Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies, this one of 75 on Mohawk Letterpress and marked "binder's copy" on the colophon; 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 42, [4]; portrait frontispiece, 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol, facsimile of LeBonheur, printed with Goudy's own... More about A Goudy memoir: essays by and about America's great type designer Frederic W. Goudy. With...

Paris: Société d' Éditions, 1924. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], 194; full-p. map, 44 photographic plates showing 121 illustrations; original gray wrappers printed in black and red bound in; both wrappers reinforced on blank versos at the margins, very good in ca. 1968-75 Vietnamese half red morocco with gilt-lettered spine. More about Les races du Haut-Tonkin de Phong-Tho à Lang-Son. Préface de M. Paul Pelliot

London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 130 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 116; [4]; 12 photographic prints of paper cuts; blue cloth, gilt title direct on cover and spine, t.e.g., bookplate, owner's signature on upper endpaper, light sunning to edges and spine, very good... More about Few are chosen: studies in the theatrical lighting of life's theatre

New York: Harper & Bros. 1843. First American edition, thick 8vo, [4] & 1352pp., text in double column, illus. in text throughout; a good, sound copy in publisher's full sheep, gilt-lettered morocco label and fillets on spine. With an added Preface by Harper & Bros., who in the same year... More about A dictionary of science, literature, and art: containing the history, description, and scientific...

Novi-Portus (New Haven): sumtibus H. Howe, et Collins & Hannay, Novi-Eboraci (New York), 1832. 12mo, pp. [4], 260; contemporary full calf, black morocco label; some wear but generally very good. The Preface is signed J.L.K. (James Luce Kingsley). "The text of this edition … with a few inconsiderable exceptions, is... More about M. Tullii Ciceronis. Ad quintum fratrem dialogi tres de oratore. Cum excerptus ex notis variorum

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. [2], 93, [3]; folding color map of the world, 5 charts (1 folding, 2 double-p.), 15 plates; fine, bright copy in a very slightly chipped jacket. Account of the exploits of the British Navy in World War I. More about The British Navy at war

La Haye: Adrian Moetjens, 1710. 2 volumes in 1, 12mo, pp. [16], 254, 320; woodcut printer's devices, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary mottled armorial calf stamped in gilt, gilt-tooled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco spine label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; edges a bit scuffed and rubbed... More about Histoire de la ligue faite a Cambray, entre Jules II. Pape, Maximilien I. empereur, Louis XII....

London: William Pickering, 1847. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xviii, 265-[266]; engraved frontispiece portrait, title-page with Pickering device, title-page and text throughout within ruled borders; a very good copy in 3/4 black morocco and marbled paper-covered boards by Riviere, elaborately gilt spine with raised bands, minor wear to extremities, offsetting... More about The life of Mrs. Godolphin… Now first published and edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford,...

London: John Murray, 1818. First edition of the author's first book, 2 vols., 4to, pp. [iii]xvi, 530, [1]; [iii]-vii, [1], 654, [1]; bound without half-titles in contemporary full calf with large blindstamped arabesques central on all covers, gilt and blindstamped rolls at the borders, gilt-decorated spines. black morocco labels; joints... More about View of the state of Europe during the Middle Ages. In two volumes

Chicago: Poole Bros. 1894. Only edition, 8vo, pp. 124; frontispiece portrait and 39 halftones (a number full-p.); original pictorial brown cloth stamped in silver; a fine copy, enhanced by a long presentation from the author to an old teacher, dated Nov. 20, 1912. Also, with a 1 page autograph letter... More about A cruise in the Mediterranean or glimpses of the old world through the eyes of a business man of...

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First trade edition, with additional material over that of the limited edition of 1923; 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 358; folding frontispiece and over 200 illustrations throughout; previous owner's inscription else a fine copy in original brown cloth gilt, t.e.g. More about Papermaking through eighteen centuries

n.p. [Minneapolis?]: n.d. [ca. 1943-44]. Original corrected 229-page typescript of Manfred's first novel, likely used as the setting copy by the publishers, Webb Publishing Company of Saint Paul, with numerous typographical notes as to typesize, fonts, picas, etc. and also containing many what we assume to be last minute corrections..... More about The golden bowl

{Paris]: Deux-Rives, 1947. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, 4to, pp. 395, [2]; 24 color lithograph plates after watercolors, title-page vignette printed in brick red depicting Miller with a penis for a nose, illustrations printed in brick red throughout text ; the text signatures and plates unbound and housed in... More about Tropique du Cancer. Lithographies en couleurs de Timar