New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, [1969]. First American edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Corviniana. The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary

New York: December 26, 1936. To Alfred Knopf, praising Max Perkins. Davenport writes to publisher Alfred Knopf saying she's been in bed with the flu since she saw him at Carnegie Hall, and thanking him for the Christmas gift of a book: "It is undoubtedly a magnificent tribute to your..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Marcia Davenport"), to Alfred Knopf

[New York]: Deluxe Editions: Illustrated Editions [Printed by J. J. Little & Ives Company], [co. 1932]. Read More about The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint..... Read More about Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...

With the symbolic bookplate of Afrikaans poet and pioneering ethologist Eugène Marais. The bookplate measures 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches, and was designed by James J. Guthrie (his monogram at lower left); printed: London, 1897. The motto, Dit of Dood, translates as “This or Death” ; in The Dark Stream. The..... Read More about Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment

Christie's, 1987-1990. Compiled by Paul Needham and Felix de Marex Oyens. With “European and American Paintings, Prints, Furniture and Works of Art” (in wraps).Lacking the index volume. Read More about The Estelle Doheny Collection

New York: Doubleday, Page and Co, 1826. Family PresentationCopy, warmly inscribed to Nelson Jr. with love from Russell DoubledayA tale of growing up in the late 19th century in the Dakota TerritoryRussell Doubleday (May 26, 1872 in Brooklyn – June 14, 1949 at Glen Cove, Long Island) was an American..... Read More about Cattle-Ranch to College the True Tale of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West

Los Angeles: December 20, 1914. "… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …" Dreiser writes a Philadelphia bookseller to request a copy of the first edition of his most important novel, Sister Carrie (1900). "Dear Sir: A letter dated Nov. and addressed to me at..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Theodore Dreiser"), to Philadelphia bookseller Jeremiah F....

New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912. Mr West's interleaved notes on some pages refer heavily to what Mr L.C. Harper in 1919 told him about the sale including "this sale was a perfectly good fake, that many of the books catalogued did not come from Dulle's (sic) collection...I attended one..... Read More about Sporting and colored plate books, the library of the late William C. Dulles of Philadelphia, Pa....

London: Printed for C. Corbett, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, n.d. [ca. 1740?]. Later edition of the work first published in 1691, and frequently reprinted since. 'some pages have ornaments used by Henry Woodfall and another printer. Woodfall died in 1747 but the work does not look 1750-ish. Possibly..... Read More about Religio Bibliopol. The Religion of a Bookseller. After the Manner of the Religio Medici, ! by the...

Strassburg: J. H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903. Read More about Versuch einer Dürer Bibliographie

Mt. Vernon NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition, No. 238 of 250 copies, signed by the author. An engaging set of letters to an author from one who has been commissioned to illustrate his book, and a classic argument in favor of book illustrations. Read More about Form Letters: Illustrator to Author