The American Angler's Guide; Or, Complete Fisher's Manual, for the United States: Containing the Opinions and Practices of Experienced Anglers...
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1876. Centennial Edition. Fifth edition. Read More
Price: $275
New Arrivals
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Signed by the author and illustrator
Sammy in the Sky.
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2011. Jamie Wyeth. First edition. Signed by the author and illustrator. Barbara Walsh, author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was inspired to write this book by her family's first dog, Sam, who died in 2003. Jamie Wyeth, illustrator, is the grandson of the illustrator N.C. Wyeth and... Read More
Price: $75
The First Drinks Manual
The Bar-Tenders' Guide, a Complete Cyclopaedia of Plain and Fancy Drinks, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing all the...
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862. First edition, first state. The First Drinks Manual. First edition of the first drinks manual, the first state with the price $1.50 on the front cover and the first title, "The Bartenders' Guide," later changed to "How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion."... Read More
Price: $20,000
Forecasts of the Coming Century.
Manchester: The Labour Press, 1897. First edition. An anthology of writings on "the changes going on in the social and industrial situation ... the Land Question, the questions of Trade-Unionism, Co-operation, Parliamentary Action, Education, Art, Literature, and the Status of Women, together with the general positionsof Socialism and Anarchism, have... Read More
Price: $700
Peronnik the Fool.
London: George G. Harrap, 1933. Gooden, Stephen. No. 118 of 525 copies, signed by author and artist. A tale of valor, enchantment and derring do, enhanced with engraved title page and illustrations by Stephen Gooden. Moore much admired Gooden, who had illustrated Moore's The Brook Kerith, and the last words... Read More
Price: $200
Sir Charles Eastlake's Copy
A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy.
London: John Murray, 1864. Sixth Edition, carefully revised. Sir Charles Eastlake's Copy. With ownership inscription on the title-page of Sir Charles Eastlake, Director of the National Gallery from 1854 until his death in 1865. He dies in Pisa, then a notorioiusly marshy and unhealthy city. This was preumably the guide... Read More
Price: $300
New Croton Aqueduct
New York City. Report to the Aqueduct Commissioners ... Including the Plans and Work of Construction of the New Croton...
[New York: printed by Douglas Taylor, 89 Nassau St, for the Aqueduct Commissioners of New York City, 1887. With "Compliments of Aqueduct Commissioners" slip bound in at front. New Croton Aqueduct. A profusely illustrated report on the construction of the New Croton Aqueduct, which opened in 1890 and replaced the... Read More
Price: $750
First Book
Lie Down in Darkness.
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merril Company, Inc, [1951]. First edition. First Book. The author's first book. Read More
Price: $150
INSCRIBED
The House of Breath.
New York: Random House, 1950. First edition of the author's First Book. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the half title "Good hope to Warren Lawrence/ William Goyen." Read More
Price: $400
Letting Go.
New York: Random House, [1962]. First edition of the author's second book. Read More
Price: $300
Presentation copy
Materiaux pour servir à l'histoire de Marguerite d'Autriche, duchesse de Savoie, régente des Pays-Bas.
Paris: chez Delaroque freres, 1860. First edition. Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the first volume, "A Mr Fournier Sarlovése hommage/de l'auteur/C.te Em.el de Quinsonas" Read More
Price: $300
Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde: ou histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions.
Paris: the author, 1825. Second edition. Second and best edition of this classic work on the Aldine press. Read More
Price: $1,000
The Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman.
The Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 1046 of 1600 copies thus. Read More
Price: $75
Syntax Spinoff
Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque.
London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for... Read More
Price: $600
The Book of the Bear, Being Twenty-one Tales newly translated from the Russian.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition. This second Christmas book published by The Nonesuch Press is a charming book of Russian bear folklore by classicist Jane Harrison and her companion Hope Mirrlees, author of "Lud-in-the-Mist" Read More
Price: $75
Poetical Sketches of Scarborough: Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humorous Subjects….
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. According to the Advertisement, “The originals of the plates … were sketches made as souvenirs of the place during a visit to Scarborough, 1812. They were not intended for publication, but being found to interest many persons of taste, several of whom... Read More
Price: $1,000
Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery and C.M. Bowra.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 1057 of 1050 copies thus. Read More
Price: $100
Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied...
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. Cruikshank. Second edition. Second edition, published the year after the first, of this popular work which set the style for a host of imitators and remains a vivid panorama of Georgian London, from its heights to its depths. Read More
Price: $900
Poetical Sketches of Scarborough: Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humorous Subjects….
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Rowlandson, Thomas. Second edition. According to the Advertisement, “The originals of the plates…were sketches made as souvenirs of the place during a visit to Scarborough, 1812. They were not intended for publication, but being found to interest many persons of taste, several of whom expressed a...... Read More
Price: $850
![An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [issued with:] The Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Henry W. Bunbury.](/pictures/thumb/313833.jpg?v=1544636101)
An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. By Geoffrey Gambado...
London: printed by J. Diggens for R. Ackermann, [1825]. Rowlandson, Thomas. Engraved title page dated 1825. The first Rowlandson edition appeared in 1808. Read More
Price: $500
The Comic History of England.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847. Leech, John. First edition. Read More
Price: $600
The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of His Campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall.
London: Printed for Patrick Martin, 1816. Rowlandson, Thomas. Second edition. A beautiful copy. Read More
Price: $600