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.
![Beskow, Elsa] Hanschens Skifahrt. Elsa Beskow](/pictures/thumb/2491.jpg?v=1557340802)
Munich: Georg W. Dietrich, [1908]. First edition. 4to. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, blue cloth spine. Olive green pictorial endpapers. Illustrated title, first page, and thirteen stunning full-page color illustrations by Elsa Beskow as well as half-page line drawings by Beskow throughout. One of Beskow's more alluring illustrated books..... (Item #2491)
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First printing. Superb full crushed burnt orange morocco binding by Leonard Mouteney (signed in front turn-down: "Designed and Finished by L. Mounteney." A famous finisher binder for Riviere & Sons of London, Mouteney later migrated over to the Lakeside Press (along with De Sauty) and..... (Item #1980)
![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)
![Bradley, Will H.] Exquisite Original Printed Color Poster for The Chapbook, 1894: Called the...](/pictures/thumb/4395_1.jpg?v=1557341324)
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)
![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)
![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)
![8 [Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.- ALS to Collector, Regarding Fellow Bookbinder Florence Foote ] ALS...](/pictures/thumb/5077_1.jpg?v=1638383535)
2pp., on 5 x 8 single leaf Doves Press Stationary (No. 1 The Terrace Hammersmith W.). Written in 1906 by Cobden-Sanderson, premier bookbinder and founder of the Doves Press to Charles Williston McAlpin, 1865-1942, who became a prominent customer of the firm, after the receipt of this letter. McAlpin, son..... (Item #5077)
![2 [Coleridge, S. T.] The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper. Samuel Taylor...](/pictures/thumb/4310_1.jpg?v=1557341311)
[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)
![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)
![Binding, Fine- The Hampstead Bindery] The Dance of Life, a Poem by the Author of ëDoctor Syntax....](/pictures/thumb/4534_1.jpg?v=1557341344)
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)
![Craig, Edward Gordon- Special Limited 100 Copies, Craig's Own Copy] Scene, WIth a Foreword and an...](/pictures/thumb/4485_1.jpg?v=1557341334)
London: Humphrey Milford, 1923. First edition. 4to. Special Limited Edition of only 100 Numbered Copies, (copy #78), Signed by Craig, and Specially bound. EDWARD GORDON CRAIG'S OWN COPY, with his oval bookplate, as well his son, Edward Craig's copy, with his bookplate as welll, and with the following note below..... (Item #4485)
![Cruikshank, George] The Englishman's Mentor. The Picture of the Palais Royal. George Cruikshank](/pictures/thumb/5826_1.jpg?v=1638384129)
London: Printed for William Hone, 1819. First edition. 12mo, 6 x 4 inches. Scarce original publisher's light green cloth with publisher's paper label on spine (worn). Featuring a wonderful frontispiece hand-colored etched fold-out by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, opening up a full 16 inches (6.5 x 5.5 inches) and titled, "Picture of..... (Item #5826)
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)
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