John James Audubon: A biography.
New York: G.P. Putnam, [1966]. 8vo, pp. 510; very good copy in slightly worn jacket, owner's inscription on front free endpaper. More
Literature
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
London: The Folio Society, 2010. 8vo, pp. xiv, 174; color frontispiece and 7 plates; full blue cloth decorated in silver and blind; fine in fine slipcase. More
Radical literature in America... to which is appended a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club in New York City.
Stamford: printed at the Overbrook Press, 1939. Small 4to, pp. [2], 61, [7]; 3 plates including 2 folding, several full-page illustrations in the text; original red cloth stamped in gilt; ex-library with blindstamp on title-page and small ink notation on half-title, previous owner's plate on front pastedown, spine and parts..... More
Signed by Adams
A letter to American teachers of history
Washington, [D.C.]: [press of J.H. Furst Co., Baltimore], 1910. First edition, signed by Henry Adams at the end of the introductory letter; 12mo, pp. vi, 214, [2]; original green cloth, spine a bit sunned and with a small snag in the cloth (not effecting any lettering), otherwise very good. "In..... More
Poems on several occasions
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1770. 12mo, pp. [2], 199, [1]; contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, red speckled edges; upper joint barely starting, spine label perished with title evident as blind impression, 1850 signature on free endpaper, text clean and sound; good. Gaskell 449. More
The spectator. A corrected edition: with prefaces historical and biographical by Alexander Chalmers
London: printed by T. Bensley...for J. Johnson [et al.], 1806. 8 volumes, 8vo; engraved title pages; late 19th- or early 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, brown gilt morocco spine labels; edges a bit scuffed, front free endpaper in vol. I separated but present; a very good, attractive set. NCBEL..... More
The miscellaneous works in verse and prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. In three volumes. With some account of the life and writings of the author. By Mr. Tickell.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1766. 3 volumes, 12mo; with the addition of a 4th volume, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc., 1767; contemporary full sheep, red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; extremities rubbed, joints starting but generally good and sound. More
Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality
London: Printed for the author, 1794. 4 volumes (of 16), 8vo; contemporary three-quarter calf over blue paper-covered boards (some soiling, most heavily on Vol. II upper cover), red gilt spine labels; edges a bit scuffed; unfortunate 20th-century ball-point pen ownership inscription on Vol. IV pastedown, else very good and sound..... More
Circus day.
Akron: Saalfield Publishing, 1903. (Second unauthorized edition), 8vo, pp. 112, numerous illustration in text by John T. McCutcheon; pictorial green cloth stamped in red and white; slightly soiled back cover, else very good. Russo p.16. More
Forty modern fables.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. vii-[viii], 303-[304]; ornamented title-page printed within dec. border, historiated initials throughout; orig. green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, worn, scuffed, and stained, binding askew, good only. With the bookplate of the Tabard Inn Library, ""under the business management..... More
Forty modern fables.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. vii-[viii], 303-[304]; ornamented title-page printed within dec. border, historiated initials throughout; orig. gray cloth printed in red and black, top edges stained red, binding slightly askew, but firm and sound, else very good. More
In pastures new.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp.[vii], 309, [3], frontispiece and illustrations throughout text by Albert Levering; red pictorial cloth, gilt stamped letters, top edge trimmed, slightly worn, else good or better. Russo p. 69. More
True bills.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. First edition, 12mo, pp. [viii], 154; numerous illustrations throughout text, tan decorative cloth, worn and soiled, else good. Russo p. 67. More
People you know.
New York: R.H. Russell, 1903. First edition, sm. 8vo, pp. 224, [1], frontispiece by McCutcheon, and others throughout text; light blue decorative cloth, faded spine, else good. Russo p. 51. More
Changing patterns in the function of travel agencies
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Edition ltd. to 400 copies designed & printed by Henry Morris at Bird & Bull Press (this, no. 222); pp. 28, [4]; 3 facsimiles; original cream-colored wrappers with title printed on front cover in red & black, fine. Based on a talk given at the..... More
Gone. The last days of The New Yorker.
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1999]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 252; fine in original white and gray boards and dust-jacket. An insiders look at the magazine during the years under the direction of William Shawn. More
![Item #27536 [Title in Greek.] Aeliani De natura animalium libri XVII. Cum animadversionibus...](/pictures/thumb/27536_1.jpg?v=1491860133)
[Title in Greek.] Aeliani De natura animalium libri XVII. Cum animadversionibus Conradi Gesneri, et Danielis Wilhelmi Trilleri: curante Abrahamo Gronovio, qui et suas adnotationes adjecit.
Londini: excudit G. Bowyer, sumptibus Societatis ad Literas Promovendas Institutae, 1744. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xiv, xxvii, [36], 603, [1]; [605]-1128, [86]; engraved vignette on title-p. and on last page of text; woodcut ornaments; parallel text in Greek and Latin throughout; contemporary full calf, red and citron morocco..... More
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Text edited by Raymond Postgate with an introduction, a commentary and a translation into modern English Prose
Cambridge: Rampant Lion Press, 1969. One of 250 signed copies from an edition limited to 500, 8vo, pp. [2], 141; red cloth with black and gilt title on spine; a fine copy in the original mylar dust jacket and tissue wrapper. More
Attic tragedies. Volume III.
[Boston]: The Bibliophile Society, printed for members only, [1927]. Edition limited to 400 copies; 8vo, pp. 183, [1]; contains "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus and "Electra" by Sophocles; engraved illustrations; introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole and Henry H. Harper; t.e.g., spine a bit soiled and darkened, else very good in original..... More
Selections from Aesop's fables illustrated with reproductions of fifteenth century woodcuts
[New York]: A. Colish, Inc., 1988. Edition limited to 1500 copies printed in Centaur and Narrow Bembo italic types on Strathmore paper, large 8vo, pp. [12], 52, [2]; 18 reproductions of 15th century woodcuts; printed in red and black throughout; original red decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine;..... More
The baby's own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved & printed in colours by Edmund Evans
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 56; color illustrations throughout, decorative endpapers by the artist; original blue cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards by Crane, edges rather scuffed with boards occasionally exposed, textblock fine. Text based on W. J. Linton's manuscript "The Wisdom of Aesop." Osborne I...... More
Antichità e pregj della Chiesa Guastallese ragionamento storico-critico.
Parma: Dalla Reale Stamperia, 1774. 4to, pp. vii, [1], 199; typographical ornamental border on title page, typographical ornaments throughout; contemporary and probably original vellum-backed pastepaper-covered boards, some wear at the edges, but very good and sound. An early Bodoni. Brooks 53. More
Bend this heart: short stories
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1989. 8vo, pp. [8], 130, [6]; blue pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Inscribed by Agee on title page. "For Marie- Keep the heart bending, flexible, loving." More
![Item #39765 From the sign of the centaur [cover title]. Dwight E. Agner](/pictures/thumb/39765_1.jpg?v=1632237766)
From the sign of the centaur [cover title]
Continental, Ohio: Centaur Press, September, 1959. Edition limited to 175 copies, bifolium, 12mo; fine. Plea from printer to "vote no" on a proposed amendment (concerning what is unclear). Press news printed on back. Not in OCLC. More
