Sketches in Prose and Verse (Signed first edition)
by Black, Anita Ciprico
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Company, 1897. First edition. Very Good +. Signed on the title-page by Anita Ciprico Black. Publisher's cloth over flexible boards. 175 x 215 mm. 50 pp. With a photographic frontispiece of Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Some edgewear. Creasing to front flyleaf and a bit of foxing to first couple leaves. A very good, clean copy of an uncommon book. This appears to be the only book by the California writer Anita Ciprico... Read More
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Commentaries on the Laws of England (in four volumes)
by Blackstone, Sir William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769. First edition. Four quarto volumes (250 x 194 mm) collating complete: [4], iii, [7], 4-473, [1], viii; [8], 520, xix, [1]; [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1]; [8], 436, vii, [41]. With the engraved "Table of Consanguinity" and folding "Table of Descendants" in Volume II. Rare 8 page "Supplement to the First Edition" bound in at the end of the first volume. Contemporary full calf boards with original spine labels preserved on three of the volumes,... Read More
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Where Trails Have Led Me
by Blackstone, Tsianina Redfeather
Burbank, California, 1968. First edition. Fine. The scarce, self-published first printing of the autobiography of Muscogee singer and activist Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone. 215 x 140 mm. [4], 144 pp. Amply illustrated throughout with photo reproductions, including many striking images of Blackstone. Publisher's pale blue printed paper wrappers. Some fading at spine, otherwise a Fine copy of this autobiography chronicling the decades-long career of an extremely popular (and now largely forgotten) early-twentieth-century Native artist and public figure. Between... Read More
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The Grave. A Poem
by Blake, William (illustrator); Robert Blair
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, 1808. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto (pages 275 x 340mm): [xvi], 36, [4, prospectus]; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake, engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly, no loss to the illustration. A clean... Read More
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Works by William Blake...Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Editions
by Blake, William
[N.P.]: [N.P.], 1876. Very Good. One of 100 copies printed for private circulation. Quarter roan over cloth with gilt to spine. Spine rubbed and corners worn. Front hinge split; rear hinge starting. Bookplate of Albert May Todd to front pastedown, else no signs of ownership or use. Aside from an extra-illustrated and handcolored copy that appeared recently at auction, no other is in the modern auction record since 1936. This edition "made available for the first time... Read More
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Brighton and its Coaches
by Blew, William C.A.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1894. First edition. Bound ca. 1960 in full red calf, covers with double gilt-ruled borders, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, green and tan calf labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, red and white 'Cockerel' end-papers. Royal octavo (10 x 6 3/4 inches; 255 x 170 mm.). Collating xxii, 354, with twenty hand colored lithograph plates. A fine copy. "Fifty-two years have passed since... Read More
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The Table Talk and Opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte
by [Fine Binding - Cosway] Edith Walford Blumer
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870. Third edition. Fine. Sixteenmo (146 x 99 mm). [iv], [i]-iv, [1]-199, [1, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black and with oval portrait of Napoleon. Head and tailpieces throughout the text. Exquisitely bound in richly gilt, full blue crushed levant morocco ca. 1920 by Riviere and Sons, with their stamp on the lower front turn-in, and that of Mrs. C.B. Currie on the rear turn-in. Front and rear... Read More
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Opera
by Boethius
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1492. First collected edition. First collected edition of Boethius's works, including the first printing of De Institutione Musica. Also included in these collected works is his most famous work, Deconsolatione philosophiae. Complete in two folio volumes in one. 352 leaves in total. [2], 1-122, 127-158, 135-222; [4], 160-162, 162-250; 1-12 leaves. With numerous mispaginations as usual. With the first part of Porphyry's Isagoge (in Boethius's translation) bound at the end from... Read More
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Histoire générale de la danse
by Bonnet, (Jacques)
Paris: chez d'Houry, 1723. First edition. Fine. First issue. Twelvemo (6 1/8 x 3 1/4 in; 156 x 82 mm). xl, 269, [3, adv.] pp. Head- tailpieces, initials. Bound c. 1875 by H. de Courmont (stamp-signed) in full navy blue crushed morocco with French fillets, gilt-rolled edges, gilt-tooled dentelles. Gilt-rolled raised bands, delicately gilt decorated compartments. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the bookplate of Avg. Anastas. A fine copy. One of the first histories of dance... Read More
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![The Life of Samuel Johnson (in 2 vols.) [Bound with] The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/150/1611150887.0.l.0.jpg)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (in 2 vols.) [Bound with] The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson
by Boswell, James
London: Henry Baldwin, 1793. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state (line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I) and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm.). vii, [1, blank], [ix-xii], [16, "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and Additions"], 516; [2], 588 [i.e. 586] pp. Engraved frontispiece by James Heath from a portrait of Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds in... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (Extra-illustrated in 7 vols.)
by Boswell, James; [Herbert Railton (illustrator)]
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1901. First thus. Three octavo volumes extended to seven (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm.). Extra-illustrated by the insertion of over six hundred plates including many portraits and scenes by various artists, at least one original letter (complete with envelope), pages from books and periodicals contemporary to the events being related by Boswell (including The Gentleman's Magazine), notices of marriages and deaths, bookseller catalogues, auction catalogues, etc., some items with hand-written... Read More
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Tales of Instruction and Amusement (Family association copy)
by [Bourne, Jane]
Coventry: Printed by Merridew & Son and Sold by William Darton, 1826. First edition. Publisher's quarter roan over drab boards with gilt to spine. All edges speckled red. Measuring 135 x 85mm and collating complete: [4], 103, [1, errata]. Some rubbing to spine and loss to crown; front joint cracked but holding. Internally fresh with the most minimal scattered foxing. Unrecorded in OCLC and with no appearances at auction, this scarce children's book is also a family association copy,... Read More
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Pen Tamar; or, The History of an Old Maid (Presentation Copy)
by Bowdler, Henrietta Maria [Harriet]
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1830. First edition. Near Fine. Contemporary straight grain morocco with griffin embossed in gilt to boards; rebacked to style with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Some light scuffing near joints. Signed by the author on a bound-in presentation page and addressed to Mrs. Ed. Hawkins. Measures 127 x 203mm and collates complete: ix, [1, blank], 244, including both half and full title, frontis, and three plates. Light scattered foxing throughout,... Read More
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Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased (in 2 vols)
by [Bowdler, Jane]
Bath: R. Crutwell, 1786. Second edition. Contemporary calf with morocco labels to spines. Hinges front and rear cracked on both volumes but holding well, with the front of volume I being the most tender. Some chipping to extremities of spines, with some small loss near the crown of volume I. Bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to front pastedowns of both volumes. Front endpaper loose on volume II. Internally clean, with none of the foxing typical of imprints from... Read More
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Delicate Prey
by Bowles, Paul
New York: Random House. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket with the spine faded (as often) and with one short split to the front flap fold. "'All the tales are a variety of detective story,' wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, 'in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation of the characters' behaviors.' In such stories as A... Read More
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Original Double Acrostics: Amusing and Instructive
by [Bowman, Anne]
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Original red publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Gentle wear to boards and bumps to corners; rear hinge starting but holding well. Original yellow endpapers, with early ownership signature of Bernard Stampe in pencil to front endpaper, alongside various early dealers' notations. Internally clean and complete, collating [ii], 183, [1], [4, catalogue]. The only copy on the market of this charming educational book,... Read More
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Fahrenheit 451 (Asbestos signed limited edition)
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc, 1953. First edition. Near Fine. First hardback edition, signed limited issue, number 73 of 200 copies signed by the author and specially bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a textile made from chrysotile asbestos and therefore fire resistant. The hardback edition was published in the trade and signed limited issues shortly after the novel's publication in the less desirable paperback format. A Near Fine copy. Original white Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos over boards, spine and front... Read More
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The Halloween Tree (Signed first edition)
by Bradbury, Ray; Mugnaini, Joseph, illustrator
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First edition. Signed on the front flyleaf by Ray Bradbury with the message "All Hallows 1978." Publisher's black cloth with just a bit of fading to edges of boards. Top edge stained red. Minor foxing to half-title. Unclipped dust jacket with some rubbing to back panel. Overall a clean, Near Fine copy in like jacket. Bradbury's whimsical story about a group of boys who get swept away on an adventure through... Read More
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A Medicine for Melancholy (Signed first edition)
by Bradbury, Ray
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1959. First edition. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the half-title. A Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Ink signature bleeding through a few leaves, otherwise a fresh and clean copy. In A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury presents a collection of short stories that tug at the human imagination. Written after Fahrenheit 451 launched Bradbury to international fame, this novella was praised as having intense emotional impact. "Regardless of the... Read More
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I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories
by Bradbury, Ray
[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Signed limited edition. Fine/Fine. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Ray Bradbury. Twenty-six lettered copies were also issued. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's butter-yellow cloth boards, original dust jacket, and green cloth slipcase. Octavo. 389 pp. I Sing the Body Electric, Bradbury's classic collection of eighteen sci-fi short stories, was originally published in 1969; this signed limited edition expands the collection to twenty-nine stories. Bradbury drew the title... Read More
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The Illustrated Man (Inscribed first edition)
by Bradbury, Ray
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy of the book in a Very Good jacket. Book with some discoloration to the boards and minor offsetting to the endpapers. Dust jacket with wear at the spine ends and some short tears, especially the top front corner. Faint dampstain affecting the lower quarter of the spine of both book and jacket. Inscribed on the front free end paper... Read More
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Memorial Pictures of War and Peace
by Brainard, Mary
Rockford: Gazette Steam Book & Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Spine lightly sunned and corners bumped, front hinge a bith tender but a pleasing copy overall. Pencil ownership inscription to front pastedown: "From Ma Pronty, 1883." With the exception of a small stain affecting the lower outer margin of The Homestead and faint offsetting on page 32-33, internally a neat copy. The work appears to have been... Read More
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Poems by Robert Bridges
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf]; Robert Bridges
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm.). 9, [3], 125, [3] pp. Printer's Aldine anchor device on final leaf, decorative woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green morocco, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in and with the 'blind' exhibition stamp on rear paste-down. Covers with gilt fillet border, inlaid violet morocco frame, central panel of upper cover... Read More
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![Hymns [from the Yattendon Hymnal, with Notices of the Tunes for which they were written]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/544/271/1606271544.0.l.jpg)
Hymns [from the Yattendon Hymnal, with Notices of the Tunes for which they were written]
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] Robert Bridges
Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1899. First thus. Near Fine. Limited to 150 copies, this number 36. Printed in black letter. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in a modernist style, likely for exhibition (with their circlular stamp on the rear silk paste-down). Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco. Interwoven rules create a central panel on the front and rear boards, similar, but smaller patterns in the spine panels. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, ruled inner dentelles, dark brown silk end... Read More
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Villette
by [Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currer
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. Very Good. With original front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Front wrapper with a few short tears. Spine worn, with most of backstrip perished. Plain rear wrapper added later. Octavo (226 x 142 mm.). A textually complete copy, including 4 leaves of advertisements at the rear. Text in double columns, collating: 184, [4 leaves ads]. A bit of foxing, otherwise a Very Good copy. Smith claims no priority between this... Read More
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