California: University of California Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS IN QUARTO. MICHAEL ALLEN and KENNETH MUIR. University of California Press: Berkeley / Los Angeles / London. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 906pp, 12.75" x 9.75". Housed in a cloth-covered slipcase with stamped silver ornamentation on the covers. Bound in.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1895. Tenth Edition, Limited Number. Hardcover. AULD LICHT IDYLLS. J.M. BARRIE. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1895. Hardcover. Tenth edition, limited with this numbered 297 of 550 copies. 232pp. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Thirteen etchings by Wm. Hole. Spine ends and corners are sharp.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875. First Edition. THE INN ALBUM. ROBERT BROWNING. Published by Smith, Elder, & Company, London, 1875. First Edition. 8vo, 211pp, olive green cloth, gilt lettered. No jacket. "That poet's a Browning: he neglects the form" (Browning). With pages 206 numbered 20: somewhat less common than.....
Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1870. Roslyn Edition. 8vo, dark green textured cloth boards with gilt front board "Roslyn Edition" and decoration; gilt spine lettering & decoration; gilt top edge, part 1-332 pp; part 2-355 pp. Good condition, lightest bit of shelf wear at corners & spine ends, Holman Dickerman School.....
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1871. Roslyn Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, dark green textured cloth boards with gilt front board "Roslyn Edition" and decoration; gilt spine lettering & decoration; gilt top edge, part 1-272 pp; part 2-256 pp. Good condition, lightest bit of shelf wear at corners & spine ends, Holman Dickerman.....
New York: Brentano's, 1906. Hardcover. "All Works of Nature Created by God in Heaven and on Earth are Works of Sculpture"CELLINI, Benvenuto. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini written by himself. Edited and translated by John Aldington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the same hand together with an.....
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1951. Clifford Webb. First Edition. Hardcover. JULIUS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES: A MODERN RENDERING. SOMERSET DE CHAIR. Published by: Golden Cockerel Press, London. 1951. One of 320 copies. Illustrated with 14 wood-engravings by Clifford Webb, maps on endpapers. pp312, 4to. Original crimson and blue buckram.
Edinburgh: Navarre Society, 1926. First Edition. 1/2 Morocco. First edition from the 1873 published by Bickers, Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Decorative title-pages by F.O. Bedford. Small octavo. Four volumes Bound in 2 vols by Sangorski and Sutcliffe London. All edges finely gilt and bound in ½ Morocco, red cloth sides.....
1890. DELIA BATHING AND CELIA'S DOVES De Pezay, Marquis and Claude Joseph Dorat Published by Vizetelly & Co, London, 1890 Un-signed Fine Binding Bound in full Crushed Levant, very much of the period for the arts and craft movement of the late 1800s it has a simple but elegant Doves.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. LITTLE DORRIT Dickens, Charles Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857 Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing of First Hardcover Issue. The earlier editions were compiled and bound in forty parts after first appearing in serialized. form. This volume.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Frank Reynolds. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens, Charles Hodder & Stoughton, London (1913) One of 350 copies signed by Frank Reynolds [Reynolds, Frank, Illustrator]. Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds. London. Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d 1913].....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1910. Cecil Aldin. First Edition. Hardcover. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. CHARLIES DICKENS. London: Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1910. First edition in this form. Two quarto volumes. x,[1]-450; x, [1]-457 pages. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Volume one with 13 color plates;.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1857. Illustrated. Full Morocco Extra Gilt. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1857. Designed by Birket Foster, John Tenniel and J.R.Clayton, and engraved by Edmund Evans, Dalziel Brothers, H.N.Woods, and John Green. (illustrator). First Thus. Edinburgh, 1857. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates. Contemporary dark.....
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. Signed Limited. MILLIONS OF CATS Gag, Wanda Published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1928 Wood-Engraving Signed by the Artist-Author The Limited Edition of Millions of Cats Containing an original wood-engraving signed by the artist-author, is limited to two hundred and fifty copies, THIS IS COPY NUMBER 210. This copy is.....
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1891. 1st American. Cloth. James Boswell's biography of the noted English author Dr. Samuel Johnson has been described as "the greatest biography written in the English language." This 6-volume set was edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and published in 1891 on the centennial of the first.....
New York: Harper and Brothers New York, 1865. 3rd Printing. Original Cloth. MOBY-DICK; or the WHALE Melville, Herman Publisher: Harper & Brothers New Yorkì Date:1863 short run of 253 copies. Moby-Dick 1863, xxiii, [1], 634, [1] pp. (8vo) 19x12.5 cm (7½x5") original blind-stamped Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Third printing / Edition. Preceded.....
Paris: Hachette & Cie, 1913. Arthur Rackham. Limited Edition, Numbered Copy. Hardcover. FABLES D'ESOPE. ARTHUR RACKHAM. Published by: Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1913. Limited edition, signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. First French edition. Bound in white buckram, pictorial gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others deckle edges.....
J.M Dent & Co, 1907. Arthur Rackham. Numbered Edition. Hardcover Vellum. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Numbered and signed copy. Includes 24 color plates with tissue guards, tipped to dark green paper, as well as 12 duotone plates and text illustrations. Title-page printed in brown.....
William Heinemann, 1909. Arthur Rackham. Limited Edition. Hardcover. William Heinemann Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Limited Edition. #524 of 1000 copies signed by the artist, 15 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, occasional spotting, mainly to tissue guards, original pictorial white.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1929. Arthur Rackham. Limited Edition. Hardcover. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Signed and numbered edition. Published by: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,: London. 1929. Quarto. Publisher's original vellum boards, gilt title to spine and front board, triple rule.....
London: A. Hall, 1850. hardcover. FRANK FAIRLEGH; OR, SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE PUPIL. FRANCIS E. SMEDLEY. Published by London: A. Hall, 1850. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A scarce first edition. With thirty illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. Half Morocco blue leather binding with blue cloth.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1906. Cloth. A new impression with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations original blue cloth gilt. Illustrated. 438pp + 32pp of publisher's advertisements.
Harper and Brothers, 1904. First Edition. Red Cloth. EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY. MARK TWAIN. Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Very good. No Jacket. Previous owner's inscription on the front free end paper. Bound in pictorial red cloth with a cave man carving onto a rock, and two monkeys.....