New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo. 162 pp. Black-and-white photographs on 32 leaves. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy with slight and minor wear at extremities of jacket, not price-clipped, fresh and bright. Owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of this classic... More
[Milan, 1782]. Large folio (585 x 430 mm). 24 engraved ornamental illustrations by Giacomo Mercoli after Giocondo Albertolli (the last 4 on 2 plates), all with fine contemporary coloring, contemporary blue tissue guards. Contemporary Italian gilt-paneled sprinkled calf, artist's name gilt-lettered on covers. Some light staining to covers, a generally fine... More
Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1988. Bifolium. Illustrated by Joe Hicks. Original marbled wrappers by Faith Harrison. A fine copy. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1 of 15 copies designated presentation copies signed by Carver, from an edition of 70. This poem first appeared in the journal Caliban. More
London: Macmillan, 1906. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. A very good copy of Churchill's celebrated biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. With a contemporary inscription from W.G. Raley: "A Souvenr of the Barnsley uncontested Election 1906." Cohen A17.1. Woods A8a. Langworth, 68-71. More
London: Rees & O'Neill, 2004. Small 4to. 22, [1]pp. Original cloth; fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 36 of 75 copies signed by the author from an edition of 87. Coetzee was the fifth African writer to win the Nobel in Literature. More
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... More
New York: Salamander Editions, [1954]. 4to (140 x 107 mm; 5½ x 4¼ in.). 10 pages. Engraved vignette, small color image of the Manhattan skyline mounted on last page; original blue tissue preserved. Stapled in original printed wrappers. A virtually untouched example in a custom folding case. Provenance: Sylvia Pedlar... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Limited large-paper edition, number 424 of 650 sets. 6 volumes, tall 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). Plates after Flaxman's drawings, the frontispieces each in two states: colored and uncolored. Contemporary brown three-quarter morocco, marbled boards, spines in six compartments in five... More
![Considerazioni Intorno alla Poesia Degli Ebrei e de i Greci. [Bound with:] Ragionamento in defesa delle considerazioni Sopra il Libro della Maniera di Ben Pensare]. Biagio GAROFALO.](/pictures/thumb/402992.jpg?v=1539106810)
Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1707. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 171 mm). Roman and Hebrew types. Half-title. xvi, 61, [1]; 131 pp. Two woodcut initials, woodcut device on title. 18th-century Italian vellum over pasteboard. Some pale spotting, first few leaves with marginal dampstain and a few small marginal... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. Single leaf, removed from the book. 6½ x 5 inches. A FINE NOTE MENTIONING MAYAKOVSKY AND FRANK O'HARA, WITH A DRAWING, presented to the British actor, author and filmmaker Herbert Marshall (1906-1991). Beneath the title Ginsberg draws the figure of Buddha's footprint: "Three fish with... More
London: [Printed in Switzerland by Lichtdruck AG, Dielsdorf, Zurich for Sam Haskins, 67 Glebe Place], [1972]. Folio. 31 photographs. Deluxe gold-leaf over boards, title cartouche on front cover, white-lettered on leather spine. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 92 of 1500 copies signed by Haskins. Frequently found in wrappers, the work... More
Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pages. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. A fine copy with one small pale stain on the spine. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with pages 37-39 printed. “114 Songs [was] privately printed and distributed without copyright... More
London: T. Davies, J. Newbery and T. Payne, 1767. Two volumes, 12mo (171 x 101 mm). Contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces. Some spotting and browning. Third edition. Courtney and Smith, p. 83-84. More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Large 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ in.). 382 pages. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Henri Matisse, tipped in. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton; printed slipcase. A fine copy, the... More
Washington, D.C. 2 July 1957. Mechanically reproduced typescript. 15 pages on 8 leaves, 4to, letterhead of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Stapled. Kennedy opens his remarks to the President: "The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor capitalism, neither the H-Bomb nor... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme et al, 1834. Fourth edition in English. 8vo. xliv, 676 pp. Two plates. Contemporary half cloth. "This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper)... More
Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [D. H. Kahnweiler], 1925. 4to (250 x 200 mm). 7 lithographs by Masson, including that for the cover. Original printed wrappers; original glassine. Some wear and a few short tears to glassine, remnants of owner’s label on front free endpaper. LEIRIS’S FIRST BOOK, AND... More
Vicenza: Giacomo Amadio, 1668. 2 parts in one volume, thick 8vo (215 x 158 mm; 81/2 x 61/4 in.). [16], 466, [6] pages; [12], 376 pages. Two etched and engraved titles and 15 folding plates by Jacopo Ruffoni. Contemporary vellum. An entirely original copy, unrestored, the binding worn and with... More
New Haven: [NY: The Thistle Press for] Holland Roberts Melson Jr, 1958. 8vo (217 x 135 mm; 8½ x 5¼ in.). 94, [1] pages. Original pictorial boards with a portrait of Lustig on the front cover by Maya Deren; original glassine. A fresh and bright copy, the corners and spine... More
circa early 1990s. Autograph note signed ("Jimmy") to Charles Crawford, n.p., circa early 1990s, in folded printed Christmas card from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5 x 4 inches, reproduction of the color lithograph by Wiener Wernstätte artist Valerie Petter, ca. 1910, with original envelope with name "Charles" in Merrill's... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Two volumes, 8vo. 21 color plates by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original tan niger, morocco lettering-pieces; French-folded glassine wrappers; publisher's marbled slipcase. An unusually fine copy in original, unrestored condition. THE NONESUCH PRESS DON QUIXOTE, number 1417 of 1475 copies, printed by Walter Lewis, Printer to... More
Haarlem: Izaak Enschedé, 1731 [later impressions]. 4to in 8s (240 x 190 mm). Wood-engraved title (incorporating a portrait of Laurens Jansz. Koster) and 58 small wood engravings. Original blue wrappers; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Bibliothek Wünsch (label on front wrapper); Joseph Wünsch (1964 bookplate); acquired in 1985. A very rare edition... More
Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, an XI [1802-1803]. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a.... More
![Extrait des registres de l'académie royale des sciences. Du 22 Novembre 1786. Rapport des Commissaires chargés ... de l'examen du projet d'un nouvel Hôtel-Dieu. [Bound with:] Troisième rapport. Antoine Laurent PARIS – LAVOISIER, other authors.](/pictures/thumb/403055.jpg?v=1539106819)
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1786, 1788. 4to (235 x 188 mm). 128, vi pp. Folding table. 20th-century leather-backed boards. Some intermittent pale foxing. Provenance: occasional ink annotations in a contemporary hand supplementing the information provided in the text; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp); later pencil... More
![Mémoire sur la nécessité de transférer et reconstruire l'hôtel-dieu de Paris, suivi d'un projet de translation de cet hôpital. [Bound with:] Supplément au mémoire. PARIS –, Claude Philibert COQUÉAU, Bernard POYET.](/pictures/thumb/403054.jpg?v=1539106818)
[Paris]: 1785-1786. 4to (231 x 183 mm). 44pp. Three large folding engraved plates. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Intermittent foxing. Provenance: with contemporary ink annotations in French on the title identifying designers of other plans; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and plates, duplicate stamp); Louis Greenbaum (bookplate). [BOUND WITH:]... More