London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1916. First thus. Octavo. 94 pages. Frontispiece + 9 additional black and white plates by Langdale. Illustrated dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in white, black, and gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is chipped along edges, most notably a 3..... More
Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1917. Later printing. Octavo.191 pages. Black and white frontis portrait. Brown and beige boards stamped in white at front and gilt at spine. Green topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Bookplate of a Dorothea Mackellar, presumably the Australian poet, to front pastedown. Includes "The Laughter of..... More
London: W. and J. Innys; and J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1725. Volume two only of a three volume set. Quarto; 726 pp., followed by 19 fold-out engravings. Bookplate on front attached endpaper for Annapolis Anglican minister Jonathan Boucher, a Loyalist and tutor to George Washington's stepson John Parke..... More
![Clipped Wings [Inscribed to Frederick W. Skiff]. Rupert Hughes](/pictures/thumb/8326.jpg?v=1609618472)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Later printing. Signed by Hughes to collector and bibliophile Frederick W. Skiff. Octavo. 404 pages. Green blind embossed cloth stamped in gilt. Lacking jacket except for front panel. Bookplate of Skiff to front pastedown and bookplate of Hughes to front free endpaper..... More
![Empty Pockets [Inscribed to Frederick W. Skiff]. Rupert Hughes](/pictures/thumb/8327.jpg?v=1609617049)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. Signed by Hughes to collector and bibliophile Frederick W. Skiff with a quote from the book and dated 1916. Octavo. 607 pages. Black and white illustrations. Grey cloth stamped in gilt. Bookplate of Skiff to front pastedown. Hughes, uncle of..... More
![Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds [with Louis Untermeyer Bookplate]. Stephen Vincent Benet](/pictures/thumb/8475.jpg?v=1611079189)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Blue cloth stamped in black. Charcoal topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Decorative bookplate of poet Louis Untermeyer to front pastedown. Untermeyer was on the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1942, the year Benet's The Dust Which Is God..... More
![The Cutting of an Agate [with John Sparrow bookplate]. W B. Yeats](/pictures/thumb/8881.jpg?v=1614885610)
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. First UK Edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn around edges and gilt dulled. Binding is sound. Bookplate of John Sparrow to front pastedown, presumably the English book-collector and Warden of All Souls College. Many..... More