London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857 and 1858. First edition, in the original, untrimmed and unopened monthly parts: TEN OCTAVO PARTS IN PICTORIAL PAPERWRAPS, housed together in gilt-lettered green-cloth chemise with bookplate of Maude M. Monell and matching green-cloth slipcase. Pale yellow pictorial paperwraps each with woodcut after..... Item #54014 More
London: Knight & Lacey, 1827. First edition thus: with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 12 hand-colored aquatint plates by Theodore Lane. Bound by Baynton in straight grain red morocco with raised gilt-stamped spine bands and compartments with gilt-lettering and rule as well as four ornaments of a sporting motif -- fox..... Item #54559 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Includes the "Dramatis Personae," presumably from the Caledonian Theatre perfomance, and the play itself but not any music. Illustrated with twelve unattributed hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, above which he's penciled, "of..... Item #54555 More
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 More
[Frankenhardt, Germany]: Edition Schwarze Seite, (2010). First edition. Only edition, and a very limited one at that. Number 15 of only 25 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Constitutes the first separate printing of Jeffers' poem which has alternately been titled "the unformed volcanic earth" [Broomfield A135, addendum]. Bilingual text with..... Item #56019 More
New York: Random House, 1956. First edition. Number 45 of 115 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST. Tall quarto (approximately 9 x 13") quarter gilt-stamped black cloth; vanilla paper-covered boards. Designed by Merle Armitage and printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. (According to Ward Ritchie's own recollection, as cited in..... Item #55575 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1918). First edition. The briefest of brief TYPED LETTERS SIGNED on letterhead of Chicago Tribune where he worked for years, dated August 30th (no year) "Dear Mr. Hanson:- Sure. Ring W. Lardner." First issue without the poem by H. H. Howland on page 6. Small 8vo green..... Item #55208 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
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
London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. First edition. Illustrated with frontis and 39 hand-colored engraved plates by Strutt. Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Quarto full red morocco with sides elaborately tooled in blind and ruled in gilt; 5 spine panels within raised bands tooled in blind and stamped..... Item #56139 More
Sherman Oaks: Mixolydian Editions, 2006. First edition. Number 27 of 65 SIGNED numbered copies, this one additionally INSCRIBED BY WAGENER to collector Allen K. Mears, "For Allen / With Best Regards / Richard Wagener / 1/15/07" and – though not called for -- with separate suite of 4 loose SIGNED..... Item #55876 More