Venice: 1510 (25 January). 8vo. in fours. Collation: A-Q4, COMPLETE. 64 ff. (some signatures written in contemporary MS, several erroneously, neat modern foliation in pencil). Paper size: 155 x 105. Watermarks: Northern Italy, ca. 1480-1520 (see below). Bound in late 18th century Italian sprinkled ochre boards, upper cover with title..... More

Paris: A. du Brueil, 1611. 12mo. [6], 268 (misnumbered), [2] leaves = 276 ff, COMPLETE. Bound in 19th century calf, covers panelled in blind with blind-stamped floral tool on corners, spine with two raised bands, title lettered in gilt with blind-stamped tooling above and below bands, usual wear and tear..... More

Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1770. First Edition. 4to. (230 x 156 mm). [22], 174, [1] pp. Contemporary Spanish "cat's paw" patterned calf with gilt spine, very light wear to corners and joints, front flyleaf has been pasted to pastedown, making the first blank the new flyleaf. Contents extremely fresh and clean..... More

New York: United States Book Company, 1891. First American edition. 8vo. [2], 272, [1] pp. + 6 pp. advertisements. Original green quarter cloth over light green cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt, upper cover stamped in green (spine leaning, front board nicked, trifle wear at spine ends, minor toning or..... More

Stara Rise (Czech Republic): Josef Florian, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Together 2 volumes, large 4to and 8vo. PORTFOLIO (310 x 235 mm). Half-title SIGNED by the artist, title-page, 2-page translation of Kafka's "Ein Traum" into Czech by Gustav Janouch, list of plates, and statement of limitation printed in red and..... More

Together seven three-ring binder notebooks (binders worn, boards on vol. VI broken off) -- retained by us as out of "respect du fonds" -- containing approximately 876 typescript and manuscript pages. TOGETHER WITH: 29 file folders of articles, ideas, proposals, and miscellaneous publishing materials, consisting of approximate 300 typescript and..... More

S.l. (Paris?): s.n., 1614. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Collation: A-D4, COMPLETE. 32 pp. Recent half calf over marbled boards in the antique style. Blindstamps of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary..... More

Seattle (et al.): 1912-1925. 14 vols., large 4to., ca. 29 cm (tall) x 22 cm (wide) x 36 cm (linear), mostly in 3-hole side-stiched black leatherette covers, preserved in very good condition. Very large and interesting literary archive of typescript stories and novels by "El Comancho," a very popular author..... More

New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. Bound by Charles Well of New York (?) ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York..... More

S.l. (probably Santa Barbara, CA): 1936 (or after). Unbound. Large 4to. (8 1/2 x 11"). Unpaginated: 23 chapters + Epilogue, each individually paginated. Typewritten on "Superior Manifold - Esleeck Mfg Co." Preserved in a protective cloth case. This appears to be the only significant Cameron Rogers manuscript still in private..... More

Faenza: Archi, 1726. First Edition. 8vo. 185, [1] pp. Collation: A-Y4 Z6 (lacking final blank leaf Z6). With a printer's mark on title-page and p. 76 (Apollo with lyre) plus a large woodcut of Hercules and the Nemean Lion on final page. Some early corrections on pages 50, 55. Original..... More

Dumbarton, Scotland: 1790. Folio half-sheet, 1 p. (20 lines), name of the recipient on verso, 2 vertical and 4 horizontal folds, evidence of wax seal on verso, old tape repair at top margin (not affecting text), ink gall corrosion on outer margin, affecting one word. Preserved in mylar sleeve. An..... More