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
London: Harvey Miller, 1978. First edition. Folio. 380 black-and-white and color illustrations, including 8 color plates tipped-in as issued. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, and a very fine copy, virtually as issued. This is the first volume of 'A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles,' of... More
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1929]. Second edition, published the year after the first. Folio (12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches). 120 black-and-white photographic plates. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Spine lightly faded, lacks jacket; plate 7 with pale vertical printing defect, otherwise a fresh, clean copy. A... More
London: J. Wilcox, B. Creake, and John Sackfield, 1720. First edition of this spurious adaptation of Boerhaave. 8vo. 328 pp. Contemporary English panelled calf. Provenance: W. Burton (early owner's name in ink on pastedown); some old unobtrusive pencilled marginalia. "One of Boerhaave's pupils published an adaption of his 'Libellus de... More
Boston: J B Millet, 1897. Limited edition, number 445 of 750 copies. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 only (of 10), large folio. Photographic illustrations. Deluxe publisher's binding in Japanese style vari-colored brocaded silk over boards, with tassels and cords. With an essay on Japanese Art by Kakuzo Okakura, Director of... More
Worcester, Mass. Metacom Press, 1982. 8vo. 19, [1]pp. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on cover, gilt-lettered on spine; acetate wrapper. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, letter R of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Carver from an edition of 176. "The Pheasant" was collected in 'Fires... More
New York: Rapoport Printing for Larry Clark, 1971 [but 1979]. 4to. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Slight shelfwear to jacket, front joint slightly rubbed. First edition sheets bound in cloth. SIGNED by the photographer on the title. Clark had copies of this – his first book – bound in cloth... More
Garden City and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. 8vo. 179pp. Title printed in blue and black. Original cream parchment boards gilt, uncut and unopened; dust jacket. Provenance: Rhoda van Bibber Tanner (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, American limited issue, number 150 of 250 copies signed by Conrad. Published ten weeks before... More
New York: Doubleday, 1965. 8vo. 278pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket slightly darkened and with light wear at extremities, pale stain on verso not visible on front; a few letters on spine of cloth slightly rubbed. FIRST EDITION, with the $4.95 sticker on the jacket. Levack 40a. More
Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co. 1850. First edition. 8vo. 878 pp. Folding frontispiece lithographed map by A. Wocher after B. P. Whiting, and 18 single-page maps. Original calf, black morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: signature of an early owner from New Orleans on the pastedown. "This classical contribution to the social... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. 8vo. Half-title. 16, [4] publisher's advertisements at end. 20th-century tree calf, gilt-lettered morocco lettering-piece, original cloth covers mounted as doublures, original spine bound in at end; morocco edged slipcase. A fine copy including the half-title, and additional 2 leaves of advertisements for... More
The Brook, Hammersmith: [London: Hacon & Ricketts] for The Eragny Press, 1900. 8vo. Wood-engraved illustration in black-and-white with a border printed in black and red on p. 3, by Lucien Pissarro, 38 wood-engraved initials in red, designed by Lucien and engraved by Esther Pissarro. Original cloth-backed floral-paper boards, gilt-lettered on... More
Paris: Le Jardin des Modes, [1931]. First edition. A charming illustrated work by the celebrated French children's book illustrator "Francoise" (1897-1961, pseud. of Francoise Seignobosc). The story recounts the opening of Genesis, richly illustrated with images of animals, Adam and Eve, and God. Oblong. Text in French. 13 French-folded leaves... More
![The Free-Thinker Vol I: From Lady-day to Michaelmas, 1718, Sapere Aude, Vol II: From Michaelmas 1718, to Lady-Day 1719, Sapere Aude, Vol III: from Lady-day to Michaelmas, 1719, Sapere Aude. [Three Volumes]. Richard West Dr. Boulter, , Henry Stephens, Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Ambrose Philips.](/pictures/thumb/41902.jpg?v=1467805235)
London: 1722-23. 407 [plus Wrong-Printed], 364, + 305 [plus Corrections page] pp. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. 8vo. 99 pages. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled blue cloth. A fresh, bright copy with slightest of leaning and trivial wear at extremities. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with misprints on pp. 88 and 93. This is Frost's fourth book, and his first to be... More
Paris: Goupil and Manzi, Joyant, 1910. Limited edition, copy number 1 of 500 copies. Folio. Fifty photographic reproductions of Goya's works. Text printed in red and black. Text and plates loose as issued in five printed paper portfolios; half cloth portfolio. Introduction by Paul Lafond. More
Paris: J. Fr Valade, 1784. Two works in one volume, 12mo. 255; 271 pp, with errata leaf at end. Text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco lettering-piece, smooth spine decorated in gilt. A beautifully-designed and printed edition, the Greek and Latin texts of the aphorisms on... More
Paris: Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. 8vo (261 x 195mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc. 18th-century gilt-panelled sprinkled calf. Rebacked; P4 with small tear with loss in corner not affecting... More
New York: 1938-1939. First edition. 39 issues, 7 April 1938 to 29 June 1939. Bound in four volumes, gilt-lettered black cloth, all original covers preserved. A complete run of the short-lived illustrated large-format magazine, known for its controversial and political content. Ken: An Insider's World was founded by David A.... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. 8vo. 393 pp. Illustrated by the author with 10 full-page plates and illustrations in text. Original tan cloth blocked in black. A fine copy with slight toning to spine, lacking the dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KENT to... More
[Circa 1788]. 29 plates (of 40) including title, plates 345 x 220 mm, sheets 495 x 330 mm. Some printed on tinted blue paper. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Plates 26-28 with some pale staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, a rare proof copy before changes to the title. A CHARMING... More
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine. Glassine chipped at corners, toned. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 165 signed by Maas. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED in pencil on the front free endpaper to the playwright and poet Jane Dransfield: "To Jane... More
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al, 1762. First edition. 4to. xxiv, 662, [48] pp. Mezzotint frontispiece portrait by R. Houston after A. Ramsay, five engraved folding plates. Modern half leather. Mead was the physician to Kings George II and III and to Alexander Pope, and was one of... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1902. First edition in German (the first edition in French was published in 1901). Tall 8vo. xi, 456 pp. 45 illustrations in text. Original orange printed wrappers. "A classic study of the mechanisms concerned in specific antibacterial immunity, and one of Metchnikoff’s best works. He was awarded... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 8vo. 952pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near fine copy, the bright jacket with two minor closed tears on the front panel a very pale stain of the fore-edges. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MOSES on the dedication page... More