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 about Moby Dick
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 about Moby Dick
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 about Moby Dick
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 about Winnie the Pooh
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 about Winnie the Pooh
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 about The House at Pooh Corner
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 about Doll Dreams
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 about Mai contenti, L'uomo del camion, Toc toc, Il prestidigitatore verde, Storia di tre ucellini, Il...
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 about An Unreadable Quadrat-Print
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 about 20 Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada
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 about Modern Man in the Making
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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 about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire [...] With Notices of...
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 about Georgia State College for Women, The Spectrum 1943, 1944, & 1945 (Three College Yearbooks
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 about Air Pirates Funnies No. 2
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 about Sebastian Van Storck
London: Enitharmon Editions, 2002. De luxe edition. Includes color print "Violet Interior" signed in pencil by Tony Bevan, #35 of 75 in wallet. Book #31 of 75. Signed by Pinter and Bevan on rear limitation page. First edition. Fine in Fine original slipcase. Poetry by the Nobel-winning playwright, director, and actor. More about The Disappeared and Other Poems
Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1972. First edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Porter on copyright page, dated March '85. Near Fine with a little rubbing to wraps, light shelf wear. Rare. An American artist's book The Museum of Modern Art described thusly in an exhibition of the author's works... More about The Waste Maker: 1926-1961
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First edition. xx, [2], 296 pp. Quarto. Original brown embossed leather rebacked with original spine strip laid down, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gray-brown coated endpapers. Very Good overall with leather well-rubbed, back and head spine strips starting to peel along edges, tiny... More about The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Limited edition. One of 1,130 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. In Good+ condition. Fourteen plates with captioned tissue guards. Two tissue guards are torn out, a few plates show creasing. Foxing and toning to pages heaviest at prelims and terminals, and sporadically throughout. Cloth shows marking... More about Mother Goose: The Old Nursury Rhymes
London: Heinemann, 1919. First Rackham illustrated edition. One of 850 in the limited edition signed by Rackham, #518 of 525 of those printed on English handmade paper. 110, (1)pp. Green boards with tan cloth back, in folding chemise housed in custom slipcase. Very Good+ with bumped corners and light wear... More about Cinderella
London: William Heinemann, 1916. Copy number 259 of a limited 500, signed by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board and spine. Very Good+ with light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, toning to spine and to a square area of browning around... More about The Allies' Fairy Book
London: George G. Harrap, 1932. First thus. 48pp. with four color plates. Publisher's limp vellum lettered in gilt. Copy #537 of 550 copies in the limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham. Fine in Very Good original slipcase with small split along bottom edge, light wear. A very nice copy. Haskell and Latimore p. 67. More about The King of the Golden River
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1913. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #223 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Boards faintly bowed, foxing to vellum, darkening and a patch of rubbing to spine. Tissue guard for plate 25 incorrectly... More about L'Oeuvre de Arthur Rackham
Paris: Christian Dior, 1966. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being #417. Buff cloth covered boards with titles printed on marbled paper onlay. Near Fine, light foxing, light toning, previous owner bookplate to front paste down, small stray ink mark to rear paste down. An illustrated hunting journal/checklist for... More about Livre de Chasse
New York: The Experimenter Publications, 1930. First edition. 94 pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with rubbing to boards, chipping along edges, interior has a few small stains and closed tears. An uncommon illustrated Prohibition-era book of cocktailiana and humorous verse. More about The Home Bartender's Guide and Song Book