Go, Go, Go, Grabote!
New York: Harlan Quist, 1973. Paperback. Unpaginated. Square duodecimo. [18.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Toning to back cover. A unique comic style children's book from Harlan Quist. More
Illustrated Books
Kubla Khan: Samuel Coleridge's Poem with Interpretive Illustrations by John Vassos
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1933. John Vassos. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and brown paper covered boards with the title stamped in gilt on the front board and backstrip. Brown endpapers. The boards are a bit warped and slightly soiled. The underlying boards are peeking..... More
Kubla Khan: Samuel Coleridge's Poem with Interpretive Illustrations by John Vassos
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1933. John Vassos. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and brown paper covered boards with the title stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Bumped and rubbed at the spine ends and corners of the covers. The covers are a bit..... More
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878. Gustave Dore. Third edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio [47 cm] Sea green cloth with gilt front cover and spine. 12 pages text, 39 full-page plates with tissue guards, engraved title page vignette and engraved vignette headpiece at beginning of text. Moderate wear to extremities..... More
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1877. Gustave Dore. Second American edition, with illustrations by Doré. Hardcover. Elephant folio [47 cm] Green moire cloth with gilt front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Complete, with 39 full-page plates with tissue guards, engraved title page vignette and engraved vignette headpiece at..... More
Lord Jim: A Tale
New York: The Heritage Press, 1959. Heritage Press Edition. Hardcover. 407pp. Small quarto [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a gray paper covered slipcase. The book is in very good minus condition, with heavy fading to the spine. The slipcase is in good plus condition, with moderate rubbing, and..... More
Jugement: Avec 10 Dessins de Frans Masereel (Poésie 45)
Lyon: Pierre Seghers, [1945]. Second edition. Leather bound. Octavo [24 cm] Rebound by F. Brochon in black leather with red spine labels, new endpapers and flyleaves. Ribbon page-marker. Original wraps bound in. Ritter C a) Nr. 62. I. French text. Boards slightly warped. Number 1166 in an edition of 1200..... More
Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Norwich, VT; New York, NY: Impermanent Press; The Grolier Club, 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 154pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards with the title stamped in black ink on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Blue endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece illustrating Waif Maid. Errata slip laid in. This..... More
Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Norwich, VT; New York, NY: Impermanent Press; The Grolier Club, 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 154pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards with the title stamped in black ink on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Blue endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece illustrating Waif Maid. Errata slip laid in. This..... More
Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Norwich, VT; New York, NY: Impermanent Press; The Grolier Club, 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 154pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards with the title stamped in black ink on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Blue endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece illustrating Waif Maid. Errata slip laid in. This..... More
The Book on Chickens. Written, Illustrated and Lived by Lowell Davis
Gretna, LA: Pelican Street Publishing, 1992. Davis, Lowell. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto [28.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards, with matching dust jacket and slipcase. The front board is just a little warped, and the dust jacket shows light edge wear. In a very good slipcase, with marginal soiling, and..... More
Undine
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. / William Heinemann, 1919. Arthur Rackham. Later printing. Hardcover. 136pp. Small quarto [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with illustrated gray paper covered boards. Illustrated endsheets. Good only.The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. The decorative stamping on the spine is a bit..... More
A Hannes Bok Sketchbook
Saddle River, NJ: Gerry de la Ree, 1976. First edition. Paperback. 80pp. Quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine condition. The spine is very subtly browned, and the front cover is barely perceptibly soiled. Internally, clean and bright. One of 1,000 copies. Boks images have been included in Weird Tales..... More
As It Was In the Beginning
Melbourne: Frank Wilmot, 1929. Norman Lindsay. Limited edition. Hardcover. 64pp. Large octavo [25 cm] 1/4 brown paper with beige paper covered boards and brown ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Good. The covers age-toned and have dark stains of foxing. The edges of the spine and covers..... More
The Dore Bible Gallery
Philadelphia: William T. Amies, 1884. Later printing. Leather bound. Quarto [30 cm] 3/4 dark red leather with speckled paper covered boards, and a gilt tooled spine. All edges gilt. Good only. The covers and spine are heavily rubbed and abraded. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. There is..... More
The Wood and the Graver: The Work of Fritz Eichenberg
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1977. Limited First Edition. Leather bound. SIGNED. 199pp. Quarto [30.5 cm] 1/4 red leather with gray cloth over boards, and housed in a gray board slipcase. Fine condition, in a near fine slipcase, with light edge wear, and several very light stains. With about a hundred..... More
Fritz Eichenberg: The Artist and the Book
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1979. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Slim octavo [23 cm] Tan and black printed wraps, with the front wrap illustrated with a wood engraving for Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. The rear wrap has a large area of light staining, and the terminal pages are ever..... More
Fabre's Book of Insects Retold from Alexander Teixeira De Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1935. E. J. Detmold. New Edition. Hardcover. 271pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Green cloth over boards, lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Title page printed in red and black. Tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. There are areas of very faint..... More
Poems of Childhood
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Circa 1920. Maxfield Parrish. Later printing illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Hardcover. 199pp. Quarto [23.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with an illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Light wear to edges of boards. Dust jacket is split at spine. Losses to head and..... More
A Tudor Book of Arms. Tricked by Robert Cooke Being Harleian Manuscript No. 2169. Blasoned by Joseph Foster Hon. M.A. Oxon; A Tudor Book of Arms. Being Harleian Manuscript No. 6163. Blasoned by Joseph Foster Hon. M.A. Oxon (Two Tudor Books of Arms)
London: The De Walden Library, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Two books in one volume. [i-v], vi-viii, [1-3],4-328pp. Large quarto [31.5 cm] Original light-blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles on the front cover and spine. Beveled edges. Marbled endsheets. Black and white illustrations. The extremities are darkened, and mildly soiled and rubbed..... More
Penguin Island
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. Frank C. Pape. Library Edition, Reprint. Hardcover. 345pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Black cloth lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Publisher's dark red top stain. Fore and bottom edges rough..... More
Upsurge
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 42pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black cloth over boards with bold white lettering on the front board. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward from a wood engraving reproduced by electrotype and printed in black; title page incorporates a detail of the frontispiece; dust jacket..... More
Sketches and Cartoons
New York: R. H. Russell, 1890. Gibson, Charles Dana. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, unpaginated. 84 full page pen & ink drawings. Bound in 1/2 white cloth over beveled pictoral boards. Some discoloration and chipping to boards.Extra charges apply on this item due to weight. More
A Wanderer in Woodcuts
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth over black boards with title printed in black on the backstrip and image stamped in silver on the front board. Deckled fore edges. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Backstrip a bit darkened. Very small..... 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