London: Printed for T. Payne at the Mews-Gate, 1775-1778. First Tyrwhitt edition. 5 volumes, 8vos, 310, 318, 320, 336, and 290pp. Contemporary tree calf, red spine labels with gilt lettering. Spines dry, toned, and with a few cracks and chipping at caps. Joints rubbed, upper joint in vol 1 cracked.....
Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1978. First edition, number 41 of 350 copies. 8vo, [19]pp. Signed by Stern on the ffep. Light purple paper wraps, string bound. Purple marbled paper jacket with printed label. [2]pp prospectus laid in. Fine condition. First publication of this juvenile short story.....
Torrance, CA: Oakwood Publications, 1993. First edition. 4to, 102, [3]pp. Full color illuminations throughout by Andrejev, English calligraphy by Talley. Publisher's red cloth with paste-on illustration and gilt lettering/design on front cover. All edges gilt, red ribbon bookmark. Few minor scuffs to boards else near fine. Beautifully rendered modern expression.....
New York: The Golden Cross Press, 1937. First edition of 100 copies. 8vo, [9]pp. Title device hand illuminated in blue and gilt. Presentation copy signed by Valento Angeli to Ralph D. Hartman on the ffep. Publisher's blue paper boards, front cover illustrated in blind. Hartman's bookplate to front pastedown, small.....
London: The Fortune Press, 1927. Limited to 700 copies, this being #38 of 100 bound in vellum. Quarto, 26x17cm, unpaginated. Arnold hand-made paper, each page with elaborate, red decorative borders by Geofroy Tory ca. 1524. Full vellum, spine stamped in gilt in original red patterned jacket. Boards slightly bowed with.....
![Item #9879 George Gershwin [Ann Ronell's Copy]. Merle - ed Armitage](https://perusethestacks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9879.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779823566)
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1938. First edition. 4to, 252, [1]pp. Title in two colors, with photos, facsimiles, illustrations throughout. Inscribed by Victor Orsatti to Ann Ronell on the ffep and with Lester Cowan's (Ronell's husband and film producer) label below the inscription. Publisher's red and yellow cloth boards.....
![Item #8956 Smarh: Stare Tajemstvi [Ancient Secret]. Art Deco Binding, Gustave Flaubert](https://perusethestacks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8956.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762551416)
Prague: Symposin, 1925. First edition of 400 copies. 8vo, 147, [4]pp. In Czech. Title in three colors, frontis and vignette illustrations by Jan Konůpek. Bonded leather with ornately tooled covers colored in a darker brown, gilt spine lettering. Ffep toned and chipped along fore edge, few scuffs to boards. Very.....
[New York?]: The artist, [1991]. First edition, number 1 of 100 signed copies. 4to, [18] leaves of thick gray paper stock, text in Spanish, with silhouette cut-outs against different colored backing paper mounted to rectos only. Signed by Morales-Zamorano at the colophon. Bound in black paper wraps with silhouette cut-out.....
[Los Angeles?]: Big Business Inc., 1998. Edition of 30, this an artist's proof. Accordion book with text and ten rubber stamped images by the artist, bound with black Yatsuo paper. Signed by Kao and with stamp on verso of last panel, and designated AP. Housed in a paper covered slipcase.....
[Eugene]: University of Oregon, 1990. First edition of 17 copies. Oblong quarto. Title page, eleven poems with tipped-in woodblock, silk screen, or inkjet color illustrations, and colophon. Printed burgundy wrappers, near fine. Beautifuly printed book with images and poems by Darryla Green-McGrath, Oregon based artist. This project was seemingly completed.....
Spartanburg, SC: Kitemaug Press, 1987. First edition of 275 copies. Miniature, 7.5x5cm, 12 illustrated sheets plus colophon and front cover, string bound along top edge. Some toning, nearly fine. Scarce miniature astrological calendar from the Kitemaug Press, nicely printed and illustrated. OCLC cites 5 or 6 holdings.
![Item #9737 The Birds of America: A Selection of Plates Facsimile [Volume 1]. John Hames Audubon](https://perusethestacks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9737.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777398079)
London: The Ariel Press, 1972. Great Britain and Commonwealth Edition limited to 250 copies numbered 401 to 750, this being number 732. Elephant folio, 39x27" 20 colored facsimile plates bound in original half linen over illustrated boards. Some staining and wear to binding, but plates fine and bright. Tremendously fine.....
[Canberra]: National Gallery of Australia, [1986?]. Four accordion fold leaves, 13x13cm (folded), printed on one side only in blue, 6 panels each, with UV and XY appearing together to make 24 panels in total. Housed in blue printed box. Fine condition, box with some wear. Eirene Mort's (1879-1977) charming Australian.....
Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press. 14 envelopes containing one or more publications, prospectuses, broadsides, etc. from the press. Generally fine condition with light wear to original printed envelopes. A fine collection of publications from Adagio: The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr (1934-1992), who ran the press out of.....
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1969. First edition. Folio, 13pp. Inscribed on title page by Shumate to the former owners. Title in two colors. Bound in printed brown wrappers which show a few creases and some edge wear. Very good. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Friends.....
Amador City, CA: Quintessence Publications, 1977. First edition, number 86 of 100 copies. Oblong 8vo, lvi, [2], 294, [6]pp. Signed by the author and illustrators, Kenneth Jack and Lumir Sindelar, and additionally inscribed by Beilke to the former owners after the preliminary section. Facsimile working first-draft manuscript of "The Broken.....
Meriden, CT: The Columbiad Club, 1936. First edition, number 10 of 34 copies specially bound for members and keepsake subscribers. 8vo, 61, [1]pp. 1/2 morocco, marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing at spine ends and corners, spine toned. Original subscriber's bookplate now detached and laid in, with some.....
London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835. First edition thus. Large 4tos, 12 volumes bound in 6, various paginations. Complete with 240 engraved plates after Hoppner, Van Dyke, Holbein, Kneller, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Copley and others. Bound by J[ames] Mackenzie, bookbinder to the King with his stamp on endpapers. Full green.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First edition. 8vo, 262pp. Bound in crushed, burgundy morocco stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Housed in brick red cloth case, lined with gray suede, and lettered on the spine. Fine condition. Laid in are promotional pamphlets.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition. 2 volumes, 9x6", 268 and 365, [1]pp. Titles in black and red, portrait frontis in each volume, a few facsimiles in the text, and publisher's ads at rear of volume 2. Taken from a larger autograph edition of Twain's writings, as stamped.....
Berlen: August Schulze's Verlag, 1899-1900. Various. 6 works in one, in German, 8vo, 80; 128; 47; 120; 72; 192; [8]ads; plus [8]pp manuscript notes bound in at rear. Finely bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt, beveled edges, gilt tooled spine, gilt lettered spine label, page.....
London: Printed [by G. Hayden] for the Editor, 1824. 8vo, [4], vi, 512, xviii pp. Index. Finely bound in full burgundy polished calf, gilt tooled and lettered with compiler's name on front cover and owner's name and organization on spine, g.e. Pencil annotations in margins and rear blank leaves, bookstore.....
London: Macmillan and Co.; William Blackwood and Sons, 1895-1906. Reprints. 9 volumes, 8vos, various paginations, uniformly bound in 1/2 green polished calf over green cloth boards, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate of H.P. Lazenby in front of each, spines heavily toned and rubbed at joints and.....
![Item #7438 Posvátní zvukové... [Bohemian Prayer Book]. Binding, Josef Stanislaus Albach,...](https://perusethestacks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7438.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736451946)
Prague: Bedřich Stýblo, [Ca. 1885]. Eleventh edition. 16x11cm, 420, [4]pp, in Czech. Frontis illustration of Saint Cecilia. Beautifully bound in crushed brown morocco, elaborately tooled and with ornate brass clasps and studs, gilt lettering and tooling on spine, miniature of Albach inset front cover. Blue silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, g.e......
![Item #8216 Lindner's Columbian No. 196 [Broadside]. Pall Bohne, Ernest Lindner](https://perusethestacks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8216.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751055313)
[Los Angeles]: Pall Bohne, 1974. Number 17 of 100 hand colored copies. 22x15" with a hand colored illustration by Pall Bohne, and signed by him as well as Ernest Lindner below the image. Fine condition. Fine print from Los Angeles area bookbinder and printer at the Bookhaven Press, Pall W......
