Barcelona: Editorial Colón, 1960. Card Covers. Die-cut shape book (247 x 180mm): 12pp, fully illustrated in color. A beautifully preserved example copy of this fragile juvenile. A charming children’s book, in Spanish, featuring a beautiful blonde girl who travels with her family around Spain. One of nine titles from the..... 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

New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp. Drab green stapled wrappers, upper cover..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, MCMIX [1909]. First Printing. Original Cloth. Purported First Issue (without publisher's note inserted after title page) of Twain's treatment of the controversy over authorship of the Shakespearean plays and poems, without explicitly espousing Sir Francis Bacon as author of that canon. One of the copies..... more

London: The Argonaut Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this consideration of Charles Dickens's first published work. Demy 8vo (214 x 136): x,145,[5]pp, with portrait frontispiece and four further plates on inserted leaves. Addendum slip tipped in preceding p. 143. Publisher's green cloth spine over mottled green paper-covered..... more

Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab wrappers printed in black. Trivial creasing..... more

Paris: Editions Le Terrain Vague, 1964. Card Covers. First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. Demy 8vo (220 x 163mm): 253,[1]pp..... more

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag, 1928. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing, in German, of this classic, an "incunabula" of rocket literature. Crown 8vo (203 x 142mm): 106,[6]pp, with eight inserted leaves of plates from photographs (of rockets, racing cars, and portraits) on coated stock and further illustrations and diagrams in..... more

[Pensnett, Staffordshire]: printed by Tony Ward at the Arron Foundation, Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 1975. First Printing. Card Covers. Only edition of this indispensable reference for collectors of the Grosseteste Press. Oblong foolscap 8vo (112 x 142mm): [62]pp. Original stitched Navy blue card covers, cream dust wrapper printed in French blue..... 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

København [Copenhagen]: Forening for boghaandvaerk, 1944. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First and only printing of this bibliography and brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen. Slim demy 8vo (211 x 139mm): 36,[2]pp, including four full-page plates. Publisher's light brown and sage green floral patterned paper-covered boards, beige paper label printed..... more

Akron, Oh: Independent Labor League, n.d. [1943, from preface]. Stapled Wrappers. Only edition of this full-throated left-wing program to advance labor interests, published in the midst of the Second World War and couched in strongly antifascist terms. Slim demy 8vo (207 x 151mm): 15,[1]pp, with two illustrations. Original blue staple-bound..... more

Philadelphia: The Paper Airplane Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. No. 13 of 25 copies numbered for sale (there were also 25 copied lettered for private distribution (A–Y) of this scarce pamphlet. Demy 8vo (216 x 141mm): [2],12.[2] pp, including two full-page diagrams and vignette on limitation page. Signed by..... more