and butterflies; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Of a total of 350 copies, this.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. May Neama. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11-5/8") bound in buckram-backed paper boards decorated with ornaments originally designed in Paris by Fournier Le Jeune. Introduction by Guy de Maupassant. Illustrated with color plates by May Neama. Copy #887 of 1600 SIGNED by the illustrator on.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. May Neama. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11-5/8") bound in buckram-backed paper boards decorated with ornaments originally designed in Paris by Fournier Le Jeune. Introduction by Guy de Maupassant. Illustrated with color plates by May Neama. Copy #956 of 1600 SIGNED by the illustrator on.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edward Bawden. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edward Bawden. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #120 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edward Bawden. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edward Bawden. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Charles Mozley. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in brown cloth stamped in red and gilt. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed by A. Colish. Illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Mozley. Copy #955 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Charles Mozley. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in brown cloth stamped in red and gilt. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed by A. Colish. Illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Mozley. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. Virginia author's first book, a novel published anonymously. This in the first state binding with no name on the spine.
Boston: Lincoln, Edmands & Co., 1833. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, 408 pages. Frontispiece illustration of George Washington taking leave of his comrades. The contributions are mostly from English authors but included are examples by Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, John Quincy.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. First British Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. An uncommon collection of poetry by the author of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1887. Madeleine Lemaire. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10" x 12-3/4") beautifully bound in full dark green morocco leather with many variously colored morocco onlays and gilt decorations on both covers and the spine which has five raised bands; full gilt-decorated pastedowns with small leather onlays;.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1873. First American Edition. Hardcover. Issued in the Leisure Hour Series. Publisher's decorated cloth with the ads dated 4 October 1873. Hardy's third novel and the first published under his own name.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First American Edition. hardcover. Publisher's decorated brown cloth. Illustrated with 11 full-page plates. A "revised" edition was published later in 1892 by Harper restoring the cuts made in this edition published in January due to their controversial and sexual nature. This copy is an.....
London: Sampson, Low, Marston et. al, 1882. First Edition. hardcover. Three volumes bound in early blue 3/4 morocco by Riviere with gilt lettering and design on the spines and five raised bands. All half-titles present, and the original green cloth spines are bound in at the rear of each corresponding.....