New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. First Edition. hardcover. Folio (9" x 12") bound in half black morocco leather and red cloth with a black morocco inset on the front cover of the LEC logo. Illustrated with 200 examples of title pages, text pages, and illustrations reproduced by the same.....
[Harrisburg, PA]: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's red cloth (6" x 9-1/4"); 124 pages. Illustrated with 18 color plates and numerous B&W plates. Sticker of an assemblyman of the PA House of Representatives on the front pastedown. Uncommon.
Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, n.d. [1950s]. Softcover. Pictorial wraps; 8 pages including covers. Stand-up sailors and punch-outs of sailors and soldiers.
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter black cowhide and boards covered with Cockerel handmade marbled paper; 98 pages folded double in the Japanese style. Printed on Abbey Mills paper made by Grosvenor Chater at their mill in North Wales. Designed by John Dreyfus.....
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter black cowhide and boards covered with Cockerel handmade marbled paper; 98 pages folded double in the Japanese style. Printed on Abbey Mills paper made by Grosvenor Chater at their mill in North Wales. Designed by John Dreyfus.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Cyril Satorsky. Hardcover. Quarto (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in full coarse natural linen with the spine stamped in brown and gold. The original Middle English text edited by A. C.Cawley and a modern verse translation on facing pages by James L. Rosenberg who also.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound with a genuine parchment spine stamped in gold and blue paper sides on which a design by Valenti Angelo is stamped in gold and hand-colored by the artist; 154 pages. Translated by C. Scott-Moncrieff; introduction by.....
London: Religious Tract Society, n.d. New Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 11-1/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth. Generously illustrated by Whymper and others with numerous wood engravings and with two color lithographs of Mont Blanc and the Summit of the Aiguille Verte. Much on wildlife and mountain climbing. Foxing to.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards; [vi] 111 pages. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of De Vinne with his signature below, possibly printed, and a gravure of a bronze.....
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts a rooster, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color. A few images are negative stereotyped depictions of African-Americans including a Golliwog and a Mammy.
London: J. Batley, E. Symon, T. Osborne, & J. Crokatt, 1736 - 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Three folio (8-1/2" x 13-1/2") volumes (of 7) bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 5 full-page engraved plates, 6 folding plates, 2 folding plans, and 18 folding.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with a foreword by him. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with a foreword by him. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist.....
London: Vista Books, (1963). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED "To Bill Meredith,/thank you./yours/sincerely,/warmly,/truly,/all that is good/Dannie."
(Swansea): Portland University Library, (1971). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'Bill's -- this unaltered version/with affection."
London: Hutchinson, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To William Meredith/Dannie/April '64."
London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx To William + Richard/to be taken after meals/affectionately, Dannie."
London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx For William and Richard/to be taken with a/pinch of salt!/affectionately, Dannie/Xmas 83."
New York: Criterion Books, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. Early title by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, first published in England in 1957. Poet William Meredith's copy with his SIGNATURE at the top of the front endpaper, below which is INSCRIBED "With respect,/Dannie Abse," with the poet's last name.....
(Lowestoft): Scorpion Press, (1967). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'To Bill/Not open, still../warmly,/Dannie/July 67/(Hope to see you next year)."
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith and his partner and SIGNED twice on the title page.
London: Vista Books, (1964). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith: "'We are most our own strange selves when we are hosts.'/For Bill,/whose Apollinaire translations/would have been in here had/I known them earlier/Dannie Abse/June '64."
Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad / Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1809. First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7-1/4") in original paper-backed brown boards with a printed paper spine label, uncut at the fore and bottom edges; 236 pages. Complete with half-title page and two full-page plates. In this work, first.....
London: Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 16 engravings and a large folding map. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer. His record of travels in Scandinavia describes the customs of.....
Chicago: Richard Adamiak, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Quarto; xvi, 376 pages with index and bibliography. Page-by-page reproductions of various catalogs dated 1975 - 1982 from leading antiquarian booksellers specializing in the legal field. While the prices, of course, are dated, the detailed descriptions are quite valuable. The type is.....
