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Caresse Crosby. Painted Shores. Illustrated with three Watercolors by Franois Quelvée. Folio. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Editions Narcisse, Paris 1927. First Edition. One of 222 copies on Papier Vélin d'Arches. This copy # 39. Minkoff A-5. Original torn darkened glassine present. Spine darkened; cover slightly darkened at edges; o/w very nice.

PRESENTATION COPY TO "MAJOR G. GORDON" WAUGH, EVELYN. The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. 8vo. Original green cloth, gold letters on spine; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Chapman & Hall (London 1948). Large Paper Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Waugh and Boyle. This copy # 39. Inscribed by Waugh on the colophon: "Major G.… Read more about this item

COCTEAU, JEAN. Le Cordon Ombilical. Souvenirs. 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Librairie Plon (Paris 1962). First Edition. 81 pages, on ordinary paper. Presentation copy inscribed by Cocteau, "à ma . . . cher Gérard d'Houville de beaux coeur Jean." Marie de Heredia, also known by her pen-name Gérard d'Houville, was a French novelist and poet. She married… Read more about this item

Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth-backed cloth, in publisher's box. Harper Collins (New York 1995). First U.S. Edition. Limited to 175 numbered copies, signed by Thatcher. This copy #136. Mint. $850.00

DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY HENRY CLAY SIGNED BY ROBERT TODD Early 1-page legal document written by Henry Clay, signed by Robert Todd (father of Mary Todd Lincoln), John Monroe and Henry Payne. The document is written totally in Henry Clay's hand, but is not signed by him. N.D. (ca. 1840s). The document reads in part: "McCurdee vs Harrisons. In the case in support of… Read more about this item

A CLOSE FRIEND OF LAWRENCE STERNE HALL-STEVENSON, JOHN. Fables for Grown Gentlemen: or, A Fable for every Day on the Week. 4to. Disbound. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 1761. First Edition. Hall-Stevenson was a friend of Laurence Sterne, and was immortalized in Sterne's Tristam Shandy and Sentimental Journey Through France and England. He also claimed friendship with John Wilkes, Horace… Read more about this item

COPY # 1 Inscribed by Aldrich ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. With photogravure frontispieces and illustrations. 8vo. 9 volumes uniformly bound in polished buckram and paper-covered boards. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1897-1907. Large Paper Edition. Limited to 250 hand-numbered sets, this being set # 1. The set is inscribed by Aldrich on the front endpaper of… Read more about this item

Translated by Ralph Manheim. Illustrated by Grass. 4to. Original cloth with eel skin spines, paper labels on covers; enclosed in publisher's cloth box, paper label on spine. The Limited Editions Club, New York 1985. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. 3 volumes. Laid-in is the original monthly newsletter which accompanied the book. Spines are slightly different colors, having… Read more about this item

8vo. Original buff paper boards, paper rebacked. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. And Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First Edition. 3 volumes. Mandeville was the author's fourth, and arguably most Gothic novel. It provoked an anonymously published spurious fourth volume, and was also one of several influences of Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Set in 17th-century England, it… Read more about this item

Limited to 825 copies signed by Yeats. This is copy is #772. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Thick 8vo. Original two-toned cloth, in publisher's slipcase. New York 1957. The planning of this volume originated in the late 1930s. With World War II looming and Yeats' fragile health, it was decided to have the limitation pages signed by the… Read more about this item

Illustrated with 2 full-page color lithographs, numbered, signed, and dated by Kumi Sugaï. One of 106 copies signed in pencil by the author. This copy #69. The edition consists of 160 copies, including 5 copies numbered from A to E with the hand-writing of the poet; 5 copies from F to L with original drawing by the artist, 30 copies… Read more about this item

First Edition, first issue. Signed by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. Limited to 500 numbered copies, This copy #372. With an extra suite of illustrations printed exclusively for this edition on Beckett paper under the supervision of the artist, enclosed in publisher's blue box. 2 volumes and extra suite enclosed in publisher's blue slipcase. Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. Translated… Read more about this item

Original 1906 military appointment on vellum, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt and the Acting Secretary of War. Illustrated. Folio. Approximately 16 by 19 inches. Washington, DC. July 3, 1906. The appointment promotes William B. Homer to Lieutenant Colonel in the Artillery Corps. With bold signatures and the Presidential seal completely intact. 2 horizontal folds and slight wrinkling at the bottom… Read more about this item

First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Cocteau with an original profile line drawing by Cocteau on the half-title. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, enclosed in modern cloth box. Paris: Gallimard 1948. Covers with splitting along spine, short tears and soiling, as usual, o/w Fine.

Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover to Stanford Professor Frontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Printing, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover on the front endpaper, "To Prof. Eliot Jones (and Mrs. Jones) With the wishes for a Happy New Year (if any) Herbert Hoover." Eliot Jones, author… Read more about this item

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield. 4to. Bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in cloth, original paper labels on spines, with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third… Read more about this item

Illustrated with 15 mounted color illustrations after lithographs by Salvador Dali. Text in Italian. Introduction by Maria Grazia Branchetti. Edited by Milko Skofic. Folio. Original black leather, blind embossed border, gilt letters on cover and spine, gilt fleurons on spine. Edizione Eldec, Roma (1981). Limited to 350 copies. Printed on handmade paper.

No Binding. Fine. 1 TLS, 5 pages, with many typos corrected by Anderson; 1 ALS, 1 page; to Wesley Hartley (educator and former member of the American Council on Education), dated July 21, 1995 and August 15, 1995; with 1 original envelope. An earnest, amusing letter by Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, discussing his youth, his years… Read more about this item

Pesti Napló Kiadasa, Budapest, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, from the Andersen-Kalender of 1911; pictorial endpapers; decorated initials, title page and chapter headings in color; other tinted illustrations by Czech artists. Folio. Original gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth. Pesti Napló Kiadasa, Budapest 1911. First Edition. Heinrich Lefler worked primarily in… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Large 8vo. Original boards, in dust wrapper. London 1966. One of only 25 numbered copies, signed by Olson. Fine.