¶ Current from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1955     ¶ First edition, scarce in America.   ||| Collation: In 8s (196 x 136 mm), paginated [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv], 1-254.  Illustration: Halftone frontispiece and 15 plates (24 halftone views on 15 leaves).  Binding: Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers.  Condition: Good, spine sunned.  References: LCCN 55036626; OCLC 3819214..

Hadley (Massachusetts), 1994     ¶ Only edition of this pioneering catalogue, annotated and priced. Contents: Native American literature: Fiction, poetry, art, items 1-415; Literature with Native American themes by non-native authors, 416-472; Nonfiction, primarily by Native American authors, 473-635.   ||| Collation: 229 x 153 mm: Forty leaves, paginated [1-80] (ie, not paginated). Text continues on lower wrapper recto.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. … Read more about this item

Paris: NRF / Gallimard, 1945     ¶ Wartime diary of a young French girl aged 12-16, written for her father who was stranded in New York for the duration; INSCRIBED to a longtime friend of her father's, "Pour Béatrice Leval, qui maintenant n'est plus seulement l'amie de Papa, mais aussi la nôtre. Avec toute l'affection de Martine." (Beatrice Leval, of New… Read more about this item

Brussels: Maison de la Francité, 1992     ¶ Thirty full-page portraits by various artists 1866-1986, with essays by François Carrassan, Olivier Rometti, and Jean Gillibert, also the dedication of Rimbaud's bust at Charleville 1927 (by André Breton et al) and an introduction 'D'Hyères à Bruxelles' by B. J. Ridopoulos; published in conjunction with the Rimbaud exhibition at Hyères 1991, Brussels 1992. Long… Read more about this item

Shipston-on-Stour (Warks): Peter Finer, 1999     ¶ A typically lavish catalogue prepared by the leading dealers in the field; presenting forty-four exceptional helmets, swords, shields, maces, armors, pistols, daggers, guns, axes, walking-staffs, rapiers, rifles, cannon, etc, -- and even an iron prosthetic hand --, chiefly Continental, chiefly ca 1450 - ca 1800.   ||| Collation: In 8s (298 x 209 mm): Seventy-eight leaves, paginated [1-156] (ie, not… Read more about this item

Charleville: Les Amis de Rimbaud, 1963     ¶ Only edition; including papers by Petitfils on "La fin d'une légende (Rimbaud négrier)" and Briet on "Deux sources du Bateau ivre et autres poèmes dans le sillage du Capitaine Cook et de Lamartine"; together with an unsigned account -- probably by Petitfils -- of Arthur Rimbaud vu par des peintres contemporains 1962. The… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Casa Pardo S.A., 1973   ¶ ONLY EDITION of the best bibliography to date, based upon the author's own collection. Out of print.   ||| Collation: In 8s (264 x 178 mm): Pp. 245. Numerous facsimiles.  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Provenance: (1) Jose Gilardoni, whose own outstanding Borges collection was exhibited at Buenos Aires in 1985 (Borges himself attended the opening) and sold by… Read more about this item

Paris: Gustave Barba, 1860 ¶ A SCARCE AND VERY VALUABLE COMPILATION comprising 232 moral fables in French verse, selected from the works of 127 fabulists other than La Fontaine and INCLUDING A FABLE ATTRIBUTED TO NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE, said to have been composed by him as a schoolboy at Brienne-le-Château. Each fabulist's work here is prefaced by a short… Read more about this item

1985 ¶ AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION SIGNED. Himself a distinguished cardiologist, Bernard Lown (Harvard) accepted the prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Boston), which he and Evgenii Chazov had founded just five years before.   ¶ Collation: One leaf (76 x 127 mm). Autograph Inscription "To Judy" signed and dated "Bernard Lown MD October 1985", written in… Read more about this item

New York: Lew David Feldman / House of El Dieff, Inc,, 1971     ¶ Only edition of this important catalogue; featuring the first leaf of Doyle's autograph notes for A study in scarlet; the autograph manuscripts of four Holmes stories, two Sherlockian plays, and other works; and eight original drawings by Sidney Paget; all at dream prices. Seventy-six items, annotated, priced.   ||| Cover… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1959 ¶ First American edition. The dust-jacket prints a short blurb by Graham Greene. ||| Collation: In 16s (184 x 124 mm): Pp. 256. Binding: Black cloth, dust-jacket (upper flap imperfect). Reference: LCCN 59010812. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts. .… Read more about this item

New York: Warner Books / A Time-Warner company, 1993 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "First Printing: November 1993" and code "10 . . . 3 2 1" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 127 x 190 mm: Pp. [vii], 197 [198-199]. Binding: Quarter brown boards, dust-jacket. Condition: Near fine; ower free endpaper barely wrinkled… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Penguin, Inc, 1988 ¶ FIRST EDITION, trade issue. ||| Collation: 229 x 151 mm: Pp. [xi], 289. Binding: Quarter blue cloth (spine bumped), dust-jacket. Condition: A good copy. Reference: ISBN 0670804371. .

Rungsted Kyst (Denmark): Anders Nyborg, 1973 In 8s (179 x 103 mm): Pp (pi)[i-vi], [i-ii], [1] 2-17 [18-32]. (Leaf [1]1 is laid down; pages [i-iii] are blank.) Publisher's patterned boards (suggesting bearspaw-prints), brown spine unlettered, plain wove lower endpapers, no headbands, all edges trimmed and plain. *** ONLY EDITION IN ANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGE; INCLUDING FOUR MORAL FABLES IN KALATDLISUT… Read more about this item

New York, 1991     ¶ Only edition of this important catalogue, lavishly illustrated throughout; presenting "an incomparable portrait of America's national pastime from its earliest days in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1980s. What distinguishes this collection, apart from its scope, is the superb condition and quality of every item." (Page [11].)  873 lots, printed estimates. Price-list laid in.  (Sotheby's sale… Read more about this item

Hamburg, 1999     ¶ Illustrations of twenty-nine manuscripts and miniatures ca 800 - 1560, together with nine printed books 1454/5 - 1552 and three arctic gouaches 1804; including an unrecorded bifolium from one of the oldest extant French manuscripts ca 800, an Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César ca 1370-80, a magnificent Italian Pliny 1446 with zoomorphic initials, an illuminated Gaston Phébus ca 1475, the Rendsburg fragment (130… Read more about this item

New York: Soho Press, 1990 ¶ Collation: 233 x 154 mm: Pp. [v], 296. Binding: Quarter blue cloth, dust-jacket. Reference: ISBN 0939149400. .

New York: Harper & Row, 1974 ¶ Collation: 234 x 155 mm: Pp. xvi, [1], 839. Binding: Red cloth. Reference: ISBN 0060110929. . Red cloth. 234 x 155 mm. Pp. xvi, [1], 839.

St Petersburg: Sovetskii pisatel', leningradskoe otdelenie, 1977 -- SECOND AND BEST EDITION. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fable flourished in Russia as nowhere before, with many thousands of fables being published by hundreds of fabulists (including Anna Bunina, the first professional woman writer in Russian literature). This is the standard anthology and bio-bibliography of the subject; comprising an… Read more about this item

Auckland, 1982 *** ONLY EDITION THUS; COMPRISING SIX FABLES IN SAMOAN PROSE. This edition appeared simultaneously with an edition of the same fables translated into Niuean (another Polynesian language) by Aiao Kaulima (b. 1935) and similarly illustrated by McNee. Aesop's animals, of course, were unknown in Samoa before the eighteenth century; and so many of their names here are transparently… Read more about this item