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London: J. Dodsley, 1771. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 528 pp. [of which eight contain an account of the Boston Massacre]. The Boston Massacre (known in Britain as "the Incident on King Street"), which happened on March 5, 1770, is widely credited for precipitating the Revolutionary War. A...... More
Beloit, Wis. The Inter-State Publishing House, 1884. Leather bound. Deluxe morocco binding, octavo size, 577 pp. Laura Carter Holloway (1843 (some sources cite 1848)-1930) was a prolific author; upon publication of her first book in 1870, "The Ladies of the White House", she became independently wealthy. Her interests were varied..... More
San Francisco: Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, folio size, 65 pp., with prospectus and original invoice. Published to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, the well-known private club for book collectors, printers, and antiquarian booksellers. Both Robert..... More
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[Cologne]: Taschen, [2016]. Hardcover. Two volumes (quarto size), unpaginated, plus companion book in slipcase, Biblical text all in German. A facsimile of "The Luther Bible", published by Taschen in 2016; the two hardbound volumes containing the text are all in (high) German. The companion volume, "A cultural-historical introduction" (softbound) provides..... More
London: Ghost Story Press, (1997). Maloret, Nick. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 228 of 400 copies, octavo size, 478 pp., signed by Ron Weighell. Ron Weighell (1950-2020) authored an extensive collection of fantasy, horror, and supernatural stories, with his work included in over fifty anthologies published around the globe and at..... More
Lynbrook, New York: Charnel House, 1992. Richardson, Peter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 40 of 350 copies (plus 26 lettered copies), octavo size, 577 pp., in slipcase, signed by Tim Powers. Historical events are often reimagined through works of fiction, but few writers bring the creative force and eloquent style of..... More
![The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror [First Annual through Nineteenth Annual Collections]. Ellen...](/pictures/thumb/22022802_1.JPG?v=1651873743)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988-2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Every one of the nineteen volumes first printings, octavo size, over 10,000 total pp., the first five volumes signed or inscribed (see details below). The first nineteen volumes of these anthologies which appealed to devotees of both the fantasy and horror..... More
[Cologne, Germany]: Taschen, (2009). Hardcover. Folio size, 360 pp. From the web site of Taschen: "A connoisseur’s overview of typeface design, 'Type' offers a dependable history of elegant fonts from 1628 through 1900. Derived from a distinguished Dutch collection, exquisitely designed catalogues trace the evolution of the printed letter through..... More
New York: Random House, (1940). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, [55 pp.], with publisher's dust jacket. Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) will forever be remembered as the beloved "Dr. Seuss", creator of numerous stories for children. Often written as nonsensical lines in the tradition of the great Edward Lear..... More
[Vancouver, BC]: HM Editions [Heavenly Monkey], 2019. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 23 of 30 copies, square large octavo size, [50 pp.] plus inserted drawings, signed by Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen at the colophon, in a drop-back box. "HM Editions", i.e., "Heavenly Monkey", includes the tag line on their web..... More
Privately Printed [at the Tragara Press], 1996. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 numbered copies, octavo size, 45 pp., with a short ANS by Stephen Stuart-Smith. George Granville Barker (1913-1991), poet, was "partly associated with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with surrealistic and mythical themes. However..... More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First North American edition, octavo size, 504 pp. Sir William Empson (1906-1984) is considered by many to be one of the greatest English literary critics of the 18th through 20th centuries. A poet as well, he wrote in a letter to..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. Eight volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 3040 pp. From the Series Preface: "In this...series, 'continental philosophy' will be understood HISTORICALLY as a tradition that has its roots in several different ways of approaching and responding to Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy, a tradition..... More
[Greenbrae, California]: [The Allen Press], (1981). Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, approx. [100] pp., in slipcase, with prospectus and a small archive of related material, many signed by Lewis Allen. The forty-sixth limited edition from The Allen Press, and a summation of forty-two years..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English, first printing, quarto size, 1543 pp. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered by many to be one of, if not the, greatest composer in the history of Western music. Dying at a tragically young age..... More
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London: Printed for the Holbein Society, by Wyman & Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Folio size, 600 pp. "Tewrdannckh", with its 118 wood engravings and type designed in a calligraphic style "has been described as one of the greatest books of the German Renaissance." In format the story is "a long allegorical..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Peter R. Koch], 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 142 and 49 pp. respectively, with prospectus and errata slip. From prospectus: "The chief aim of Peter Hanff's study and analysis of 'America's most famous fantasy' is to..... More
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(Worcester Park, Surrey, UK): Kerosina Books, 1988. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing, no. 205 of 250 copies, octavo size, 299 and 46 pp. respectively, in slipcase. Fantasy and science fiction writer Gene Wolfe (b. 1931) has written a plethora of novels and short stories; his works have garnered..... More
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this publication in English, eleven volumes in twelve books (complete); quarto size, approx. 8880 total pp. "I would like to write a novel in which the main character would be a man who got a pair of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company [printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd, at The Ballantyne Press, London], 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the first US edition, octavo size, 847 pp., in a custom clamshell box. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) remains one of the most highly regarded Russian novelists; his..... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, Printed by Harold McGrath, 1985. Moser, Barry. Limited Edition. Leather bound. No. 188 of 350 copies, folio size, 453 pp., signed by Barry Moser, with an extra suite of prints and poster prospectus, in a slipcase. One of America's most esteemed writers Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields [printed by the University Press, Cambridge], 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 342 pp. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was "one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called 'the Ernie Pyle of his era,' and a biographer, W.E...... More
Jersey City, NJ: American Type Founders Company, 1923. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. 1148 pp. "The 1923 American Type Founders Specimen Book and Catalog was the last comprehensive specimen book that ATF ever issued, and very nearly the last truly large specimen book ever issued by an American foundry; it is..... More
(Kentfield, California): The Allen Press, 1974. 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 revisions..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [108] pp. The Christmas Publication for 1967, reproducing in colour twenty full-page lithographs from the celebrated San Francisco weekly, "The Wasp", which during the final decades of the nineteenth century alternately entertained and..... More