ALIGATOR BOUND-RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND THE SALAMAN AND ABSAL OF JAMI by Edward Fitzgerald - 1907

Methuen & Co.Ltd. London.,1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Beautifully illustrated throughout with E. H. Shepard's wonderful line drawings. A very good copy in recent full burgundy morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards.Top edge gilt. Original publishers cloth boards with gilt stamped illustration showing Christopher Robin playing with a toy train on front board, and Pooh and Piglit at the train ticket (tikits) office on the back, along with the spine, all bound in at back of the book. Some light offsetting to half title and last text page otherwise a very bright copy.:

Heinemann Ltd. London.,1935. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated with line drawings by Laurian Jones. Finely bound in recent full black morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.:

VENETIIS : EX TYPOGRAPHIA BALLEONIANA, 1730. In 4. Dim. 34,5x25x7 cm. Pp. 36 (n.n.)+460+XCI+(8)+36+(2)+(2)+(2)+(2)+(2). Peso Kg. 2,900 Splendido messale di grandi dimensioni e peso del 1730 in folio interamente scritto a caratteri rosso e neri con splendidi capilettera decorati, almeno 1 per pagina (ad esclusione dei canti gregoriani). All'interno del testo tre bellissime incisioni a piena pagina che raffigurano delle scene religiose (l'annunciazione, la crocifissione, la resurrezione). Bella vignetta al frontespizio. All'inizio del messale un introduzione dedicata alla memoria dei tre Papi che si erano occupati di redigerlo (Pio V; Clemente VIII; Urbano VIII) e una sorta di prefazione all'opera con delle tabelle indicanti il calendario liturgico che rimanda alle parti del messale da recitare.<BR>Presente anche Commune Sanctorum e Missae Propriae Sanctorum ad uso dei Frati Minori di San Francesco. Pagine e pagine di canti gregoriani all'interno. Il messale è del 1730,… Read More

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. New York. No date. circa 1936. Reprint. Large 8vo (8 x 6.2 inches). Colour frontis and dozens of mono illustrations, some full page, throughout. A bright and clean copy in mid twentieth century fine leather binding of half dark blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with three gilt dots. Compartments ruled, lettered and decoration in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some minor rubbing to the extremities but overall a near fine copy in an attractive leather binding. The binding is unsigned but it certainly the work of a master bookbinder.

John Murray. London. 1960. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.1 x 6.8 inches). Illustrated with line drawings by Michael Tree. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco. Five raised bands on spine. Compartments with ruled and dot lines and decorated with gilt bell and floral devices. Red title label, dotted and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Original decorative bell endpapers bound in. A lovely copy of one of the most popular books of poetry published in the twentieth century.

Faber & Faber. London.,1933. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 5.7 inches). 38pp. Fine copy, finely bound in recent full dark green calf, flat spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt. :

London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. Octavo. 367pp., illustrated in color and black & white by J.A. Shepherd, bound by Bayntun in full brown polished calf, boards double ruled in gilt, pictorial spine gilt, red and brown leather labels gilt, iner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A beautiful copy, fine.

Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 1/30 reserved for speical binding to order in full incised green morocan leather with japenese end papers. Spine faded to medium tan and leather knicked at spine. Internals as new.

Stuttgart: Greiner und Pfeiffer, [ca, 1887]. 197 x 140 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). 4 p.l., 200, VIII pp. Very pretty publisher's original blue cloth, covers with bevelled edges decorated in blind, upper cover with ornate central panel in black and gold, a spray of gilt roses bound by a small banner bearing the title in blue, the black background densely adorned with curling gilt vines, flat spine with decorative gilt title banner, gray moirĂ©-textured endpapers, all edges gilt. IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET AND CARDBOARD SLIPCASE (the jacket backed with paper to repair chips at head edge, the slipcase slightly worn). With additional color-illustrated title page and numerous wood engravings by R. C. Kepler, 11 of these full-page. Page provided for "Dedication" inscribed to Pauline Spahlinger, dated Stuttgart, 20 Aug[ust] 1887. â—†One opening with faint offsetting (from old bookmark?), otherwise A PRETERNATURALLY FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally with a pristine binding, a still-appealing… Read More

Macmillan and Co Limited . London. 1951 - 52. Two volumes. Reprints; 1st book, 1951; 2nd is 1950. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.5 inches). With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake in The Jungle Book, just Kipling in the second Jungle book. Fine, clean copies. Fine leather bindings, by Bumpus, of mid twentieth century half dark red morocco. Spines with five raised bands, compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Just a hint of darkening to the spines of both bindings but overall this is a near fine, lovely set of these classic books.