London: Grant Richards, 1902. First Edition. Wide crown octavo, original brown cloth, printed paper title label on spine panel. 206 pp. Paper lightly browned and a bit fragile, front endpaper with a small chip at the fore-edge, cloth with light wear at spine tips and corners; paper title label on..... More
London: E. Grant Richards. 1907. First Edition. First Edition, later (third) issue, 2nd binding with "Grant Richards" at base of spine, all edges trimmed. Original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 309 pp + [1] pp ads at rear; frontispiece with tissue guard. Creasing to rear..... More
London: Martin Secker, [1922]. First Trade Edition. Octavo, original light green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel, top page edges trimmed and stained green. [160] pp. Issued in September, 1922, one month after the Signed Limited Edition of 100 copies; the American Edition (Knopf) was also issued in August..... More
London: The Classic Press. 1923. First Edition. Small octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on upper cover, marbled pale lavender endpapers, top edges gilt. 54 pp, integral frontispiece and line illustrations in the text. "Limited Edition" on title page. Spine a trifle sunned, a very good copy in the..... More
Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1924. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth edged with a border in blind & a gilt design of a chalice, spine panel lettered in gilt, top edges trimmed and stained light purple. 219 pp. Top page edges faded and with a small stain; corners knocked, small stainsand..... More
No Place [Westport, Ct]: The Apellicon Press. 1930. First Edition. Crown octavo; original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 47 pp, title page printed in black with a pictorial design in brown. Issued in an edition of only 200 copies signed by the author. Designed..... More
London: Eric Grant, 6 Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. [1937]. First Edition. Octavo, original orange cloth lettered and ruled in black on spine panel, all edges trimmed. 314 pp. Contains 'Ritual' by Arthur Machen. Cloth very lightly dust-soiled and marked, corners a bit soft; a very good, clean copy..... More
London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Paternoster House, E.C., No date [1924]. First Edition, First Printing. Rebound. Octavo, rebound in blue cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine panel (the standard Boots Library binding). Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To ____ ______ / because in her..... More
Baltimore: Press of the Friedenwald Co., 1892. Second revised. Hardcover. Second Revised and Improved Edition. 528 pp. + 8 pp. of press recommendations at rear. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Dark brown coated end papers. Light shelf wear, a nice, bright, very good copy of a book which rarely is..... More
Haarlem: J. van Walre en Comp. 1819. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, bound in green library buckram, gilt rules and titles on spine. 148 pp, two title leaves, one with engraved vignettes. Covers rubbed and bumped, shelf wear. Library numbers at base of spine, small label on title leaf. Backstrip..... More
Paris: Jacques Lecoffe. 1861. First Separate Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 51 pp. Offprint article from Études de Théologie, de Philosophie et d'Histoire. Disbound from a larger volume of pamphlets, stab marks along spine edge. Small ink stain to outer margins, otherwise a very good clean copy. More
No Place: Xoanon Publishing, 2008. Second Edition, Deluxe issue. Leather Bound. Deluxe issue: hardbound in midnight-blue morocco stamped in gold on spine panel, marbled endpapers, the front cover bearing on its face a cipher of the Wisdom of the Opposer in blind, slipcased. Limited to 72 hand-numbered copies, this being..... More
No Place [London]: Fulgur for Xoanon. 1995. First Edition, Special Reserve Issue. First edition, Special Reserve issue, limited to just 5 unnumbered copies, THIS BEING COPY NUMBER 1 OF 5, bound in full black morocco spine titled in gilt, small gilt dot or "point" on front panel, all edges gilt..... More
No Place: No Publisher, Yule, 1982. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wrappers. Small octavo, original buff pictorial wrappers printed in red, stapled at spine. 44 pp. Illustrated throughout. A lovely little hand made & self published Grimoire. Mild spotting to covers, trace of rustng to staples, a near fine copy..... 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
No Place: The Fanlight House, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, ringbound. 89 pp. Light tanning, a near fine copy of the true first edition. More
New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., No Date [1903]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in black, gold and light green. 297 pp + [12] pp publisher's list of "Recent Publications" at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 15 additional full-page plates by Wooten..... More
London: Griffith & Farran, No date [1883]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition. Large octavo, publisher's original maroon ribbed cloth, gilt titles and publisher's device on spine panel, bron coated endpapers. 526 pp., Index. Inner front hinge with a slight crack, cloth a bit worn at head & heel..... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1479. A large folio leaf of incunabula, from the 51-line Biblia Latina printed by Anton Koberger on August 6, 1479 at Nurenburg. Text is from Genesis, Chapters 44 - 47. The leaf measures 410 x 287 mm. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in Vulgate..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Center For The Book [Xoanon, Three Hands Press, etc], 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Colour pictorial wrappers. Exhibition Catalogue for SUPERSTITION XIII: Book Arts From The Shadow World, held at the San Franciso Center for the Book, Friday 13th September to Hallowe'en, 2013. 54 pp, full..... More
New York: Workman Publishing Company. 1979. First Printing. Quarto, oblong, coil bound, 8.5 x 11 inches. A complete, fine, Unused Edward Gorey Calendar for 1979, in pristine condition, in the original unused printed mailing envelope. The envelope is a bit dusty and has small creases plus faint marks from two..... More
New York: Arno Press, 1976. Hardcover. Reprint of the London edition published by T. Werner Laurie in 1906. Octavo, original purple cloth titled in silver. Issued as a volume in the Arno Press Supernatural and Occult Fiction collection, edited by R. Reginald and Douglas Menville. A fine copy without dust..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1948. Reprinted 1948. 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: Macmillan and Co., 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Two volumes. Octavo, original dark blue cloth bordered in blind and with a small decorative device in gilt on front panels, gilt decorations & titles to spines. Brown coated endpapers. 299 + 320 pp, [4] pp ads + [48] pp..... More
New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Company. [1892]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American (and the first one-volume) edition. 453 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover designed and lettered in black and light brown. The British edition was published by Griffith, Farran in three volumes in 1892. Ink..... More