London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Bedford, F. D. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 275 pp., with dust jacket, in a custom box. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) wrote numerous novels and plays for both children and adults, but he is best known for "Peter Pan", a hugely successful..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. Goble, Warwick. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 150 copies, the Edition de Luxe, quarto size, 316 pp. The text of this book is based on John Edward Taylor's translation from 1847. Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. The..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (Philopolis Press), 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 2 of 500, duodecimo size, 47 pp. Written by American meteorologist Alexander McAdie (1863-1943), who made many advances in the field of meteorology and was also in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco from 1903..... More
Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 842 pp., with (unsigned) note by the author. The Cambridge University Press began in 1534 when it was granted letters patent by King Henry VIII, and since then the publishing house, part of Cambridge University, has..... More
Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1766. First Edition. Hardcover. First French edition, sixteenmo size, 636 pp. This volume is the first French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758, which is the "most important contemporary account of Bering's discoveries, by [Gerhard Friedrich Muller (1705-1783), historian and scientist, who was]..... More
London: Westminster Gazette, 1902. Gould, F. Carruthers. Hardcover. Octavo size, 72 pp. A satire on London politics of the day, of which Alice tries to make sense. "The Westminster Alice" is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published by the..... More
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London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1949. Buckland-Wright, John. No binding. Octavo size, [4] pp. Prospectus only for "Hero & LEander", with two line-engravings in copper reproduced by collotype, by John Buckland-Wright. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded once to four pages, announces publication "in October 1949" at 7 Gns. for the "Special" edition..... More
London: Academic Press / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. Octavo size, 258 pp. Seven presentations by noted scientists all having to do with silicon geochemistry. As an essential nutrient, and the basis of the skeletal material of certain organisms, silicon occupies a dominant position in biogeochemistry; and this book..... More
Paris and Benares: The Kamashastra Society, 1907. Hardcover. Octavo size, 300 pp. A collection of sexual/erotic essays and tales in the style of the Arabian Nights. This volume appears to be one of the pirated versions referred to in the Burton bibliography by Penzer (see more below). The book's Foreword..... More
London and Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company [Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh], 1895. Richards, Frank; Bedford, F.D. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Twelve volumes (complete), octavo size, total pp. approximately 3,100, one of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Tobias George Smollett (ca.1721-1771), a Scottish author, was known for his..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was..... More
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 257 pp. Part of "The 'Lecture Notes' Series" published by Blackwell Scientific in the 1950s and 1960s, this work on Dermatology "is intended to be an introduction to dermatology for students and general practitioners. It deals chiefly with common diseases..... More
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1978. Seward, Victor. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 130 copies, folio size, approx. [90] pp., with original prospectus and invoice. The forty-fourth limited edition from The Allen Press, and their first production from the Greenbrae studio, being "one of the superlative dramas of the Periclean..... More
St. Helena, California: (James E. Beard), 1965. Dean, Mallette. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 22 pp. A chapter from the "Silverado Squatters" first published in 1883, this version with relief-cut illustrations and initials by Mallette Dean (1907-1975), and a frontis portrait of R.L.S. at the office of the St. Helena Star, 1880..... More
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n.p. Self-published, 1939. Later printing. Hardcover. Twelvemo size, 79 pp., with accompanying MS note from Sonya. An utterly charming volume of two fairy tales: one written by Fritz Joachim Weyl and the other by his wife, "Sonya" (Martha Weyl), who (it is highly likely) also did the calligraphy and bound..... More