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San Francisco: John Howell, 1980. Tall 4to, xxii, 135pp. With color frontispiece & 42 plates, of which 34 are in color. Original gilt cloth, dust-jacket, fine. FIRST EDITION of this excellent introduction to California painting, with a foreword by Alfred Frankenstein and biographical information and references relating to the artists. ... more information

San Francisco: John Howell, 1980. Tall 4to, xxii, 135pp. With color frontispiece & 42 plates, of which 34 are in color. Original gilt cloth, dust-jacket. Dust jacket with slight wear and browned to edges; original prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in a very good dust jacket. First edition of this excellent introduction to California painting, with a foreword by Alfred Frankenstein and biographical information and references relating to the artists. ... more information

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1945]. Slim 4to, 24 pp., 10 tipped-in color plates. Original printed wrappers. A selection of BlakeÕs best known images in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 398. ... more information

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1945]. Slim 4to, 24 pp., 10 tipped-in color plates. Original printed wrappers. A selection of BlakeÕs best known images in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 398. ... more information

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1945]. Slim 4to, 24 pp., 10 tipped-in color plates. Original printed wrappers. A selection of BlakeÕs best known images in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 398. ... more information

[London]: Faber and Faber, [1945]. Slim 4to, 24 pp., 10 tipped-in color plates. Original printed wrappers. A selection of BlakeÕs best known images in color. Bentley, Blake Books, 398. ... more information

London and New York: William Heinemann and Random House, 1931. 2 vols, 8vo, lxxi, 235, (5) pp.; xxii, 336, (2) pp. With 2 engr. titles and 24 original copper engravings on plates by Stephen Gooden. Original full vellum with gilt stamped title on spine, untrimmed. Vellum a little darkened as usual, internally perfect. First edition, limited to 500 sets signed by the translator and the artist. Translated into English verse by Edward Marsh, with twenty-six engravings on copper by Stephen Gooden, whose illust... more information

Parme: LÕImprimerie de Bodoni, 1792. Two volumes 8vo, 144; 168pp. Quarter leather binding, marbled boards, with gilt accents and lettering to spine, signed by Lebrun. Decorative endpapers. Some soiling to covers and mild discoloration to edges of first few pages of both volumes. Tightly bound, internally very clean and crisp. Both volumes with previous owners names on verso of front free endpapers. Volume two with repairs done to the paper of the bottom corner of the initial half-title page. ... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1963. 8vo. 264pp. Printed wrappers, some creasing along spine edge. Ink underlining throughout. Good reading copy. First soft cover edition. Bentley, BB, 1642. One chapter devoted entirely to Blake and numerous other references including a chapter on Blake and Joyce. ... more information

Los Angeles: DawsonÕs Book Shop, 1964. Folio, 7 pp. Wrappers in marbled slipcase, a fine copy as issued. Limited to 125 copies. With the plate ÒLa DiscordeÓ from fable 20 and the printed text. Beautifully printed at the Plantin Press by Saul and Lillian Marks. ... more information

London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols., royal 8vo, xi, 225; vii, 187,(1, advertisement) pp. Engraved title to each part, frontispiece to vol. I, and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf a bit scuffed and untidy but quite sound, internally very good despite the usual browning and offsetting, and with huge margins. First edition with BlakeÕs plates, this copy very tall, possibly large-paper ÒThe plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent, Woott... more information

London: W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1796. Two vols., 4to, full gilt-ruled polished calf, backstrips decorated between gilt-ruled raised bands, two gilt-lettered red morocco backstrip labels per volume, edges gilt-rolled. [iv], xxxvii, 280; [ii], 340 pp. Fifty-two woodcut head- & tailpieces, eight by Thomas or John Bewick. Engraved armorial bookplates on front pastedowns of the Honble. Augustus Phipps; armorial bookplates, dated 1912, on front free endpapers of the Earl of Cromer. Bindings slig... more information

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 4to, xx, 638pp. Original maroon buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip, light brown endpapers, original illustrated paper-covered slipcase; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles in color and black and white. Fine. First edition. A thoroughly illustrated introduction to the history of anatomical studies in Europe, including works by Leonardo da Vinci and other old masters, with an index. ... more information

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1953. 2 vols., 4to, xviii, 511; (5), [512]Ð992, (1, colophon) pp. With 29 woodcut plates and many other illustrations in the text. Full green morocco, upper covers and backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt, backstrips uniformly and rather pleasantly toned to brown as usual with green morocco, morocco-tipped green cloth slipcases, a beautiful set bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. One of the most attractive, and r... more information

New York: Viking, 1933. 4to, [3, 26]ff. Illustrated in b/w on every leaf. Original color pictorial boards, cloth backstrip, very good. First edition of this imaginative alphabet book. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, 1923. Sm. 4to, vii, 111 pp. With a color frontispiece and 10 color plates. Original blue cloth, backstrip faded, a bit dull but fine within. Reprint with 11 (of 12 in the 1916 edition) plates from ÒThe AlliesÕ Fairy BookÓ. ... more information

New York: Delacorte Press, [1973]. 8vo, (8), 341, (1, colophon)pp. Original green cloth, gilt-stamping to the front board and to the spine, white dust-jacket slightly soiled as always, portrait of the author on lower cover. First printing so stated of Donleavy's sixth novel. The life and surprising adventures of Cornelius Christian.James Patrick Donleavy (born April 23, 1926 New York City) is an Irish American author, born to Irish immigrants. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II a... more information

New York: A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, [N. D.]. Small, thick 8vo, iv, 427, [4]pp. plus frontispiece and 22 black and white plates. Original green decorative cloth, stamped in pink, black and white to top board, and black, white and gilt to backstrip; frontispiece and illustrated throughout by means of 22 facsimile plates from drawings and engravings by various artists. Uniform browning throughout, binding slightly loose, but intact, some rubbing to boards and backstrip. Very good. Reprint. A fine readin... more information

Chicago, IL; Port Byron, NY: T.E. Dougherty, 1895 Die-cut circular printed wrappers, with text, [24] pp. Chromolithographic illustrations. A fine copy of this ephemeral piece. Attractive advertisement in children's verse and prose for New England condensed mince meat manufactured by the Dougherty firm. "O Monarch of pastry! What mortal disputes / That mince pie o'er all others reigns. / From the tart, juicy apple, the king of all fruits / Is taken the blood for its veins." Scarce, with on... more information

London: Blackie, [1913?] [88] pp. with color illustrations in the collation. Original pictorial boards, red cloth backstrip, a bit worn. Later edition of this much reprinted book, with plates by Rackham and Cecil Aldin and text from various authors. Collations and descriptions vary in library catalogues and online copies for sale. Some of the plates are dated 1901. In this copy, illustrations rendered as half-tones in the earlier edition are now line blocks, and some of the color illustrations have been pr... more information