Proclamation of Thanksgiving by LINCOLN, Abraham - 1863

London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Elaborate gilt pictorial cover. Spine slightly sunned. Free edges a bit foxed, as is generally noted. Seven mounted color plates illustrated by HUGH THOMSON. An altogether enchanting book with a striking cover. Also issued in a blue binding with the same cover designs. See Spielmann 57. 138pp.. First Thomson Edition. Bright Crimson Cloth.. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1991. One of 25 copies, text on Apta Royale Laid Richard de Bas paper (made in 1938), images on Musee paper, backed on custom-made papers by Paul Wong on Dieu Donne' Papermill. Page size: 16 inches x 16 inches. Bound by Zahra Partovi in Coptic-style mauve-grey silk over boards, box by David Bourbeau, Thistle Bindery, fine. Six original line etchings by Susan Weil are hand-painted in watercolor and gouache with gold-leafing throughout, each mounted on museum board. These images surround the 40-page text when sitting in the box and when lifted out become three-dimensional paintings. There are also two original collages in the text and on the boards of the cover which is printed in three colors. The calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly and the letterpress is by Dan Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Susan Weil's third Joyce book takes an excerpt from FINNEGAN'S WAKE and it is as much as tour de force as her previous two. The box itself is a piece of sculpture, and… Read More

Paris: Lefuel, 1825. First Edition, eight volumes each with one engraving PRINTED IN COLOR, heightened by hand, original white wrappers printed with color lithographs housed in original double-compartment box with lithograph printed in color on cover (lid), gold foil which is stamped bordering edge of box, original pink and blue ribbon pulls. Page size: 6 x 4". The eight volumes are titled: The Little Milkmaid, The Little Schoolgirl, The Little Flower Seller, The Little Harvester, The Little Savoyard, The Little Shepherd, The Little Boatman, and The Little Firewood Gatherer (5 girls and 3 boys). Each volume has an engraving printed in color of a child dressed in the manner suiting the occupation in the title. The neo-classic colored bordered lithographs on the covers of each title have elements of the occupation included, such as flowers in La Petite Marchande des Fleurs and fish, seashells, and seaweed in The Little Boatman. The text of this charming children's set is titled Simple Stories, and they… Read More

(not signed) on a full length sexy shot of Ursula Thiess dress in a on piece snugly fitting swim suit with long robe abound her shoulders in a scene from "the Americano". Photograph is on single weight stock; 7 3/8" x 9 3/8"; very good (minor signs of handling). Information slip on the back.. No Binding. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Abm. H. Inskeep, New York, J. Maxwell, Printer, 1814. First edition of the first authorized and complete account of the most important western expedition, and arguably the most important book in the field of Western Americana. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 470; ix, [1], 522; 5 engraved plans and charts, without the large folding map which was not issued in all copies; contemporary full calf neatly rebacked, text foxed, as usual; paper repair and portions of 8 lines of text in facsimile on leaf 2N8 in volume II; all else very good. Church 1309; Field 928; Graff 2477; Howes L-317; Printing and the Mind of Man, 272; Sabin 825; Streeter III, 177; Wagner-Camp 13.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. First edition. Hard Cover. nf/vg. A couple of small tears to dust jacket otherwise a very nice copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine/No dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and 56 plates, some in color, by Covarrubias. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Brown Modern art binding: full, polished morocco; front and back covers each has a stylized African-American head outlined in gilt. Top edge gilt. A few spots of foxing on the front fly-leaf and the margins of the final plate, still a beautiful copy. Near fine/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

Hartford, Conn.: Clark & Smith, 1883. 1st edtion. Octavo, rebound in brown buckram, top edge gilt, uncut, 144 pp. Plates, fold-out map. Very Good.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form with ‘S. Veller’ on page 342, line 5; ‘this friends’ for ‘his friends’ on page 400, line 21 and ‘f’ in ‘of’ imperfect in the headline on page 432. Octavo, bound by Morrill in full tan polished calf, calf labels, gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 9 additional plates by Buss and Miller. Near-Fine; front joint is tender.

A Moonlight Boy, Ticknor and Company, 1886, first edition, slight wear and rubbing to spine extremities and fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original pictorial binding. While not a fantasy title per se, chapter 12, "The Attic Ghost," does indeed contain 12 pages of an encounter with a talking ghost. A very scarce book.