Dedham, MA: Printed for the Author by H. Mann and J. H. Adams, 1799. 8vo (216 x 130 mm; 8 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.). [9], 513, [3, notes, list of subscribers] pages. Modern calf antique preserving original morocco lettering-piece on spine. A fine copy with a few intermittent foxmarks...
Milan: Fucina Srl, 2004. 8vo. 173 pages. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. Pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED in Italian to famed motorcycle tuner and mechanic Nobby Clark.
[New York]: [Adventures in Poetry], [1971]. 4to. 89 unnumbered leaves, loose as issued in printed manila envelope. FIRST EDITION OF BARTLETT'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, a scarce mimeograph series of poems, including diagramatic illustrations. In 1987, Barlett gave an interview discussing how 'Cleopatra' relates to her paintings. The poem is one...
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1638. 12mo (144 x 85 mm). [12], 518, [1] pages. Woodcut vignette on title, full-page engraved portrait of Badius on **6v. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard. Provenance: Arthur Atherly (1772-1844), English Member of Parliament (bookplate); Edward Heron-Allon (1861-1943), English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works...
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1982]. 12mo. 31, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 61 of 99 copies on Vélin d'Arches (there were also an unspecified number of hors commerce copies), publisher's numbered limitation ticket.
Goldsboro, NC: Published by the State [Nash Brothers, Book and Job Printers]. 1901. First. vol 1: xiv + 783 pp; vol 2: 807 pp; vol 3: 761 pp; vol 4 iv+ 772 pp; vol 5: xxvi + 859 pp. the set contains a number photographic plates and maps.
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Alderley, Australia: Dove Press, 1990. Two volumes, folio. Lavishly illustrated with color photography. Cloth; dust jackets; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, signed by Coates on the titles of both volumes. The first definitive account of the bird life of the country.
London: John Macrone, 1836. First complete edition, preceded by a private, incomplete and probably unauthorized edition containing 9 letters only in 40pp. 8vo. 2p. publisher's ad, 234pp., 6pp. ads. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label. Complete with the half-title and advertisement leaves. Disreali's letters are in part a critique...
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Four volumes, 4to. Original cloth; dust jackets. A fine set. FIRST EDITION of the collected poems of Larry Eigner (1927-1996), containing all of the over 3,070 poems he composed. Scrupulously edited by Robert Grenier and Curtis Faville from the extensive archive of Eigner typescripts at...
London: Faber & Faber, 1986. 4to. 144 pages. Color illustrations, diagrams in text. Black cloth lettered in silver; printed board slipcase. SCARCE DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, number 51 of 150 copies, signed by Eno and Mills on the half-title, and with Mills' original lithograph "Warm Jets" (1985)...
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 8vo. 315pp. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Slight wear at extremities with a few small losses, remnants of an adhesion on the rear wrapper, slightly soiled. FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE PUBLISHER'S ADVANCE IN WRAPPERS OF THE TRADE ISSUE. Petersen...
New York: The Subcutaneous Press, 1979. one of 30 numbered copies. 11-1/4 x 12-1/4. in an unimprinted tan cloth.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page.
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...
![Considerazioni Intorno alla Poesia Degli Ebrei e de i Greci. [Bound with:] Ragionamento in defesa...](/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...
The Hague: Pierre Paupie, 1740. First edition in French. 8vo. Title printed in red-and-black. Two folding engraved plates. Sewn in original plain limp paper boards, lettered in ink on spine, paper shelf label at foot of spine. Provenance: Leo S. Olschi (label on pastedown). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Hales'...
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...
Santa Barbara: Neville Books, 1995. 8vo. 40pp.Original simulated leather. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 26 lettered copies signed by Jackson from an edition of 326.
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...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 8vo. 54 pages. Printed on rectos only. Plain wrappers, with comb binding. SCARCE UNCORRECTED PROOF OF KINNELL'S FIRST BOOK, with the publisher's press sheet stapled to inner front wrapper.
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...
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...
London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly for The Royal Society, 1787. First edition. Thick quarto. 801 pages. 20th-century black buckram, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-70 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats: alphabetically by subject...
Amherst: Fall 1946. 8vo. 60 pp. Stapled in original pink printed wrappers. Wrapper split along spine at top, staples rusted, some light soiling. Edited by James Merrill and William Burford, this was the only issue of The Medusa, the literary journal they founded at Amherst College. This appeared only four...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962. 8vo. Deluxe issue with all of the illustrations colored with watercolors by Parker. Original cloth-backed boards; publisher's slipcase with printed cover label. A fine copy with slightest of wear to the slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, COPY NUMBER 1 from an...