Recent Arrivals from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; quarter parchment with gilt paper-covered boards; with title gilt down the spine; and with the uncommon plain gilt wrapper; this is number 407 of 725 copies, with seven original engravings on copper; the engravings are the Title page; Head-piece to the first Ode; Cupid or… Read more about this item

Richmond, Virginia: Published by the Author, 1963. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding; [8] 9-340 pages, with a folding Mapiof the World showing the Steamship Services of the North German Lloyd tipped to the rear pastedown.~~Cox was a native Richmonder (we are sorry to say) and spent most of his life promoting… Read more about this item

[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 1078. Limited Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Fine binding. Signed. Two large 8vo bindings, sewn with two different colored paste paper covers [from the colphon, "the paste paper wrappers were done in a variety of colors by Carol" [in this case the paste papers are in pale blue and in a deeper green]; [8] pages.~~The edition… Read more about this item

Richmond, VA: Home Brewing Company, Inc, 2000. Second Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine binding. 240pp. Qrarto; (11 1/4" x 9 3/4"); in the publisher's bright pictorial boards; iv, 239,[240] pages; with splendid color and black and white illustrations throughout.~~A beautiful, fresh copy of this well illustrated book; far and away the best resournce on the subject. Richmond Beers has… Read more about this item

Penelope Publications, 1993. The Uranian Forum was a bi-monthly astrological publication named for the Hamburg School of Astrology, based on the teachings of early-20th century surveyor and amateur astrologer Alfred Witte. Witte's method is characterized by the use of astrological midpoints and hypothetical astronomical bodies not known at that point, expanding the framework of astrology beyond the traditional bounds.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Seven large 8vo. volumes; in the publisher's blue cloth bindings; there are no slipcases, nor does the Volume 7 have the dustjacket with which it was issued. There very faint dampstain to the top edge of the first pages of Volumes I and II;… Read more about this item

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1958. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in full brown calf with label stamped in gilt to the spine; 207 pages; housed in the published brown cloth covered slipcase with ends tipped in calf; one of 200 copies; there are no ownership marks in the book; prospectus is laid in; the… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher's tan cloth with titling and decoration in red, housed in the publisher's slipcase; there are no ownership marks of any kind in the book; there is a light,and inoffensive, mark on the leading edge of the text block; this is #1301 of… Read more about this item

Munchen: Verlag Fritz Schmidberger, 1961. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in printed wrappers with glassine; IXI, 88 pages of plates with some text; followed; the glassine has some scattered foxing; the book itself does not and is quite clean. Near Fine binding.

Rebound two volumes set with custom shaped slipcase, hand-pressed title page from Serendipity Press and bookplates. Each volume is 7½"x 5¾" x 1" in brown leather with marbled paper, gold embossed detail and title on spine. Includes a 1986 letter re: provenance.~~Paul Arthur Bennett (1897-1966) was an American typographer who wrote several papers, monographs, and keepsakes for The Typophiles,… Read more about this item

Richmond, 1890. Good binding. Large 8vo,; in printed wrapper, [3], 4- 46 pages including the front wrapper; the rear wrapper is present but is blank and not counted in the pagination; the front wrapper is soiled, and has loss to the bottom corner, as do the first 6 leaves; the loss does not affect any text.~~Mr. Daniel was… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1942. Reprint Editions. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto volumes; in light blue, grey and dark blue cloth bindings, with dustjacket; ix, 294 pages, including the Index; ix, 371 pages, including the Index; x, 356 pages, including the Index; there is some toning to the endpapers, but no previous owner… Read more about this item

Beijing: Warwick Press, 1952. 13 ¼" x 9 ½" x 2 ½" hunter green clamshell with spine title, "Dream / Vision of Buddha" in gilded letters on red leather. The volume is covered in silk brocade with a title pasted on sandstone colored paper with gold flecks along the outer right edge and held closed with two bone clasps;… Read more about this item

The Virginia Numismatic Association, 1980. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher's green cloth binding, with titling in gold; 238 pages; there is a trace of foxing to the leading edge of the text block; there are no marks of any kind in the book. Fine binding.

Philadephia: David McKay Company, 1921. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding with a colorful pastedown to the upper board; 303 pages, with 16 illusrtations of which 8 are in color and 8 are in black and white; there is a pencilled inscription on the endpaper; the front hinge is very slightly… Read more about this item

West Burke, Vt: The Janus Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's orange-striped paste-paper boards backed in blue cloth, with a printed paper label; with portfolio; [13] page, and 7 leaves of woodcut plates in portfolio; housed in a slightly soiled slipcase with paper label to the spine; the spine of the… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in publisher's terra-cotta cloth with decorations in brown and titling in gold; houses in the publisher's rather rubbed slipcase; this is #1332 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator Sylvain Sauvage; there are no ownership marks of any kind in the book. Near… Read more about this item

New York: The Nonesuch Press } Best and Company, 1959. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in printed pink wrappers; [6], 7-128 pages, including the Index of Poems and First Lines; this copy with a personal inscription on the half-title, as well as with a autograph postcard with a lengthy message (for a postcard) signed L.… Read more about this item

Lexington: King Library Press, University of Kentucky, 1973. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in orangish paste-paper boards with a paper label to the spine; a-h; xx, 28 pages; the edition is limited to 150 copies of which this is number 133; printed in black and red.~~There is a very faint stain to the front… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in cream parchment with title stamped in gilt and black, over deocrated paper boards; slipcase present with gold foil at the opening; this is number 513 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Joe Mugnaini; there are no ownership marks in the book.~~We note that… Read more about this item