London: E. Nister, circa 1908. Hardcover. This pocket-size companion unites each day of the year with a quote from the Bard, collecting the birthdays of the cast of characters in your life, with the fun of applying a Shakespearean quote to their lives. This copy is undated but bears a...... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [2003]. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 11 1/4" X 9 1/4". 176pp. Bound in full red leather, stamped in 22kt gilt, with pictorial label to upper board. All edges gilt. Golden silk moire endpapers with matching silk ribbon placemarker. Mild edgewear to binding, with spot of..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1980. Leather_bound. Part of the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" Collector's Edition. 11" X 7 1/4". ix, 190pp. Bound in decorative brown leather with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Areas of decorative gilt stamp rubbed away at front and rear covers. All edge gilt..... More
London: Privately Printed, circa 1920. Leather bound. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". viii, 468pp. This privately printed edition is undated, published circa 1920. Halfbound in crimson morocco, lined in gilt, with red linen over boards. Spine lettered in gilt with floral gilt compartment and gilt fleur-de-lis. Toning to endpapers. Binding..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9 3/8" X 6 1/4". 407pp. Bound in full red leather with boards and spine stamped in 22kt gilt, all edges gilt, and golden silk ribbon placemarker. Mild edgewear to binding, with faint scratching to gilt at edges of text..... More
Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1845. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. Leather bound. 9 1/8" X 5 7/8". xx,13-728pp, plus 36pp ads. Bound in full leather with black leather title label lettered in gilt to spine. Heavy wear to binding, with edges and extremities rubbed to boards, losses..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions, 1987. The Classics of Medicine Library. Leather bound. 9" X 5 3/8".259pp. Bound in full brown cowhide, with boards and spine stamped in 22kt gilt. Matching brown silk ribbon placemarker. A touch of edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine..... More
Austin, Texas: Wiyaka Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Leather_bound. Edition limited to 250 sets, this being number 101 and signed by Bobby Bridger at limitation page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 153pp, plus fold-out map. Quarterbound in morocco leather, with marbled paper over boards and spine and upper board lettered in..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. 9" X 5 3/4". 421pp. Patterned paper over boards, featuring a design by Simon Brett, with spine backed in dark blue cloth and lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding and slight lean to spine. Mild shelfwear to publisher's matching blue paper..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This introduction to the evolutionary science of vertebrate animals 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..... More
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Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1901. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They, too, are invisible..... More
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n.p. H. M. Caldwell Co., circa 1880. Pastel Edition. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They..... 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
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Hardcover. 9" X 5 7/8". xviii, 107pp. Dark gray cloth over boards, featuring Holly Golightly reclining against the New York City skyline stamped in blue and silver to upper boards and spine lettered in kind. Light scuffing to silvery gray paper-bound publisher's slipcase. Binding is..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twenty-Sixth Thousand. Leather bound. This stunning 1872 printing of Lewis Carroll's classic companion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is here finely bound by the world-class Riviere & Son Bindery in full red morocco, with original cloth covers included at rear. Illustrated in tissue-guarded frontispiece and..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This charming introduction to astronomy through fact and fantasy was published in 1883 and is a stunning sidereal exploration from cover to cover. Employing classical myth, fantastical allegories, and imaginative journeys through the heavens, In the Sky-Garden follows its young heroine Joy as..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6". 274pp. Red faux-leather cloth over boards with decorative gilt to spine and front and rear covers. Light rubbing to covers and edges. All edge gilt to edges of text block. Bookplate laid in. Pages bright, clean, and unmarked..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7". xxii, 152pp. Bound in genuine leather, with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Raised bands to spine. Very mild shelfwear to covers and edges. All edge gilt. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Unused Easton Press bookplate..... More
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Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Leather_bound. Part of the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" Collector's Edition. 9 1/2" X 7". xxii152pp. Bound in decorative genuine leather. Spots of white paint to bottom edges of covers. All edge gilt. Very light dust spotting to vertical side of text block. Rose-colored silk..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Hardcover. This creative imagining of the girlhoods of fifteen Shakespearean heroines is the work of Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare and Shakespeare Proverbs, among others, and friend to Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and Charles and Mary Lamb. In setting..... More
London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1932. Hardcover. This globe-spanning tome holds accounts of exploration, adventure, and hunting in Canada, Africa, South America, and Russia from writings "Among Unknown Eskimo" by Julian W. Bilby, F.R.G.S., Member of the Folklore Society, "Wanderings in Central Africa" by Dugald Campbell, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., "Among..... More
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Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 273pp; 275pp, plus near fine fold-out map of The Netherlands printed in blue and black. Both volumes retain their publisher-issued blue cloth dust jackets, with spines lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to jackets, with..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Leather_bound. 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
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 279pp. Green cloth over boards with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Very mild shelf wear to covers and edges. Decorative raised bands to spine. All edge gilt. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An attractive..... More
London: George Routledge & Co., 1858. A New Edition. Leather bound. 6 5/8" X 4 3/8". 336pp. Handsomely bound in half dark rose calf with marbled sides. Spine darkened, with four raised bands, gilt lettering over green leather label with gilt tooling. Moderate edgewear to binding, with rubbing heaviest at..... More
