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Offered here is a wonderful pen and ink drawing and paste-up for the title-page of an 1899 pamphlet (or booklet) for the Twentieth Century Club, in Chicago. Matted and framed under glass, image size: 7 x 4 3/4 inches. "The origins of Chicago's Twentieth Century Club lay in the belief..... (Item #6196)

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)

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1868-1869. First Edition. Publisherís dark green cloth over beveled boards gilt and stamped in black (spines darkened, some light wear vol. IV with some light chipping to spine ends); slipcase holding all four books. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with vol. I and III lettered in..... (Item #6075)

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)

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)

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)

[Penrith]: J. Brown, 1809-1810. First editions. Original printed paper wrappers. Numbers 1, 2, 6, 7, 15, 21, 22-25, and an un-numbered issue for Thursday, January 11, 1809-1810. Though incomplete run, yet FIRST EDITIONS OF COLERIDGEíS SCARCE POLITICAL WEEKLY, and including the very rare unnumbered "Supernumerary essay," dated Thursday, January 11..... (Item #4310)

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)

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: 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)

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. First edition. Full publishers stiff vellum binding with bold ornate gilt Nouveau pattern on both covers and spine by Charles Ricketts. Illustrations by Charles Ricketts. With the Art Nouveau bookplate of Christie Chetwynd Atkinso with illustration by M.C. Fisher, 1902. Near fine copy..... (Item #2134)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935. 4to. Superbly bound by Albert Oldach, accomplished American bookbinder, who took over his father's bindery (Frederick, J. M.), Oldach and Company, in the early 1900's, a successful bindery in Philadelphia that bound editions of Whitman and other notable authors in 19th Century. Exquisite..... (Item #4698)

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. Superb full green crushed morocco with gilt edge ruling and lettering with multiple ruled compartments, more ornate gilt designs on dentelles by Zaehnsdorf [signed, "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1896" in publisher's stamped letters, bottom verso of front endsheet]. Original bright green printed wrappers bound..... (Item #2161)