Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. Folio. 50 pages. 31 tritone photographs by Edwin Smith. Original cloth, wood-engraving by Smith on covers; slipcase. Number 236 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. Set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville, printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made paper. Smith's images were made in the 1950s.....
London: Calder and Boyars, 1968. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. First UK edition, simultaneous paperback issue, signed by Burroughs on the title-page. This was Burrough's fourth novel, and the last of the trilogy originally published by Olympia in Paris. The British edition, like Grove Press's 1967 US edition, was an extensively.....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell [III]; William Ross [IV], 1796-98. The third and fourth volumes of the collected laws of the United States. Together two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the "first collected laws of the United States and including the acts of Congress still in force passed by.....
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New York: James Parker [I]; William Weyman [II], 1752; 1762. Together two volumes, folio. Vol. 1: Title, 3-page list of subscribers, Preface [i-iii], 1-488, Errata leaf. Vol. 2: [1], [1], [3], 268 pages. Contemporary calf, leather spine labels on volume 1 (one a modern replacement). Provenance: Swann Galleries, 21 October.....
Brooklyn: John Hutchings, 1857. Small folio. Title-page, facsimile of accounts throughout, lithographed by Boell & Michelin. Original half black leather, brown cloth, front cover gilt-lettered and with gilt portrait of Washington at center. Covering the period from June 1775 to June 1783, these records detail Washington's day-to-day expenditures in his.....
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1839. 8vo. 24 pages. Stitched, unopened. SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS on the front wrapper: "President Adams with the best respects of Edward Everett." After his presidency, Adams was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1831-48). Everett had been.....
New York: Thomas P. Low, 1818. 12mo. [2], [3]-9 pages. Stitched. The report marks the importance of the movement of certain land owners against the plan adopted by the Corporation for "regulating the surface of the ground of that village... as it soon will become united to, and make a......
Washington, D. C. A. & C. Way, 1808. Folio. 8 pages. Three large folding tables. Disbound. The report, soon after the establishment of the Navy Pension Fund in 1808, under the direction of Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith. Showing: the amount of stock on the books of the treasury.....
Philadelphia: Reprinted, by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759. 8vo. iv, 43 pages. Disbound. Provenance: Jacob Lunig (1760 inscription on last blank). First American edition of this Quaker tract, originally published in London in 1648. The Society of Friends of Philadelphia requested Overseers Anthony Benezet and John Reynell to arrange.....
![Benjamin Franklin's mock epitaph]. In: An Astronomical Diary, or Almanack for the Year of our...](/pictures/thumb/408164.jpg?v=1635172032)
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
New York: J. H. Colton, 1844. 12mo. iv, 112 pages. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance: library stamp on title, manuscript identification on text leaf. An early guidebook to the United States Military Academy, with map.
Roxbury, Massachusetts: Printed for W. Elliot Woodward, 1865-66. Two volumes, small 4to. Later half blue morocco, fore and bottom edges uncut. First editions, each of 250 copies from an edition of 303. By Philadelphia numismatist, philologist and translator (1838-1895), for many years either secretary, curator or librarian of the American.....
New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1792. Two volumes, 8vo. [4], 511; [4], 521, [15] pages. Woodcut arms on titles. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines with red and black gilt labels and gilt floral ornaments, gilt roll on edges. An unusually attractive set of Greenleaf's octavo edition of the laws of New York.....
Liancourt: Bernard Dumerchez, 2007. Folio (25.25 x 14.5 inches; 640 x 368 mm). The complete portfolio with etching with aquatint printed in colors. Loose as issued in original portfolio; original cloth folding case, titled on top and spine. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 63 copies SIGNED BY NOËL AND WOU-KI.....
Washington, D. C. Published by the Editor; Philadelphia: William S. Martien; New York: Baker & Scribner and William S. Martien, 1847. Folio. Half-title: "Farmers’ Souvenir. Washington’s Agricultural Correspondence." 198 pages, including facsimiles. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 4 plates and one map. SIGNED AMERICAN BINDING by D. W. Gihon, Philadelphia, dark brown.....
![The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-56 [and] Waging Peace, 1956-61. Dwight D. EISENHOWER](/pictures/thumb/408137.JPG?v=1630510923)
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Together two volumes, 8vo. 650; 741 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth; acetate wrappers; publisher's slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited editions, each boldly signed by Eisenhower. Numbers 326 and 375 of 1,434 copies. The President's in depth account of his first administration.
London: Karsten Schubert, 1991. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. 6 folding or double-page hand-colored etchings with aquatint by Howard Hodgkin (including endpapers), tissue guards. Original boards, hand-painted dust jacket, extending on to flaps, acetate guards, original tissue wrapper, with publisher original cardboard mailing box. Number 105 of 200 copies signed by.....
New York: Hudson Hills Press / Whitney Museum, 1983. 13 x 12 inches. 244 pages. With an original screenprint signed and numbered in pencil by Nevelson laid-in to box. The book profusely illustrated. Original cloth; acetate jacket (some light wrinkling as usual). Housed in a box with black polyester resin.....
Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Books, 2000. Broadsheet title-page, 22.25 x 18 inches, 22 black-and-white silver gelatin prints, each tipped to mount and matted, signed and numbered in pencil by Gelberg on the verso of the photos and the matt, the photos 11 x 8.5 inches on 14 x 11 inch sheets.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. xix, 58 pages. Original quarter blue cloth, decorated paper boards; printed blue dust jacket. First edition of Crane's first book, first issue with Allen Tate’s name misspelled (“Allan”) on the title-page. One of only 500 copies printed of the total edition (inclusive of.....
![Du Côté de Chez Swann [Swann's Way]. Marcel PROUST](/pictures/thumb/407620.jpg?v=1630510174)
Paris: Grasset, 1913. 8vo. 523 pages, 8-page publisher's advertisement at end (unopened). Original pale yellow printed wrappers, untrimmed. Purple morocco chemise and slipcase (some light rubbing in a few spots). First edition, first printing of the first volume in Proust’s 'À la Recherche du Temps Perdu' ('In Search of Lost Time,'.....
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1958. Square 8vo. [12] pages. Printed in red and black, on rectos only. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label. One of only 100 copies in this binding, from an edition of 300, signed by Baskin and Hecht.....
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Folio (13 x 10 inches). Wood engraved portrait of Owen by Baskin after a drawing by Ben Shahn (with an extra proof copy, see below), and illustrations by Shahn in text. Half brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine; board slipcase. One of 35 copies with.....
North Andover, Mass. Kat Ran Press, 1997. 4to (11 x 8 inches). [24] leaves including initial and terminal blanks. Seven original "smoke" drawings by Gohde. Red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; matching red cloth clamshell case. Number 35 of 50 copies (an additional 15 were not for sale). Printed on.....
Mississippi: Hoopsnake Press, 1992. Folio (15 x 11 inches). The text illustrated with woodcut prints. Portfolio with 11 prints, comprising one black and red print; 9 black-and-white woodcuts, tipped to mounts and each titled, numbered, signed in pencil by the artist; and one folding triptych mounted on inner rear cover.....
