London: Punch Office, 1847-48. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Full tan calf, tooled in gilt at board edges, spine, and turn-ins, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; xii,320pp; xii,394pp; xii,308pp; 30 hand-colored etchings and numerous in-text wood engravings by John Leech. Straight volumes, with faint staining to bindings at lower spine and..... More

Paris: L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904. First Edition. Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [16]pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to text edges; contents clean, complete, Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Blanck's first state, with "presumptive" on last line of p.9, and ads on p.[233] beginning with New Books: A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. Octavo (19.75cm); publisher's powder blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on..... More

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (26cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,355,[1]pp. Johnson's own copy, with his pictorial bookplate designed by Aaron Douglas (printed in black on cream wove paper, measuring 4.25" x 3") mounted to..... More

New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., [1952]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, very mild toning to wrapper edges, clean internally; Very Good or better. Powerful collaborative work between former New Orleans newspaperman Alfred Maund and artist Ben Shahn. The volume..... More

[New York]: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1932. First Edition. First printing. Sewn wrappers; [3] leaves; illus. Trivial fading to wrappers at folds, still a Fine, bright, unopened copy. Issued as no. 4 of the "Equinox Quarters." Includes a full-page woodcut illustration by John P. Heins. More

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1956. First, Limited Edition. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war. The colophon states that only the first thirty-five "deluxe" copies were bound in half-leather; in fact the entire edition appears to have been bound thus; but..... More

Paris: Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie. 1907. First Trade Edition. Quarto (24.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers; 207pp.; frontispiece & 14 tissue guarded plates; numerous text illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn, especially at spine edges; preliminaries foxed, else Very Good and sound overall. Bleak collection of stories following..... More

London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More

West Kingston, R.I. Donald M. Grant, 1978. First Trade Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto. Inscribed by Alicia Austin on title page, "To Elisabeth/with love," with small original drawing of a winged heart. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; unpaged; 40 color plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. A tight, Near Fine copy..... More

Bethesda, MD: Writer's Center, 1983. First, Limited Edition. No. 54 of 200 signed and numbered copies. Oblong format (13cm x 25cm); pictorial, comb-bound wrappers with unprinted acetate cover sheets; unpaginated [22 leaves]. Very mild toning to covers, else fine. The first published book by well-known book artist Carol Barton, proprietor..... More

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (28cm); offset printed sheets (rectos), side-stapled into decorative card covers; [34]pp; illus. Signed by the author on the title page. Faint diagonal crease smoothed out at upper corner of first few pages, some wear to lower left corner of rear wrapper;..... More

New York: John Day Company, [1956]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and yellow decorative price-clipped dust jacket; [10],213pp.; illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, spine sunned, top edge of rear panel a bit toned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. British photographer's..... More