BRUCE ROGERS. Riverside Press, 1906. Hand-colored woodcut vignettes. Folio, original vellum-backed patterned boards, uncut; some cover wear and soiling, clean and fresh internally. ONE OF 220 NUMBERED COPIES, designed by Bruce Rogers. Based on Roland and the battle of Roncevaux, this 11th century epic poem (chanson de geste) is the oldest.....
By a Real Paddy. London: 1821. FIRST. With 19 Hand-Colored Plates. 8vo, Fine Full Dark Brown Morocco by Riviere, spine gilt in six compartments, inner dentelles, top-edge gilt, lightly rubbed, spine sunned. FIRST EDITION. (Abbey Life 282; Tooley 201).
Nielsen, Kay. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1924. 280 pp. Color + b/w ills. Front cover is design of red and black on silver paper. Spine has been decorated with silver lettering and designs, mostly worn away. Some browning to edges. Eps are a white-on-gray design which somehow says.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1960. Near Fine in Fine dustwrapper. First English Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A42b: 4000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the same year. Library of Alfonso Orsorio w/ "Orsorio" signed in red on title page. "Replacement 73 - Orsorio Hampton" on end sheet. Booksellers.....
3 Volumes. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. First Edition. VG (book in very good condition). No dustjacket as issued. Vellum Binding. 3 large 4to volumes. London: Nonesuch press: printed by the Chiswick Press in an edition of 1500 sets in Monotype Baskerville on Vidalon handmade paper and bound in marbled boards.....
New York: 1948. Signed by Illustrator. 2 volumes. Translated by Pearl S. Buck. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Folio, oriental bark paper-covered boards, slipcase worn. ONE OF 1500 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY COVARRUBIAS. Worthy special paper; bound by Russell-Rutter Company, New York, by hand in the Chinese fashion, decorated with labels.....
Correspondence to Corso’s father principally spanning between 1953 to 1968 when Corso was at his most creative and prolific. Usually signed as “Sonny” which was his family nickname. Formerly in the collection of Gary Fortunato “Sam” Corso. Includes: Autography Postcard Signed by Corso to his parents, from Hollywood, Florida, on.....
FRENCH AVANT-GARDE COLLABORATION. 8 hors texte color etchings by Delaunay, 380 X 280 mm; 15 X 11 inches (sheets), A SEPARATE SUITE OF INITIALED PLATES, SEVEN OF WHICH ARE SIGNED IN PENCIL, AND ONE PLATE HAND-COLORED BY DELAUNAY, plus 3 duplicate etchings initialed in the plate (some creasing and toning.....
Gertrude Hermes. London: Faber & Faber, 1929. Signed by Author. Fine/No Jacket. Unpaginated: the T.S. Eliot poem with two woodcuts by Gertrude Hermes (one in color). SIGNED BY ELIOT and published in LIMITED EDITION OF 400 large paper copies. In light yellow paper boards; 1929 deco stylized illus.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, a 6-line work entitled "My Love," concluded by a holograph remark enclosed in brackets: "A thought, not a poem." 1 page, 4to; horizontal folds. Np, nd. (provenance upon request).
Hanover, New Hampshire: 1955. Signed by Author. 8vo, cloth-backed boards; printed spine label, publisher's imprinted tissue dust jacket. Ink underlining to "F" in Frost on the title-page, otherwise a fine copy. ONE OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY FROST.
New York: Random House, 1929. First Edition. Twelve large octavo pamphlets. Each Containing a New Poem by an American Poet: Designed, Printed, and Made by Paul Johnston. Drawings on covers by Johnston. 4to, pictorial wrappers, contained in printed wraparound, printed paper chemise, light to moderate wear. First Editions. A complete.....
New York: 1936. 8vo, rough tan linen cloth in excellent condition in original glassine wrapper browned and torn. As issued without dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Crane A20.
New York: 1916. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, printed dust jacket worn, frayed and split; ink underlining to "F" in Frost on title-page. First issue points pp.88, 93. p. 88, line repeated, page 93, line 12 "Come" for “Gone”. Dust jacket spine darkened w/ splits.....
New York: 1928. First Edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover-label; moderate wear, wear to tips. FIRST EDTTON, FIRST ISSUE, with "Roams" on the last line of page 44. Clymer, page 42.
WILLIAM BLAKE. London: STOCKDALE, 1793. With a Life of the Author. 2 engraved titles + 68 engraved plates, including 12 by WILLIAM BLAKE. 2 volumes in 1. Tall 8vo, old calf, gilt, with honeybee and hive ornaments, spine gilt in 6 compartments with morocco label; rubbed, some foxing, minor soiling.....
New York: Hemispheres/Profile Press/Wittenborn, 1947. 70 pp., illustrated with 8 black and white drawings by Chagall including a tipped in plate as frontispiece. Number 263 of an edition of 600 on Canterbury Text. Scarce. 8vo., folding wraps (paper darkening and edge wear).
Vassos, John. Cream cloth over boards with black cloth spine; gilt lettering, stained, browned. 77 pp. 18 BW ill.ustrations. Title on cover: Gray's Elegy. An excellent collection of poems with Vassos’ striking and haunting illustrations. Contents are tanned but clean. .
London: Pine, 1733. First Issue. Text engraved throughout, and with a profusion of fine engraved head- and tailpieces, and other illustrations in the text. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary red morocco, flat spines gilt with morocco labels, all edges gilt: rubbed, minor foxing and soiling, etc. FIRST ISSUE of this sumptuous.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Signed by Author. Small quarto. Linen and boards, paper spine label, t.e.g. Frontis. First edition, limited issue. One of 160 numbered copies (150 for sale), specially printed and bound, and signed by the author. Very minor darkening to boards, but a very good or better.....
New York, 1925. 8vo., cloth-backed boards; moderate wear; pages evenly toned. Fifth printing. With a hand-written poem from “Ascent to the Sierras”, inscribed and SIGNED BY JEFFERS at Tor House on the front free endpaper. .
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Michael Hafftka. 8vo., paper wrappers with ribbon, color lettering on spine, clamshell box. (iv), 53 + 4 pages. Edition limited to 800 numbered and signed copies. Designed by Benjamin Shiff. Lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Printed at The Shagbark Press in South Portland, Maine. Hand-sewn.....
New York: Nicholas J. Brown, 1920. First Edition. Blue Paper Over Boards. Near Very Good. 8vo. 120 pp. Cover has title labels pasted front and spine. Cover soiled, with some dampstains on front. Spine sunned with a little wear at ends. Corners slightly worn. Touches of foxing to prelims &.....
Paris: Didot Jeune for Maisonneuve, 1791. 4 stipple-engraved plates after Schall, printed in color and hand-finished. Prospectus leaf for "Paradis Perdu" at the end. Tall 4to, contemporary straight-grained red morocco, all edges gilt; rubbed, worn at tips and edges, some foxing, soiling, browning, minor stains, etc. A beautifully illustrated printing of.....
D.H. Lawrence. (BLACK SUN PRESS). Watercolor decorations by Lawrence. 4to, full red Morocco, inner dentelles, uncut; some rubbing, upper cover slightly stained, clean internally. ONE OF 450 NUMBERED COPIES. Paris, 1929. This is the first edition of the story later to be known as “The Man Who Died.” (Minkoff A-27). .