London: Constable and Co. 1916. First edition. 8vo. cxviii, 205 pp. Ad leaf for other Shaw works. Laid in is an autograph note on Ayot St. Lawrence letterhead, from Shaw to the wife of Emile Vandervelde, Belgian labor party leader, fuming about a negative review of "Androcles" by a noted... More
Cambridge: At the University press for the Limited Editions Club, 1967. First edition with the Parker illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #1229) signed by the illustrator. 4to. xxii, 297, (1) pp. In-text illustrations, title-page vignette. LEC "Monthly Letter" laid in. Very good. Quarter-leather and cloth, portrait of Shakespeare in relief on... More
New York: Rinehart & Co. (c1958). First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Very good. Patterned boards, printed matching dust jacket. (9584). More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, 1/450 copies. 8vo. (24) pp. This copy signed by the author on the half title, as usual, as both "George Russell" and "A.E." Very good. Original lavender boards (spine faded), gilt spine title. (9611). More
[London]: The Roxburghe Club, 1999. First edition, one of a small number specially bound for members of the Roxburghe Club (names of 42 members are printed on a preliminary leaf). 4to. xiv, 220 pp. Illustrated from facsimile manuscript pages. Chalkhill (ca. 1595-1642) was a seventeenth-century British poet who is known... More
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. First edition, 1/350 copies (this #243) signed by the author. 8vo. (10) pp. Title page illustration. Additionally inscribed by the author on the title page; inscribed by the publisher to the same recipient on the front endpaper. Very good. Blue-green cloth, gilt spine title, lacking the dust jacket. (9608). More
(Cleveland: World Publishing Co. 1948). Prospectus for the Bruce Rogers Bible. Folio. (8) pp. Includes a full-page "announcement," for the publication (with the printed "fifty-six" copies overstamped and replaced by "sixty-six"), signed in type by Bruce Rogers, and specimens of the title page, the first two pages of "Genesis," and... More
NP: nd [1930s?]. Minor wear in the margins, but very good. (9722). More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. First edition with the Kipness illustrations, 1/2000 copies (this #192) signed by Kipness. 8vo. xxxiii, 129 pp. Frontispiece, plates, and vignettes below some poems. LEC "Monthly Letter" laid in. Very good. Cloth-backed boards (edges a bit faded), gilt spine title, publisher's slipcase (partly faded). (9533). More
Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1954. First edition with the Benton illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. 4to. xiii, (1), 144, (3) pp. Plates from Benton lithographs; text printed in red and black. Bookplate on front pastedown, LEC monthly letter tipped-in... More
Boston, (MA): Little, Brown, and Co. 1929. First American edition. 8vo. (6), 291 pp. Lewis Mileston won the Academy Award for best director for the 1930 Universal movie version that starred Lew Ayers. Very good. Black and red-printed gray cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (rubbed, small chip in central spine... More
New York: Red Angel Press, 1981. First separate edition, 1/100 copies (this #2) inscribed for a collector and signed by the designer/illustrator. Large 4to (12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches). (2), 24 pp. Large illustrated print folded and affixed to rear endpaper with an illustrated artist's note on a facing... More
(New York): Red Angel Press, 1988. First separate edition of the short story, 1/100 copies (this #2) signed by the designer/illustrator. Folio. 16 pp. Double-page panorama, large folding panorama. Accompanied by the prospectus for the book, a pre-publication flyer, and a folding instruction sheet, also signed by Keller, explaining how... More
New York: Red Angel Press, 1977. First separate edition, 1/100 copies (this #30) signed by the author and the designer/illustrator. Folio. 23 pp. Frontispiece and in-text illustrations from line drawings. "An unusual split-page, tripartite format was developed for this edition that allows the reader to visually experience the simultaneousness expressed... More
London: Richards, (1938). First edition. Small 8vo. 79, (1) pp. Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket (bleedthrough at base of spine from old tape repair). (9639). More
London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott Co. (1920). First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout in silhouette, mounted color frontispiece. Old tideline stain near joint on front board, but a good solid copy. Later red three-quarter morocco (corners bumped, joints rubbed), gilt, and patterned cloth, gilt spine title and... More
London: Joseph Lilly, 1861-1863. First edition. 4to. 2 volumes: xv, 298; lix, (1), 310, (1, errata) pp. 57 plates from text, illustrations, etc., one folding, portrait frontispiece to volume one; with half-titles. Bigmore & Wyman "Bibliography of Printing," p. 65: "[Blades], by his painstaking research, has cleared up many doubtful... More
Los Angeles, (CA): The Plantin Press, 1972. First edition, 1/200 copies. 16mo. (1) pp. Prints a poem describing the experience. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication. Very good. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper wrapper, tied. (9711). More
New York: Grolier Club, 1980. First edition, 1/1000 copies. 4to. xii, 241 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Title page printed in red and black. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated black cloth, leather spine label (one nick), publisher's slipcase with wraparound printed title label. (9548). More
New York: Huntington Press, 1932. First edition, 1/160 copies (this #117), this one signed by the author at the end of his short prose piece on page two. Large 4to. (8), 236, (1) pp. 117 portrait photographs, by the author, of prominent public figures, authors, athletes, entertainers, etc. (including Achmed... More
San Francisco, (CA): Chronicle Books, (c1993). First edition (the paperback issued simultaneously with the hardback). 8vo. 179 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, with captions. Norman's photographs "capture the fullness of empty space"; Norman (1905-1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, arts patron, political activist, and protege of Alfred Stieglitz. Fine... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia, (c1986). First edition. 8vo. xiii, (2), 265 pp. Illustrated from photographs, primarily by Stieglitz, plates, portraits. Consideration of a "loose coalition of cultural radicals in pre-World War I New York City, [dreaming] of changing the world with pens, paint brushes, and new publications." Fine... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. First edition with the Bank illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) printed at the Thistle Press. 4to. xv, (5), 316 pp. Printed in blue and black. LEC Monthly Letter tipped in at rear. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Parchment-backed gilt-stamped decorated boards, top... More
New York: Outing Publishing Co. 1907. Revised edition, first published in 1903 in an edition of five copies. 8vo. 60, (1) pp. Illustrated endpapers. Neihardt (1881-1973), a prominent regional writer from Nebraska, is best known for "Black Elk Speaks" (1932), an extended work on the visions of a Lakota medicine... More
London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1893. First edition. 8vo. xi, 326, 9 pp. 25 examples of music printed on the final nine pages; publisher's 24-page 1894 catalogue at rear. Owner's ink name on title page and brief ink notes identifying most of the musical examples at the... More
