THE MILL ON THE FLOSS.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, (1981). 8vo. (vi), 536p. Bound in full green cloth with pattern endpapers, a.e.g. Spine and covers densely gilt. More
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THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE & DOUBLE IDEMNITY.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, (1988). 8vo. (x), 209p. Bound in full brown fabrikoid with pattern endpapers, a.e.g. Gilt spine titles, the covers with inset paper images of newspapers. More
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, (1988). 8vo. (x), 380p. Illustrated by Christopher Zacharow. Bound in full blue fabrikoid with map endpapers, a.e.g., Spine and covers densely gilt. More
ONE HUNDRED FABLES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
London: Geo. Lawford, 1829. Second edition. Small 8vo. viii, 272p. Illustrated with 280 engravings. This with a very nice oval fore-edge painting of a fox stalking a duck. More
LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIMES.
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1877. First edition. Two volumes. xii, 439p; x, 412p. Extra-Illustrated with 93 engravings. Bound in dark red half calf with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with brown title labels and simple floral ornaments in the panels. More
DOCTOR FAUST. A PLAY - BASED UPON OLD GERMAN PUPPET VERSIONS
All illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, Nos. 1 and 2 hand-colored. No. 2, 3, and 4 printed in red and black. 1. DOKTOR FAUST: DAS ALTE PUPPENSPIEL. Frankfurt am Main: Der Golden Brunnen, 1950. 51p. Bound in paper-covered boards with repeating Kredel figures in two shades of green. 2..... More
ON DRY-COW FISHING AS A FINE ART (with) PROGRESSIVE LAYOUTS FOR ON DRY-COW FISHING.
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1926. No. 127 of 176 copies. (Printed at the Printing House of William E. Rudge) for The Rowfant Club. 12mo. 12p. Designs by Bruce Rogers, including title-page and decorations in brown and orange. Bound in Dutch paper boards with paper title label. Progressive Layouts was printed..... More
NOTES ON THE ERAGNY PRESS, AND A LETTER TO J. B. MANSON.
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1957. Limited to 500 copies. viii, 16p, 11 leaves of plates, 39-50p. (ii). Edited with a supplement by Alan Fern. Illustrated with Eragny Press woodcut logo device on title page, wood engraving by Gilbert Polliot and the prints on the 11 leaves from the originals, all but..... More
THE APOSTLE'S CALENDAR.
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1932. Limited to 200 copies - this copy not numbered. Twelve leaves.7 1/2 X 5". Printed in red and black on heavy hand-made paper and string tied to a board backing, the cover with blue paper cover printed in black and red with a wood-engravings of..... More
LAST POEMS. Translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Oakland: Okeanos Press, 1989. No. 40 of 200 copies signed by Stephen Mitchell. Slim quarto. vii (ii), 68p, colophon. Printed in German and English enface. Bound in full blue cloth with paper labels on spine and upper cover. More
ANDROMACHE: A TRAGEDY.
Lexington, KY: The Anvil Press, (1986). No. 19 of 100 copies. Quarto. 10, (ii), 51p, colophon. Illustrated plates not included in the pagination. Printed throughout in red and black in Victor Hammer's American & Andromaque uncial types, the tableaux printed at the Windell Press. Foreword by Desmond Flower. Bound in..... More
MEDITATIONS ON OUR LADY.
Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1929. Variant Issue limited to 500 copies on machine paper. Folio. (viii), 41p, colophon. Illustrated with wood engravings cut by Philip Hagreen. Bound in quarter black cloth over gray boards with paper cover title label. More
THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Van Tassel Edition. Two volumes. xix (i), 294p; vi (ii), 315p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (4), F. O. C. Darley, Julian Rix and Alan Barrud, and from photographs. Bound in half blue morocco over blue cloth sides with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with..... More
DALI: THE WINES OF GALA.
New York: Abrams, (1978). First edition in English. Tall quarto. 296p. Illustrated throughout in color by Dali. White cloth with gilt titles and color pictorial designs, illustrated endpapers. More
AS NATURE SHOWS THEM, MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF THE UNITED STATES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900. Limited to 500 copies (no. 46). Two volumes. [xvi], 161p; [xvi], 163-361p. With over 400 photographic illustrations, including over 100 with transfers of species from life - ACTUAL WINGS. Beautifully bound in full green crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. the spines in uneven panels with..... More
"FOLLOW ME" ANIMAL BOOK.
Akron, OH;: Saalfield, 1945. A pop-up or moveable book with 8 animations by Vivienne Blake in which the animals fold out to form a line of four babies following their mother. Color-printed green boards with plastic spiral binding. More
HAND AND BRAIN: A Symposium of Essays on Socialism.
East Aurora New York: The Roycrofters, 1898. No. 449 of 720 copies. 142p. colophon. Printed in red and black on handmade Kelmscott paper. Bound in quarter tan suede over green boards with gilt-title on the cover and on a leather spine label. McKenna. Roycroft Bibliography no. 25. More
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: The Primrose Academy, (1995). No. 17 of 135 copies signed by the artist and the author of the Introduction. Tall 8vo. (xiv) with 24 excellent wood engravings by Anatolii Ivanovich Kalashnikov, on the rectos of single sheets, 2 in color. Introduction by W. E. Butler. Printed on Zerkall mould-made..... More
THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 1700 TO 1914.
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Cornell University Press, (1982). First edition. Clothbound. Quarto. xxxii, 245p (iii); (vii), 246-557p (v). Describes 396 books with complete bibliographic detail, illustrations, and extensive annotations. Also illustrated examples of fine bindings. Bound in gilt-titled red cloth with gilt figural device on the upper..... More
THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL.
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. First edition. Folio. xxiv, 545p, colophon. Fully illustrated. Includes "Eric Gill: A Personal Record by Douglas Cleverdon" and "Gill the Engraver: A Survey", as well as appendices and check list, &c. Bound in the publisher's gilt-titled quarter white cloth over black cloth sides, the upper cover..... More
THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF JOHN FARLEIGH.
Oxfordshire: Gresham Books, (1985). No. 21 of 110 copies signed by Monica Poole. Folio. 122p. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Farleigh's wood engravings, a few in color. Bound in gilt-titled brown morocco over mustard cloth and housed in cloth slipcase. The..... More
THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF JOHN FARLEIGH.
Oxfordshire: Gresham Books, (1985). First edition. Folio. 122p. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Farleigh's wood engravings, a few in color. Bound in gilt-titled maroon cloth. The engravings are presented in chronological order with appendices listing individual works, commissions, &c. More
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.
Chicago: The Lakesdie Press, 1930. Limited to 1000 copies. This copy with a one-page ALs of Richard Henry Davis, Jr. to Marceau, this book's owner. ix, 524p. Designed and illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson. Large 8vo. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full blue morocco with watered-silk doublures..... More
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
London: The Cresset Press, 1928. Limited to 195 copies (copy no167) on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. Two volumes. Folio. (viii), 174p, colophon; (viii), 162p, colophon. Illustrated with ten brilliant wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton (6) and Gertrude Hermes (4). Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in black dyed vellum with titles..... More
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.
London: Methuen, (1915). First edition thus. Quarto. viii, 162p. Illustrated by Jessie M. King with 16 tipped-in full-page color plates, color title-page, initials and endpapers in black. The cover in original publisher's blue cloth, t.e.g., the spine and upper cover with designs in orange also by Jessie M. King. More