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

London: Nathaniell Butter, 1611-1624. First Edition. 4to (254 x 173 mm). Three works in one volume, bound in late 19th- or early 20th-century reddish-brown hardgrain morocco, turn-ins gilt, marbled pastedowns and endleaves, a.e.g. (lower corner of front cover inexplicably worn, minor wear to other extremities). Blank leaves in all three..... 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

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. (28 cm). 14 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled (front cover detached and partially defective). Mimeographed typescript. Preserved in a mylar L-Sleeve. Very early account of the then-neglected field of Southern Amateur Fiction, still valuable. The author..... 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

Mexico City: [Escalante], 1918. Second edition. 8vo. [14], 11-61, [2] pp. Contemporary neat green cloth, with the monogram "J.R.R." (Jose Ruben Romero) at the foot of spine. Lacking wrappers. Text evenly browned, upper margins of a few leaves with short tears (not affecting text). NOT ex-library! Scarce and little-known erotic..... More