[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
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., [1878]. Three Quarters Leather. Frontispiece and few additional plates, and engraved text illustrations throughout. Remnant of a bookplate on the front flyleaf. Signed binding by Bayntun of Bath; three quarters tan calf over cloth boards..... 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
Sandgate: Folkestone, 1990. Octavo. Hard Cover. Binding sound; very light soiling to dust jacket; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; slight sticker residue to front free endpaper otherwise no markings to text. Digital images available upon request. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1960]. Hard Cover. First Edition thus. First Edition thus of The Grimms’ German Folk Tales, translated by Francis P. Magoun, Jr. and Alexander H. Krappe. With no marks of any kind. Tan cloth. Top edge..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. Soft Cover. First Edition. Signed. A clean First Edition, signed by the author with a personal insription on the front free endpaper. Creasing to the top left corner of the rear and another along 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
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
New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy in publisher’s red cloth with title and decoration stamped in gold on the front cover and the spine; light shelfwear; top edge gilt; fore-edge deckled and..... 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
Privately Printed, 1930. Three Quarters Leather. Limited Edition. A Limited Edition of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, translated by Harold Berman, with illustrations by Rene Gockinga. Numbered 820 of 900 copies. Three quarters blue morocco with gilt lettering and designs, over..... 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
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Signed. Six volumes in quarter natural cowhide with printed sides designed by Valenti Angelo. With three slipcases for the six volumes as issued. “In the unabridged translation, complete with notes, and terminal essay..... 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
