New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1917). First American Edition. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. Seven stories by the master: "The House with the Mezzanine;" "Typhus;" "Gooseberries;" "In Exile;" "The Lady with.....
n.p. Sam Alexander, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's patron; [x], 56 pages with 50 stiff card leaves.....
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (8" x 10") volumes bound in later half calf leather and boards with morocco spine labels: xxviii, 368; viii, 356 pages. Translated from the Swedish. Illustrated with a large folding map and 10 plates depicting South African.....
Dublin & London: William Robertson/Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1860]. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (14-3/4" x 10") bound in publisher's gilt-lettered and blindstamped flexible bright blue cloth. With illustrated title page and 19 pages, each with multiple illustrations with captions and tissue guards.
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") bound in full polished calf leather by Casa Calero Madrid with gilt-lettered spine with four raised bands, all edges marbled; xii, 382, [1] pages. Complete with large folding engraved map and 17 hand-colored lithographic plates after Lyon, by M......
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full early calf leather with blind-stamped borders to covers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped spine with five raised bands, all edges decorated; xvi, 287, [1] pages. Complete (despite "Vol. 12" on spine).....
London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in 19th Century dark red morocco leather with floral gilt borders to covers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, rebacked at an early date; viii, (xvi), 381.....
London: Moses Pitt, 1670. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7") bound in 19th Century 3/4 calf leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, housed in a modern cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine label; 36 pages. WING L61. "Henry Howard, Sixth Duke of Norfolk, went out to Morocco.....
London: J. Bowyer and H. Clements, 1713. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary full calf leather with elegantly tooled boards, housed in a modern cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine label; xxxi, [i], 152 pages. With folding map engraved by Senex. Simon Ockley (1678-1720), prominent.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: MacKenzie and Dent, [1819]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") in 19th-century black calf-backed marbled boards; xv, (1), (9)-712 pages. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map, 2 engraved plans of the City of Washington and the Country round Pittsburg, and 6 engraved views: the Capitol.....
Tokyo: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by The Shimbi Shoin, 1932. Yasumasa Fujita. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in boards covered with a rich golden Japanese brocade sewn with heavy blue silk and housed in a wrap-case made of heavy Japanese silk.....
Cambridge: Printed for the Class. The University Press, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"); 311 pages. A member of the class, Ernest L. Thayer, was the author of the most famous poem about baseball: "Casey at the Bat." This book, which appeared 2 years before.....
n.p. 1997. Sam Norkin. Drawing. Original pen and ink on paper, 15" x 12", SIGNED by the artist and titled at the bottom in pencil. An image of three actors--Willis Sparks, Arnie Burton, and Anne O'Sullivan--performing in MERE MORTALS AND OTHERS by David Ives, which opened Off Broadway in 1997.....
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1972. Edward Ruscha. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green boards (3-5/8" x 4-1/2") with business card of Ruscha laid in. Illustrated throughout from photographs of works by Ruscha.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1939). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth in 4 volumes after the printing of 525 deluxe copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page of the first volume to an Illinois school superintendent. Illustrated with 414 halftones from photographs and 249.....
Philadelphia & London: Lippincott & Grant Richards, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth; xii, 280 pages. Only edition of an important early study of the subject notable for containing 4 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS with printed tissue guards, including 2 by Auguste Renoir, and.....
Paul Cadmus. Drawing. Original Color Pencil/Chalk Drawing (11" x 18") that served as a figural study for his painting DAVID AND GOLIATH. This drawing was acquired with a few others that were created when Cadmus was living in a summer house in Vermont owned by his friend/lover Jared French.
[Lansford PA]: 1989. Christopher Willett. Original Art. Small (5" x 5") oil on board of a winter landscape of a Bucks County rural home SIGNED by the artist at the bottom right of the image and titled and SIGNED again on the verso. Framed to an overall size of 6-1/4".....
Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Original wraps bound in later cloth-backed boards with a gilt-lettered leather spine label, retaining original endpapers; 44 pages. Housed in a calf-backed brown cloth slipcase, spine lettered in gilt. INSCRIBED by the president on the title-page “With the Respects of J......
London: C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. First Issue (with title page dated 1813) of this Corrected and Improved Edition. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes in contemporary polished calf leather rebacked at an early date with gilt-lettering on the spines; xxxiv, 544, [2]; viii, 532 pages.....
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1928. First Unexpurgated Edition. Softcover. White printed wrappers (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") printed in red and black in glassine dustwrapper and original gold foil case. Frontispiece after a color drawing by the author. One of only 150 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper (of a total.....
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in contemporary calf recently and sympathetically rebacked retaining the original gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xii, 17-429, [3] pages, including the errata leaf. Portrait frontispiece of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger. FIELD 678: "History of the noblest labors.....
Washington DC: 30 March 1842. Letter. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Tyler," less than a year into his presidency, on both sides of a 4-3/4" x 7-1/4" sheet to his Secretary of War John Spencer [In 1843 he would become Secretary of the Treasury]. In full: "Major Craig should, in.....
Washington DC: 23 February 1835. Letter. Superb two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "John Tyler" to his son on one integral 15-3/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of stationery folded to make four 7-7/8" x 9-7/8" pages with one page serving as the Free Frank envelope SIGNED "J. Tyler." Addressed to "My Son" (Robert.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Thomas Hart Benton. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in dark gray-green morocco leather-backed brown linen boards with a lithographed scene by Thomas Hart Benton. The addition of hitherto suppressed passages totaling 15,000 words makes this the True First Complete Edition of.....
