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Premieres poesies, 1829-1835

Bound in quarter leather
with handmade paper-covered boards. Five raised bands.
LIBRARIE DES BIBLIOPHILES,
E FLAMMARION, SUCCESSEUR, Paris.
Circa 1900. French text. Silk ribbon.
Pages mildly age toned. (l.uu)

$85.00

The Works of JOHN ADAMS Second President of the United States : With a Life of the Author (LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS)
by John Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Illustrator

Easton Press (1992)

Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Two volumes. Full blue leather, gilt tooling, raised bands on spine, satin bookmark, all edges gilt. Near fine, unread condition. Former owner Easton Press bookplate on f.e.p. (d.ii)

$149.95

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Quarto-millenary: the First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. Illustrated.

Limited Editions Club; 1st edition (1959)

Hardcover in very good condition, no jacket. Half leather. Limited edition No. 547/2250. In very good slip case. (b.aa)

$115.00

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Le Morte D’Arthur; The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round
Table
by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), A.W. Pollard (Editor), Robert Gibbings (Illustrator)

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936. Very good condition, lacks slipcase.Three tall quarto (7-3/4″ x 12-3/4″) volumes bound in half blue linen and decorated boards. Illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Edited, with spelling and punctuation modernised, by A. W. Pollard. Copy #960 of 1500 printed at the Golden Cockerel Press and SIGNED by the illustrator. Minor edgewear to this beautiful production. (d.aa)

$215.00

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Gormenghast, Titus Groan; Titus Alone
by Mervyn Peake (Author), Peter Herding (Illustrator)

Hardcover in near fine condition, in no jacket. First edition thus. A wonderful Folio Society set .

$290.00

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The Master Library (Ten Volumes)
by Walter Scott Athearn (Editor), Henry Turner Bailey (Editor)

Hardcovers in very good to near fine condition, no jacket. Ten volumes. 4to. Highly illustrated. Handsome gilt decorated full leather bindings. Top edges gilt. Volumes are titled:
1. Leaders of Olden Days;
2. The Book of the Kingdom;
3. Heroes and Heroines;
4. The Living Wisdom;
5. Songs of the Seers;
6. Everyday Life in Old Judea;
7. The Perfect Life;
8. Pioneers of the Faith;
9. Using and Teaching the Bible; and
10. My Best Book.
Complete set.(l.ss)

$155.00

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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

Limited Editions CLub (1982)

Quarterbound Leather. Near fine in very good plus slipcase. Slipcase has very mild discoloration. No Jacket. Signed by illustrator Rafael Ferrer, translator Gregory Rabassa,and by introduction author Alastair Reid, number 828/2000. Original handpainted lithograph laid in. Publisher’s letter laid in. (b.aa)

$350.00

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Dubliners

Edition limited to 1000 copies. 828/1000. Printed at Wild Carrott Letterpress and signed by Flanagan and Ballagh, 4to, printed in green and black, 6 photogravures by Robert Ballagh printed on handmade paper; Near fine throughout in original quarter green goatskin over Irish linen, gilt-lettered direct on spine. (b.aa)

$625.00

  Old English Songs From Various Sources.
 London Macmillan and Co.
 1894
 Hugh Thompson, illustrator
 Austin Dobson, introduction.
 First edition.
Original green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Hardcover in very good condition. 

 

$49.95