Faust by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - 1906

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.

London: George Bell & Sons / Chiswick Press, 1903. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispiece, Headpieces, Initials. Xi,265 Pp. 13 13/16" Tall. Finely Printed Frontispiece Of Sir Thomas More After The Famous Portrait By Hans Holbein. Large, Elaborate Engraved Headpieces, Elaborate Initials. Printed In Red And Black, Deep Margins. #142 Of Only 220 Copies. This Example Finely Bound By Frost & Co., Bath, In Full Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Decorations And Rules, Gilt Ruled Turns, Hand Marbled Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Color Personal Bookplate At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown. Touch Of Wear, No Fading, Joints Just Beginning To Crack At Ends, Hinges Tight And Binding Sound, Clean, And Very Attractive. International Postage By Usps Priority Mail, Insured, At Cost [About $65 In January 2015].

London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 76 Pp. + Tissue-Guarded Color Plates By Rackham. Parchment Spine, Gilt, Paper-Covered Boards, Gilt, Illustrated Blue Endpapers. One Of 550 Copies Of The Limited Edition, Uk Issue With Heinemann On Spine, Signed By Rackham On The Limitation Page. Undated But 1921. Spine And Cover Gilt Bright, Wear And Discoloration To Parchment Spine And Paper Covered Boards, Some Fraying To Paper Right On Edges Of Boards Mainly Along Bottom Edge, And Tiny Fray At Top Of Rear Spine Edge. Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates Or Stains, No Foxing.

Glasgow: Privately Printed, 1881. SCARCE. In contemporary half leather over marbled boards, back with five raised bands and ornate gilt decorations, gilt rules, top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of Charles A. Baldwin, a noted collector, and his ownership signature front end page. Very Good Plus, light rubbing to leather at the tips, end pages faint toning. Contents clean and free of toning or foxing. Frontispiece facsimile of an Arabian manuscript, fold-out genealogy chart of The Seven Arabian Poets. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Hamilton Ltd., 1927. Limited Edition, one of 1500 unnumbered copies, 1450 of which were for sale. Prefaced by Life of Rabelais by Henri Clouzot, illustrated by 525 vignettes by Joseph Hemard, xxvii, 808 pp. In signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe full calf binding, covers with blind rule between double gilt rules, back with five raised bands extending onto covers to terminate in trefoils. gilt lettering and double gilt rules, wide gilt ruled dentelles, decorative floral end papers, all edges gilt. Very Good, two bumps to fore edge resulting in small marginal edge tears pp. 63-104 and 535-578. light rubbing to calf at tips, front joint starting to show wear, nautical-themed bookplate of Ralph Starkweather front end page. A quite handsome copy. . Limited Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Thick 8vo. Limited Edition.

Faber & Faber. London.,1933. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 5.7 inches). 38pp. Fine copy, finely bound in recent full dark green calf, flat spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt. :

London: George Bell & Sons / Chiswick Press, 1903. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispiece, Headpieces, Initials. Xi,265 Pp. 13 13/16" Tall. Finely Printed Frontispiece Of Sir Thomas More After The Famous Portrait By Hans Holbein. Large, Elaborate Engraved Headpieces, Elaborate Initials. Printed In Red And Black, Deep Margins. #142 Of Only 220 Copies. This Example Finely Bound By Frost & Co., Bath, In Full Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Decorations And Rules, Gilt Ruled Turns, Hand Marbled Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Color Personal Bookplate At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown. Touch Of Wear, No Fading, Joints Just Beginning To Crack At Ends, Hinges Tight And Binding Sound, Clean, And Very Attractive. International Postage By Usps Priority Mail, Insured, At Cost [About $65 In January 2015].

London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Xviii, 76 Pp. + Tissue-Guarded Color Plates By Rackham. Parchment Spine, Gilt, Paper-Covered Boards, Gilt, Illustrated Blue Endpapers. One Of 550 Copies Of The Limited Edition, Uk Issue With Heinemann On Spine, Signed By Rackham On The Limitation Page. Undated But 1921. Spine And Cover Gilt Bright, Wear And Discoloration To Parchment Spine And Paper Covered Boards, Some Fraying To Paper Right On Edges Of Boards Mainly Along Bottom Edge, And Tiny Fray At Top Of Rear Spine Edge. Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates Or Stains, No Foxing.

Macmillan and Co Limited . London. 1951 - 52. Two volumes. Reprints; 1st book, 1951; 2nd is 1950. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.5 inches). With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake in The Jungle Book, just Kipling in the second Jungle book. Fine, clean copies. Fine leather bindings, by Bumpus, of mid twentieth century half dark red morocco. Spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Just a hint of darkening to the spines of both bindings but overall this is a near fine, lovely set of these classic books.

Causewayside Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1897 'The Centenary Burns'. T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh 1897.
4 Volumes bound in gilt decorated half-leather by Bayntun (Riviére), Bath, England. Overall 1806 pages.With 32 full-page illustrations (etchings) by William Hole and 11 leaves of facsimiles.

This is a very representative copy of the 'Centenary Edition' of the poetry of Robert Burns. Bound by the famous Bayntun (Riviére) bindery in Bath in decorative half leather and cloth covered boards. The spines have five raised bands, gilt lettering on morocco labels and gilt tooling to compartments. Top edges gilt. Bindings remain generally clean, some ligth surface streaks to leather on some boards. Joints rubbed,some cracking mainly to upper joints resulting in a little movement to boards, others remain firm. Corners showing a little wear and bumping, small loss to leather on two tips. Marbled endpapers with binder's signature to top corner verso of front free… Read More