Picasso: Toreros. With Four Original Lithographs
by Picasso, Pablo (illustrator); Jaime Sabartés
New York: George Braziller, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English, first printing, published simultaneously with the French edition. Translated from the French by Patrick Gregory. Oblong folio. 153 pp. With over a hundred full-page illustrations by Picasso, including four lithographs (one of which is in twenty-four colors) designed especially for this publication and printed by Mourlot Frères. Publisher's pictorial red cloth. Corners a bit bumped. Small bookplate to corner of upper flyleaf. Dust jacket... Read More
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Memoirs of Celebrated Female Characters, who have Distinguished Themselves by their Talents and Virtues in Every Age and Nation...Embellished with Portraits
by Pilkington, Mary
London: Albion Press, 1804. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf over drab boards, with gilt and morocco label to spine. Joints cracked but holding firmly; gentle shelfwear to boards. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, else unmarked. Measuring 102 x 92mm and collating [10], 346: complete, including all 12 engraved portraits inserted as called for by the instructions to the binder. A prolific author, Mary Pilkington drew on her firsthand experiences as an orphan and a governess to create... Read More
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The Bell Jar
by Plath, Sylvia
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First American edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Some fading to topstain. Dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Overall a very appealing copy. The Bell Jar was Plath's only novel and the final book she published in her lifetime. A largely autobiographical work, The Bell Jar reflects Plath's downward... Read More
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The Tale of Lohengrin (Signed Limited Edition)
by (Pogany, Willy, illustrator) Richard Wagner
London: Harrap, 1913. First thus. Near Fine. Deluxe limited edition, this copy number 34 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's vellum stamped in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Measuring 280 x 190mm and profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Boards slightly bowed with minor toning. Internally clean. A Near Fine copy without the scarce publisher's slipcase. Inspired by Wagner's haunting opera, The Tale of Lohengrin follows... Read More
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The Works of Alexander Pope (in 9 vols)
by Pope, Alexander
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, 1770. Nine octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/16 inches; 212 x 129 mm.). Contemporary tree calf. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt lettering label and a circular red morocco gilt numbering label on a rectangular green morocco label, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges stained yellow. Bindings lightly rubbed. Minimal foxing and browning. Each volume with armorial bookplate on front pastedown with penciled initials "A H"... Read More
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
by Potter, Beatrix
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1911. First American edition. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Color pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). Minimal rubbing to lower corners and spine extremities. 84, [1], [1, blank]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination).... Read More
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The Tale of Pigling Bland
by Potter, Beatrix
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1913. First American edition. Original light gray boards stamped in brown. Color pictorial label on front cover. Twelvemo (5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in; 138 x 104 mm). 93, [1]. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page and thirty-seven black and white vignettes in the text. Quinby Plate XIIA endpapers as called for. A very fine copy in the original (chipped) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix... Read More
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The Tailor of Gloucester
by Potter, Beatrix
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1903. First published edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. A nearly Fine copy in Very Good + dust jacket. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902... Read More
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The Tale of Mr. Tod
by Potter, Beatrix
New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1912. First American edition. Original tan boards decoratively stamped and lettered in dark brown on front cover within a brown single rule border and decoratively stamped and lettered in brown on spine. Large color pictorial label on front cover within a blind rectangular panel surrounded by a broad brown single rule border. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XI). 93, [1]. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette... Read More
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
by Potter, Beatrix
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1911. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Cover pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x... Read More
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The Pie and the Patty-Pan
by Potter, Beatrix; [Fine Binding - Sangorski & Sutcliffe]
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1905. First edition, later printing. Fine. Small quarto (6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 174 x 133 mm.). 51, [1] pp. First edition, later printing (with "1905" on the verso of the title-page). "The year 1905 appears on the front of the title-page of the first printing. The early printings have plain mottled lavender end-papers, which were shortly replaced by an end-paper design featuring a pie and a patty-pan. The cover picture was... Read More
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Abstract of an Act of Parliament...making more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of Correction
by [Criminalizing Poverty]
[London]: [N.P.], 1791. First edition. Broadside measuring 15 x 12.25 inches and printed to recto. Some light chipping and toning to edges, particularly to lower quarter of sheet; short closed tear with amateur tape repair to verso along upper right foldline. Pencil notation "1791" to lower verso. In all, a well preserved piece which is unrecorded by ESTC, OCLC, or the British Library. English Poor Laws went through several important shifts between the sixteenth century's decline in more... Read More
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An Act to Prevent Frivolous and Vexatious Suits in Ecclesiastical Courts
by [Separation of Church and State] [Sexuality] [Privacy]
London: Charles Eyre & Andrew Strahan, 1787. First edition. 27 George III, Chapter 44. A Fine copy measuring 310 x 190mm and collating complete: [2], 987-988. A scarce and important piece of legal history, which ESTC records at only one library (Lincoln's Inn) and which does not appear in the modern auction record. The present is the only example on the market. At the start of the Restoration, "English church courts were revived by an act of... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed Limited Edition)
by [Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. First American edition. Deluxe issue, limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 94 of the American issue. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A few text leaves poorly opened, some scattered foxing, bookplate on front paste-down. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4... Read More
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The Dolly Dialogues (Association Copy)
by [Rackham, Arthur] Hope, Anthony
London: Westminster Gazette, 1894. First edition. The scarce first issue (July 1894) with "Dolly" as running headline and "price one shilling" at the extreme lower right corner; subsequent issues have "The Dolly Dialogues" as running headline and the price location shifted upward. Yellow pictorial wrappers, blue lettering and illustration. Mild wear and soiling to wrappers, especially on spine. The title-page is signed in black ink "Anthony Hope Hawkins." Small octavo (7 3/16 x 5 9/16 in; 182 x 142... Read More
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Feats on the Fjord
by [Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet
London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited/E.P. Dutton & Company, 1914. Second edition. Publisher's original blue cloth pictorially and ornamentally stamped in gilt, gilt lettered and ornamented spine with "Dent London" at foot. Onlaid color plate to upper board and blue cloth label with "With Many Coloured Illustrations" pasted over small rectangular panel. Original pictorial dust jacket (with "J.M. Dent & Sons" at foot printed in green at foot). Neat gift signature to front paste-down. With all the plates... Read More
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The Lonesomest Doll
by [Rackham, Arthur] Brown, Abbie Farwell
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Thus. First edition illustrated by Rackham, published only in America. Octavo (8 5/16 x6 1/8 in; 212 x 155 mm). Collating [8]. 80, [1], [3, blank]. Original tan cloth, pictorially stamped in colors. Small "1951" postage stamp on front free-endpaper. Title page, frontispiece and two full page illustrations in rose and greenish-blue, twenty-six black and white drawings. A Near Fine copy. "There is no more famous illustrator of children's books in the... Read More
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Le Livre des Ballades
by [Rackham, Arthur] Fort, Paul
Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1920. Limited to 300 copies with an extra-suite of (13 of 14) mounted color plates, this being copy no. 256 of a total edition of 1300. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/8; 303 x 232 mm). Collating 108, [2]. Publisher's original pictorial tan wrappers. Fourteen mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards. Headpieces, typographical devices. The duplicate color plate "La France" is missing from the additional suite. Otherwise a Near Fine copy. First... Read More
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The Grey House on the Hill
by [Rackham, Arthur] Green [Louisa Lilias], The Hon. Mrs
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1903. First thus. First Rackham-illustrated edition, first issue printed on pink paper. Collating 205, [1, blank], [2, adv.]. Publisher's original blue cloth, front cover and spine blind-stamped in a conventional all-over patternand lettered in gilt. A color variant not noted by Riall or Latimore and Haskell. Title-page printed in red and black on white paper as issued. Eight full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. A Near Fine copy with just the lightest amount... Read More
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Imagina
by [Rackham, Arthur] Ford, Julia Ellsworth
New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). Collating [12], 178, [1], [1, blank]. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Housed in a fleece-lined... Read More
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Robert Browning
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1934. First thus. Fine/Very Good +. Edition deluxe, number 30 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. A Fine copy. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white (including one double-page). Publisher's full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt. In the original publisher's cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number on... Read More
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Goblin Market (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Christina Rossetti
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1933. Limited edition. Fine/Very Good. Number 403 of 410 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Octavo (9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 146 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four full-page color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white. Publisher's limp vellum, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers in green and white, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy in the Very Good original (chipped) glassine wrapper... Read More
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Poor Cecco
by [Rackham, Arthur] Bianco, Margery Williams
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 186 mm.). Collating 175, [1]. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Seven mounted color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white. A Very Good copy in the scarce original color pictorial dust jacket (jacket complete but with some repairs). "Margery... Read More
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Comus (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); John Milton
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First thus. Very Good +. Edition deluxe, number 215 of 550 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 297 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream-colored parchment boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others... Read More
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Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
by Rackham, Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First trade edition. Collating 43, [1]. Publisher's gray-green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge stained gray. Very slight discoloration on free end-papers from paste-downs. Ink name partially erased from the bookplate design on front paste-down, otherwise a very Fine copy in the original brown paper dust jacket printed in black (with the first issue price of "15/ - Net" on spine). A few small and neat repairs to... Read More
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