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London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. First Edition. Illustrated with 31 photographs, maps and drawings. 8vo, publisher’s original mustard cloth lettered in black on the spine panel, housed in the photographically illustrated dustjacket. 75, [1] ads pp. A fine, very well preserved copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PLEASING WORK BY HEATON IN THE ROCKLIFF NEW PROJECT ILLUSTRATED GEOGRAPHY SERIES.

London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1925. One of 25 Copies Only, The First Deluxe Edition, the Most Rare of the Issues, Copy XIV of 25 Numbered Copies, Printed on Japanese Vellum, Signed by the Author on the Limitation Page, and Bound in Full Vellum, With Six Plates in Colour not found in the trade or "ordinary" issue, and one additional to the 5 plates added to the Limited Issue of 250 copies. The additional plates are lettered A-F. A copy with fine provenance, the Baron van Eetvelde copy with his coat-of-arms as bookplate, and with an original order form for Important Books on Ceramics published by Ernest Benn. Profusely illustrated on coated pages with a colour frontispiece (Plate I) and 31 additional plates in colour following the text, a number are folding, each with printed tissue guard, 26 Plates Numbered I-XXVI and the 6 additional plates lettered A-F. Large Quarto in eights (288 x 228 mm), Japanese vellum, lettered in gilt on the spine, and with gilt pictorial decoration on the upper cover.… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Illustrated with 75 finely produced beautiful colour plates from paintings by L. Burleigh Bruhl, wonderfully reproduced and with captioned tissue guards. Sketch-Map at end of Volume. 8vo, publisher's olive decorated cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered within illustrated rules with wheat designs,and 3 central saber designs in yellow, orange, red andgray, the spine likewise decorated with the wheat pattern, t.e.g. xii, 26, folding map, 6 ads pp. A pleasing, clean copy, with a small bump on the head of the spine with a tiny break. Still a handsome book. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. A lavish A & C Black title, profusely illustrated with outstanding paintings. There are 75 colourplates provided in this wonderful book that takes us all through Britain's Essex County, a region full of historic and antiquarian interests but often overlooked by tour books. The artist, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, was born in Iraq but educated in Vienna and England. Many… Read More

London: A. & C. Black, 1912. First edition, second printing. Illustrated with 75 finely produced colour plates from paintings by Sutton Palmer, wonderfully reproduced and with captioned tissue guards. 8vo, publisher's beautifully decorated cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered within an all-over design of Scottish thistle and heather in green, brown and purple, the spine likewise decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. xi, 255 pp. A very pleasing copy, internally the paper is unusually clean and completely free of the often-found foxing, the plates and tissue guards all in fine order, the binding is attractive with only pleasant light evidence of age, the hinges and endpapers are fully intact and strong. A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. This is the first and largest of the author's three works on Scotland published by A. & C. Black. It contains a whooping 75 beautiful plates by Palmer Sutton. Palmer was best known for his Gold Metal winning idyllic rustic landscapes painted in watercolours and… Read More

London: Grant Richards, 1904. 2 volumes. First edition of the W. Heath Robinson illustrated Rabelais, the large paper issue of a book published nearly two decades later in the octavo format. A copy with fine provenance, the Litchfield copy with signatures and his armorial bookplates. With 100 full-page black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, with numerous illustrations in the text, title-pages printed in black and red, full-page photogravure plates at the front, pictorial end-papers printed in red. 4to, publisher's full white polished buckram, the covers ruled and decorated in gilt, the spines fully gilt decorated and lettered. xlii, 377; xliv, 350 pp. A fine set, the cloth clean and with very little evidence of age but for some very light mellowing to the spine panels. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE, AND A PLEASING AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS TIMELESS WORK BY ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF ALL TIME. THIS EDITION IS WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY W. HEATH ROBINSON AND IS CONSIDERED… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1986. Uncorrected bound galleys. 8vo, in original wrappers. 314. Fine.

London: William Heinemann, 1908. First Edition. 40 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham as well as black and white drawings throughout. 4to, publisher’s original tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper cover decorated with gilt pictorial vignette of a nighttime forest scene. 134 pp. A very handsome, clean and fine copy, beautifully preserved with only very minor age evidence. An especially pleasing copy of a book rarely found in such fine condition. IMPORTANT AND BEAUTIFUL FIRST EDITION WITH FINE ILLUSTRATIONS. Shakespeare’s brilliant and delightful comedy was a wonderful exercise and ambitious undertaking for Arthur Rackham. This book ranks with PETER PAN as one of the finest expressions of his "fantasy" style of illustration. This particular title in the Rackham oeuvre is among the scarcest and is in constant demand. William de Morgan wrote to Rackham that he considered his Midsummer Night’s Dream “the most splendid illustrated work of the century so… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1922]. First Edition. 16 tipped-in colour plates, 9 full page coloured illustrations, line drawing head and tail pieces and pictorially decorated endleaves, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original bright red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endleaves. 207 pp. A bright, clean and handsome copy with only minor evidence of age or use, lightly mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK. A scarce Rackham title with beautiful colour plates and drawings that are an excellent complement to Hawthorne’s fantastic Wonder Book. These are timeless tales - including The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, and The Miraculous Pitcher - all imaginatively illustrated by the Master Rackham. The renderings of Pandora and the joyful innocence of youth are especially moving while the King Midas sequence shines with golden poignancy. The battle between Pegasus and the horrible Chimaera is charged with graceful, ferocious beauty.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1912). First Printing of the Large Paper and Extra-Illustrated Edition, which is also the first edition to have the plates interleaved within the textblock instead of bound in the rear. With a new tipped-in colour frontispiece plus 49 tipped-in colour plates, plus seven new full-page black and white illustrations and with illustrations within the text by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original green cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 126 pp. A very nice copy, the plates are all in fine order, the text is especially clean and fresh, free of the oft' found foxing except for a very light touch of it only to the first few leaves, the binding is firm and solid, the endpapers intact, the spine panel lightly mellowed. The best edition of Rackham's most desirable book! Here, first appeared a new colored frontispiece, and the additional plates of line drawings also appear in this edition for the first time. This is also… Read More

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , 1922. First edition, American issue. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. x, 227 pp. A handsome copy, clean and tight and in pleasing condition with little evidence of age or use. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND A FINE COPY. A wonderfully imaginative tale out of Christopher Morley’s oeuvre. Rackham’s colour illustrations are quite unusual and marry perfectly to this splendid story. A highly unusual story in which Mr. Gissing, a gentledog of leisure contentedly residing in Canine Estates with Fuji, his butler (a Japanese pug), on an income of 1,000 bones a year, becomes dissatisfied and leaves home to search for where the blue begins (a purpose to life). "Morley admirably creates a canine world through names alone. There are Mike Terrier, the curate Mr. J. Rover Poodle, the upper-class and… Read More

London: George G. Harrap, 1928. First Edition, first issue with top edge gilt. With 8 impressive colour plates and numerous drawings in black and white throughout and with coloured illustrated endpapers all by Arthur Rackham 4to, original dark green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the upper cover, lettered in gilt on the spine, with pictorial endpapers by Arthur Rackham, t.e.g. IN THE SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET 103. A bright and fine copy, internally completely free of the spotting which so frequently plagues these titles, the cloth bright and fresh, the scarce jacket with only minor edgewear and a bit of mellowing but still showing very well indeed. RACKHAM’S MAGICAL, OTHER-WORLDLY ILLUSTRATIONS ADD A GOTHIC FLAVOR TO THIS CLASSIC TALE. Washington Irving’s story of “The Headless Horseman”, is one of the true and greatest favorites of American literature. Employing his more adult and almost sinister style it is made all the more wonderful by Arthur Rackham’s… Read More

London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott Co., n.d. ca.1915. Early issue of the holiday classic with Arthur Rackham's illustrations. With 12 haunting colour plates, illustrated endpapers, 18 black and white illustrations and line drawings by Arthur Rackham. The colourplates with tissue-guards captioned in dark red/brown. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the upper cover with a ringing Christmas bell motif and on the spine in gilt in a holly and berry motif. xi, 147 pp. A nice copy with minor mellowing to the decoration and lettering, some luster gone from the cloth at the edges, the binding is strong with sharp corners, the text very clean and fresh, the plates in wonderful condition. SCARCE EARLY ISSUE IN PLEASING CONDITION. A shining example of what you get when a true masterpiece of literature is complemented by one of the world’s greatest book illustrators. An inspiring combination. Dickens writes of A… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Early Octavo Issue. 16 colour plates by Arthur Rackham and with two extra colourplates tipped to the upper covers of the cloth and the dustjacket. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and decorated with a pictorial pastedown by Rackham on the upper cover. vi, 126. Avery bright copy, gilt mellowed by age at the spine, but the cloth very clean and well preserved and still quite fresh and without rubbing. A HANDSOME COPY OF AN EARLY PRINTING. “Mr. Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie’s fairyland, sent by a special providence to make pictures in tune with his whimsical genius.”-Pall Mall Gazette. Rackham's most desirable book, becoming scarce even in the later editions.

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , [1922 - 1925]. First edition, American issue, undated. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. x, 227 pp. A beautiful copy in unusually fine and bright condition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND A VERY FINE COPY. A wonderfully imaginative tale out of Christopher Morley’s oeuvre. Rackham’s colour illustrations are quite unusual and marry perfectly to this splendid story. A highly unusual story in which Mr. Gissing, a gentledog of leisure contentedly residing in Canine Estates with Fuji, his butler (a Japanese pug), on an income of 1,000 bones a year, becomes dissatisfied and leaves home to search for where the blue begins (a purpose to life). "Morley admirably creates a canine world through names alone. There are Mike Terrier, the curate Mr. J. Rover Poodle, the upper-class and working-class… Read More

London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920; circa 1920. 2 volumes. First Edition, new impression of each volume, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a total of 64 tipped-in colour plates and numerous decorations in line, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, handsomely bound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath in uniform three-quarter navy morocco over blue cloth-covered boards, the corner-pieces and backs trimmed in gilt, the spines with tall raised bands gilt decorated between compartments attractively framed in gilt, two compartments gilt lettered, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. 160; 182 pp. A very handsome set, the bindings are in excellent condition, strong and sturdy and near as pristine, the text-block clean and completely free of foxing or spotting, the plates are all present and vivid, bright and clean, Vol. II with the Ring of the Niblung general title and the Siegfried half-title but bound without the 'Siegfried' title-page. A VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND SET WITH THE IMPORTANT RACKHAM… Read More

Boston: Avery Supply Company, 1892. With a map of the Boston and Maine Railroad with connections, including to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and St. Johnsbury, VT. A pocket friendly 6.5 by 4 inches when folded, folding out to a full 19.5 by 24 inches, double-sided. An extremely well preserved example for such a delicate item designed for short term use and to be discarded. The thin paper still completely useable with no stains or spots and just very uniform toning to ivory, a little loss or splitting at a few fold points that is quite minor and not intrusive. In all this is in remarkable and fully original state. A VERY NICE SPECIMEN AND WELL PRESERVED BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD EPHEMERA. A large and extensive folding timetable for trains from Boston to numerous points north for the summer of 1892. It includes an attractive engraved cover panel, and a map of the system measuring about 8.5 by 5.5 inches. One side contains the timetables for the various through lines; trains to Maine… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997. Publisher's Working Proof Facsimile, Preceding the First Edition. Illustrated with 60 drawings by Ferris Cook. 4to sheets, 8vo announcement, original facsimile sheets, preceding the proof copy 150, [2 blank and acknowledgements] pp. Very well preserved, original facsimile sheets preceding the proof copies and with publisher and editor notes on many pages. PUBLISHER'S WORKING PROOF FACSIMILE, PRECEDING THE FINAL PROOF AND THE FIRST EDITION. Rilke was one of the greatest poets of the age. His poetry, his words written down, almost as honey. He wrote of his own Sonnets to Orpheus, that the words came to him and formed sonnets which were: “perhaps the most mysterious...in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to… Read More

London: Printed for W. Barre, 1614. First edition, first issue, with the Errata leaf at the end and with the dating of 1614 on the colophon leaf. With the engraved title-page and the "Minde of the Frontispiece" leaf, and 8 double-page plates and maps as issued, and with a great profusion of decorated multi-line initials throughout and charts and decorations in the text. Folio (12.75 by 8.25 inches), very handsomely bound in dark honey-brown morocco, the covers with triple blind fillet rules at the borders, surrounding a central panel ruled in blind and with fleurons in the corners. The spine is designed in six compartments, each with a fleuron in blind, and with a red morocco label lettered in gilt. [4m Frontispiece, Minde of the Front], [40, preface], [40, Contents of the Chapters], 1-651, [3, blanks], 1-776, [2, To the Reader], 26, A Chronologicall Table], [16, An Alphabeticall Table...of the First and Second Bookes], [16, An Alphaeticall Table ...of the Third, Fourth and Fift Bookes], [2,… Read More

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and decoratively illustrated in green on the upper cover and lettered in green on the spine. 318. A very good copy, well preserved with old pastedown on the free-fly. Romance and adventure in British Columbia. "Of all British Columbia valleys none has a finer sweep than the spacious Windermere. The valley rolls itself on both sides of the Columbia River in wide stretches of grass lands, varied with great reaches of red pine forest, here of open park-like appearance, there thick with underbrush of spruce and cedar. The valley lies between the two ranges of the Selkirks, which in places crowd hard upon the river and again lie up against a far horizon across a stretch of tumbling foothills. With the autumn sun on its rich and varied wealth of color, the valley lies like one great genial smile across the face of British Columbia from Golden Pass to the Crow’s Nest, warm, kindly, restful.… Read More

New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1906. First edition, special limited edition. With a frontispiece illustration. 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original mustard colored cloth, lettered in red and black on the spine and lettered and pictorially decorated in red and black on the upper cover. 399 pp. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION AND SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION. An early title by this Canadian novelist in very pleasant condition.