![We climbed the impossible peak. [Extract from The Saturday Evening Post, June 28, 1947.]. FRITZ...](/pictures/thumb/27658_1.jpg?v=1498256239)
First-hand account of the first ascent of Yosemite's Lost Arrow. This magazine article is cropped and laid into an hand-made octavo volume of 23 leaves, including 5 illustrations (1 folding), bound in blue cloth with neat, hand-lettered front cover and spine, the binding almost certainly done by Lawrence W. Swan..... More
Yeovil: Western Gazette &c. Co., Ltd., 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 297; orig. blue cloth, gilt title on spine, very good. More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First American Edition, 8vo, pp. 250; early owner's signature on front free endpaper, dated 1953, a very good, attractive copy in original black cloth, lightly worn & price-clipped dust jacket. Stott A75. More
London: Alston Rivers, 1905. First edition of Milne's first book; 12mo, pp. vi, 7-125, [3]; original green cloth stamped in red on upper cover and spine; binding a bit dull and with a few stains; a good, sound copy. A novel in which an American girl and an English boy..... More
London: William Collins, 1944. First edition, 8vo, 47-[48]pp., 8 color plates and 20 illustrations in black & white; extremities slightly rubbed, otherwise very good in jacket with creased & somewhat darkened spine. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1949]. 8vo, pp. [4], 314; fine copy in a red, price-clipped dust jacket with creases at the top of the spine and a short tear entering the top hinge. More
Minneapolis: Vermillion Editions, 1987. Edition limited to 40 copies consisting of 5 printer's proofs and 35 in the edition (this, copy no. 11); 4to, [10] unbound sheets printed on rectos only, and contained in a black cloth-covered portfolio with printed paper label on spine and pictorial pastedown on upper cover..... More
Munich and New York: Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co., [1879]. Small folio, pp. 55, [1]; 5 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout by Alexander Liezen Mayer, many of them full page, decorative borders by Rudolf Seitz; original red pebbled-grain cloth with red morocco spine, elaborate gilt design on cover..... More
Kyoto: 1823. Early edition of a collection of Japanese ballads by the Heian poet and musician Senmaru. 3 vols, pp. [24]; [27]; [27]; 9 double-page color woodblock images by Akatsuki no Kanenari, plus a few single-page illustrations; stab bound, yellow stiff paper wrappers; string broken, cover label on third volume..... More
London: William Pickering [printed for private distribution], 1851. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. 114, [1]; title printed in red and black; handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham; presentation copy to George B. Blake from George Peabody on the front free endpaper copy; top of spine chipped, bottom of spine and extremities..... More
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1928. First edition, 4to, 2 vols; 557 illustrations; pictorial endpapers; original dark green cloth with gilt title on spine; head and tail of spine worn, bookplate on endpaper verso, very good. Signed and inscribed by Tilney to a fellow doctor on flyleaf. "A classic study..... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. First edition limited to 4000 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 216, [1]; original cloth in grey pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, spine ends quite rubbed, some shelf wear to jacket edges; contemporary ownership inscription and later bookplate on front pastedown, rubberstamp on front free endpaper; very..... More
New York: The Poetry Project, 1969. Staple-bound mimeo magazine; 14" x 8.5"; pp. [100]; text on rectos only, illustrated paper covers by Donna Dennis; dampstains throughout text on edge, bleeding into the text significantly in later pages. With contributions from Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Lewis Warsh, Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga..... More
Hartford: privately printed [at the Sherwood Press], 1905. First edition ltd to 225 numbered copies, 8vo, pp. 45, [3]; original green cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine; very slightly rubbed, else a fine copy. A scarce Wilde title, written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize while at Oxford..... More
Tubac, AZ: Gary A. Wisdom, 2008. Edition limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. 4to, pp. 160; original boards in pictorial dust jacket; fine. Laid in is a thank you note from the author. A catalog of the author's personal collection with 65 accompanying color images. None in OCLC..... More
