Chicago: Gravure Illustration Company, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Large quarto, 13.75 x 11 inches, lacking the original green cloth portfolio, replaced with plain recent black paper folder with cloth title cut and mounted from original portfolio. The books themselves, all nine, are in very good or better condition. Each with.....
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., C. 1883. Wraps. Early or first edition. 8vo, 9.5 x 6 inches, in recent plain green wraps, with original sea-blue printed cover bound in, rear wrap missing. 64 (1) pp, 7 woodcut plates. Contents good to very good, spottiness and wear to front wrap and to.....
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1862-1865. Hardcover. Bound volume measures 9 x 6.25 inches, in charcoal black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. With 5 publications on the early development of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, which was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Each bound-in book has its.....
(Beijing): Zhonghua Shuju; Published by Chung Hwa Book Company, Ca. 1950s-1960s. 6 color lithograph posters, numbered 1-6, measuring 42 x 30 inches (107 x 76 cm), good condition with folds, most with short tears, slight occasional splitting at intersections of folds, repairs on versos with pH-neutral document repair tissue-tape, the.....
New York: Random House, 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. In handsome 3/4 burgundy morocco and white cloth boards, very good with mild wear and school prize bookplate on pastedown given to a student for neatness in 1939, from the Fay School (private boarding school in Southborough, Mass.). 290 pp, illustrated by.....
![Item #0090358 On This Island [SIGNED]. W. H. Auden](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/0090358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666385558)
New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. First American edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket, signed by Auden on the titlepage, clean unmarked text, very good copy in good dust jacket, previous owner's old signature and date on the front flyleaf, small old sticker-ghost on the front flyleaf as well, minor.....
Boston, London, NY: Michael Joseph, Little Brown, Macmillan, Jonathan Cape, 1926-1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Group of 18 books by H. E. Bates, including several first printings, good for both a reader or a collector of his work. In no particular order we have 1) The Tree. London, E. Lahr, ca.....
Rome: Apud I. Iacobum de Rubeis, 1739. Beautiful reprint of the 1685 edition. Folio (14 inches, 36 cm tall) vellum, with frontispiece plate, letterpress title, 3 engraved title pages for each of the three parts, 92 numbered portrait plates of philosophers, and one unnumbered portrait plate of Aesculapius facing colophon.....
West Yorkshire, UK: Fleece Press, 1997. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1997. One of 300 copies. 175 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in photos. Hardcover, quarter-cloth, title label, folio. A Fine, clean copy in a like slipcase. A beautifully produced book. Digital images available upon request.
Leipzig: Alphons Durr, (1874). First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 15 x 11.25 inches, half cloth and printed boards, very good, light wear, soil and a few small stains to covers, contents good to very good, complete with 14 etched plates and engraved title page, accompanied by verses. The frontispiece is.....
Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, old law calf, good with some rubbing, spine darkening, drying and wear to binding, neat strengthening and touching up of inner hinges and outer joints, spine darkened and rubbed, light chipping to title label, contents very.....
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigia, 2002. Paperback. 2002. Copy number 71 of an unknown production run. Softcover, handmade wraps with 2-piece spear bound in. Cuban artist's book. Fine condition. Spanish text. Elaborate production.
![Item #B68680 Fortune Magazine: Volume XV, Numbers 1-6 [Six issues!]. John Chamberlain](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B68680.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727985252)
New York: Time Inc., 1936-1937. Softcover. Six issue set (full run of volume xv)! Printed paper wraps, quartos [11.25" x 14"], illustrated in color and b&w. Books have general shelfwear and soil to wraps, number 2 has small tear to spine head, slight creasing and front lean to spines, bindings.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1897. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, very good, lightest rubbing, spine a bit darkened, and the author label, in black, mainly missing (but neatly filled in with black dye). 211 (1) pp. Rarely encountered in the first edition. The first appearance of.....
London: Virtue, 1901. First Printing. Hardcover. 6 volumes, complete. Quarto, 12.25 x 10 inches, publisher's decorated green cloth gilt, beveled edges, all edges of text blocks gilded, very good, light wear and soil, occasional signs of dampstaining to top inner corners and some volumes have corner bumping, but a tidy.....
Paris: Charpentier, 1879. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1879, with card of Daudet and wife affixed to second blank with a short message dated 1890 in purple ink, unsigned. 8vo, sea-green calf backed marbled boards, 338 pp, about fine but for inevitable tanning of the contents. Rare.
London, Ontario; Windsor, Canada, etc. From the estate of Davis's college roommate. We have: 1) Being and Doing: Rae Davis, Work (1959-1986). London Regional Art Gallery (1986). Small quarto, wraps, very good, light wear. 2) Unfoldings. Art Gallery of Windsor, 2001. Quarto, wraps, near fine. 3) Ephemera including folding flyer.....
The Aristotelian Society, 1987-2009. Hardcover. Forty-two volumes, incomplete--Proceedings + Supplemental vols. forming a run from 1987-2002, the vols. from 2003-2009 are mostly there but lacking supplemental vol. for 2003 and proceedings vol. for 2005. Cloth-hardcovers, clean unmarked text, these volumes in condition from Very Good, pencil-notes to the pages of.....
London: T. Evans, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set in 2 volumes. 1777, First Edition. 334 and 308 pp. Hardcovers, short 8vos. Handsomely rebound in late 19th century 3/4 red morocco with brown cloth. 5 raised bands and gilt titles on spines. Engraved vignette on either title page. Lacks original.....
New York: Wooster Projects, 2008. Hardcover. 2008. Portfolio of 4 cibachrome photographs of Edie Sedgwick by Nat Finkelstein. Each photo signed and numbered by Finkelstein on the blank side. This copy is 1 of 3 artists proofs, from a total of only 31 sets produced. Photos in full color and.....
Miami Beach, FL: Davis and Campbell, 1938. Hardcover. 1938. Hardcover, folio, spiral-bound in cloth-backed boards. 196 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Very Good. Rubbing and light soil to the boards; corners worn; faint dampstain to upper corner of the first 10 pages only; otherwise clean and unmarked. A rare.....
Kyoto: Kaiba Shoin hatsuhai, Ca. 1870s-1900s. Hardcover. Bound in papercovered boards, 6 x 4.75 inches, hundreds of pages, bound orihon/accordion style. With illustrations of mudra (hand gestures) and other small illustrations. Very good, some wear and soil to covers, contents look very good. In worn papercovered wraparound slipcase with some.....
Dublin: T. Reilly, ND - Ca. 1825. Paperback. No date, ca. 1825, wraps, disbound, ex-NY Bar Association library, 90 pp, uncommon.
London: Stainer & Bell, 1997. Hardcover. An illustrated facsimile reprint. Quarto, 14"x10", blue cloth covered boards, near fine. Book has minor shelfwear including some rubbing to rear board, text bright and unmarked, binding tight.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1888. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, bound in modern rose buckram, leather spine label, fine copy, 296 pp.