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Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. Full Description: KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, [1915]. First edition, wrappers issue. One of 1000 copies (according to the publisher). Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 135 mm.). [1-2], 3-72, [73], [1, blank], [5, ads], [1, blank] pp. Complete. With five pages of publisher's advertisements and on flaps and rear cover. Cream-colored illustrated dust jacket with folding flaps, front of dust jacket with Ottomar Starke's famous charcoal drawing of a man clutching his head in front of an open door (reminiscent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"). Publisher's advertisements on dust jacket flaps and rear panel. Red wrappers. Fore-edge uncut. Some minor creasing to bottom of spine, and along edges. Light discoloration along edges as well. Top of spine with a small amount of chipping. Front red wrapper with the residue of a removed label. Very minor foxing to first three leaves. Page 10 with a small closed tear to inner… Read More

Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. First Edition, second issue with woodcut device to title, woodcut head-piece (angels) on p. 3, and woodcut tail-piece (rod with leaves) on page 222. Two titles in one octavo volume (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 199 x 117 mm). 222, [2, blank] pp. With final blank. [Together with] Grundlegung der Metaphysik der Sitten. Dritte Auflage. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1792. Third edition. [16], 128 pp. With vignette on title-page. Separate title-page for each work. Full original marbled paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Paper on spine and label splitting, but holding firm. Small ink stamp on title-page of first book. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. "The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is the preeminent synopsis in the history of philosophy. Kant completed it about fifteen months after the Critique of Pure Reason was published. He wanted to present his critical philosophy concisely and accessibly, for 'future teachers' of metaphysics.… Read More

London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Full Description: KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. Twelvemo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 155 x 97 mm). [vi], 199, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Bound without the half-title or the ads at the rear. With the publisher's advertisement leaf at the front, bound after the title-page. Late nineteenth-century full red morocco. Boards ruled and stamped in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Watered green silk paste-downs and free endpapers. All edges gilt. A minor crack to bottom outer hinge. Some minor foxing but generally very clean. Overall a very good, attractive copy. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Slipcase with some rubbing and soiling. First edition of the poet's third and last book. Taylor and Hessey originally planned to issue the last of Keats's poems in five separate pamphlets at a half-crown each but quickly… Read More

New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition. Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and the Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March. as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico. With Illustrations and a Map.. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. First edition, second issue binding with 1845 imprinted on spine. Two volumes, octavo size in sixes. [2], 405; xii, [11]-406 pp. Five plates and one folding map. Brown cloth blindstamped on covers and spine, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt on spines. Spine imprint 1845. Some foxing throughout. Otherwise, near fine set. Howes K75. HBS 66855. $1,600.

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1930. POGANY, Willy. . OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Will Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1930]. Limited to 1,250 copies signed by Pogany on limitation page and on frontispiece. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates, signed black and white frontispiece engraving, with loose tissue guard and numerous black and white mounted illustrations throughout. Beautifully bound in contemporary full blue crushed morocco, decoratively stamped in gilt, red and brown with a circular flower motif on front cover, gilt-stamped spine with four raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine sunned, extremities and tips rubbed, previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper and a few neat notations throughout. A very good copy. HBS 67681.

[London], 1720. London]: [n.d.c.a.1720]. First edition, first issue (?). There is a lot of mixed information on the publication of this work, however Virgina McLean in her bibliography "A short-title catalogue of household and cookery books published in the English tongue, 1701-1800" notes that the issue with the address of "Queen street" [present copy] is presumably 1720 and the first. Additionally, this copy has the portrait without the wig which came before the portrait with the wig. Octavo (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 179 x 115 mm). [2], 42 leaves. With frontispiece portrait, title-page, forty leaves of recipes, "the order for bill of fare" leaf, index leaf and eight engraved plates, three of which are folding. Without ad leaf as called for in Bitting, as usual. All leaves printed on recto only. Each leave is actually an engraved copperplate. Full polished calf. Boards double ruled in blind. With calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt and blind. Previous owner's initials stamped in… Read More

London: John Darby, 1721. The British Merchant;. or, Commerce Preserv'd. In three volumes. London: John Darby, 1721. Full Description: KING, Charles. The British Merchant; or, Commerce Preserv'd. In three volumes. London: John Darby, 1721. First collected edition. Originally distributed as a periodical published in 1713-1714. Three octavo volume (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 221 x 136 mm). liv, 378; vi, 443, [1, blank]; [2], vi, 3-382, [36, index] pp. With engraved head and tail pieces and initials. With "List of Subscribers" and two folding charts in volume I. Leaf A1 of volume III not issued [?] as we could find no other copies with it either. Contemporary paneled calf. Boards ruled and stamped in blind. Spines with brown calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edges dyed brown, others speckled red. Front outer hinge of volume II cracked but holding firm. Hinges of other two volumes starting. Corners a bit bumped, especially volume II. Some minor worming to inner margin of volume II, only… Read More

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1963. Full Description: KING, Martin Luther, Jr.. Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, [1963]. Signed by King on front free end paper "Best Wishes/Martin Luther King". In publisher's dust jacket. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 212 x 144 mm). x, [2], 146, [2, blank] pp. Below the signature is an ownership stamp reading "Golden State Mutual Life Ins. Co." Publisher's quarter black cloth over black paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. In publisher's non-price clipped dust jacket. Jacket with some rubbing along edges and at the top of front panel. Top of jacket spine with some very minor chipping. Bottom of jacket spine with a one-inch closed tear. Overall a very good jacket and an about fine book. This copy's provenance is particularly interesting being that is was once part of the art collection of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, the insurance company renown for being one of the largest Black-owned insurance companies in the Western… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899-1928. Uniform edition. Complete in 25 octavo volumes. Nicely bound in half red levant morocco over red cloth, front covers decoratively gilt-stamped with a circular elephant emblem, spines decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A fine set. Contains the following titles: Stalky & Co., 1899. Traffics and Discoveries, 1904. Rewards and Fairies, 1915. The Day's Work, 1916. Diversity of Creatures, 1917. Actions and Reactions, 1917. Kim, 1919. Just So Stories, 1919. Puck of Pook's Hill, 1919. The Jungle Book, 1920. The Second Jungle Book,1920. Letters of Travel, 1920. Captain Courageous, 1922. The Light That Failed, 1922. The Naulahka, 1922. Soldiers Three, 1923. Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars, 1926. Debits & Credits, 1926. From Sea to Sea,1927. Land & Sea Tales, 1928. Many Intentions, 1928. Plain Tales from the Hills, 1928. A Book of Words, 1928.… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Full Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm). [viii], [2], 212 pp. With frontispiece and tissue guard. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page illustrations, included in pagination. [Together with:] KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition. Small octavo. ( 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm). [viii], 238, [2, ads] pp. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page illustrations, included in pagination. Title-page with vignette illustrations. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. Two volumes. Original bright blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on front covers and spines and lettered in gilt on spines. Volume one with elephants stamped in gilt on front cover and a gilt cobra on the… Read More

London: George Redway, 1900. DICKENS, Charles]. Dickens Illustrations. Facsimiles of Original Drawings, Sketches, and Studies for Illustrations in the Works of Charles Dickens by Cruikshank, Browne, Leech, Stone, and Fildes. Notes by Frederic G. Kitton, author of "Dickens and his Illustrators," Etc. London: George Redway, 1900. Portfolio with 28 [i.e. 30] loose plates. Each plate with descriptive tissue guard. Also with half-title, list of plates, and notes by Kitton. Actually 30 plates because there is a X, X* and X**. Missing descriptive tissue guard for plate number 27. Portfolio size (11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 299 x 250 mm); sheet size (11 5/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 289 x 222 mm). Loose plates, tissue guards and preliminaries all housed together in a full green cloth portfolio. Covers double ruled in gilt. Front cover lettered in gilt. Preliminaries with some foxing. Portfolio with remnants of original silk ties. Overall very good with very clean plates. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens,.… Read More

Boston: Alexander Moore, 1872. Third edition. Octavo (10 5/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 262 x 172 mm). [iii]-xii, 13-98, [2, blank] pp. (Preliminaries are incorrectly numbered in all editions.) Complete with ten mounted albumen photographs by Soule of scenes in Yosemite, with tissue guards, and three wood-engraved text illustrations relating to Giant Sequoias, and two engraved maps. Text and photographs ruled in red. Original publisher's green pebble-grain cloth over bevelled boards with front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black and rear cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown, over older bookplate that has been partial removed. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's pencil drawings on front and back endpapers dated 1884. Pencil lines through the paper in a small area. A very clean and bright copy. "Kneeland [1821-1888], a professor of zoology and physiology and secretary of the Massachusetts Institute… Read More

New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1850. Early American Collected Edition [KNIGHT, Charles]. [CONOLLY, John]. The Working-Man's Companion: Containing the Results of Machinery, Cottage Evenings, and the Rights of Industry. New York: Leavitt & Allen, [n.d.c.a.1850]. Early collected American edition. Three works in one octavo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 167 x 115 mm). [1]-216; [2], [13]-215, [1, blank]; [1]-213, [1, blank] pp. With general title-page, and separate title-pages for" Results of Machinery" and "Rights of Industry." Half-titles for "Cottage Evenings" and "Rights of Industry." Title-page for Rights of industry reads: The Right of Industry: Addressed to the working -men of the United Kingdom by the Author of "The Results of Machinery." I. Capital and Labor. First American Edition. New York: Leavitt & Allen. "Cottage Evenings; or, Much Instruction from Little Reading" is a collection of 19 articles which is ascribed to John Conolly. Publisher's original brown cloth. Boards stamped in blind.… Read More

London: Privately Printed, 1865. and its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the enerative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe. London: Privately Printed, 1865. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being number 226. Quarto (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 213 x 174 mm). [4], xvi, [1]-254, [4, blank] pp. With forty engraved plates, two of those being double-page. Quarter green morocco over green cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Spine a bit rubbed. Very good. HBS 64694. $750.

Paris: Chez De Bure Frères, 1829. First Edition. Large folio. [2], viii, 102, [Table], pp. Original printed paper boards, glassine. Illustrated with 6 engraved maps and plans and 14 engraved plates showing views by Langlume after Bence. Some foxing, minor soiling to covers, otherwise, near fine. HBS 66946. $3,000.

London: Printed by C. Roworth...for John Murray, 1813. The First Russian Voyage around the World KRUSENSTERN, A[dam] J[ohann] von. Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. Vol. I. [II.] London: Printed by C. Roworth, for John Murray, 1813. First edition in English. Two quarto volumes in one. vii, [1, blank], [4, contents], [ix]-xxxii, 314; [9], [1, blank], 404 pp. Folding engraved map ("Chart of the Northwest Part of the Great Ocean") and two hand-colored aquatint frontispieces for each volume. Original quarter parchment over drab blue boards. Original printed paper spine label. Uncut. Previous owner's light ink signature on title-page. Very light small library stamp to title-page. Leaf a2 with a few closed tears, neatly… Read More