Paris: Felix Juven, 22 Mai 1915. Single issue of French humor magazine, this issue "Dan Les Ruines" with a color chromotypograph caricature by Abel Faivre of Edith Wharton and Walter Berry in the back of their chauffeur-driven car, touring the front with the caption "Ce n'est que ca!" Single Page... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. First edition, inscribed by the author, on the front blank, "Henry Wilder Foote / from his friend / O. B. Frothingham." Page size: 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 inches; 396pp; including Index + 2 pp. ads. Bound: green cloth stamped in gold with author's name... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside press, 1884. First edition, with leaf excised that has list of illustrations as in copyright deposit copy, Binding A with publisher's monogram at foot of spine, BAL cites 1518 copies of the printing. Page size: 8-3/8 x 5-7/8 inches; 153pp. Bound: blue cloth... More
Boston: James Monroe and Company, 1845. First edition, binding A (no priority), inscribed on the front flyleaf, "Marshall P. Wilder / From the Author". [iv, ads], iv, 319pp; blue cloth with blind vignette on front panel and gilt-stamped spine with author and title. vine-like ornaments, page size: 6-12/16 x 4-7/16... More
Chicago: Published by the Author. Chicago: A.B. Case, 1868. First edition, both books as issued, bound together. 8vo; 346pp; and 140pp; + 1p. ads of other titles by Mrs. Packard. Bound: original brown blind and gilt-stamped cloth with title on spine, corners bumped and edges rubbed but still a very... More
Shanghai: World Book Co, 1922. Modernized version of an ancient Chinese classic being the second volume of "One Hundred Beauties" with 50 full-page portraits and pictorial titlepage and colophon, text in Chinese, original green printed front wrapper and tan back wrapper, hand-sewn. Wrappers a bit soild and worn at edges... More
New York Chicago: Sheldon, Blakeman and Company S. C. Griggs and Company, 1857. First Edition of author's first book. 342pp; + 10 full page engravings; original brown blind and gilt-stamped cloth with title and publisher in gilt on spine, corners bumped and a bit rubbed, spine with a bit of chipping, text... More
Syracuse New York and Auburn: William T. Hamilton / Miller, Orton and Muiligan [sic], 1856. First edition. 8vo; 409pp; + 6pp. ads for other publications by Miller, Orton & Mulligan, (including a quote from Lydia Maria Child urging reading ARCHY MOORE, THE WHITE SLAVE by Richard Hildreth, one by Fanny... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Enoch Pratt Free Library Poetry Broadside, 1935. Broadside, sea-green/blue paper, size: 22 x 16-3/4 inches, designed by Norman T. A. Munder, using Munder Types. Printed in blue ink with triple rules at either side in grey and blue, image by Rockwell Kent of woman dancing in front of... More
London: Macmillan, 1910. First edition, first printing, first English issue, inscribed by the author on the front blank, "L. Belugou / from his friend / Edith Wharton (with a flourish) Oct 26th 1910." 8vo; 438pp; + 8pp. ads, publisher's blue cloth blind and gilt stamped; ex-libris of Leon Belugou on... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1902]. Broadside advertising THE VALLEY OF DECISION, single leaf, printed on both sides, printed in brown ink with photograph of the author. Page size: 6-1/2 x 3-7/8 inches, fine. More
New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. First edition. Page size: 7-3/4 x 5 inches; 288pp; Bound: blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine ends shipped, bottom edge rubbed, tips bumped and rubbed, dampstain at bottom of pages of front matter though p. 85, about 3 inches long... More
[NP]: December 1904. Card size: 4-3/8 x 4-5/8". The quote reads "Julia Ward Howe / Pres' New England Women's / Club / Ex-pres' of the Association for / the Advancement of Women. / Mine eyes have seen the glory" and is all in Howe's hand. On the verso is the... More
Boston and London: Crosby, Nichols, and Company.. Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856. First and only edition, first printing. 12mo, 468pp, including a page of ads for other books by Fuller; dark grey-green cloth, triple-ruled border, tips worn, spine sunned and stained, lacking both flyleaves, traces of label removed from... More
Hartford, Conn: [American Publishing Co.], 1877. First Edition. 8vo, 94pp; buff printed wrappers. Frontispiece engraving of Miss Smith and her cows. The delicate wrappers are very goodl , but generally intact, spine starting to split with about 1" lost at each end, small hole at center of front wrapper at... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition, copy #117 of 250 copies specially bound and inserted in a sllipcase and signed by the author, Nicholas A. Basbanes. Page size: 9 x 6-1/8 inches; 360pp; + 2pp. of Notes on Type and Colophon, which is where the author has signed... More
[Salt Lake City, UT]: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Page size: 8l-12 x 5-1/4 inches, 8pp + colophon. Bound: balck cloth over boards, no dj as issued, fine. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by the author, CharlesBowden. Book design and letterpress printing by Jason Davis... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press & Wake Robin Press, 2015. Artist's book, one of 41 copies, all on papers that were contact printed using materials from autumnal gatherings, including fruits, nuts, seeds, flowers, leaves, twigs, fungi, and various metals by artist and poet, Velma Bolyard, signed by the artist / author... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. One of 200 copies, all on mould-made St. Armand paper (white for the text and tomato for the covers, hand-made aqua for envelope), signed and numbered by the printer / artist, Mark McMurray. Page size: 5-3/8 x 4-3/8 inches; 8pp. Bound: accordion-style fold out with... More
Bremen, Maine and New York: Red Angel Press, 1988. Signed, Limited Edition, one of 100 copies, all on Frankfurt White and Sekishu paper. Page size: 8-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches. 22pp; plus woodengraving which folds out to 38 x 18 inches and surrounds the text when opened. Bound: dark green buckram... More
Norwich, VT: 2004. Artist's book, one of 25 copies, hexagon, each page unfolding each copy numbered and signed by the artist, Stephanie Wolff. Page size: 6-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. Bound by the artist, hinged pages housed in blue/grey paper envelope. The text is from Thoreau's Journal, January 5, 1856: "The... More
Norwich, VT: 2004. Artist's book, one of 20 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist, Stephanie Wolff and the poet, Verandah Porche. Page size: 5 x 5-1/4 inches; 2pp. Bound by the artist: rigid folio binding of boards covered with light brown paper with a dark brown bookcloth spine... More
Boca Raton, FL: Jaffe Center for Book Arts, 2015. Artist's book, one of 12 copies, all on unbleached Thai Mulberry paper, each copy signed and numbered by the artist, Stephanie Wolff on the colophon. Page size: 5-3/8x 6-11/16 inches; 22pp. Bound: flutter format in buff wrappers of Somerset Velvet Antique... More
Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2016. Judith Rothchild. Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2016. $3,200 One of 15 copies, 14 of which for sale, all on Hahnemulhe for the mezzotints and BFK Rives paper for text, each signed and numbered by the artist, Judith Rothchild, and the printer / boxmaker, Mark Lintott on... More
[Camden, ME]: 2011. Artist's book on Mohawk Via Felt Natural paper, 1 of 5 copies only, French fold, signed by the artist / author, Richard Reitz Smith and hand numbered in pencil on the last page. Page size: 10-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches; 16pp. Bound by the artist: folios hand-stitched and... More
