Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More

London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Thus. Octavo. 47 pp. "Embroidered" with nine drawings by Beardsley, including frontispiece, complete. Beveled green boards decorated in gilt. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards slightly warped and rubbed at extremities, edges and corners bumped, and spine ends nudged. Gilt at front rubbed with some..... More

Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to..... More

Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, No. 147 Market-Street. Brown & Merritt Printers, 24, Church-alley, 1809 [but 1821]. Small quarto (13cm.); slightly later straight-grained gilt-tooled brown morocco, marbled endpapers; 16pp.; engraved frontispiece and seven leaves of plates (collated complete). Dark tide mark affecting textblock as well as plates, stock uniformly toned due..... More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Reprint. Octavo. 362 pp. Frontis portrait. Full vellum boards decorated in black and red; top edge gilt. "Burn & Co." binders ticket to rear pastedown. Boards show light general rubbing and smudging and front board slightly bowed. Binding is sound. Previous..... More

London: George Allen, 1899. Limited Edition of 200 Large Paper copies. Large octavo. 298 pp. Line drawings by Thomson throughout. Bound in half morocco over green cloth by Scroll Club of New York; six compartments and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers. Housed in custom-made slipcase... More

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, [1845]. Small 12mo; publisher's decorative brown gilt-embossed cloth; viii,269pp. Cloth a bit scuffed and bumped at corners, gilt starting to dull, textblock rather foxed, else a Very Good copy. Handy rule-book to such popular pastimes as poker, euchre, billiards, chess and even tennis and golf..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Reprint. 12mo. 318 pp. Bound by Morrell in full morocco elaborately decorated in gilt with spiral design to front and rear; all edges gilt; white moire endpapers. Recent professional repair to front hinge. Light wear to edges and hinges. Binding sound. A few pencil scribblings..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1904. First Thus. Octavo. 729 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in full morocco, six compartments to spine, gilt tooling to boards, spine, and dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Bookplate of a Danford Barney to front pastedown and additional ownership stamp..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Later Printing. 12mo; full brown morocco by Suttaby, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral endpapers; [12],346pp. Some foxing to preliminaries, most heavily to title page and tissue guard, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else a Very..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, green, and white and signed in image "MA" by the designer Margaret Armstrong, top edge gilt; [6],162pp.; eight leaves of color plates, color pictorial title page. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned and..... More

[Denver?]: [ca. 1930]. Small oblong quarto; gilt-tooled padded die-cut calf with celluloid lozenge inserted into middle of upper cover carved with birds and flowers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; extremities quite rubbed and leather starting to peel from boards, several surface scratches, else Good, internally sound and quite legible. A...... More

Chiefly Valparaiso, IN: 1882. Small oblong octavo (10.5x17.5cm.); pictorial paper-covered boards printed offset in black with embossed gilt elements, all edges metallic silver; [100]pp.; title page printed "Autographs" in gilt, otherwise blank leaves filled in manuscript to completion. Boards a bit soiled and scuffed at margins, textblock also a bit..... More