London: R. Phillips, [1800]. Leather bound. 5 3/4" X 3 5/8". xii, 558pp, plus ad. No date of publication, latest date in advertisements 1800. Half bound in red leather with marbled paper over boards. Boards detached and spine missing. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards..... More
London: Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Limited, circa 1880. Hardcover. "It was only natural, that from an early period, and throughout all lands, flowers should have been chosen as emblems of thoughts and sentiments, and invested with a language of their own...Round many a flower beautiful thoughts cluster..." So is introduced..... 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
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1880. Hardcover. "In our songs, in our fables, in our legends, in our proverbs, the Bird has a conspicuous share," writes W. H. Davenport in his preface to his and Hector Giacomelli's Bird World, before swooping into a barrage of such poignant questions as "What..... More
Thomas Nelson, 2019. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Four volume set. Editions limited to 10,000 copies, each volume numbered. Each volume features a laser-cut dust jacket designed by award-winning designer Kate Armstrong, within removable protective plastic over-jacket. Each volume bound in paper over boards in solid color..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Fall into a fairy tale with this 1904 princess-adorned collection of classic stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Inside these hundred-year-old pages, you’ll find favorites from “The Princess and the Pea” to “The Ugly Duckling,” along with lesser known tales like “The Flying Trunk” and..... 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
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1978. Barnett Freedman. Leather bound. 9 1/4" X 5 3/4". 431pp. Bound in full genuine scarlet leather, stamped in 22kt gilt to both boards, with cream silk moire endpapers and matching silk ribbon placemarker. All edges gilt, faintly mottled. Binding is tight & sound. Pages are..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. Leather bound. Fine binding by G. P. Putnam's Sons at the Knickerbocker Press Bindery, with both binders' marks to verso of front and rear free endpapers. 6 1/4" X 5 1/4". Complete with sonnets I-XLIV. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco with marbled paper over..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. Authorized 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: The Macmillan Company, September 1906. New Edition. Hardcover. Would you agree the contents of your bookshelf ought to grow only curiouser and curiouser? This gilt-stamped, royal blue bound 1906 edition of Lewis Carroll's beloved and enduring classic of children's and fantasy literature is ready to take you on..... 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
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
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1986. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9 3/8" X 6 1/8". xvi, 439pp. Bound in full deep green leather, with boards pictorially stamped in gilt. Three raised bands to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Gold silk ribbon placemarker. Binding is..... More
London: John Murray, 1890. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Twenty-Seventh Thousand. Leather bound. A handsomely bound second edition of this important work examining human evolution and sexual selection by naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), whose contributions to the science of evolution have made his work immortal. 7 3/8" X 5 1/8"..... 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
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
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1967. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 143pp. Bound in full genuine brown leather, stamped in 22kt gilt to both boards, and silk ribbon placemarker. All edges gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding with small spot of white paint to bottom edge of..... 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
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1981, 1995. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". 1777pp. Each volume uniformly bound in full blue genuine leather and stamped at boards and spine in 22kt gilt, with spines lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Salmon orange silk moire endpaper with matching silk..... More
