Paris: Éditions du Trianon, 1923. First Thus. Limited to 450 copies printed on vélin a la forme de Rives of which this is no. 179. Six volumes; octavo (20cm.); uniformly bound in white pictorial card wrappers in cloth-backed paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase, printed paper spine label to chemise; 20...

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St.-Pétersbourg: Imprimerie de Jul Stauff (J. Fichon), 1882 [but 1881]. First Thus. 24mo (8.25cm.); later full red morocco,  bound in original peach wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; xii,72pp. Minor bumping to corners, wrappers show some light soiling and wear with general rubbing slightly effacing text without loss of meaning;...

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Paris? Établissements Nicolas, 1930-1932. First Edition. Three volumes; slim folios (32.5cm.); glossy card wrappers, yapp edges; profusely illustrated throughout (detailed count below). Extremities rubbed, most heavily to the last volume, upper wrapper of Blanc et Rouge creased with brief tape repair, else Near Very Good overall, contents fine. Complete series...

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Montauban: Victor Bertuot [...] A Roc-Amadour au Magasin de Marie, [1862]. First Edition. 8vo; pp. [2], ix, [1], 89; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather...

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Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...

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[Sanktpeterburg': Tipografija Imperatovskoj Akademii Nauk'], 1882. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 86, [1]; 15 plain folding maps, 6 figures, tables; printed self wrappers; edges uncut and rather brittle, textblock mostly unopened; very good. At head of title (in Russian): "Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago Geograficeskago Obscestva. Po Obscei Geografii, Tom' XII, No...

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Paris: Gallimard, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 369pp. Some minor foxing and tiny soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed with an autograph quote signed by Gary on half title addressed to Edmond and another...

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New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped...

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Dresden: Hartwig & Vogel A.-G. ca. 1930. First edition, oblong 8vo; pp. 16 & 48 plain photographic plates; loose as issued in green stiff paper chemise embossed in gilt on upper cover, pamphlet staplebound in self-wrappers; fine. Title on upper chemise cover: "Hartwig & Vogel A.G. Dresden: Schokolade, Kakao, Dessert."...

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Chicago: Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1911. Large 4to, pp. [2], 661, [1]; folding plates, illustrations throughout; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in whilte, red, and gilt; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings and gift bookplate from the Commercial Club of St. Paul; spine ends and edgs a bit rubbed, else very...

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Paris: Librairie Techener, 1894. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 21; black and white photographic folding plate; contemporary three quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers; original brown printed wrappers bound in; extremities a bit rubbed, else about fine. Woodcut bookplate on front pastedown; from the Zaehnsdorf Company...

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Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. Hardcover. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly...

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