London: Cresset Press [Printed by Bernard H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press], 1928. Gaskin, Joscelyne. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 250 copies, folio size, 207 pp. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of Verulam and Viscount Saint Alban. This collection of essays..... More
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New York: [Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey] Printed in the tower of Poestenkill, 1984. Kuball, Mischa. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 15 deluxe copies bound in vellum, folio size, 40 pp., signed by Mischa Kuball, in German. "Todesfuge" is one of the "great and terrifying literary works" written by survivors of..... More
(Westerham, Kent): Westerham Press Limited, 1957. Dulac, Edmund. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) printing, octavo size, 66 pp., inscribed by Barbara Hutton. Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912-1979) achieved fame - or notoriety - due to the immense wealth into which she was born, coupled with a "troubled private life" (n.b...... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. Wilke, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies, quarto size, 386 pp., in slipcase, this copy in a full vellum binding. Cornelius Cole (1822-1924) was a politician who became an important figure in California politics after his arrival there in July 1849; he..... More
Potsdam: Gustav Keipenheuer, 1920. Limited Edition. Vellum. No. 164 of 200 copies bound in full vellum, quarto size, 383 pp., entirely in German. John-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) remains a cornerstone today of modern philosophical thought; his work greatly influenced the Enlightenment and "the development of modern political, economic and educational thought."..... More