Paris: H. Piazza, 1921. Hardcover. 166, [2] p.: 1 handcolored plate; 16 cm. Three-quarter dark green morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpaper matching boards. Original wrappers printed in orange and green bound in... More
![The Lost Children, and Other Stories [bound with] Our Little Harry, and Other Poems and Stories [Arthur's Juvenile Library]. T. S. Arthur, Timothy Shay.](/pictures/thumb/005512.JPG?v=1495836831)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Hardcover. 154 p.; 152 p.: 8 leaves of illustrations included in page count; 17 cm. Brown cloth with brown spine title on gilt-decorated background; blind-stamped decoration on boards. Illustrated series title page for Arthur's Juvenile Library. Gift inscription on front free endpaper: "Merry Christmas... More
London: Blackie & Son, 1970. Hardcover. 50, [2] p.: color illustrations; 18 cm. Illustrated cover matching the dust jacket. Illustrated dust jacket with list of the Flower Fairy books on the back flap. Front flap is price-clipped. Yellow endpapers. No date of publication; there is no ISBN, suggesting that this... More
London: Blackie & Son, 1970. Hardcover. 50, [2] p.: color illustrations; 18 cm. Illustrated cover matching the dust jacket. Illustrated dust jacket with list of the Flower Fairy books on the back flap. Front flap is price-clipped. Yellow endpapers. No date of publication; there is no ISBN, suggesting that this... More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. Paperback. 36, [12] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Paperback. The Book of Repulsive Women was first published as a Bruno Chap Book (Vol. 2) in Nov. 1915; it was first published in paperback by Sun & Moon Press in July 1989. This is the... More
![The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known -- March 1899 Vol. V, No. 3 [Lyrics from Thomas Lovell Beddoes]. Thomas Lovell Beddoes.](/pictures/thumb/004621.JPG?v=1472082373)
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1899. Paperback. [5], 107-125, [7] p., 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. Preliminary pages are unopened. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. This issue contains Lyrics from Thomas Lovell Beddoes, as well as publisher's advertisements... More
Port Townsend, Wash. Copper Canyon Press, 2000. Paperback. First Edition, First Printing. viii, 85, [3] p.; 23 cm. Paperback with cover design by Valerie Brewster; cover art by Jordana Munk. Wonderful poetry from the Nebraska-born poet. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
New York: Slow Motion Press, 1985. Paperback. Cover illustration from a painting by Teresa Ratel. [6], 18 cm. 22 cm. Stapled wrappers; front wrapper illustrated. Stated First Edition. Gift inscription by the author on title page. (The front wrapper looks rubbed in the center section of the illustration, but that... More
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 173, [3] p.: frontispiece and 8 leaves of plates, including 1 facsimile and 2 portraits; 25 cm. Modern dark green calf spine with blind-stamped decoration. Orange paper over boards with decorative pattern printed in green and yellow. Frontispiece is a photograph of... More
![The Later Poems of John Birmelin [in The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol. 16 1951]. John Birmelin.](/pictures/thumb/006758.JPG?v=1545435089)
Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1953. Hardcover. v, [1], 213, [3] p., 1 leaf with a portrait: 1 leaf with a portrait included in pagination; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Contents: In Memoriam... More
![Oeuvres Complètes de Boileau [vols. 2, 3, and 4]. Nicolas Boileau Despréaux.](/pictures/thumb/002133.jpg?v=1472082226)
Paris: Ménard et Desenne, Fils, 1820. Hardcover. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of 4 volumes: [4], 267, [1] p.; [4], 330 p.; [4], 436 p.: 6 leaves of plates (vol. 2); 14 cm. Contemporary full speckled calf. Six spine compartments between gilt-tooled bands. Dark brown leather labels with gilt-tooled title... More
![Nydia: A Tragic Play [and] Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love by George Henry Boker; edited by Edward Sculley Bradley [2 volumes with slipcase]. George Henry Boker.](/pictures/thumb/003555.JPG?v=1472082298)
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929. Hardcover. (Nydia) 102 p.; (Sonnets) 173 p.; 21 cm. Dark blue cloth spines with gilt-stamped spine titles and publisher's imprints; marbled paper over boards. Glassine dust jackets. With original slipcase: orange label covering one side, printed in black. "Two hitherto unpublished works .... More
Leipzig: George Wigand, 1895. Hardcover. [8], 46, [2] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title; red and black cover title and illustration. All page edge red. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Half title bears the red stamp of Institut Tilly, Berlin. No date of... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. Hardcover. xi, [1], 189, [1] p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with paper spine label printed in blue. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Dan T. Craine. Dan T. Craine was a professor of English literature at Sage... More
New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 183 p.; 23 cm. Top page edges red. With the loose sheet containing the "Publisher's Note on the Text" explaining the author's simplified spelling. Black cloth spine with spine title. Douglas Cockerell hand-dipped marble paper boards. Yellow dust jacket printed... More
Port Townsend, Wash. Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Paperback. [2], 108, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Second printing. Olga Broumas (b. 1949) is a Greek-American poet who has received fellowships from the NEA, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation, a Lambda Poetry Award, and has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. Hardcover. [6], 403 p.; 20 cm. Contemporary half black calf with blue cloth over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands with gilt-tooled title in second compartment, author in fourth and date at tail of spine; gilt-tooled floral decoration in remaining compartments. Top page edges... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. Hardcover. Imprint includes "New York: James Miller." [3], xii-xiv, [1], 16-533, [1] p., frontispiece portrait of the author and 12 additional leaves of plates; 17 cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth with embossed cover title "Mrs. Browning's Poems" over gilt on front board and... More
New York: James Miller, 1870. Hardcover. 533, [1] p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates; 18 cm. Contemporary pebbled calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment: Browning's Poetical Works. Blind-ruled borders on both boards with a blind-stamped trefoil in each corner. All page edges... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. [64] p.; 38 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt-stamped author's initials on front cover. Slipcase covered in matching blue cloth. Each sonnet begins with an historiated inital printed in gilt, red, and blue. This is number 631 of a limited... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936. Hardcover. [40] p.: illustrations; 32 cm. Pink cloth spine with illustrated paper over boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and title page. Includes both full-page and in-text illustrations, some in color and others in black and white. A charmingly illustrated edition of Robert Browning's... More
London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1920. Hardcover. Oxford Edition. viii, 696 p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 19 cm. Original red-brown publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Poems of R. Browning" and cover title "R. Browning." Blind-stamped border on both boards. Former owner's stamp on front fixed endpaper: James... More
Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis, 1910. Flint, Russell. Paperback. 51, [3] p., frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 2 leaves of color illustrations; 18 cm. Illustrated paper covers with gilt spine and cover titles. Printed in red and black throughout. No date of publication. The frontispiece is dated 1910. Final 2... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1904. [4] p.; 24 cm. Impression Broadsides, no. 1. One verse from Robert Browning's poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra" printed within a red-and-gilt border on p. [1]. Publication information on p. [4]; the interior 2 pages are blank. This is the first of a series... More
Philadelphia: Nicholas L. Brown, 1916. Hardcover. "Completely rendered into English for the first time. Privately Printed." 142, [10] p.; 19 cm. Black leather spine with gilt-stamped spine title. Grey paper over boards. No dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Top page edges gilt. The unpaginated, 8-page Appendix is present but has not... More