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Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Chapbook, 1894. This famous poster was printed in 1894 by Stone and Kimball, famed Chicago publisher. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962), born in Boston, is widely considered one of the greatest American graphic artist and illustrator, known for his..... (Item #4395)

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)

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)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1943. First edition. Square 4to. In original color pictorial dust wrapper. Original light blue cloth with white stamped design and lettering in negative space on cover, bold blue illustrated endpapers with red tractor. Color illustrations throughout by Burton. Price-clipped, four yellowed tape repairs on recto..... (Item #2470)

Chicago: Lanward Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. 4to. Original publishers full dark green beveled cloth with blind-stamped 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. Decorative title, 16..... (Item #3812)

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)

London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition. 4to. Bound in full dark crushed brown morocco by The Hampstead Bindery, with superb stippled corner gilt decorations to upper and lower covers. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt ruling at bands. Very wide gilt-ruled turn-ins surrounding a vellum doublure panel, as well as..... (Item #4534)

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. Original beige paper covered 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: 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)

9 x 11.5 inches. A superb and wonderfully executed painting by Henry Auguste d'Ainecy de Montpezat (1817-1859) Count of Montpezat, born in Paris, was known for his exquisite equestrian and portrait paintings. Several of his paintings are kept in museums in France such as the Louvre and the Historical Museum..... (Item #5206)

Bruxelles: Dietrich et Cie, 1894. First edition. Superbly bound by Bickers & Son, London in full crushed reddish orange morocco with elegant gilt curving line design both covers and spine; spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endsheets. A very scarce 1890's Pre-Raphaelite treatise including "Catalogue de L'peivre de Dante..... (Item #3990)

1852. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. Autograph Letter Signed, from Dickens to schoolmaster Joseph Charles King, sending an unspecified document [not present; probably a check in payment of services rendered]. "Tavistock House" [London], 10 March 1852. "I have been constantly 'going' to call on you one morning..... (Item #6203)

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. Original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on cover. First issue with "Price 5/-" at base of spine and p.244 mis-numbered as 44. Expertly rebacked to match, original yellow endpapers retained, though not integral. Clean and bright internally. A very good copy of the..... (Item #1337)