Black Swan Books

Aleksander Borovsky (idea of album and introduction); Igor Adamatsky (translation)

PONS PER STYX

St. Petersburg, Russia: The State Russian Museum, 1994. Octavo. Soft Cover. Signed. 12mo; in black paper boards; text written in Russian and English full of both black and white and full color photographic illustrations; in black cardboard slipcase; the slipcase.....

Price: $75.00

Andrew Lang [Author]; Alison Lurie [Introduction]; Bob Venables [Illustrator]

[CHILDREN] [SPECIAL PRESS] THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK

London: Folio Society, 2010. Hard Cover. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s decorative purple cloth, with purple paper-covered slipcase; xviii, 306 pages, with 15 unnumbered leaves of plates; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~The contents are thirty-five.....

Price: $375.00

Ernest Sutherland Bates [Introduction]; Illustrated by E. R. Weiss

[SPECIAL PRESS] [SIGNED] THE FOUR GOSPELS

Leipzig: Poeschel & Trepte, 1932. Illustrated by: E. R. Weiss. Limited Edition. Signed. Large 8vo; quarter bound in vellum over paper covered boards; with titling on the spine in gilt; 237 pages; in publisher’s slipcase; soiling to the vellum spine;.....

Price: $125.00

Item #278461 A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND SCHETLAND CONTAINING HINTS RELATIVE TO...

George Low | Introduction by Joseph Anderson

A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLANDS OF ORKNEY AND SCHETLAND CONTAINING HINTS RELATIVE TO THEIR ANCIENT MODERN AND NATURAL HISTORY ...

Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879. Hard Cover. First Edition. Low’s important work on the natural history of Orkney and the Shetlands, with all of his charming pen and ink drawings present as called for, including the map of the.....

Price: $350.00

Item #297772 [SPECIAL PRESS] LUMINARIO OR THE THIRD CHAPTER OF THE LIBER ELEMENTORUM LITTERARUM...

Giovam Baptista Verini | A. F. Johnson [English] | Stanley Morison [Introduction]

[SPECIAL PRESS] LUMINARIO OR THE THIRD CHAPTER OF THE LIBER ELEMENTORUM LITTERARUM ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN CAPITALS

Cambridge; Chicago: Harvard College Library; The Newbery Library, 1947. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto; in the publisher’s grey cloth with titling lettered in gilt to the spine; ix, 3, [32] pages, followed by the colophon; in the publisher’s glassine wrapper.....

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Gustave Flaubert | J. Lewis May (Translator) | Jacques De Lacretelle (Introduction) ; Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud

[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] MADAME BOVARY

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. Illustrated by: Pierre Brissaud. Quarto; in gold silk decorative cloth; with a leather label on the spine; 348 pages; with full color illustrations by Peirre Brissaud engraved in wood by Theo Schmied; a......

Price: $85.00

J. Farley Ragland | Robert P. Daniel (Introduction)

[VIRGINIANA] [AFRICAN-AMERICAN] A LITTLE SLICE OF LIVING

Lawrenceville, Va: Edmonds Printing. Octavo. Stapled Pamphlet. Second Printing. Small Octavo; in red printed wrapper; 47 pages; some edge wear; a few light stains.~~Farley Ragland was an African-American educator, poet and pharamacist (he ran the Campus Pharmacy in Lawrenceville, Virginia.....

Price: $50.00

Item #281155 TOTTIE’S TREASURE: THE BIRD’S NEST; OR, THE KEEPING OF A PROMISE REWARDED...

J. W. Welman (Introduction); Mrs. F. J. Burge Smith;

TOTTIE’S TREASURE: THE BIRD’S NEST; OR, THE KEEPING OF A PROMISE REWARDED [Bound with] THE CHURCH MOUSE [Bound with] GRUMBLING TOMMY AND CONTENTED HARRY

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, c. 1873. An uncommon children’s book from the “Tottie’s Treasure” series, in the publisher’s blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, and with bright and colorful pastedown. Three edifying children’s tales bound together and separately.....

Price: $95.00

Item #284269 25x25. COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING 25 YEARS.. 1708 GALLERY. DECEMBER...

Janet DeCover; Cindy Neuschwander | Joe Seipel (Introduction)

25x25. COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION CELEBRATING 25 YEARS.. 1708 GALLERY. DECEMBER 2003

[Richmond]: [2003]. Limited Edition. A Fine copy of this exhibition catalogue celebrating the 25th anniversary of Richmond’s 1708 Gallery. “This exhibit and catalogue showcases a selection of past and present artist members from 1978-2003.” Bound in the japanese style with.....

Price: $100.00

John Henry Boner | A. G. Heaton (Illustrator) | Henry Jerome Stockard (Introduction)

[LITERATURE] [NEALE IMPRINT] POEMS

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s green cloth binding with titling in gilt; 122 pages; with a previous owner name on the front endpaper, dated 1969; front hinge is.....

Price: $75.00

Item #281280 LE PROCES DE CONDAMNATION DE JEANNE d’ARC. REPRODUCTION EN FAC-SIMILE DU...

John Marchard (Introduction) | [Jeanne d’Arc; Joan of Arc]

LE PROCES DE CONDAMNATION DE JEANNE d’ARC. REPRODUCTION EN FAC-SIMILE DU MANUSCRIT AUTHENTIQUE, SUR VELIN, No. 1119 DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L’ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE

Paris: Plon, 1955. A pamphlet of text, with a facsimile on paper-vellum of the original manuscript of the trial of Joan of Arc; the manuscript volume with dustjacket. The book and the pamphlet laid into a paper-covered portfolio with titling.....

Price: $450.00

Item #300030 [HISTORY] RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC STUDIES IN POPULAR BELIEFS IN SIXTEENTH...

Keith Thomas | Hilary Mantel (Introduction)

[HISTORY] RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC STUDIES IN POPULAR BELIEFS IN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND (2 VOLUMES)~

London: The Folio Society, 2012. Hard Cover. 2 Large Octavos; in the publisher’s pictorial cloth binding; Volume 1 xxxvi, 413 pages; volume 2 ix, (4) 417- 946 pages including the Index; with full color illustrations throughout; housed in the publisher’s.....

Price: $200.00

Laurence Sterne | Wilber L. Cross [Introduction]

[FINE BINDINGS] THE WORKS AND LIFE OF LAURENCE STERNE

New York: J. F. Taylor, 1904. 12 large 8vo. volumes; in full red morocco with gilt spines, raised bands; lettered in gilt; with gilt rules to the boards and decorative corners with dark green oval onlays; there are turn-ins elaborately.....

Price: $3,000.00

Lord Dunsany | W. B. Yeats [Introduction]

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY

Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1912. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition, octavo, in quarter cream linen over blue-gray paper-covered boards. with titling in black to the upper board. The binding is soiled, with darkening to the spine. There is a......

Price: $350.00

Mary Skempton | A. W. Skempton [Introduction]

[SPECIAL PRESS] THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF MARY SKEMPTON

Marlboroough: Libranus Press, 1989. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto; in the publisher’s rose-colored paper-covered boards, backed in tan linen with a rose-colored paper spine label; the edition is limited to 150 copies, of which 120 are for sale, this being.....

Price: $125.00

Item #300129 [LITERATURE] [PRESENTATION COPY] TO GWEN WITH LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY DEDICATED TO...

Patricia L. Brown; Don L. Lee; Francis Ward (Editors) | Lerone Bennett (Introduction)

[LITERATURE] [PRESENTATION COPY] TO GWEN WITH LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY DEDICATED TO GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1971. Soft Cover. Signed. A tribute anthology by black poets attests to Gwendolyn Brooks’ “support and championing of poets” and considered “her most cherished award” (Harry B. Shaw. Black Popular Culture, p. 72). This copy is.....

Price: $250.00

Robert Beverley | Charles Campbell (Introduction)

THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA IN FOUR PARTS

Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1855. Octavo. First American Edition. 264pp. An uncommon edition of one of Robert Beverley’s important contemporary history of Virginia first published in London in 1705, this edition -- the First American -- taken from the Second.....

Price: $500.00

Item #298196 [SPECIAL PRESS] SURPLUS PAGES FROM A CROSS SECTION. THE SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS...

Simon Brett [Introduction]

[SPECIAL PRESS] SURPLUS PAGES FROM A CROSS SECTION. THE SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS IN 1987.

West Yorkshire: The Fleece Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto; in patterned cloth boards, with a paper label to the spine; [40] pages. with eight wood engravings and preliminary pages, with a sampe of patterend binding paper; one of.....

Price: $75.00

Item #228789 JORROCKS'S JAUNTS & JOLLITIES: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing,...

Surtees, R. S.; Grego, Joseph (introduction); Illustrated by H. Alken, Phiz, and W. Heath

JORROCKS'S JAUNTS & JOLLITIES: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of That Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks

London: Kegan Paul, Tranch, Trubner & Co., Ltd. Illustrated by: H. Alken, Phiz, and W. Heath. Hard Cover. With Numerous Illustrations By H. Alken, Phiz, and W. Heath; Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings.....

Price: $75.00

Susanna Clark | Neil Gaiman (Introduction); Illustrated by Charles Vess

[LITERATURE] JONATHAN STRANGE & MR.NORELL (3 VOLUMES)

London: The Folio Society, 2024. Illustrated by: Charles Vess. Hard Cover. Three Octavos; in the publisher’s black cloth; with decorations on the upper board in gold.~~Volume One; Mr. Norrell; xiv, 255 pages~~Volume Two Jonathan Strange; vii, 2661-616 pages~~Volume Three; John.....

Price: $275.00

William G. Cross | Leroy M. Lee (Introduction)

CHRISTIAN BAPTISM; WITH AN INTRODUCTION

Richmond, Va. Chas. H Wynne, 1859. Hard Cover. First Edition. A bright First Edition copy of this Richmond imprint. William Cross was a Methodist Episcopal Church South minister and a member of the Virginia Annual Conference. There are some pencilled.....

Price: $95.00

William Shakespeare (author); prepared by Charlton Hinman; introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE: THE NORTON FACSIMILE

New York: Norton & Co., 1996. Quarto. Hard Cover. 2nd Facsimile edition. Folio; in quarter burgundy leather over pictorial cloth covered boards; xxxvii; 928 pages; housed in the publisher’s slipcase; light wear to the slipcase; a wonderful facsimile production of.....

Price: $100.00

Item #298938 [SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC...

William Stanley Braithwaite | Rev Hugh Francis Blunt [Foreword | Ralph Adams Cram, Litt. D. [Introduction] [Fred Anthoenson]

[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC SISTERS

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1931. Limited Edition. 8vo; in elaborately decorated cloth covered boards; with a label on the spine with titling and decorations in gilt; xxx, 213 pages; housed inside of a red slipcase with a paper label.~~This copy of.....

Price: $500.00