Lysistrata
Paris: Georges Briffaut, [1928]. First edition. 4to. 104 pp. Édition illustrée de dessins aquarellés de Carlègle. Leather backed cloth boards, gilt lettering, edgewear, else good copy. (93712). Traduction de Raoul Veze. More
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Londres et les Anglais
Paris: Gustave Barba, [1862]. First edition thus. 4to. 276 pp. Frontispiece portrait engraving. 23 engravings throughout text by Gavarni. Half cloth on marbled boards, gilt lettered spine label (tape reinforced), ex-library, overall very good condition. (43173). Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guliiaume Chevalier 1804-1866), a French..... More
Love Books of Ovid; Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso
London: John Lane/Bodley Head, 1925. First edition thus. Royal 8vo. [xxxiv], 216 pp. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Gilt stamped pictorial cloth binding in scarce dustwrapper, very good copy. (89063). No. 63 of 3000 copies. Translated out of the Latin by J. Lewis May. More
Famous Water-Colour Painters
London: Studio Ltd., 1928. First edition. 4to. 6, [16] pp. Illustrated in color. Cloth, in dustwrapper (tear), else very good. (41706). Introduction by G. S. Sandilands. More
Bridge; A Chapter in the History of Building
London: John Lane, 1926. First edition. Tall 8vo. [vii], 249. Illustrated. Cloth, gilt stamped, very good. (27576). Color & b/w illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. More
Unicorn Executions; And Other Crazy Stuff My Kids Make Me Draw
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. First edition. Oblong 8vo. 127 pp. Illustrations in color and b/w. Cloth in dustwrapper, fine copy. (77917). Foreword by Kim Jong Un. More
Sonnets From the Portuguese
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1936. First edition. 8vo. 96 pp. 8 mounted color plates. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, owner signature, very good condition in illustrated cardboard box. (43642). Introduction and Notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. More
Flair Annual 1953
New York: Cowles Magazine, 1952. First edition. 4to. 229 pp. Illustrations (some folded, some color). Hardcover binding, very good condition. (99138). Includes: "The Flower of Flowers" by Katherine Anne Porter. 15 page booklet. More
Take a Cold Tub, Sir!; The Story of the Boy's Own Paper
UK: Lutterworth Press, 1982. First edition. 4to. 128 pp. Illustrated. Cloth in dustwrapper, unclipped, very good copy. (90509). More
Comfessions of an English Opium-Eater
New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1932. First edition thus. 8vo. 228 pp. Illustrations by Laurence W. Chaves. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, minor edgewear, overall very good condition. (99122). More
Augenschmaus; Das Neue Tagebuch
Zürich: Diogenes, 1989. First edition. 4to. 239 pp. Illustrations in color. Cloth in dustwrapper, very good copy. (86971). Vorwort von Billy Wilder. More
Courageous Companions
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1929. First edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Illustrations by James H. Daugherty. Cloth in dustwrapper, clipped, very good copy. (90724). More
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
New York: Dodge, 1912. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom & Blanche Cumming. Decorative cloth binding, minor surface wear, very good copy. (90791). Illustrations in color photographed from life studies tipped-in. More
Album de forain
Paris: H. Simonis Empis, Éditeur, [1893]. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Full page captioned b/w illustrations. Cloth backed marbled boards, gilt lettering spine, overall very good condition. (95518). Preface by Alphonse Daudet. More
Gotterlehre für junge Leute; In deutsch - latenisch - italienisch - und französischer Sprache
Wien: Auf Kosten des Versassers, 1809. First edition. 12mo. 199 pp. Mit 63 illummirten Abbildungen. Cloth backed marbled boards, surface wear, light pencilled notations throughout text, plates bright and clear, overall good condition. (95924). More
Atrum Secretum; 13 Years of Hidden Truths
Los Angeles, CA: Baby Tattoo Boosk, 2011. First edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Silver stamped cloth binding, fine copy. (89319). More
Frankenstein; Assembled from the Original Text by Mary Shelley
New York: Balzer + Bray, 2013. First edition. 4to. 196 pp. Profusely illustrated. Cloth in dustwrapper, fine copy. (89320). More
Judith; Eine Tragödie in 5 Akten
München: Hans von Weber, 1908. Second edition. 8vo. 72 pp. Illustrations by Thomas Theodor Heine. Gilt stamped paper covers, edgewear, else good copy. (79054). Limited to 1000 copies. More
Merlin; Eine Mythe
Mainz: Stassen Verlag, 1984. First edition. 4to. 176 pp. 25 aquarellen von Franz Stassen. Cloth in dustwrapper, fine copy. (90939). Text in German. More
English Book Illustration; 1800 -1900
London: King Penguin books, 1947. First edition. 16mo. 72, [16] pp. Color & b/w illustrations. Pictorial boards, very good copy. (88596). More
Louis Legrand; Three Cuts in Four Colours, 31 Drawings on Superfine Unglazed Art Paper, 21 Tinted Illustrations and 1 Engraving
Berlin: International Art Publishing-Company, [c1914]. First edition. Folio. 59 pp. Illustrations. Printed cloth binding, spine reinforced, very good copy. (91744). Inscribed half-title: To my friends the Cresseys / Robert Henri / La Jolla Aug 22 1914.—Robert Henri (1865-1929) American painter and teacher, leading figure of the Ashcan School. More
Complete Works of Shakespeare; The Cambridge Edition Text, as edited by William Aldis Wright Incuding the Temple Notes
Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1936. First edition. 4to. [viii], 1527 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (98660). Preface by Christipher Morley. More