Bruxelles: Casterman, 2006. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Includes a complete story in full color and several short introductory essays. In the French language. ; 23.5 x 30.5 cm; 94 pages. More about Corto Maltese: Les Helvétiques
Milano: Electa, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 197pp. Introduction by Patrizia Zanotti. Essays on Corto Maltese by Umberto Eco and on Venice by Hugo Pratt. With numerous sketches, watercolors and drawings in b&w and color. A fine copy. In the Italian language. ; Square octavo. More about Viaggiatore incantato. Catalogue for the 1996 Exhibit in Venice at Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ca'...
Firenze: Edizioni Ivaldi Editore, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Kirk Special #1. Collects the complete series of five episodes featuring l'Ombra. Also includes an introductory essay by Claudio Bertieri. Rubbing and a few creases to covers. A very good copy. In the Italian language. Uncommon. ; 22 x 30 cm; 106 pages. More about L'ombra (Kirk Special #1
Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1975. Illustrated by Evans, George. First Edition. Hardcover. 587pp. Black cloth lettered and decorated in red on the spine panel. Signed and inscribed by E. Hoffmann Price on the dedication page: "For Susan Markvicka, with presentation lines suggested by Dr. Dirk Mosig, thus and though I.... More about Far Lands Other Days. (Signed Presentation Copy
London: Albion Press Printed : Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 467, [9]pp index + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent deep brown half calf, five raised bands, spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and eight engraved plates by J.... More about An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal...
Trefriw: Printed and Sold by I. Davies, 1815. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition to which is added an alphabetical appendix of Welsh words, with the English words relating to them. Also added to the grammar, the rules of Welsh poetry. xvi, 76, [9], 463, [33]pp. Contemporary full calf. Wear to... More about Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thesaurus: A Welsh and English Dictionary; Wherein the Welsh Words...
Lausanne: Payot, 1968. Second Edition. Printed wrappers. Second edition, limited to 500 copies. 61pp. Original wrappers. Nice presentation copy inscribed by Gustave Roud to a fellow writer and poet. A fine copy. Text in French. ; 16mo; Signed by Author. More about Requiem. (Signed and Inscribed Copy
Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1955. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Poeti #5. Edition limited to 500 copies, this being #233. Presentation copy inscribed by Camillo Sbarbaro to a fellow poet in the year of publication. 39pp. Original wrappers. Fading to spine, light overall wear. A very good+ copy. Text in... More about Rimanenze. (Signed and Inscribed Copy
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci Editore, 1981. Illustrated by Serafini, Luigi. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 4000 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the colophon page. In two volumes, each in clamshell box. Full black silk with gilt titles and decorations on the front panels and the spine panels... More about Codex Seraphinianus
London: T. Becket, 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. [6], 98pp. Old brown half calf binding, engraved title page. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus on the front pastedown endpaper. Lacks half-title and ads, some wear to extremities, extremely mild foxing. A clean very good+ copy. Bound with The Honey... More about Critic, or A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Dramatic Piece in three Acts as it is performed at the Theatre...
Milano: Corriere Della Sera, 1929. First Edition. Newspaper. The set includes fifty-two issues. The Corriere dei Piccoli, founded in 1908 by Silvio Spaventa Filippi, is considered the first comic published in Italy. Among the characters appearing in these issues are il Signor Bonaventura by Sergio Tofano, Sor Pampurio by Carlo... More about Il Corriere dei Piccoli 1929 Complete Run
Paterson, NJ: Fandom House, 1953. First Edition. Stapled sheets. The run includes five issues from 1953, ten from 1954, six from 1955, six from 1956 and twenty-one from 1957 (with one duplicate). Issues 211, 212 and 279 have tears to the edges that partially affect text. Some are soiled and... More about Fantasy-Times / Science-Fiction Times Forty-eight Issue Run 1953-1957
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth stamped in orange on cover and spine. Cloth shows mild wear to lower edges, name on front endpapers. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with chipping along the edges and two closed tears on the... More about The Runaway Bag
Milano: Gastaldi Editore, 1952. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 122pp. Original wrappers. Signed and inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Comes with four original poems written in ink on folded translucent paper. The poems are La strada, Nostalgia, Latemar, and A Giovacchino Belli. All the poems are signed and... More about La casa sulla montagna: novelle - racconti - bozzetti. (Signed and Inscribed Copy. With Four...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Illustrated by Hitchcock, Lucius. First Edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Red cloth stamped in gold on cover and spine, top edge gilt, tissued frontispiece. Front endpapers are state B, rear endpapers state A. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. With the bookplate of noted Ohio journalist and investment... More about A Double Barrelled Detective Story
London: W. Mitchell and Son, 1867. Hardcover. iv, 594pp + appendix. Tan half calf and marbled boards, red leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Six foldout plates, three foldout maps, many illustrations. Includes The Necessity for Building Unarmoured Ships of War, The Lake and Canals of Canada, The... More about Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard. Published Under the Authority of...
Paris: Baillieu, N.D. Illustrated by Lorsay, Eustache. Hardcover. Mid-1800s. Black pebbled leather, spine rebacked in black leather. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Forty-five portraits of Parisian actors, each with a lithograph by Collette based on drawings by Eustache Lorsay. Each section paginated separately. One of the lithographs is in color..... More about Les théatres de Paris. Notices et Portraits. Texte par une société de Gens de Lettres
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1882. Hardcover. vi, 276pp. Bright green pictorial cloth stamped in gold and black on the front panel and the spine panel. With fifty illustrations. Bookplate on front free endpaper, some of the signatures starting. Still a particularly bright, very good+ copy. Translated from the French... More about The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First US Edition. Hardcover. 342, [1]p + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Original dark green boards, paper label lettered in green and red affixed to the spine panel, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers. Collects nine essays: Locomotion in the Twentieth Century, The Probable... More about Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. ix, 201pp. Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt on the front and on the spine, top edge gilt. Tissued frontispiece and forty-seven b&w photographs. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, cloth shows some faint spots. A bright..... More about A Motor-Flight Through France
Seattle: Midnight House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 260 numbered copies. 229pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Collects ten stories. Introduction by John Pelan. A bright, fine copy in fine dustjacket. Cover art by Allen Koszowski. ; Octavo. More about The House of the Nightmare
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. 139pp. Original cloth stamped in blind on the sided and gold on the spine. Frontispiece and one inserted plate. The story of the life of Uncle Jack, an African man who was sold as a slave in the 1770s and brought... More about The African Preacher. An Authentic Narrative
1947. Original Art. Original art for Moon Mullins daily strip from April 16, 1947. Measures approximately 53 x 18.5 cm (21 x 7.25"). Pencil and ink on Bristol board. Signed by Frank H. Willard on the right panel. The strip is mentioned by Coulton Waugh in his trailblazing survey of... More about Frank H. Willard Moon Mullins Daily Comic Strip Original Art Dated 4-16-47
London: Punch, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. A complete set of Punch from 1957 in two volumes. Brown buckram with leather label lettered in gold on the spine, top edges gilt. Includes seventeen columns by P. G. Wodehouse titled America Day by Day. All the original front covers of the magazines... More about America Day by Day in Punch, January 2, 1957 to Punch, December 25, 1957
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. 397pp. Nicely bound in lavender shagreen with stylish art deco motifs in gold on the sides, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. The first full-length novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Tiny spot to one of... More about Thank You, Jeeves!