DESERT AS DWELLED ON BY L.C.P.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature. Soft Cover. One of 250 copies printed at the Press in the Gatehouse; gray paper boards with printed label and paper sleeve.
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. Three Quarters Leather. First Edition. Essays in Honor of John Dewey, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Portrait frontispiece. Penned price on the front flyleaf. Wear to the joints and slight loss.....
Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter “A”. [24] pages, each with a border of printer’s flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer’s.....
London; Edinburgh; New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1856. Oversized. Hard Cover. With title leaf, and four two-page spreads, verso and recto. Each page chromolithographed with eight numbered vignettes accompanied by short children’s verses; the vignettes and text are printed.....
Miniature Book Studio; Carol Wenk, n.d. Full Leather. A micro reprint of an English primer, measuring 2.5 x 1.9 cm. Loose leaf of paper laid in at the rear, perhaps a separated endpaper. Foxing or binder’s glue-staining to the rear.....
Nestor, 2002. Hard Cover. A Czech miniature book on friendship. From Nestor’s ‘Wisdom of the World’ series. Text in check, with simple borders to the text, and a few illustrations. Faux red leather, with decorations and lettering in gold and.....
Boston: J. Buffum, [1851]. Miniature. Hard Cover. A miniature devotional book, Sacred Gift of Devout and Useful Sayings. Scribbling in pencil to two pages of text; small spots of black staining to the rear cover. Red cloth, with gilt lettering.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 32mo. (4 1/2” x 2/ 7/8”}; in the publihser’s brown cloth binding with titling in gilt; with a foldout diagram of a balloon bomb in a separate wrapper.....
Denver, CO: Western Lithographing Co., 1897. Hard Cover. A patriotic poem illustrated with several rather attractive chromolithographic plates. Repaired spine. A sturdy and serviceable copy of an uncommon book.
London: John Walker and Company, 1880. Hard Cover. A bright copy in the publisher’s red binding; with a lovely onlay of green cloth stamped in gilt, red and blue in a lozenge-shaped recess. With 24 quite attractive chromolithographic plates of.....
Paris: Chez Desenne, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1796. Hard Cover. First Edition. Five volume set. 1 new spine label on volume V. Volume 1: Dans Le Nord De L'Europe. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards scratched, scuffed; corners bumped with leather.....
Cleveland, [Ohio]: The Clerk’s Press, 1913. Original Wrappers. Limited. 12mo.; in sewn gray wrappers with a printed label to the upper board; 15 pages; in an edition limited as follows: “Three copies on Imperical Japanese Vellum, and | One hundred.....
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Full Leather. New Edition, with Additions. Works by the popular 19th century poet, who began her careers writing for Dickens’ Household Words and All the Year Round.~Legends and Lyrics was first published in 1858, a......
[Austin]: Roger Beacham, Publihser, 1975. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Folio; in the publisher’s mustard yellow cloth, with paper title to the spine and decorative paper roundel to the upper board; design and topography by David Holman; from an edition of.....
[Easthampton]: [Cheloniidae Press], [1980]. Ten hand-watercolored etchings by Alan James Robinson, printed by Mr. Robinson at the Cheloniidae Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts, in an edition of one hundred. Twenty-six copies of each etching have been reserved for sale have been.....
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Illustrated by: Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited State Proof Edition. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. One of only five state proof copies, #D.~~Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Three Quarters Leather. First two volumes only, of four. Covering Marshall’s life from 1755-1801. Color portrait frontispiece, and additional plates: facsimiles, portraits, and illustrations. Text is reasonably bright. Front joint of Volume.....
London, at the Curwen Press: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hard Cover. Signed. Quarto, in cream cloth over boards, with decoration in gilt and titling in gilt to the spine; illustrated with 12 watercolors by Marie Laurencin; the edition limited.....
Owl House Press, 2010. Full Leather. Numbered 52 of 150 copies. A history of the famous revolutionary and Founding Father. With a few reproduction illustrations of portraits. Blue leather with gilt lettering. 4.8 x 4.0 cm.
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. Three Quarters Leather. Alexandre Dumas Fils’ The Lady with the Camellias, translated into English, with illustrations by Albert Lynch. Collates complete, with ten engraved plates. Half title; title page vignette; additional title page, chromolithographic. Bookplate.....
Paris: P.-A. Chavanne & Cie, 1948. Full Leather. Limited Edition. A beautiful production of symbolist writer Alfred Jarry’s Le Surmale [”The Supermale”]. Printed in green and black, with 19 drypoint etchings by Roger De Valerio. De Valerio is perhaps best.....
Northridge Libraries: Santa Susana Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Mounted folio leaves housed in a brown drop-back box; v, [2], 12 mounted photographic plates on printed mats, each mat signed and numbered by the photographer; followed by with a limitation leaf.....
[Boston, Mass.?]: American Type Founders Company, [1904]. Folded leaf, 4” X 28” printed on both sides; [8] pages; with illustrations.~~From the rear panel: “All cuts shown in the Chap-Book Supplement are Post Oldstyle Ornaments, to be had from any of.....
[Mt. Vernon, N.Y.]: At the Sign of the Blue-Behinded Ape, 1933. Quarto; in patterned-paper boards backed in linen with a paper label; 130 pages, with illustrations; there is a small chip to the label, and a light stain to the.....