Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2011. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in red linson boards, spine and front panel titled in gilt and silver, black endpapers, head-and tail-bands, red satin bookmark. Dust jacket Illustration by Stephen J. Clark. 226 pp. The first Tartarus printing, limited to 350 copies. A...... More
San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co. / New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1888. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered and designed in gold and blind. 333 pp, Frontispiece. Ink name on front blank, dated 1895, small label removed from upper corner of front fly, a...... More
London: The Modern Publishing Company, 6 Farrington Avenue, No Date (mid-1930's). First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, original dark blue paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in black. Unpaginated (circa 250 pp). Issued without proper endpapers, the paste-down leaves are advertisements, as is the first leaf and the verso of the..... More
Paris: Chez Mme Lamy. 1802. Later printing. Octavo, contemporary quarter calf over red card boards, gilt rules and titles on spine. 524 pp, engraved frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, vignette engraving on p. 5. Some browning to the text, old ink name, covers a bit rubbed and worn; a very..... More
Tyrnau: Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu. 1754-1755. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. 12mo. Five Volumes in Two; contemporary half calf over decorated paste boards, the spines ruled and titled in gilt on labels, all page edges dyed red. 268 + 264 pp (Books One and Two in the first Volume);..... More
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[London]: Skoob Books, 1990. First Edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. Thin quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. 57 pp, Illustrated throughout, ads. The author's first appearance in print, an approximately 1300 word article (pp 54-55, two full pages of triple column type), plus a small illustration by Chumbley - a variant..... More
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 29 Great James Street, W.C.1, [1935]. First Edition. Octavo, original terracotta cloth, black lettering on spine. [295] pp, Ilustrated with Photographs, Index at rear. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Edward Takach as a slight token of my gratitude for all his..... More
London: Selwyn & Blount Limited, [1923]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, publisher's original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 303 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. A flyer for PEOPLE OF DESTINY by Sir Philip Gibbs and a postcard from the publisher enabling customers to be..... More
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1924. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original grey boards with buckram spine, leather label on spine titled in gilt. Printed on fine handmade paper. 274 pp, colour frontispiece and 11 addition full-page black & white illustrations throughout the text. Issued in a limited edition of..... More
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First Edition, First Printing, Deluxe Issue. First edition, Deluxe Issue, limited to 500 hand numbered copies signed by both Lord Dunsany and Sidney Sime, of which this is number 396. Large Quarto. Quarter vellum spine with brown cloth boards with single gilt..... More
London: Duckworth, 130. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Bookplate on front endpaper, along with the small ticket "From the Library of Ronald & Joan McNicoll". Very nice copy in a slightly chipped and frayed dust jacket, with the fragile purple lettering..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1948. Illustrated Edition. Quarter morocco. Second Printing, 1948. Octavo. Finely bound in quarter brown morocco over cloth boards, the spine with raised bands and with blind ruling and gilt lettering. Decorative floral endpapers.Top edge gilt. 255 pp, decorated title page, 12 illustrations, 11..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled and with a small decoration in gilt on spine and front panel. 38 pp + [82] pp plates. Small booksellers label on front paste-down, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ΒΆ Contains a long essay..... More
Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to..... More
No Place [Tokyo]: No Publisher [The Japan Times?], No Date [1925]. First Edition. Original wrappers. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 618 pp. With a card glued to a preliminary blank "With the Compliments of The Japanese Consul Vancouver B.C." Complete, but in poor condition, the sewing is hlding but split in..... More
London: Digby, Long & Co., Publishers, No Date [1894]. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine & front panel, decorated endpapers. 208 pp + Index at rear, 6 illustrations, mostly full-page. Bookplate on front paste-down; very slight rubbing to the cloth; a very good copy, clean and..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. [1895]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original green decorative cloth lettered and designed in gilt, silver, red and black. 434 pp. + [1] pp. ads at rear. Frontispiece & 23 plates by Harold Piffard. Spine a bit browned, some rubbing to..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Litd. 1951. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original red cloth titled in black on spine panel. 160 pp.Light foxing to page edges, a near fine copy in a nice clean dust jacket, faint light foxing and browing to edges, two tiny closed tears at folds, price..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First Edition. Octavo; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top and fore-edges trimmed. [250] pp., Frontispiece and seven additional full-paged plates on glazed paper inserted in the text and not included in the pagination. A fine copy in an attractive dust jacket, lightly browned..... More
Carbonnek [New York]: Privately Printed for the Society of Pantagruelists [Boni & Liveright]. 1923. Large crown octavo, original blue boards with vellum paper spine lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, blue endpapers, all edges untrimmed. [332] pp, a few line-drawings in the text. Issued in an edition..... More
[Various Places: Friends of Arthur Machen, 2005-2012. First Editions. Octavo, original printed wrappers (card covers, pamphlets), stapled at spine. 12 issues, paginated 20 pp + 28 pp + 48 pp + 48 pp + 44 pp + 52 pp + 56 pp + 40 pp + 48 pp + 52..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1917.No Date [1922]. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel, top edges stained green. [309] pp + [3] pp ads at rear. The second issue binding, issued in March 1922 (the first issue was in February), the differences between the issues are..... More
Guernsey: Printed and Published by T.B. Banks & Co., Central Press. No Date [circa 1899-1900]. Ninth Edition. Original wrappers. Small octavo, original red wrappers printed in black. [46] pp., large folding map. many period ads and much local history. The original wrappers are fragile and chipping at the edges; the..... More
Berkeley, CA: Golden Sceptre Publishing, 1990. Fourth Edition. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers. 173pp. Illustrated. One of the author's personal copies, signed by him with his small "CM" monogram in pencil on the first leaf. Errata slip tipped in at rear. Laid in is a small slip "SOTHIC SESSION GUIDE"..... More
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Rennes, France: Ogam Tradition Celtique, 1965. First Edition. Tall octavo, original reddish printed wrappers. 397 pp, 175 plates, folding chart, addenda leaf at rear. Text mostly in French, except for the article by Charles Muses, CELTIC ORIGINS AND THE ARTHURIAN CYCLE, which runs on pages 359 - 384 (26 pp)..... More