London and Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., [ca. 1843]. Allom, Thomas. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes bound in two, quarto size, approx. 364 pp. Draughtsman, architect, and artist Thomas Allom (1804-1872) is probably best known for this title, which was the most popular and best known work on this subject... More about China, In a Series of Views; Displaying The Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of That...

[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 about 12 O'Clock News

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 about A Tale of the Times

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 about The American Fur Trade of the Far West; A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur...

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 about Phoenixiana, A Collection of the Burlesque & Sketches of John Phoenix, alias John P. Squibob,...

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 about Pocket-Handkerchief Park

(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 about The Temptation of Saint Anthony

London: Printed by Hague & Gill, Published by Sheed & Ward, (1932). Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Sewn binding. One of 500 copies, duodecimo size, 22 pp., inscribed by Eric Gill. This volume is a presentation copy with a nice association to Eric Gill's (1882-1940) sculptural work; here Gill articulates the... More about Sculpture and the Living Model [Presentation Copy

London: Jonathan Cape [Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge], 1931. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 129 of 160, octavo size, 206 pp., signed by Eric Gill. Clothing has long been an integral part of society, and can be used to reflect diverse religious and cultural identities... More about Clothes, An Essay Upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn...

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 197 of 500, octavo size, 16 pp. "The Lord's Song" is a sermon composed by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); it is a call to reaffirm free will as well as an acknowledgement of sin and spiritual responsibility... More about The Lord's Song. A Sermon

[New York] (Munich): The Limited Editions Club (printed by Typostudio Schumacher-Gebler), (1987). Ionesco, Eugene. Limited Edition. Cardboard. Number 425 of 1000, folio size, 145 pp., signed by Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), one of the formost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre, wrote this work later in his career. In... More about Journeys Among the Dead, A Play With Lithographs

[Nadja Press], 1992. Tanning, Dorothea. Limited Edition. No. IV of X of the deluxe edition with a separate suite of etchings (total edition 110). Slightly oblong, unbound sheets, duodecimo size, 40 pp., signed by James Merrill and Dorothea Tanning. With prospectus and related material. Per a small slip of paper... More about Volcanic Holiday

[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2015. Abell, John; d'Arbeloff, Natalie; Brockway, Harry; Hicks-Jenkins, Clive; Kiggell, Ralph; Lemaire, Angela; Macdonald, Robert. Limited Edition. Folio. Number 11 of 25, folio size, unpaginated, 14 folded leaves and 14 relief prints, each print is signed and numbered by the respective artist, signed at the... More about Be Still ...the response of friends; being a suite of fourteen relief prints created by seven...