Black Swan Books

Item #296925 [ASSOCIATION COPY] BROTHERS OF THE SPADE: CORRESPONDENCE OF PETER COLLINSON, OF...

Earl Gregg Swem

[ASSOCIATION COPY] BROTHERS OF THE SPADE: CORRESPONDENCE OF PETER COLLINSON, OF LONDON, AND OF JOHN CUSTIS, OF WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 1734-1746

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Gazette, 1957. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s green cloth with dustjacket; 196 pages, including the Index; the dustjakcet has a closed tear and minor chipping; it has not been price-clipped; there is a previous.....

Price: $200.00

Thomas Gray | James Southall Wilson [Introduction]; William Andrews Clark, Jr. [Foreward]

[SPECIAL PRESS] AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.

San Francisco: Printed for W. A. Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1925. Hard Cover. Limted Edition. Two volumes, a small folio and a small quarto, the two volumes housed in a publisher’s somewhat worn slipcase; in gray paper covered.....

Price: $150.00

Hellmuth Weissenborn | Richard Walker (Introduction)

[SPECIAL PRESS] HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN: PAINTER & GRAPHIC ARTIST

London | Gloucester: Bachman & Turner | The Whittington Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. Folio; in beige linen cloth, with slipcase; 88 pages, followed by Chronology, and the Colophon; printed in an edition of 200 copies signed by.....

Price: $250.00

Elizabeth Thalhimer; Sallie Thalhimer

[SIGNED] [COOKBOOK] OUR SNOW BEAR SCRAPBOOK: MEMORIES AND RECIPES FROM THALHIMERS

Richmond: The Dietz Press, 2000. Spiral Bound. Signed. Oblong 8vo; red metal spiral bound with pictorial cardstock covers; various pagings; with illustrations throughout by Sallie Thalhimer.~~A near fresh copy of this “trip down Memory Lane” for Richmonders; this copy is.....

Price: $50.00

Colin Franklin

[SPECIAL PRESS] PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MORRIS: THREE PATHS TO THE KELMSCOTT PRESS

[Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1986. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. Large 8vo.; in Barcham Green Canterbury handmade patterend paper boards, backed in navy morocco, with title lettered in gilt to the spine; 58 pages, with the title page printed in.....

Price: $200.00

Item #296919 [JAPAN PAPER] HORACE WALPOLE. A MEMOIR WITH AN APPENDIX OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE...

Austin Dobson | Percy and Leon Moran (Illustrations)

[JAPAN PAPER] HORACE WALPOLE. A MEMOIR WITH AN APPENDIX OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS.

New-York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890. Three Quarters Leather. Limited Edition. Quarto; in three-quarter blue morocco over marbled boards; spine in six compartments lettered in gilt; ix, 370 pages including the Appendix and Index, with engraved frontispiece and illustrations, including.....

Price: $175.00

Mother Mary Loyola of the Bar Convent York | Herbert Thurston, S.J.

[RELIGION] BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN

New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1917. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s dark gray cloth binding with a paper title label to the spine; xi, [1], 2-91 pages, with an engraved frontispiece of a Fra Angelico painting; there.....

Price: $75.00

David Brin | Paul Sonju (Illustrator)

[SCIENCE FICTION] [LETTERED COPY] THE RIVER OF TIME

Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1986. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Large 8vo.; in publisher’s gold paper-covered boards without a dustjacket, as issued; housed in the publisher’s mahogany slipcase; this is “Specially Bound” edition, limited to fifty-two individually signed and lettered copies.....

Price: $85.00

Linwood L. Righter | Manning DeV. Lee (Illustrator)

[CHILDREN] CHATT ROLAND. A STORY OF AMERICAN FISH PIRATES

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo; in the publisher’s tan cloth binding with titling in terra cotta, with dustjacket; 330 pages; a clean copy with no marks of kind in the.....

Price: $75.00

Boyer D’Agen; Henry Fowler (Compiler)

[EXPOSE] [ROMAN CATHOLIC] LIFE OF A CARMELITE NUN

Toledo, Ohio: L. J. King, [1910]. Original Wrappers. Third Edition. 8vo.; stapled pamphlet with photographic illustrations; 75 pages; sensationalism at its most sensational -- “Filthy and Loathsome Punishments in a Roman Catholic Convent”; “Escaped, Pursued, and Forced Back to the.....

Price: $150.00

William N. Beach

[SPORTING] IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT McKINLEY

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, lettered in gilt,, with printed dustjacket; xiv, [1], 1-289 pages, with map endpapers,a colored frontispiece, eight black and white plates by Carl.....

Price: $950.00

John Milton

[SPECIAL PRESS] L’ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO

New Rochelle, N.Y. The Elson Press, 1903. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 8vo.; in paper-covered boards backed in buckran, with paper label to the spine; [8], 9-28, [1] pages; printed in red and in black, and with in-text illustrations thoughout; with.....

Price: $300.00

Alexander Wilbourne Weddell | John Lee McElroy [Associate Editor]; Douglas S. Freeman [Foreward]

[RICHMOND] RICHMOND VIRGINIA IN OLD PRINTS 1737 - 1887

Richmond: Johnson Publishing Company | Printed by the William Byrd Press, 1932. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 4to; in the publisher’s tan cloth with the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the upper board, backed in brown cloth with.....

Price: $200.00

Item #296905 [SIGNED] [WORLD WAR II] SEEK, STRIKE, DESTROY: THE HISTORY OF THE 636th TANK...

Tom Sherman

[SIGNED] [WORLD WAR II] SEEK, STRIKE, DESTROY: THE HISTORY OF THE 636th TANK DESTROYER BATTALION

[Marquette, Neb.]: Tom Sherman, 1986. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. Large 8vo,; in orange cloth with decorations and titling in black; 243 pages with maps and illustrations; this copy is signed by the author Tom Sherman on the copyright page.~~“Seek.....

Price: $600.00

George H. Boker

[POETIC DEFENCE] THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1882. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in brown cloth with beveled edges, and titling and deocration in gilt in the Eastlake style’; [1] - 214 pages; with brown coated endpapers; there are no marks.....

Price: $75.00

Item #296903 [PAMPHLET] HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SINKING SPRING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT ABINGDON,...

Mattie Rountree Stephenson

[PAMPHLET] HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SINKING SPRING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT ABINGDON, VIRGINIA, 1773-1948

Wytheville, Va. Wythe County News, 1948. Soft Cover. First Edition. Large 8vo.; in printed wrappers; 104 pages with photographic illustrations; the front blank endpaper is badly town; the spine has old scotch tape reinforcment; scattered foxing; photographic portrait frontispiece of.....

Price: $75.00

Yevgenia Petrova

[ART] ABRSTRACTION IN RUSSIA; XX CENTURY [20th]

Palace Editoins, 2001. Hard Cover. Two large quarto volumes; in publisher’s pictorial paper-covered boards, with dustjackes housed in the publihser’s slipcase; 382 pages, including the Index; 431 pages, including the Index; lavishly illustrated in color throughout; there are no marks.....

Price: $95.00

Thomas W. Knox

[CHILDREN] THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Hard Cover. First Edition. Small quarto; in the publisher’s olive green cloth binding with titling in gilt and with elaborate decorations in gilt and in burgundy; xvi, 536 pages, with illustrations. including a color.....

Price: $75.00

Velma Mays White

[AMHERST COUNTY] [VIRGINIA] FONDEST MEMORIES

Petersburg, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 2005. Hard Cover. First Edition. Quarto; in burgundy cloth with gilt titling and armorial decorations, with dustjacket; 170 pages, including blank leaves for notes; photoillustrated; there are no ownership notes of any kind.~~From the flap.....

Price: $150.00

John Buchan

[LITERATURE] HUNTINGTOWER

Boston: Houghton Miffln Company, [c. 1941]. Hard Cover. Reprint Edition. 8vo.; in publisher’s pale green cloth with titling and decoration in red, with dusjtacket; 316 pages; there are no marks in book, and old bookseller’s label is on the front.....

Price: $125.00

Bruce Weber

[SIGNED] [PHOTOGRAPHY] ROBERTO BOLLE AN ATHLETE IN TIGHTS

Kempen, Germany | New York: TeNeues Publishing Group~, 2009. Hard Cover. Signed. Quarto; in photographic pictorial boards, backed in black cloth; unpaged; there is very little text the books is almost entirely Bruce Weber’s photographs.~~This copy is signed with an.....

Price: $225.00

Eleanor Farjeon | Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

[PRESENTATION COPY] [SPECIAL PRESS] PANNYCHIS

Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1933. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. 8vo.; in marbled paper boards backed in parchment, lettered in black to the spine; with the publisher’s somewhat torn and darkened glassine wrapper present; 14 pages on hand-made paper, followed.....

Price: $200.00

Item #296884 [ENGLAND] [BINDINGS] PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED...

Edmund Lodge

[ENGLAND] [BINDINGS] PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS. [12 VOLUMES; COMPLETE SET]

London: Harding and Lepard, 1835. Half Leather. Twelve quarto volumes; half-leather in burgundy over tan buckram, with gilt spines and flat raised bands; the gutters are rubbed but all are holding well; there are no ownership marks of any kind.....

Price: $500.00

Virginia Woolf | Nigel Nicolson (Editor)

[LITERATURE] THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. [6 VOLUMES]

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1975-1980. Hard Cover. Six small quarto volumes; in paper covered boards back in cloth in various color -- green blue grey, aubergine, etc. in dustjackets; there are no ownership marks in any of the volumes.~~Volume.....

Price: $150.00