Camille
by Dumas, Alexandre; Marie Laurencin
London: Curwen Press; Limited Edition Club, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. White cloth, gilt spine title. Gilt vignette on upper board. Color plates by Marie Laurencin, who signed the colophon. Translated by Edmund Gosse. A fine copy. The publisher's slipcase has some staining on the rear else is in very good condition. Limited Edition Club Bibliography No. 93. .
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The Uncalled
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good. First state, with the author's name misspelled on the front board. Gray cloth blocked in black, silver and gold. Light wear to the hinges and rubbing to the gilt else a very good copy. The cover design is credited to "GWE". There is a handwritten notice on the front free endpaper that this copy was awarded to Miss Gertrude Nelson by the Academy of... Read More
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When Malindy Sings
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
New York: Dodd Mead and Co, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 144pp. Cream, red, light green and gold on brown silk grain cloth with design of red flowers and green vines on a trellis by Margaret Armstrong with her MA in upper right cover corner . Decorated half-title and title page, with decorations and borders in pale blue. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. op edge gilt. Trace of wear to the edges,... Read More
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Incident on the Bark Columbia; Being Letters Received & Sent by Captain McCorkle and the Crew of his Whaler, 1860-1862
by (Duncan, Harry, et al., printers) Captain McCorkle
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1941. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. Unpaginated. Natural linen cloth, the title printed in black on the upper board. Finely printed on Georgian paper by Harry Duncan, Katherine Frazier & Jane Ward, the staff of the Cummington Press. One of three hundred numbered copies; this is No. 236. A fine copy. The first book printed by the Cummington Press .
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The Natural History of Foreign Butterflies
by Duncan, James
Edinurgh: W. H. Lizars, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 206pp. Contemporary full red leather, gilt spine title, boards embossed in blind, gilt inner dentelles, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Billed as having 33 plates: there are 30 handcolored plates of butterflies (one double, making 31), an engraved title page with a handcolored vignette, and an engraved frontispiece. As the Preface explains, this totals 33 plates. In addition to the engraved title, the typeset title is... Read More
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Anglia Rediviva; Being a Description of all the Shires, Cities, Principal Towns and Rivers, in England ..
by Dunstar, Samuel
London: T. Bennet, et al., 1699. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Small 8vo. (8),131,(8)pp plus 4 pp of ads. Bound with 'The Bath and Bristol Guide: Or, The Tradesman's amd Traveller's Pocket-Companion. Bath: Printed by T. Boddely. No date, but probably 1751. Together two volumes bound in one. Bound to style in full calf with a 'Cambridge'-style panel design in blind on the boards; spine in five compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt;... Read More
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Indian Boyhood
by Eastman, Charles A.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1902. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. viii, (2), 289,(1)pp. Red cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board, color paste-on to the upper board with gilt frame lines. Illustrated with four full page plates by E. L. Blumenshein. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Autobiographical account by the author, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (b. 1858). After the Dakota War of 1862, he and his family... Read More
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Marbling: A History and a Bibliography
by Easton, Phoebe Jane
Los Angeles: Dawsons Book Shop, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. 6 marbled paper samples tipped-in, plus a sample inset into the front boards. Crash canvas binding. A fine copy, without dj., as issued. The first of the modern landmark books on marbled papers, with a significant bibliography. The samples comprise Suminagashi, Beninagashi, Borjeson, Cockerell, Hatip Ebru and Ebru. One of 850 numbered copies. The inset on the upper board is in the stone pattern in light green with dark green,... Read More
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Marbling: A History and a Bibliography
by Easton, Phoebe Jane
Los Angeles: Dawsons Book Shop, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. 6 marbled paper samples tipped-in, plus a sample inset into the front boards. Crash canvas binding. A fine copy, without dj., as issued. The first of the modern landmark books on marbled papers, with a significant bibliography. The samples comprise Suminagashi, Beninagashi, Borjeson, Cockerell, Hatip Ebru and Ebru. One of 850 numbered copies. A fine copy. .
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Hunting on Kenai Peninsula
by Eddy, J. W.
n.p.: Lowman & Hanford Co, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 90pp. Green cloth in an embossed design, gilt spine title and vignette on upper board. Illustrated with photographs. Light wear to the spine tips, spine gilt dulled, two letters of title on upper board rubbed else a near fine copy. Signed by the author to his uncle Don(ald McRuer) Eddy and signed by Don Eddy ("D. M. Eddy 4/20/25", on the front pastedown. Provinance: from... Read More
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The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment ... Vol. V.
by Edwards, Sydenham, and John Lindley
London: James Ridgway, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated; comprises folia 351-435 inclusive, followed by notes and index to vols. 1 through 5. Contemporary half leather, spine titled and ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards and endpapers. The 48 folia are each accompanied by a handcolored illustration, many of which are folding. Although too early for New World orchids, there are still three species of orchid illustrated, as well as a camellia and a protea.... Read More
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Life in London or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis
by Egan, Pierce; I. R. and George Cruikshank
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. xvi, (1), 376pp. Half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, gilt rules on the boards, green cloth sides, top edge gilt, cloth endpapers. First issue, with the first music sheet unnumbered, no foot note to page 9, and 'good-bies' in the first line of page 376. With 36 hand colored aquatints and Designs on Wood by I. R. and George Cruikshank. The... Read More
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The History of Reynard the Fox
by Ellis, F. S.; Walter Crane
London: David Nutt, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. The first, printed in 1894, is the supposed suppressed edition, bout in publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Edges lightly worn else this is a very good copy. The second, printed in 1897, is the entirely new translation by Ellis, bound in cream colored buckram, gilt titles on spine and upper board. There is some offset to the free endpapers, possibly from some clippings,... Read More
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Book of Genesis
by (Allen Press) (Bible in English)
Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of Genesis. Asian green endshets and guards for the illustratioms. Bound in Fortuna cloth in an Iranian design, hand blocked in Venice. 24 illustrations engraved... Read More
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues ...
by (Bible in English)
Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear, 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use, but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828, and, later, 'Dan Smith, His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso, listing the births of members of... Read More
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A New Hieroglyphic Bible; With Above Four Hundred Cuts
by Bible in English
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1818. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled, binding lightly shaken, gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement, page 4. This seems to be the first Oliver and Boyd printing of a hieroglyphic Bible and the second Edinburgh printing after the Doig and Sterling... Read More
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Winter Reader 2003 - 2004
by Erdrich, Louise
(Minnesota): Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2003. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated. Grey cloth spine, printed paper label, decorated paper over boards. One of 100 numbered copies; this is number 79. A fine copy. A celebration of the papermaking artistry of Amanda Degeberm Bridget O'Malley, Rebecca Alm, Mark Hark and Jeff Rathermel. The text is autobiographical by the artistsm and each section is accompanied by a full page original sample of paper, signed by the artist... Read More
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Autograph letter signed
by Ericsson, John
1859. Very good. To an unknown recipient, complaining of poor workmanship preventing the engines from attaining maximum speed. Ericsson invented numerous mechanical devices, including the screw propeller, a locomotive engine, and an armored ship with a revolving gun turret. The Monitor, built on this plan, involved the Merrimack in the first naval engagement between ironclad warships (1862). In a protective folder, together with a contemporary engraved portrait of Ericsson as the Inventor of the... Read More
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Fragment of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Kama Sutra
by (Erotica)
(Northern India?): n,.p., mid 19th century. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 25 leaves. Ten full page sexually explicit and masterfully painted miniatures, nine of which feature a man and a woman, and the other a woman and a dog. Printed text. Later non-descript full leather plain black binding. Some leaves are rough at the edges else thsi is in very good condition with superb miniatures. .
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Eusebii Pamphili Ecclesiastica Historia Graece et Latine
by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea
Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Typis Academicis, 1720. Hardcover. Very good plus. Folio. (60),798,(24)pp. Folding plate of the Old Temple present in fine condition. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius in parallel Greek and Latin columns, followed by the Life of Constantine. Full title is: (In Greek) Eusebiou tou Pamphilou Ekklesiastike Historia, (in Latin) Eusebii Pamphili Ecclesiasticae Historiae Libri Decem. Ejusdem de Vita Imp. Constantini, Libri IV. ... This is the first in a series of three works; the second treats of... Read More
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The High History of the Holy Graal
by Evans, Sebastian
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2015. Limited edition. Very good. Hardcover. Illustrated by Jessie King.. Facsimle of the first Jessie King edition of 1903. 8vo. cvii,(1),379,(1). Publisher's light blueleather imitating the orignal light bue cloth, blocked on the spine and upper board with illustrations by King in black and gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with plates by King in black and white or in two colors. Marbled endpapers. One of 600 numbered copies, of which this is... Read More
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Kalendarium Hortense, Or, The Gard'ners Almanac, Directing What He is to do Monthly Throughout the Year, And What Fruits and Flowers are in Prime
by Evelyn, John
London: Printed for R. Chiswell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1691. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The eighth edition, with many useful additions. 12mo. (xxii,175(xv)pp. Title page in red and black, and with an engraved frontispiece-title. Index. Errata page present in rear. Contemporary full sprinkled calf; spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, gilt, and gilt title. With a full page engraving at p. 157 illustrating the construction of a greenhouse. Light wear to edges, dampstain affecting the bottom... Read More
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Aucassin & Nicolete (Signed)
by Evelyn Paul [illuminator], Main R. Bocher [illustrator], Horace Mansion [composer], Michael West [translator]
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co, 1917. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Limited edition, No. 115 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout. These elements and the text printed in red and black. Original vellum, front board decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, orange, and gray, decorative endpapers, top... Read More
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Thirty-Seven Days of Peril: a narrative of the early days of Yellowstone
by Everts, Truman
San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn; James McDonald, 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 56, (2) pp. Gray paper over boards, printed spine title. Hinges and spine neatly mended, spine and text toned with age, else a very good copy. One of 375 copies on handmade paper, this copy unnumbered. Title and decorations by James SInel. Early Grabhorn production. Heroic account by a wilderness survivor in the Yellowstone basin. Strangely absent from the Grabhorn Bibliography.... Read More
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U.R.S.S. Broderies Russes Tartares Arméniennes
by (USSR Textile Exhibit)
Paris: Ernst Henri, Editeur, 1925. Loose plates. Good. Folio, 11 by 15 inches. Portfolio of 40 loose plates. Paper over boards, cloth spine, printed paper label, cloth tie. The plates are printed in full color and mounted to a gray card with a printed black border. Portfolio well worn, and the spine repaired. The text pages are soiled and chipped. The mountings for the plates are sunned along the edges, but the plates are fine. Overall a good... Read More
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