San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books / Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 62 pages. Photographic wraps. Covers rubbed along edges with a bit of a curve to front, and shallow chipping along bottom back edge near spine. "50" written in pen on front wrap..... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Stated First Edition. Signed on title page with various inscriptions to "Holly" by Marie Arana, Alice McDermott, Carolyn Parkhurst, and Mary Kay Zuravleff. Octavo; 231pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with a couple small bumps along top front and a...... More

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1870s. Large, thick quarto; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xxviii,737pp.; 118 plates, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, spine sunned and leather dried, stock a bit toned and brittle due to..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1900. Publisher's "Autograph Edition" with facsimiles of the author's signature preceding text of each volume. Thirty octavo volumes. Half-bound in red morocco over marbled boards; gilt decoration to spine; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Boards lightly edgeworn..... More

London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. First Edition. Three folio volumes. Nineteen color plates and eighty-four in monochrome with tissue guards, collated and complete. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library though with minimal institutional markings..... More

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987. Octavo. 349 pp + advertisements. Frontispiece. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, binding is sound, and pages unmarkd. A Near Fine copy of Volume 25 Series A of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature. More

New York: R.J. Bodmer Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. 298; [2] pp. advertisements; followed by plates of pitch gripping techniques. Black and white illustrations. Green boards stamped in gilt with photo of Mathewson mounted to front. No dust jacket. Light edgewear and patchy soiling to boards; spine rubbed and barely..... More

Paris: Flammarion, [1958.] Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in black and dark red; 232pp.; one photographic plate. Light toning to wrapper extremities, chiefly to spine panel, contemporary (1959) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collected correspondence of the French novelist..... More

[New York: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1866.] Twenty-four volumes in one; tabloid format (36cm.); contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; 96pp.; illus. throughout, text in triple columns. Boards quite rubbed and leather dried and chipped, one-inch losses at both spine ends, shallow damp stain to textblock fore-edge, general old soil throughout, else Good..... More

Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey / New Haven, CT: Printed by Shepard Kollock / Abel Morse, for the Editors, who Hold the Privilege of Copy-Right, 1791-1793. First Edition, "Never Before Published" according to the publisher. Four small quarto volumes, first three published in 1791 and fourth follow-up volume first published in 1793..... More

Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1977. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1600 copies signed by Gentleman, this being #1495. Tall octavo (28 cm); xxiii, 206 pp. Black and white and color illustrations. Green cloth over paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Housed in publisher's light..... More

New York: Avon Periodicals, 1950. Pulp magazine. Octavo; 130pp. Pages 51-82 trimmed along fore-edge and printed in color. Illustrated paper wraps. Shallow chips and tears to yapp edges with tape reinforcement and tape residue along interior fore-edges; front panel creased vertically adjacent to spine; flattened corner-creases at top front and..... More

Oxford: Basil Blackwell / Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,306pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, faint soiling to upper jacket panel, else Very Good and sound. Collection of academic papers and historical..... More