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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent, 1828. Revised, Improved and Authentic. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a quite attractive copy of a fascinating volume, being a New, Improved, and Authentic edition, augmented with E. Mackenzie's Explanatory Notes and a number of lovely engravings by Knox from designs by Cruikshanks. Original publisher’s brown cloth binding. This Imperial octavo hardcover measures 6” x 9”, with six black-and-white plates five of them being misbound (frontispiece is placed correctly) and placed at front, post-frontis. The front paste-down has a small, tipped-in article about this book, and there are extensive pencil inscriptions also detailing the contents of the book also inside front flap. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are slightly browned and rippled. Offsetting on title page from the frontispiece.… Read More

Llandogo, near Monmouth, Gwent, United Kingdom: Old Stile Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Author. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. The publisher has featured linen-covered boards with a fine line drawing by the artist and set that into a recessed panel on the upper portion of the cover. The spine features gilt titling. The front endpapers by Graham have been printed in four to six colors each, showing a double-page woodcut of Volklingen, Saarstahl, Germany. The rear endpapers show a double-page color woodcut, too, but featuring Skinners Bottom, Mawla, Cornwall. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Housed in an also nearly As New condition slip-case, single and elegant. Kippers & Sawdust is a stunning work by the master printmaker Rigby Graham, featuring four… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Rembrandt. Signed by Author. A tour-de-force of bookmaking and -binding, a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound most handsomely in a folio-size format, in full brown Morocco leather over boards, with a large "R" stamped in gilt to cover over a blind-stamped design, and then with seven raised bands to spine, title in gilt over a blue label in its own compartment between bands. Measures 13 5/8" tall by 11" wide. Protected gray cardboard cover bound in at the rear so as to protect the page fore-edges. Marred only by a small Sharpied "L" written in blue along bottom edge. Housed in a Fine condition slip-case that is decorated with brown paper over brown cloth-covered boards, and with an intact… Read More

Berkeley, California: Mayacamas Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is a special portfolio indeed and that is scarcely available to the trade. O.C.L.C. lists a total of six copies in toto, complete, three being located in California, two in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island. This is copy #53 of only 75 copies, comprised of 30 prints struck on only one side, and 26 of those 30 are copies from the artists themselves. A matched, full, collated-as-complete set. Each is signed by the woman artist and then numbered. Barbara Parsons' Introduction says that "[m]any of the artists accepted the challenge of the broadside as an opportunity for dynamic experimentation with image and text; others illustrated more conventionally. It is not always easy to steer a clear course with so many hands grabbing for the tiller, but Taking Flight proves that ancient axiom: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Robert Flynn Johnson, then head of… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed by Author. This lot puts a lot of Christopher Morley titles on your shelf. 56 volumes, all in. Fuller bibliographic details are available by asking ( only allows descriptions of a certain length . . . ). The titles are as follows: 1) Thunder on the Left (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925). Very Good First Edition hardcover copy a Good condition dust jacket, machine- but not price-clipped. 273 pp.; 2) Where the Blue Begins (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923). Good condition hardcover copy with cream paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, cover illustration and title in blue ink, 215 pp.; 3) Swiss Family Manhattan (Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932). Very Good stated First Edition hardcover copy, Good condition silver dust jacket. 208 pp.; 4) Pipefuls (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921). Early reprint of 1921 First Edition, Good condition hardcover copy with tan paper over boards, no slipcase, as issued. 274 pp.; 5) Streamlines (Doubleday, Doran & Company,… Read More

Northbridge, New South Wales, Australia: Reid Books, 1984. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Frank Hodgkinson. Signed by Author. Special Limited Edition, being Copy No. 505 of 600 copies printed, TRIPLE-SIGNED, and with the Copy #43 of 100 of the even more special edition that was issued with a signed and numbered illustration, being "Raggiana" and tissue-guarded. Wildly illustrated pastedowns front and rear, being a hand-drawn map of the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, quite personal and evocative. SIGNED by the author, by T. Wall of the Touche Ross & Co., who printed the book, and by a representative of the publisher, Reid Books, Northbridge, New South Wales, Australia. Quite handsomely produced in what appears to be a creamy brown leather over boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine, blind-stamped illustration to front cover. Protected in a full-color illustrated slipcase in Fine condition. Unpaginated. Full of full-color and… Read More

Morningside Press / Harper & Row / Ticknor & Fields. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A nice-looking, structurally sound set of seven (7) American Civil War titles, purchased from the personal library of the (now deceased) owner of California Collectible Books (Lloyd Mason), until recently located in Martinez, California. As New condition to six titles, Very Good condition to the Stephen W. Sears title (To the Gates of Richmond), with just some dust soiling along top edge, and Near Fine condition copy of the Warren Wilkinson title, Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen (with a Foreword by Emory M. Thomas), ditto, both of the latter two titles in dust jackets, as issued, as with the remaining volumes (the Comstock volume and The Ordnance Manual not having been issued with one). Lloyd Mason collected Civil War history, Western Americana, and California-based novelists' works.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional… Read More

Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Not seemingly otherwise available to the trade in this state and condition insofar as it is a set complete in two Fine condition burgundy-colored, pebbly leatherette hardcover volumes and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spines and gilt devices to front covers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated, printed paper dust wrappers, sunned moderately and soiled lightly along edges, a bit of chipping thereto, else clean and intact, not price-clipped, and now in archival plastic coats. First Editions, both. Set comes with the original publisher's packing boxes, with Kanji character and English titles, printed labels to spines, and archival boxes riveted along top and bottom edges, folding in front. One in Good condition, with short split along one joint, the other in easily Very Good condition. Fine black-and-white photographic portrait of the goggle-eyed author at frontis of Volume I, and another… Read More

First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine-looking set of seven (7) Dave Eggers works, all in hardcover, six being novels, one being a quasi-journalistic account, Zeitoun, about Hurricane Katrina. Each is a stated First Edition but for one that is a Fourth Printing of the First Edition, several being also in stated First Printing state. 1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000, 375 pp.), As New condition hardcover, two-tone paper over boards, cloth-backed, price-clipped dust jacket, illustrated, else easily Fine; 2) Zeitoun (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005, 351 pp.), illustrated paper over boards, burgundy cloth-backed, vertical "belly-band" over rear flap; 3) Heroes of the Frontier (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, 385 pp.), illustrated pictorial pictorial boards; 4) The Circle (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, 491 pp.), As New condition hardcover, with a nearly Fine dust wrapper, and turned into a fine Hollywood… Read More

France: The 79th Division, United States Army, 1919. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Mange is on the Decline." "Cudgels Taken Up." "Atrocities in Verse: 'Over the top with Rastus Brown'". "Inoculation of 79th is Ordered." These and other article titles and sections and features make this issue of The Lorraine Cross, uber-scarce in any condition and not currently available even on WorldCat dot org . This issue, in Fair condition for moderate soiling and chipping, is an indispensable item for students and historians of World War One materials. First Edition copy, 4 pp. in single-fold format, since folded again, measuring 24" x 17" wide and tall, respectively, when opened fully, laid now onto stiff card stock and slipped into a plastic sleeve. This item is browned, chipped along edges, soiled a bit at top of first page, tender to the touch, so handle with care, but all the text is readable. The newspaper masthead… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The bright-red buckram cloth covers indicating ex-library status belie the original interior published in 1877 and that is festooned with some lovely black-and-white engravings hors-text and additional duotone engravings on plates, done by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, of Dublin. Red-speckled page edges. Withdrawn from the Leeds public library, a fine bookplate inside front flap denoting so, and with ink-stamp denoting such inside rear flap at bottom and embossed stamps at title page and over tips of engraved plates, unobtrusive. Cracking to gutter of a pastedown, else quite sturdy. First Edition. xix [3], 406, [2] pp. + 82 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Nine lovely plates that are done by the so-called Woodbury process developed by Walter Woodbury, a photographic frontis, says a Wikipedia article about it, that "is both a printing process and the print that it produces. In technical… Read More

Paris, France: The Obelisk Press, 1938. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated Fourth Printing, published first in 1934, then reprinted in September 1935, March 1938, and June of 1938. Preface by Anais Nin. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, well worn and toned of wraps, in gate-fold, half-inch splits thereto at rear bottom and front top, but complete. Printed in Hungary. Rear panel features blurbs of praise by Cyril Connolly, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, William Carlos Williams, Blaise Cendrars, Anains Nin and Montgomery Belgion. Measures 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" wide and tall, respectively, price of 60 Frs inside front dust wrapper flap, publisher's device at spine bottom. 318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Mount Vernon, Washington: Fred and Susan Miller, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Author. Extremely uncommon in this state and condition, being a Fine condition copy and SIGNED by one of the author, inscribed warmly at title page, being a Presentation Copy to Jim Ogden--a classmate and friend, of the 'gang of '57' Fred Miller 4-7-08." Big, tall, quarto format illustrated softpaper format copy, with six chapters of Samish history and culture, European travel to and exploration of Samish island, and archaeology and ethnology of the island. ix + 409 pp. including a full index and note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Japan: Editions Treville, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Katsuya Terada. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Laid in are the original tariff tickets! Bright and shiny illustrated cut-out, open-ended sleeve, showing no appreciable wear, gift-quality condition inside and out. Katsuya Terada is a bright, well-known, influential Japanese artist who claims European influences such as Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius). Probably best known as the character designer for the Japanese animated film Blood: The Last Vampire, but also for Iron Man and Hellboy and then also for films, video games and television series. His Wikipedia entry says that Terada is known for "a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking… Read More

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Jules Remedios Faye. Signed by Author. A fine and due homage to the history and practice of basket-weaving along the Columbia river in Oregon and Washington. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper. Laid in also is a special item of ephemera, being a SIGNED broadside by Grey Spider Press on occasion of a reading by the author and featuring a Wasco-style human figure from a twined bag, quite fine, being one of only 50 such ever printed. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume… Read More