Religion Medici and Other Essays.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1898. revised edition. Full Leather. 16mo. 303pp Bound in full green leather with gilt design to front cover and gilt design and lettering to spine. More
Bindings
Charles I.
Goupil & Co., 1898. First edition. 3/4 Leather. 32.5 x 26 cm. Quarto. 185pp. Signed binding by Zaehnsdorf. This copy is bound into 3/4 red leather, black boards blind stamped in gilt. 4 raised leather bands to spine. Marble endpapers. Spine is darkened. Rubbing to edges. Color frontispiece and additional..... More
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2006. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 150pp. Bound in full blue leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to the spine. Collector's note and unused Easton Press bookplate laid-in. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series; signed..... More
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Genteman.
New York: Brentano's, no date circa [1926]. Limited edition. Full Leather. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 582pp. Limited to 2000 copies, 1000 each for America and England of which this is copy 774 of the American issue. Signed by the artist Rowland Wheelwright on the limitation page. 16 illustrations by..... More
Jesse James; Last Rebel of the Civil War
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2008. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 510pp. Illustrated. Bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering, design, and foredges. Silk moire endpapers and ribbon. 4 raised bands to spine. Some scratching to the foredges. Outlaws of the Old West. More
The Girlhood of Catherine De Medici.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. 3/4 leather. octavo. 392pp Bound in 3/4 burgandy leather with marble boards. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing. More
Idylls of the King.
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. Full Leather. 17 x 10.5 cm. 16mo. 405pp. Full red leather signed binding by Irvingtons, [?] Waterloo Place. Gilt foredges, edges, and spine designs. 5 raised leather bands to spine. Marble endpapers. Ownership inscription on front blank endpaper. Bit of scuffing to edges of the..... More
Idyls of the King.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 3/4 Leather. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 178pp. 31 engravings. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marble boards and endpapers. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt foredges. Ticknor and Fields reprint with 1865 on copyright page and 1866 on title page. Foxing to the first..... More
Terence's Comedies: Made English with His Life and Some Remarks at the End [Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding].
London: A. Swall and T. Childe, at the Unicorn, 1664. First Edition thus. Full Leather. 20 x 12.5 cm. Octavo.xxix 324pp. Full red leather signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.Gilt decorations, top foredge and spine lettering. Marble endpapers. With seperate title pages for each part and continuous pagination. First edition..... More
The Comic Almanack; An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
London: Chatto and Windus. Hardcover. TWO VOLUME SET. Octavo. (7 1/2" x 5") First Series, 1835-1843. Volume 2: Second Series, 1844-1853. Bound in 3/4 blue leather over blue cloth. Five raised bands. Leather title labels.(Some chipping) Marple endpapers. Bound by Colley of London. Hundreds of illustrations by George Cruikshank. Wear..... More
Ballads.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. viii 159. Rebound into 3/4 green leather, with marble boards and endpapers. The original wrappers are bound in. Second issue of the first edition with the date of 1856 on the wrappers and 1855 on..... More
Passages from Thackeray Selected & Arranged by Norman J. Davidson, B.A.
London: Seeley & Co. Limited. Full Leather. 12 x 8.5 cm. 32mo. 164pp. Handsomely bound into brown gilt decorated leather by Riviere & Son. Five raised bands to spine. AEG. Marble endpapers. Color title page vignettes and a few black and white engravings in-text. Some scratching to the covers. More
Manon Lescaut.
London: Joseph Thomas, 1841. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 348pp. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marble boards and matching marble endpapers. With illustrations by Tony Johannot; some full page others in-text. Rubbing to the outer hinges and edges of the leather. Some toning to the spine. 5 raised..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882. Hardcover. 21 x 15 cm. Octavo. 546pp. Handsomely bound in full brown leather, blind stamped black and gilt design. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt foredges. Marble endpaper. Signed binding: "E. Bumpus. 5&6 Holborn Bars".The Carmine Edition with 20 illustrations on steel by Cruikshank..... More
Prose Works of Charles Lamb (Three Volumes), The Letters of Charles Lamb with a Sketch of his Life and Final Memorials of Charles Lamb,; Five Volumes.
London: Edward Moxon, 1849. A New edition. Hardcover. Five Volume set. Octavo. Bound in 3/4 olive green leather over paper boards. Gilt lettering. Five raised bands. SIGNED binding by Riviere & Son. Suning to spines causing the spines to all be uniformly brown... More
The Journal of a Disappointed Man.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First edition. Full Leather. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 312pp. Introduction by H. G. Wells. This copy has been rebound in brown pigskin with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering to the spine. A newspaper article related to the author has been affixed..... More
The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran and his Man Mark Antony O'Toole.
London: William Tegg, 1846. Hard Cover. octavo. 412pp Bound in half green leather with marble boards. (Leather sun-faded to brown on spine.) Signed binding by W.J. Mansell. Marble endpapers. Black and white illustations by John Leech. More
Billy the Kid; The Endless Ride
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2008. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 328pp. Illustrated. Bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering, design, and foredges. Silk moire endpapers and ribbon. 4 raised bands to spine. Some scratching to the foredges. Outlaws of the Old West. More
Maurius the Epicurean; His Sensations and Ideas
London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher/Medici Society LTD, 1913. Leather Bound. Two volume set. Bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering to covers and spines.Marble endpapers. Ties. This edition of Maurius the Epicurean has been printed on handmade Riccardi paper 1000 copies of which 250 are reserved to the United..... More
The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation.
London: J. F. and C. Rivington, 1791. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 19 x 12 cm. 12mo. lxxvii 268pp xxiv 111 [11]pp. With separate title page and pagination for part two. Contemporary leather boards with a newer spine with red and black labels. New endpapers. Illustrated with 11 plates, musical scores, portraits..... More
The Alhambra.
London: Macmillan And Co, 1911. leather. octavo. 435pp Bound in 1/2 purple leather binding. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Ribbon. Black and white illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Top of spine bumped with small tear. There is very thin one inch line in black on front cover. Light rubbing at..... More
The House of Mirth.
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1981. Full Leather. 27.5 x 17 cm. Quarto. x 294pp. Bound in full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine. Illustrated by Lily Harmon. Bit of scuffing to the foredges. Non-personalized Easton Press bookplate affixed to front fixed endpaepr. Part..... More
Plato and Socrates (Bayntun Binding).
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. Full Leather. 17 x 12.5 cm. 16mo. 262pp. Signed binding by Bayntun binders, commissioned by Brentano bookstore. Gilt foredges. Bound in blue-green leather, gilt design and lettering. Doublure binding. 5 raised bands. Spine faded to brown. Front gutter starting. The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series..... More
Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited edition. Full Leather. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 261pp. Bound in full brown leather. Gilt lettering and design. 3 raised bands to spine. Illustrated with portraits by Tony Kokinos. Some scratching to the gilt foredges. Light rubbing to edges of the leather. More
Salome; A Tragedy in One Act
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Full Leather. 26.5 x 16 cm. Royal octavo. 51pp. Bound in brown-red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine. Silk moire endpapers and ribbon. With illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Notes from the Archives and unused Easton Press bookplate laid-in. More