![Gems of the Exhibition. [Cover-title] 1851](/pictures/thumb/31472.jpg?v=1532558076)
1851. Quarto. Original leather, stamped in blind and gilt, title stamped in the center of the upper cover. Colored dome-topped engraving (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 26 x 18 cm. ) of the Exhibition hall, plus 12 unsigned hand-colored prints mounted on card, illustrating various exhibits: Crystal Fountain, Silk..... More
New York: Kaldeway Press, (1987). LASKER, JONATHAN. First edition. 18 pages, 17 inches x 11-1/2 inches, 30 x 45 cm. Printed in blue on "Poestenkill Leaves" paper made for this edition at the Kaldewey mill, bound by Christian Zwang, black paper over board, with relief impressions after Lasker's design on..... More
1972. Bassouls, Sophie. 12 x 16 inch silver print, signed by the photographer. Sophie Bassouls, photographer with the Corbis-Sygma Agency, she has produced more than 3000 literary portraits. Her work has been widely exhibited, in France, and in the United States. More
Madison, Wis. The Perishable Press, 1967. First edition. Boards, fine. One of 40 hardbound copies printed on Chauke Heavy paper, from a total edition of 143. Fine. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Original cloth, spotted, worn at extremities. With the bookplate of W. Alfred Cave, Rector of St. Mary's Episcopal in Nebraska City, Iowa, who (according to an article in the Circleville, Iowa Herald, for March 7..... More
New York: Grove Press, [1962]. First American edition. Black cloth backed boards, light spotting on the top edge, a fine copy in lightly used first issue dust jacket. Inscribed by Burroughs on the title page. 3500 copies were printed of this edition, fewer than of the Olympia Press first edition..... More
London: Macmillan, 1872. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt, gilt edges. Extremities rubbed, splits to outer hinges, volume cocked, but endpapers intact, not cracked, internally very good. More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Original boards, cover and spine labels. Boards darkened and marked, spine label chipped. Inscribed twice by Cather: On the front cover "For Albert Donovan from his friend Willa Siebert Cather," similarly on the front endpaper, with the addition of the..... More
Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, a very fine copy, rare in this condition. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her. More
Metz: Chez Vodaine, 1976. First edition. Double leaves, title page, foreword, ten leaves of linocuts, each page numbered in pencil; colophon. Chaissac's linocuts from 1952 were printed by his old friend and collaborator Jean Vodaine. From a numbered edition of 100, this is one of a few hors commerce copies..... More
Los Angeles: C.C. Parker, 1912. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. First edition. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 13 inches. [31] p. (on double leaves), [6] leaves of plates. Number 21 of a planned but never completed edition of 60 copies, signed by Coburn. The book contains six tipped-in original 7 x 5 inch..... More
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. The first book in English devoted to television. Original printed wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, the wrappers in fine condition, the jacket with some light soiling and small closed tears to the lower edge. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John..... More
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Privately printed, 1925. First edition. White boards, in salmon-colored dust jacket. Fine copy. One of 300 numbered and signed copies.From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
![Nasim Detem [Our Children]. Maria Fischerová-Kvechová](/pictures/thumb/23120(1of1).jpg?v=1547505421)
Prague: B.Koci, (1921). Cloth backed boards, 56 pp., excellent condition. Color-printed children's book. More
1995. Stuart, Gordon. Water color portrait of the poet, executed in Swansea, Wales, in 1995, signed and dated in the upper right corner. 18-1/2 inches x 14-3/4 inches. Matted and framed. This is one of a series of portraits commissioned from Stuart as the official artist of the U.K. Year..... More
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[ca. 1947?]. Grandpierre, Victor. First edition. 60 original silver print photographs by Victor Grandpierre, mounted on bristol boards with rounded, gilt edges. 29 x 22 cm. The images depict somewhat surrealistic arrangements of decorative household objects, each illustrating a poem by Louise de Vilmorin, printed in facsimile of her manuscript..... More
New York: Charles Francis Press, (1903). First edition. Grey's scarce first book, published at his own expense. This is a contemporary presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on a sheet pasted to the front endpaper, within his hand-drawn border: "To Miss Myra Emmons A Merry Christmas and a...... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine dull, frayed at the ends, slight wear to corners, hinges trifle loose; internally mostly fresh and clean. March 1850 catalogue. BAL 7600. More
2 pages (verso and recto), folio, ruled paper with St Winifred watermark, unsigned. “Aunts and Nieces” comprises 52 lines of manuscript verse to both sides, the text differing in minor ways from the published version: there is one correction to line 34 [“need not” changed to “will not”], and Housman’s dividing the sections..... More
![The Innocent Voyage [A High Wind in Jamaica]. Richard Hughes](/pictures/thumb/28518.jpg?v=1492209227)
New York: Harper, 1929. First edition, published in the US in February 1929 and in Britain as A High Wind in Jamaica, in late September. Full red goatskin, top edge gilt, decorated turn-ins, marbled endpapers; a presentation binding. Inscribed by Hughes "To Isabel Paterson / With the warmest gratitude and..... More
Portland, Ore. Reed College, 1966. First edition. Red leather, gilt, by The Oregon Bookbinding Co., with their ticket. Fine condition. One of a few specially bound copies for contributors. This was Richard Hugo's copy; it contains his poem "Tiberio's Cliff" along with works by William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, John Logan..... More
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London: Longmans, 1847. Humphreys, Noel. 8vo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like..... More
Sheet size 10 1/4 inches x 14 inches, fully margined beyond the plate mark, except the bottom edge, which is trimmed to the plate mark, a few tiny worm holes toward the right margin and lower left. The drawing has been attributed to Richard Brookshaw and the German engraver Johann..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1926. First edition. 8vo, pp. [vi], 504. Original blue cloth, some mild fading, internally fine and fresh, with the rare original dust jacket (edges and folds minimally restored, slightly chipped at the ends of the spine), the jacket carries a quote from Hermann Hesse calling Kafka "König..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, (1919). First edition. Original full white linen lettered in dark red. Spine faded, waterstain on front cover and edge of 35 pages, some spotting to back cover and foxing of text. A good copy of the last book published in Kafka's lifetime. W / G 6. More