![Aghani al-Darwish [Songs of the Dervish]. Rashid AYYUB, or Raschid Ayoub](/pictures/thumb/404840.jpg?v=1550179906)
New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid.....
New York: The Library Fellows at the Whitney Museum of American Art [by Michael and Winifred Bixler Press and Letter Foundry], 1991. Oblong folio (32.9x42 cm; 13x16½ inches). Beautifully printed in letterpress. [16] pages With 9 mounted chromogenic photographic prints by Tina Barney: 27.7 x3 5.9 cm (11x14¼"). Original turquoise.....
Paris: Adrien Le Roy, Robert Ballard and Mamert Patisson for Jacques Patin, 1582. 4to (231 x 165 mm). Collation: a4 e4, A-T4, including 53 pages of typographical musical notation; 8 full-page etchings of the entertainment and 18 large etchings of pictorial medallions, designed by Jacques Patin, one full-page engraving of.....
Cañon City: Binckley & Hartwell, 1879. 8vo. 134 pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Wood-engravings in text, some double-page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a bit soiled, some minor pale intermittent dampstaining. Provenance: Everett D. Graff (small booklabel; sold Parke-Bernet, Newberry Library sale of duplicates, 4 May 1966, lot 346). THE.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one.....
[Florence]: [1616]. Three etchings (from the set of four), comprising [Chariots and Characters] (L. 169 “Les chars et les personnages”), a very good impression of the rare first state (of three), watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Double Circle with Initial V –– Mostra della guerra d’amore (L. 170, “Le Défilé Entrée des.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First trade edition, State A, the textual points as outlined in Crane. 8vo. 174 pp. Original green cloth; printed dust jacket. The jacket is a little shorter than the book, as often with the first printings. Crane A13.a.i.
Chicago: S. P. Rounds' Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1861. 8vo. 134 pp, errata leaf at end. 16 (of 17) plates (lacks frontispiece). 20th-century half citron morocco, cloth boards. Moderate browning, heavier on title, discreet blindstamp on title and plates, light wear to extremities. FIRST EDITION of one of.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few.....
Newton, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. 4to (10 x 8 in.). 25 wood engravings by Rosemary Covey, each tipped to mount. Original quarter red goatskin, blue floral-patterned cloth. A fine, fresh copy. FIRST EDITION, number 121 of 200 copies. Printed on Arches mouldmade paper. Bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Laid-in.....
Philadelphia: Barrie, 1903. 8vo. 497pp. Printed on a Japan vellum. Full green crushed levant morocco, gilt ruled and lettered on spine, elaborately inlaid morocco doublures, water silk linings. One lining separated at edge, spine slightly toned, generally fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, one of 26 lettered copies with.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo (21 x 13.6 cm). xvi, [2], 624 pages. Lacks half-title. 2-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece, title, and 38 plates (including the first example of a 'dark plate', and the first use of horizontal plates) by Hablot K. Browne, all etchings except three (those facing.....
Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1976. Folio (335 x 240 mm). Etching by Fulvio Testa. 8pp. Sewn into dark brown Guido Reni Fabriano Roma paper wrappers and bound in stiff marbled covers made by Marcello Fornaro. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 33 of 71 copies signed by the author and artist.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page.
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
Frost's publishers Henry Holt and Company hosted a birthday celebration for the poet at The Waldorf Astoria in New York. The group comprises: Engraved menu on gilt-edged card stock, detailing the five courses and wine served (lightly bowed and soiled). – Mimeograph of attendees, with names and tables identified. Two.....
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut.....
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1963. Large 4to (13.25 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm). 12 double-page gauffraged (embossed without inking) prints. Loose as issued in original soft red morocco portfolio, upper cover with embossed design after Hajdu; original cloth folding case, lettered on spine. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy from.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 8vo. 239 pages. Publisher's blind-stamped terra-cotta cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, dark brown endpapers; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: F. P. Mason (1898 inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, A RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HARTE on the front free endpaper: "Bret Harte / Cleveland, Ohio /.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). 139 pages, 5-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, one full-page illustration in text. Original brown ribbed cloth, covers blindstamped with a floral frame, gilt chair at center of front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, cream coated endpapers. Provenance: William Harvey (booklabel). Second.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Original aquamarine cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, not only did the.....
Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co. for A. Zeehandelaar, 1882. 8vo. 93, [3] pp., advertisements at beginning and end. Folding map by Rand, McNally after E. St. John, "New and Correct Map of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Ry. Popularly known as the Great Rock Island Route,".....
London: Macmillan, 1924. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of Morris by Emery Walker, 16 plates. Original linen-backed blue holland boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. First edition, and a fine copy of this excellent study of the operation and history of the Kelmscott Press. The author was the son-in-law of.....
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 16mo. Full crushed tan morocco with arabesque scrollwork border leaving attractive negative space on both covers by Riviére and Son, spine in six compartments, with five raised bands, four panels ornately gilt and with gilt '1893' at foot of spine, ornate gilt dentelles, light blue.....