Breakfast in Perigord by Flint, Sir William Russell - 1968

London: Hand and Flower Press, 1949 One of 260 copies printed on handmade paper by the Ditchling Press, Sussex, signed by the author. A charming production. Half brown crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe over gray boards. Gilt spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. . Quarto. Title-page engraving by Alfred Richard Lane. With bibliography. A fine copy.

Suncook, Pembroke, N.H., 1878. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt title and decorative black stamping on front cover, lower cover with blind-stamped title and ornament. Frontis. portrait engraving, 63 pp., illus. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head the next morning. Following the initial arrest of innocent parties, the actual murderer was identified as French-Canadian woodcutter Joseph Lapage. Tried and found guilty, he admitted to his crime (as well as a similar murder in Vermont) on March 15th, 1878 and was hung the following day. The town of Pembroke placed a monument to the victim near the murder site, with directions to the sites where her body and head were discovered. Keeler's forty-page poetic eulogy is preceded by a brief account of… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Poems in Folio, 1957. First edition. Broadside printed in two color that measures 12" x 18." One of 150 copies on mould made Arches paper, though this is an out of series copy. A poem by Roethke with a woodcut initial by Mallette Dean. A clean near fine copy. Signed by Roethke. Information sheet also included and in clean near fine condition. A very nice copy.

Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts Press, 1934. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, [ii], xviii-[xx], 261 pp.; 127 plates, 7 colored including the large folding frontispiece with coloring by Tom Lea. Map endpapers. Maps and illustrations in text. Light wear to the edges and inner hinges else a near fine copy. Part I describes the types of looms and their mechanics, the weaves, dyes, and types and uses of Navajo textiles. Part II describes the history of weaving in the Navaho culture. Howes A-225. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 307 pages; VG; contemporary full navy cloth binding; spine with gilt lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; scuffing to front and back boards; upper edge of textblock dyed orange; inscribed by Mencken at title page; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1346532. Special Collections.

Allan Melville's Signature on a work of scrivener's art.Allan Melville was Herman Melville's brother, literary agent, and when this document was signed, adult roommate. Allan resided in New York with a law office at 10 Wall Street. In 1856, Herman still had several adventures to go before he too would be pulled into the world of documents and scriveners at the Custom House.. An interesting piece of Melvilliana. Fine.

[San Francisco]: the artist, 1982. Poster. 16x20 inch screen print poster on rag paper. Limited edition of one 41, with number penciled at lower left, signed by the artist at lower right. A lovely, fine example, from the holdings of the poet herself.

JONES, Diana Wynne. Charmed Life. NY: Greenwillow [1977]. 12mo, [vi] 218pp. Orange boards stamped in black. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket – practically as new. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.
First US edition. The first book published in Diana Wynne Jones' beloved Chrestomanci series. Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack by changing worlds with her doppleganger. Scared he'll be thrown out of the castle, Cat now has to find a way to pass off the unmagical doppleganger as his very magical sister!

An elaborate volume serving as a statement on the glove trade at the time of this famous exposition, as well as an illustrated catalogue to the exhibits and the various exhibitors, prepared and published by the glove industries' main trade journal. Each catalogue page has various color-printed art-deco designs. Rare: not located in OCLC.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1964 One of 125 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. . Thick gray paper wrappers with a printed paper spine label. . Large folio. With two original leaves (16 1/2" x 11") laid in. The leaves in this copy are the text of "Fable IX Le GeaI Paré des Plumes du Paon" and its accompanying copper engraved plate. Monograph by Frances Brewer. Wrappers have minor light wear, else a fine copy in a slightly rubbed marbled board slipcase. Brewer's work provides a fascinating history of La Fontaine's life in addition to the beautiful Memorial Edition of his Fables, published approximately fifty years after his death. La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a contemporary of Charles Perrault and a member of the quarter "Rue de Vieux Colombier," famous in French literary history, which consisted of Racine, Boileau, and Moliére. His work consists of 239 fables, divided into twelve books. His first collection of Fables Choisies was divided up into six books in two… Read More