London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. / Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910. Aldin, Cecil. First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition with illustrations by Cecil Aldin, quarto size, 927 pp. Dickens' first novel, with which many of us are familiar; the quixotic Mr. Pickwick is the main character in "The Pickwick Papers"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by Vivien & Mallette Dean), 1953. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, quarto size, 76 pp. A perfectly lovely retelling of the old legends. Fifty-four illustrations, including those on the title page and half-title, were all drawn and hand-coloured..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed and printed by Peter Koch], 2013. Wagener, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 170 of 308 copies, folio size, [61] pp., signed by Richard Wagener, with prospectus. Richard Wagener (b. 1944) is an American wood engraver who creates gorgeous and detailed landscape scenes..... More
San Francisco: Ransohoffs [The Grabhorn Press], 1948. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 23 pp. During the eighty years since it first appeared in the Overland Monthly, this story has been one of the most widely read and acclaimed of American short stories. Not only..... More
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San Francisco: Juniper Von Phitzer Press, 1991. Juniper Von Phitzer. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 30 of 101 copies, oblong miniature book, 72 pp., signed by both the book artist and the author. A lovely book which presents "26 Compliments" according to the letters of the alphabet, from "A wren just..... More
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London: Chapman & Hall (printed by The Whitefriars Press, Ltd.), 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition with John Austen illustrations, quarto size, 214 pp. Morality plays have been an important part of society for centuries, with their conveyance of religious and/or moral lessons; the earliest dated morality play was..... More