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
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
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
[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
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
Rockport, ME: 2016. Artist's book, one of 14 copies, all on Rives BFK white paper for the text and wrappers, (also available in Stonehenge Pearl Grey); the 16 original 10 x 10-inch C-prints printed on Kodak Endura luster paper to archival standards and mounted using acid free archival adhesive. Page..... 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
Albuquerque, NM: 2016. Artist's book, one in a series of 6, all on green and brown Italian book cloth and oriental papers, "book" is covered with assorted cloth which the artist made into book cloth, signed on the colophon (behind a closed door) by the artist, Elizabeth McKee. Size: closed..... More
[Vashon, WA and Palo Alto, CA]: Foolsgold Studio and Springtide Press, 2016. Artist's book, one of six copies, all on black Revere paper, each copy unique with a variation of the final Cibachrome print (Winged Grief), each copy signed and numbered by the artist / poet, Jacqueline Thurston, on the..... More
New York: NY Woman Suffrage Party, October 1917. Leaflet, small 4to, 10-7/16" x 8-1/8" (unfolded), printed on white stock which shows a little age-toning. This leaflet has not been folded so is quite fresh and in fine condition overall. The entry of the United States into World War I caused..... More
Stillwater, ME: 2016. Artist's book, 1 of 10 copies, all on Katie MacGregor blue Sherman handmade paper, each copy hand-lettered and decorated with hand-cut paper snowflakes by Nancy Ruth Leavitt who has signed and dated the colophon. Page size: 6-1/2 inches square; 16pp. including covers, 8 paper pages, 5 of..... More
[Camden, ME]: 2015. Artist's book, from a total edition consisting of 78 books printed on Mohawk Via Smooth Flax cover stock: 26 black and white, 26 hand-watercolored, 26 deluxe hand-colored with gelatin printmaking techniques heightened with watercolor and colored pencil. This copy is from the third deluxe set, with original..... More
Norwich, VT: 2014. Artist's book, one of 7 copies, all on white paper, each copy signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Page size: 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches; 18pp; including colophon. Bound by the artist: drum leaf style, brown cloth over boards with small onlay of stenciled image..... More
[Bremen, ME: Red Angel Press], 2004. Unique binding by Gabrielle Fox, from an edition of 100 copies, the poetry on Saunders Waterford paper and the title page and illustrations on Sekishu, signed by the artist / printer, Ron Keller. Page size: 12-1/2 inches x 7-1/2 inches, oblong octavo. Binding: full..... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2001. One of two copies in original designer binding by Donald Glaister, from an edition of 125 copies all on various handmade papers by Velma Bolyard, La Papeterie St. Armand, and Barcham Green, with Arches, Frankfurt and Mexican amate paper. The text is set in 14pt..... More
[Bremen, ME: Red Angel Press], 2004. Limited Edition, signed by the artist and designer, Ron Keller, one of 100 copies, the poetry on Saunders Waterford paper and the title page and illustrations on Sekishu. Page size: 12-1/2 inches x 7-1/2 inches, oblong octavo. Bound: beige linen cloth with painted silver..... More
NP: ca.1949. Original pen and ink drawing, 2-5/8 inches x 4 inches on white laid paper, pencil notation "Lucrezia Borgia" below drawing and "downcast eyes" to left of drawing, in original frame with thank-you note from Phyllis Feldkamp. Preparatory sketch by New Yorker cartoonist, William Steig, for Will Cuppy's THE..... More
