[Edinburgh: 1793.]. Small 8vo, p. 16; removed. Letters to the Edinburgh Evening Courant by Quid nunc, jun. on the reform of certain societies, among them the physicians, tanners, painters, musicians, brewers, gardeners, weavers, bakers, shipmasters, booksellers, glaziers, etc. , and another to the same signed Common Sense. Includes the resolutions..... More
[London: Punch Office], 1928. 4to, pp. liv; plain and color plates of cartoons and advertisements; original pictorial staplebound wrappers detached but present, edges toned, textblock about fine. A holiday-themed issue. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1885. Thick 8vo, pp. vi, 648; engraved frontispiece, 23 plates; contemporary full maroon morocco, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, raised bands, a.e.g., decorative cloth endpapers; ffep detached, spine and front hinge loose from text block, edges and joints rubbed from shelf wear, interior..... More
Providence: F. H. Townsend, 1889. First edition limited to 50 copies of which this is an unnumbered, out-of-series copy, 4to, 17 leaves; self-wrappers printed in red and black, text printed on rectos only; paper quite toned, covers separated but present. A rare example of a fragile but still attractive work..... More
Paris & Niort: Auguste Picard [and] M. Baussay, 1936. 8vo, pp. [257]-341, [3]; No. 4, 2 full-pg photographic illustrations, illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, glassine wrapper; uniformly toned, light edgewear, a very good copy. A French regionalist journal, published from 1888-1972, primarily devoted to the Arts and Sciences..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa, the Windhover Press, 1981. Edition limited to 310 copies, this one of 260 copies without colored illustrations; folio, pp. 44, [2]; errata slip laid in at colophon; text printed in double column; woodcut title page printed in red and black, 11 woodcut illustrations throughout; fine..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1856. First edition, imp. 8vo, pp. xiv-[xvi], 544; frontis. and additional engraved title page included in pagination, illustrations throughout text; pages slightly browned, front endpaper soiled, lower corners chipped away, upper corners rubbed, small cracks in joints, top of spine chipped, else good in..... More
London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Dodd, Meade & Co., 1894. First edition, 1 of 650 copies, 16mo, pp. xvi, 136, 14 ads, [1] ads; original brown cloth, spine gilt; binding a bit rubbed, else very good with armorial bookplate of the American collector Henry William..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1844. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles in each volume; slight scuffing, but a handsome set in publisher's full black pebble-grain morocco with gilt stamped urns on upper and lower covers, elaborate gilt fillets on smooth spines in 5 panels, gilt lettered in 2. Designed as a continuation..... More
Leiden, New York, Kobenhavn, Koln: E. J. Brill, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 238; frontispiece; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Ann Arbor: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1946-1947. Three volumes, 8vo; facsimile reprints, introductions printed from typescript; No. 1 in original grey printed wrappers (a bit soiled), Nos. 2 and 3 in original drab printed wrappers; edges browned, general light wear, else very good. Contents include Sir Richard Blackmore's "Essay upon..... More
Ann Arbor: Augustan Reprint Society, 1946-1948. 4 volumes (all published), 8vo; facsimile reprints; original green printed wrappers, edges a bit toned, light wear, else very good. Contents include: "A Letter to A.H. Esq; Concerning the Stage" (1698); "The Occasional Paper: No. IX" (1698); "Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of..... More
[Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963]. 8vo, pp. 115; [2]; illustrations, original printed paper wrappers, yapp edges; ink notation on front wrapper, else very good. The poets include Louis Coxe, George Garrett, Theodore Holmes, Galway Kinnell, William Meredith, W.S. Merwin and Bink Noll. More
[New York]: Duttons, [c1927]. First edition limited to 500 copies, this one of 350 numbered and signed "Henry C. Smith, Secy.", 8vo, pp. [6], 120; hand-colored folding frontispiece after watercolor showing "The Old Corner Book Store, Boston, 1853," 26 plates included in pagination, and a few facsimiles and illustrations in..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970-1973. 4 volumes (of 10) in 2 slipcases, 4to; illustrations and facsimiles throughout, decorative endpapers; bound in original red cloth-backed linen in blue cloth slipcases, some shelf wear, interior fine. At head of title: "The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library". Volumes 3 and 4 edited by..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo, xii & 233-[234]pp., illus. title-p.; general rubbing, corners nicked, else very good in contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards, tan morocco label on spine. More
Philadelphia: J. J. Woodward, 1830. 8vo, two volumes in one, individual pagination, pp. 456, 459, [1]; separate vignette title pages and frontispieces; full sheep, morocco spine label, gilt rules on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; board edges rubbed and a little stripped, textblock foxed, pencil marks on a few pages..... More
Boston: privately printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers at the Merrymount Press, 1916. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. vii-[viii], 94-[96]; ornamented title-page; orig. half black cloth, light wear to extremities, some browning to endpapers from acidic later chemise, else fine. Smith 439. More
[Lawrence, KS: ca. 1970]. Large 4to, pp. 11; illustrations throughout, text printed from typescript in double columns; pictorial self wrappers, unbound as usual; edges toned, else near fine. High school protest magazine whose contents include "A Handbook in High School Guerilla Warfare" (No. 19: "Bring pipe tobacco and rolling paper..... More
Fukuoka: The English Literature and Language Society, Kyushu University, 1966. Small 8vo, pp. 168; white printed self wrappers; spine ends chipped, corners a bit dog-eared, else very good. Text in English and Japanese. Contents include Tetsuro Hayashi's "The History of English Lexicography: an introduction"; Sakito Nakano's "T.S. Eliot's The Family..... More
DeKalb, Illinois: North Illinois University, 1987. 8vo, pp. iv, 321-490; diagrams and graphs throughout; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. Contents from this issue of "Style" include Geoffrey Russom's "Word and Foot in Beowulf" and Frank G. Ryder's "Poetic Prose: A Suggested Approach by Way of Goethe's Werther" More
New York: International Art Publishing Co. Ltd., ca. 1897. 12mo, unpaged; color and black and white chromolithographs; original stiff pictorial wrappers; spine ends starting to crack, else a very good, bright copy. Nursery rhymes. Sunshine Series no. 5. Not in OCLC. More
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London: Wyman & Sons, 1884-88. Together with: Ancient Charters Royal and Private prior to A.D. 1200. Edited and annotated by John Horace Round, London, 1888. Together 10 volumes, complete; tall 8vo, orig. gilt-stamped green cloth; old library stickers on spines, Minnesota Historical Society bookplate marked withdrawn; very good. Volume I...... More
Tubingæ: in libraris H. Laupp, 1879. Thin 8vo, pp. xii, 200; slightly later black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, extremities somewhat worn and the joints cracking, but overall still good and sound. The text is in Greek; the introduction and extensive notes in Latin. This copy with bookseller's ticket..... More
