The Complete Writings (10 Vols.) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington - 1901

London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Elaborate gilt pictorial cover. Spine slightly sunned. Free edges a bit foxed, as is generally noted. Seven mounted color plates illustrated by HUGH THOMSON. An altogether enchanting book with a striking cover. Also issued in a blue binding with the same cover designs. See Spielmann 57. 138pp.. First Thomson Edition. Bright Crimson Cloth.. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, c.1870. Hardcover. Very good+/No dust jacket. Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, c.1870. 100 chromolithograph, some highlighted with gold and silver. 60 + (100 plts, each with accompanying text) pp. Text in French. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Brown Full, elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-lettered morocco. All edges gilt. Ex-lib, as indicated by bookplate, perforated stamp at top fore-corner of title-page and small ink stamps on the backs of a number of plates. Overall, ex-lib status very unobtrusive, and a nice copy. Very good+/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine/No dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and 56 plates, some in color, by Covarrubias. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Brown Modern art binding: full, polished morocco; front and back covers each has a stylized African-American head outlined in gilt. Top edge gilt. A few spots of foxing on the front fly-leaf and the margins of the final plate, still a beautiful copy. Near fine/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form with ‘S. Veller’ on page 342, line 5; ‘this friends’ for ‘his friends’ on page 400, line 21 and ‘f’ in ‘of’ imperfect in the headline on page 432. Octavo, bound by Morrill in full tan polished calf, calf labels, gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 9 additional plates by Buss and Miller. Near-Fine; front joint is tender.

1930-1960. Popular and indigenous music published from 1946-1960. All in very good condition.8vo. Housed in a contemporary clam shell box.

Hatje Cantz Publishers. vg/vg dj. 4to, 361 pp. Hardcover. Dust jacket. 160 color illustrations. A massive work.

Stamford: The New Overbrook Press, 1984. This copy in a unique binding by Jack & Emma Craib: full black morocco with mother-of-pearl onlays forming design of characters from the play climbing out of the cylinder tube in which Beckett has set the play. The design reveals itself as a pictorial image only with the use of an anamorphoscope which is a 6 inch silver tube sitting on top of one of the marble onlays. Limited to 250 copies on Rives, each copy signed by Samuel Beckett. Each of the seven etchings is hand-numbered and signed by the artist, Charles Klabunde. Charles Klabunde, master engraver, was born in Nebraska where he spent the first two formative decades of his life. He received his MFA at the University of Iowa where his unusual talents were discovered by master print-maker Mauricio Lazansky who invited Klabunde to join his Print Workshop. Following his one-man exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the artist moved to New York where he established his own printmaking studio and… Read More

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, c.1870. Hardcover. Very good+/No dust jacket. Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, c.1870. 100 chromolithograph, some highlighted with gold and silver. 60 + (100 plts, each with accompanying text) pp. Text in French. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Brown Full, elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-lettered morocco. All edges gilt. Ex-lib, as indicated by bookplate, perforated stamp at top fore-corner of title-page and small ink stamps on the backs of a number of plates. Overall, ex-lib status very unobtrusive, and a nice copy. Very good+/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine/No dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and 56 plates, some in color, by Covarrubias. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Brown Modern art binding: full, polished morocco; front and back covers each has a stylized African-American head outlined in gilt. Top edge gilt. A few spots of foxing on the front fly-leaf and the margins of the final plate, still a beautiful copy. Near fine/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form with ‘S. Veller’ on page 342, line 5; ‘this friends’ for ‘his friends’ on page 400, line 21 and ‘f’ in ‘of’ imperfect in the headline on page 432. Octavo, bound by Morrill in full tan polished calf, calf labels, gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 9 additional plates by Buss and Miller. Near-Fine; front joint is tender.