Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black dust jacket; xiv,[2],583pp.; illus. in text throughout. Jacket with a number of long closed tears to extremities, the longest along top third of rear flap fold, some subsequent bubbling of lamination... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in glossy black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],237pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Tiny closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel, light foxing to textblock fore-edge else Very Good to Near Fine. More
London: Tho: Roycroft for John Place, 1656. Small folio (28cm.); full mid-19th-century sheep ruled and lettered in blind; [8],212,[8]pp.; A2 a2 B-3K; engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards both separated but present and heavily worn at extremities with loss of leather at corners and spine; lacking endpapers; several leaves..... More
London: St. Thomas' Hospital, ca. 1918. Original necklace of twenty-one hand-made wallpaper beads, each approx. 4cm. in length, interspersed with colored glass beads. Wallpaper beads a bit browned, else a fine piece of vernacular jewellery. Slightly later manuscript card attached to necklace stating "Necklace made of wall paper by a.... More
Le Mans: Imp. Monnoyer, 1919. First Edition. Original broadside poster (65x49.5cm.) printed offset on newsprint; old fold lines, tiny loss affecting the word "Mine," else Very Good and sound. Poster issued by the American Red Cross, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Knights of Columbus, and the YMCA, addressed to American... More
[New York]: Philharmonic Auditorium, n.d. but 1936. First Edition. Broadsheet printed in red, black, and green; illustration quite possibly by Enters herself. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Promotional handbill for a performance by the American dancer, artist, and author Angna Enters. Enters began her dancing career... More
Carradale, Campbeltown, Argyll: 1956-1958. Four original Christmas cards from Scottish author and birth control activist Naomi Mitchison and her husband Dick, with three of the original postmarked envelopes; various sizes (see below); some minor wrinkling from handling, else a Very Good or better collection. Three of the cards illustrated with... More
Ventura, CA: Published by the American Dachshund Publishing Co...by The Caslon Press, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); red pictorial die-cut wrappers staplebound at top edge; 32pp.; illus. printed in Dachshund-color throughout. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. The delightful tale of Fred Crystal, a surly, overworked screenwriter (Natteford himself... More
ca. 1920s. Original ex-libris (13x9cm.); Fine condition. Whimsical depiction of many of the elements of Van Vechten's career, the dominent figures a cat playing the cello (or bass?) to the left, an African nude posing with a large fan in front of a camera to the right; at the former's..... More
Chicago: Atwell Printing and Binding Co., 1908. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's blue cloth, pictorial plate lettered in red and black mounted to upper cover, green floral endpapers; 114pp.; frontispiece, plates with pictorial tissue guards printed on white and red stock bound in, additional illus. and music in text. Boards... More
Paris: Eugène Figuière, [1924]. First Edition. Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 56. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers lettered in black and red; xiii,[1],175pp. Light dust-soil, red spine lettering sunned, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page "Peggy from Preston."..... More
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Co., 1911. First Edition. Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown sunburst decorative boards printed in gilt on upper cover, housed in publisher's matching stiff card chemise printed in black; [6] Japanese folded leaves printed on rectos only; each page with color pictorial vignette at head and tail... More
Papeete, Tahiti: Loge Unie des Theosophes, 1935. Première Traduction Française de la onzième Edition Anglaise. 12mo; publisher's blue textured cloth, printed tan sheep label affixed to upper cover; [6],xvii,[3],200pp.; illus.; text printed mimeograph. Errata bifolium laid in. Light shelf wear, tiny dampstain to textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. First French..... More
Paris: L. Battaille & Cie. 1893. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's crocodile-textured sheep lettered in black, red topstain; 182pp.; illus. throughout; preliminaries interleaved with pictorial ads printed on stiff grey stock. Some scuffing to extremities, chiefly at corners and spine ends with tiny losses, else Very Good, internally near fine. Scarce... More
Oxford: Holywell Press, 1941. First Edition. Limited to 307 copies of which this is no. 135. Octavo; publisher's cream printed staplebound card wrappers; [12]pp. Light toning to extremities, faint crease at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on colophon: "To Herbert Oliver [?] from... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1995]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [10],357pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Medical suspense - cum - vampire novel. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; xii,[4],189pp. General shelf wear, jacket spine rather sunned and crown chipped, tiny loss at bottom of rear flyleaf, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in purple pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],136pp.; two leaves of plates. Jacket a bit shelf-worn, closed tear at top edge of pp. 53/4 touching text without affecting meaning, else Very Good and sound. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in mustard decorative dust jacket printed in red; viii,[4],207pp. Light shelf wear, tiny closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel, spine slightly toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy, apparently unread. Forms part of... More
Paris: Flammarion, [1949]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies printed on Alfa of which this is no. 186. Small octavo; publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 235pp. A Fine, unopened copy. More
[Paris]: Hachette, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative paper-covered boards; 90pp. Ownership sticker to front flyleaf, a hint of rubbing at spine foot, else a Fine copy. More
Paris: Librairie José Corti, [1948]. First Trade Edition. Octavo; publisher's printed card wrappers; [4],337pp. Wrappers and textblock rather toned due to inferior paper stock, spine ends chipped, else a Near Very Good, unopened copy. On the philosophy of imagination by the French philosopher, influencer of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and... More
Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum and the New York Graphic Society, [1968]. First Edition. Slim square quarto; publisher's red boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 143pp.; color illus. throughout. Jacket quite worn and a bit soiled along extremities, long closed tear at top edge of upper panel not touching illustration, coin-sized... More
Paris: Éditions Stock, [1948]. First Thus. Limited to 2200 copies of which this is no. 261. Octavo; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; xxxiii,[1],181pp.; frontispiece and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Very Near Fine condition. Forms part of the series "Cent Romans Français." French social novel set in a small working class..... More
[Paris]: NRF / Galerie de la Pléiade, [1952]. First Thus. "Limited" to 11,000 copies of which this is no. 1537. Large, thick octavo; publisher's decorative white leatherette embossed in maroon, green, and gilt; 775pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Boards a bit bowed (as usual), spine slightly toned, else Very Good or... More
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