Of Queens' Gardens
by [Ballantyne Press]. Ruskin, John
1902. London: George Allen, 1902. Sm. 8vo, 68, (1, colophon)pp. Printed with red initials within elaborate lily-of-the-valley borders throughout. Full vellum binding with central prize stamp of the Church School Company Limited in gilt on upper board, backstrip titled in gilt, yapped edges, fabric ties (lacking two), prize bookplate on front pastedown. Endpapers foxed, one corner bumped, otherwise a fine copy, vellum bright and pages clean. ß First edition, beautifully printed at the Ballantyne Press in... Read More
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The Life of Jonathan Martin, Incendiary of York Minster with some account of William and Richard Martin
by Balston, Thomas
1945. London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by author with a dedicatory inscription (dated May 18, 1947) to front free endpaper. Very good. ß First edition. A thorough and academic look at an eccentric... Read More
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Mind Forg d Manacles. Evil in the Poetry of Blake and Shelley
by Bandy, Melanie
1981. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981. 8vo, x, 210 pages. Full green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very good. ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p.359.
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Waikna; or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
by Bard, Samuel A. (pseud. of Ephraim George Squier)
1855. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo, 366 pp., illustrated throughout. Original green cloth, ex-library copy with bookplate and edges stamped "ship's library". A bit worn and soiled, tear to last leaf without loss, a solid reading copy. ß First edition. Description of travel to Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras). Appendix at end of text has chapters on history of area as well as information about mosquitos.
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The Restriction Act Knocked Out, The Wasp
by Barkhaus, Henry [illus.]
1518. San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4 , pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8 , text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. ß From the original edition of this issue of The Wasp. The Supreme Court s decision in Chew Heong drew criticism from exclusionists, and it became difficult... Read More
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An Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Poem. Translated into modern English with an introduction by R. G. Barnes
by Barnes, R. G. (translator)
1968. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Oblong small 8vo, (32)pp. with a decoration on title and opening initial letter of text, in red. Blue paper boards, gilt lettering to backstrip. Bookplate. Slight toning to the boards, fine internally. ß One of 400 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. A poem from the manuscript Cotton Tiberius B1 translated into modern English R.G. Barnes.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
by Barrie, J.M.; Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
1906. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, xii, 126 pp. Frontispiece, plus 49 color plates each mounted on heavy cardstock with captioned tissue guards all bound at the end. Red cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to backstrip. Rebacked and recornered with original cloth laid down, boards somewhat faded, two tissue guards torn, plates generally in very good condition. ß First trade edition, one of Rackham s early successes and... Read More
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George Meredith 1909
by Barrie, J.M.
1911. Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. 12mo, 16pp. Printed in red and black. Original stiff card binding with paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Occasional soiling, small bump to the base of the spine. In the original green printed slipcase, worn. Very good. ß A attractive printing by Mosher of Barrie's essay on Meredith. One of 950 copies.
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George Meredith 1909
by Barrie, J.M.
1909. London: Constable and Co., 1909. 12mo, 16pp. Full page illustration following title-page. Original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, with red border on both covers. Pages untrimmed and bordered in red. Mild browning to endpapers. Very good. ß First edition, first printing.
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A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press 1942-1975
by Baskin, Leonard. Brook, Stephen
1976. Northampton, MA: J. P. Dwyer, 1976. 8vo, 77pp. illustrated. Quarter brown morocco, marbled boards. as new, backstrip very slghtly faded. ß Unique copy, out of series (but of the de luxe edition of 50 copies), inscribed by Leonard Baskin to his sister Pearl (Rabinowitz)" "Artist's copy. Pearl with Leonard's love. Leeds 1984.
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Selected Poems of William Blake
by Bateson, F. W.
1961. London: Heinemann, 1961. 8vo, xxx, 144 pp, with a colored frontispiece. An ex-library volume in original black boards, with accession number and small stampt to title, and loan return details slip and card pocket tipped inside rear cover. With a small accession number slip remnant to base of spine, and old tapemarks, but generally otherwise good. ß Works included are Poetical Sketches, Songs and some of the other illuminated books. The notes are original... Read More
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Modern Reading. Edited by Reginald Moore. [no.] 21
by Bawden, Edward
1952. London: Spring, 1952. Small slim 8vo, 94, (2, ads) pages. Original printed wrappers, a little worn but good. ß Contains Bawden s Statuary in Rome and Tivoli with ten drawings.
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The Comic History of England
by ¿ Beckett, Gilbert Abbot
1855. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, [c.1855]. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1: xviii, 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red, complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume, including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco, all edges gilt, with original backstrip and upper panel of cloth binding preserved on rear pastedowns. Gift inscription dated 1878 on half title. Binding lightly scuffed and marked, faint shadow of bookplate removed from front... Read More
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An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-27; Reprinted from a Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait performed in His Magesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, in 1925, 26, 27, 28
by Beechey, Frederick William; William Smyth; Edith Margaret Coulter
1941. San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. ß Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route to the Pacific. Coulter owned the original watercolors reproduced here for the first time.
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Heroes and Heroines of Bittersweet
by Beerbohm, Max
1931. [London: Leadlay, 1931]. Folio, title leaf, contents leaf, facsimile "Note by Max," and 5 mounted color plates. Original parchment-backed portfolio; plates loose as issued. Covers a bit soiled and worn, internally fine. ß Limited to 900 copies, this is #403. This portfolio commemorates Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. "Sentiment is out of fashion," says Beerbohm in his note. "Yet Bittersweet, which is nothing if not sentimental, is not a dead failure ... Sentiment goes on;... Read More
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Blake s Humanism
by Beer, John
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143.
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Blake s Humanism
by Beer, John
1968. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: Barnes & Noble, [1968]. 8vo, xiii [1], 269 pp., frontispiece and 54 illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1143.
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Bl¸the und Frucht in dekorativer Anordnung. Nach der Natur aufgenommen. Eine Sammlung von Studien f¸r das moderne Kunstgewerbe, enthaltend Friese, Pilaster, Fl‰chenmuster, F¸llungen, Geh‰nge, Stilleben und dergleichen nach nat¸rlichen Pflanzen und Ger‰then
by Behrens, C.
1900. Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some minor foxing to the edges of the leaves, else a very good copy with bright plates. ß A collection of floral and fruit arrangements for the... Read More
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Nightmare at Noon. (Two copies)
by BenÈt, Stephen Vincent
1940. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. 12mo, (iv), 8 pp. One copy in original wraps, near fine with a little toning, signed by BenÈt on the half title. One copy in original boards, boards toned, backstrip worn and dampstained. ß Both formats of the first edition of BenÈt's warning against the perils of fascism, published a year before the United States entered the war. BenÈt died of a heart attack the year before... Read More
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The Old Wives' Tale
by Bennett, Arnold. Swinnerton, Frank (intro). Austen, John (illustrator)
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2 lacking. Bumping and wear to tips of vol. 2, shelf wear to slipcase, otherwise a clean square copy. ß Copy #245 of 1,500 numbered copies, signed... Read More
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The Old Wives Tale
by Bennett, Arnold. Swinnerton, Frank (intro). Austen, John (illustrator)
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of vol. 1 bumped, slipcase a little worn, volumes clean and square. ß Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story... Read More
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The Wrath of John Steinbeck, or, St. John Goes to Church
by Bennett, Robert
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. ß Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and numbered. With a forward by Lawrence Clark Powell and illustrations by Artemis .
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The Blake Collection of Mrs Landon K. Thorne
by Bentley, G. E., Jr.
1971. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. Royal 8vo, 65 pp, with 30 plates. Very good in original illustrated wrappers, slightly worn at spine edges, backstrip faded to white. ß One of 1500 copies. Noble collection of Blake given to the PML; this catalogue was written by G.E. Bentley with an introduction by Charles Ryskamp.Bentley, BB, 706.
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A Blake Bibliography
by Bentley, G. E., Jr . Nurmi Martin K.
1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. 8vo, xix, 393pp, with illustrations. Very good in original dust-jacket, worn at edges. ß First edition. The Bible until Bentley s BB and Essick s various books came along. Bentley, BB, 686.
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Blake Records Supplement
by Bentley, G.E., Jr.
1988. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo, xlviii, 152 pp, wth 5 black and white illustrations. Near fine in original blue cloth and clear acetate wrapper. ß Reprinted in 2004 in one volume with additions, at $125. See Bentley, BB, 1158.
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