San Diego: Maize, 1983. 8vo, pp. 112; text illustrations, printed paper wrappers; touch of soiling ot covers, else fine. With contributions from J. W. Rivers, Naomi Quiñonez, Etel Adnan, Pancho Aguila (Roberto Solis), Alvaro Menen Desleal, Alurista, Claribel Alegria, Jose Roberto Cea, Juan Armando Epple, Cherrie Moraga, Helena Maria Viramontes..... More
London: J. Coote, 1760. Slim 8vo, pp. 51; early 20th century grey boards, typescript paper spine label (quite toned and partially perished); some spotting throughout, else textblock fine. Lacking portrait plate. In May of the year of this pamphlet's publication, Ferrers, the last member of the House of Lords to..... More
![Item #57258 Mo[ur]ning souls](/pictures/thumb/57258_1.jpg?v=1655835637)
N.p., n.d. [ca. 1820s-30s?]. Narrow broadside (approx. 10" x 4¼"); torn at the top with loss to 2 letters as shown; top also smudged; previous folds, all else good. Words to a popular hymn comprising seven 8-line stanzas beginning: Poor mourning souls in deep distress." Versions of this hymn appeared..... More
Los Angeles: printed for the Friends of the Bookshop of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge at teh Press of William M. Cheney, 1954. 16mo, pp. 11; 1/400 copies, very small stain on lower edge of upper cover, else very good in original green printed wrappers, bound with string. More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1988. 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], i-[vi], 24 [i.e. 17], [4], 416-433; facsimile reprints; original pale grey printed wrappers, "Sexes, battle between" written in pencil at head of upper cover, else fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 248. More
Amsterdam: Gebroeders Diederichs, 1836-1843. Small folios, 6 volumes, text in Dutch, in double column, over 250 wood engravings in each volume; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-ruled spines, calf spine labels; boards rubbed, ocassional foxing and tide stains to text, stamps on title pages papered over, the 1837 volume lacking the..... More
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. Thick 8vo, pp. [2], ii, [4], xxxi, [1], 175, [1], 187, [1], 299; original pig-backed paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, edges uncut; old ink splatters on spine and upper cover, edges rather scuffed, else a very good copy of this..... More
[New York: New Directions, c1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; original bright red cloth, title on spine in white, some wear to extremities and browning to acidic pages, else very good in torn, tattered, and creased dust jacket. Contains Henry Miller's "Obscenity in Literature" and an excerpt from Jack..... More
New York: 1943-1944. 2 volumes, large 4to; illustrations, text printed in double columns; printed staplebound self-wrappers; uniformly toned, shallow chips and tears along edges not affecting text. The earlier issue advertised as the Winter Book Number, and including the first appearance of Henry Miller's "Another Open Letter," a follow-up to..... More
Amsterdam: Henry Desbordes, 1687. 6 volumes in 1, thick 16mo, pp. 693, [1]; continuous paging; 2 folding plates, illustrations in the text; later marbled boards, gilt-tooled calf spine, later red accession label at the top; shelf wear and rubbing to boards; interior fine. "Errata pour décembre 1686" on title page..... More
Vich, (Catalonia): estampa de R. Anglada, 1871. Broadside approx. 12¼" x 8½" in double column beneath a running head and woodcut; some chips in the margins, else very good. OCLC locates only the copy at the University of Navarra. This is also the earliest of the Anglada imprints cited... More
London: J.C. Nimmo & Bain, 1881. 12 volumes, 8vo, 48 original etchings of R. de Los Rios; a fine set in half red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettering in 2, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g. Contains Don Quixote (trans. by Motteux, ed. by..... More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1955. 8vo, pp. v, 58, [2]; facsimile reprint, introduction printed from typescript; original brown printed wrappers (very lightly soiled), near fine. Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 52. More
[N.p. Stone Press, 1971]. Long 4to, pp. 11, [1]; text printed from typescript; original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; top 2 inches bent and worn, upper cover starting to detach; a fair copy only. Poetry collection in memory of the 19 men, women, and children who were killed by the Colorado..... More
Worcester: S.A. Howland, 1851. 24mo, pp. 126; additional chromolithograph title page by Geo. Snyder, New York, woodcut tail pieces; publisher's brown blind- and gilt-tooled binding, a.e.g., yellow endpapers, box-ruled text; top and bottom of spine a bit rubbed, contemporary pencil inscription, occasional foxing, a very good copy. This edition not..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, ca. 1812. Thin 24mo, pp. [24];engraved title page, woodcut illustrations; original stiff tan wrappers (minor soiling to back cover), a few short chips, last quire partially unopened; about fine. The illustrations are redrawn cuts with a similar design to The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1860s. Bifolium, 16mo; illustration, p. [1] printed within green decorative borders; heavy spotting, else fine. "Little Messengers No. 2" printed at bottom of p. [1]. Religious tract concerning the piety of Josiah, the "Jewish prince" More
[WINNIPEG?]: 1887. Slim 8vo, 15pp.; extremities rubbed, covers slightly soiled, else very good in grey paper-covered boards, black cloth spine. More
Glasguae: in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1752. Small 8vo, pp. [4], 151, [1]; contemporary speckled calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; slight darkening of the spine, otherwise very good and sound. Gaskell 237. More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, [1860s]. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 116; chromolithograph frontispiece and title page, printed title page in red and black, mounted half-page chromolithograph plates throughout; t.e.g., contemporary full red morocco, gilt panels on cover and spine; spine neatly and sympathetically rebacked, very good. Not in Faxon..... More
[New York]: Random House, 1929. Edition limited to 475 sets printed in Silvermine, Conn., each designed, printed and made by Paul Johnston; tall 8vo, each poem in separate printed wrapper, stitched, as issued, and enclosed in a yellow printed paper chemise; lacking the publisher's box, but otherwise fine throughout. Includes..... More
London: Longman, [et. al.]. 1859-1861. 2 volumes, royal 8vo; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, small cracks in hinges, extremities and spines rubbed and chipped, small crack in lower joint and spine of vol. II, covers slightly scuffed, else a good, sound copy in contemporary quarter brown morocco..... More
Boston, Toronto, London: Little Brown and Company, [1992]. First edition, 4to, pp. [32]; 13 full-page color illustrations by Mosher; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed on the title page: "For Kim Merker / B. Mosher." More
N.p. [1948]. 4to, 110-[112]pp., illus. with photographs, maps, & charts, with a printed insert, "To our Friends..." In original purple paper-covered boards, cover a bit faded, else a good copy. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1979. 8vo, pp. 193-275; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original tan wrappers, fine; publisher's advertisement in the back. Contents include "Voyage to Ithaca: William Carlos Williams in Paris" by Noel Riley Fitch; "A Dandy's Diary: The Manuscripts of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson" by Robert Viscusi; and..... More
