Vanity Fair
London: The Folio Society, 1996. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. xvii, 682 pp. More
New Arrivals
Égypte Ancienne. Première Partie: Monnaies des Rois
Paris: Rollin et Feuardent, c. 1870. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Narrow quarto. 18 x 27.5 cm. 159 pp. Marbled endpapers. A famous work on numismatics, concerning the coin collection of Giovanni di Demetrio. The first part of Feuardent's Égypte Ancienne. More
Of Education; 1673
Menston, England: The Scolar Press Limited, 1970. First Scolar Press Edition. Hardcover. Narrow octavo. 5.25 x 8 in. 291 pp. A facsimile reprint (original size) of Obadiah Walker's 'Of Education: Especially of Young Gentlemen. In Two Parts', Oxford, 1673. A Scolar Press Facsimile. More
White Trash: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets
Charoltte, NC: The New South Company, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9.5 in. xviii, 108 pp. Signed by the poet, Jonathan Williams at his photo on rear paste-down endpaper. More
James Gurney's Dinotopia Pop-Up Book
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1993. Michael Welply. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.75 x 10.75 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with five elaborate, color pop-up spreads. Pop-Up Art by Michael Welply, designed by Jon Z. Haber, paper engineering by Rodger Smith. Signed by James Gurney with dinosaur drawing. More
Interlacing Words and Things: Bridging the Nature-Culture Opposition in Gardens and Landscape
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin quarto. 8.5 x 10.5 in. vi, 174 pp. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color photographs, etc. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 33. More
The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Second Printing of Corrected Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. x, 211 pp. More
Selected Studies in Bibliography
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 506 pp. More
To Kill a Mockingbird
London: The Folio Society, 1996. Aafke Brouwer. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 6 x 10 in. 270 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings by Aafke Brouwer. With an introduction by Albert French. More
Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw
Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. xi, 308 pp. More
Mistresses of Mercy: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1975. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9 in. 220 pp. Dust jacket illustrated by Edward Gorey. Includes stories by Dorothy Sayers, Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, et al. Tight and clean copy. Toledano D—Manley/Lewis. More
Men and Gods
New York: Looking Glass Library, 1959. Edward Gorey. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 283 pp. With black & white illustrations by Edward Gorey. Lovely copy. Todelano B10b. More
Goethe's Conception of the World
London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1928. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. xvi, 193 pp. + adverts. With new foreword by Rudolf Steiner. The authorized English translation, edited by H. Collison. Nice copy, uncommon in dust jacket. More
A Commentary on the Dresden Codex: A Maya Hieroglyphic Book
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 15.25 x 11.25 in. 156 pp. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With 45 facsimile illustrations in color. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge—Vol. 93. This is the last volume of a.... More
The Wuggly Ump
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1963). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. 5.25 x 6.25 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with reproductions of drawings in blue, yellow, and black. Sing tirraloo, sing tirralay, Toledano A15a. More
New Mexico: The Land of the Delight Makers
Boston: The Page Company, (1920). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With a six-panel fold-out map and 56 plates, of which 8 are in color. Illustrated endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard; title page in red and black. New Mexico! 'The History of its Ancient Cliff Dwellings and Pueblos, Conquest by the... More
The Pinocchio of C. Collodi
New York: Schocken Books, 1985. Alexa Jaffurs. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Alexa Jaffurs. Translated with notes by James T. Teahan. More
Salut au Monde!; From "Leaves of Grass"
New York: Random House, 1930. Vojtech Preissig. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Folio. 11.75 x 15.5 in. 25 pp. Illustrated with 3 color linoleum cuts by Vojtech Preissig. Printed on Zanders hand-made paper by the State Printing Office in Prague, in a new type cut by Preissig. Limited edition, numbered... More
A Dictionary for Calligraphers
Los Angeles: Martin Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Wide octavo. 6.75 x 8.375 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black & white drawings and calligraphy examples. More
Typographie braucht Schrift. Typography needs type. La typographie a besoin des caractères.
Association Typographique Internationale, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6.75 x 9.5 in. 35 pp. + colophon. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs and type examples. Text in English, French, and German. More
Winged Mail; Avalon to Bunker Hill—1894 to 1898—A Roxburghe-Zamorano Club keepsake about Santa Catalina Island
Dawson's Book Shop, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 6 x 9.125 in. [16] pp. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings and photographs. A keepsake. Volume 16 of the Los Angeles Miscellany Series, designed and printed by Richard J. Hoffman. More
The Myth of Precision and the Law Dictionary
Regents of the University of California, 1983. First Separate Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6.5 x 10 in. [19] pp. Reprinted from the UCLA Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 2. More
Aldus Manutius: Humanist, Teacher, and Printer
Providence, RI: John Carter Brown Library, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. 26 pp. 1500 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. More
Book Culture in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1984. First Separate Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. [50] pp. Illustrated with several tables at rear. Reprinted from the proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 94, Pt. 1. More
The Hanes Collection of Estienne Publications: From Book Collecting to Scholarly Resource
Chapel Hill: Rare Book Collection/University Library, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. iv, 24 pp. Illustrated with several black & white figures, including printers' devices. The Fourth Hanes Lecture, presented by the Hanes Foundation for the study of the origin and development of the book. A handsome publication. More