TWO VAGABONDS IN ALBANIA by Gordon, Jan, and Cora J. Gordon - 1927

London : John Lane The Bodley Head , 1927. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon. A lighthearted and thoroughly illustrated account of the Two Vagabonds in Albania. The observations and illustrations within this copy of Two Vagabonds in Albania were based on the pairs travels in 1925 and takes a comedic and lighthearted approach. Jan Gordon was an English printmaker and journalist and Cora Gordon was an English artist, writer and musician. They started the series of Two Vagabonds travel books that were very popular.  Including two colour plates and a colour frontispiece, and nine plates in half-tone and a further thirty in text drawings. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original blue decorative cloth binding. The spine is faded and there is some rubbing to the joints and extremities. A Library sticker is on the front board and to the front pastedown and a library stamp is to the reverse of the title page. Internally, firmly bound. With bright, clean… Read More

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket 304pp., Remarkable account of travel in EuropeÕs most backward State. Nicely illustrated with drawings and col. & b/w plates

London: John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the authors. Pp. [xiv], 304. 1 vols. 8vo. Original royal blue cloth with elaborate mosaic pattern in orange and black on upper cover and spine. Original dust jacket. Some tears and losses to jacket, some short tears or losses in margins of some leaves from opening,else a very good copy. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the authors. Pp. [xiv], 304. 1 vols. 8vo. The interesting and amusing account of the Gordon's journey through Albania during the summer of 1926, The authors had written other volumes about their journeys in Spain, the Balkans, Languedoc, Sweden and Lapland.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fenn, Harry; Earl, J.C. First thus. Spine faded. 1900 Hard Cover. xxxii, 276, [4] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations similar to those used in the Cranford Series, which began in 1891 and gave us the famous Peacock on Sundial cover design now coveted by collectors. Revised from the 1894 and 1895 originals, this edition includes the full text of A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, with a new preface by the author, and 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating local vernacular into his works, making his books useful sources for contemporary culture and dialect.

Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket . Decorated American trade binding, first edition. Green cloth boards with darker green, red and silver fish decoration on cover, fishing hook and fly design on spine, stamped gold lettering. Very slight browning to spine. Slight surface wear to spine corners, no fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges. Small previous owner name and date neatly penned on front free endpaper. Fifteen illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Decorated title page. Preface by the author. 357 pages with index. An extended investigation of the Ouananiche (a salmon of landlocked populations living in lakes in Labrador and Newfoundland)..

Brown leather boards with gold writing and images and raised bands on spine; embossed image of planet, sky, and tree in gold on front and back board. Novel not issued with dust jacket. Top corner of back board shows slight wear; top edges of pages show some spotting (see pic). This is a special Collector's Edition Easton Press printing (with white bookmark) bound in leather, illustrated by Bob Eggleton with an introduction by Charles Sheffield. Niven and Pournelle's classic science-fiction tale in a Very Fine copy. Hardcover, but no dust jacket, so novel cannot be protected by archival Mylar cover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf. 1927 Half-Leather. iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, new end sheets. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.

Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Usual wear and rubbing along edges else VG copy, 1/2 leather w/marble paper covers, six compartments along spine, leather title, 510pps. ads, volume one only of a set.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG, lovely decorated blue covers, illustrated, 1st edn, 193pps + index, minor fray to lower tip of spine.

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 2000. First Edition. Leather Bound. Black leather boards with gilt particulars and title to boards and spine. Moire endpapers; silk ribbon; four raised bands. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 234 pp. Unmarked and as new condition.

Includes Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant. Intro and notes by Harold Tarrant. Frontispiece by Richard Sparks

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. 2000. First Edition. Leather Bound. Black leather boards with gilt particulars and title to boards and spine. Moire endpapers; silk ribbon; four raised bands. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 430 pp. Unmarked and in as new condition.

Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction and annotations by Bernard Know. Frontispiece by Richard Sparks.

Paris: Plon, 1921. Livre. Parfait. Demi-reliure à coins. Ed. numérotée. In-8. Paris, Plon, 1921. 19,5 x 14 cm (R), in-8, 273 pp., reliure moderne de demi-chagrin noir à coins, dos à 4 nerfs, couverture et dos conservés, témoins conservés (reliure signée Th. Cosmao). Très bel exemplaire très bien relié..