London: Brentano's Limited, 1923. Hardcover. 127, [1] p.; 20 cm. Mustard cloth spine with grey paper over boards; printed paper labels on spine and front board. One of a limited edition of 150 copies on handmade paper printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire. Preface by Jean... More about Doctor Heraclius Gloss by Guy de Maupassant; translated by Jeffery E. Jeffery
Greenwich, Conn. Literary Collector Press, 1905. Hardcover. 49 p.; 15 cm. Grey paper over boards; paper labels printed in red and black on spine and front board. This is no. 62 of a limited edition of 275 copies printed on American handmade paper. Title page printed in red and black... More about Of Books by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Marazion, Eng. Ark Press, 1956. Hardcover. 40, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-tooled spine title and cover illustration. Yellow dust jacket printed in black and brown. Printed by Worden Printers and bound by C. Eric McNally. "Designed by S. Kim Taylor and first produced in an edition... More about The Singing Air; Poems by Harold Morland; Drawn by Cyril Satorsky
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1936. Hardcover. 14 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt and black cover title. "This poem was written for the Centennial of Haverford College, and first published in the Saturday Review of Literature, October 14, 1933. In deference to occasional requests for separate copies, four... More about Footnotes for a Centennial by Christopher Morley
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932. Paperback. 31, [1] p.; 18 cm. Original orange and black illustrated paper covers. The Hogarth Letters, No. 4. Cover title: A Letter on the French Pictures. Cover signed JB [John Banting]. First edition. A short essay presented as a letter... More about The French Pictures: A Letter to Harriet
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1985. DePol, John. Hardcover. [20] p.: wood engravings; 24 cm. Cloth spine with paper over boards, the paper on the front board printed in a red-and-white pattern designed by John DePol. Printed paper spine label and front cover label. With original glassine dust jacket. From... More about The Old Printing Office; With wood engravings by John DePol; introduction by Donald W. Knoepfler
New York: The Pleiad, 1929. Giauque, Fernand. Hardcover. 57, [1] p., 1 hand-colored frontispiece, 1 addition leaf of a hand-colored plate, and 10 in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-rooled spine title. Burgundy slipcase with printed paper label on front section, with handwritten copy number. Designed by Frederic... More about Fantasio: A Comedy in Two Acts; by Alfred De Musset; translated by Maurice Baring [with slipcase
Chicago: Norman Press, 1939. Hardcover. [30] p. (on double leaves): frontispiece (signed L. Mennard) and illustrated title page; 20 cm. White paper spine with pink spine title; pink-and-white handmade paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 50 copies printed by the Norman Press under the directon of Robert... More about A Window in My Garden and Other Poems by Pearl B. Newell
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1914. Hardcover. [40] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. White paper over boards; cover title in black. Front cover illustrated in blue. One of a limited edition of 200 copies printed for the author on handmade paper by the Marchbanks Press in May 1914. In 1914 Hal Marchbanks... More about Jingles from the Postman's Pack to a Blue-Eyed Boy: Delivered from Three to Six; from the pen of...
New York: Paul B. Hoeber Inc., Medical Book Department of Harper & Brothers, 1937. Hardcover. viii, [2], 35, [1] p.: frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in; 17 cm. Blue paper over boards with printed title labels on spine and front cover. With original glassine dust jacket. Hand-set in Goudy... More about Man's Redemption of Man: An Address delivered at the University of Edinburgh in July, 1910, by...
New York: Dodge Publishing Co, 1902. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged edition of the first series; preface to vol. 2 is dated 1897. 2 volumes: [12], 404 p.; [10], 295 p.: frontispiece in each volume; 16 cm. Scarlet three-quarter leather with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine titles and... More about The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrics in the English Language [First and Second...
Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. [24] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Salmon wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on salmon paper. In a glassine cover. Contents: A Une Femme a Une Route -- A Francesca -- SevilleValentine Boué Penrose... More about Poèmes: Premier Cahier de Habitude de la Poésie
Stamford, Conn. Overbrook Press, 1963. Paperback. [6], 30, [4] p.; 22 cm. Black wrapper with white printed label on front wrapper. Red printer's emblem on title page. Issued as the 1963 Season's Greetings from Frank Altschul and Helen Altschul. Frank Altschul (1887-1981) founded the Overbrook Press, which produced more than... More about Toussaint L'Ouverture by Wendell Phillips
Edinburgh: At the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1782. Hardcover. 138 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author, and added engraved title page with vignette by Stothard; 13 cm. Contemporary tree calf. Red leather spine label with gilt-tooled author's name and decoration; remainder of spine also gilt-tooled. Gilt-rolled border on each... More about The Poetical Works of Christ. Pitt; With the Life of the Author
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. Hardcover. New Edition. x, 314 p.; 20 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Third compartment has gilt-tooled "First Series"; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled banner on front board with motto "Beati Mundo Corde." Both boards ahve... More about Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural...
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Eng. Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. 53, [3] p.: illustrations by the author; 22 cm. Linen spine with printed paper label; light blue paper over boards. "The ninth book printed & published at the Golden Cockerel Press. . . . Printed by F. Young, A.C. Cooper &... More about Masques & Poems
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. Chalon, Louis. Hardcover. 2 volumes: xlvi, [2], 341, [3] p.; xi, [3], 455, [1] p.: frontispiece portrait of the author (vol. 1) and 14 additional plates, all with tissue guards; 29 cm. Publisher's dark green moire binding with gilt-stamped spine titles and gilt-stamped cover illustrations... More about Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel: translated...
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1950. Hardcover. [4], 365, [3] p.; 19 cm. Lavender pebble-grain cloth spine; leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards in gilt, lavender, and maroon. Lavender endpapers. No date of publication. Includes the list of Oeuvres Completes d'Ernest Renan, which was published after the Second World... More about Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse
Berwyn, Pa. A.E. Newton, 1929. Hardcover. xv, [13], 166 p., frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates; 15 cm. Marbled paper over boards; printed label on front board. Light blue endpapers. "Privately printed." Part of a limited edition of 500 copies. Without original slipcase. Inscription on front free endpaper: "Mr... More about Pamela or Virtue Rewarded: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1769; with an introduction...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983. This is an unbound copy sent for review, with a letter from the Arion Press, dated Sept. 15, 1983, explaining that it was made up of "imperfect sheets inserted in a wrapper made of the cloth that is being used for the hardcover binding, with... More about The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke = Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1903. Hardcover. xxxvi, 137, [3] p.; 19 cm. Full vellum with author's name in gilt on spine. With original slipcase in speckled paper with printed spine label. Title page in red and black. Remains of bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Della M. Black and... More about Songs & Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard, Gentleman of Vendomois selected & translated into...
Paris: Charpentier Et Fasquelle, 1924. Hardcover. [12], 262, [2] p.; 20 cm. Half red calf with red-and-gilt marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. Matching red-and-gilt marbled endpapers. Undated inscription on first blank leaf following front endpapers. Former... More about L'Aiglon Drame en Six Actes, en Vers: Représenté pour la première fois au Théatre...
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London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. Hardcover. 73, [3] p.; 17 cm. Original red and black cloth with printed paper spine label. Top page edges red. Final 2 pages are blank. Lacking dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jeanne, signed "inv. W.P.B.... More about Seducers in Ecuador [William Phillips Barrett bookplate
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1917. Hardcover. vi, [2], 51, [3] p.; 18 cm. Green paper spine with dark green spine title; green-and-white patterned paper over boards. This is one of a limited edition of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper in Oct. 1917. Printer's emblem on title... More about Lyrics From a Library
London: At the Office of the Bookman's Journal, 1923. Hardcover. 36, [4] p.: color illustrations; 25 cm. Blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; grey paper over boards. Lacking dust jacket. This is one of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed at the Curwen Press. Contains 15 poems with... More about A Box of Paints by Geoffrey Scott; With Drawings by Albert Rutherston