Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co, 1936. First edition. 158 pp. Currey's first binding of black cloth, front and spine lettered in silver with upper and lower case lettering. Fine with typical curl to spine but lettering sharp, none of the rubbing often seen with this book, faint dust soil to..... More
London: Printed by Turnbull & Spears for J. D. Dent at Aldine House, 1893-1894. First thus. Two volume set in original pictorial cloth. (4to) 24x19 cm. (9.5 x 7.5"). lxiv, 455pp; lxv-xc, 458-990, note on text. One of 1500 copies of the regular issue, from a run of 1800. Good+..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Very Good with bumping to edges and corners, and pages toned. In a Good+ dust jacket with a strip of abrasion to the front panel affecting the title, chipping, edge wear and toning. Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent, uncommon with bright..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Very Good+, with silver stamping lightly rubbed, cloth worn at corners and spine ends, lightly mottled at rear. Light foxing to textblock edge. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper. A lovely copy of Melville's classic, illustrated by Rockwell Kent. More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in silver. Near Fine with the silver stamping very sharp and bright; bump to bottom corner of front boards, pages toned, rear endsheet soiled. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning to the spine and chipping..... More
New York: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's acetate jackets, in aluminum slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free end paper of Volume I, "Inscribed with affectionate friendship to Putzie - Rockwell Kent, 1950." Volumes II and..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the title page. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Heavy rubbing to silver stamping. Rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends. Foxing and faint tidemarks to top edge of page block; scuff to side edge. Previous..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Near Fine with bump to top corner of boards, pages toned. Silver stamping rather bright and fresh, with just a hint of rubbing. Dust jacket with spine toned, a bit of chipping and loss, rubbed at folds, with tape and mending tissue..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver stamping, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine or better with very bright and sharp silver stamping, light shelf wear. Pages toned, textblock edge is lightly foxed and soiled. Previous owner address stamp and light crease..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1926. [xiv], 159, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's pink paper over boards with blue cloth spine, pink paper spine label. First American edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies in the large paper issue printed on Japanese vellum, signed by both A. A...... More
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973. One of a limited 300 numbered copies signed by E. H. Shepard. In publisher's blue morocco, hand bound by Zaehnsdorf, with all edges gilt and color illustrations by Shepard. Near Fine with slight fading to spine; in a Very Good publisher's cloth-edged paper covered slipcase..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First American edition; Number 172 of 250 limited copies, signed by A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard. Bound in publisher's pink cloth, stamped in gilt. Very Good, with cloth lightly soiled, faded at spine, lightly frayed at corners and spine ends. Small..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1926. 1926, 1927, 1928. Three volumes, all first edition, first printing. All Fine, in Near Fine dust jackets, with top and bottom corners of front flaps clipped, and light toning to the spine panels, slight soiling. Winnie the Pooh: Small vintage bookseller ticket to front paste..... More
Hollywood, CA: Hollycrofters, Inc. Co., 1932. First edition, limited issue of 150 copies signed by editor, introduction writer and all illustrators. 121 pp. Original blue cloth with pasted-on title. Near Fine, sans jacket as issued. Outer coating of cloth just a bit lightly mottled, very light wear to tips, pages..... More
Milan: Mondadori, 1945. First editions. Seven volumes, complete. (Although 10 volumes are listed on the back of each book, only these seven were realized.) Vols. 3-7 white cloth-backed boards, stapled; 1-2 stapled stiff wraps. In the original Italian. Very Good+ overall with all flaps intact, no tears. Occasional very slight..... More
Hilversum, The Netherlands: de Jong & Co., 1953. Fine white and red sheets of M.F. mechanical cover paper, cut at angles and staggered to create an interplay of angles and shapes, bound in bluish gray die-cut stiff wraps. Text on rear leaf in Dutch, English, French, and German. In Near..... More
Santiago, Chile: Editorial Lord Cochrane, 1970. Limited numbered edition, copy 4150. First thus. 149pp. Original oversize ( approx. 16" by 16.5") white cloth. In the original Spanish. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with small tear in bottom of front panel, a few scratches. A rare deluxe oversize limited..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. 159 pp. Original navy cloth with silver lettering. Former owner's small art deco bookplate on paste down, else Fine. An excellent copy a high point of the ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system. Neurath's called it an attempt at "teaching..... More
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. First Edition. [vi], 110 pp. with 12 hand-colored aquatint plates. Finely bound by Riviere for Bumpus, in full scarlet crushed morocco, triple gilt-rule borders, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Original front, rear, and spine cloth bound in at rear. Housed in a later morocco-tipped..... More
[no place]: [no publisher]. [19th Century]. 9.5" x 11.5 Black leather album ornately decorated in blind and stamped in gilt, with beautiful endsheets and all page edges gilt, containing 94 specimens of dried seaweed of various sizes, neatly labeled, mounted on specimen paper and album, with uniform line borders drawn..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First edition. Unpaginated, rectos only. Original cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with some fading to cloth, light wear, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipped extremities, small interior chip to spine panel, price-clipped. Uncommon in jacket. An early graphic novel in leadcut..... More
Milledgeville, GA: Georgia State College for Women, 1943,1944,1945. Three rare yearbooks documenting the creative college years of acclaimed Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. Her linocut illustrations (which received renewed attention with a Fantagraphics collection in 2012) are very prominent in the 1944 & 1945 volumes, making up the endpapers of the..... More
San Francisco: Hell Comics, 1971. First printing and only printing. 44 pp. Stapled wraps. Pages toned with age, hardly any wear. An underground comics parody of Mickey Mouse that was the subject of a notable lawsuit by Walt Disney. More
Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster's Department, 1888. First edition. Large 4to. Original pebbled brown morocco with gilt lettering, floral endpapers. Very Good with bumped corners, slight corner crease to pages, slightly soiled and rubbed cloth, stamps of "Quartermasters Department, U.S. Army, Fort McDowell, A.G." on endpapers. Repaired tear to first..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First thus. No. 494 of 1050 copies printed for England and America. Signed by artist on one color plate. 68 pp. Original cloth with gilt tooled title, cover floral decoration stamped in brown; publisher's cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Very Good, cloth..... More