New-York: Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, 1790. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary sheep, 19th-century manuscript spine label; 348pp. (A-C4 D6 E-2T4 2U6, collated and presumed complete). Leather quite scuffed and dried, later (ca. 1868) Sutton Free Library ex libris to front pastedown with their manuscript spine label, mid-20th century ownership signature..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. First Gordon Browne-illustrated edition. Octavo. 444 pp. Thirty-two b&w illustrations by Browne including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Publisher's cloth binding decorated in black, brown, and gilt; dark topstain; charcoal endpapers. Mild rubbing to edges and joints with a few minor smudges..... More
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1801. Two volumes bound in one; thick 12mo; full contemporary gilt-panelled calf; xii,312; 274pp.; both title pages printed within decorative border. Leather a bit dried and rubbed, gilt significantly flaked away, rear joint cracked but holding, lengthy contemporary ownership notes to front endpapers, else a Very Good..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908. First Thus, Limited to 115 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Octavo; publisher's decorative cloth, top edge gilt, mottled blue dust-jacket; xiv,62pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, full-page map, and title page map vignette. Some inoffensive chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel toned to tan..... More
![Item #26073 English Dance of Death [WITH] The Dance of Life, a Poem. William Combe, Thomas...](/pictures/thumb/26073.jpg?v=1679927489)
London: Printed by J. Diggens / Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1814-1817. First Editions. Three volumes; octavos (26cm.); contemporary calf over paper-covered boards, black gilt spine labels (the earlier two volumes bound with marbled paper-covered boards, the latter volume bound with elements of one of the original fascicle..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Cleonike; [10],43,[1]pp.; pictorial title page ruled in red. Fairly ubiquitous chipping to jacket extremities, though chips never quite touching text, jacket and cloth margins toned, brief soil to upper cover cloth, contemporary..... More
London: Published for the Author, and Sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1823. Third Edition. Octavo. 284 pp. 20 hand-colored plates including frontispiece, complete. Bound in 20th-century quarter calf over marbled boards; raised banks decorated in gilt and blind with black leather title label. Marbled endpaper; top edge gilt... More
![Item #26065 [Broadside] The Midland Toast. Cuala Press, Jack B. Yeats](/pictures/thumb/26065.jpg?v=1680104583)
Dublin: Cuala Press, n.d., ca. 1970s. Original poetry broadside (28x19cm.) adorned with hand-colored design by Jack Yeats. Top margin very slightly curled, else Near Fine. Issued as Handcolored Print no. 36. Accompanied by a short promotional flyer on Press letterhead signed in text by Síle Yeats titled "This is a...... More
New York: Editions for the Armed Services Inc. / Council on Books in Wartime, [1942-1945]. All First Editions Thus. Small oblong 12mos (ca. 10x14cm. to 11.5x17cm.); pictorial wrappers; occasional illus., chiefly found in the volumes of cartoon collections and "Soldier Art." Most volumes show some edge wear and soil, occasional..... More
![Item #25949 Slow Coins Minted by Julia Fields [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Note Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/25949.jpg?v=1678825262)
[Washington, DC]: Three Continents Press, [1981]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey pictorial card wrappers; [10],206pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Substantial poetry collection by the Alabama-born author, inscribed and signed inside upper cover: "To Joe Johnson with respect and honor..... More
Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; iv,[5]-352pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, lacking spine label and endpapers, dark dampstaining to margins of first twenty and final ten leaves, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite attractive and..... More
New York: Published by the Compiler, 1903. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 64. Octavo; publisher's grey paper-covered boards, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; vii,[8]-86pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Light wear to spine ends, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown..... More
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. Reprint. 12mo; contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine; 405,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece (tissue guard). Leather rather scuffed, especially at corners, marbled paper toned at extremities, front free endpaper separated but present, contemporary armorial ex libris to front pastedown of a G. Washington Warren, along with..... More
![Item #25791 Elegy for Sita [Signed Limited Edition]. Kate Millett](/pictures/thumb/25791.jpg?v=1677269113)
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. Limited Edition of 350 copies signed by Millett at colophon. Large oblong octavo. 109 pp. Black and white illustrations. Beige boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's remembrance of her partner, who..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. Tall quarto (12" x 7.5"); [70]pp. Loose association copy, with gift inscription by "a good friend" of Cummings on back free endpaper (see below). Brown paper-covered boards with tan buckram spine and small spine label. Missing dust jacket. Boards rather heavily rubbed and..... More