Paris: Gustave Havard, 1846. E. de Beaumont, Laisne, et al. Hardcover. Quarto size, 554 pp., in French. Illustrated edition, note that text is entirely in French. Two interesting prior owner bookplates, on the front pastedown is a bookplate belonging to George Paget (1818-1880), a British soldier during the Crimean War..... More

[Octon, France]: Verdigris, 2007. Rothchild, Judith. Limited Edition. Accordion. Number 2 of 33 copies, forty-eightmo size, [9] pp., signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild, text in French. This poem by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was intended as an epigraph for the second edition of "Le Fleurs du mal" [The..... More

Buenos Aires: (Colombo), 1953 / 1958. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number 45 of 48 copies on Fabriano, quarto size, [12] pp. A lovely small book of poetry (in Spanish), with woodcut illustrations in purple and green. Offered as issued in unbound signatures in original wraps, with original glassine jacket. ___DESCRIPTION: Heavy..... More

Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 234 pp., in French. The biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, two women who leave the land of Moab to return to Naomi's native land of Bethlehem, is a story of love, devotion, and loyalty; it is a story of strength..... More

Buenos Aires: Edito Vehil, (1955). Botana, Helvio I. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number VIII of XX, octavo size, [124] pp., signature at the colophon. A lovely version, in the original Spanish, with an original drawing by the author serving as frontispiece, and signed by the author at the colophon. Offered as..... More

Rennes-Paris: Imprimerie Oberthur, 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Folio size, 23 pp., text in French. Emile Boulanger (1867-1939) was a French pharmacist and biologist. These papers comprise portions of a study on the artificial culture of the truffle following various experiments. Boulanger continued his experiments for some years and published numerous..... More

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

San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal, 1936. Starr, Judson. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, quarto size, [16] unnumbered pp., with holiday card and ms translation slipped in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette (1839-1908) the poet-laureate..... More

BS. [Buenos Aires] - Argentina: (Colombo), 1954. Veroni, Raul. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number 40 of 60 copies, quarto size, [32] pp. Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, Duke of Gallese (1863-1938) was an Italian writer, a proto-futurist obsessed with sex, whom some people believe invented fascism. This poem was written in..... More

(Paris): Editions Filigranes, (1995). Limited Edition. Folio. No. 122 of 220 (total edition 250), folio size, 319 pp., in French. Roger Devauchelle (1915-1993) was apprenticed at an early age to a bookbinder and eventually trained in all aspects of bookbinding; he opened his own bindery which, as a family business..... More

Stuttgart: Franz Heinrich Kohler, 1840. Hardcover. Octovo size, 93 pp., all text in German. "First description of acute anterior poliomyelitis, which Heine separated from other forms of paralysis; he described the deformities arising from the disease. He also called attention to congenital spastic paraplegia, which, following Little’s classic description (No..... More

[Neu-Isenburg, Germany]: Tiessen, [1984]. Knifer, Julije. Limited Edition. Original wraps. no. 180 of 222 copies, quarto size, 15 unnumbered pp., signed by the artist, in German. Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was a German poet described as "the most German of Germans"; he was a key figure in German Romanticism..... More

Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, (1958). Veroni, Raul, Vassena, Leonor. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number four of ten printed on Pergamino Fabriano, in Spanish, octavo size, [64] pp., signed by Alfredo Martinez Howard at the colophon and Leonor Vassena below the plate. A book of poetry (in Spanish) with haunting illustrations..... More