New York: Time Inc., 1942-68. These are the front (and occasionally rear) covers of one of America's most popular weekly magazines covering a span of some 25 years, featuring the newsmakers of the day: politicians, celebrities, sports figures, religious leaders, writers and poets, educators, etc. Not collated, so we're not..... More

[Tokyo: Shinkigensha, 2004]. 4to, pp. 159; text illustrations; printed pictorial boards fine in fine dustjacket, unopened in shrink wrap. A collector's checklist of Sakura Wars merchandise "from new releases to the most nostalgic items." More

Tokyo: Tokai University Press, 2001. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 117, [1]; text in Japanese, 37 pages of color facsimiles of nature illustrations of plants, birds, fish, invertebrates, etc., grayscale facsimiles throughout the rest of the text, addendum slip laid in, English bibliographical slip laid in; pictorial boards; bookplate of..... More

Tokyo: Manga-sha, 1947. 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; text in Japanese; illustrated throughout with comics and caricatures; pictorial paper self-wrappers; old fold, pages lightly toned, very good. A satire magazine focused on modern life and politics. More

San Francisco: Alan Wofsey Fine Arts, 1991. 2 volumes, folio, pp. xxi, [1], 427, [1]; xx, iv, 399, [1]; title pages printed in red and black, text in double column, illustrated throughout; fine set in the dust jackets. Facsimile editions taken from the Dawson editions of 1972 which in turn..... More

Crestline, Calif. George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. Special edition limited to 60 copies, (this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out of series), with an original etching from J. F. Loubat's The Medallic History of the United States tipped in; 8vo, pp. 348, [4]; frontispiece, 57 color and grayscale..... More

London: Castell Brothers Ltd.; New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1905. Oblong 8vo, pp. [28]; 14 full-page chromolithographs; original pictorial chromolithograph wrappers (not part of the textual illustration), string-bound; small scrape on the back cover; all else near fine. Text printed in cursive lettering. Kathleen Ainslie was a British illustrator..... More

London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830. 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 250; vignette title page and 6 engraved plates by J. Thompson and S. & T. Williams after drawings by Cruikshank; later half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; extremities a bit..... More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882. 8vo, pp. [4], 228, [26]; portrait frontispiece and 28 text engravings, many full-page, by Marcus Waterman, Francis Davis Millet, William Ladd Taylor, etc., engraved by W. B. Closson, J. P. Davis, Frank French, and others; original pictorial gray wrappers; spine perished..... More

[New York]: Prestel, [1995]. First American edition, large 4to, pp. 272, [2]; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Issued in conjunction with the joint exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London and the Pierpont Morgan Library..... More

Orono: University of Maine Press, 1972. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. [8], 36; illustrated throughout by the author; fine copy in original pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered in black on upper cover and spine. This copy inscribed to "Gwin Kolb - with my grateful appreciation in advance for his kind offer..... More

[Chicago: The Lakeside Press], 1875. First edition, folio, pp. [4], v-viii, 7-557, [27], pagination errors throughout; hundreds of lithographic plates, monochrome and colored; later green cloth; gilt tilting; faded marbled edges; masonic bookplate on front pastedown; half-title with tears in the fore-margin (no loss), title page miscreased and remargined on..... More

Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill [wrapper imprint: Thompson, Bigelow & Brown], 1863. First edition, square 12mo, pp. 32; original stiff pictorial yellow wrappers artlessly rebacked with brown paper; 8 full-page illustrations engraved and signed by W. Roberts, plus several small vignettes; front hinge cracked causing loosening to the binding..... More