We're happy to showcase in this area a small collection of special items we know you'll enjoy. We promise to edit this space rotating new items in and out on a regular basis.
![Bradley, Will- Fine Copy] Fringilla, or Tales in Verse. R. D. Blackmore](/pictures/thumb/4994_1.jpg?v=1602701871)
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1895. First edition. Original Holland backed paper covered boards with superb cover illustration by Will Bradley. Double spread title and frontispiece and ten wonderful plates, decorative borders and initials throughout, all by Will Bradley. A truly fine copy, the nicest we have ever seen, and the..... (Item #4994)
![Boyle, Eleanor Vere (EVB)- Rarity- PRESENTATION COPY TO "MRS. KINGSLEY"] Days and Hours in a...](/pictures/thumb/4925_1.jpg?v=1602701837)
London: Eliot Stock, 1892. Eighth Edition. Superb full brown morocco with an attractive floral design in gilt and blind. Engraved frontispiece, headbands, vignettes and engraved illustrations throughout. PRESENTATION COPY: "TO MRS. KINGSLEY, FROM EVB, HUNTERCOMBE MANOR, JUNE 22, 1895." With special preface where Boyle gives an homage to to her..... (Item #4925)
![9b [Boyle, Mary Louisa] Woodland Gossip. Mary Louisa Boyle](/pictures/thumb/2168.jpg?v=1557340776)
London: Thomas McLean, 1864. First edition. Original green cloth with superb gilt illustrated cover and spine. ASSOCIATION COPY: Inscribed on front pastedown, "Mrs. E.V. Boyle from M.L.B., 1865." Thus, presented from the author to her cousin and famed illustrator Eleanor V. Boyle. Three of the photographic illustrations (of which there..... (Item #2168)
![4 [Bradley, Will- Autograph Letter Signed] Will Bradley ALS to Frank Chouteau Brown. Will Bradley](/pictures/thumb/4803_1.jpg?v=1590257589)
Two pages on folded light green paper, April 28, 1901. Autograph Letter Signed to noted American architect, author, and printing designer, Frank Chouteau Brown, during the very period in which Will Bradley was withdrawing from work for a season owing to personal stresses and impending nervous breakdown, and the letter..... (Item #4803)
![4 [Bradley, Will]- Extremely Rare] Bradley: His Book, Prospectus. Will Bradley](/pictures/thumb/4955_1.jpg?v=1602701861)
Springfield: The Wayside Press, 1896. First edition. Original printed prospectus, 10 1/4 x 5 inches, one uncut folded folio sheet, making four pages. Lavishly illustrated/decorated front cover by Bradley with lettering in red, printed in red and black with decorations and examples of the upcoming Volume One, Number One. April..... (Item #4955)
![4 [Bradley, Will] Large Proof Illustration for "Bradley, His Book" Will Bradley](/pictures/thumb/3749_1.jpg?v=1557341103)
Large (5 x 11") proof illustration for one of Bradley's best images, woman with baby in front of stylized Art Nouveau style trees. This scarce insert appeared in one of Bradley's famous, "Bradley, His Book," series, but ours appears to be an oversized example with larger margins, and thus a...... (Item #3749)
![Cole, Averill- Inscribed to Cole from her Mother, Watercolor designs, Extensive Annotations] ...](/pictures/thumb/4711_1.jpg?v=1570231599)
New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897. First edition. Original boards with bold gilt cover ornament, title page, and opening initial, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, printedìfrom designs supplied by D. B. Updike [at] The Merrymount PressÖî Louise Averill Cole's Copy, with her signature on front free fly, and..... (Item #4711)
![Village Press- Extremely Rare, 1/40 Copies, With Two Authentic Bookplates by Truesdell] A Booklet...](/pictures/thumb/4980_1.jpg?v=1602701867)
New York: Village Press, 1907. First edition. Original green laid paper over boards, Japan vellum spine, with cover roundel "EB." The rarest of all Village Press books, this is the special Japan Vellum issue, Limited to 40 Copies Only." The Colophon reads, "This edition of Elisha Brown Bird, His Book..... (Item #4980)
![Roycroft Press] Christmas Eve. Robert Browning](/pictures/thumb/2094.jpg?v=1557340763)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1899. First edition thus. Three-quarter light brown levant, marbled boards, ornately gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. #30 of 50 Copies Only, printed on Japan Vellum. Hand-illumined by Annie McMillan. In original folding clamshell box. Superb color illumined title page and initials throught. A gorgeous..... (Item #2094)
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. First edition. Original brown wrappers with original printed paper label on cover. 132pp. Side and bottom edges uncut. With 4pp advertisements at end dated April 15, 1837. A superlative copy, the best copy we have seen in many years. The paper..... (Item #2446)
![Binding, Fine- Donnelley for Merle Armitage] The Courtezan Olympia: An Intimate survey of Artists...](/pictures/thumb/4370_1.jpg?v=1557341319)
New York: Covici, Friede, 1930. First edition. Large quarto. Superbly bound at by Donnelley in full tan finely crushed morocco with large accentuated raised bands extending onto the covers, star patterning with gilt dots on covers and spines, including blind ruled compartments. Superb and highly innovative gilt stamped dentelles with..... (Item #4370)
![Bunner- With Holograph Poem Inscribed- Club Bindery] Airs From Arcady. H. C. Bunner](/pictures/thumb/4208_1.jpg?v=1557341248)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. First edition. Bound in full olive green crushed morocco by the renowned Club Bindery, with gilt borders, elaborate gilt spine and dentelles, signed by Club Bindery on front inner dentelle. With manuscript poem in holograph by Bunner bound in opposite half-title, for the poem..... (Item #4208)
![Binding, Fine- Douglas Cockerell] The Hymn of Bardaisan. F. Crawford Burkitt](/pictures/thumb/3587_1.jpg?v=1557341030)
London: Essex House Press, 1899. First edition. 12mo. Early Arts & Crafts style binding (1902) by Douglas Cockerell with his binding signature in rear dentelle, "19 DC 02." Full polished claft with leaf motif stamped in front and back near the spine forming a darker brown. AEG. The second book..... (Item #3587)
Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First Edition, Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders, three-dot motif in corners, five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later..... (Item #937)
![Binding, Fine- Riviere] Beppo and Don Juan]. Lord George Gordon Noel Byron](/pictures/thumb/4676_1.jpg?v=1570231395)
London: John Murray, 1853. Two volumes. Bound in full red morocco by Riviere (signed in ink on paper pastedowns), with all-over gilt interlacing floral and leaf design on both covers and spine, literally every square centimeter covered with this attractive repeating design. Some light foxing, All edges gilt with attractive..... (Item #4676)
![4 [Bradley, Will- His First Major Book] Glimpse of the life and times of A.V.H. Carpenter. Albert...](/pictures/thumb/3812_1.jpg?v=1557341138)
Chicago: Lanward Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. 4to. Original publishers full dark green beveled cloth with blindstamped scroll design on cover on which has gilt lettering, gilt spine, dec. endpapers. The first major book illustrated by Will Bradley, renowned American artist/illustrator, designer, and publisher. Photographic frontispiece portrait. Cecorative title, 16..... (Item #3812)
![3 [Binding, Fine- Ars & Crafts Binding in Terracota Morocco] Some Dreams Come True. Theodora E....](/pictures/thumb/5132_1.jpg?v=1618613522)
London: George Allen and Sons, 1910. First edition. pp. [viii], [72], 8vo. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, with superb gilt border design comprising triple gilt lines interrupted by groups of small leaves and decorated with dots, and the back cover with the same design, but blindstamped. Gilt titling at the..... (Item #5132)
![2 [Coleridge, Samuel Taylor- Scarce First Edition, Original Boards, Rebacked] Sibylline Leaves: A...](/pictures/thumb/5095_1.jpg?v=1618613514)
London: Rest Fenner, for S. Curtis, Printer, 1817. First edition. 8vo., 6 x 9 inches, 303pp. Original drab boards, rebacked with new endpapers, printed paper label on spine. Extremely scarce Coleridge title containing the first appearance of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to appear under Coleridge's name, and with..... (Item #5095)
![3 [Binding, Fine- W. H. Smith, Designed by Douglas Cockerell] Lely and the Stuart Portrait...](/pictures/thumb/4922_1.jpg?v=1602701835)
London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1912. First edition. Two volumes, quartos. Handsomely bound Arts & Crafts style binding by W.H. Smith & Son (signed WHS on rear dentelle) from a design by Douglas Cockerell (see below) who managed the bindery from 1906-1914. Full crushed turquoise morocco with..... (Item #4922)
![Rowlandson, Thomas] The Tour of Doctor Syntax. Three Volumes, Original Boards. William Combe](/pictures/thumb/3506.jpg?v=1630101129)
London: R. Ackermann, 1819-1821. 4to. Three volumes. All in Original Boards. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (eighth edition), The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation (second edition), and The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife (no edition stated..... (Item #3506)
![Binding, Fine- w Edward Walker] The Prince's Visit. R. J. de Cordova](/pictures/thumb/3397.jpg?v=1557340944)
New York: B. Frodsham, 1861. First edition. Superbly bound by Edward Walker in full red morocco with ornate gilt leaf and vine pattern surrounding a central oval frame with lavish crown design on both covers, gilt spine. Equisite gauffered edges, expertly stamped design on all three edges over smooth and..... (Item #3397)
![Crane, Stephen Rarity] The Black Riders. Stephen Crane](/pictures/thumb/3199.jpg?v=1557340889)
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. Original beige paper coverd boards with famous orchid design on both covers, lettering on cover and spine in black, stamped on front pastedown "Dudley and Hodge," as issued. Landmark in 1890's printing, "The Black Riders" was Crane's first book of poetry and second..... (Item #3199)
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. First printing. 57 sheets unbound sheets (and one limitation sheet), numbered I to LVI, each with magnificent drawing by Crane comprising illustrated panels with decorative borders. Signed by Walter Crane in pencil on limitation page (No. 20 of 300 Copies Only. Has original publication..... (Item #2019)
London: George Cruikshank, Sold by J. Robins and Co., 1826. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio. Original printed boards with cover illustration, thin calf spine. PRESENTATION COPY: "W. Blackwood Esq. with the Complm. Geo. Cruikshank" signed boldly along the top of the front cover (across 15 inches). 16pp, six full..... (Item #486)
![Wiener Werkstatte] Two Drawings, partially colored in green. Carl Otto Czeschka](/pictures/thumb/2877.jpg?v=1629299355)
[ca. 1900] 7 1/2 x 9" art sheet. Drawings approximately 3" x 5" in in fine pen or brush with portions painted-in with green watercolor. With two famous Wiener Werkstatte ink stamps (general and personal) lower right. Carl Otto Czeschka (1887-1960) was one of the most prominent members of the..... (Item #2877)
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