Riga, Latvia: Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1959. Paperback. [12] p.: color illustrations; 29 cm. Illustrated wrapper. A collection of 40 Latvian folk riddles compiled by A. Graubina and illustrated by T. Grasis. Text is entirely in Latvian. Inside the back wrapper are illustrated solutions to the riddles. Inscription at foot of...
Bologna, Italy: Tip. Mareggiani, 1871. Hardcover. 438, [2] p.; 20 cm. Original decorated paper over boards; leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. "Errata corrige" on first blank page following text, with a slip added with additional corrections. In Very Good Condition: spine slightly darkened; corners lightly rubbed; occasional foxing, generally...
South Brunswick, N.J. A.S. Barnes, 1977. Hardcover. 59 p.; 21 cm. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Margaret M. Reilly, loyal colleague and friend, Affectionately, Rose Basile Green, April 12, 1978." The author's fifth volume of poetry...
London: Walter Haddon, 1893. Raven-Hill, Leonard. Paperback. [5], 70-126 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Printed wrappers. Front wrapper illustration and head and tail pieces by Edgar Wilson. Paginated continuously with the first issue. Verso of front wrapper and of title page contain advertisements. Contents: Fiorenzo of Maggiolo by John Gray --...
London: T. Tickler & Co., 1837. Paperback. 52 p.; 14 cm. Brown wrapper with wrapper title in black. American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck first published "Fanny," his satirical look at social mobility and New York society, in 1819. Its popularity led him to publish a version with 50 additional sections in...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. Hardcover. 171, [1] p.; 18 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board. Board edges are bevelled. Dark brown endpapers. First Edition. BAL 7256. Small armorial bookplate of W. B. Lawrence...
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. Hardcover. 152 p.; 18 cm. Red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board. Board edges are bevelled. Dark brown endpapers. First Edition. BAL 7253 (printing no. 2) with "S.T.K." on p. 136, later corrected...
Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1991. DePol, John. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: 2 wood engravings printed in green; 24 cm. Grey wrappers printed in red and black. Red endpapers. This is number 61 of a limited edition of 75 copies in paper wrappers of a total of 150 copies hand-printed...
New York: Z.P. Hatch, 1853. Hardcover. iv, [1], 12-212, [1], 6-202 p., 14 leaves of engraved plates (including 1 frontispiece and 1 engraved title page in each part); 24 cm. Original calf with gilt-stamped spine title and year with ornate gilt-stamped decoration; each board has gilt-stamped center illustration within gilt...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1883. Paperback. [8] p.: in-text drawings; 13 cm. Sewn wrappers, which are included in page count. Wrapper title. No date of publication. The author, poet Cecilia Havergal, was born in 1849 and married Frederick Bickerton Grant in 1883. After her marriage, she is generally identified...
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Library, 1963. Hardcover. [2], 115, [3] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; decorated paper over boards. Original glassine dust jacket. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Glassine dust jacket is in Good Condition: some chipping to edges; loss at ends of spine.
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2000. Paperback. 42 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration is the wood collage 'Winter' by Tony O'Malley. Photograph of the author and translator on the back cover by Karen O'Brien. Small label on back cover: U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. [16], 231, [5] p.: 18 woodcuts by Leonard Baskin; 24 cm. Black paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. Signed by the author on the half title. The poems in this collection were originally published by...
Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1877. Speckter, Otto. Paperback. [52], 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown stiffened paper covers printed in black. At head of front cover: Schul-Ausgabe I. Cover title is printed within an elaborate wood-engraved border. Without free endpapers, as issued. Green and black bookseller's label on...
Düsseldorf, Ger. Fischer & Franke, 1904. Stassen, Franz. Hardcover. [6], 176, [8] p.: illustrations, music; 18 cm. Publisher's green cloth with black and white spine title and cover title; black, white, and brown cover illustration signed Franz Hein. All page edges red. Purple endpapers. Eight unpaginated pages following text contain...
Boston: Otis, Broaders & Co., 1839. Hardcover. 160 p.; 24 cm. Black (dark green?) cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Hill's Poems" and gilt-stamped center-medallion harp on both boards; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Includes Errata slip tipped in following Contents. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper...
Washington, D.C. N. Peters, Photo-Lithographer, 1874. Hardcover. [2], 17, [1] p., 8 leaves of illustrations; 30 cm. Original maroon cloth with gilt-stamped cover title; back cover has matching blind-stamped title; blind-stamped decorative border on both boards. Boards have bevelled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Each leaf of illustration includes one verse...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. Hardcover. 307 p.: illustrations; 14 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Series title on front cover and at head of title page: Modern Classics. "30" -- at tail of spine. In Near Fine Condition: spine slightly faded; clean and tight.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1895. Hardcover. 186 p.: frontispiece and 1 additional leaf of illustration; 16 cm. Green cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Gilt- and red-stamped floral decoration on spine and front board. Two title pages, each printed in red and blue. Frontispiece portrait of the author and one leaf of illustration...
Philadelphia, Pa. Toyme Press, 1900. Paperback. [16] p.; 21 cm. Stiff grey wrappers with green-stamped title and gilt decoration. Issued in grey envelope with gilt decoration. Title page printed red and black within ornamental border. Titles of poems printed in red. No date of publication. The Toyme Press issued a....
London: Charles Rivington, 1779. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. [8], 510, [2] p., 1 leaf of a map (folded); 22 cm. Signatures: [pi]4 B-2K8 (8vo). Original calf binding was covered, probably in the 19th century, with another layer of plain calf, which was stitched around each board. Writing in an old...
Baltimore: Philip H. Nicklin, Fielding Lucas, Jun., and Samuel Jefferis, 1812. Hardcover. 2 volumes: 314, 302, [4] p.; 14 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; black leather labels in second compartments with gilt-tooled title: "Homer's Iliad." Imprint includes: New York: M. and W. Ward;...
New York: Harper & Brother, 1860. Hardcover. "A New Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, with Excursions Relative to the Wines and Vineyards of the Ancients; and a Life of Horace by Milman." lxxv, [1], 731, [9] p., engraved frontispiece portrait; 19 cm. Contemporary calf boards with late 19th-century calf spine replacement...
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. 90, viii p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; advertisement for Calvert's carbolic ointment on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Contents: Martini Luigi Implora Pace: A Poem by Stephen Phillips; The Defence of Farvingdon: A Story by...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1905. Hardcover. xiv, 320 p., frontispiece portrait; 17 cm. Original limp calf (orignally green) with gilt-stamped cover title: "Best American Poems." Illustration of lilies stamped in green on front cover. Yapp edges. Brown ribbon bookmark. Top page edges gilt. Includes indices of authors and...
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