[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. Nielsen, Kay. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, quarto size, 207 pp. Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886-1957), was born in Denmark hearing the traditional Norse fairy tales related by his mother, studied art in Paris, and moved to London in1911. His artwork brought immediate critical acclaim..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash, [1907]. B. T. B. [Lord Basil Temple Blackwood]. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 80 pp. This collection of verses, intended as a parody of cautionary tales written for children, was written by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), a prolific writer and poet as well as an avid..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers [printed in Sweden by Centraltryckeriet, Stockholm], [1931]. Beskow, Elsa. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 34 pp. A lovely children's picture book about a young boy who went out into the forest to pick blueberries ("and whortleberries") as a name-day present for his mother, and his adventures after..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1924]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 190 copies, folio size, [5] leaves. "The Sermon on the Mount" is among the most widely quoted texts of the Canonical Gospels, most notably the Beatitudes, which exemplify the quintessential elements of mercy and compassion as taught by Jesus Christ..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Birch, Reginald B. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, octavo size, 224 pp. The work of Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) captured the imaginations of readers, with her enduring novels such as "The Secret Garden" and "Sara Crewe"; this collection of stories for children demonstrates..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, duodecimo size, 67 pp., with original dust jacket. We find etiquette books such as this a delight to read, providing as they do glimpses into a world long gone. This book, for example, contains a...... More
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1908. Kimball, Alonzo. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often..... More
London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, [1937]. Preston, Chloe. Pictorial boards. Large octavo size, [12] pp. Chloe Preston provided the illustrations for twelve "Peek-A-Boo" books (per Baumgarten); interestingly, this title not listed. A scarce book, as of this writing there is one copy online of "The Peek-A-Boos In Camp"..... More
London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. Preston, Chloe; Howard-Vyse, George. Hardcover. Large octavo size, [52] pp. Chloe Preston provided the illustrations for twelve "Peek-A-Boo" books (per Baumgarten); interestingly, this title not listed. With the introduction of anthropomorphised animals Preston seems to have been inspired by Beatrix Potter, whose..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, [1932]. Gibbings, Robert [and] Coppard, A.E. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 signed copies, large octavo size, 59 pp., signed by both Coppard and Gibbings. The Golden Cockerel Press came together in autumn of 1920, at a time when post-World War I society..... More
Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, [1939]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, sixteenmo size, 23 unnumbered pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), best known for his Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", wrote in the Realist and Naturalist styles;..... More
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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010, 2014, 2020. Bauman, Jill. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Each volume one of 948 copies, quarto size, 695, 523, and 655 pp. respectively, all three signed by Justin Cronin. Justin Cronin (b. 1962) has been awarded the PEN/Heminway Award for Debut Novel, the Stephen Crane Prize, and..... More
Mill Valley, California: Sunflower Press, 1993. Collin, Marcie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 19 of 55 copies, miniature book, [36] pp., signed by Carol Cunningham, in the original gift box. A charmingly illustrated tale, "[b]ased on a Middle Eastern proverb 'The Boots of Hunain' which refers to something that is not..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Richard W. Ellis at The Georgian Press], 1930. Dwiggins, W.A. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies, sixmo size, 303 pp., signed by W.A. Dwiggins, in glassine wrappers and with slipcase. The LEC publication of this novel (originallly published in 1872) is..... More
[Waltham St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, [1932]. Parker, Agnes Miller. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, octavo size, 69 pp., signed by Rhys Davies. Vivian Rees Davies (1901-1978), known as Rhys Davies, was "one of the most prolific Welsh prose writers of the 20th century....[writing] approximately one hundred..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Cruikshank, George. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 534 pp. First one-volume edition, with 40 sketches by George Cruikshank. Originally published in two series/three volumes, "Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November..... More
[Covelo, California]: [The Yolla Bolly Press], [1997]. Wikstrom, Karin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, folio size, 57 pp., signed by Richard Olney and Karin Wikstrom, with prepublication announcement and prospectus. Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, wrote in both Danish and English..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895. Thomson, Hugh. Hardcover. Small octavo size, 120 pp. A lovely collection of poems by Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921), which speak of a simpler time. With illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920); Irish by birth, he lived most of his life in England..... More
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, (1984). Killion, Tom. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 226 copies, elephant folio size, 25 pp., inscribed by Everson to Michael Neilson and signed at the colophon by William Everson, Tom Killion, and Adrian Wilson. William Everson (1912-1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, a name he adopted..... More
San Francisco: Samuel Levinson, 1915. Corbett, Bertha. Hardcover. Octavo size, 99 pp., in dust jacket. "What We Saw at Madame World's Fair" is the story of two sisters at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. This world's fair was held in San Francisco, California, and featured such dazzling attractions as..... More
Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1929. Hardcover. First printing, sixteenmo size, 87 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged..... More
Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1929. Short, Mary Dudley. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 431 of 450 copies, twenty-fourmo size, [58] pp., numbered and initialled by HDCP. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of..... More
Kasterlee, Belgium: The Frans Masereel Center, 2002. Lorenz, Hilary. Limited Edition. Accordion Style. No. 22 of 25, duodecimo size, 16 unnumbered pp., signed by the artist. Gerrit Henry (1950-2003) was an American art critic, author, and poet best known for his tendency to favour contemporary combinations of traditional representation and..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1982. Hughey, Kirk. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 copies, fourteen separate linocut prints with accompanying booklet, folio size, sixteen leaves, housed in the publisher's box. The Press of the Palace of the Governors "is the longest-running operation of..... More
London: Samuel French Limited [printed by the St Dominic's Press, Ditchling Common, Hassocks], [1932]. Hardcover. Revised variant edition, duodecimo size, 116 pp. Mimes, the author states, are similar to early liturgical plays and this work includes mimes titled, "The Stations of the Cross", "The Rosary", "St. George and the Turkish..... More