In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales
by Quiller-Couth, Arthur; Kay Nielsen, illus
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. (2, limitation leaf), xii, (13)-163, (1) pp. Green vellum blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 26 mounted color plates on gray paper with tissue guards, plus black and white illustrations and decorations. Vellum rubbed at edges and hinges, with a bit of scuffing, not affecting the gilt; boards yawning slightly; ribbon ties perished; foxing to the preliminaries, else a... Read More
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Grimm Brothers; Mrs. Edgar Lucas; Arthur Rackham
London: Constable and COmpany Ltd, 1909. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 4to. xvi, (1), 325, )1_ pp. Nicely bound in full crimson morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt, black lettering labels, gilt; gilt rules on the boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and 39 color plates tipped in as issued, with captioned tissue guards; black and white illustrations in text. A fine copy, with the original vellum spine and cover bound in... Read More
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Little Brother & Little Sister amd Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm
by Grimm; Arthur Rackham
London and New York: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1917. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light gray cloth with a white panel on the cover with gold pictorials tamping and lettering in the panel, and gilt title on the spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Lacking the extra plate in envelope. Tissue guards have offset onto the facing pages, else this is a very good copy. One of 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This is... Read More
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Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes
by Rackham, Arthur, illus
London: WIlliam Heinemann, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. White buckram blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates by Rackham. Cloth lightly soiled, first and last pages have light foxing else a very good copy. One of 1100 numbered copies signed by Rackham, from a total edition of 1130. This is copy number 12. In a full leather clamshell case, spine and boards tooled... Read More
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The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
by Rackham, Arthur
London: Harrap, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Full vellum blocked in gilt on the upper board and spine; top edge gilt; ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 8 full page color plates, and many in black & white, including title page vignette. Trace of yawning else a near fine copy. In the publisher's original drab slipcase. One of 460 copies signed by Rackham; This is copy No. 100. .
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Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
by Rackham, Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio. Full crimson morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt; gilt border tooling on the boards; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. Faint foxing to the first few pages, else a fine copy. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Rackham, from a total editon of 1030. This is copy number 489. .
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The Allies' Fairy Book
by Rackham, Arthur; Edmund Gosse
London: William Heinemann, 1916. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 121pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine title and on the uppe boards. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Intgroduction by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 full color plates and twenty-four black and white illustrations. A fine copy. with a gift inscription on the front pastedown. Limited edition. One of 500 copies (from a total edition of 525) signed by the artist. This is copy 132. . ... Read More
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Been Here and Gone
by Ramsey, Frederic, Jr.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 8vo. xiii,(1),177pp. Dark gray cloth, spine printed in white. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A near fine copy with only a trace of war. The dustwrapper is not price clipped and shows the original $5.00 price. It is a little rough along the edges with two tiny closed marginal tears. It is in very good condition, "The folk roots of American jazz are in the... Read More
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Great Comets and History
by Ramus, Carl
np: (not published), 1960. Stiff card wraps. Very good. Unpublished (so far as we can tell) typescript. 8½ by 11 inches, punched into a card binder. 289 pages many of which contain corrections in the author's hand. Laid-in is a letter from the author to Ernest Grant discussing his corrections and enclosing revised pages 2, 3, 5 and 7. The manuscript is inscribed by Ramus to Ernest and Catharine Grant, 1959. A very good copy. Ramus was the... Read More
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Matrix15
by Randle, John and Rosalind
Lower Marston Farm, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1995. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 214pp. Quarter oasis red leather, gilt spine title; marbled paper boards by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Finely printed on various fine papers . Several inserts tipped-in. One of XCV special copies from a total edition of 950, this copy being no. XXXV. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. With the winter issue of Matrix 1995 in the rear pocket, and with the poem and eight copper-engraved... Read More
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Matrix 19
by Randle, John and Rosalind
Lower Marston Farm, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 245 pp. Quarter oasis turquoise leather, gilt spine title; marbled paper boards by Christopher Rowlatt. Finely printed on various fine papers . Several inserts tipped-in. One of LXXX special copies from a total edition of 950, this copy being no. LX. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. With the winter issue of Matrix 1999 in the rear pocket, and with the engraved images by... Read More
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Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaelis Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xustis
by Raphael
(Rome): Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi), 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong folio. 13 by 18 inches. Engraved title/dedication to and with portrait of Queen Christina followed by an engraved depiction of Raphael, who died in 1520. These are followed by 52 etchings which reproduce Raphael's paintings and which were executed by Cesare Fantetti or Pietro Aquila. Page edges are toned with age but the etchings are in fine condition. The title'dedication has a... Read More
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Three Works of Engravings
by Raphael
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong folio of engravings. The first work has 43 numbered plates beginning with a dedication: "Eminentissimo ac reuerendissimo Principi Camillo Maximo S.R.E. Cardinali amplissimo." The 43 plates were engraved by Pietro Santo Bartoli and are complete. Bound with: "D. Nicolao Simonello picturae omiumq(ue) bonarum artium cultori eximio..." 15 engraved plates, complete. Bound with: "Serenissimo Principi Medices Leonis X admirandae virtutis imagines ab Hetruriae legatione ad Pontificatum a... Read More
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The Jazz Singer
by Raphaelson, Samson
New York: Brentano's, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 153pp. blue cloth spine, printed paper label, decorated paper over boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is present. It is not clipped; there is a short closed marginal tear on the front cover, and some roughness along the bottom edge of the rear cover, but it is essentially near fine. The first book edition of the Jazz SInger after its short story appearance in the January 1922... Read More
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The Twelve Ravens: A Lithuanian Fairy Tale
by Ratas, Vaclovas; (Illustrator) Paulius Jurkus and Mary J. Kinney (Editors)
München: T. J. Vizgirda, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. 4to. 28pp. Cream-colored textured paper over boards blocked with title on the upper board. Artist book illustrated with nine original woodcuts by Vaclovas Ratas, initials in plates, hand-set letterpress text. Volume XXVII of "Lithuania - Country and Nation." Light age-toning else a fine copy. The scarce illustrated dustwrapper is present. The spine has largely perished and has been professionally mended and stabilized with archival tissue; there are several... Read More
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Official Program and Sterling Bookmark from the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
by (Reagan, Ronald)
1988. Fine. Two items relating to the groundbreaking of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, California, on November 21, 1988. The items are: 1. Official progam for the ceremony of blue card cover, 4pp., and 2.Gorham Sterling bookmark given to the invited guests, in its box with a seal embossed with Mr. Reagan's signature. The groundbreaking was limited to 300 invitees.
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Handbook of Telephones of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army
by Reber, Major Samuel
Washington: GOvernment Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Thin 8vo. 76pp. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Red pebble-grain cloth, gilt title on the upper board. The cloth is well worn else this is a very good copy. With a bookplate of the War Department assigning this copy to Geo. Van Orden, Captain, USMC, and with Capt. Van Orden's rubber-stamped name in blue on the endpapers as well as page 19. .
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Gammer Gurton's Garland
by (Nursery Rhymes)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Stiff card wraps. Fine. (iv), 16pp. Slim 8vo. Stiff wraps. Illustration by T. E. Webster as a frontispiece, repeated in part on the upper wrap. Tissue guard protects the frontispiece. Rare edition of Gammer Gurton, which was first published in 1784 by Joseph Ritson. This edition features not only much of Mother Goose, but other rhymes as well, and include two about King Arthur. And some rhymes have words that vary from... Read More
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Le Bougainville de la Jeunesse: Nouvel Abrégé des Voyages dans l'Amerique
by Riccous
Paris: D. Belin, 1834. Hardcover. Good. 4th edition. 12mo. 322pp. Original leather boards rebacked retaining the original leather lettering label. Illustrated with 3 full page plates as well as an engraved title page. The title page vignette shows Bougainviille landing in Tahiti. Another plate depicts Montezuma. The voyages of Bougainville, Cook, etc., retold for children. In French. Gumchian, 815. .
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Costumes Suisses
by (Richard, T.)
Zurich: Attenhofer & Cie, 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Twenty-two carte-de-vista style albumen hand-colored photographs bound accordion style in a red cloth folder, gilt. The photographs depict ladies in traditional Swiss dress from various Cantons: Geneva, Neuchatel, Valais, Vaud, Schaffhouse, Bale, Soleure, Frybourg, Zouc, Glaris, Berne-Brienz, Thourgovie, St. Gall, Appenzell, Argovie, Grisons, NIdwalden, Schwyz, Uri, Lucedrne, Tessin and Zurich. The hinges of the folder has been neatly repaired, the cloth is worn, the photographs are near fine and mounted... Read More
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Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus: Being a British, or Welsh-English Dictionary....
by Richards, Thomas
Britsol: Printed and Sold by Felix Farley in Small-Street, et al., 1753. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. except for the Prefaces, unpaginated. Contemporary full leather, old reback, black leather lettering label, gilt. Final advertising leaf present. Light wear to the hinges and edges and occasional soiling to the pages, but a very good copy. Contemporary signature of Edw. Leroy. Extensive annotations, additions and corrections throughout in the same hand. ESTC T66971. A second... Read More
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The Mule. A Treatise on the Breeding, Training and Uses to which he may be Put
by Riley, Harvey
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 107pp. purple textured cloth with the title and a vignette on the upper board in gilt. Fourteen plates. Spine sunned, plate edges have some foxing, else this is a very good, bright copy. .
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The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents
by Ritson, Joseph
London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Early cloth in a drab green, blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. Trace of soil and wear to the edges, neat ownership stamp on the front free endpaper else a near fine copy. Scarce scholarly treatise on the life of King Arthur from early, and notably Welsh, sources. Lowndes, p. 2100. New Arthurian Encyclopedia, pp. 404 and... Read More
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The Church Cantatas of J. S. Bach
by Robertson, Alec
London: Cassell, 1972. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Blue cloth, silt spine title. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper that is not price-clipped. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For dearest Donald.....Alec." and with the bookplate of Donald Beswick on the front pastedown. .
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Reqviem: Music of Mourning and Consolation
by Robertson, Alec
London: Cassell, 1972. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Purple cloth, red lettering label, gilt. . A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper that is not price-clipped. Index. Inscribed on the dedication page "For my dear friend Dinald....Alec." and with the bookplate of Donald Beswick on the front pastedown. .
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