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[Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984]. 23" x 16" broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on coffee-colored paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text..... More
[n.p. (China)]: n.d. Accordion Chinese binding, 18.9 x 12cm., 5 double page color images on cloth backed by thick card; tan sheep covered boards slightly worn, paper title label on upper board. Some staining at edges of images caused by application of paint to edges. Very good. This album of..... More
![Iraçéma the Honey-Lips a legend of Brazil by J. De Alencar [and] Manuel de Moraes the convert....](/pictures/thumb/30536_1.jpg?v=1511377922)
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First edition in English of both of these novellas, translated by the Burtons during their stay in Sao Paulo in the late 1860's, but not published until later; 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 138; original printed wrappers; one small chip from the top outer corner of..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1863. 8vo, pp. x, [2], 451, 32 (Bentley ads); title-p. printed in red and black; frontispiece portrait, folding map, 10 wood-engraved and/or lithograph plates plus other illus. in the text; generally a fine copy in orig. terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Big game hunting in..... More
New York: Whisper Shit Press, 1966. 4to, pp. 86; illustrated; staple-bound in yellow pictorial wrappers; wear along edges and cover, stain along bottom fore-edge and lower cover; a few tears along the spine; very good. Includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Clarence Major, Douglas Blazek and Harvy Tucker, among others. Also..... More
London: Trubner & Co., 1878. Second edition "enlarged and improved," 4to, pp. xii, 147 plus 34 plates bound in at the rear (a number folding); colored frontispiece map; a near fine copy in orig. brown cloth gilt. Burnell (1840-1882) was "a very eminent Sanskrit scholar and high authority on the..... More
Venetiis: Silvestrum Gatti, 1790. 8vo, pp. 332 [i.e. 432]; [*]2 A-3H4; woodcut printer's device and intials, text in triple column; 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards recently rebacked, red and black gilt spine labels; boards a bit scuffed, else about fine. With the engraved heraldic bookplates of Edward, William Edward, and Robert..... More
New York: Pantheon Books for the Bollingen Foundation, 1961. Third printing, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 416; plates and illustrations throughout; fine in publisher's cloth; dust jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed at rear panel; very good. With a gift inscription on the front free endpaper, beneath which is the author's inscription..... More
London: John Henry Parker, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 93; 88 wood-engraved plates; very good, sound copy in original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine, t.e.g. More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. First edition, 8vo., frontis., very good in original blue cloth boards. More
Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell: Oxford and Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1928. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 185; a fine, largely unopened copy in original black cloth-backed blue and gold patterned boards, preserving the original printed dust-jacket (with the Houghton Mifflin imprint) which is..... More
Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1908. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 184; pages browning else very good in original half red cloth over marbled boards, leather label on spine scuffed. The first 68pp. provide a good history of what is now Vietnam, and the balance is a summary of the active..... More
Paris: Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1867. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, 459; [4], 410; portrait frontispiece; extremities slightly rubbed, covers slightly soiled, else very good or better in contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spines, t.e.g. A dictionary of clubs including literary, dramatic, musical and Bacchanalian..... More
[New York]: Liveright, [1930]. First edition, 1 of 525 numbered copies signed by Dreiser and Davis, folio, pp. [10, introduction]; 20 plates with accompanying text; original quarter cloth, covers gilt and silver, black paper covered slipcase, printed paper label; covers lightly rubbed, else fine in somewhat worn slipcase. More
Toronto: The ... Board of Religious Education .. Church of England in Canada, [1979]. Spiralbound booklet, 7 x 5 inches, pp. vi, 97, [1]; hymns in Cree syllabics, headings in English; green paper covers; edges faded, else very good. Reprint of the first edition of 1954, with identical pagination and..... More
New York: Manufacturers Aircraft Association, 1919. First edition of the first of many Aircraft Year Books; 8vo, pp. 398; 3 folding color maps, numerous half-tone illustrations throughout; old United Aviation Services rubberstamp on front free endpaper, with ownership signature, spine a little worn, else a very good copy in original..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., [1922]. First English edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 386, [6] ads; very good, sound copy in original blue cloth lettered in orange; scarce. Bruccoli A8.2.a: "Varies from the first Scribner's printing in some 700 readings, of which 82 are substantive; 134 lines are omitted..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1926. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 426; illus. throughout; fine copy in the jacket. Inscribed on the half title: "Vol. I of the series. Hamlin Garland. Inscribed for Chas. Manly Westland, Nov. 11- 37." The third of four books in the Middle Border series on life in..... More
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1858. 4to, pp. [4], xvi, 42, [2], lxviii; woodcut frontispiece, illustrated throughout, 4 in color; original blue cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; minor shelf wear, a bit foxed, overall a very good copy. More
Amsterdam & Leiden: Gerrit de Groot en Zoon and Samuel en Johannes Luchtmans, 1771. First edition, 4to, [6] & iv & 10 & 1062pp., title page printed in red and black, text in triple column, contemporary calf-backed speckled paper-covered boards, rubbed, paper flaw front endpaper; very good or better. From..... More
v.p. 1863-89. 8vo, all in wrappers or self-wrappers, all with presentation inscriptions from Jessen to George Stephens. Includes three titles on the rune stones, one on orthography and several others on grammar and language. More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, [1941]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 181; on p. [183] is a tipped in publication slip with the note "Limitad [sic] Edition 500 copies printed;" fine copy in the jacket. The author was Hearn's last student in the Imperial University of Tokyo who 39 years later..... More
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1835-45. 11 volumes, 8vo, original pink printed wrappers; generally fine. First published in seven volumes 1815-22. Volume I: Introduction et Infusoires; II: Histoire des polypes; III: Radiaires, vers, insectes; IV: Histoire des insects; V: Arachnides, crustacés, annelides, cirrhipèdes; VI-X: Histoire des mollusques; XI: Histoire des mollusques et..... More
Sulphur, Okla. A. Abbott, 1908. First edition, 12mo, pp. 152; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, light toning, some soiling to extremities, corners and spine ends chipped, else a very good, sound copy in original beige pictorial wrappers. Author is a pseudonym; a collection of stories based on the experiences..... More
getrucht zu [Johann von] Kaisersheim, 1608. Small 4to, pp. [2], 120 [i.e. 124], [2]; title within a woodcut border, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full blind-stamped pigskin incorporating a central panel on the upper cover of a sword-wielding regent, and another of his lady on the lower; ties perished; very..... More
