[c. 1920]. One of a series of five photographs known as The Cottingley Fairy pictures -- one of the great photographic hoaxes. Two young girls cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, produced the five pictures (two in 1917 and three..... More
Paris: A La Librairie Nationale et Etrangere | Imprimerie de Poulet, 1821. 24mo. Full Leather. A rare edition, with only three copies found on OCLC. The Mythologie de la Jeunesse, ou Histoire Fabuleuse, a history of Greco-roman mythology in French..... More
n.d. Hard Cover. Souvenir album in the publisher’s red cloth, with decorative stamping in gold and black. With birds-eye view of the Exposition, and 12 additional photo-lithographic views, folded accordion style and tinted blue. One has a discreet repair on..... More
New York: Bookman Associates, [1961]. Hard Cover. Full page text illustrations. Significant dampstaining and discoloration to the binding. Red cloth with a Good dustjacket. More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. Hard Cover. A French text of Aesop, with a French-English dictionary at the end of the book. Scant pencil margin notes. Quarter leather over paper-covered boards, with a small japanese tissue patch to the bottom..... More
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
London: E. Grant Richards, 1907. Second Printing. This edition bound in maroon suede, with yapp edges. A rondel bust of Wagner is stamped in gold to the front board. What must certainly be an uncommon dusjtacket is present, and is..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First Edition. Hobo and tramp songs, with introduction ‘Poesy in the Jungle’ in which Milburn describes the relationship between a ‘jocker’ and a ‘preshun’ as a romantic one, akin to a knight and his squire..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Seton Village Press, 1939. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. Sadly, the bottom corner of the boards are a bit chewed, perhaps by puppy (Bad dog!). Signed by H. Clark Brown with a personal inscription on..... More
New York; London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928. Hard Cover. A collection of folk tales from Arabic sources, compiled by H. I. Katibah. Complete with eight plates. Red cloth with gilt lettering. More
Munchen: Friedrich Adolf Ackermann, Kunstverlag, 1884. Hard Cover. A collection of twelve engraved plates by Heinrich Lossow, illustrating scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Complete, with the twelve plates tipped in against individual card stock leaves, with captioning and simple borders in..... More
Paris: Librairie Steriotype de Th. Dabo | Imprimerie Stereotype de Tremblay, 1819. Full Leather. In rather unexuberant tree tree caf; double rules to the spine, with morocco label.Some wear to the top of the spine. With the label of “Bibliotheque..... More
Paris: P. Didot the Elder, and F. Didot, 1813. Quarter Leather. A pretty little production by Didot, bound in quarter black calf over marbled boards. With marbled endpapers. There is some light and scattered foxing. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. Hard Cover. Small 8vo.; in publisher’s taupe cloth with pictorial stamping in black and gilt, with titling in gilt to the spine; boards with beveled edges; all edges gilt; blue pattered paper endpapers; 199 pages..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1992. Quarto. Hard Cover. Second Printing 1997. Binding sound; small amount of rubbing to bottom spine. Dust jacket unevenly toned and protected in a new mylar cover. No markings to text. Illustrated with photographs throughout. More
Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed. #135 of 1500 copies, Signed by the illustrator Paul Landacre. A clean copy, housed in publisher’s Very Good slipcase. Binding is blue pebbled morocco, with raised bands and tilt decorations at the..... More
Lodiana: Printed at the Lodiana Mission Press, 1894. Hard Cover. First Edition. A collection of folklore from the Indian regions of Kumaun and Garhwal, which at the time of publication were the Northwestern Provinces of British India. The regions were..... More
Barcelona: Henrich Y Co., 1913. An uncommon translation of these Arab tales -- The Story of Nerudin and the Beautiful Princess Camaralzaman Badura. With both in text and full page engraved illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. An uncommon translation -- we..... More
Pakistan: Royal Book Company, 1992. Octavo. Hard Cover. some light smudging to the textblock edges; contents clean and binding sound; dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. More
Philadelphia | Boston: E. L. Carey & A. Hart | Allen & Ticknor, 1833. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition, complete in two volumes, preceded by the First UK Edition the year prior, which was published in three..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1883. First Edition. In the publisher’s blue-gray cloth binding, with some shelfwear, to the corners and the joints; slightly cocked, but a sturdy and serviceable copy. With previous owner name on the first blank and at..... More
Baltimore: William R. Lucas, 1832. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of A Catechism of Mythology, by William Darlington, a deaf and dumb author, educator, and (arguably) community rights representative. He resigned his first teaching position in protest to discriminatory..... More
Kessinger. Soft Cover. This a clean Kessinger reprint in Facsimile. It’s clean with no marks of any kind. More
