Small Wonders: Late Gothic Boxwood Microcarvings from the Low Countries
Amsterdam: Rikjsmuseum, 2017. Small 8vo. Printed boards. FIRST EDITION. Designed by Irma Boom. More
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![The Holy Office. A Hawkhurst Manuscript [Calligraphic Manuscript]. James JOYCE, Joseph VOGEL.](/pictures/thumb/404442.jpg?v=1544303335)
The Holy Office. A Hawkhurst Manuscript [Calligraphic Manuscript]
Columbus, Ohio: 1980. 8vo. Calligraphic manuscript on 14 leaves, rectos only. Original wrappers with calligraphic title; with titled envelope. Numer 30 of 36 copies of this handsome calligraphic manuscript. Includes the text of Joyce's "The Holy Office" (published Trieste, 1905), and a design for the title. More
Geek Love.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First. [348] pp. reviewer's number stamped on front ep else very good with a nice bright d.j. spine of d.j. is not faded. More
Hawkweed: Poems.
Random House, 1967. 185 pp. nearly fine with price clipped d.j. More
The Houseguest.
Little, Brown, 1988. First English. 240 pp. More
For W. H. Auden: February 21, 1972
Random House, 1972. one of 500 copies. Special commemorative. 146 pp. More
East is East.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First English. 364 pp. More
Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
Viking, 1984. First. 353 pp. More
The Negro College Graduate
Negro Universities Press, 1969. More
A Year of Prophesying
Macmillan, 1925. First. More
Who Lost an American?
Macmillan, 1963. First. More
Family and Friends.
Pantheon, 1984. First. 187 pp. More
The Rarer Action: Essays in Honor of Francis Fergusson
Rutgers University Press, 1970. First. 384 pp. More
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 7 volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. Vol. I: Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems. Vol. II: Boethius and Troilus; Vol. III: House of Fame; Legend of Good Women; Astrolabe; Sources of Canterbury Tales. Vol. IV: The Canterbury Tales (Text). Vol. V: The Canterbury... More
The Alhambra
London: Macmillan, 1896. Royal 8vo. 12 lithographs by Joseph Pennell, other illustrations in text. Original red cloth, printed paper label on spine, untrimmed. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 large-paper copies. One of Pennell's best-known and -executed series of illustrations. More
The Women's Department. It's Organization and Operation in a Modern Bank
New York: Bankers Publishing Company, 1924. 8vo. 120 pages. 13 plates. Original grey boards, printed labels on cover and spine; printed dust jacket. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, encouraging the use of dedicated women’s departments in banks and providing a history of the women's department, its layout, office equipment and space, functions... More
Synopsis and nosoloty, being an arrangement and definition of diseases
Springfield, Massachusetts: Edward Gray for Nathaniel Patten, 1793. 8vo in half-sheets (149 x 82 mm). xxxiv, 80 pages. Half-title. Contemporary sheep, morocco lettering-piece. John Miller (near-contemporary owner's inkstamp at head of title). Second edition, after the first edition of the previous year. An abridged translation of the "Genera morborum" from... More
A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, A Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbour in 1773. By a Citizen of New-York
New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834. 8vo. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece of Hewes. 209 pages. Original salmon muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION. Hewes (1742-1840) fought in the Revolution as a Patriot. Howes T-152 (calling for 206 pages). More
Mirrors Messages Manifestations
New York: Aperture, 1982. Square folio. Cloth; dust jacket. Second edition. More
Amores, edente Petro Scriverio, inscripti Th. Graswinckelio, equiti
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... More
Cato's Moral Distichs Reproduced from the edition printed in Philadelphia in 1735 by Benjamin Franklin
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie for The Book Club of California, 1939. 8vo. 11, [4], [24] pages. Original green cloth. Provenance: Carl E, Menugin, (inscription and collector's chopmarks on front free endpaper, laid-in material [see below]). A FINE LEAF BOOK, one of 250 copies, including a leaf from Franklin's edition of... More
Vue Imprenable: Essay on the World of Folon
Rome: Franca May Edizioni, 1975. Folio. Photographs by the author. Original cloth; dust jacket; acetate; slipcase. FIRST EDITION. More
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street.
Dial, 1979. First. 441 pp. More
Arnold of the Ducks.
Harper and Row, 1983. First. More