[Octon, France]: Verdigris, [2006]. Rothchild, Judith. Limited Edition. Japanese Stab Binding. No. 6 of 10 deluxe copies (total edition 50) with original copper plate and separate mezzotint, oblong folio size, 28 pp., signed by Judith Rothchild. Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) wrote this poem in 1976, it being originally published..... More

Alexandria: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Leather. Volume I ONLY, duodecimo size, 256 pp. Volume I only of Jane West's (1758-1852) work considered anti-Jacobin; many of West's writings were praised for advocating "improvement", and they often had political and feminist themes, as West, even though broadly conservative, advocated better education for..... More

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., (1935). Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 1048 total pp., with fold-out map. The fur trade in the American West was an extensive economic vernture that brought many families to form settlements there, and strongly impacted the way of life of numerous Native Americans..... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937. Derby, George H. [John Phoenix (pseudonym)]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies printed, unnumbered, 8vo - over 7.75” - 9.75” tall, 240 p. John Phoenix, alias John P. Squibob, or George H. Derby (1823 - 1861), was an early California humorist who used..... More

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1929. Field, Rachel. First Edition. Hardcover. 24mo size, 67 pp. Rachel Lyman Field (1894-1942) was a well-loved children's author, as well as a novelist and poet; she is best known for her Newbery Award-winning "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years". She was also..... More

(Kentfield, California): Allen Press, 1974. Redon, Odilon. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert’s (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless..... More

Council Bluffs: The Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Gill, Eric; DePol, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 58 of 200 copies, reprinted from the S. Dominic's Press edition of 1921, with prospectus. The fourth collaboration of John DePol and Yellow Barn Press, this volume contains an essay by Eric Gill (1882-1940), in..... More

[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2007]. Cazalet, Mark. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. III of X of the special edition, total edition 210, folio size, 46 pp., signed by artist. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of Britain's most influential Victorian novelists and poets; he often wrote of tragic characters struggling against..... More

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 256 pp., with letter signed by John D. MacDonald. A three-paragraph letter from John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) to Miriam Allen DeFord (1888-1975), signed by MacDonald, accompanied by the first edition of the book discussed in the letter. The letter..... More

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1946. Miller, Henry; Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, square octavo, [78] pp., inscribed by Jane Grabhorn. Warmly inscribed by Jane Grabhorn "To Bill and Molly / to whom, if I could,/ I would dedicate / all my books - / Jane..... More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Motherwell, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 750 (820 total), elephant folio size, unpaginated, signed by Octavio Paz and Robert Motherwell, fine book in a near fine box. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Mexican poet and diplomat, won many awards including the Miguel de..... More

(London): Petersburg Press, 1986. Clemente, Francesco. Limited Edition. Soft cover. No. 98 of 200, total 288, double elephant size, signed by artist Francesco Clemente. In this volume, Clemente has illuminated Alberto Savinio's (1891-1952) autobiographical wartime voyage in 1917. By overlaying words with brightly coloured images and colours, Clemente creates an..... More

(Stockholm, Sweden): Bonniers, (1961). Hardcover. Quarto size, 257 pp., in Swedish. This volume presents a cultural and historical view of life on the Stockholm archipelago, the largest archipelago in Sweden, written by artist and book illustrator Roland Svensson (1910-2003); Svensson fills the book with numerous colour illustrations as well as..... More