Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Surrey, England: Templar, 1995. Nick Hewetson. First Templare edition with illustrations by Nick Hewetson. Hardcover. 127pp. Octavo [22 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Illustrated by Nick Hewetson. More
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Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, March, 1930. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. Extremities darkened, and lightly rubbed and bumped. Boards just a hair bowed. Spine slightly rolled. There..... More
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Sir Francis Rose. First American edition. Hardcover. 288pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 olive green cloth with orange paper over boards. With the Errata slip. The edges of the spine and boards are a bit dinged and rubbed. The endpapers are darkened along the hinges..... More
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2017. Robert Crumb. Sixth printing. Hardcover. 356pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. New book, in shrinkwrap, with no flaws. A dozen full-page illustrations and 30 chapter head illustrations by legendary sixties underground comix illustration..... More
Audubon's Birds of America; Illustrated by John James Audubon
New York: An Artabras Book; Distributed by Harrison House, [c.1981]. Later printing of The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio. Hardcover. 435 color plates. Elephant folio [39.5 cm] Beige cloth over boards with decorative black ink stamping on the spine. The very bottom edges of the boards are a bit stained..... More
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1930. John Vassos. Early printing of the edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. 124pp. Small quarto [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with blue patterned paper over boards. The edges of the boards are a bit faded. There is a very brief gift inscription..... More
The Year When Stardust Fell
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Fifth printing; Holt Library Edition (with label on dust jacket). Hardcover. 203pp. Octavo [21 cm] Bright yellow cloth over boards with orange stamping. The spine ends are just a bit bruised. In the dust jacket designed by James Heugh. The jacket is lightly..... More
Humanities
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto [30.5 cm] 104pp. Folio [30.5 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with bold black ink stamped titles. Double title page printed in black and bold red. Boards a bit warped; some discoloration to the head of the..... More
One of Us (1949)
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2020. Signed special edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Sextodecimo [16 cm] 1/4 cloth with patterned paper over boards. #84 of 92 copies. Signed by the author and artist on the limitation page. "Grover Gibbs in his day and strength was no doubt the head philosopher king of Port William..... More
Botanicum
Somerville. Massachusetts: Big Picture Press, 2017. First U.S. Edition. 95 pp. Elephant folio. [37 3/4 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. In a coffee-table-ready companion to Animalium and Historium, readers make their way through seven “galleries” devoted to “the first plants,” trees, herbaceous plants, and other categories of flora, which are..... More
William E. McLellin's Lost Manuscript
Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 304pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Black paper over boards stamped in gilt. The rear fly leaf has a number of small, light stains, else the pages are clean. The rear pastedown has a couple of ripples. In the dust jacket..... More
Silverview: a Novel
New York: Viking Press, 2021. 215 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Cream paper over boards. ABOUT SILVERVIEW An instant New York Times bestseller! In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself. Named a most anticipated book..... More
Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel
New York: Delacorte Press, 2021. First edition. 325 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Yellow paper over boards. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree..... More
A Christmas Carol
Garden City, New York: Calla Editions, 2018. Arthur Rackham. Hardcover. 131 pp. Octavo. [26 cm]. Red paper over boards with gilt stamped title on covers and spine. Illustrated endpapers. This timeless tale of an arrogant miser's transformation into a paragon of warmhearted generosity, recounted by one of the English language's..... More
The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set 1
New York City: Tom Doherty Associates, 2019. Sam Weber. 2272 pp. 3 Duodecimo with illustrated wraps. 5 in x 7.5 in x 4 in. Comes with illustrated slipcase. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. The first three volumes of The Wheel of Time®, Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling fantasy series, now available in..... More
Robin Hood
Mineola, New York: Calla Editions, 2018. N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. Hardcover. 342 pp. Quarto. [26 cm]. Green cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on covers and spine. Illustrated endpapers. With black and white and full color illustrations. Generation after generation, young imaginations find their way to Sherwood Forest..... More
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Portland, OR: Oni Press, 2020. Maia Kobabe; Phoebe Kobabe. Later printing. Paperback. 240pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Illustrated wraps. 2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical..... More
Fairy Tales
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2017. Harry Clarke. Reprint. Hardcover. 320pp. Quarto [26cm]. Light blue cloth with titles stamped in navy, and illustrated paper label on front board. Featuring both black-and-white and full-color illustrations. More
Faust
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2013. Harry Clarke. Reprint. Hardcover. 253 pp. [26 cm]; full black cloth with silver stamped designs and titles on front board and spine. Forest green and black illustrated dust jacket. "At the time of Faust's 1808 publication, Goethe was already famous as one of the..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions (Dover), 2011. Rountree, Harry. Reprint. Hardcover. 248pp. [26cm] Blue, illustrated paper covered boards with full color illustrations. From the publisher: The "Alice" stories have always been a favorite topic for illustrators. Amongst the dozens of illustrated editions of Alice published over the years, Harry Rountree's contribution may..... More
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
New York: W. W. Norton, 2018. First Norton Paperback. Paperback. 280pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. From publisher website: An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth..... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mineola, NY: Calla Editions, 2016. Henry Keen. First edition thus. Hardcover. 250pp. Quarto [26cm]; black cloth covered boards with gold stamped cover and spine. Black and white illustrated end papers. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel. It was originally published by Lippincott Magazine in 1890. It was considered too indecent to..... More
The Dragon Reborn: The Wheel of Time Book Three
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2019. First Premium Mass Market Edition. 690 pp. Duodecimo. [19 cm]. Illustrated wraps. More