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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent, 1828. Revised, Improved and Authentic. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a quite attractive copy of a fascinating volume, being a New, Improved, and Authentic edition, augmented with E. Mackenzie's Explanatory Notes and a number of lovely engravings by Knox from designs by Cruikshanks. Original publisher’s brown cloth binding. This Imperial octavo hardcover measures 6” x 9”, with six black-and-white plates five of them being misbound (frontispiece is placed correctly) and placed at front, post-frontis. The front paste-down has a small, tipped-in article about this book, and there are extensive pencil inscriptions also detailing the contents of the book also inside front flap. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are slightly browned and rippled. Offsetting on title page from the frontispiece.… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1970. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Denver Gillen. Signed by Illustrator. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound most handsomely in textured brown linen cloth over boards, brown textured paper thereover, title label affixed neatly to spine. Housed in a Fine condition slip-case, of simple construction and featuring brown paper over boards and with gilt titling to paper label over spine. Gift-quality, inside and out. No. 482 of 1,500 copies printed, being a copy SIGNED by the illustrator, Denver Gillen. The African-American educator and inspiration published this critically acclaimed autobiography first in 1901, and it was translated into 18 languages eventually. Born into slavery in Virginia and eventually founder of the influential Macon County,… Read More

Llandogo, near Monmouth, Gwent, United Kingdom: Old Stile Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Author. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. The publisher has featured linen-covered boards with a fine line drawing by the artist and set that into a recessed panel on the upper portion of the cover. The spine features gilt titling. The front endpapers by Graham have been printed in four to six colors each, showing a double-page woodcut of Volklingen, Saarstahl, Germany. The rear endpapers show a double-page color woodcut, too, but featuring Skinners Bottom, Mawla, Cornwall. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Housed in an also nearly As New condition slip-case, single and elegant. Kippers & Sawdust is a stunning work by the master printmaker Rigby Graham, featuring four… Read More

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jean Augame. An unusual item, scarcely available to the trade, published in First Edition state by Paris Les Editions Nationales, 1946, bound most handsomely in quarto format, and xv + 260 pp. in length. Preface by Jean Cassou, then with Author's Notes and Table of Contents. Softcover text-block printed on lovely handmade paper, then bound into an ornately decorated cover (still covered in original glassine wraps) and then laid into a paper-over-boards-bound folder, then housed in a simple but classy-looking slip-case. Illustrations by Jean Aujame comprising 18 headbands engraved on wood, a dozen lithographs in color out of text and a series of 12 lithographs in black, still wrapped in original glassine paper. Exemplar No. 110 of 500 original copies bound, printed on pure Johannot paper. Table of Contents shows the item to be composed of: Notice su Clara Gazul - Les Espagnols en Danemark… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Rembrandt. Signed by Author. A tour-de-force of bookmaking and -binding, a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound most handsomely in a folio-size format, in full brown Morocco leather over boards, with a large "R" stamped in gilt to cover over a blind-stamped design, and then with seven raised bands to spine, title in gilt over a blue label in its own compartment between bands. Measures 13 5/8" tall by 11" wide. Protected gray cardboard cover bound in at the rear so as to protect the page fore-edges. Marred only by a small Sharpied "L" written in blue along bottom edge. Housed in a Fine condition slip-case that is decorated with brown paper over brown cloth-covered boards, and with an intact… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed by Author. This lot puts a lot of Christopher Morley titles on your shelf. 56 volumes, all in. Fuller bibliographic details are available by asking ( only allows descriptions of a certain length . . . ). The titles are as follows: 1) Thunder on the Left (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925). Very Good First Edition hardcover copy a Good condition dust jacket, machine- but not price-clipped. 273 pp.; 2) Where the Blue Begins (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923). Good condition hardcover copy with cream paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, cover illustration and title in blue ink, 215 pp.; 3) Swiss Family Manhattan (Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932). Very Good stated First Edition hardcover copy, Good condition silver dust jacket. 208 pp.; 4) Pipefuls (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921). Early reprint of 1921 First Edition, Good condition hardcover copy with tan paper over boards, no slipcase, as issued. 274 pp.; 5) Streamlines (Doubleday, Doran & Company,… Read More

Northbridge, New South Wales, Australia: Reid Books, 1984. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Frank Hodgkinson. Signed by Author. Special Limited Edition, being Copy No. 505 of 600 copies printed, TRIPLE-SIGNED, and with the Copy #43 of 100 of the even more special edition that was issued with a signed and numbered illustration, being "Raggiana" and tissue-guarded. Wildly illustrated pastedowns front and rear, being a hand-drawn map of the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, quite personal and evocative. SIGNED by the author, by T. Wall of the Touche Ross & Co., who printed the book, and by a representative of the publisher, Reid Books, Northbridge, New South Wales, Australia. Quite handsomely produced in what appears to be a creamy brown leather over boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine, blind-stamped illustration to front cover. Protected in a full-color illustrated slipcase in Fine condition. Unpaginated. Full of full-color and… Read More

Morningside Press / Harper & Row / Ticknor & Fields. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A nice-looking, structurally sound set of seven (7) American Civil War titles, purchased from the personal library of the (now deceased) owner of California Collectible Books (Lloyd Mason), until recently located in Martinez, California. As New condition to six titles, Very Good condition to the Stephen W. Sears title (To the Gates of Richmond), with just some dust soiling along top edge, and Near Fine condition copy of the Warren Wilkinson title, Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen (with a Foreword by Emory M. Thomas), ditto, both of the latter two titles in dust jackets, as issued, as with the remaining volumes (the Comstock volume and The Ordnance Manual not having been issued with one). Lloyd Mason collected Civil War history, Western Americana, and California-based novelists' works.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional… Read More

First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine-looking set of seven (7) Dave Eggers works, all in hardcover, six being novels, one being a quasi-journalistic account, Zeitoun, about Hurricane Katrina. Each is a stated First Edition but for one that is a Fourth Printing of the First Edition, several being also in stated First Printing state. 1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000, 375 pp.), As New condition hardcover, two-tone paper over boards, cloth-backed, price-clipped dust jacket, illustrated, else easily Fine; 2) Zeitoun (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005, 351 pp.), illustrated paper over boards, burgundy cloth-backed, vertical "belly-band" over rear flap; 3) Heroes of the Frontier (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, 385 pp.), illustrated pictorial pictorial boards; 4) The Circle (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, 491 pp.), As New condition hardcover, with a nearly Fine dust wrapper, and turned into a fine Hollywood… Read More

France: The 79th Division, United States Army, 1919. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Mange is on the Decline." "Cudgels Taken Up." "Atrocities in Verse: 'Over the top with Rastus Brown'". "Inoculation of 79th is Ordered." These and other article titles and sections and features make this issue of The Lorraine Cross, uber-scarce in any condition and not currently available even on WorldCat dot org . This issue, in Fair condition for moderate soiling and chipping, is an indispensable item for students and historians of World War One materials. First Edition copy, 4 pp. in single-fold format, since folded again, measuring 24" x 17" wide and tall, respectively, when opened fully, laid now onto stiff card stock and slipped into a plastic sleeve. This item is browned, chipped along edges, soiled a bit at top of first page, tender to the touch, so handle with care, but all the text is readable. The newspaper masthead… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The bright-red buckram cloth covers indicating ex-library status belie the original interior published in 1877 and that is festooned with some lovely black-and-white engravings hors-text and additional duotone engravings on plates, done by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, of Dublin. Red-speckled page edges. Withdrawn from the Leeds public library, a fine bookplate inside front flap denoting so, and with ink-stamp denoting such inside rear flap at bottom and embossed stamps at title page and over tips of engraved plates, unobtrusive. Cracking to gutter of a pastedown, else quite sturdy. First Edition. xix [3], 406, [2] pp. + 82 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Nine lovely plates that are done by the so-called Woodbury process developed by Walter Woodbury, a photographic frontis, says a Wikipedia article about it, that "is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author on bookplate pasted onto first free endpaper. Scarce in the trade, this being the stated First U.K. Edition. Bound in brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Original purchase receipt laid in. "A Jim Chee novel giving enough Indian lore for individuality and an authentic flavour, but with a plot that goes well beyond Indian territory in space & in subject." 184 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, France: The Obelisk Press, 1938. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated Fourth Printing, published first in 1934, then reprinted in September 1935, March 1938, and June of 1938. Preface by Anais Nin. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, well worn and toned of wraps, in gate-fold, half-inch splits thereto at rear bottom and front top, but complete. Printed in Hungary. Rear panel features blurbs of praise by Cyril Connolly, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, William Carlos Williams, Blaise Cendrars, Anains Nin and Montgomery Belgion. Measures 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" wide and tall, respectively, price of 60 Frs inside front dust wrapper flap, publisher's device at spine bottom. 318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Japan: Editions Treville, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Katsuya Terada. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Laid in are the original tariff tickets! Bright and shiny illustrated cut-out, open-ended sleeve, showing no appreciable wear, gift-quality condition inside and out. Katsuya Terada is a bright, well-known, influential Japanese artist who claims European influences such as Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius). Probably best known as the character designer for the Japanese animated film Blood: The Last Vampire, but also for Iron Man and Hellboy and then also for films, video games and television series. His Wikipedia entry says that Terada is known for "a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking… Read More

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Jules Remedios Faye. Signed by Author. A fine and due homage to the history and practice of basket-weaving along the Columbia river in Oregon and Washington. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper. Laid in also is a special item of ephemera, being a SIGNED broadside by Grey Spider Press on occasion of a reading by the author and featuring a Wasco-style human figure from a twined bag, quite fine, being one of only 50 such ever printed. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume… Read More