[North Pomfret, VT]: Elysium Press, 1997. First Edition, Limited Issue of 300 numbered copies, this being #56. Octavo. 141 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with paper labels to spine and front. Set in Bembo and printed by hand on Somerset paper. Mild surface scratching to..... More
New-Haven: Joseph Barber, 1812. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, maroon gilt spine label; 312pp. (collated complete); engraved portrait frontispiece. Leather rather rubbed and starting to peel at fore-edge margins of both covers, small loss at spine crown, textblock toned and occasionally soiled, contemporary ownership signature of a Cynthia Painter to..... More
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. Fifth Edition. 32mo (14cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; viii,[9]-228pp.; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of Harriet Newell. Moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint starting, textblock toned, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [iii]-iv, stating that..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited Issue of 250 copies signed by Mrabet and Bowles, this being #107. Octavo. 125 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Paper-covered boards with dark blue backstrip and paper title label to spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Boards with..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, top edges gilt, blue glazed endpapers; tissue-guarded frontispieces, illus. throughout including facsimiles. Light scuffing to cloth extremities, old soil to spine of Vol. III, later ex libris to front pastedowns, else a Very Good..... More
[Lanham, MD: Laura Virginia Hale and Stanley S. Phililps], 1981. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth printed in blue; xvi,353pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, most notably at spine ends, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by Laura Virginia Hale to front free endpaper. More
[Arcata, CA: Peter E. Palmquist, 1992.] First Edition, Limited to 300 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; 96pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Minor wear to extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, 1993, 1994. First Editions. Three octavo volumes. Photo-illustrated dust jackets over publisher’s cardinal red cloth. 480pp, 574pp, 517pp; facsimiles and illustrations throughout. Vol 1 jacket bumped with dampstaining and color bleed to interior at head (not visible to exterior) and a vertical crease to..... More
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Paris: Belin, [1999]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 591pp.; eight leaves of color illus. printed on rectos and versos, half-tone illus. throughout text. Minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Presentation card inscribed and signed by the author laid in. Text entirely in French..... More