New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. First edition by this publisher. Translated by Thomas Commons. Printed at the Thistle Press. #753/1500. Illustrated by Arnold Bank. Issued unsigned. Designed by influential book designer Adrian Wilson, who began his career in printing at Untide Press while interned with William Everson, et al...... Item #55659 More
New York: Knopf, (1991). First edition. Final installment in the three-volume series on the life and work of Georgia O’Keefe (1987-1986) covering the years from 1916-1932. Folio gray linen boards stamped in silver on spine; illustrated with 91 full-color plates including the frontis; 130 pages plus list of plates. Includes..... Item #71964 More
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, (1889). First edition, Introduction by Henry Chadwick; preface and edited by J. Austin Fynes. Small quarto brown cloth boards lettered and illustrated in gilt and black on front and spine; top edge gray; patterned endpapers. Illustrated with numerous full-page plates, four of which are in color: "Baseball..... Item #55415 More
Yuri Kuper. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1991). First of this edition. One of 250 numbered copies Illustrated with six original etchings by Yuri Kuper SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page, and this copy with each etching signed in pencil by Yuri Kuper -- though not issued as..... Item #50032 More
London: Edward Stanford, 1893. First edition. Illustrated with 8 full page photographs and 3 colored maps, including one folding map of "Algeria and Tunis." Gilt stamped green cloth boards. Hinges cracked but holding, otherwise very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends, floral front endpaper over-glued at hinge..... Item #52575 More
![Item #55491 THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN; [Card signed by Mallette Dean laid in]. Edgar Allan...](/pictures/thumb/55491.jpg?v=1675981872)
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1947. First edition to separately appear in book form. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press of Poe's story which first appeared in 1840 in Burton's Magazine. Quarto white cloth; patterned paper boards; printed spine label; 76 pages. Illustrated with color wood engravings..... Item #55491 More
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Limited to 750 copies. INSCRIBED BY POWELL on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Virgil R.D. Kirkham/ with my cordial good wishes/ Lawrence Clark Powell / Los Angeles June 23, 1934." Large 8vo brown cloth boards with paper spine label; 215 pages, including index; illustrated..... Item #55507 More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. First edition. Her first book for children, a story revolving around the donkey ridden by Christ into the city of Jerusalem. Illustrations in the text and on the dust jacket by Valenti Angelo, who began his career illustrating for Grabhorn Press. Although no indication in..... Item #55375 More
New York: Society of Illustrators, (1984). First edition. Number 36 of 50 copies with an original woodcut by John Held, Jr. (signed "72/100 Mrs John Held, Jr."). Additionally SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 355 pages with text for each decade by different illustrators (1920-1930 by Rockwell Kent..... Item #46227 More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1899. First edition. 12 plates by Remington. Gift inscription on front endpaper dated 1909, and cover shows minor wear, otherwise would be a very good copy, if it weren't for the damp stain on edges of most pages (faint except on first 10 pages or..... Item #48822 More
![Item #71547 LEHRBUCH DER KINEMATIK [Textbook of Kinematics]: Volumes I and II; 2-volume set (all...](/pictures/thumb/71547.jpg?v=1627684243)
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1875 and 1900. First edition. Text in German. Two volume set, well illustrated. Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905), often called "the father of kinematics," was a mechanical engineer and President of the Berlin Royal Technical Academy. FIRST VOLUME: Erster Band: Theoretische Kinematik; Grundzuge einer Theorie Des Maschinenwesens..... Item #71547 More
New York: George H. Doran Co., (1920). First editions. Illustrated by Harold Sichel. "The simple and very touching story of a French monarch who becomes estranged from his queen and of the quest he undertakes on the very eve of Christmas -- a quest which brings him a longed-for heir..... Item #71618 More
Los Angeles, CA: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1988. First edition. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES PRODUCED & SIGNED BY RITCHIE. A bibliography of Ritchie’s own Laguna Verde Press which he established after retiring from commercial printing. It covers 26 books, pamphlets and broadsides produced by the press with descriptions and printed..... Item #55856 More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First edition. "Gift book." Large 8vo elaborately gilt-stamped brown leather boards with inset floral title design on both covers; all edges gilt; 314 pp. Illustrated with two chromolithographic (i.e., colored) plates by Christian Schussele -- a presentation plate and an extra illustrated title page..... Item #71563 More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., (1900). First edition. 12mo white cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front and spine and with top edge gilt; illustrated with thirty-two full-page reproductions of famous paintings showing scenes from the lives of the authors. Very good with rear lower corner rubbed to board and..... Item #50085 More
London: Bloomsbury, (1999). First edition thus, the Bloomsbury Deluxe Edition. Originally published in 1998, The first three volumes in the series were issued in "deluxe" editions in 1999 while the latter 4 were issued simultaneous to the first trade editions. 8vo light blue cloth lettered in gilt on front and..... Item #56117 More
(New York): Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Inc., (2007). First U.S. edition of the "Deluxe" issue. With illustrations by Mary Grandpre special to this issue, including the dust jacket illustration which is a full wrap-around pictorial extending to the flaps (without any wording). Housed in publisher's illustrated, paper-covered slipcase. Fine..... Item #55402 More
London: Bloomsbury, (2003). First edition thus, a "Deluxe Edition" issued simultaneously with the first trade edition. 8vo maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine, with front cover pictorial onlay, all edges gilt, and ribbon place marker. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine. Item #56119 More
London: Bloomsbury, (1999). First edition thus, the Bloomsbury Deluxe Edition. The first book in the Harry Potter series was originally published in 1997. The first three volumes in the series were then issued in "deluxe" editions in 1999 (the latter 4 were issued simultaneous to the first trade editions). 8vo..... Item #56116 More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1938). First edition. Scarce advance excerpt from the first American edition of WIND, SAND AND STARS. One of 1,000 copies "privately printed for the friends of the author and his publishers as a New Year's Greeting. The story is taken from the forthcoming book, 'Wind..... Item #55482 More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1906). First edition. INSCRIBED by author on first free endpaper, "P. H. Mayo, Esq./ Best wishes of The Author: Winthrop E. Scarritt, Hot Springs. Va. Aug. 1906." Recipient's bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated with 16 black-and-white photographs. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering..... Item #52633 More
(London): Perpetua, (1958). First UK edition. Gift inscription to front endpaper, spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, bookseller stamp to rear blank, otherwise very good to near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a few scuffs and spine ends and corners lightly chipped and rubbed. Item #27702 More
New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, (1964). First edition thus: collecting seven stories previously published separately. Illustrations for each story and on front cover by Sendak. Stories deal with various situations or conflicts children might encounter and demonstrate ways to deal with them. Includes "On Your Mark," "Jacob's Friendliest..... Item #42901 More
New York: Crown Publishers, (2001). Second edition, first printing. This version with the Sendak illustrations was originally published in 1984 -- this is a first printing of the "First 2001 edition." SIGNED BY SENDAK ON TITLE PAGE. Fine in near fine, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. Item #53722 More
Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1959). First edition. "The Japanese value Sesshu as the greatest of all their artists, and the Long Landscape Scroll, here reproduced in its entirety, is his acknowledged masterpiece."--from the introduction. Cedar wood covers, accordian style pages. Approximately 4.25 x 5.5" with..... Item #53693 More