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New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover decorated in black and slightly lighter maroon. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at edges, spine slightly faded. 437 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. This novel conceived in 1944 took nine years to completion. Time and place World War I. Very bright, fresh copy, covers and contents, price clipped dust wrapper.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924. Hardcover. Three quarter red levant and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 481 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 20 of 25 on India Paper, "has been printed for presentation to friends." Title page in red and black, several engraved facsimiles including frontispiece and captioned tissue guards. Originally published 1705 as satire on economic orthodoxy and a seminal text of libertarian thought. Mandeville argues that the basest and vilest behaviors produce positive economic effects. His philosophy gave great offence at the time, and was stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading. He was also an early describer of the division of labour, and Adam Smith used of some of his examples. Two volumes in one. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, spine slightly darkened.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1701. First Collected edition. leather_bound. Modern Cambridge style binding in full brown morocco. 646, 232 pages. 33 x 20 cm. ESTC R31983 bound with T124515, the two works are generally found bound together. Of the second work, as ESTC notes, "Absalom and Achitopher,``The Medal,`Religio laici` and `The hind and the panther` each have separate title pages of the tenth, fourth, fourth and third editions respectively, but the register and pagination are continuous." Second title page printed in red and black. Generally a clean copy with minor toning, a few small tears, one or two cryptic, if not amusing margin notes in the second title. Raised bands, gilt leather spine label.

Los Angeles: Privately Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1928. Hardcover. Orig. navy morocco spine and thick blue boards. Fine. Approx. 24 pages. 29.5 x 20.5. Limited edition, copy 79 of 100, text from a scarce edition printed in Belgium, 1776, plates by Bertin and Sarvart. Ornamental borders by Clara Ortiz Troan. Almost as new copy.

London: William Heinemann, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, beveled edges. Very good. 2 vols. Gooden, Stephen. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 98 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 26 copper engravings with tissue guards set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper. Very bright, fresh set.

London: Warne And Co, Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth spine and illustrated boards lettered in red and black. Very good. 152 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. With 80 original illustrations, and colored engraved frontispiece and vignette. Rubbing to extremities. National Nursery Library.

New York & London: Random House & William Heinemann, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum with beveled edges in plain white dust wrappers. Vol. 1, near fine & Vol. 2 very good in fine matching brown cloth portfolios housed in near fine matching quarter brown leather slipcases, spines lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Gooden, Stephen. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 446 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 24 copper engravings with engraved pictorial titles (tissue guards}, set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper, uncut edges. Covers of volume two toned.

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First edition. leather_bound. Full green levant, spines evenly faded to brown. Aeg. Fine. Blake, William. 225, 187. 27 x 17 cm. First Stockdale edition, first issue (with long "s" throughout). Frontispiece memorial illustration, engraved title pages in both volumes, and 68 engraved plates, including 12 by William Blake. Published posthumously with a life of the author at the end of volume 2. List of Subscribers also end of Vol.2; with verso of last leaf a publisher advert. With the "Gay Monument" plate at rear of second volume. BENTLEY 460. GORDON RAY. "Blake's twelve engravings follow designs in earlier editions of the 'Fables,' but hey are freely adapted." KEYNES 106. Wide text margins, plates with tissue guards, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, backstrip lettered and decorated with gilt motifs. Bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd Bentley of London.

New York: Viking Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red basket weave cloth with, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine. 342 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 373 of 400, a signed presentation copy in blue ink on free front endpaper, "For Mary K. Woodworth from M.M. and the pelican! Who is fond of both Miss W. and the regal bird May 17 1954." E. Mcknight Kauffer designed the monogram which appears in gilt on the front cover.

London: David Nutt, 1899. Wraps. Orig. illustrated tan wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols. (xx) 283, (v) 322 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition one of 550. Index and Glossary. Decorated initial letters and some wood-cut illustrations. Printed on acidy paper, slightly toned with wide text margins, contents very clean, uncut edges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       .

Manheim: Typis Academicis, 1768. First German Edition. leather_bound. Full contemporary morocco, black spine and green covers, marbled endpapers in very good marbled slipcase. Aeg. Two Vols. in one. Near fine. [2], 58, 290, [2], 291-615 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Desbillons was a neo-Latin French fabulist and poet. As a Jesuit , he taught humanities at Nevers, at the Collège du Mont in Caen, and at the Collège de La Flèche. After the dissolution of the Jesuit society, he was recommended by the writer Fréron to the Elector Palatine. Frontispiece and 15 engraved plates by Egid Verhelst. First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables, arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse, with extensive footnotes. BRUNET II, p.607. GRAESSE II, p.364. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt florets, cover panels in floral and vine gilt designs, backstrip with red and black leather labels printed in gilt.

New York: Maecenas Press (Random House), 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white box slightly soiled, the cream portfolio is fine. Levine, Jack. Printed booklet of XXXII pages. 48 x 31 cm. One of 2500 copies. Folding box inside cover signed by James A. Michener and Jack Levine. Four full page color lithographs after Hokusai signed in stone by the artist and printed on Rives Paper. Lacks the additional 54 watercolor, gauches and drawings. The above in a cream portfolio with a black cloth tie and is housed in the original white cardboard box case, also with a matching black cloth tie noted on cover as "Cut.

Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth and brown boards. Near fine. Unpaginated. 28 x 23 cm. Title page printed in red and black. List of Facsimiles. Alphabetical Index of Printers. The monograph indicates the gradual predominance of Antwerp and the Low Countries over France as a centre of type production. The period also saw the rise of the jobbing printer, one of whom, Nicholas Hill, Mr. Isaac believes, did far more work than he has been credited with -- the only clue to the actual printer being the type. Facsimiles and Illustrations issued by the Bibliographical Society. Nos. II-III. Interior contents clean and bright.

New York: H.M. Caldwell, Nd. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco. Teg. Near fine. 295 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. The novel is one of Sand's best known takes place in the French countryside, a story about twins originally published in 1849. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, slight nick to backstrip head.

London: Ashendene Press, 1923. Hardcover. Publisher's quarter brown calf over vellum covered boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine brown slipcase. VIII, 408 pages. Folio, 44 x 30.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 180 copies on Batchelor paper bearing the Knight in Armour watermark, from the library of English architect and founder of the Essex House Press, Charles Robert Ashbee (bookplate front cover paste-down). Text based upon a collation of the Quartos of 1590 and 1596 and the Folio of 1609 and printed in three colors -- red, blue and black. A fine exemplar of Ashendene's large folio efforts. CAVE: THE PRIVATE PRESS, notes, "Nobody can declare that one or another book was a printer's best, with the variety of Ashendene books issued.......on the whole I thinks I like the Faerie Queen and Morte Darthur best...." HORNBY 32. RANSOM p.206. Raised bands, slight dark spot lower front cover.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Full aluminum silver foil silkscreened in black, white and scarlet. Fine in near fine silver slipcase. Joseph Mugnaini. 182 pages. 28 x 16 cm. With a new introduction by the author. Illustrated with oil paintings by Joseph Mugnaini, a four color lithograph frontispiece and three pullout triptychs, the lithograph from zinc plates on the illustrations drawn by Mugnaini. Book printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg press by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco on acid-free paper. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini. The heavy aluminum foil cover can resist heat of 451 degrees, the temperature at which paper catches fire. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 527. LEC small insert read "Fragile This Book is Bound in Aluminum Sensitive to the touch." Our copy is pristine, the only fault is slight rubbing to slipcase at head and foot.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine in fine sued lined slipcase with front cover gilt lettered leather label. Neel, Alice. 32 pages. 39 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 1500 copies, signed by Raphael Soyer and Alice Neel in pencil. Neel signed an undetermined number of copies prior to her demise as noted in the bibliography noted below. Designed by Ben Shiff, printed at the Anthoesen Press with mould-made paper by The Cartiere Enrico Magnani. With the LEC Club Letter laid-in, and as noted in the latter, "Alice Neel died soon after she selected the images which would illuminate Poe's tale." The last image of a skeletal head is a self portrait. NEWMAN & WICHE 542 & 543a. Bright, fresh copy bound by Denis Gouey.

New York: Abbeville, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 190 pages. 33 x 24 cm. Copiously illustrated: color photographs, plans (one fold-out), and black and white plates. Bibliography. Index.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. Hardcover. Small gauge backcover of Vol. II. Ex-library. Navy buckram. 2 vols. Very good. 445 & 442 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Frontispieces, text clean, extensive index, map of Abbotsford (repaired).

Haarlem: The Pleiad, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. chocolate brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly faded. Near fine. 57 pages, 27.4 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 476 of 550 designed by Frederic Warde and printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Holland. Twelve plates, ten are lithographs, two are full page and hand-colored. Pages are unopened.