Theatrical release movie poster (36" x 14"), printed in color, with a large illustration of a shirtless man gazing into a standing mirror in which he sees reflected a women wearing a bra and panties. Some horizontal creasing from having been rolled for some time (NB: this item must be..... More

Washington DC: War Department, 1945. First Edition. 4to (7.5" x 10"). Unpaginated [98 ff.], lithoprinted. Lacking paper wrappers, textblock backed with white and marbled spine (first and last leaves a trifle worn, usual blemishes). Ex-library U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory with standard markings (see below); on the title-page is the word..... More

Paris: N.H. Nyon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1790. Second edition. 4to. 2 pp., tipped into recent marbled wrappers. Large woodcut vignette depicting the arms of Louis XVI, old numbering in ink above it: 16e [crossed out] and 43. In excellent condition, suitable for exhibition. HIGHLY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, BEING THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN..... More

Mexico City: Impreso en Madrid en la imprenta de Vega y compañia, y reimpreso en México en la de D. Alejandro Valdés, en dicho año, 1820. Second edition. Small 4to. 26 pp., a little age toning. Recent drab wrappers lettered in manuscript. REPUBLICAN SPAIN COLLAPSES, ERODING SPANISH DOMINION OVERSEAS: A...... More

Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Press, 1967. 8vo. 138 pp., printed on fine paper. Included in the pagination is a complete reproduction of the original Kollack Narrative and other reproductions. With initial letters illuminated by the author's wife, Carolyn Phelps. Original cloth, fitted with a (unique?) leather book jacket, extensively tooled to..... More

Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for E. Larkin, 1805. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. xii, 447; vii, [1], 412; vi pp., 1 f. (blank), 475 pp., browning and foxing throughout. Nineteenth-century quarter buckram over marbled boards, WORN, front board of vol. 1 reattached, some binder's blanks detached or starting..... More

Madrid: 1727-1728. Manuscript on paper. Folio. 38 ff. (tears and wear along fore-edges, smaller tears along top and bottom of leaves, persistant waterstains, fol. 1 damaged with loss). Top portion of final leaf excised, but the text is continuous (see below). Recent sympathetic wrappers. With faults, and priced correctly. EXCELLENT..... More

The Hague: C. Fritsch, 1718. 8vo. xliv, 728, [2] pp. (text lightly foxed). Late 18th-century red morocco by Robert Aitken: boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, morocco label, a.e.g. (spine and extremities somewhat rubbed). Bookplate of the Washington Cathedral Library inside upper cover. Title-page..... More

Madrid: Ruiz de Murga, 1700. First Edition. Small 4to (204 x 146 mm). Bound in contemporary Spanish sprinkled calf, red spine label (extremities somewhat rubbed but perfectly sound). 71 ff. including title-page printed in red and black + 210 pp. + 3 ff. Signatures: [pi]² [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]⁴ 4[par.]⁴..... More

Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1787. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo (211 x 130 mm). Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8, complete. PSALMS: A-E8, complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif, smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (in vol. 1 the front joint expertly..... More

Quincy, MA: 1813 (Dec. 24). Manuscript. 20 pp. 165 x 200 mm. Stitched as issued. At some point folded to pocket size and thus retains large fold down middle of pages, small chips and tears along edges, some age-toning, a few pages very browned. An ownership inscription on the front..... More

London: Sotheby's, 1939. First Edition. Large 8vo. 21 pp., 82 lots. Illustrated issue, complete with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. Original printed wrapper (to the upper cover is affixed Maggs Bros. label soliciting bids). Loosely inserted is a reproduction of the price-list and buyers' names. IMPORTANT BUT LITTLE-KNOWN..... More

Paris, Grenoble, and elsewhere: 1761-1764. Contemporary mottled calf; spine tooled in gold; red edges; marbled endpapers. The first Grenoble imprint lacking the first leaf (half-title?); both Grenoble imprints cropped close, just shaving some text; occasional light foxing. Text block splitting from the bottom between two of the pamphlets, roughly two-thirds..... More