Tel Aviv: Nahar-Miskal in association with the British Library, 1988. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, full brown leather tooled in blind and gilt, (22), 18 pp., 184 facsimile leaves (i.e., 368 pp) reproduced in full color. "On of the finest illuminated Medieval Hebrew manuscripts ever produced. The Lisbon Bible was..... More
Lawrenceville, Illinois: Cornelia Carter, 1944. First edition. Paperback. Original decorative wrappers, 86 pp., 22 color plates, 168 text illustrations. A manual of principles and techniques for free-hand cutting of letters and decorative shapes. For use in poster making and other artistic applications. More
Stockholm: National Library for Psychology and Education, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Original wrappers, 11 x 7.5 inches; 232 pp., illustrated. Each of the entries contains a bibliographical description, illustrations of the book, and detailed annotations. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Original tan cloth, small octavo, 254 pp., pictorial jacket. A self help book by a Professor at Columbia University. Stunning Art Deco jacket design. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo, original brown cloth, 312 pp., pictorial jacket. A story of the cavalry in the Great World War. More
London: John Murray, (1936). First edition. Orange cloth, octavo, pp xvi, 525. Frontispiece and title-page design by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), 6 b/w photos, folding map. A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with..... More
NY: E.P. Dutton, (1935). First US edition. Original red boards, octavo, xv, 488 pp. Frontispiece and title page illustrations by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), jacket. A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with gypsies..... More
Oswego: R. J. Oliphant, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 335 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author and 10 engraved illustrations, octavo, original brown cloth with cover design and lettering in black and gilt. Considered a reliable account of captivity and escape from Confederate prisons. More
Coumbia, S. C. State Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 496 pp., frontispiece portratit of the author, several maps in the text, 1 folding map; octavo, original green cloth with gilt title. Johnson Hagood (1829-1898) rose from private to Brigadier General during the course of the war. He served as governor..... More
Malibu: Malibu Press, (1958). Limited edition. Hardcover. Original tan bookcloth, octavo, 72 pp., 10 "carveline block" illustrations by the author. Poems and art in celebration of the southern California desert. This copy #52 of a limited edition. More
Bosque New Mexico: Chinaberry Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, orange cloth, 138 pp., color reproductions of the artist's work throughout, acetate jacket. Signed by the artist on front free endpaper. Limited edition of 2000 copies, including a special limited edition of 350 copies. More
New York: George Braziller, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, quarto, 170 pp., 130 black and white illustrations, jacket. The artist's own selection of his finest works. More
London: Printed for Alex Hogg, n.d (but 1786). hardcover. Folio (40cm), original sheep rebacked retaining spine and lettering piece; iv, 42 pp. (introductory), the remaining text an unpaginated [520] pp + 247 plates, including 51 mostly full-page county and regional maps (some with 2 images on the plate), plans, and..... More
New York: Cassell and Co., (1887). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original yellow decorative cloth with cover design in gilt and black, quarto (12 x 9.75 inches); unpaginated, 80 engraved illustrations. The selection of illustrations breaks down thusly: 24 Dante, 17 Milton, !2 Quixote, 10 Bibli, 9 La Fontaine, 4 Croquemitaine, 3..... More
Sacramento: California State Library Foundation, 1997. Hardcover. Original blue fabracoid bookcloth, 200 pp., illustrated, 21.5 x 31 inch 1850 map of Sacramento mounted to inside of rear board. Errata slip laid in. Inscribed by editor Mead Kibbey to Sacrameno-area printer Robert Dickover. More
(San Francisco: California Press, 1912). First edition. Paperback. Original staplebound pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 10.75 inches, 32 pp. Illustrations from black and white photographs, many illustrated advertisements. Scarce program for the annual outing of the Veteran FIremen's Association of San Francisco. Contents include advertisments for automobiles, clothing, farm equipment, food..... More
Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co., 1891. First edition. Contemporary 3/4 brown polished calf and boards, gilt spine; octavo; (5), 314 pp. A fictional account of life in Virginia City in 1878 by the editor of the Salt Lake Daily Tribune. Pahet 711. More
Graz: Akademische Druck-u, Verlagsanstalt, (1996). First edition thus. Hardcover. 25-167 pp. color ms facsimile, 107 pp. commentary, octavo, original black cloth with gilt spine title, jacket, slipcase. The Codex Vindobonensis 93 is most artistically impressive of the 47 surviving examples of the materia medica text known as the "Herbarius complex."..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, (1903). Second edition. Hardcover. 350 pp., small octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles. "Private lessons in practical Christian metaphysics" by the Boston-based Christian teacher and healer. Douglass also authored "The Metaphysical Bible Dictionary." More
Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. 216 pp., 16 color plates, 97 monochrome reproductions; quarto, original brown cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. "Claire Donavan provides a detailed discussion of the Hours, its iconography and its place in the thirteenth-century Oxford book trade, with five..... More
Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, (1956). First edition thus. Hardcover. v, 671 pp.; small octavo, original pale blue cloth, jacket. States "First University Edition" on copyright page. More
Bloomington: IDD Books, (1994). First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers (10.75 x 8 inches), xii, 103 pp. Explores both the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and the exotic Egyptian dancers introduced there. One of whom, "Little Egypt" became something of a legend . More
Mayavati, Almora, Himalayas: (Swami Yogeshwarananda) Advaita Ashrama, (1949). Fourth edition. Hardcover. viii, 780 pp., 5 full-page illustrations; octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. More
New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909. First edition. Hardcover. xxiv, 576 pp., frontispiece and 35 plates from photographs, many with 2 images on the plate, large (26.25 x 42 inches) folding map of the Far East printed in colors at rear, folding railway map of China inserted in text;..... More
