(New York): Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of Roerich Museum, 1931, 1932, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes in 2 (complete), octavos, green buckram; 101; 178; 231 pp., illustrated, original front wrapper of vol. 2 bound in. Complete run of this journal of the Institute's explorations, language and religious studies of..... More
Reims: F. Michaud, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. xi, 550, [1] pp., 257 photogravure illustrations, including many full-page; quarto, 3/4 maroon morocco and boards, marbled endpapers. Original front wrapper bound in. Beautifully illustrated history of the ancient French city. Text in French. Edition of 1010 copies, this #903 of 960 copies..... More
Palo Alto: Radcliffe Institute, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 167 pp., square octavo, brown flexible bookcloth with gilt title on front cover. Text seems to be mimeographed from a typescript. More
Brooklyn: George McKibbin & Son, (1949). First edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth, octavo, [32] pp. Illustrated. Filled with examples of different calligraphic styles and reproductions from book cover designs using calligraphy. More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. [2], 448 pp., profusely illustrated; quarto, 3/4 brown morocco and gray boards. A history of the bath in German culture with historic illustrations. More
(Paris: Draeger, 1973). First edition thus. Hardcover. Folio (16 x 10.5 inches), tan cloth with title and cover ornament in red; (108) pp. including 75 colorplates reproducing the illuminated manuscript. Fine facsimile of the 16th century illuminated manuscript recounting the seige of Troy as a 16th-century event. Depicted by Jean..... More
New York: Fairchild Publishing Co., (1947). Revised edition. Hardcover. xii, 132 pp., profusely illustrated from photographs and drawings; octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial jacket. Everything you wanted to know about gloves. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 100 pp., illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, quarto, pictorial boards and jacket. Photo essay on the US Coast Guard of 85 years ago. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. 202 pp., illustrated from engravings by Lynd Ward; octavo, original blue cloth with title and cover ornament in silver. 24 essays exploring nature and science. More
Hardcover. 35 pp. introductory text followed by 64-page full-color facsimile; small octavo, half cloth and tan boards, leather spine label. Facsimile of the 15th century block book telling the legend of Saint Meinrad. More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 304 pp., octavo, original slate blue cloth with gilt title. An analysis of the relationship of diet to health. More
Seattle: Seattle World's Fair, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 3 vollumes, decorative wrappers, various paginations, illustrated. Exhibition catalogues from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. More
New York: The Literary Guild, 1929. Resetting of the Random House limited edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with title and decoration in silner, quarto, (112) pp, illustrations and decorations by Rockwell Kent. Literary Guild newsletter "Wings" Volume 3, No. 12, December 1929 laid in. This is a reprint of the..... More
London / Boston: Bernard Quaritch / L. C. Page and Co., 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. xvi, 163 pp., frontispiece; quarto, red decorative cloth with cover design in gilt and dark green, top edge gilt. Text presents Edward Fitzgerald's translated quatrains on facing pages with the Persian original text and Edward..... More
Boston: Joseph Knight Co., 1896. Hardcover. 2 volumes, yellow decorative cloth with title and cover design in gilt and dark green; octavos, clxxix, 203; [204] - 597 pp., frontispiece in each volume, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Variorium edition of the Rubaiyat. This edition with title page of Joseph Knight..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., printed at the Riverside Press, 1911. Limited edition. Hardcover. [40] pp., quarto, gilt blue boards, slipcase. Elegant edition of the US Constitution designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Numbered, limited edition, this #94 of 440 copies. Scarce. More
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1949). 498 pp., illustrated with 43 photographs by Audrey Alley, portraits, and over 350 line drwings; octavo, original red cloth, jacket. Small 12-page anonymous pamphlet titled "Cute Tricks" (no publisher, no place, copyright 1905) laid in. A one-volume library of conjuring. More
New York: Walden, Sons & Mott, 1941. First edition. 352 pp., illustrated, including several unpaginated advertisements (some on card stock); octavo, original maroon cloth with title blocked in silver. Advertisements include a 16-page illustrated 2-color catalog of Harris Offset Presses. Pages 228-351 contain an alphabetical Buyer's Guide to printing trade..... More
London: George Armstrong, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pp., illustrated with 54 photographs and diagrams; octavo, original blue cloth. A professional magician shares his secrets. More
Marcham: The Alembic Press, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. 19 pp., illustrated with 1 wood engraving each by Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett, octavo, original brown cloth and beige boards. #18 of 120 copies printed by Claire Bolton and cast by David Bolton. Text includes chapter 19 from Robert Gibbings' memoir..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1958. First edition thus. 3 volume set, original gilt-stamped vellum boards, quartos (7.75 x 11 inches), 536 pp. Slipcase. Beautifully printed on handmade paper in an edition of 300 copies. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press #595. More
NY / Boston: Hurd & Houghton / E. P. Dutton, 1866 (1865). Second printing? Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; octavo (6 x 8 inches); [1], 16 pp., frontispiece and 5 chromolithograph plates. Julius Bien's chromolithographs after H.L. Stephens' originals have a rather unfinished look and are not..... More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, (1946). Revised edition. Hardcover. xvi, 112 pp. + [4] pp. adverts for additional books by the author at rear; 12mo, cloth spine and printed lavender boards. J. C. (Joseph Chelladurai Cornelius) Kumarappa (1892-1960) was an Indian economist and close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. A biography of..... More
NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, October, 1907. First printing. Original pictorial wrappers. This piece was part of the Cosmopolitan series variously titled "My Life in the Underworld" or "Stray Memories of Life in the Underworld." Also in this issue is Ambrose Bierce’s column of commentary, "Small Contributions." "The Road" was published in..... More
(Herefordshire): The Whittington Press, 1993. Second edition. Hardcover. 122 pp., many illustrations, including Chinese woodblock print frontispiece, engravings, broadsides, typographic specimens, etc.; 4to, half red morocco and marbled boards. Together in a slipcase with extra suite of illustrations in portfolio folder. Superb resource for all aspects of the world of..... More