New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Half-Leather. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES. Bound in contemporary 3/4 blue leather with raised bands and gilt panels on spine. Expert repair to one hinge, marbled end papers. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First Edition. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1927. Ernest H. Shepard. Magnificently bound in full tan leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with custom felt-lined slipcase, for Marshall Fields. Octavo, 570 pages, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers, maps at rear. Fourth printing of this edition; a near fine copy, spine slightly age-toned..... More
Chicago: W.B. Keen, 1875. Hard Cover. Octavo. 278pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt, yellow coated endpapers; very faint dampstaining to outer margins of pages 221-239 affecting only a couple of plates. A very early printing (fifteenth thousand). A very good+..... More
London: Charles Daly, 1870. Full-Leather. 12mo. c. 1870. Full publisher's leather, decorated in blind; gauffered edges in gilt; marbled end papers. Illustrations on steel by eminent artists. 504 pages. A lovely copy. More
London: Bernard Lintott, 1723. Hard Cover. Octavo. Sixth Edition Corrected and Fourth Edition. Esdras Barnivelt pseudonym of Alexander Pope. Two volumes bound together in contemporary full vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved illustrations. A very good- copy with binding split at spine, boards and spine are intact. All pages intact.Title..... More
Paris: L'edition D'art H. Piazza, 1927. Boris Zworykine. Original Wraps. Original green printed wrappers, glassine dust jacket and brown paper covered slipcase; octavo, 133 pages; number 431 of 775 copies. Color illustrations by Zworykine. A fine copy. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1866. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. 302, 318 328pp. half-titles present in volumes one and two, bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, green morocco spine label within one compartment, spine decorated with a gilt vine motif, marbled..... More
London: George Allen, 1899. Hugh Thomson. Half Leather. Small Octavo. Signed fine binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London England for Marshall Field and Company. Bound in brown half leather and marbled boards with raised bands spine, gilt lettering and decoration spine, tope edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark. Many..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDWIN REED and with a letter from the author to a close friend laid in telling the friend two of the author's books have been shipped. Recipients bookplate mounted to front pastedown, 441pp., unopened. Bound in..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDWIN REED TO A CLOSE FRIEND WHO HE HAD SENT TWO OF HIS BOOKS. Photo-illustrated portrait of the author and two of his residence, mounted to front free endpapers; recipient's bookplate to front paste-down, 242pp. Bound..... More
London: James Bowden, 1897. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. With an introduction by William Michael Rossetti, xi, 80(1)pp., (1)pp. ad, unopened and uncut; engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt; from the library of Nicholas Salerno, with his bookplate. A very good+ copy... More
London (1844-49): The Shakespeare Society. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, 4 volumes in the original brown blind stamped cloth, spine printed in gilt. The four volumes of the Shakespeare Society's occasional papers ("being contributions too short in themselves for separate publication"). A scarce and fascinating compendium of articles about Shakespeare..... More
New York, London: W. W. Norton, 1996. Second Edition. Folio, original red cloth, spine printed in gilt; publisher's slipcase, red cloth with color portrait of William Shakespeare on front. First printing of the second edition, 3 Sept. 1996. 928 pages. Publisher's slip laid in; Prepared by Charlton Hinman; Second edition..... More
London: H. Herringman, E. Brewster & R. Bentley, 1685. Hard Cover. Folio; from the fourth folio, pages 212-226. . The London Prodigal, TEXT IS COMPLETE, [Together with:] Pericles, Prince of Tyre, lacking 6 leaves, pp. 197/198, 199/200, 203/204, 205/206, 207/208, 209/210. Present are 11 leaves in total. Both bound together..... More
London: J. Tonson, 1734. Full-Leather. 12mo. Frontispiece by P. Fourdrinier, 71pp.; bound to style in recent paneled leather, single gilt rule border, spine lettering gilt. A lovely copy. No separate edition of this play appeared until the 1734 publication of competing editions by Jacob Tonson and Robert Walker, who both..... More
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1909. LIMITED EDITION. Original Wraps. 12mo. 1/100 copies with "Price One Shilling./Net." on lower right corner of front wrapper. 39pp. Bound in pink printed wrappers; tiny chip to corner of rear wrapper otherwise nearly fine housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase stamped in gilt..... More
New York: J. Baldwin, 1821. First American Edition. Full-Leather. 12mo. [1-3], 4-181, [1]pp. publisher's ad; with the engraved title only; page 24 misnumbered 4; bound in full contemporary green straight grained morocco, bordered in decorative rolls in blind, slightly raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, red morocco spine label..... More
New York/London: The Co-Operative Publication Society, 1904. Hard Cover. Octavo. In eight volumes superbly bound by McLeod in 3/4 black morocco and tan cloth covered thick boards, matching tan cloth endpapers, raised bands gilt, six compartments lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt, ribbon markers, illustrated, includes Dr. Jekyll and Mr..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1853. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Half Leather. 12mo. Frontispiece, engraved title and regular title page, 160pp. (without ads) Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red leather label gilt. Neat owner inscription ffep. Mild cover edge wear. Quite rare on the..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869. Full Leather. Octavo. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Full crushed olive morocco binding by Bayntun, spine compartments with gilt frames surrounding, gilt hunting devices, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In a felt-lined green cloth slipcase. All 16 color illustrations including color..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 132(1), 32 pages of ads, dated March, 1896. Bound in original blue cloth. Very light wear at extremities, spine a little faded; very light foxing to preliminaries, faint marginal stain to final leaves of text. A very good copy. More
London: Henry S. King, 1877. First Edition. Full Leather. 12mo. 161 pages, half title; bound in contemporary full tan calf, by Relfe Brothers of London; marbled edges, marbled ene papers. Small spot on front panel, light wear to extremities; overall, a very good+ copy. More
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. E. V. B. Full Leather. 12mo. 39 pages. Bound in full brown leather, coated yellow end papers. Neat owner inscription on FEP; internally clean. More
Lugduni Batav (Leiden): Ludovicum Declaustre, 1730. Full Leather. 12mo. Bound in contemporary full leather, raised bands, gilt decoration on spine. Pages 1-56, Vida; pages 1-46, Heyra; pages 1-59, Andria; pages 1-60, Adelphi; pages 1-59, Phormio. A little shelf wear at spine ends, owner notes on end papers; overall, very good..... More