(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 245 pp., many illustrations of all sorts, including wood engravings, line blocks, half-tone plates, typographic specimens, etc.; 4to, half green oasis and marbled boards. Together in cloth and boards slipcase with a sewn pamphlet with 6 wood engravings by John De..... More
(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 195 pp., many illustrations of all sorts, including wood engravings, line blocks, half-tone plates, typographic specimens, etc.; 4to, half sage green oasis and marbled boards. Together in cloth and boards slipcase with matching folder containing 7 wood engravings by Joan Ellis..... More
(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. (205) pp., many illustrations of all sorts, including wood engravings, line blocks, half-tone plates, typographic specimens, a wallpaper sample by Peggy Angus, etc.; 4to, half tan morocco and marbled boards. Together in cloth and boards folder containing 7 wood engravings by..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1913). Early reprint. Hardcover. Original light-blue cloth with cover design in black and maroon, 8vo, 290 pp., color frontispiece illustration, pictorial jacket. Ten collected stories, including the boxing tale "The Mexican." Early, possibly first Grosset & Dunlap edition in scarce original jacket. More
Portland: Collegium Graphicum, (1972). First edition thus. Paperback. [2] leaves front matter, followed by facsimile: [3] leaves, 1-141 numbered leaves (i.e., 282 pp.), [3 leaves, 2 folding plates, many illustrations and diagrams in the text; octavo, decorative wrappers, slipcase. Facsimile of the 1564 first edition of this important work on..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1952). First limited edition. Small quarto, bound in full "top grain cowhide," (xx), 433 pp. #90 of 250 copies "prepared for members of the Book Collectors Society." More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1965). First US edition. Hardcover. xv, 231 [1] pp.; octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. "a posthumously collected group of miscelaneous pieces written over a lifetime." By the author of "The Little Prince" et al. Most selections translated from the French by Adrienne Foulke. More
New York: Appleton, 1895. Early reprint. Hardcover. 431 pp., illustrated with several engravings in the text, octavo, original brown cloth. A classic basic manual for students of the anatomy of vertebrates. More
Minneapolis: Colwell Press, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. [6], 460 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with a couple full-page plates and several illustrations in the text; small octavo, original brown cloth. An exhaustive study of the subject, presumably by a layman. More
London: George Allen and Unwin, (1936). First edition. 192 pp. + 8 leaves of 16 plates from photographs, text illustrations; small octavo, original green cloth. Norman Haire (born Norman Zions, 1892-1952) was an Australian physician and sexologist who moved to London about 1919 where he built a hugely successful gynecological..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1924. Revised edition. Hardcover. xix, 487 pp., 23 illustrations, including frontispiece and 14 plates from photographs; octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt title. Originally published in 1916 this revised edition adds considerable "new" information regarding vitamins, care and feeding of infants and the sick and convalescent..... 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
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
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