Gottingen: L. Hantzschel. 1934, First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 143 pp. Mild creases, a very good copy. Quite scarce. ¶ Extensive bibliography of Jacob Boehme [Jakob Bohme, 1575-1624 ]. This volume is a catlogue of his manuscripts. Another work, Die Jakob Böhme-Ausgaben [2..... More
Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis / A John Metcalf Book, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, publisher's green boards, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. 421 pp. Signed by the author on the title leaf. A few page corners bent, near fine in dust jacket. Mason's memoirs. For those who care about such..... More
New York: Burt Franklin. 1970. Reprint. Reprint of the 1923 Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Burton. Index at rear. Upper rear foredge of cloth bumped, otherwise a fine clean copy. ¶ Includes a brief biography of Burton, a British..... More
Los Angeles: Grabhorn Press. 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First edition. Octavo, original floral patterned khaki and cream coloured wrappers. 8vo, 28pp., title-page with device of the Colt Press printed in red & other devices in text. 500 copies printed. Tiny tears at edges of wrappers, a near..... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, the boards stamped in black, the spine in gilt. 107 pp. Illustrated. 500 copies printed, published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks..... More
Oxford: Oxford: At The Clarendon Press. 1983. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 712 pp., photographic frontispiece of Doyle. Issued as The Soho Bibliographies XXIII. A fine copy in a very slightly used dust jacket, small closed tear on rear..... More
Oxford & New York: Oxford Univerisity Press. 1997. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original blue boards titled and with the Oxford seal in gilt on spine panel. 431 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶An encyclopedic guide to Edwardian Fiction, with over 800 author entries..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1955. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 162 pp, Notes, Appendices, Index. Crown of spine lightly bumped, endpapers with minor foxing, a very good, bright copy in dust jacket, the jacket with some mild..... More
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1921. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled and ruled in gold on spine, ruled in blind on upper & lower covers. 239 pp. Index. Mild wear to cloth at tips, some slight fading to spine panel; a very good..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo, original paper covered board (faux vellum) titled in gilt on spine, JHN monogram on front panel. 76 pp. Illustrations, & tipped in facsimiles. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies, 500 for..... More
Tucson: Press of the Gigantic Hound. 1990. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original rust-brown cloth titled in black on spine panel. 88 pp. 1,000 copies issued, this copy signed by the author [Hieb] on the limitation leaf. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ The first..... More
London / New York: The Bookman's Journal / James F. Drake, Inc., 1922. First Edition. First edition. Octavo, original dark grey cloth titled in gilt on spine. 111 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Six black & white plates (including frontispiece). No. 163 of a limited edition of 450..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo, original yellow cloth titled in grey and red. [48] pp. Some foxing to cloth binding, a very good, attractive copy in the original colour pictorial dust jacket, which has some mild fraying, light browning and foxing. ¶..... More
London: Grafton & Co., 1943. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original brown clothwith brown leather spine titled in gilt. 412pp. Indexes. Leather rubbed & worn, shaken, a good copy. Previously, the copy owned by Bookseller Andrew Block [author of 'The Book Collector's Vade Mecum' [1938], 'The English Novel..... More
New York: Ben Franklin. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued in 1897. Octavo, original cloth, 224 pp., Illustrated with frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations and facsimiles. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ With engraved frontis portrait, numerous illustrations and facsimiles. Buxton Forman, (1842-1917), a noted editor and bibliographer..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press. [1976]. First American Edition. First American edition. Octavo, original boards. 255 pp., Illustrated, Index. A very good clean copy in a near fine dust wrapper, price-clipped. ¶ Biography of Peake, best known for his GORMENGHAST trilogy. More
London: Jupiter Books. [1977]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, original black boards titled in silver on spine panel. [125] pp, illustrated throughout in colour & black & white, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket. Illustrated history of the lurid British 'Penny Dreads' . Varney..... More
Birmingham: Greville Worthington. 1931. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original cream patterned paper-covered boards with vellum spine titled in gilt. 350 numbered copies printed, this being copy No. 3. 164 pp. With a portrait photogragure frontispiece of Phillpotts, signed by him in pencil in the lower margin, one..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1936 edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 98 pp, Frontispiece and black & white plates, Index. A very good plus copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ Primary bibliography for collecting Arthur Rackham first editions..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker Company. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth, gilt titles. 493 pp, Index. 1200 copies printed. Bookplate of Duncan Houx Olmstead on front paste-down; a fine copy in a slightly worn dust jacket. ¶ A history of the private press movement in England and..... More
London: Covent Garden Press Ltd, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, trade issue. Quarto, green cloth, gilt titles on spine. 306 pp + [4]pp Corrigenda at rear. Covers a trifle soiled, a clean, sound, very good copy. ¶ Identifies hundreds of titles not listed in any other individual press bibliographies..... More
[No Place]: Xoanon, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Full variegated natural linen with colour printed dust jacket. 106 pp, 32 illustrations in full colour, plus additional black & white images. 740 copies printed. A fine copy, as new in dust jacket. ¶ The face of the magical order..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. First Edition. First Edition. Small octavo, publisher's light brown cloth titled in dark brown. ads on endpapers. 130 pp. Illustrations in the text. Endpapers, preliminary and terminal leaves foxed; heraldic bookplate of Robert H. Menzies on front paste-down. Very good, overall. Published in "The..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 179 pp, Frontispiece (Virginia Woolf, 1938, from a photography by Gisele Freund), 3 additional plates and two illustrations in the text. Issued as 'The Soho Bibliographies', Volume IX. A fine..... More