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Hardcover. Gilt lettered half morocco and red cloth clamshell box with silk moire chemise. Near fine. A fine copy of the exceedingly rare first edition is a fine copy of six leaves that presented five poems, three of which by Holmes, and others including S.F. Smith, the author of "My Country Tis of Thee." This copy is enhanced… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed wrappers, very good housed in two fine red cloth slip cases with black leather spine labels printed in gilt.. Stone, Marcus. 26.2 x 16.8 cm. Wood engraved portrait of Dickens after Marcus Stone and 34 parts in 19 vols. This was the first American periodical in… Read more about this item

London: I. Taylor, 1778. New and Revised edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. [5] [7] & unpaginated pages. 27 x 22 cm. With 83 engraved plates printed on quality laid paper. Most images printed recto only. Originally published 1774, this was one of the major 18th century pattern books. It was reprinted… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Louis Bilaine, 1664. First edition. leather-bound. Contemporary mottled calf, Very good. 576 pages. 24 x 18 cm. First issue, with imprint date altered from M.DC.LXIII. to M. DC. LXIIII, last digit added, engraved portrait of Thevenot by Etienne Picart after P. Chauveau. Thevenot began his travels in the Levant in 1655, returning to Paris in 1659… Read more about this item

London: William Mackenzie, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Light brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt with backstrip also similarly detailed. Near Fine. 2 Vols.. 204 pages. Folio, 36.7 x 27 cm. illustrated with 41 fine chromoxylographed plates of fish engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon, and numerous steel-engraved plates of angling locales. Houghton, a Shropshire… Read more about this item

Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1987. First edition. Boards. Orig. green striated boards with white spine lettered title. Fine. 32 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 60 hand bound, signed by Dubos in black ink. Edition designed and printed letterpress at Warwick Press by Carol J. Blum who also made the decorated paste paper. The… Read more about this item

Venice: Giunta, 1639. First edition. leather_bound. Full old vellum with some minor spotting in very solid binding. Edges sprinkled. Very good. 24, 220 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Half title, engraved title page with portrait of the author at foot. Woodcut initials, head and tail pieces, engraved illustrations, some double-paged. and eight double-page or folding etched plates outside… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter reddish brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine in very good blue plush lined cloth slipcase. 318, 311, 317 Pages. 19 x 12 cm. The author was an English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian… Read more about this item

New York: William H. Graham, 1851. First edition. Vol. 1 wear to corners, Vol. II rebacked in black cloth with gilt front cover design replicated on vol. 1. cover but not colored. Very good. 2 Vols. Folio, 37" x 28 cm. Sets of both volumes are rare. HITCHCOCK 971. Notes scattered holdings of Volumes I and II, but… Read more about this item

New York: Tinken Editions, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black cloth, yellow pictorial boards with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in fine salmon colored cloth slipcase. 70 pages. 25 x 25 cm. Copy F in an edition of twenty six with two artist's proofs. Each letter of the alphabet is set in wood type in various colors;… Read more about this item

Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Brown roan spine and brown paper covers with tan printed label. Very good. 15 x 24 cm. Unpaginated, 39 plates printed recto only. OCLC provides no data for this issue which does not contain text. Flaxman was a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Owner inscription inside front cover. Plates generally clean,… Read more about this item

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth spine, illustrated yellow board. Near fine in sharp, clean dust wrapper with slight loss at spine foot. 213 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Front cover illustrated by Gorey. "A strange balloon voyage through fleets of sharp-billed storks -- a wild on a trained flea and a… Read more about this item

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Half brown morocco and green cloth. Teg. Fine. xxxvi, 158 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition one of 300 this copy not numbered. 21 hand-colored lithographic plates by J. G. Keulemans, 23 uncolored photogravure plates, and one lithographed map of Tierra Del Fuego. The author was a retired British army… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 2001. Hardcover. Deep peacock green silk with gilt-lettered cover label; suede-lined clamshell box with spine label. Fine. 52 pages. 48 x 46 cm. Limited edition, copy 36 of 300 signed by Balthus. Six multicolor woodcuts by Balthus cut and editioned by Keiji Shinohara. the opera, conducted by Hans Rosbaud, is included on three… Read more about this item

New York: MOMA, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black basket weave cloth, paper spine label. Very good. 198 pages. 22.5 x 20 cm. 87 black and white plates printed recto only, the first solo photography exhibition catalogue produced by MOMA, a major, seminal work to document American life in the 1930's. 50 images in part one and 37… Read more about this item

London: R.H. Porter, 1897. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled endpapers and matching marbled endpapers. 7 Vols. Very good. 25.5 x 18 cm. All plates printed recto or verso only. The first edition was originally issued in parts beginning in October 1885 and ran through January 1898; the second edition, issued in 36 parts, began in… Read more about this item

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated yellow boards, beige cloth spine lettered in red. Fine in worn in nicked dust wrapper lacking small portions at head and foot.. Calder, Alexander. 130 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Eighty-five drawings by Calder. Limited edition, one of 700 on Arnold Unbleached paper printed by S. A. Jacobs… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. Hardcover. Quarter green and salmon cloth decorated in gilt. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated. Officers of the Club, 1912-1987. Publications. As new copy.

New York: Racolin Press, 1968. First edition. Orig. cream boards lettered in brown. Fine. Translated by Ben Belitt. With an Introduction by Fernand Mourlot. Sixty-seven pages of text. Oversized edition 23 1/2" x 20 1/2". The text was printed by Imprimerie Nationale de France. The type set in "Romain du Roi," engraved by Grandjean, by command of Louis… Read more about this item

Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1962. First edition. Boards. Brown boards. Fine in clear acetate cover.. Baskin, Leonard. Unpaginated. 28.5 x 21 cm. Printer's Copy noted by Baskin "Harold: picture printer from Leonard: type printer 1968." Laid-in an extra sheet off leaves five through six (four pages). Label on front cover pastedown of Nancy E. Hugo. As new copy.… Read more about this item