Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Beard, Dan et al. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 712 pp. Samuel L. Clemens, better known to the world as "Mark Twain" (1835-1910) created some of the best-loved characters of American fiction, including Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. In addition to his... More about Following The Equator; A Journey Around the World
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928. First Play Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 194 pp. 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 play set in the magical world of Neverland; the play... More about Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
Japan: The Japan Council against A & H Bombs, 1961. Tomatsu, Shomei and Domon, Ken. Hardcover. Square quarto size, [140] pp. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States have led to numerous examinations of the war, violence, and death surrounding the attacks. "document 1961" is a collection... More about document 1961, hiroshima-nagasaki
San Francisco: The Limited Editions Club, printed by Taylor & Taylor, 1961. de Frietas, Lima. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 401 pp., signed by Lima de Freitas, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was an English novelist and... More about Nostromo, Tale of the Seaboard
New York: Brentano's, 1902. Robinson, W. Heath. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, octavo size, 135 pp. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was an exemplary book illustrator and cartoonist, "the only British illustrator to become a 'household name'" (Houfe), a contemporary of acclaimed illustrators Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac... More about The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
New York: ACA Galleries, 1999. Mark, Wendy. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 50 pp., signed by both Mark Strand and Wendy Mark. A wonderful collaboration between poet Mark Strand (1934-2014) and Wendy Mark (b. 1950), an artist primarily known for her monotypes, examples of which are included in... More about 89 Clouds
London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, (1932). Rackham, Arthur. Limited Edition. Vellum. No. 80 of 525 copies, quarto size, 288 pp., signed by Arthur Rackham. This collection of Hans Christian Andersen's (1805-1875) fairy tales includes beloved stories such as "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", "The Emperor's New... More about Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen
New York: Dodge Publishing Co. [printed in Scotland at the Villafield Press, Glasgow], [1914]. Wain, Louis. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) printing, this the US imprint, octavo size, [36] pp., with rare dust jacket. English artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) presents a whimsical alphabet, with each letter represented by one... More about A Cat Alphabet; And Picture-Book for Little Folk
Pasadena, California: Published by the Author, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 437 pp., inscribed by Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), best known for his brutal exposé of the meat packing industry in "The Jungle", wrote "The Wet Parade" as a critique of Prohibition and its failures in... More about The Wet Parade
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1985). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 410 of 750, octavo size, 464 pp., signed by Frank Herbert. Frank Herbert's (1920-1986) "Dune", although not an instant success, is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction works and is the best-selling science fiction book... More about Chapterhouse: Dune
London: Printed by W. Strahan Jun. for T. Becket and Co., et al, 1772. Leather bound. Quarto size, 817 pp. Algernon Sydney (sometimes spelled "Sidney") (1623-1683) was an English politician and political theorist; he opposed absolute monarchies and the divine right of kings, writing on the subject in his crucial... More about The Works of Algernon Sydney, A New Edition
London: Jonathan Cape, (1992). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 21 of 150 copies, octavo size, 176 pp., signed by Ian McEwan. Ian McEwan (b. 1948), writer and screenwriter, was given the nickname "Ian Macabre" after writing his first two novels; his notable works include "Atonement" and "Amsterdam", for which... More about Black Dogs
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1912. Robinson, Charles. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 317 pp. The fables in this book range from short, whimsical poems to prose stories, and all are full of the magic and charm of animals rendered by British book illustrator Charles Robinson (1870-1937). An... More about The Big Book of Fables
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Tokyo: Published by K. Ogawa [printed by C. B. Woodward, St. Louis], 1893. K. Ogawa. First Edition. String Binding. First printing, folio size. K. Ogawa (1860-1929), an innovative Japanese photographer known for his portraiture and masterful use of collotype, presents examples of costumes in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration... More about Japanese Costume Before the Restoration [with] Military Costume in Old Japan
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, ca. 1907. Hardcover. Oblong folio size, [40] pp. Utilising music to teach lessons to children, "Improving Songs" is a collaboration between married couple John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) and Rue Winterbotham Carpenter (1876-1931). An American composer, John Carpenter created numerous modern and jazz-inspired compositions, and... More about Improving Songs for Anxious Children
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 926 copies, octavo size, 76 pp., printed by Bruce Rogers. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who wrote stories and novels that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutible universe; he often brought... More about The Sisters
(London): Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. No. 18 of 150 copies, octavo size, 336 pp., signed by William Boyd. Scottish writer William Boyd (b. 1952) presents a story rich with history, as the pasts of two people, one an architect living in Los Angeles in 1936, the other an older... More about The Blue Afternoon
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 445 pp. In "The French Lieutenant's Woman", English writer John Fowles (1926-2005) crafts a ground-breaking work of historical fiction, set in the Victorian era; considered an example of historiographic metafiction, the novel uses real historical events to shape the... More about The French Lieutenant's Woman
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. Hardcover. Octavo size, 209 pp. The story of the "unsinkable ship", while tragic in the extreme to all who lived through it - or whose lives were lost - continues to fascinate all, even today, over 100 years after the disaster. The ship... More about A Night to Remember
Oakland, California: Georgia Loring Bamford, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo size, 255 pp. The life and work of Jack London (1876-1916) have been the subjects of many critical writings, and here Georgia Loring Bamford (1873-1966), a personal friend of London's, reminisces about London's life, his prominence in the literary circle in San... More about The Mystery of Jack London
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed by The Spiral Press], 1969. Parker, Agnes Miller. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, octavo size, 451 pp., signed by Agnes Miller Parker, with the separate plate also signed by her, and with the LEC Monthly Letter. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one... More about Jude the Obscure
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge [printed by the Merrymount Press], 1939. Limited Edition. Leather bound. One of 950 copies, miniature book, 89 pp. The second book published by Achille St. Onge (1913-1978) under his own imprint, "Friendship" is an essay by transcendentalist essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). This... More about Friendship
Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1907-1910. Hardcover. Six volumes (complete), quarto size, in German. German historian Julius von Pflugk-Harttung (1848-1919), best known as an authority on Papal and mediaeval history, wrote this expansive six-volume set on the history of art around the world, copiously illustrated with photographs, maps, and facsimiles, some... More about Weltgeschichte [World History
Romae: Typis Societatis Sancti Joannis Evangelistae, 1949-1955. Hardcover. Six volumes (two three-volume sets), octavo size, 5205 total pp., in Latin. French Sulpician priest Adolphe Tanquerey (1854-1932) is the author of these theological works, regarding fundamental dogmas and morals of the Catholic Church; each set comprises three volumes with matching binding... More about Synopsis Theologiae Moralis et Pastoralis [with] Synopsis Theologiae Dogmaticae Fundamentalis
[n. p.]: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1993). Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), octavo size, 1667 total pp. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a renowned Irish playwright who exerted significant influence on Western theatre with works such as "Man and Superman" and "Pygmalion"; his work often includes satire and historical allegory... More about Bernard Shaw, The Drama Observed