Much Ado About Nothing, BRAILLE - ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE IN BRAILLE. The Life and Death of King John, The Tempest, Tragedy of King Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of King Richard II, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, and Othello by Shakespeare, William

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1943 First printing of the first edition. One of 1,217 copies printed, Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles, octavo, 458 pages. The fourth book issued by Arkham House. The companion novel to The Outsider and Others. Accompanied by three letters from August Derleth to Clark Ashton Smith, discussing dust jacket art. Also includes a prepublication announcement card and a subsequent information card, as well as a letter from Derleth verifying an order for copies of Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Light rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards, text block is faintly age toned, but clean, unmarked, and tight in binding. Scarce dust jacket is slightly rubbed at spine head and tail and at corner tips. Overall near fine to fine condition.

Paris: Meynial, 1925. First Edition. George Barbier. A complete and excellent set of the five annual issues illustrated with a total of sixty beautiful pochoir plates, complete with decorated pochoir title pages. 'Falbalas and Franfreluches' (Frippery and Finery: Fashion Diaries) represents a literary and artistic collaboration of unusual elegance and sophistication. French illustrator, George Barbier (1882 - 1932) spared no effort in the making of this beautiful collection, using the finest pigments and up to thirty stencils per print to create images of the highest quality reflecting fashionable themes of the day. The plates portray romance amidst exotic lands and ages past, including a native American idyll on the Missouri, a languid mistress cocooned in a hammock in the tropical Antilles, high baroque debauchery, and, of course, a myriad of lovers depicted in Paris at the height of the chic 1920s. Each annual includes twelve pages of fine writing by Barbier's contemporaries in the Parisian scene… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. No restoration, a remarkable copy. Chandler's fourth book. $2.00 Net Price present on front jacket flap.

Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1920. First edition, first printing. One of only 400 printed. Octavo. Original blue paper boards with buff linen spine. All edges untrimmed. In the original plain tan dust jacket, preserved in glassine wrap, with chipping to dust jacket (particularly to spine). Preserved in a custom clamshell box. A brilliant first printing of this monumental work in the exceedingly rare original dust jacket.. A remarkably bright first printing-in the scarce original dust jacket-of one of W.B. Yeats's (1865-1939) most important poetry collections. One of only 400 printed. Michael Robartes and the Dancer includes the first book printing of some of Yeats's most famous poems, including "The Second Coming," "Easter, 1916," and "A Prayer for My Daughter." The book was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and, according to its colophon, was completed on All Soul's Day (November 1st) 1920-although Wade (a Yeats editor and bibliographer) claims the book was not… Read More

Paris, Didot, 1814.
4 volumes 8vo [216 x 132 mm] of : I/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 portrait, xxiii pp., (1) bl. p., 175 pp., (1) bl. p., 1 full-page plate, 164 pp., (1) bl. l. ; II/ (1) bl. l ., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 460 pp., (1) bl. l. ; III/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 395 pp., (1) bl. l. ; IV/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 496 pp., (1) l. of errata.

Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, richly decorated covers with diverse blind-stamped and gilt borders, richly decorated ribbed spines, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Contemporary binding signed Thouvenin.
"This edition well printed and on vellum paper, should be preferred to all the others". (Brunet, III, 1175).
First edition given by Meon, dedicated to the count Daru, illustrated with 4 superb engravings by Monnet and a Gothic portrait of Jean de Meung by Girardet.
Bulletin Morgand an Fatout, 11334 ; Graesse, IV, p. 263.
"Which surprises every time we approach the 'Romance of the Rose' is that it's a work of… Read More

Cairo: Bulak, 1868 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rare, the first edition to be printed in Cairo, Bulak press completed in 1285 AH- 1868 Ad. Edited by Nasr al Horini and others. In contemporary fine bindings. Long 8vo, (189, 197, 192, 190, 195, 213, 190, 197, 185, 174, 173, 179, 170, 179, 168, 170, 168, 218, 169, 188 p.) plus one page index for each part..

New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American Edition. Very Good. Six volumes. First American edition, all first printings with properly dated title pages and publisher's imprint on all copyright pages. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and black stamping, with volumes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine. Softening to spine ends, with Volume II of Before Tilsit showing shallow loss at spine ends. Volume I of The Invasion with owner name stamp on title page; neat owner name on first page of text of volume II of The Invasion and volume II of Borodino. Bookplate in volume 1 of Before Tilsit and volume I of The Invasion. A handsome set of the first American edition of this classic of Russian literature. Translated from the French edition by Clara Bell.

Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831.
Two 8vo volumes [205 x 126 mm] of: I/ (4) ll. for the half-title, title and foreword, 404 pp. ; II/ (2) ll., 536 pp. for part 2. Both titles are decorated with Tony Johannot's woodcuts engraved by Porret. Bound in blue half calf, flat spines. Reliure de l'époque.
First edition of the famous and first great novel by Victor Hugo.
Carteret, I, pp. 400-402; Escoffier 870; Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, IV, 256-257.
This copy belongs to the second state, with the author's name on the title and the fictitious mention "Seconde edition" below the title.
"Since Gosselin's copy appeared at auction (Leroy auction, March, 26-27th, 1931, N°328), it became indisputable that the mention of a second or third edition doesn't take anything from the first edition nature of a book.
Gosselin-Leroy's copy bore indeed on a fourth edition of Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831, the following autograph note:
'First edition published in 1100 copies that have been, following the… Read More

Due tomi in-folio; cc. (7), pp. IV, c. (1), pp. LXXXI, 211; c. (1); pp. 366, c. (1). Cartonatura editoriale originale. Qualche abile restauro ai dorsi delle legature, leggermente allentate, tuttavia splendida copia a pieni margini. A splendid copy with uncut margins, preserved in its original editorial orange boards.Iniziata da Bodoni e portata a termine dalla vedova del celebre stampatore, Margherita Paola Dall'Aglio (Parma, 1758 – Parma, 1841), quest'edizione reca nelle pagine precedenti il frontespizio: "Imprimé par ordre de Sa Majesté Joachim Napoleon Roi des Deux Siciles pour l'instruction de son Fils Ainé S.A.R. le Prince Achille Napoleon". Brunet, III, 754: "Édition magnifique"; Brooks, 1149: "E' una delle più belle edizioni bodoniane"; De Lama, II, p. 213.

[Paris, Jubert, 1787].
24mo of 1 frontispiece and 12 engraved vignettes by Dorgez that is 13 etchings.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorates with gilt fleurons, grenne morocco lettering piece, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
The illustration includes : 1. Vénus and Mars ; 2. Jupiter and Calisto ; 3. Pluton and Proserpine ; 4. Venus and Comus ; 5. Le Triomphe de la Beauté ; 6. Bacchus and Ariane ; 7. L'Aurore and Céphale ; 8. L'Amour and Psyché ; 9. Diane and Endimion ; 10. Neptune and Amymone ; 11. Vénus and Adonis ; 12. Junon and Ixion.
All the illustrations have been finely colored at the time.A precious copy preserved in its elegant red morocco contemporary binding.
Références : Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle / Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes. Tome VII, Deny (Mlle Jeanne)-Du Duy-Delage / par Marcel Roux,... ; avec la collab. d'Edmond Pognon,... - Bibliothèque nationale (Paris), 1951, article DORGEZ, n. 14 =… Read More