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

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

New York / London: Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street, 1929 / 1930. Hardcover. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year..... more