New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Large, thick quarto. 12.75 x 9 x 4 inches. Embellished with 1600 engravings by J. A. Adams, more than 1400 of which are from original designs by J. G. Chapman. First book edition of Harper's Illuminated Bible (first issued in 54.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. Abbe, Dorothy (photographs). First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth over boards. Folio. 14 x 11 inches. xix, [1], 232 pp, plus two double-page foldouts. Publisher's black textured cloth over boards. Debossed gilt spine lettering. Debossed gilt marionette design on front board. Original white-.....
New York: Avon Books, 1997. First Edition (stated, with full number line). Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 513 pp. Unclipped dust jacket showing price of $25.00. Quarter-bound textured black paper over grey paper-covered boards. Aerosmith logo stamped in black on front board. Gold spine lettering. Photographs. Flat signed.....
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 6 inches. 271 pp. First Printing. Quarter-bound Blur cloth over light blue paper-covered boards. Deckled fore-edge. Interior text pristine. Binding solid. Mild edge wear to dust jacket with small closed tear at head of spine. Dust jacket now in protective.....
New York: George R. Lockwood, 1870-1871. John James Audubon, illustrator. Seventh (final) Octavo Edition of The Birds of America and fourth (final) Octavo Edition of The Quadrupeds of North America. Hardcover. Half green levant over marbled boards. Royal octavo. 10 x 6.75 inches. Two works bound as a set of.....
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1942. Illustrations by Margot Austin. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Thin quarto. 10 x 9 inches. 37 pp (unpaginated). Unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Illustrated by author. Boards clean and unmarked. Tips lightly rubbed and bumped. Text block.....
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, ca. 1890. Hardcover. Bradel binding. Half -bound ebony glazed sheepskin. One volume from the Oeuvres complètes de Ch. Baudelaire. Hexadecimo. 6.5 x 4 inches. 442 pp. Very Good. No dustjacket as issued. Bradel binding. Half -bound ebony glazed sheepskin with corners, inner edges double gilt ruled.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Illustrations by Karl Stuecklen. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.0 x 6.5 inches. pp xiv, 230, viii, [2]. First printing in original illustrated dustjacket. Light tan glossy pictorial boards. Top edge dyed yellow. Dark brown endpapers. Richly illustrated throughout with drawings, including dustjacket illustration, by.....
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Mass market paperback. Illustrated wrappers. Duodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 144 pp. Light shelfwear, moderately canted. Minor chips to head and tail of spine, also to upper leading corner of front wrap. Light remnant of marker along top edge. Pages.....
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2010. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Limited edition. Paperback, handsewn. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Prose.
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2020. Engravings by Joanne Price. Limited edition. Cloth hardcover, handsewn. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Prose.
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2020. Engravings by Joanne Price. Limited edition. Paperback, handsewn. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Prose.
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2022. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Limited edition. Paperback, handsewn. 6 x 8.5 inches. Prose.
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2024. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Limited edition. Paperback, handsewn. 4.25 x 6.25 inches. Prose.
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2024. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Limited special edition. Hardcover. 4.25 x 6.25 inches. Quarter bound cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. Handset, printed on a hand-fed C & P, then handbound. One of 98 special edition copies printed on Magnani Velata and Mohawk Superfine paper. Design.....
Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Full natural calf on board. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Two volumes: xiii, [2], 646; xiv, [2], 724 pp. Bound in full natural calf on board. Four raised bands with red & black title panels. Gilt titles.....
Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 9.25 x 12 inches. ix, 149 pp. Indexed. Burgundy cloth-covered boards. Gilt stamping to spine. Teal endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs in b/w and color. Color plates. Contemporary.....
Sheffield: J.W. Northend Ltd., 1968. First reprint of the 1912 original. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth on board. Quarto. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Gilt debossed lettering and decoration to spine, gilt debossed paneling and coat of arms to front board. Original sand-colored, unclipped 10-guinea printed dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with b/w.....
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1901. Hardcover. Cloth over board. Thick small quarto. 10 x 7.5 inches. xxviii, 555, [1] pp, including appendix and index. Publisher's navy blue satin cloth over beveled-edge boards. Gilt stamping on spine. Five black and white facsimiles of the manuscript, including frontispiece. Five black.....
New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Full blue cloth over board. Quarto. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. xxi, 265 pp. Published for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Sewn binding. Gilt-stamped spine lettering. 212 illustrations in color and black & white.....
New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. xi, 276 pp. Sewn binding. Publisher’s original full blue cloth. Gilt-stamped spine lettering. Illustrations in color and black & white. Part I: Materials. Part II: Paint Manufacture and Application. Appendices. Notes. References to.....
Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 170 pp. Inscribed, signed, and dated in blue ink by author on half title page in year of publication. Unclipped original dust jacket. Publisher’s original blue cloth-covered boards. Author’s initials gilt-stamped on front board;.....
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition, Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Red buckram over board. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 415 pp. Unclipped first state dust jacket showing original price of $5.95. Spine lettered in gilt and black. Fore edge deckled, top edge stained red. Publisher's number "51732" black stamped at lower.....
Chicago: Independence Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 9.0 x 6.0 inches. 762pp. Publisher’s brown cloth. Bradel bound with head and tail bands. Front board lettered in gilt and embossed with map in black. Spine lettered in gilt. Patterned endpapers. Portrait and facsimile signature of William Jennings Bryan as frontispiece.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Quarter bound black cloth over grey paper on board. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 248 pp. First printing showing full number line. Dust jacket intact with price of $16.95 at top of front flap and "0387" at bottom. Stamped silver lettering.....