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Santa Barbara: Paul Elder & Company, 1909. Oblong folio (15 Ω x 11 Ω inches. First Issue, bound in publisherís original thick weave binding with embossed lettering on cover, also stamped in green and gold, and with two leather straps on each cover as ornamental design (covers are worn). A...... (Item #6187)

St. Louis: Haberly, 1943. Finely bound by Haberly in full red-brown calf with Haberly's all-over ornate and pleasing stylized gilt work which has become quite recognizable. Limited to only 48 copies. Beautifully patterned green endpapers. This copy is inscribed by Haberly in the form of a poem, on the leaf..... (Item #6222)

Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, ca. 1890. Tall folio. 20 x 14 inches. In original publisher's green printed wrappers (with folder mounts in which to place the plates) with attractive cover printed in red and black of stylized poppy design. 12 full-size card art paper plates printed in stunning sepia colors of..... (Item #6193)

Offered here is a wonderfully crafted and illustrated MANUSCRIPT BOOK by Hildegard Hudemann in 1948 (on title page), which has been bound in three quarter beige buckram, orange paper-covered stiff boards (beveled). The illustrations are of a very high quality and craftmanship: color title-page vignette and 10 superb color vignettes..... (Item #3736)

London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition thus. 4to. Lavish Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. . Bound in full red rich crushed morocco with gilt scrollwork devices around edges of both covers and extending toward center, gilt rules and stippling including outside edges, ornate gilt dentelles and superb silk moirÈ endpapers. With..... (Item #2469)

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1912. First edition. Quarto. 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Original superb full brown crushed morocco with bold gilt-stamped lettering and designs on front cover and spine, dentelles with single rule by Roycroft binders, probably Frederick Kranz. Full-page double spread title page with elaborate border designs..... (Item #3325)

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. First edition. Bound in the publisher's scarce full modeled calf binding with striking design motifs on both covers, the front with bold stylized leaf patterns and ruling, and the rear with stippled and battered design, highly stylized petal devices, etc. Spine with modeled lettering. Probably..... (Item #4632)

1816. Two pages on quarto sheet 9 x 8 inches. Fabulous and lengthy letter of over 400 words to publisher John Taylor, (1781 ñ 1864) the publisher of the poets John Keats and John Clare. Leigh Hunt, the great Victorian poet, explains that he has sent the "Harry Brown" letters..... (Item #6202)

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1929. First edition. In two volumes. First edition, large paper issue. 8vo. 311, 4 (ads); 319 pp. Original quarter light purple cloth over original boards, remnants of paper labels on spine. Very rare in original boards, only a few copies in boards have survived. The..... (Item #4942)

Amsterdam: Johannes Guijkens, [1838]. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original printed laid card laid paper wrappers with hand-colored woodcut illustration on cover. 16 text pp. and 16 one-sided superb hand-colored plates. A scarce and popular early children's book, here provided in near unused condition, a remarkable find with tender spine completely..... (Item #2674)

London: Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press, 1898, 1901, 1902. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles, five total volumes (two Keats, three Shelley). A superb set of both Vale Press titles, sold here together, since bound similar, and obviously stored safely together by the same owner, as all..... (Item #3497)

Sussex: 1913. Two pages. Written on Kipling's "Burwash" stationary (Bateman's Burwash, Sussex), June 21, 1913, remarking on Blumenfeldís treatment at a spa in ContrexÈville, astonished at his willingness to comply to it, praising his cartoonist, and encouraging the critical articles about a committee that had been appearing in the Express..... (Item #6200)

Superb original printed color lithographed poster by Herbert Myron Lawrence for the October, 1895 Century Magazine, depicting a stylized sailboat in blue with a setting sun. Herbert Lawrence, (1861-1937), who established an art studio in San Francisco in the 1880's, and, at the turn of the century, was known for..... (Item #4396)