![Oeuvres Complètes d'Alphonse de Lamartine [vol. 1]. Alphonse de Lamartine](/pictures/thumb/005632.JPG?v=1502901328)
Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1826. Hardcover. Nouvelle Edition. Vol. 1 only. xi, [1], 262 p., frontispiece, engraved title page, and 4 leaves of tissue-guarded engraved plates; 13 cm. Contemporary calf in a cathedral binding with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Gilt-ruled border on each board and gilt-rolled decoration on turn-ins. All..... More
Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. [16] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Pale green wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on pale green paper. In a glassine cover. Cintains 12 poems. Roger Lannes (1909-1982) was a poet and journalist; he..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Paperback. 28 p.; 20 cm. Salmon wrapper over card, printed in black. "Criterion Miscellany no. 11" -- at head of front wrapper. Back flap lists the first 11 titles in the series. Bookseller's label on inside of back card for The Holliday Bookshop, New York..... More
Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. [16] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Pale orange wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on pale orange paper. In a glassine cover. Contents: Ceci Passe -- Fouilles -- Le Dieu Seul -- La Pente..... More
Leipzig: Gustav Fock, 1895. Hardcover. 374, 362 p., frontispiece portrait; 17 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Author's name stamped in black on front cover with black decoration on spine and front cover. Blind-stamped decoration on back cover. Binder's name blind-stamped at lower edge of back cover..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1925. Hardcover. [10], 109 p.; 24 cm. White paper over boards; paper label with spine title in black and red. Top page edges gilt. Lacking glassine dust jacket and slipcase. This is no. 16 of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies, of which 135 were..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Universty Press, 1999. Hardcover. [10], 90 p.; 24 cm. Purple cloth spine with red paper over boards; yellow-stamped spine title. Grey endpapers. Dust jacket cover illustration is the painting Afternoon Fixing by Ken Sofer. Winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. [10], 64, [6] p.; 24 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title; blind-stamped cover title. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Contains 20 poems, including the title poem, about "the way we work and don't work in a society that has abandoned so..... More
Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. [16] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Beige wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on beige paper. In a glassine cover. Contents: Gueul de Nuit -- Liberte des Mains -- Ville Saint Lois -- Une..... More
![Ausgewählte Gedichte von Detlev von Liliencron [provenance: Titia Gorter]. Detlev von Liliencron](/pictures/thumb/003966.JPG?v=1472082325)
Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1907. Paperback. "Volksausgabe 21. bis 30. Tausend." 271, [1] p.; 16 cm. Brown stiffened card with gilt-stamped spine title; white-stamped cover title within a gilt-stamped oval illustration. Top page edges brown. Brown endpapers. The poems are taken from the author's Kampf und Spiele, Kämpfe und Ziele..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Hardcover. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge. vii, [1], 78, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title. Brown paper over boards with black stamped cover title. Lacking dust jacket. Title vignette of western scene. Some of the verses first appeared in Contemporary..... More
New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. Paperback. "Published April, 1930." 247, [3] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with cover design by Rockwell Kent; illustrated endpapers, possibly also designed by Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. Second unpaginated page following text contains subscription..... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Prism, 2019. Hardcover. 111, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Grey cover with yellow spine title and decoration. Red endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Witty and amusing poetry and illustrations by John Lithgow about the previous resident of the White House. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: p...... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Prism, 2020. Hardcover. 103, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. White cover with grey spine title and decoration. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Witty and amusing poetry and illustrations by John Lithgow about the previous resident of the White House. Book iand dust jacket are in Fine..... More
Chester, England: J. Fletcher, 1804. Hardcover. Printed by J. Fletcher; and sold in London by E. Williams, Bookseller of Wales. xxiii, [i], 62, [2] p.; 17 cm. Original brown paper spine and grey paper over boards. Wood-engraved head pieces and tail pieces. First edition. The author, Richard Llwyd (1752-1835), was..... More
New York & Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1897. Hardcover. 288 p., frontispiece portrait of Longfellow: many leaves of illustrations; 16 cm. Brown suede over card with gilt cover title; yapp edges. Top page edges gilt. Floral pattern in gilt on endpapers. Title page in red and black. No date..... More
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. Hardcover. Oxford Editon. viii, 886, [2] p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Red, morocco-grain cloth over padded boards with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "Gertrud Buck, a Memento of Moira House..... More
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...... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. Second English edition. xvi, 200, [8] p.: frontispiece and 2 additional leaves of plates, all hand-colored; 18 cm. Contemporary dark blue crushed French levant with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title. Top page edges gilt. Gilt-tooled turn-ins. Blue fabric..... More
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...... More
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1910. Paperback. [2], 27, [3] p.; 18 cm. Original brown paper covers stitched with leather. Gilt-stamped cover title; oval color pastedown on front cover. Covers and matching endpapers have faint green and red coloring. Title page is on lighter stock; title printed in red within..... More
Lugd. Batav. et Roterod [Leiden, Netherlands]: Ex officina Hackiana, 1669. Hardcover. [16], 614, [146] p.: folded map; 20 cm. (Signatures: *8 A-3A8 3B4 8vo). Full calf (18th century?) with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt decoration along edges of..... More
New York: Parnassus Press, 1948. Hardcover. 238, [2] p.; 22 cm. Blue velour cover with gilt spine title: 3 Books. Glassine dust jacket. This is no. 201 of a limited edition of 999 copies set up on linotype by Emilio Augusto, printed by the Parnassus Press, and bound by Al..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1917. Hardcover. 120, [8] p.; 20 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles and double-rule border. Publisher's advertisements on 8 pages following text. No dust jacket. First edition. The author, Patrick MacGill (1889-1963), was an Irish poet, journalist, and novelist who served with..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1885. Lawson, Lizzie. Hard Cover. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, and Griffith, Farran & Co., London. 31, [1] p.: frontispiece and 9 additional full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth spine with brown-and-white lithographed illustrations on green paper over boards. Floral..... More