Les Fantaisies de Bruscambille, contenant plusieurs Discours, Paradoxes, Harangues & Prologues facecieux
by [Deslauriers; Gracieux, Jean]
1615. Paris: Jean Millot, 1615. Sm. 8vo, vi, 325, (3) pp. Engraved title page followed by typographic title-page with woodcut vignette; headpieces and initials. Full polished calf gilt c.1900 with ribbon marker and earlier marbled endpapers. Calf a little rubbed, some scattered foxing but generally very good. Ownership inscription of Gershon Legman dated 1951 and his bibliographical notes on front free endpaper. § Rare second edition of these satyrical, nonsensical, and ribald (often all three)... Read More
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The Plantin-Moretus Museum. A Printer's Paradise
by De Vinne, Theodore. Grabhorn Press
1929. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. 12mo, xxii , 54, 4 pp. With a colored frontispiece and a hand colored initial by Valenti Angelo. Full russet morocco, backstrip slightly faded. § Limited to 425 copies, this one of a very few in the leather binding. In pencil in the colophon it states "Printer's copy" possibly in Ed Grabhorn's hand. A special copy of a very pretty little book, with the introduction by Oscar Lewis.
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A Garland of Juvenile Bookplates
by Diamond, Elizabeth Watson
1949. Cleveland: Hyacinth Press, 1949. Slim 8vo, 11 pp., with a frontispiece and 8 plates (7 mounted). Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine, head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies, a very scarce and quite lovely collection of bookplates for children or children's book collectors, the second collection of bookplates published by the Hyacinth Press (the... Read More
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Northern Tour A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland..
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
1838. London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2-436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437-39) 440-1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels, skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrips. Binding signed "J. MacKenzie Binder 4 Crown St. Westminster". Bookplate of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition, regular paper copy. Dedicated... Read More
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A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
1821. London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol, Shakespeare Press, And Sold By Payne And Foss, Longman, Hurst And Co..., 1821. 3 vols., royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxv, [3 leaves], 462, lxxix, [1] errata; 2 p.l., 555; 2 p.l., 622, lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates (incl. portraits; 1 color, 2 sepia, & 5 double-page) & 63 smaller illus. in the text, some on India paper, mounted. Early half dark green morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered... Read More
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Reminiscences of a Literary Life
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
1836. London: J. Major, 1836. 2 vols., royal 8vo. (i-v), vi-xxxii, (4),(1) 2- 556 pp.; (2), 557-982 pp.+ 44 pp. index. 10 plates. Later polished brown calf, gilt backstrips, red and green labels, gilt edges, bookplates of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition, the regular edition which was printed in an edition of 1250 copies. A handsome set. Dibdin's autobiography contains a wealth of information on bookselling and collecting at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when... Read More
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Bibliotheca Spenceriana or A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century ... in the Library of George John Earl Spencer..
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
1814. London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman, Hurst [etc.], 1814-15. 4 vols., 8vo, ix, lii, i, 383; 503; 509, [3]; vii, 509, lxxvii pp., with 22 plates including one double-page, as called for, and numerous additional woodcuts, some in red, in the text of all four volumes. These woodcut facsimiles are by the Byfield family. Full red morocco, gilt dentelles. Bookplate of Ross Winans on the front pastedown of... Read More
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A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
1821. London: W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co. J. and A. Arch, R. H. Evans, R. Triphook, and John Major, 1821. 3 vols., large thick 8vo, (iv), xxv, (xxvi blank), [v] vi blank], 462, lxxix+(i), index; (iv), 555+(1); (iv), 392.297-622, lxii pp (lacking half-titles). 83 plates (incl. portraits; 1 color, 2 sepia, & 5 double-page) & 63 smaller illus. in the text, some on India paper,... Read More
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time
by Dickens, Charles
1848. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. 8vo, [viii], 188 pp. with advert leaf, frontispiece, vignette title page, and 15 other in-text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Old subtle repair to backstrip ends, cloth over lower hinge with split. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. § First edition of the fifth and final Christmas book by Dickens in which he returns to his original theme of a misanthrope reformed through supernatural... Read More
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Our Mutual Friend
by Dickens, Charles
1865. London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. 2 vols. 8vo, xi, [1], 320; vii, [1], 309, [1] pp. with 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Advertisement for the People's Pickwick on smaller blue sheet after list of illustrations in vol 2., no other ads. Half morocco, backstrips gilt with green morocco labels. Backstrips worn at crowns and feet, vol 2. rehinged and with new papers, scattered foxing especially to plates but generally clean. § First edition in book... Read More
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Edwin Drood
by Dickens, Charles
1870. London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. 8vo, (viii), 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens by J.H. Baker and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, including a vignette title page. Half red morocco, upper wrapper of part II bound in. Corners and backstrip worn with some splits at hinges, contents a little foxed but complete. Very good. § First edition of Dickens last novel. Edwin Drood appeared originally in six monthly parts from April-September 1870. When Dickens... Read More
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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
1857. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. 8vo, xii, 625 pp. Etched frontispiece, vignette title page and 38 plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Lacking xiii-xiv List of Plates, and final blank. Rebound in three quarter morocco, backstrip ruled in gilt with red leather title label, plain endpapers. Board sides and edges worn, occasional foxing, plates browned and foxed with some edgewear. Remnants of bookseller ticket to front pastedown, name and address on front free endpaper. § First... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
1848. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo, (iii)-xvi, 624 pp. Etched frontispiece, vignette title page and 38 plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Lacking the errata leaf. Full tree calf with gilt armorial supralibros, sensitively rebacked but with subsequent damage to the backstrip label with the loss of a few letters of gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers showing the shadow of a bookplate cleanly removed but present, contents near fine with browning to only a few of... Read More
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Nicholas Nickleby
by Dickens, Charles
1839. London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. 8vo, (iii)-xvi, 624 pp. lacking half title. With frontispiece portrait of Dickens and 39 plates by "Phiz." Half green morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, backstrip gilt with red leather title label. Boards and backstrip ends lightly worn, hinges strengthened, contents with scattered foxing, plates browned and sometimes stained to a greater or lesser degree, as usual. A respectable copy. § First edition in book form of Dickens' enormously successful third... Read More
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David Copperfield
by Dickens, Charles
1850. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. 8vo, xiv, [2], 624 pp. with half title, engraved frontis, vignette title-page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Half morocco, skillfully rebacked with much of the original backstrip laid-on, new endpapers. Boards quite worn, lower joint cracked, chipped corner and closed tear to title page, some edgewear to plates and some pages, plates darkened. § First edition in book form with all points listed by Smith I,... Read More
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Hard Times
by Dickens, Charles
1854. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. 8vo, viii, 352 pp. Publisher's green moiré cloth, pale yellow endpapers. Skillfully rebacked, repairing a some loss to the original backstrip, light sunning to backstrip and board edges, minor thumb-soiling and spots to text block edges, slightly loss in the gutter of p.1/2. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 on half title. § First edition in book form in the first issue binding with "Price 5/" at foot of spine... Read More
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Miscellaneous Papers
by Dickens, Charles
1911. London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. 2 vols. Green cloth, backstrips faded. § Centenary Edition.
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz
by Dickens, Charles
1837. London: 1837. 8vo, xvi, 609, 4 (ads), [1], address. Forty-three plates, including "Veller" title-page. Old half red morocco, gilt top, bookplate of James Burra. Some edge-browning or foxing to some plates, but a pleasant almost untrimmed copy. § First edition, bound from the parts, with half-title. First states of most of the points. A very acceptable copy of one the great classics of English literature. Gimbel A15. Grolier, 100 English, 78. Hatton & Cleaver,... Read More
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The Uncommercial Traveller
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. 8vo, 172 pp. Red pebbled cloth lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Cloth a little worn and soiled, hinges cracked, contents toned with occasional spotting, old price concealed with ink on half title. Good. § "The Charles Dickens Edition
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Master Humphrey's Clock
by Dickens, Charles
1840. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. 8vo in sixes, 3 vols bound in one: (4), (i)-iv, 306; (i)-vi, 306; (i)-vi, 426 pp. Full polished calf, gilt pannelled backstrip with red and green labels, covers with double gilt fillet, gilt-roll on turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Old crease on title, pages clean, covers with several marks and scuffs, backstrip somewhat worn, yet handsome. § Later edition in book form of this collection -- consisting primarily... Read More
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz". In Three Volumes
by Dickens, Charles
1838. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 vols., small 8vo, [i-iv], [1] 2-331, [332]; [i-iv], [1] 2-307 [308]; [iii-iv], [1] 2-315, [316] pp. 24 engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1 as frontispiece to each volume. With half-titles in vols. I and II, with the advertisement leaf at beginning of vol. III, the 4 pages advertisements at end of vol. I, but without the single-leaf list of illustrations in vol. I found in some copies only. Neat repairs to... Read More
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The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In
by Dickens, Charles
1845. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 8vo, (viii), 175 pp. Attractively rebound in half maroon morocco, all edges gilt, portions of the original cloth preserved in endpapers. Trivial rubbing to binding, contents clean, a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of William Elliot Baillie and stamp of the Dickens Centenary Testimonial on front endpapers. § First edition, first state of the vignette title page and with the internal flaws noted by Smith II, 5. Complete... Read More
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Our Mutual Friend
by Dickens, Charles. Stone, Marcus (illus)
1865. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 2 vols., 8vo. 40 engraved plates by Dalziel Brothers or W. T. Green after illustrations by Marcus Stone. Bound without ads in three quarter black polished calf with marbled paper boards, backstrips gilt with red title labels, plain endpapers. A little rubbed, hinges cracked but sound, contents very lightly foxed, long tear repaired in Vol. 1 K2. Early ownership inscription of Clement W. Lea in purple ink on each title page.... Read More
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Dickens, Charles
1859. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. Large 8vo, viii, 254 pp. Frontispiece, engraved title & 14 plates by H.K. Browne. Without list of plates. Polished green calf, backstrip gilt with red and brown gilt-lettered labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Binding a little rubbed and worn at corners, spot of worming to backstrip, contents clean with minimal toning to the plates, small address ticket on front free endpaper, overall very good. § First edition in book form... Read More
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Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Complete Works Volume Five. I. Our Mutual Friend Translated by R. L. Sementkovsky. II. Oliver Twist Translated by V. V. Chuyko. Price of each volume 1 r. 50 k.
by Dickens, Charles
1893. St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov Publishers, 1893. Two volumes in one, 4to, [iv], 992, [4] pp., printed and numbered in two columns, with typographic headpiece to page one, text in Russian Cyrillic script. Rebound in modern full dark-brown calf with title in gilt to backstrip. A sprinkle of minor foxing and some small scuff marks to boards; otherwise in very good, bright condition. § First edition thus. An exceedingly rare translation, with no complete sets... Read More
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