London: Faber & Faber, (1969), Second Impression. quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. 448pp. Faber & Faber, A comprehensive history of the development of illustration from the earliest days down to the modern printed book. "By picking out salient and typical books the author seeks to indicate the main lines..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1993), First Edition. large quarto, brown cloth in dust jacket. xxxiv, 403 pp. Princeton University Press, The panorama of American animal study, from the natural history of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon through the development of professional zoology and its large institutions, provides the backdrop..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin, Author's third doc Adams mystery. Signed by Boyer above his name on the title page. Boyer has also inscribed the title page: "Skip - It gives me real personal pleasure to inscribe this book to..... More
Boston: Bates & Guild, 1921, First printing of this edition. octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 214pp. Bates & Guild, A descriptive text with numerous illustrations of lettering styles and designs from the fifteenth-century to date of publication. This book is most useful in the section where it shows..... More
(Washington, DC): Microcard Editions, (1971), First Edition Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Bruccoli. octavo, light and dark green cloth. (xviii), 122pp. Microcard Editions, Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles (one folding). An as new copy. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1967, First Edition. quarto, red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Chatto & Windus, A novel of two sisters who, as children, created an imaginary, dramatic world that covered a deep antagonism. Years later, they and a friend from their past discover old powerful emotions moving from..... More
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London: Collins, 1947, First Edition. octavo, original yellow cloth in pictorial dus jacket. (192)pp. Collins, Signed by Peter Cheyney in ink beneath his printed name on the title page. Bookplate and tiny number "273" on front free endpaper, slight wear and fading to edges and spine of jacket. Jacket is..... More
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London: Collins, 1944, First Edition. octavo, original yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (192)pp. Collins, Laid in is a (2)pp. printed announcement for this title along with sales figures for Cheynet's earlier published titles. Signed by Peter Cheyney in ink beneath his printed name on the half title page. Bookplate..... More
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London: Collins, 1944, First Edition, Special Edition. octavo, original black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (192)pp. Collins, "A Special Edition of They Never Say When by Peter Cheyney Specially published by Messrs. Collins for his friends to commemorate his twenty-first 'Coming-of-Age' Novel. To 'S. R. Fuller.' (in Cheyney's hand) 23rd..... More
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London: Collins, 1946, First Edition. octavo, original yellow cloth in pictorial dus jacket. (192)pp. Collins, Signed by Peter Cheyney in ink beneath his printed name on the title page. Bookplate and tiny number "285" on front free endpaper, slight wear and fading to edges and spine of jacket. Jacket is..... More
London: Collins, 1949, First Edition. octavo, original yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (192)pp. Collins, Signed by Peter Cheyney in ink beneath his printed name on the title page. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Slight wear to edges and spine of jacket. Jacket has tiny, internal tape mend at spine..... More
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London: Collins, 1941, First Edition. octavo, original salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (256)pp. Collins, Signed by Peter Cheyney in ink beneath his printed name on the title page. Bookplate and tiny number "265" on front free endpaper, slight wear to edges and spine of jacket. Jacket is not price..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1921, Reprint Edition. octavo, red cloth stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, Part of "Nash's Great Novel Library" series. Spine faded, wear to extremities, light scuffing to cloth, text clean. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin LTD, (1925), First (English) Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. T. Fisher Unwin LTD, Issued simultaneous with the American Edition. Keating 193; Smith 27. Light chipping to top and bottom of jacket spine with over all light dust soiling. Offsetting to front endpapers. More
St. Louis, MO: The Anvil, March-April, 1935, First Edition. quarto, original printed heavy paper wrappers. (34)pp., stapled. The Anvil, No. 10. March-April, 1935. With contributions by Erskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy, Saul Levitt, and others. Wood cuts by Dan Rico. Vertical fold through center, Light wear and dust soiling to extremities..... More
New York: Putnam's, (1996), First Edition. large octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Putnam's, Very fine copy, jacket not price clipped. More
New York: Macmillan, 1894, Illustrated Edition Limited to 350 copies, of which only 100 were for sale in America, signed by Crockett. quarto, brown cloth with pictorial image gilt stamped on front cover. T.e.g. (xxvi), 290 pp. Macmillan, With a prefatory poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. "Stickit Minister: a probationer..... More
London: W. Collins Sons, (1922), First Edition. octavo, original dark blue cloth stamped in red on front cover and spine. viii, (312)pp. W. Collins Sons, Shelf wear with wear to top and bottom of spine and with a tiny chip fron foot of spine. Bookplate, old name and place on..... More
(The Golden Eagle Press), [1949], First Edition. small octavo, rose boards stamped in yellow, in dust jacket. (The Golden Eagle Press), Variant binding both printed in rose and bound in rose boards. Firmage A22. Illustrated with drawings by Klee, Modigliani and Picasso (also printed in rose). Two small chips to..... More
St Cloud, Minn: Land's Edge Press, (1999), First Edition, Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the author. octavo, brown boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 181 pp. Land's Edge Press, Illustrated with 16 color plates. Each entry described in detail. A fine, clean copy. More
New York: Penguin Press, 2017, First American Edition. octavo, cream cloth in dust jacket. 632 pp. Penguin Press, "Christopher de Hamel's exploration of medieval manuscripts - a dozen peaks fro St Augustine to Chaucer and beyond, gorgeiously and copiously illustrated - is itself an extraordinary book, a work of scholarship..... More
Madrid: Editorial Plus-Ultra, 1962, First Edition. large quarto, maroon cloth stamped in gilt with maroon leather spine, in dust jacket. 373 pp. Editorial Plus-Ultra, Text in Spanish. A history of Spanish illuminated miniatures, engravings and bookbindings. Eight color plates and 507 in black and white. With two indicies, geographic and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1952, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth cloth in dust jacket. Doubleday, Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Maude - dear old friend - with my devotion always - Mary Frances Doner May 8, 1952". Light scuffing to jacket with some tape reinforcement to verso. Not price..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948, First Edition. octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. Doubleday, With (4) pp. promotional piece laid in offering the speaking services of Maude W. Linscott "well-known clubwoman and radio news commentator." Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Maude - in loving friendship. Fondly Mary Frances Doner..... More
Stroud, Glos. Catalpa Press, 1983, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 164pp. Catalpa Press, The first biographical study of Housman the artist. Extensively illustrated and with appendices comprising checklists of Books Designed and Illustrated by Laurence Housman, Magazines and Journal Illustrations by Laurence Housman, Laurence Housman - The..... More