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Bolger's Cacao. Promotional publication Bolger's Cacao, Bolsward, ca. 1910. Stapled, 10 pp. 8vo. Near fine. (Item #2686)
Bolger's Cacao. Promotional publication Bolger's Cacao, Bolsward, ca. 1910. Stapled, 10 pp. 8vo. Near fine. (Item #2686)
Paris: Piazza & Cie, 1899. First edition. Small Folio. Original blue-grey pictorial wrappers. Number 130 of 330 Copies on 'Velin de Vosges a la cuve.' 26 exquisite and delicately rendered text color plates and 24 illustrations by Gaston de Latenay. With the original scarce folio-sized prospectus in printed wrappers containg..... (Item #2270)
London: James Parker and Co., 1904. First edition. Sumptuously bound by Zahensdorf in 1904, signed with gilt bookbinder's pallete on lower front dentelle: "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1904," and further with the Zaehnsdorf "Exhibition" seal stamped into the lower portion of the rear silk pastedown. A magnificent period binding by Zaehnsdorf..... (Item #2000)
London: William Heinemann, 1926. Early edition. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt. ASSOCIATION COPY WITH SIGNED LETTERS. Personal copy of Margot Sieveking, wife of literary editor Allan Wade, including Typed Letter Signed by Max Beerbohm tipped onto front pastedown to "Mrs. Allan Wade," Typed Letter Signed by publisher and..... (Item #2872)
Newcastle: Longman & Co., 1832. First edition. Two volumes, plus one volume. Bound in attractive contemporary full gilt and blindstamped bordered polished calf, two with marbled edges. British Birds with superb Bewick engravings throughout, armorial bookplate, slightly scuffed, very good. Quadruped, 8th edition, Newcastle, 1824, rebacked; Bewick cuts throughout. The..... (Item #2835)
London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. First edition. Original beige paper covered boards with attractive repeating design on cover in black designed by Binyon. Contributors include: Selwyn Image, Laurence Binyon Reginald Balfour and others. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A near fine copy of a scarce book. (Item #2772)
London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First edition. Octavo. xx, 459 pages. Heavily illustrated. Title page in red and black. Publisher's cream cloth boards with decorations in gilt, red, green, and blue, designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw (1870-1957), architect and calligrapher who also worked in plasterwork..... (Item #2599)
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 throughout. A gorgeous..... (Item #2094)
London: Strahan & Co., 1872. Publisher's cloth binding.. Boards rubbed, edges and joints worn, corners bumped, hinges cracked. Bookplate of W. MacDonald MacKay. Good overall. (Item #2615)
London: W. Kent & Co., [1860]. First edition. . 8vo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco, top edges gilt, spine gilt, joints rubbed with front cover partly loose; original wrappers bound in (bookplate on verso of front wrapper). Very scarce Cruikshank title with woodcut illustrations throughout. Small partially abraded book label on..... (Item #2859)
London: Vizetelly & Co., [1890]. Exquisite full morocco inlaid binding signed in rear turn-in, "The Garret." A striking binding in the manner of the Guild of Women Binders or the closely allied Hampstead Bindery, featuring Nouveau-style wandering stems with onlay green leaves and terminating in red onlay flower designs, orange..... (Item #2572)
London: The Unicorn Press, 1897-1898. Five volumes in one edition. Duodecimo, 104; 118; 94; 101; 91. Illustrated throughout. With information on art, architecture, literature, and music. Pencil notations on the front pastedown. Modern half bound in green cloth and leather using the original spine covering with gilt titles. Gilt page..... (Item #2643)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. 303pp. Beautifully bound in three-quarter olive green morocco over green marbled boards (handmade paper), raised bands on spine with superb interlocking stem and blossom patter, marbled endsheets. Extra-illustrated with two holograph poems in Robinson's hand and both bearing the author's name at the..... (Item #2851)
London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1865. First edition. Octavo. vii, 270 pages. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped ruled borders on boards, and gilt title on spine. Bookplate of "John Roxburgh, Jun." on front pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, small tears to head of spine, front joint starting; hinges cracked, holograph..... (Item #2618)
Paris: J. Povolozky et Cie, 1923. First edition. Small 4to. Original printed card wrappers with superb cover design on front in black, with red lettering, another on rear wrapper in black. ASSOCIATION COPY: PRESENTED BY FABRI TO FELLOW POET D. J. d' Orbaix with a four line note on front..... (Item #2676)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. xiii, 253 pages. Rebound in parchment over boards with ornamental square gilt devices on the boards, five raised spine bands with gilt decorations and leather title labels in compartments, marbled endpapers. Boards soiled and lightly rubbed; dampstains, small paper chips, occasional soiling;..... (Item #2602)
One side of folded octavo sheet. To Gleeson White (appears at bottom). "Dear Sir, I fear none of my poems will be suitable for the Pageant. If you find the enclosed too grave, kindly return them to me without delay. I am very sorry I have nothing among my papers..... (Item #2889)
London: George Bell and Sons, [1887]. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pink patterned endpapers. Very good. (Item #2739)
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. First edition. Original beige paper covered boards with famous cover illustration of blossom and vines with innovative lettering motif on both covers by Selwyn Image (signed lower right). 261pp. A book uncommon to find it presentable condition, this copy is fine. A great rarity..... (Item #2892)
Three separate volumes. Underneath the Bough. London, George Bell, 1898. Revised and Decreased edition. Blue smooth buckram, gilt cover and spine. Covers soiled and worn. A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field. London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1923. Printed paper covered boards, slightly discolored, mild browntoning. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field..... (Item #2913)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruled box on cover, gilt spine. First edition, first issue with uncorrected "Aind" on p. 14. With autograph letter from Frost to the owner of the book, a Mrs. Hopkins, attached to front free endpaper: "Franconia..... (Item #2871)
London: C. Whittingham and Co. at the Chiswick Press for Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890. First printing. Gorgeous Arts and Crafts full reddish-brown morocco by Anastasia Power with her initials signed in monogram on rear turn in, "AP" (interlocking). Covers magnificently gilt-tooled with elaborate double-ruled square boxes (eighteen..... (Item #2573)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890. Early Edition. Association Copy inscribed by the author Edmund Gosse to George Meredith Esq. on the front endpaper. Small octavo. [3, blank], [1, author's works], [xii], 212, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [3, blank]. Frontispiece and one additional plate inserted on differing paper..... (Item #2619)
Paris: G. De Malherbe, 1895. First edition. Folio size. Contemporary three-quarter vellum-style boards with handmade marbled paper boards, morocco label on spine as well as gilt designs on spine. TWO STATES OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS: 24 chromotypographed plates, two for each month in succession. The first being the first Malherbe, Paris..... (Item #2866)
One page on Gray's St. Peter's stationary, 1932. Printed on top: 52502, Canon Gray, St. Peter's Falcon Avenue, Edinburgh." To an unnamed party... Gray gives time and day of a planned meeting... "I shall be much blessed to see you, Yours very sincerely, John Gray." Letters by Gray are quite..... (Item #2887)