[Berkeley, California]: The Hart Press, [1975]. Anderson, Victor R. Limited Edition. Wraps. Limitation not stated, quarto size, [8] pp. The annual Christmas publication issued by Ruth and James D. Hart, to friends in a limited edition; the limitation not stated, but likely an edition of 140 copies. James D. Hart..... More
Kentfield: The L D Allen Press, 1953. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 160 copies, octavo size, 55 pp. The thirteenth publication from The Allen Press, this story by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was originally titled "Maitre Cornelius" and first appeared in 1831 in the "Revue de Paris"; it..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Co., (1893). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, duodecimo size, 324 pp. Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce (1842-ca. 1914), a solider by training and profession between 1861 and 1865, serving in the Union army during the Civil War, became one of the leading literary figures of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 196 pp. William Black (1841-1898) was, in his day, immensely popular and his work was compared favourably with that of Anthony Trollope; sadly, his fame has not lasted into the 21st century and he has now..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1976. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 113 of 480, quarto size, unpaginated [5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary]. "The Book of Los" published in 1795, is one of Blake's prophetic books, a sort of..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1970. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 381 of 600, folio size, unpaginated [28] pp. "William Blake's early tractate, 'All Religions are One', consists of ten small etched plates averaging in size only about 5.5 x...... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1972. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, number 522 of 540, folio and octavo sizes, unpaginated [21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary]. "There is No Natural Religion" is a series of gnomic aphorisms written..... More
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1973. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 340 of 750, quarto size, unpaginated. "The Book of Ahania" is one of Blake's lesser-known works, and is generally agreed to be a continuation of "The Book of Urizen"..... More
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1908. Kimball, Alonzo. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often..... More
London: Printed for C. Cooke ("Cooke's Edition"), n.d. Hardcover. Five volumes (complete), twenty-fourmo size size, approx. 1214 pp. Originally published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon; the story..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 327 pp. 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 a non-English sensibility into English literature..... More
Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, [1939]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, sixteenmo size, 23 unnumbered pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), best known for his Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", wrote in the Realist and Naturalist styles;..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1820. Cruikshank, Isaac Robert. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 212 pp. (not matching pagination, see below), with 12 aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. A humorous collection of sketches exalting through parody the merits of the thrifty. The..... More
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, quarto size, 121 pp. The forty-seventh limited edition from The Allen Press, being Charles Dickens' classic in travel literature. Written during a year-long sojourn in Italy, 1844-45, after Dickens had already become famous as a result of..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Browne, Hablot K. ['Phiz"]; Meadows, Kenney. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, mixed state, octavo size, 707 pp. This was writer Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) third novel, widely anticipated and loved. He is often considered the greatest of the Victorian era novelists, blending drama and comedy into..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Cruikshank, George. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 534 pp. First one-volume edition, with 40 sketches by George Cruikshank. Originally published in two series/three volumes, "Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company [printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd, at The Ballantyne Press, London], 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the first US edition, octavo size, 847 pp., in a custom clamshell box. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) remains one of the most highly regarded Russian novelists; his..... More
New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club [by Edna Beilenson], 1963. Manning, Wray. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 492 pp., signed by Wray Manning, with Announcement and LEC Monthly Letter. One of the major figures of realism during the Victorian Era was..... More
[San Francisco]: [Grabhorn Press], [1943]. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 500 copies, unnumbered. The great tragedian of Athens, Euripides (ca. 480-406), wrote "The Bacchae", from which this excerpt is taken, towards the end of his life, and it premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens (n. b...... More
(Kentfield, California): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert’s (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless revisions..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Neama, May. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 141 pp., signed by May Neama, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A master of letters and wit, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, best known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote on..... More
Saint Petersburg: (Dmitry Sayenko), 2020. Sayenko, Dmitry. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 7 of 19, folio size, 50 pp., signed by Dmitry Sayenko and James J. Owens. Dmitry Sayenko (b. 1965) learned a love of book illustration from his father, a book illustrator himself, by watching him at work..... More
New York: Summer Garden Editions, 1998. Mikhail Magaril. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number XXX of 100 copies, large octavo size, 49 pp., signed by Mikhail Magaril. Mikhail Magaril (b. 1950) came to the United States from Russia where he had earned a Master's Degree from the Moscow Graphic Art School; today..... More
London: Printed for I.&F., Rivington, B. Law, et al, 1775. Leather bound. Duodecimo size, 254 pp. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) authored many of the favourite novels of the eighteenth century, including "The Vicar of Wakefield", "The Deserted Village", and "She Stoops to Conquer". While not widely read today, these stories continued..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Peter R. Koch], 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 142 and 49 pp. respectively, with prospectus and errata slip. From prospectus: "The chief aim of Peter Hanff's study and analysis of 'America's most famous fantasy' is to..... More