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London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1830. First edition. Bound in full contemporary wavy grain calf with bold gilt vine and blossom pattern on both covers and spine, beautiful crimson wavy silk endsheets. Inscribed by the author to his son, William Badnall. A fascinating and vanishingly scarce book of poetry by..... (Item #1332)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. First edition. Original tan blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine, yellow endpapers. 208pp. James Philip Bailey was a member of the so-called "Spasmodic Poets," or poetry heavily favoring drama in verse, the protagonist often of which is a poet, characterized by unwieldy soiiloquies and..... (Item #2384)

London: William Pickering, 1848. Third edition. Original bindstamped dark blue cloth with emblem design both covers, attractive gilt-stamped design of snake and lightening bolt. The third edition similar to second editioin, but with an entirey reset text printedd by R. Allen, Nottingham. With erratum leaf at end. Bailey's chief work..... (Item #2413)

4to. ca. 1930. Elaborate illustratiion front cover. "The Letterpress is as usual produced by the Officina Bodoni and this volume which forms part of the PANTHEON Series will maintain in the reproduction of the plates the high standards which have been so favourably commented upon in the press." (Item #3116)

New York: The Bancroft Co., 1900. First edition. 8vo, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 738pp. Green vertically ribbed cloth. Striking cover illustration and design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of ocean waves and sea-shells, with the Ancient Mariner telling to the Weding Guiest the story of his adventures, etc. A...... (Item #5105)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 12mo. Beige cloth with superb cover illustration in gold and colors by Peter Newell. Illustrations by Peter Newell. Fine. (Item #618)

Chicago: Brothers of the Book, 1912. First edition. 12mo. Original publisher's calf-backed, marbled paper covered boards, paper label on cover. Woodcut designs. Colophon state that the book is a reprint of a certain hoax perpetrated on a time by one Kendall Banning... With an interesting "Addenda" attached to rear (a..... (Item #3852)

Wausau: Van Vechten & Ellis, The Philosopher Press, 1897. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers. Exceedingly scarce true first title of the Philosopher Press, NOT IN RANSOM. Art Nouveau-style cover design by Gardner C. Teall. Importantly inscribed on first page by co-publisher Ellis to the owner of the book, famed..... (Item #2953)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902. First edition. Green cloth with gilt, white and darker green pictorial designs on cover and spine. Illustrated with four full-page tinted plates by Anna Wheelan Betts (Brandywine Illustrator and student of Howard Pyle). Very good. (Item #773)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First edition. Brown linen weave cloth, cover with attractive leaf and berry design in green and red, gilt and black device, by Margaret Armstrong. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Eleven full-page black and white illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Corners slightly bumped, near fine..... (Item #675)

Amsterdam: D'Estienne Roger, 1701. 12mo. 19th Century marbled boards (rubbed), later calf spine (sl. wear to extr.), marbled endpapers contemporary with boards. 473pp. followed by six pages of Table [of Contents], ending with half-page advertisement. Exceedingly scarce Aesop title, with exquisite full-page copper-engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black..... (Item #3790)

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [1910]. First edition. Original light blue cloth with full-size color pictorial insert on cover depicting a number of the characters driving through the city in a toy donkey-drawn carriage. First edition, first state with light blue cloth, five titles on verso of ownership page, two-color endpapers..... (Item #2568)

Ca. turn of the century. A set of four separate proof illustrations printed on light proof paper by Franz von Bayros, 1886-1924, Austrian commercial artist and illustrator. (Item #4151)