Doctor Illuminatus
New Jersey: Princeton. first Edition. Blue Cloth. More
New Jersey: Princeton. first Edition. Blue Cloth. More
Philadelphia: Graham, 1847. Many mezzotint and steel engraved illustrations including six hand-colored fashion plates. First Edition. 8vo red half leather. Marbled endpapers. Index for Jan through June. Includes one short book review by E.A. Poe. More
1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850..... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1923. 8vo. Grey paper covered boards. Black cloth spine with paper label. This is an account of the initial holdings of the library at its inception in 1923, with dates and publications. "The purpose of this book is to give information to those interested in..... More
Ithaca: 1950. Retold, Illustrated with Woodcuts, and Printed by Elfried Abbe. Tall 4to. 12-7/8" x 8-7/8". Marbled paper boards with black cloth spine and paper spine labels. 72 pp. including index. More
London: William Tegg, nd. 575 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gold and black. Frontispiece from wood engraving. From Preface: The present volume will be found to comprise, with some exceptions, which will be more particularly adverted to hereafter, the whole of the Essays contributed by Addison to the "Spectator."..... More
London: Folio Society, 2009. With 16 beautiful silhouette illustrations by Niroot Puttapipat. Thick 8vo. 480 pp. Red endpapers. Pictorial beige cloth stamped in gold, red and black. Red leather spine stamped in gold. In original slipcase. This collection was first published by Pantheon Books, Inc. in 1945 under the title..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, n.d. (ca 1918). With ten full color illustrations by A. Duncan Carse. Thick 8vo. 6-1/8" x 8-5/16". Cream colored cloth covered boards with pictorial cover stamped in four colors, black and gold. Pictorial endpapers. More
New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, (1985). 0684178516. Three 4to. volumes, each bound in maroon cloth with spine stamped in gold. Maroon endpapers. This three-volume work contains sixty original essays that, for the first time, present the broadest range of Shakespeare studies in one accessible set. As a valuable learning..... More
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, (1894). Illustrated by WM. Hole, R.S.A. 8vo. 183 pp. Grey cloth binding decoratively stamped in gold and crimson. Beveled edges. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. With introduction by Sylvester Baxter. Memorial Edition. 8vo. Green cloth cover stamped in black. 337 pp. Frontispiece photo portrait of Bellamy. More
New York: Fordham University Press, (1937). First edition. 8vo. 8-11/16" x 5-5/8". Tan cloth covered boards stamped in reddish brown. Pink endpapers. 245 pp. More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., n.d. (ca. 1900). Photogravure illustrations by A.W. Elson & Co. from photographs taken by Dr. Charles M. Mitchell and F. Frith and Co. Two volumes. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Top edges gilt. Vol. I with 516 pp. and 24 illus. Vol. II..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1950). Illustrated with map of London and two photos of original manuscript. De Luxe Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". 370 pp. including index. Top edge gilt. Simple, elegant brown leather binding with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell..... More
New York: Random House, (1955). Stated First Printing. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards stamped in blue, green and gold. 406 pp. The great medieval city of Fez is the fountainhead of native resistance to French rule in Morocco today. In this strange and disturbing place lives the boy, Amar, son..... More
London: 1815. Stated Third Edition. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Two volumes. 404 pp. and 406 pp. Second volume including index. Boards covered in brown cloth (or maybe paper textured to look like cloth). More
London: Folio Society, 1991. Illustrated by various artists: Harry Brockway, Howard Phipps, Ian Stephens, George Tute, Simon Brett, Peter Forster and Peter Reddick. Re-issued edition of the first Folio Society edition of 1967. This 1991 edition has new illustrations. Seven 8vo. volumes in green silk moiré covered slipcase. Green silk..... More
New York: Random House, 1943. Illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Two 4to. volumes in one slipcase. Black and white pictorial paper covered boards, green cloth spines stamped in gold. This edition was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg were printed..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First edition. Red cloth cover stamped in black. 8vo. 313 pp. More
New York: Coward-McCann, (1932). Stated First Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Top of text block stained red. 384 pp. including index. One expects fine things from John Buchan, but in Sir Walter Scott he has surpassed himself. As the London Times in a two-column review said: "The hour occasionally..... More
Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. Large 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/4". 336 pp. Beige linen binding stamped in brown. "This book is a journal of certain experiences, not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory." More
Franklin Library, 1976. A Limited Edition. 8vo. Full leather stamped in gold. Red taffeta endpapers. Red ribbon book mark. Printed in red and black inks. 381 pp. All edges gilt. The text of The Franklin Library edition is taken from the 19th Century text edited by Edmund Venables, Canon of..... More
White, Stokes & Allen: New York, 1886. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Brown cloth covered boards, embossed and stamped in gold and black. Beveled edges. Attractive decorative spine. All edges gilt. 410 pp. More
New York: John B. Alden, 1892. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Blue cloth covered boards. 129 pp. More