New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Lynd Ward. Heritage Press slipcased edition. Hardcover. 269pp. Quarto [30 cm] Orange marbled linen cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title within a blue panel on the spine. The Heritage Club Sandglass (Number 1: 26) laid in. Very good. The spine is faded..... More
New York: P. F. Collier & Son. De Luxe Edition. Oblong elephant folio [35 cm x 49 cm] Three of four tipped in plates [22 cm x 28 cm] reproduced in color, with cream-colored paper mounts [33.5 cm x 46.5 cm]. Housed in a portfolio with black paper over thin..... More
Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1975. First Printing Thus. paperback. Octavo [21.5 cm.] White wrappers with printed titles in black on the backstrip and front panel. Near fine. Introduction by Rockwell Kent. Afterword by John L. Lewis. Includes a new introduction from Patri. This edition issued while the author/artist was still..... More
Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1975. First Celestial Arts paperback printing. Paperback. SIGNED. Octavo [21.5 cm] in wraps. With some mild toning and several areas of light indentations to the wraps. This copy is inscribed by Patri on the title page: "To____ and _____, Giacomo G. P." Signed copies of this..... More
People's Songs, Inc, June, 1948. First edition. Paperback. 12pp. Extremely slim quarto [27.5 cm] Black and white pictorial wraps, featuring cover art by Giacomo Patri. The wraps are lightly soiled, rubbed and age-toned, and the wraps and pages are torn in the margins at the spine fold, with a loss..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. Lynd Ward. First trade edition. Hardcover. 202pp. Octavo [21 cm] Navy blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and a silver stamped circular design on the front board. Very good, with thin faded strips at the spine ends..... More
San Francisco: SISU, 1972. Hannes Bok. Limited edition. Hardcover. 118pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are lightly bumped and creased. The boards are creased, perhaps from having been dropped. There..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1926. Dean Cornwell. Early edition. Hardcover. 116pp. Folio [32 cm] Rebacked with matching green cloth. 1/4 green cloth with green paper covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a paper title label mounted to the front cover. Very good. The underlying boards..... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1933. Harry Clarke. First Tudor Edition. Hardcover. Quarto [29 cm] Black cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Black endpapers. With 8 beautiful tipped-in color plates, and many black and white plates. All..... More
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2013. Edmund Dulac. Reprint. Hardcover. 122 pp. [29 cm]; full tan cloth, blind stamped designs and gold stamped titles on front board and spine. No dust jacket as issued. This lavish hardcover compilation features the best of Poe's verse, including "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," "To..... More
New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date. Hardcover. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth over boards with lettering in gilt and elaborate black ink stamped designs on the spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Printed tissue guards. The backstrip is faded, the cloth at the edges of the spine..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1928. Lynd Ward. First edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown branch-patterned cloth over boards. Four full-page illustrations by Lynd Ward. The extremities are a bit dinged, and the front board is very slightly warped. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908. Ethel Franklin Betts. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Square quarto [29 cm] 1/4 dark green cloth with illustrated paper covered boards. Very good. The covers are rubbed. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. The front endsheet is subtly darkened. Illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts. The..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. Arundel Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 394pp. Large octavo [25 cm] 1/4 beige cloth, with unevenly faded blue cloth over boards. Pictorial endpapers. Along with the fading to the boards, and there is a bit of red staining on the front board. Number 544 in an..... More
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1931. Rockwell Kent. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 64pp. Small octavo [22 cm] Teal blue cloth spine with black and white patterned paper over boards, and a printed paper title label on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper. In..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 342pp. Octavo. 1/4 black cloth with black and white illustrated paper over boards, with the rare original jacket and belly-band. Top edge black. Boards and jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward repeating a wood engraving, with the back cover in..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 342pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 black cloth with black and white illustrated paper over boards. Boards illustrated by Lynd Ward repeating a wood engraving, with the back cover in reverse of the front. Gilt title on spine (a trifle..... More
Amsterdam / Antwerpen: Wereldbibliotheek, 1949. Niederlandische Ausgabe (Dutch Language Edition). 133pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red and tan thin card boards. With only light rubbing to the extremities, and a bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. Ritter, p. 308. Oorspronkelijke titel: La Révolte des Machines ou La Pensée dechainée. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. Mead Schaeffer. Hardcover. 384pp. Small quarto [24 cm] Black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Good. The edges of the spine and covers are..... More
New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 1981. First edition. [43pp] Square octavo (23 cm) Red cloth with gilt stamped title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Signed by Sendak on the front free endsheet. Charming full color illustrations throughout. More
Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First German language edition published by Buchergilde Gutenberg. Hardcover. 263pp. Octavo [21 cm] Woven tan cloth over boards wit a brown ink stamped title on the backstrip, and a black ink stamped title on the front board. The front free endpaper has a minor numerical notation..... More
Zurich: Verlag Oprecht & Helbling, 1934. Clement Moreau. First edition in German. Hardcover. 223pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Bluish-gray cloth over boards (slightly warped). There are a couple of notations in pencil on the preliminary leaves. Contains the following stories: Die Reise Nach Paris; Simplicio; Der Fuchs; Letizia; Don Aristotle..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Maurice Sendak. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 90pp. Octavo [23 cm] Specially bound in natural cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a black and white pictorial paper label on the front board. Printed on Andora paper. In the..... More
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Norman Lindsay. Limited edition. Hardcover. 75pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Brown paper covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a gilt stamped vignette and decorative border on the front cover. Fore and bottom edges deckled. Very good. The covers are mildly..... More
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Limited edition. Hardcover. 75pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Light brown paper covered boards with gilt and blind stamped decorative borders, and a gilt stamped title and vignette on the front cover. Deckled edges. Very good. The front cover has numerous small stains. The pages are clean. Embellished..... More