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By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Grabhorn Press: 1954
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k180331b
10”x14”, letterpress; 4 pp. The two poems are printed in parallel columns. 75 copies printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco”. Fine. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York; John Lane, London: 1927
Seller ID: k190126u
4to, illustrated linen, gilt titles. With 8 full-page tipped-in color by Alastair. No. 591 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed in pencil by the artist. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: Fair; the text block and illustrations are fine. The significant flaw is that it is lacking the backstrip on the spine, otherwise covers are good overall with several light stains.. The penciled signature on the plate on p.30 is pr... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London: Faber: 1929
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190125c
12mo, gray pictorial wrappers, 4 pp. Trade edition; also published in a limited edition of 400 signed large paper covers. Cover design and frontispiece Illustration by Paul Nash. CONDITION: Good; ¼” chip out of lower front and rear corners; covers partially split. Interior leaves are fine. View more info
![Image for LES FLEURS DU MAL [Limited Editions Club]](/assets/images/product/k190126n_1 "LES FLEURS DU MAL [Limited Editions Club]")
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Limited Editions Club: 1940
Seller ID: k190126n
Limited Editions Club, New York and Paris, 1940. This single volume only, French text; published as a two volume set with the second volume being the English translation “Flowers of Evil.” Illustrations by. Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. 8vo, pale blue stiff paper wrappers in glassine dust jacket. No. 83 of 1500 copies. No slipcase issued. A good copy: interior is very clean but several of the gutters are somewhat loose; still fully intact. Chipped at spine ends. ... View more info
![Image for The American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]; By the Most Eminent Artists of Great Britain. Vol. 4 only, Plates 76-100.](/assets/images/product/k181231b_1 "The American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]; By the Most Eminent Artists of Great Britain. Vol. 4 only, Plates 76-100.")
By: Boydell, John. (Shakespeare, William)
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: New York: Shearjashub Spooner: 1852
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k181231b
[New York: Shearjashub Spooner, 1852]. Elephant folio, 23”x28”, in plain brown library binding. The first American edition, printed from Boydells' original plates purchased and restored by the American publisher. This oversized edition has finely detailed impressions, the engravings having been brightened by re-cutting worn areas. Background: John Boydell was a London bookseller and print-seller. In 1786, he and a group of associates commissioned paintings of scenes... View more info
By: Crosby, Ernest and Benedict Prieth [Eds.]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Newark NJ , The Whim: 1901
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k190218e
Six issues - Vol. 1 No. 1 through Vol. 1 No. 6 bound in a single volume; publisher’s ¼ leather binding, gray boards. Each of the six issues are 24 pp, with colored card covers bound in. Short quips, essays, reviews reflecting 'socialistic, anarchistic and anti-imperialist attitudes toward current events,' (MacLeod, American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation] Crosby was a leading proponent in the U.S. of Tolstoyan anarchis... View more info
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Tarzana, Burroughs Publishing: 1933
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: f18112401
1st ed. publisher's original blue pebbled cloth with orange titling. "This is the first book to come from ERB, Inc. to have the copyright page clearly marked First Edition, reflecting the author's growing recognition of the value of his books to collectors. (Zeuschner, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, 2016. A near fine copy in good dust jacket. A bright, tight, and square copy with just a hint of shelf wear to edges. The only flaw is the page of advertising [... View more info
By: Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Cassell, London: 1935
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k190126t
8vo, red cloth dustjacket, 453 pp. an alternative retelling of English history from the point of view of Hubert de Burgh. In Hubert's narrative, which begins with an account of the struggle for succession in the wake of King Richard Lionheart's death, young Duke Arthur of Brittany does not die at the hands of King John, but instead ascends to the throne. Hubert relates Arthur's adventures as he combats the wily John, fights in the Crusades, and wages battle against the... View more info
![Image for TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO
[The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...]
IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]](/assets/images/product/k190212e_1 "TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO
[The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...]
IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]")
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Milano: Fratelli Treves: 1902
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190212e
Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several full-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in Italian. A tragic play in verses, presented for the first time at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on December 9th 1901. The text centers on the story of how Fra... View more info
![Image for The Tyranny of the Dark [signed]](/assets/images/product/k190126f_1 "The Tyranny of the Dark [signed]")
By: Garland, Hamlin
Price: $45.00
Publisher: by Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1905
Inscription: Inscribed by Garland on front end paper
Seller ID: k190126f
First edition. 8vo., Illustrated blue cloth, gilt titles, black bat on upper board. Inscribed on front end paper. Fair: rubbed and chipped at spine ends, both hinges cracked but intact; spine somewhat darkened. View more info
![Image for Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signature of Rudyard Kipling]](/assets/images/product/k190126c_1 "Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signature of Rudyard Kipling]")
By: Hamlin Garland
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Macmillan, New York: 1928
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Inscribed by Garland, with added signature of Rudy
Seller ID: k190126c
CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to back free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing page. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two photographs of Garland and company on the half-title, along with a guest pass to the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens signed by Rudyard Kipling who, as a member, gave Garland admittance. Another photo of Garland on the verso and a... View more info
![Image for Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. [First published appearance in T.P.'s Weekly, serialized in Vol. 3-4]](/assets/images/product/0219061_e130094871a39b98b4c788711bdd288d.jpg "Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. [First published appearance in T.P.'s Weekly, serialized in Vol. 3-4]")
By: Joseph Conrad
Price: $375.00
Publisher: London, Walbrook & Co: 1904
Seller ID: cr0219061
Publisher: London : Walbrook & Co..First thus. 4to, publisher's green cloth, gilt titles. The first appearance of Conrad's most acclaimed novel, ranked 47th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. Serialized in volumes 3 and 4 of T.P.'s Weekly between 29 January and 7 October 1904, prior to its publication in book form by Harper & Brothers on 14 October 1904. The novel was only half complete when the serial began and was signific... View more info
![Image for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Balfour edition]](/assets/images/product/k190121m_1 "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Balfour edition]")
By: Khayyam, Omar
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, Constable: 1920
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190121m
1st ed. thus. Small quarto. Black and tan decorated boards, black leather spine, printed label on front board, hand lettered label on spine. Illustrated with six full-color tipped-in plates and thirty-two in black & white, some of which have touches of color added -- also numerous smaller line drawings in sepia throughout. This is the first trade edition; there were also signed editions of 50 copies with an added hand-colored plate and 100 copies in green morocco. Printe... View more info
By: Kipling, Rudyard
Price: $8,500.00
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: cr180315q
A comprehensive collection of nearly 160 volumes - first English, American, and variant editions with important bibliographic works, most in very good to fine condition; many in dustjacket. The personal collection of Sacramento bookseller Edward H. Crussell (1875-1944). a charter member of The Kipling Society (UK) and one of the founders of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. The collection has been kept virtually intact since his death in 1944; Included is a 3x5 card... View more info
By: Lawrence, D. H.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London: 1928
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed by Lawrence
Seller ID: k190203c
Number 7 in the Woburn Books series. No. 340 of 500 numbered and signed copies. Original decorated grey paper boards stamped in blue. Lacking jacket. Condition: Ex-libris a collector’s library, with typical defects: Title and collection number handwritten on spine, collection bookplate on front end paper with remnants of library pocket; several small stains. Front gutter cracked, ½” chip at bottom of spine. Text block is clean, tight, and bright. Priced accordingly. View more info
By: Liam O'Flaherty
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London: 1928
Edition: 1st ed,
Seller ID: k190126a
Novel based on the assassination of the Irish government minister Kevin O'Higgins in 1927.CONDITION: Very good. A bright, crisp copy overall; some toning to end papers, half-title and title pages -- the latter lightly so. Dust jacket is good only; chipped corners, nicks and cracks at spine ends; price clipped; toning to interior flaps. View more info
Price: $4,500.00
Publisher: 1972
Seller ID: s180622m
Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly... View more info
By: Maurois , Andre
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, San Francisco: 1940
Edition: 1st US edition
Seller ID: k190203g
1st ed. Small 4to, dye-stamped blue cloth boards, endpapers decorated with armorial bearings of the houses of Thinifers and Fatapoufs. 92pp. The “Thins” and the “Fats” have already had one World War -- can a Second World War be averted? A thinly veiled parable for the European political situation just prior to 1940. Illustrated in bold colors by JEAN BRULLER CONDITION: Fine; scant rubbing to corners and spine ends. Lacking jacket View more info
By: Nelson, Harold
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Otto Schulze and Co: 1913
Seller ID: k190126h
1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers: 1954
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: s180622a
The author's first novel, published just after he returned from Paris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Very Good-near fine in VG d/w. The book itself is clean, bright and tight; the only interior flaw is a prior owner’s inked signature at top of FFEP. No rubbing or chipping to covers, as often bound, but a thin fade line at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket is not price-clipped but spine is lightly rubbed at top and bottom with some age-toning. View more info
