Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931. Limited, First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. No. 159 of 595 copies (of a total edition of 665 copies), printed on Auvergne hand-made watermarked paper, and designed by Monroe Wheeler. Pp. [v], 124, [3]. Pen-and-ink line drawings by Alexander Calder. Loosely inserted is the elusive Paper..... More
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. ix, 417pp.Gray pictorial cloth, scratches in the title and joints, bottom spine lightly rubbed and lightly sunned. Writing on front free endpaper and crease in page ix, 1, but otherwise clean interior. More
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. Third edition with revisions. Boillingen Series XVII. Spine ends lightly bumped and the boards with minute scuffs, else a fine and bright copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. Hardcover. Fourteenth edition. 8vo. xii, 575pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering and gilt stamped device to the front board and gilt stamped spine. All edges dyed red, light rubbing to the cloth at the corners, with a little break in the cloth..... More
New York: 1884. Softcover. 8vo. [230 x 150mm]. Small tears at bottom of spine. Lots of pencil and blue pencil notes, underlines throughout. Ink name to the head of the front cover. Softcover periodical, with yellow wrappers. One of the periodicals Edward Clodd contributed to the Humboldt Library of Popular..... More
Padua: Petrumpaulum Tozzium [Pierpaolo Tozzi]: Patavii, apud Petrumpaulum Tozzium, 1616. Hardcover. 4to. [xliv], 614pp, [ii], 60p. Early patterned boards, later calf spine. Large woodcut arms on title page, folding woodcut plate of the heavens before p. 1, and two full-page and over 100 half-page woodcut illustrations in the text. Title-page..... More
New York: D. C. Heath & Company, Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Signed. 12mo. pp. x, 119. Original brown cloth, lettered in darker brown, with an illustration on the upper cover. Corners and spine ends bumped, with a small splash mark to the upper cover at the upper fore-edge. Clean and bright..... More
Pretoria: J. L. Van Schaik, Ltd., 1928. Joyce Rutherfoord. Hardcover. 8vo. Royal red cloth with gilt lettered spine and front board. Offsetting to endpapers, bookplate to front endpaper with gift inscription in ink. A clean and tight copy, illustrated throughout by Joyce Rutherfoord. Dust jacket with lightly toned edges, lightly..... More
Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, 272, [8] music. Original green wraps. Unopenned pages. Bookplate of Col. Victor de Guinzbourg. Fine clean and unread copy, with a slight fade to the spine. Very near fine copy. More
Gottingen: In der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. Pp. xxx, [2], 710, [1], clxxvii, [1]. 19th-century quarter brown leather over later tree calf-patterned paper boards. Rebacked with light brown cloth, the original spine chipped and worn but preserved and laid down. Board edges rubbed and corners..... More
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, map, 302, [1]. Original publisher's binding with decorative front cover and spine, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, with a tiny brown spot to the centre of the spine; previous..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First English edition. 8vo. Pp. 232. As new copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
London: Ward & Downey Limited, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xii, 302, [2] pp. ads. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered to front cover and spine. Very light bumps and rubbing to corners and spine ends; otherwise a fresh copy in a tight and square binding. More
Meadville Penna: Flood and Vincent, 1893. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. 141. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Very light bumping to spine ends, boards clean and bright, ink name to front endpaper, with an erasure to rear endpaper, rather clean and tight and overall a great copy. More
New York: The De Vinne Press, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 36pp. Green silk-like/moire covers lettered in gilt to the front board and spine. Uneven and faint tan to the boards and very lightly rubbed spine tips, else a fine and fresh copy. Nice book. More
New York and London: Frederick Warne and Co. Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. Orange paper boards, reinforced binding, in the illustrated dust jacket. Book about fine, dust jacket with light rubbing to the corners, with a harder nbut still light rub to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy. Illustrated..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First printing of this expanded and updated edition, translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman. Fine copy in a fine jacket, as new. More
Honolulu, Hawai'i: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Marilyn Kahalewai. Soft cover. Softcover. Illustrated in black and white by Marilyn Kahalewai. Fine copy, as new. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. 8vo. Brown cloth in gilt and black, no jacket, as issued? Spine ends and one corner lightly bumped, else a fine, clean copy. Inscribed by editor John Warden to a colleague in Toronto. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Second printing. 8vo. Navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, tiny bump to spine foot, else fine and bright, in an excellent dust jacket. More
Princeton University Press/ Bollingen Series VI, 1972. Softcover. 1972 reprint. 8vo. pp. 248, 70 plates. Corners lightly bumped, spine sunned, with little nicks to the spine ends, and a faint small ink streak to rear cover, clean throughout and tight. More