Search Results: Titles starting with S from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Milano: Silvestri, 1821. Fair. 17 cm; xxxvi, 393, [3] pages, and engraved portrait frontispiece. Untrimmed. Bound in original orange printed wraps, worn, spine perishing and text block beginning to split at several junctures, yet holding.

Venice: Nella tipografia Picotti, 1810. Only edition. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); [2], 61, [1] pages. Bound in woodblock-printed polychrome wraps, with the poet's name written in ink along the spine. Only slight abrasions at the head, else about fine. The notable bibliographer Bartolommeo Gamba curated this collection of poems by his neighbor in the town of Bassano del Grappa, Giuseppe Bombardini. Bombardini's day job was in local government, rising finally to the rank of "podestà," the equivalent of the mayoralty. Among the poems written to commemorate weddings and funerals, we find Romantic sonnets dedicated to the summer night, to the Brenta, to two roses, to the month of May.

ca. 1880. Acceptable. Albumen-silver print on paper. 255 x 197 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Paper creased in five places. Depicts the serapeum of Saqqara surmounted by a man holding a camel by its bridle, with several figures standing in the shadow of the entrance way.

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co., 1930. Large paper.. hard cover. Very Good. Quarto (26cm); xviii, 65 pages, [16] leaves of plates. Bound in original red cloth stamped in blind with Aubrey Beardsley poppy design . Original dust jacket, with the same design in red on a tan ground. Dust jacket mildly frayed at spine ends, corners and top edge, with a closed tear on the upper panel repaired with cello tape and a closed tear on the lower panel without intervention, yet unusually sound and entire. Cloth about fine. Scattered light foxing in text. The last of the John Lane "Bodley Head" editions of the classic collaboration between Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Lane was the first English publisher of the work in 1894, but it was dropped after the 1930 edition as Allen Lane (John's nephew) transformed the houseinto the more mainstream Penguin Books. This is the large paper quarto version (the book also appeared in a smaller octavo format). Despite the detailed… Read More

Leipzig: Im Inselverlag, 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable. 25 cm; [24] leaves text on Insel hand-made paper, and [15] full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan (including title page and dramatis personae). Bound in original boards, worn, spine perished, boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French (in 1896) before the English and later German editions appeared. Wilde's play with Beardsley's iconic illustrations inspired Richard Strauss's opera of the same name.

Leipzig: Ludwig Denicke, [1867]. First edition. Hard cover. Good. 35 cm; [2],[2], and 30 color lithograph plates, including title page. Collation includes prospectus (dated 1867) and the preface by Joseph Anton Messmer (also dated 1867). All plates interleaved with blank tissue. Bound in calf over pebbled morocco, quite worn but sound and entire. Scattered foxing, more on tissue guards. First volume of a projected five-volume series on decorated initials from Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. Examples date from the 12th to the 16th centuries, reproduced by palaeographer Xaver Arnold and calligrapher Edouard Knoll. Impressive printing by Ludwig Denicke. In spite of the appeal for subscribers in the prospectus, the project for further volumes remained unrealized. A second edition was published at the end of the century. We know of no other surviving example of the prospectus.

Florence: Barbèra, Bianchi e Comp, 1858. Collezione Diamante. Good. 48mo (112 mm), xvi, 537 pages; engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Bound in contemporary green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A few gilt letters are tarnished. Endleaves discolored. Intermittent light scattered foxing. Reference: Annali bibliografici, 40; Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche, I, 45, #7. The canny Italian publisher Gaspero Barbèra made two brilliant moves practically simultaneously: he developed the vest-pocket 48mo format for Italian classics, and he hired the still-beardless 20-year-old Giosuè Carducci to edit them. This edition of Vittorio Alfieri's neoclassical poems and satires was Carducci's first job, his first published edition with Barbèra. Carducci's preface was characterized as "robust, elegant, and magisterial" in the 1904 annals of Barbèra's editions. Carducci is considered Italy's most significant poet of the unification period. According to Parenti, there are two distinct… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for J. Wright, 1799. Good. 8vo (22 cm); 3, xlviii, 189 pages. Title page with engraved portrait vignette. Bound in contemporary full birdseye calf decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding rather rubbed and worn, cracked at joints but holding. Spine ends perishing. Owner's autograph on title page (Sir Alex Bannerman, 1818), with few ink notes in text in 19th-century hand. Latin and English texts on facing pages.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Very Good. 30 cm; 272 pages, including two double-spread and eight full-page illustrations drawn in was and forty in-text line drawings by Sotomayor. Title page in red and black. Bound in 1/4 goatskin vellum on spine over red Fabriano paper-covered boards. Red slipcase. Condition about fine in slightly bumped slipcase. Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid in.

New York: privately printed, 1930. Very Good. 24 cm; 236 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. Slightly worn at crown. Edition limited to 1200 copies, this copy out of series.

London: School of Archaeology in Egypt, Constable & Co., Ltd., and Bernard Quaritch, 1917. First edition. Very Good. 32cm; viii, 46, lviii pages, frontispiece and 73 plates. 5 additional plates of hieroglyphs. Bound in original half cloth over printed boards, with title in gilt on spine. Sound and entire, with somewhat dusty boards and some light even toning at the edges of the text.

San Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co., 1982. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; 136 pages. Illustrated. Illustrated wraps.

Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club, 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 28 cm; xxiv, 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards, edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear, especially at extremities, with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank, and the pages are not bright, but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4, 92; First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique (and incomplete) manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral, Joseph Stevenson, and published by the Maitland Club, an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture.

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good . 4to. Dust jacket dusty and chipped at crown.

Roedelheim: Wolf Heidenheim, 1800. 21 cm; volume 6 only (of 9) of the liturgy for festivals, this volume covering services for the evening of Yom Kippur. Text primarily in Hebrew. Preface in Yiddish. Bound in utility marbled boards, worn, ; pages evenly toned. Occasional stains, especially on title page. Inscription (in German) on front blank dated 1828. Inscription in Hebrew at base of title page. Good overall. First printing of a mahzor that was popular with the Jewish communities of Poland and Germany. It went through several printings in the first half of the 19th century. The editor, Wolf Heidenheim, established a printing press at Roedelheim in 1799, and immediately began his edition of the Mahzor, with a Hebrew commentary by himself and a German translation. He based the text on a surviving Medieval manuscript (dated 1258) as well as on the earliest Italian and German editions.

New York: Penguin Books, 1976. First paperback edition. Very Good. 18cm; 83 pages. SIGNED by Ashbery on title page. First appearance of the cover photo of the poet by Darragh Park. Lower right corner of upper cover bumped, crease off the top edge near spine, affecting photo. Lower corner slightly bumped on both outer corners. Part of lower joint abraded, without weakness. A very good copy withal, not dogeared, not marred, not underlined, not broken. John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell has called "one of the finest long poems of our period," but throughout the entire volume, John Ashbery reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature..... The front cover photo took on cultural significance. The Wikipedia explains: "The Penguin paperback cover features a glamorous photo… Read More

Venice: Niccolo Pezzana, 1658. Very Good. Quarto (23 cm); [50] (of 52?), 788, [8] 152 pages. Lacks half-title. Four title pages, each with Pezzana's woodcut device showing Jove, Juno, Vulcan and Neptune. Occasional woodcut initials and ornaments. Shoulder notes. Bound in marbled paper with leather backstrip; backstrip decorated and titled in gilt. Binding quite worn, with joints tender and boards scuffed, edges exposed. Text generally quite good with occasional worm trails, the most severe of them in the margins. Pages evenly toned. References: Michel, V, 161. First Pezzana edition of the popular 16th-century "forest of many stories" by Spain's Pedro Mexia. (Nicolò Pezzana purchased the famous Giunti press in 1657, making this one of the first titles issued under his name.) The book is a Spanish Renaissance entry into the genre named "Silvae" by Statius, but this text falls more into the tradition of Xenophon's Symposium, Athenaeus, Macrobius, and Aulus Gellius, that is, expansive,… Read More

Montreal: The Gazette Printing Company, 1893. First edition . Very Good. 23 cm; 225 pages, and 20 half-tone plates, 3 maps (two of them folding). Extra half-tone printed title page. Bound in brown pebbled cloth. Slight fray at head; front free endleaf loose, else unblemished and in very good condition! Signature of Dugald MacDonald on title page. Valuable reference for the development of commerce in Montreal from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century.

Paris: Chez Nicholas Gosselin, 1715. Seventh edition. Good +. 16mo (14 cm); 136, 259 pages, engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates. In full calf, spine decorated in gilt. Edges and extremities worn, but binding is strong and entire. Ownership inscription on flyleaf dated 1897, another later one on the verso of the flyleaf. Very good overall.

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1826. Very Good. 17 cm; 91, [1] pages, and engraved portrait of Gozzi by Ester Silvestri. Bound in original printed wraps. Unopened, untrimmed. Pages still bright and clean. Shelf wear only.