![Item #BB2552 Three Songs for St. Cecilia's Day [Flodden W. Heron's copy]. W. H. AUDEN, Wystan...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2552_01.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629978298)
n.p. Privately Printed [for Caroline Newton], 1941. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. One of 250 copies issued by Caroline Newton as a Christmas keepsake for friends of her father, A. Edward Newton. In original mailing envelope with Caroline Newton's printed return address, postmarked Philadelphia, 1941, and hand-addressed to bibliographer and collector..... more
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1951. Wrappers. Limited Edition of this exhibition handlist, one of unnumbered 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Introduced by Robert O. Schad. Demy 8vo (229 x 152mm): [2],27,[3]pp, with frontispiece portrait, five further illustrations from lithographs, and headings and initials designed by..... more
![Item #BB1595 [Early American Cloth] The Last Days of Pompeii. By the Author of "Pelham," "Eugene...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1595.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1503718236)
New York: Published by Harper & Brothers … and Sold by the principal Booksellers throughout the United States. 1834. Original Cloth. First American Edition of Bulwer’s hugely successful novel, complete in two duodecimo volumes. xii,[2],9–240; 201,[3],28(publisher’s catalogue),[8][further advertisements)pp. Original publisher’s peach-colored cloth, printed paper spine labels, contemporary manuscript ex-libris to..... more
Florence: [The School for the Art of the Theatre], 1913. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. First Issue (with "Fo rterms" on front cover verso) of this beautifully produced (and lesser known) title by the theatre director, stage designer, actor, and dramaturge. 8vo (228 x 158mm): 73,[7]pp, with 22 full- and partial-page..... more
![Item #BB2436 Two Early Stories [The Wavering Disciple; A Study in Opal]. Ronald FIRBANK, Edward...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2436.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634412730)
New York: Albondocani Press, 1971. Limited Edition. Wrappers. No. 147 of 200 hand-numbered copies for sale (26 lettered copies were also issued), with illustrations by Edward Gorey and foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Crown 8vo (190 x 135mm): 54,[2]pp, with four illustrations. Original limp brown, grey, and gold French marble..... more
![Item #BB1921 [Bloomsbury] The Longest Journey. E. M. FORSTER, Edward Morgan](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1921.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534212693)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, MCMVII [1907]. First Edition. Original Cloth. First Impression of the author's second book, preceding A Room with a View, one of 1587 copies printed. 8vo: [8],360pp. Publisher's dark forest green cloth, spine and upper covered stamped in gold. A superior copy (light wear..... more
![Item #BB2175 [Juvenile] Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children. Robert GRAVES, Edward...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2175.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632691114)
London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this juvenile, collecting seven poems, one of 5,000 copies printed. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 161mm): [8],38,[2]pp, with 35 pen drawings (including illustrated title page), each with single color wash, alternating green and peach. Publisher's powder blue cloth-effect boards, spine lettered..... more
London: Faber and Faber, MCMXXXIX [1939]. First Edition [from 1932]. Hardcover. Third Impression of this first in a series (and arguably the finest) of cookery titles the two men collaborated on. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): 279,[1]pp, with title-page vignette within ornamental border and 19 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's beige cloth..... more
![Item #BB2431 [Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer. E. McKnight KAUFFER, Aldous...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2431.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598048239)
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March..... more
![Item #BB1514 [Robinson Crusoe] [Hand-Colored] The hermit: or, the unparallel’d sufferings and...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1514.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1499794182)
London: printed for J. Wren, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus, 1768. Early Reprint. Quarter-Calf. Fourth Edition of one of the "best of the English imitations of Robinson [Crusoe]." (Gove) 12mo: xii,263,[1]pp (wanting one quire, pp 83-86, provided in excellent..... more
![Item #BB2374 [Hand-Colored] Utopia Found: being An Apology for Irish Absentees. Addressed to a...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2374.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605484324)
Bath: Printed by Gye and Son, Market-Place, 1813. Paper-Covered Boards. First (and only) Edition of this satirical account, signed on title page by the author's second wife, Mary. Crown 8vo (189 x 104 mm): [2],125,[1]pp, with hand-colored folding frontispiece, one further folding plate (of bourgeois British couple), and woodcut of..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of the author's fourth of five semi-autobiographical novels, uncommon in this condition. 8vo: [8],364,[2]pp. Publisher's black cloth decorated in red and lettered in gold, top edge stained red, others untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket. An excellent example (jacket's..... more
![Item #BB2555 [Photobook] [Eclipse] Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun,...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2555_01.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629984250)
Sacramento: State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, 1891. Decorative Cloth. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December..... more
Doylesford, Penna. Privately Printed [for] A. Edward Newton, "Oak Knoll" 1919. Stiff Wrappers. Limited Edition reproducing Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest literary composition. Foolscap 8vo (178 x 120mm): [2],10pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of Israelites Going Out of Egypt (from a childhood drawing Stevenson made to illustrate this composition for a...... more
![Item #BB2275 [Toy Theater] [Juvenile Drama] The Blue Jackets, or Her Majesty's Service. A Farce,...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2275.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629238672)
[London]: Printed and published by B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, N., [1895?]. Wrappers. A rare, complete nineteenth-century Benjamin Pollock toy theater. Foolscap 8vo (168 x 108 mm): 16pp, with nine hand-colored plates (219 x 173 mm), as called for on title page ("4 Plates Characters, 3 Scenes, 2 Wings [Nos..... more