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.... More about LEGENDS AND LYRICS
New York: The Uphill Press, 1966. In black quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. With a slightly chipped glassine wrapper. Limitation is 120 numbered copies; this is an “out of sequence” copy. With two attractive engraved vignettes. More about THE TOWPATH
Kurt S. Adler, Inc., 1978. Miniature. Hard Cover. Illustrated; Miniature book. No pencil or ink markings in text. Red hardcover binding with gilt lettering and pictorial paste-down on front board. Digital pictures of book available upon request; Not Ex-Library. More about TURN OF THE CENTURY 1900 ALBUM 1910
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. Illustrated by: Helen B. Herrick. Miniature. Hard Cover. Decorated By Helen B. Herrick; No pencil or ink markings in text. Hardcover miniature cloth binding. ; Not Ex-Libary. More about THE LITTLE COOKIE BOOK: Thirty-One Favorite Recipes of a Minibibliophile
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. Hard Cover. A remembrance of this printer who was sometimes known as the “Texas Gutenberg” or the “Aldus in the Desert” [see Dallas Morning News, March 23, 1986]. Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which... More about REMEMBERING CARL HERTZOG: A TEXAS PRINTER AND HIS BOOKS
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, [1982]. Limited Edition. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. One of twenty-six lettered copies. A set of ten hand-watercolored etchings by Alan James Robinson, printed at the Cheloniidae Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Twenty-six copies of each print... More about GAME ANIMALS: TEN ETCHINGS HAND-WATERCOLORED
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Illustrated by: Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered “III” of 5 copies. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia Cohen with... More about ATLANTIC SALMON
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..... More about THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL. VOL. I. FRONTIERSMAN, SOLDIER, LAWMAKER 1755-1788. VOL. II....
New York: James Milller, Publisher, 1880. Quarto. Hard Cover. First Edition. Green boards with black and gold decorations; one plate is bound upside down; an additional copy of that same plate is also present loose (added, we presume, by the... More about WELLES' ILLUSTRATED FABLES
London: Coptic Press, 1965. Soft Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Wrappers slightly soiled. Some curling at bottom of front and rear covers. Two small stains at bottom of front cover at corner; Not an Ex-Library Copy. More about TITLE PAGES & INITIALS
London: T. Bensley; for F. J. du Roveray, 1798. Full Leather. Pope’s comic poem, first printed anonymously in 1711 -- a lock of hair cut off without permission causes a breach between two aristocratic families. It is, as the Preface... More about THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. ... ADORNED WITH PLATES
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. Alexander Wilson’s long narrative poem detailing the natural beauty encountered on his trek from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls. #102 of 150 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Quarter brown morocco over... More about THE FORESTERS
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... More about THE LADY WITH THE CAMELLIAS
Chicago: Lakeside Press | R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1931. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. Limited Edition of Alfred Bonnardot’s The Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile, translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. Numbered 326 of 500 copies, and signed by the... More about THE MIRROR OF THE PARISIAN BIBLIOPHILE. A SATIRICAL TALE
The New York Public Library, 1947. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. This being publication No. 1 of the Arents Tobacco Collection, and one of 500 copies Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by A. Colish. In the publisher’s paper-covered boards with... More about A FEW WORDS ABOUT PIPES, SMOKING & TOBACCO
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..... More about LE SURMALE. ROMAN MODERNE
Cranford, N.J. Alfred Penn Babcock, [1946-1947]. Hard Cover. Eleven issues of the humorous Alf’s Cat, specially crafted and printed by Alfred Penn Babcock and others, on miscellaneous paper with their footpress, “Josephine”. Numbers 50-60, bound together in one volume. Cocked..... More about ALF’S CAT. SEPTEMBER, 1946-JULY, 1947. NO. 50-60. (ONE VOLUME
London: Darton and Clark, [c. 1842]. 32mo. Full Leather. A clean copy. Textblock is cracked but holding well. Lacking front endpaper. Bound in red morocco with leather onlays, and lettering, decorations, and rules stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. More about HEART-BREATHINGS
London: William Heinemann, 1924. A handsome set, in dark red levant, bound by Bayntun of Bath; raised bands with titling stamped in gold; elaborate dentelle turn-ins, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. The joints have had some repaired separation (no... More about SWINBURNE’S COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS
Philadelphia: David McKay, n.d. Three Quarters Leather. The McKay edition of The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Previous owner’s name on the front endpaper. Some flaking to the front joint. Two spots of bumping to the fore edge of the..... More about THE WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. POEMS
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1913. Half Leather. Limited Edition. Signed. An attractive Roycrofter’s production, in brown half pigskin over marbled paper-covered boards; the pigskin being embossed in blind in the art nouveau style. The front board of this copy has been..... More about GARNETT AND THE BRINDLED COW, ALSO OTHER MOTHERS
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Signed. A poem by Allen Ginsberg with three drawings by Robert LaVigne, one of 200 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in 1970. An oblong folio, in striped paper boards backed in linen with... More about THE MOMENT’S RETURN (Signed
The Sarabande Press, 1984. Folio. Soft Cover. Limited Edition, number “m” of 26 copies “press-lettered and specially bound”. Signed by Clampitt, G. G. Laurens and designer Joe Marc Freedman. Fabulously bound in hand-made stiff paper wrappers; a gorgeous copy housed..... More about A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS
New York: Sarabande Press, 1983. Illustrated by: Marsha Eva Gold. Folio. Disbound. Limited Edition, numbered 18 of 33. Signed by Clampitt, Gold and the designer and printer Joe Marc Freedman on the colophon. A beautifully designed accordion binding on handmade... More about THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1905. Full Leather. Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days, with engraved illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Scattered foxing. Full tree calf, with a red leather label, decorative rules at the perimeter, decoration and lettering on the spine..... More about TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS