Venice: Melchior Sesse, 1530. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full early vellum, slightly dampstained. Title is an old facsimile on wove paper, otherwise complete. 60 leaves. Modest browning, heavier in spots, scattered foxing. Generally very good overall. Just one copy of this edition in OCLC; most of the early editions are..... More
Paris: Simonem Colineum, 1530. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in modern calf in an antique style, scattered minor foxing, dampstains, generally clean internally. Notes and underlining in a contemporary hand scattered through. Lacking the final 6 leaves but a nice example of Parisian scholastic printing - most early Paris..... More
Amsterdam: Janssonio Waesbergiana, 1676. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Rebound in full brown leather, pages a bit brittle, repair to edge of half title, scattered chipping and loss to page edges, small hole to 65/66 touching a few letters, browning throughout as is often the case with this book, verso of..... More
Paris: Vente, 1810. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary leather, worn, hinges cracked, fist few pages chipped at edges, long note to endpaer, a few other marks internally but generally quite clean. 9 plays bound as one each with a separate title. Published 1808-1810. Cendrillon Opéra-Féerie with a frontispiece of Cinderella by..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1959. Hergé. First Edition. Softcover. Original wraps, wraps starting to come away from spine, slight age toning; just about very good overall. The first ediition Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Hergé. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 047154. More
Paris: P. de Lormel, 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Leather backed plain boards. Old bookstore label, note and catalog entry on endpaper. A few tiny dampstains in upper margin, otherwise fine internally. Wear to binding, corners bumped. Attractive vignette illustrations. 109pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1497. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Attractively rebound in a ca. 15th century parchment manuscript leaf. The first part, compelte unto itself, of a two part incunabula first published in 1497. The second part, not present, is a political tract entitled De optimo statu et principe. The Declamatio..... More
Paris: Cuchet, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Contemporary quarter green leather over teal paper boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. A bit of edgewear and rubbing to boards, slight scattered browning internally. An attractive pair of the French edition - second issue (identified by Howes as "another issue") with..... More
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Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, 1605. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Part three only, pages 259-379, of Boiardo's epic poem translated into French. A lovely gold tooled binding, slight rubbing and discoloration - unsigned and undated, ca. late 18th century. Marbled endpapers with slight browning. Just about fine internally . Size: Octavo..... More
London: Matt. Gilliflower, Hnery Rogers, 1684. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, worn at corners, rebacked with the spine label laid back down. Front endpaper detached, a few marginal notes some early, some later. Scattered minor foxing, generally very clean internally. The three parts had been published separately..... More
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Original plain wraps, light sunning to spine, scattered minor foxing internally. Inscribed: "For Julia Goldsborough Johnston in friendship, Wilbur Underwood, Washington March 1929". Scarce book of decadent poems by Underwood, perhaps more well known as Hart Crane's confidant in the 1920s.The..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. First Edition. Softcover. Original drab wraps, dry and chipping at edges, rear cover loose. Inscribed "J.G. from [yin yang symbol] Washington December - 1906". Scarce book of decadent poems by Underwood, perhaps more well known as Hart Crane's confidant in the 1920s. Some of their letters..... More
London: John Haviland, 1635. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn through, edges worn, endpapers with notes and scribbles and pen tests and signatures. Scattered ink marks, wear to page edges, and annotations and notes, mostly marginal, dating from the 17th century to more recently. (2), 211pp The..... More
London: 1730. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sheep rebacked, new endpapers added while retaining the old, pastedowns refreshed (one with a small tear). Scattered foxing, old signature to title. Tear to edge of A2 in the dedication touching a catchword. (7), v, (4), 237, (3)pp. With the three page..... More
Paris: Giguet et Michaud, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Plain paper covered boards, rubbing at edges; minor foxing internally, a few pages inexpertly opened at torn at the upper corner; quite fresh overall. The last of Marie Cottin's five novels, all of which were quite successful at the time and translated..... More
Pössneck Forkel, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Spotting to cover, scattered minor foxing, rubbed in a few spots internally but generally bright. A scarce Klemke title. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 047142. More
Rotterdam: Dirck Mullem, 1595. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Old leather backed boards. Worn, hinges tender, chipped and bumped at edges and corners. Modest browning and foxing, a bit of damp staining at the end generally contained to the outer margin and gutter. Old note to the endpaper in Dutch..... More
Universe, 2001. Softcover. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Photography. Inventory No: 047140. More
London: Trubner and Co, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original red cloth, normal library marks, worn at hinges, spine; spine and title marks,binding a little shaken, hinges cracked, Some scattered foxing, but otherwise clean internally and plates bright and unmarked. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Paris: Librairie de L'Enfance et de la Jeunesse, 1850. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original cloth, early pages heavily foxed, lighter elsewhere; illustrated with plates. Endpapers discolored. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Children. Inventory No: 047138. More
Boston: Andrews Paper Company. Softcover. Printed on poster board held together with a grommet. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 047137. More
Canada: Delta, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A bit or wear to corners of book and jacket. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 047135. More
Boulder: Paladin, 1965. Later Edition. Hardcover. Wear to jacket edges Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 047134. More
Paris: The Song Cave, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 047133. More
