![Item #21061401 The Brocade Series: Maurice de Guerin [with] Eugenie de Guerin [and with] The...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21061401_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763250842)
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Hardcover. One of 425 copies, three volumes, twenty-fourmo size, approx. 190 total pages, in original slipcases and cabinet box. "The Brocade Series" was printed by Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923) between 1895 and 1905; the books were called the ‘Brocade Series’ due to the rococo..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, two volumes (complete), duodecimo size, 588 pp. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), who was born in Salem, Massachusetts, achieved literary fame with the publication of "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) which "was immediately hailed as a work of genius and..... More
[North Hills, Pa.]: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 170 copies of the special edition, octavo size, 108 pp., with portfolio of ephemera and prospectus. A bibliography that is so much "more than a mere compilation, with Henry Morris commentaries, it is also a veritable history..... More
Newton, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with prospectus and related ephemera. "Recollections" is a memoir of the remarkable bookbinder, Bernard C. Middleton (1924-2019), a skilled binder as well as a prolific writer on the techniques of the craft;..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [designed by W.A. Dwiggins, printed by The Southworth-Anthoesen Press], 1936. Dwiggins, W.A. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 sets, five volumes (complete) in publisher's slipcase, octavo size, approx. 1370 pp., signed by W.A. Dwiggins. Francois Rabelais' (ca. 1493-1553) satirical story of the life of..... More
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First separate printing, one of 530 copies, octavo size, 26 pp., signed by G.K. Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a major writer of novels, poetry, and Christian apologetics; he is perhaps best known for his series of detective..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, first issue jacket (see all issue points below), octavo size, 142 pp. "The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's best-loved books - written while he was living in Cuba, and the last major work of fiction..... More
[Easthampton, Massachusetts]: Castalia Press [designed and printed by Barry Moser], 1970. Moser, Barry. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies, quarto size, [14] pp., proof of the title page illustration signed by Barry Moser below the plate, volume inscribed by Moser at the colophon, with prospectus, [also with] the announcement..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, octavo size, 212 pp., signed by Barbara Deming. Barbara Deming (1917-1984) tells, in this memoir, why and how she was jailed - not once, but twice - for participating in "an integrated cross-country peace walk" in Albany..... More
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1964. Van Aver, Philip. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, one of 205 copies, quarto size, 22pp., signed by Brother Antoninus, with prospectus. A heart-wrenchingly beautiful paean by one famous poet, Brother Antoninus (William Everson, 1912-1994), to another, John Robinson Jeffers..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this Basic Books publication, large octavo size, 501 pp. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) philosophy heavily influenced his contemporaries and helped to usher in the Age of Enlightenment, which subsequently influenced "the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought"..... More
Baltimore: Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns Hopkins Press, (1972). 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Quarto size, 265 pp. From the publisher's description on the back panel: "Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature...She taught at four American colleges...was a delegate..... More
![Item #CNJL2573 Ruling the Later Roman Empire; [Revealing Antiquity, no. 15]. Christopher Kelly,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2573_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760655799)
Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Large octavo size, 352 pp. Per the jacket flap: "In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of governmnet openly regulated by networks of personal influence..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1924]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 190 copies, folio size, [5] leaves. "The Sermon on the Mount" is among the most widely quoted texts of the Canonical Gospels, most notably the Beatitudes, which exemplify the quintessential elements of mercy and compassion as taught by Jesus Christ..... More
Seal Beach, California: Mel Kavin/Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, miniature book, 167 pp., signed by the eight contributors, additionally inscribed by John DePol, with his Ex-Libris and the Ex-Libris of the inscribees. A stunning book which can indeed be judged by its cover...bound in full..... More
New York: New Directions, (2013). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, approx. 1080 pp. Priscilla Denise Levertov (1923-1997), recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship, was socially active in the 1960s and 70s, serving as the poetry editor for "The Nation". Later she..... More
![Item #CNJL2569 [Works]: Mary; King, Queen, Knave; The Luzhim Defense; Glory; Laughter in the...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2569_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758239257)
(Penguin Classics, Published by the Penguin Group), 2012. Hardcover. Twenty-two volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 8200 total pages. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) achieved both notoriety and fame upon the publication of "Lolita", a novel whose main character becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl; upon becoming her step-father, he becomes sexually..... More
Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 183 pp. An original essay by Professor Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018), whose work focused on issues of "issues in philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, law, and Chinese philosophy" (n.b., quote from Wiki). Professor Fingarette's essay is..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (2010). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 340 pp. From the web site of the Yale University Press: "Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. "This volume brings together some..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, one of 550 copies of the "Large-Paper Edition", octavo size, 248 pp., with TLS by Muir. This volume has a short typed note, signed by John Muir, tipped onto the verso of the half-title page. The note..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second (or later) printing, octavo size, 285 pp., with "Book Find News" It would be hard to find anyone, even today, more than 70 years after her death, who does not know of Anne Frank (1929-1945). Hidden by..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Keith, William. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 171 pp. Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842-1928) lived a life rather unusual for a woman of her days. She moved with her family at the age of seven years from Illinois to California, in 1868 Bret..... More
![Item #25080701 Furnival Books [Twelve Volumes, Complete Set]: The Key of the Field; The Hessian...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25080701_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755986221)
London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd (Books 1-4) [and] Joiner & Steele, Ltd. (Books 5-12) [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1930, 1931, 1932. Garnett, R.A.; Austen, John; Gibbings, Robert; Papé, Frank C.; Odle, Alan; Garwood, Tirzah; Hilder, Rowland; Kermode, William; Grant, Duncan; Moon, P.V.; Leighton, Clare; Wolfe, Edward. Hardcover. Each volume..... More
San Francisco [Oakland]: B. C. Vandall, Publisher [W. B. Hardy, Bookseller and Stationer], (1878). Hardcover. Octavo size, 756 pp., with the original map lithographed by Grafton Tyler Brown. A somewhat scarce directory, as of this writing we see no copies online (we searched for the years 1875 through 1890) and..... More
![Item #24101802 Ein Totentanz [A Dance of Death]; 29 Holzstiche, Aus Dem Jahre 1943 [29...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24101802_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755814948)
n.p. n.d. Schardt, Hermann. Cardboard covers. Inscribed by Hermann Schardt to Heinz Albert Heindrichs, folio size, 30 pp. While the medieval "Dance of Death" serves as a reminder that we are mortal and, regardless of wealth or social status, we all one day must die, this work, "Ein Totentanz" draws..... More