Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend
by POPE, Alexander
London: J. Wilford, 1733. Two Large-Paper Copies of An Essay on Man [POPE, Alexander]. An Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend. Part I. London: J. Wilford, [1733]. First edition. Large paper copy, first issue according to Wise (second issue according to Griffith). Folio (14 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 375 x 241 mm.) 9 ll. with woodcut title ornament, decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces. No half-tile issued. Bound without B2 (p. 7/8) as is correct... Read More
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Autograph Musical Bars, Signed
by PORTER, Cole
N.P.N.D. C.A., 1926. PORTER, Cole. Autograph Musical Bars, Signed. [No place, no date, ca 1926]. A small (4 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 106 x 134 mm) paper with the clef, key signature and six notes from the song "It's De-Lovely" hand-drawn in black ink and underneath signed "Cole Porter" along with the lyrics "It's d'lovely". The verso (not seen in frame) with notes stating "Commander R.N. HMS Repulse, 6th Sept, 1926." Matted, framed and glazed in a... Read More
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Two Women in Black
by POSTGATE, John
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1886. First edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm). [1]-288 pp. With frontispiece and 15 additional engravings. We could find no copies at auction in the past 50 years. Publisher's heavily illustrated cloth. Stamped in black and gilt on front board and spine. Floral endpapers. Some rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine and along cloth edges. Some finger soiling throughout. Minor staining... Read More
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Fairy Caravan
by POTTER, Beatrix
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. Full Description: POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Autographed Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Beatrix Potter, this being number 14. This is the first edition, preceding the English edition which was not signed. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 209 x 159 mm.). 225, [3, blank] pp. Six inserted color plates, twenty full-page illustrations in black and white, and forty-two vignette illustrations in... Read More
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Fairy Caravan
by POTTER, Beatrix
London and Philadelphia: Copyright of the author, 1929. Full Description: POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatirx Potter"). [Philadelphia and London]: Copyright of the Author, 1929. Beatrix Potter's privately printed Ambleside edition. One of 100 copies, with the first nine leaves printed at Ambleside and the remaining sections from the sheets of David McKay's Philadelphia edition. Large octavo (9 x 6 3/4 inches; 230 x 175 mm). 225, [3, blank] pp. Pages [1]-18 are printed... Read More
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Tale of Peter Rabbit
by POTTER, Beatrix
London: [Privately printed], 1902. POTTER, Beatrix. London: Privately Printed by Strangeways], February 1902. First (privately printed) edition, second issue. One of 200 copies printed. Twelvemo (5 3/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 131 x 103 mm.). [84] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-one full-page black and white text illustrations. Original olive green boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover. Spine rounded (not flat). Spine a bit darkened, with extremities very lightly rubbed. A few minor... Read More
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A, B, C. With the Church of England Catechism
by BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Philadelphia: Printed by Young, Stewart & M'Culloch, 1785. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. To which are annexed, Prayers used in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia. Also, A Hymn on the Nativity of our Saviour; and another for Easter Day. Philadelphia: Printed by Young, Stewart & M'Culloch, 1785. First edition, second issue of one of the first publications of the American Episcopal Church and one of the first Episcopal Catechism printed in America after the separation... Read More
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Troilus and Criseyde
by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited by Arundell del Re and with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927. First Gill edition. One of 225 numbered copies, this being 180 Folio (12 x 7 1/2 inches; 306 x 189 mm). [4, blank], xi, [1, blank], 310, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [7, blank] pp. With five full page wood engravings by Eric Gill. Gill... Read More
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Story of a Red-Deer
by GREGYNOG PRESS
Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1930. GREGYNOG PRESS. Newtown]: The Gregynog Press, 1930. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is number 66. This copy with extra 5 proof queries, 8 pp. each. Full red cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped with a deer on front cover, gilt-stamped spine. Light rubbing to spine. Else, fine. HBS 66741. $350.
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Whittington Press
by WHITTINGTON PRESS
Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1996. WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David, [compiler]. The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1982-93. With an Introduction and Notes by John Randle. [Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1996]. First edition, edition deluxe (A). Limited to 28 copies, of which this is number 6. Small folio. Full green morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. With a separate portfolio of ephemera comprising 44 items. Housed in publisher's green cloth clamshell. Fine. HBS 66697. $1,750.
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Royal Primer
by PRIMER
London: Printed for Carnan and Newbery, 1767. PRIMER. London: Printed for Carnan and Newbery, at no. 65, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and B. Collins at Salisbury. [n.d.c.a. 1776]. An early edition the Newbery Royal Primer, the precursor to the New England Primer. This edition is unrecorded as Roscoe does not list a Carnan and Newbery imprint. The sheets, besides the imprint and the advertisement p. [1] match Roscoe 5b "The text of the TP is surrounded by an... Read More
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A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
by PROUST, Marcel
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1914. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1914 [i.e., 1913]; Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, [1918]-1927. A complete set of first editions. First issue of Du Cots de Chez Swann, with the date 1913 on the front wrapper and 1914 on the title-page, printer's imprint dated "le huit novembre mil neuf cent treize" on the verso of p. 523, and with 8 pp. of ads at the end. With the printer's... Read More
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Quincuplex psalterium
by PSALTER
Paris: [Henri Estienne], 1509. PSALTER; POLYGLOT BIBLE|BIBLE. BIBLE. POLYGLOT BIBLE. Quincuplex psalterium. . Gallicum. Rhomanum. Hebraicum. Vetus. Conciliatu[m]. [Edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples]. Paris: [Henri Estienne], 1509. Full Description: [PSALTER]. Quincuplex psalterium. Gallicum. Rhomanum. Hebraicum. Vetus. Conciliatu[m]. [Edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples]. [Paris: Henri Estienne, 1509]. First edition of the Quincuplex psalterium or the Fivefold Psalter. Large octavo (11 x 8 1/4 inches; 280 mm). [2], [1]-290 leaves. Title within woodcut border. Historiated initials. Text printed... Read More
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Oeuvres
by RABELAIS, François
Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741. Nouvelle edition. Three quarto volumes (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 238 x 190 mm). [2, blank] [10, 4 of which are ads], [i]-xxxvi, [1]-526, [4, blank]; [2, blank], [6], xxxiv, [3]-383, [2, blank]; [8], [2, ads], [8. letter], 1-144, 147-218, [1]-150, [35, table], [3, blank] pp. Each volume with half-title. Volume I and II with engraved half-titles and volume II with engraved frontispiece. Volume III with engraved frontispiece. An additional seventeen engraved plates,... Read More
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Table Ronde
by RACINE, Jean
Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, 1945. ROMAINS, Jules. SUARÈS, André. La Table Ronde. Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, [1945]. Quarto. 227 pp. Limited to 2150 copies, of which this is number 54. Original wrappers. With 8 photgravures laid in. Loose as issued. Slipcase. Minor browning to spine. Very good. HBS 66393. $250.
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Cesarino and the Dragon
by RACKHAM, Arthur
London, 1916. RACKHAM, Arthur. Cesarino and the Dragon". London: 1916. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from "The Allies' Fairy Book." Measures 250 x 192 mm. Signed and dated 'ARackham 1916' on lower left corner. Mounted, framed and glazed. Image depicts Cesarino protecting his love while fighting a dragon with a sword and a knife in his hand. Meanwhile the dragon is fighting off a lion, a bear and a dog. Even the personified tress behind... Read More
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Æsop's Fables
by RACKHAM, Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1912. RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP|VERNON JONES, V.S.|CHESTERTON, G.K.. illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. CHESTERTON, G.K., [contributor]. VERNON JONES, V.S., [translator]. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. Full Description: [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. AESOP. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. First trade... Read More
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Mr. Burchell at the conclusion of every sentence would cry out 'Fudge!
by RACKHAM, Arthur
London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929. RACKHAM, Arthur. . "Mr. Burchell at the conclusion of every sentence would cry out 'Fudge!". Original illustration for "The Vicar of Wakefield" [London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929]. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from "The Vicar of Wakefield." In the book, reproduced as plate 5. Matted, framed and glazed. Watercolor measures (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 275 x 210 mm), but probably larger under the frame. Frame... Read More
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Fables D'Esope
by RACKHAM, Arthur
Paris: Hachette, 1913. RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP. illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. Fables D'Esope. Traduction Nouvelle Illustree Par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Hachette, 1913. Full Description: RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. AESOP, [author]. Fables D'Esope. Traduction Nouvelle Illustree Par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Hachette, 1913. Limited edition of 55 copies signed by Rackham, this being number 29 printed on papier du Japan. Out of a total edition of 430. With 13 mounted plates on green paper. Descriptive tissue guards. Large quarto (11 1/4... Read More
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Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial
by RAE, Julio
Pennsylvania: Julio H. Rae, Publisher, 1851. RAE, Julio. First edition. Oblong quarto. (Measures 9 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches). 23 pp. and 16 lithographed plates, several folding. Contemporary brown cloth with newer maroon cloth, original black and gold label on front cover. Original black and gold wrappers bound in. Covers bumped on corners with some marginal staining. Very good and scarcely found complete. This beautiful city directory illustrates eight blocks of Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia with sixteen... Read More
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Diverse et artificiose machine
by RAMELLI, Agostino
Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. Le Diverse et artificiose machine. Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. Full Description: RAMELLI, Agostino. Le Diverse et artificiose machine...Nellequali si contengono varii et industriosi movimenti, degni digrandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio infinito in ogni forte d'operatione; composte in lingua Italiana et Francese. Paris: In casa del'autore, 1588. First edition. Folio (13 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 346 x 224 mm.). [16], 338 leaves. Text in French and Italian in Roman and... Read More
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Vejledning til det Islandske eller gamle Nordiske Sprog
by RASK, Rasmus Kristian
Copenhagen: Printed for Schuboth by J. R. Thiele, 1811. First edition. Octavo (6 11/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 170 x 140 mm). LVI, 282, [6] pp. Contemporary half brown roan over marbled boards, beige morocco gilt lettering label. Text lightly browned throughout due to the qulity of the paper, upper corner of front endpaper cut away, slight loss to head and tale of spine. A very good copy. "The 'Guide to the Icelandic or old Nordic Language'... Read More
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Photographs 1920-1934 Paris
by RAY, Man
Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. Harford Connecticut/ New York: James Thrall Soby/Random House, [1934]. First edition with the cancel title with the fictitious "second edition"statement. According to 101 Books, by Roth, the publisher "attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare." Presentation copy, inscribed by Man Ray at the top of the Contents page: "To Corinne Chochem/ Cordially Man Ray 1948." Large quarto.... Read More
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Cloister and the Hearth
by READE, Charles
London: Trubner, 1861. Full Description: READE, Charles. The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages. London: Trübner, 1861. First edition, first issue. With no periods after "Etc" on Volume I title page, after "Volumes" on Volume II title page and after "Hearth" on Volume III title page. Also with "Catherine threw her face over her apron" on p. 372 Vol. II, "The right of Reproduction and Translation reserved" on the titles, and Vol. II... Read More
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Crusader Without Violence
by REDDICK, L. D.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. KING, Martin Luther, Jr.. First edition of the first biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Author L.D. Reddick was a friend of MLK's. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 212 x 145 mm). [x], 243, [1, blank] pp. With eight pages of black-and-white photographs. Quarter black cloth over mauve cloth. Spine lettered in silver. Front board with publisher's mark in silver. Fore-edge uncut. In publisher's dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to... Read More
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