London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1884. Second Edition. Hardcover. This gorgeous, golden, gilt-stamped tome is full to brimming with vintage verses and lush and romantic illustrations, all within a sunlit and swoon-worthy binding. Poets include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Goddard, Fanny Forrester, John Francis Waller, Isabella Banks, and many more..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Peter Ackroyd in ink at page specially bound in by the publisher. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 399pp. Bound in full brown leather over boards, stamped and decorated in gilt. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2016. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xxii, 161pp. Bound in pictorial paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in white. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1909. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A very presentable first UK printing of Isabel Anderson's first book, The Great Sea-Horse and Other Tales, complete in a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 23 color plates from pastel drawings by John Elliott along with charming decorative chapter headings..... More
London: George Rowney and Co., circa 1870. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. "One great handmaid of architecture has already burst before the world, and we may look forward with almost certain hope to behold its revival producing works more brilliant than those which marked its brightest eras. I allude to the Art..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1935. Leather_bound. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 231pp. Half bound in red calfskin leather with marbled paper over boards. Four raised bands to spine with two gilt compartments. Mild wear to boards with rubbing to covers and edges and gentle bumps to corners. Top edge gilt..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1902. Hardcover. Published in 1902, this stunning snail-stamped tome holds a treasure trove of early Edwardian knowledge on the keeping of freshwater aquariums and is illustrated in over 190 beautiful and instructive figures throughout. Chapters include: The Aquarium, Making Aquaria, Cabinet Aquarium, Collecting Equipment, Management of..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. 9" X 6". xv, 139pp. Bound in white cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in decorative blue and orange. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Complete with slipcase, this is a very presentable Folio Society edition, illustrated..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Louis Begley at page specially bound in by the publisher. Franklin Library First Edition. 8 3/4" X 6". Bound in full black leather over boards, stamped and decorated in gilt. Very mild shelf wear to covers and edges of..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909. The Heart of England Series. Hardcover. 7 1/8" X 5 1/8". 204pp. Green cloth over boards, with upper board stamped with windmill design in gilt and spine lettered in kind. Moderate wear to binding, with bmping to extremities and slight lean to spine..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Deluxe Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Holly Black in ink to title page. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". 392pp. Bound in black velvet over boards, with boards stamped with a dark fairy tale forest scene in black and spine lettered in kind. Black..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". 245pp. Bound in full red leather over boards, with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Rubbing, dust-spotting, and heavy foxing..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Libba Bray in ink to publisher's tipped-in page. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 471pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black..... More
Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., 1888. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". iv, 189pp. Rubbing, toning, and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing and toning to endpapers. Penciled notation to rear paste-down. Occasional penciled notation to pages..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1890. Hardcover. In this scarce sequel to her immensely popular introduction to science, Arabella Buckley ushers her readers into a magician's moonlit turret chamber, wherein we find the magnifying glass, the telescope, the spectroscope, the photographic camera, and the microscope..."All of these instruments told of the magician's..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 129pp. Decorative cloth binding designed by William James Jordan. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Slight lean to..... More
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd., circa 1918. Hardcover. Descend into the depths of enchantment on a spiral staircase of stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Edgeworth, Ouida, the women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist Mary de Morgan, and more! In this..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 11". xiv, 188pp. Very mild sheld wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative paper over boards. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. Slipcase is clean and sound. ABOUT..... More
London: Sceptre, 2016. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 438pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Decorative red sprayed edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Condon to page specially bound in by the publisher. Franklin Library first edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 241pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green leather over baords. Three raised bands to spine with..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1982. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4" X 9". 126pp. Bound in full deep red leather over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with light scattered rubbing to covers, corners, and edges. Small area of spotting to bottom edge of gilt text block..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. Part of the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" Collector's Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". xi, 472pp. Bound in red decorative leather with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges. All edge gilt. Peach silk..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. In this second collection of fairy tales by Mary De Morgan, a wicked princess who doesn't want to marry practices black magic and strings her suitors into beads on her beautiful necklace, elves transform a courageous busker into a golden harp..... More
London: Seeley, James, & Halliday, 1877. Second Edition. Hardcover. This enchanting fairy tale collection was the first published by the English writer Mary De Morgan (1850–1907), a women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist whose politics informed her remarkable fairy tales, known for their feminism, criticism of mass production, and..... More
