All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque, Erich Maria - 1929

Hard cover Folio (15 x 12 in). Original gilt tooled full brown morocco, edges gilt marbled endpapers. Pages complete xxiv + 180, with 250 full-page black and white engravings on card with captioned tissue-guards.Containing two hundred and fifty beautiful engravings selected from the Dore Bible, Milton, Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine Fairy Realm, Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine with critical essays by Edmund Ollier.Page edges lightly scuffed and rubbed with some small scratches to cover boards - some remedial work done to secure the cover boards and spine, but otherwise good. Card plates bright but some foxing to the outer edges. Some foxing to the later text pages.The plate index is a little tricky to use, but all plates are present with the following corrections:Plate 75 misplaced to p130, plate 91 misplaced to p95.Note: This volume is heavy (38x31x10cm, approx 10kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Fleet Street, London: Printed for Benjamin Motte. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1728. Hardcover. Collection of poems and essays from Jonathon Swift, Alexander Pope. Front hinge is cracked, but pages are still securely attached. Minor edgewear to leather bound volume. Pages show some damp stains, and remnants of apparent bookplate stuck to front free end paper. Lovely crest bookplate still inside front cover for Chris. Jeaffreson, Esq. Dullingham. Minor creasing and dog ears, moderate foxing, particularly to end papers. Contents include (abbreviated) : Martinus Sciblerus his treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Miscellanies in Verse ; 8 x 4.90 x 1.20 inches; 318 pages .

London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, octavo, three volumes; 315, 319, 356pp. In contemporary half leather over marbled boards (a little worn), four raised spine bands, gilt lettered red morocco title labels to second compartments, remaining compartments richly gilt. Spotting and staining to early and closing leaves of each volume, author's name inscribed to title page, first quire of vol.1 misbound, otherwise a very good clean copy. Attractive copy of St.Leger's increasingly uncommon final novel, the last before his untimely death at the age of thirty following an epileptic seizure.

Small quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches) Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Fund, December 1900. 116 pages of half tone black and white photos of early Los Angeles, portraits, and advertisements for Los Angeles businesses of the period.

Descriptive text includes a short history of the Los Angeles Fire Department: "In May, 1875, Engine Company No. 2 was organized."

Good condition: original red cloth binding, showing mild age toning, title on front cover, floral patterned end papers.

Many photos of early Los Angeles fire stations, with horse drawn equipment.

Portraits include: the mayor, the Fire Commissioners back to 1871, Chiefs, Captains, Lieutenants, Engine Drivers, Engineers, Hosemen, and Ladder men.

Advertisements include breweries, hardware supplies, saloons, blacksmiths, and stables among many others.

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, New York 1877. Square 8vo, pp. 54; color illustrations by Crane engraved by Edmund Evans; original terra cotta-backed pictorial boards , all edges rubbed; interior fine.Red cloth spine with red card paper covered boards, having black and white illustrative titles and decoration. One of the earliest Crane-Evans collaborations, originally published in London, 1877. (Together with : The baby's bouquet.) No Date. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Internally in wonderful condition with no marks or browning. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Full of wonderful illustrations in addition to the sheet music to a host of children's favourite nursery rhymes. 10 Full page colour illustrations and intricate border designs that are truly beautiful. Walter Crane was an artist, designer, socialist, interior decorator and leading member of the Arts & Craft movement. edge wear. Illustrated in colour with plates… Read More

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, New York 1877. Square 8vo, pp. 54; color illustrations by Crane engraved by Edmund Evans; original terra cotta-backed pictorial boards , all edges rubbed; interior fine.Red cloth spine with red card paper covered boards, having black and white illustrative titles and decoration. One of the earliest Crane-Evans collaborations, originally published in London, 1877. (Together with : The baby's bouquet.) No Date. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Internally in wonderful condition with no marks or browning. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Full of wonderful illustrations in addition to the sheet music to a host of children's favourite nursery rhymes. 10 Full page colour illustrations and intricate border designs that are truly beautiful. Walter Crane was an artist, designer, socialist, interior decorator and leading member of the Arts & Craft movement. edge wear. Illustrated in colour with plates… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. First Trade Edition. hardcover. Good. 9 1/4" × 5 1/4" . The Well at the World's End: (two-volume set); by Morris, William (1834–1896). London: Longmans, Green & Co.. Printed by Chiswick Press. 1896. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Tall 8vos: 9 1/4" x 5 1/4" (23.5 x 13.3 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 750 copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, Charles Whittingham & Co., watermarked "B A S" paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Pages uncut. [i–iv] v–vii [viii], 1–378 [379: printer's imprint] [380: blank]; & [i–iv] v–vi, [1–2] 3–279 p.p. [280: printer's imprint], double flyleaves at front and rear of each volume. Printed in 1893 but delayed by the Kelmscott Press edition issued the same year (which edition was being set up from this edition). Unlike other authors who wrote of foreign lands or of dream worlds, Morris was the first to describe… Read More

Boston: Roberts House, 1895. First American Edition. hardcover. Good. 8 1/2" × 6 1/4" . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. The Wood Beyond the World; by Morris, William (1834–1896). Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Boston: Roberts House. Printed by the University Press at Cambridge, USA. 1895. First American Edition. First Printing. Large 8vo: 8 1/2" x 6 1/4" (21.6 x 15.9 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover green cloth with black floral design and gilt-stamped decorations and title to cover and spine (bearing a sword reminiscent to the gilt sword used for the "Bayntun binding," on the Roberts Brothers 1890 printing of Morris's "The Tale of the House of the Wolfings"). One of 500 copies. Printed on fine, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and printer's device. Gilt top edge. [ii], 273, [ii] pp. Frontispiece by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (tissue guard intact), which first appeared in the Kelmscott Press edition of the previous year.Finished the 11th day of May, one… Read More

Small octavo : pp. 4 blank (28) 436, 2 blank : new eps : gilt dentelles with floral motif : polished calf boards with triple gilt ruled border surrounding a floral and foliate border : rebacked with red leather title panel lettered in gilt and the publication year in gilt to tail of spine. Long note in small hand to first blank detailing the purchase of the volume in 1840 and some notes on the poet : trimmed at the head of the leaves : corners slightly rounded and gilt worn in patches but mostly bright. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635) was a poet, playwright and wit of great promise who was expected by many to become poet laureate after his mentor Ben Johnson. His early death at 29 (two years before Johnson) prevented this ambition from being realised.The note at the first blank reads, "Purchased at the sale of J. Abbot's Library Dublin 1840, for 15/6. Priced Bibl. Ang. Poet. 1/15/ : Randolph was greatly admired in his day, and, high in favour with Ben Johnson, who considered him and Cartwright his "dear… Read More

Paris: Chez Barba, Libraire, 1807. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mos. ix, [14]-251, [5]; viii, 230; xii, 211, [1]; 239; 364 pages. Hardcovers bound in quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The bindings are quite worn, scuffed and bumped, but the bindings are sound. An ex-library set with full markings. Removed shelf labels from the spines and paper label on the front covers. Ink stamps on the title pages (one from Austria and one in Russian). The title labels on the spines are worn with two showing heavy chipping and pest damage. In Volume IV, there are burn marks at the tops of pages 229-239 with some loss of text (heavy loss on the last fe3w pages. The text blocks are quite sound. A scarce early work on Napoleon. No other copies online; no auction records found.