New York: Oxford University Press, n.d. [1896]. Miniature book (1 3/4" x 1 1/4"). 876p. Illustrated. Bound in full brown leather with embossed designs and gilt spine titles. Bible chained to a 5 1/2" wooden lectern with shelf for storing the Bible, magnifying glass in front pocket. Label on bottom... More about THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
London: James Nisbet and Co., (St. John: Hamilton, Adams and Co.), 1835. Miniature books (2 1/2" x 2"). Four volumes. 167p; 108p; 182 (ii)p; 128p. In companion wallet style bindings of morocco, 2 in red, 2 in black with gilt titles on the flap. Welsh: St. Matthew 840; Mark 835; Luke 834. John with this imprint not in Welsh. More about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW... ST. MARK... ST. LUKE... ST. JOHN
Paris and London: XXe Siecle and Zwemmer, (1959). No. 441 of 900 copies. Small oblong quarto. 57p. Illustrated by Georges Braque with eight full-page water colors printed by Daniel Jacomet. Bound in white cloth, the upper cover with titles and a Braque design in three colors. More about LE SOLITAIRE
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New York: W. W. Norton, 1950-1960's. Eight volumes in the Norton Series, the core of scholarly work in music history by eminent musicologists. Indispensable for the serious music student or aficionado. Curt Sachs. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World. Gustave Reese. Music in the Middle Ages. Manfred Bukofzer. Music in..... More about NORTON SERIES IN MUSIC HISTORY] 8 VOLUMES
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1914. Early edition. 12mo. viii, 110p. With a forward by Roger Ingpen and extensive notes. Engraved frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature of Burton. Includes facsimile of Quaritch's first edition of 1880. Bound by Root in full polished calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with title... More about THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL YEZDI, A LAY OF THE HIGHER LAW
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London: George G.Harrap, n.d. [1916]. Large 8vo. 167p. Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illustrated by Evelyn Paul with color plates (some mounted) and decorations on every page. Title page and some plates highlighted in gold. Bound in full brown embossed and carved leather with illustrated endpapers and with three wrap-around..... More about THE NEW LIFE [LA VITA NOUVA
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1977. First edition. Limited to 500 copies (this no. 153) signed by Eichenberg, and with an ORIGINAL SIGNED WOOD ENGRAVING laid in. Quarto. 199p. Illustrated throughout. Bound with scarlet morocco spine over olive cloth, gilt spine titles. Includes bibliography of portfolios and books illustrated by Eichenberg. More about THE WOOD AND THE GRAVER:
New York: Atheneum, 1964. First edition. [vi], 248p. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine with green boards. Author's first book. Author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. More about CATHERINE CARMIER
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1930). Large Paper edition Limited to 275 copies Signed by Kenneth Grahame and Ernest H. Shepard. This no. 266. Octavo. xii, 168p. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard with frontispiece and 28 black drawings in line style and in silhouette. Bound with gilt-titled vellum spine... More about DREAM DAYS
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London: Longmans, Green, 1875-87. Third, sdecond edition. Eight volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full purple calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with green title labels gilt , the panels with decorative frames and ornaments of crowns, lions, harp, the covers with decorative ruled borders. More about THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS. A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLIAM IV [with] A...
Oxford: Printed by T. Combe for J. Hatchard and Son, 1850. Thick 8vo. Quite beautifully bound in full brown morocco with marbled endpapers, the cover edges with brass frames with filigree corner ornaments with fancy brass clasp, the spine and covers with decorative borders and overall diamond patterns with fleur-de-lis... More about THE FORM OF MORNING PRAYER, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND;...
[New York, 1939]. Peep show with six color panels including the cover. Covers features a harlequin presenting the show to George Washington (or other colonial person) and others. The scenes terminate in the Trilon and Perisphere of the fair. More about THE WORLD OF TOMORROW; NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1789-1939
London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Limited to 1000 copies (scarce none-the-less). 28p, 36p. Illustrated by Lawrence Housman with frontispiece and 5 inserted full-page plates, as well as text drawings on every page of the story. Bound in original cream boards with titles and cover vignettes of jumping Jane in... More about JUMP TO GLORY JANE
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Four volumes. xix, 390p; xvi, 496p; xv, 512p; xix, 525p. Illustrated with four hand-colored frontispiece scenes, and Extra-Illustrated with forty-six plates and a few scenes, a few from the 18th century. Bound by Bayntun in half green crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers... More about MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN THE STUARTS, INCLUDING THE PROTECTORATE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, printed at the Riverside Press, 1886. Edward Fitzgerald translation. Quarto. (12 5/8"). Unpaged. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder - every page with florid pictures with embedded text. Bound in gray cloth over beveled boards, t.e.g., the cover and spine with elaborate designs in gilt and black by Vedder... More about RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA
London: H.S. Nichols, 1898. Second edition, limited to 1000 copies, carefully revised and considerably enlarged. Tall 8vo. [xii], xlii, 320p. Frontispiece in red, black and white and decorative title also in red and black by Ella Hallward. The facsimile of the original manuscript is printed on coated paper on the... More about THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM:
(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1985. No. 192 of 1500 copies Signed by Raphael Soyer. Folio. 32p. Illustrated by Alice Neel, including two color lithographs and a self-portrait etching. Tribute by Raphael Soyer. Printed at the Anthoensen Press and designed by Ben Shiff. Bound in marbled boards with gilt-titled maroon... More about THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1882. "Copyright Edition" Small 8vo. 287p. In a lovely embossed binding of full calf over beveled boards with pattern paper end sheets, the spine in five panels with gilt titles and panel ornaments, the covers embossed, the upper cover heavily so featuring a central music lyre with... More about BALLADS AND SONNETS: With a Memoir of the Author by Francis Hueffer
Berne: Emanuel Haller, 1794. First French edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. [iv], 2p, 300p; [iv], 295p. Engraved portrait. Bound in period bindings of quarter calf with paper sides. More about HISTOIRE DE LA GUERRE DE TRENTE ANS
New York: Serigrafia, [1990]. Limited to 300 copies, this no. 82 (100 copies were donated to the Children's Health Fund, NY). Boxed suite of six elephant folio brilliant color serigraphs, each to illustrate a fairy tale story. Each serigraph measures 20 3/4" X 27" and is enclosed in a glassine... More about MOTHER GOOSE COLLECTION
London: C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1803-1804. "Sharpe's Edition" Nine volumes. 12mo (4 1/4"). Portrait frontispiece in Vol. 9. Bound in full red straight grained morocco, a.e.g., the spines simply stated Shakespeare in gilt along with rules, volume numbers, and simple gilt ornaments. Makeshift bookplate of Sir George Denys. This... More about THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN MINIATURE
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London: Printed for Longman, Rivingtons, Hatchard, &c, 1856. "New Edition" Eight volumes. Printed from the Text of the Corrected copies Left by the Late George Steevens and Edmond Malone. Bound by Bayntun in quarter red straight grain morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with green and..... More about THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE... [with] A HISTORY OF THE STAGE, AND A LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE BY...
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Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1893-94. Small octavo. Seven volumes in companion bindings by Thierry. All bound in various colors of crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines elaborately gilt with floral ornaments in the center of the panels. Illustrated by Myrbach, Paul Chabas, Jeanniot, Andre Brouillet, and De..... More about L'ABBESSE DE CASTRO [with six other French books in companion bindings
London: Edward Moxon, 1867. (iv)178p. Illustrated with a fore-edge painting depicting a ship setting sail. Bound in full blue pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. with simple gilt titles on spine and upper. More about ENOCH ARDEN
New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. [ad dated 1842]. xlviii, 320p. Bound in publisher's full black pebbled morocco, a.e.g., the covers with overall period gilt designs. Illustrated with wood engravings after E. Bookhout by John Bell, C. W. Cook, Thomas Creswick, J. C. Horsley, J. P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank..... More about THE SEASONS