The Lord of the Rings
London: Folio Society, 1977. Slipcased. Cream colored boards, red slipcase. 3 volumes : illustrations, maps. More
London: Folio Society, 1977. Slipcased. Cream colored boards, red slipcase. 3 volumes : illustrations, maps. More
Paris: Chez Levrault, 1835. Hardcover. Black textured boards with gilt spine lettering and decoration. 147 pp. 4 wood engraved plates. Text in French. Rare! More
San Francico: AM Robertson By The Murdock Press, 1902. Hardcover. Beige paper covered boards, sewn together, with decoration on front cover and inside covers; 43 Japanese style folded pp., illus. in black and red. A collection of 25 poems about Japan and Japanese culture, intended for children. The poems were..... More
NY: Riker, Thorne & Co., 1849. Hardcover. Green buckram with gilt embossed decoration. All edges gitl. 466 pp. BW engravings. Illustrations by Huntington, Darley, Rossiter, Cushman, and Osgood. An edited collection of Osgood's worked, published before her death: "This collection of my Poems has been made from my previous publications..... More
Venezia: Giambatista Pasquali, 1751. Original Edition, Not a Reprint. Hardcover. Both volumes: marbled tan paper/boards; brown leather spines. 7 gilt bands and gilt lettering to spine. Vol. I: XL, illustration, 317, [3] pp.; Vol. II: 342 pp. Both volumes have occasional bw page decorations. Text in Italian with extensive footnotes..... More
Paris: Cordier & Ekstrom, 1802. Fourth Edition, revised and corrected. Leather bound. Three volume set bound in brown leather, gilt tooling and lettering on spines, all edges red tinted. This set is in a brown and white cardboard slipcase. Volume 1 has a bw frontispiece, 198 pp. Volume 2 has..... More
Paris: 1777. Hardcover. French language text. Decorative cloth boards. Green spine with gilt decorative elements. Red title block on spine with gilt lettering. Vol I 200 pgs. Vol II 286 pgs. Illustrations. (2 Volumes). More
Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood, 1816 (vols. I, II) and 1817 (vols. III, IV). Hardcover. Brown leather over boards; Gilt titling and decoration at spines; All page edges marbled; 363 pp. (vol. I), 340 pp. (vol. II), 349 pp. (vol. III), 347 pp. (vol. IV); BW frontispiece with tissue overlay (vol..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802. Boydell Edition. Hardcover. Black leather/boards with center/border motif of highly-elaborate gilt. Elaborately-gilded spine with 5 raised bands, also decoraded. Paginated as follows: (8) + 100 + (4) + 105 + (5) + 104 + (4) + 112 with 10 bw engraved plates total. All..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802. Boydell Edition. Hardcover. Black leather/boards with center/border motif of highly-elaborate gilt. Elaborately-gilded spine with 5 raised bands, also decoraded. Paginated as follows: (8) + 112 + (4) + 127 + (5) + 120 + (4) + 143 with 9 bw engraved plates total. All..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802. Boydell Edition. Hardcover. Black leather/boards with center/border motif of highly-elaborate gilt. Elaborately-gilded spine with 5 raised bands, also decoraded. Paginated as follows: (8) + 99 + (5) + 101 + (4) + 135 + (5) + 141 with 10 bw engraved plates total. All..... More
London: Nattali and Bond, 1858. Second edition, enlarged. Hardbound. Three volumes in original publishers' red boards and half-leather. A wonderful set of this attractive set. These stories harken back to Medieval times and are written in a slightly outmoded style of English. More
Paris: Rene Kieffer, no date given (circa 1925?). H. Grand'Aigle. Softcover. Off-white illus. wraps; 53 pp.; Profuse color illustrations, one or more per page. Text in French; Title roughly translated is The Danger of Being Too Innocent; Vivid and whimsical illustrations; Number 441 of 500 copies in this edition. More
Paris: Editions Kra, 1929. Dubout, Albert. Number 200 of 1000 printed. Paperback. Cream-colored wraps with color illustration with green and black lettering; frontispiece; 153 pp. (uncut and untrimmed); richly illustrated. Text in French. This book has numerous bright and colorful illustrations by Albert Dubout. This copy is numbered 200, out..... More
Paris, France: Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, 1929. Hardcover. green leather boards w/ marbled green inlaid paper w/ gilt flecking & trim; gilt printed spine. top edge gilt. green & gilt flecked front endpapers & pastedowns. 133 pgs w/ two frontispieces, tissue-guard. Original wraps with spine bound-in. This copy 12 in multiple..... More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1930. Paperback. White wraps with red trim and black lettering and illustration, olive hardcover case with black spine lettering, matching olive hardshell slipcase. Text in French. This is number 3 of 112 copies. More
Chicago: R.F. Seymour, 1902. Hardcover. Brown paper over boards with gilt lettering and illustration on front cover, light gray spine; 38 unnumbered pages, bw illustrated title page, several bw illustrations. "Limited to 240 copies"- Colophon. "A translation by Leigh Hunt from Canto V, the Inferno of Dante Alighieri in the..... More
Boston: 1773. Original Fifth Edition. Leather bound. Brown leather/boards with double border lines all around. No title on covers or spine. 147 pp., [5] with no illustrations. Originally published in London, this edition was printed in Boston's Cornhill section for Thomas Leverett, Nicholas Bowes, and Henry Knox. The author, William..... More
Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1927. Georges Annenkoff. Number 292, out of 650. Paperback. Blue French tab cover with black lettering; illustrated frontispiece; 88 pp; illustrated. This is a rare gem with the beautiful illustrations by Georges Annenkoff. More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1882. Hardcover. 3/4 Brown leather with marbled boards and endpapers, 5 raised bands with some devices and applied leather labels in 2nd and 4th compartments. 10 Volume set, uniformly bound. One endpaper loose but present. A lovely set that occupies about 13 inches of..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1980. First. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Black/white photographic dj with black/blue lettering. 136 pp. with no illustrations. A volume of poems taken from four previous volumes (Death of a Naturalist; Door into the Dark; Wintering Out; and North. An ideal introduction to Heaney's first ten..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Franz Felix. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Off-white vellum at spines; 349 pp. (vol. I), 388 pp. (vol. II), 356 pp. (vol. III); 5 (vols. II and III), 6 color plates (vol. I). Mathers's translations of Oriental folk tales, including "The Lessons of a Bawd,"..... More
Geneva: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographi, 1557. Hardcover. Missing front cover, rear and spine brown leather; all edges red tinted; 17-363 pp (14), 320 pp. Text in Latin and Polish. Sermons of the greatest Tyrian philosophers of Plato. More
New York: 1924, March. 5 of appx. 126 (some say 180-186) copies printed and signed with the initials of the printer. Paperback. Tall narrow sewn wraps (4.25" x 9*.25") 8vo, original plain pale blue wrappers, sewn as issued, uncut. 11 pp + colophon + rear free endpaper. This is the..... More
London: Vale Press, 1896. Hardcover. Grey paper over boards; 79 pp.; 1 bw illustration. A collection of poems/songs from the plays of Shakespeare, including "The Passionate Pilgrim," "Silvia," "Morning Song," "The Clowne's Epilogue," "Mad Snatches," and more; One of 310 copies in this edition. More