Portland: Bailey & Noyes, ca 1840s. 93 x 61 mm each. Each 16 pages. Several small woodcuts in each volumes. Pictorial printed wrappers, sewn. In a quarter morocco folding case. A fine set of these miniature books, comprising: The Two Goats and the Sick Monkey; The Medley; The Soldier Turned.....
Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he.....
Paris: Terrain Vague, October-November 1962. First edition. 8vo. 59pp, and ads at end. Numerous photographs of depictions of King Kong throughout various media. Original pictorial wrappers. The third issue of Michel Caen and Alain Le Bris's early and important magazine dedicated to the fantastique, horror and science fiction films of.....
Paris: Terrain Vague, June 1963. First edition. 8vo. 91pp., and ads at end. Numerous photographs. Original pictorial wrappers. The 6th issue of this early and important magazine dedicated to the fantastique, horror and science fiction films of the 1960s. Includes a bio-bibliography of Richard Connell and an extensive piece of.....
Belgium: Ludion, 2016. First edition. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 112 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. "This book compiles the most recent work by Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of Belgium's most eminent painters. Accompanying a 2015 exhibition, Luc Tuymans: Birds of a Feather, it shows.....
Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1834. Early issue (the first was 1831). Hand-colored engraved folding map, 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch (contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map). Mounted on the inside front cover of.....
