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

London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, M DCCC LXIII [1863]. First Edition thus. First Edition (under this title) of this "foundation stone" of The New English Dictionary. Slim demy 8vo (219 x 139mm); vii,[1],102,[2]pp. Contemporary green quarter roan over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red leather lettering piece gilt, top edge gilt..... more

London: John Lehmann [from 1951], 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this wildly influential guide to the preparation of the dishes of rural France. Crown 8vo (196 x 124mm): 247,[1]pp, with frontispiece, illustrated title page, and nine full page plates by John Minton. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal-colored cloth, spine..... more

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly-leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in and fascinating marginal corrections..... more

London: Little, Brown, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated) of this expanded edition of Fowles's A Brief History of Lyme, a 12-page pamphlet issued by the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum in 1981. Slim, wide 8vo: 52,[2]pp, with numerous images of 19th- and early 20th-century prints..... more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt..... more

London: Macdonald [from 1954], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this definitive history of English cuisine, a "treasury of information on the gathering, storing, and cooking of food from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. . . . as full of magic and potions as any medieval herbal." (ODNB..... more

Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing..... more

London: Henry Lea, 22, Warwick Lane, [1860]. Original Cloth. Superb pocket edition of this compendium of rules and directions for playing fifteen games of chance, including whist, cribbage, quadrille, casino, and rouge et noir. Foolscap 8vo (120 x 78mm): 36; 18; 10; 31,[1]; vii,8-32,[8]pp, with two full-page plates of game..... more

Berlin: Oesterheld, 1910. Hardcover. First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's green and orange paper-covered boards, beige paper title..... more

Paris: A. Maloine, 1912. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) edition of this illustrated pamphlet on the first serologic (complement fixation) test for syphilis, published just six years after the German bacteriologist August von Wassermann developed the test, in 1906. Slim royal 8vo (241 x 155mm): 43,[1]pp, with three full-page color..... more