![Item #16499 Facéties du Comte De Caylus [Folk Tales / Pranks]. Anne Claude de Caylus](/pictures/thumb/16499.jpg?v=1673977289)
Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Comte De Caylus was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life and left a number of more or.....
New York: H. S. Nichols, 1920. Limited Edition of 500. A Very Good Hardcover. The drawings are considered forgeries probably by Nichols and one of his associates according to Beardsley experts. In a style very like Beardsley's, though perhaps a bit less stylish in implementation. Cf. Aubrey Beardsley / A.E......
New York: The Composing Room, Inc., 1967. Milton Glasser. A Fine Hardcover. Amusing story of how the Devil is behind all the problems in a printer's shop, from proof reading to spilled ink. Issued as a Christmas greeting from the Composing Room.
London: William Jackson Books, 1929. John Austen (1886-1948). Limited Edition. Hardcover. The novelist William Beckford appreciated the novel conveying the message to its author via a friend, 'Pray tell Disraeli that I have read, enjoyed, and admired his Infernal Marriage. The sly, dry humour of that most original composition is.....
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Limited Edition, number 417 of 750 copies. Fine Hardcovers in a Weak Slipcase. Frank Forester is the pseud. of Henry William Herbert and is regarded the father of American sporting Literature.The set consists of: Vol. 1: The Warwick Woodlands; Vol 2: My Shooting Box; Vol.....
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters. Stapled Wraps.
![Item #15420 [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for...](/pictures/thumb/15420.jpg?v=1649881450)
London: Vale Press at the Ballantyne Press, 1903. Designs by Charles Ricketts. Limited Edition. This quasi-historical tale of witchcraft purported to be a true chronicle set down by William Meinhold. Oscar Wilde praised Lady Duff Gordon’s translation, first published in German in 1843.The Amber Witch was for some time held.....
London: Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, 1887. A Very Good Hardcover. A delightful Leadenhall Press reprint of an 1811 rhymed version of "Beauty and the Beast" attributed to Charles Lamb, including two pages of music. Lang’s introduction discusses the origin of the “Beauty and the Beast” Tale. This original.....
![Item #007357 A Group of Londoners [Torch Press]. E. V. Lucas](/pictures/thumb/007357.jpg?v=1652447195)
Minneapolis: Privately Printed for Edmund D. Brooks at the Torch Press, 1911. A Very Good Hardcover.
Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press by Belknap and Young, for David West. 1792. A Very Good Hardcover. This volume and his subsequent volume of travels in Italy were immensely popular. This book relates, via series of letters, Moore's observations of his travels with the Duke of Hamilton through France.....
![Item #014275 [Vale Press] The Kingis Quair. Robert Steele, King of Scotland James I](/pictures/thumb/014275.jpg?v=1647357237)
London: Vale & Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Hardcover. The Kingis Quair is a poem of clear Chaucerian descent, written in the same seven-line stanzas as Trailus and Criseyde, that marks the beginning of a Chaucerian movement in the literature of Scotland.The poem exists in only one manuscript.....
London: Ellis & Elvey, 1904. Full Leather. Rossetti's early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. His later poetry was marked by complex interlinking of thought and feeling. Background Information:Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member.....
![Item #014370 [Vale Press] King Henry IV The Second Part. William Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/014370.jpg?v=1647354503)
London: Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Designs by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). A Very Good Hardcoyer. Background Information:Richett's arranged to have the Vale Press publications printed at the Ballantyne Press as private press books by a carefully chosen selection of compositors, readers, pressmen and binders freed from the everyday.....
![Item #014276 [Vale Press] Pericles Prince of Tyre. William Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/014276.jpg?v=1647354321)
England: Vale & Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1900. 3rd Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. One volume of Charles Rickett's 37 volume Editions of Shakespeare's works published between 1900- 1903. He designed the Avon type to be used in this massive production. It features a unique Pressmark imprint of.....
![Item #014369 [Vale Press] The Tragedy of King Richard III. William Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/014369.jpg?v=1647354140)
London: Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Illustrated Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). Limited Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. Richett's arranged to have the Vale Press publications printed at the Ballantyne Press as private press books by a carefully chosen selection of compositors, readers, pressmen and binders freed from the everyday.....
![Item #16459 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. [The Black Sun Press]. Laurence...](/pictures/thumb/16459.jpg?v=1673194241)
Paris: The Black Sun Press / Editions Narcisse, 1929. First Edition, Thus. Full Gilted Leather. The Black Sun Press was an English language press noted for publishing the early works of many modernist writers. One of the few classic titles done by the Crosbys. It enjoyed the greatest longevity among.....
Minneapolis: Edward D. Brooks, 1922. Illustrations by Margarethe Heisser. Limited Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. This difficult to find volume has been chosen as one of 150 best Minnesota Books. A superb arrangement of turn-of-century printing, lettering, drawing and poetic display. The poet author worked in Edward Brooks bookstore. Brooks.....
Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901. Illustrations by E. R. Hughes. Limited edition of 26 copies. Half Leather to Marbled Boards. Giovanni Francesco (ca1480 -1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector from Caravaggio, Italy. He has been termed the progenitor of the literary form.....
Rocky Mount, NC: The Thomas Wolfe Society, 1996. Limited Edition. A Fine Hardcover. Previously unpublished a discarded fragment from Of Time and the River manuscript. "Prelude" to Wolfe's proposed novel The October Fair, which under the supervision of Max Perkins would be edited to become Of Time and the River;.....