New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, this being #432. Quarto. 177 pp. Twelve full-page illustrations by Ayrton. Bound in crimson cowhide over natural-finish cloth with gilt lettering. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in at front. Housed in publisher's slipcase..... More
![Item #13775 Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff]. Aesop, Boris Artzybasheff, ed](/pictures/thumb/13775.jpg?v=1659387491)
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front..... More
Cantabrigiae, MA: E Prelo Universitatis. Sumtibus Cummings, Hilliard, et So. Bibliopolarum, 1824. Editio Quarta Americana [Fourth American Edition]. Two volumes; octavo; full contemporary sheep, black gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges speckled; xvi,364,170,viii; xv,[1],344,296pp. Leather rather scuffed with some brief peeling along extremities, faint contemporary manuscript library spine labels, front joint..... More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1972. Quarto; publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt; lxiii,[1],335pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, stock very slightly toned, discreet ex libris to front pastedown, else Near Fine. First published in 1912. More
![Item #13485 The Golden Ass [Limited Edition, Signed by Goodman]. Apuleius, Jack Lindsay, Percival...](/pictures/thumb/13485.jpg?v=1658267340)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Percival Goodman, this being #732. Tall octavo. 392 pp. Line drawing illustrations. Bound in full ass's hide with gilt stamping to spine. Top edge gilt; decorative endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Top corners of..... More
Birmingham: W.J. Cosby / Universal Press, 1893. Re-issue of the 1822 Triphook and Rodd Edition, limited to 600 copies (one of 500 on antique paper). Octavo (9" x 6.35"); xix, 213p +5p "Passages Suppressed" addendum. Rebound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. in dark green leather with blindstamped branch decoration..... More
![Item #6602 The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos,...](/pictures/thumb/6602.jpeg?v=1596821069)
New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong, along..... More
London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852. First English-Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines; frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Extremities scuffed and corners bumped with brief exposure, all three volumes quite crudely recased, text blocks exceedingly brittle with preliminaries starting to separate or entirely..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Edgar Miller, this being #432. Large octavo. 53 pp. Seven tempera paintings by Miller, consisting of the frontispiece and six double-page spreads. Bound in full natural lambskin with a scroll pattern to front and rear, and..... More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Prinetd dust jacket with Rs 10.00 price inact. Beige boards with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and toned at spine and edges. Boards are heavily foxed, and lightly worn at edges..... 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
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Entirely in Chinese. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper..... More
![Item #13391 Medea / Hippolytus / The Bacchae [alt. title Three Plays of Euripides] [Limited...](/pictures/thumb/13391.jpg?v=1656439193)
London: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at The Curwen Press, 1967. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 432. Quarto; publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered paper spine label, in original paper-covered slipcase; xx,184pp.; frontispiece, fifteen leaves of plates. A hint of wear to..... More
Oxford, UK: Oxford / Clarendon Press, 1884. Square octavo. 95 pp. + 6 tables, complete. Printed olive paper wraps. Covers spotted and rubbed with chipping to edges and spine, with loss to spine ends. Front cover cleanly separated along spine edge, but binding otherwise secure. Personal library stamp of..... More
Paris: Le Normant, 1814. Seconde Édition, revue et corrigée. Thick octavo; full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt-ruled spine with red onlay, pale blue laid endpapers; [2],lvi,919pp. Binding rather scuffed, leather cracked along spine edges, contemporary ownership inscription with old remnants of wax seal to front and rear endpapers, very occasional marginalia..... More
London: Marcus Ward & Company Limited, [ca. 1888]. Presumed First Trade Edition. Two quarto volumes bound in one. [102], [4], 66 pp. Illustrations and decorations in terra cotta and black by Crane throughout first volume; sheet music to volume II. Bound in publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and red. Leather..... More
![Item #10008 The Iliad of Homer [with Baskin drawings]. Homer, Richmond Lattimore, Leonard Baskin,...](/pictures/thumb/10008.jpg?v=1624880165)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Stated First Impression of First Edition of this Chicago/Baskin production. Octavo (28.5x20x5cm); 526pp, including glossary. Forty-nine full-page drawings by Leonard Baskin. Baskin-illustrated image on off-white jacket. Volume bound (handsomely) in claret-plum linen; Baskin drawing pasted on front panel; gilt spine stamping. Text on heavy..... More
![Item #13360 The Odyssey of Homer [Limited Edition, Signed by Moser and Wilson]. Homer, Lawrence...](/pictures/thumb/13360.jpg?v=1657222884)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited Edition of 2000 copies signed by Barry Moser and Jeremy M. Wilson, this being #432. Large octavo. 300 pp. Wood engravings by Moser. Glassine dust jacket. Bound in earth-brown natural-finish cloth, stamped in crimson. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in at..... More
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation, 1970. Fifth printing. Slim octavo. 31-57 pp, with pagination beginning on 31, as indicated in table of contents. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Edgewear to wraps with staining and discoloration to front and rear. Chip..... More
![Item #13703 The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe [Limited Edition, Signed by Reeves]. Longus,...](/pictures/thumb/13703.jpg?v=1658934220)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1191. Quarto; publisher's full blind-embossed sheep, gilt medallion mounted to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, in original paper-covered slipcase; xxv,[1],130pp.; frontispiece, full-page etchings throughout. Brief scuffing to top edge of rear..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. First Thus. Quarto; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; 199pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of plates of which eleven are in color. Spine cloth and board extremities a shade toned, light to moderate foxing along top edges of first 30 or so pages, occasionally overlapping..... More