The Limited Editions Club, 1950. Legrand, Edy. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), no. 386 of 1500, folio size, 684 total pp. "Don Quixote", a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), tells of the adventures of the nobleman Alonso Quixano, who, after reading many chivalric romances, decides to set... More about Don Quixote; The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
San Francisco: Dr. L.J. Jordan, (1865). Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 107 pp. Sadly, the world has ever had more than its share of those who take advantage of their fellow human beings. Such a one, apparently, was "Dr. L[ouis] J. Jordan", as adrioitly pointed out in an article published on the... More about The Philosophy of Marriage; Being Four Important Lectures on the Functions and Disorders of the...
New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 320 pp. The well-known muscial "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway in 1964, and "was the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3,000 performances" - it held the record for the longest-running musical on Broadway... More about Tevye's Daughters
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1901. Limp leather. Quarto size, 67 pp. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) gave the world a literary legacy that few can match - who amongst us has not read many of his stories such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" or poems such as "The Raven", with... More about Poems by Edgar A. Poe
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 569 pp. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was often called "The Dean of Western Writers"; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. A member of the faculty at Stanford... More about Angle of Repose
New York: Random House, 1930. Kent, Rockwell. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition with Rockwell Kent illustrations, duodecimo size, 859 pp. First trade edition of "Moby Dick" illustrated by Rockwell Kent, and which became an instant success. The Lakeside Press published a limited edition in three volumes with 280 illustrations;... More about Moby Dick, or The Whale
London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 648 pp. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) has a fasinating life-story, one which would take more time to tell than we presently have in introducing this work. Suffice it to say that, in addition to a highly-regarded career in the... More about Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid; Third and Much Enlarged Edition, Including All the Most...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 2093 pp., the first printing of this second, revised edition. The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) continue to inspire and delight both the average reader as well as provide food for continued scholarly study. The Riverside Shakespeare is the... More about The Riverside Shakespeare; Second Edition
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition of 1000 copies, unnumbered, octavo size, 365 pp. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A.... More about Open All Night; New Poems
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New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard], 1970. Shore, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, two volumes (complete), quarto size, 457 pp., signed by Robert Shore, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) remains widely read today, having authored... More about From the Earth to the Moon [and] Around the Moon
New York: Paul R. Johnson, 1808. Full leather. Volume four only [of a four-volume set], octavo size, 498 pp. What we would today likely have called a "biographical encyclopedia", this set presented short biographies of the "most eminent persons in every nation, but more particularly of Those who have signalized... More about The New Universal Biographical Dictionary and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit; Containing...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. Kipling, Rudyard. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 257 pp., in a custom clamshell box. A prolific author known for his varied works from "The Jungle Book" to "Captains Courageous", in the "Just So Stories" Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) creates delightful stories of animals... More about Just So Stories For Little Children
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Germany: Taschen, 2010. Hiroshige. Sewn binding. Folio size, 272 pp., illustrated in colour, text in German. A beautiful re-issuing from the Ota Museum of Art, Tokyo, of this famous series of ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige (1797-1858), featuring 100 views of Edo. Ukiyo-e or "pictures of the floating world" were usually... More about Hiroshige; Meisho Edo hyakkei-Honderd beroemde aanzichten van Edo [100 Views of Edo
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. Adams, Ansel. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, oblong elephant folio size, 137 pp., signed by Ansel Adams. A celebration of the stunning scenery of Yosemite National Park, this volume contains photographs by renowned photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984); the breathtaking landscapes exemplify Adams' proficiency in... More about Yosemite and the Range of Light
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Church, Frederick S. and Moser, James H. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 241 pp. The stories told by Joel Chandler Harris' (1848-1908) character Uncle Remus feature the popular Brer Rabbit from African-American folklore, a trickster character who lives by his wits;... More about Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings; The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
[New York]: Aperture Foundation, [2005]. Second Edition. Hardcover. The first printing of the Aperture Foundation publication, oblong folio, 164 pp. "In 1997 my family and I moved to a home in the Berkeley hills with an extraordinary view of the Golden Gate Bridge. These pictures were taken from our porch... More about Golden Gate
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1993. Sherman, Cindy. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, folio size, 240 pp. Cindy Sherman (b. 1954), photographer and filmmaker, is known for self-portraits which "offer critiques of gender and identity. What made Sherman famous is the use of her own body in roles... More about Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of A. Colish], (1967). Kredel, Fritz. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 240 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly letter and announcement. Ballads - or, "the singing of story" - have a long history... More about The Book of Ballads
Prag [Prague]: Adolf Kuranda, (1860). Hardcover. Quarto size, 64 pp., text entirely in German. Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) served as "First Painter to the King" to the French court, succeeding to that role in 1722 upon the death of his father who, along with his father before him, were both artists... More about Bilder zum Don Quixote oder: Darstellungen der interessantesten humoristischen Scenen aus dem...
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler], 1981. Benson, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 574 of 2000 copies, folio size, 97 pp., signed by Richard Benson, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Hart Crane (1899-1932) tragically died by committing suicide at the age of 32... More about The Bridge
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company [printed at the University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge], 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 439 pp. Augustus Choate Hamlin (1829-1905), a native of the state of Maine, served as a surgeon during the Civil War; he achieved the rank of Medical Director... More about Leisure Hours Among the Gems; By Augustus C. Hamlin, Author of a Treatise on the Tourmaline
London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders and Williams & Norgate, 1902. Hardcover. No. 156 of 500 copies, quarto size, approx. 192 pp., in a custom binding by Reed & Witting, copy owned by Leonard Witting. The Guild of Women-Binders, founded in 1898 by Frank Karslake, promoted the work of... More about The Bindings of To-morrow; A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. First Edition. Leather. First Complete Edition, twelvemo size, 660 pp., in a custom binding by Morrell. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897), a lifelong friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809-1892), who served for a time as professor of poetry at Oxford University, is remembered more today... More about The Golden Treasury, Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and...
London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean... 1826. Leather. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 1088 total pp. First published in 1621, this book is presented as a medical textbook in which Robert Burton (1570-1640) applies his vast and varied learning to the subject of melancholia; as much a work of literature as... More about The Anatomy of Melancholy; What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and...
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973-1976. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes "one of a special edition" (number not specified), octavo size, 452 total pp., both volumes signed by Lillian Hellman. Prominent playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), best known for successful plays such as "The Children's Hour" and "Toys in... More about Pentimento, A Book of Portraits [with] Scoundrel Time