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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]. [6], 180, [4] pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket. Jacket a touch dust-soiled else about Fine. First American Edition, originally published in Milan by Aldo Grazanti in 1955. Coming of age story of..... More
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1911. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher’s decorated green cloth and spine;..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]. [8], 3450, plus 3 pp. ads. Original red publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with several shortish tears, including two measuring approximately 1 inch to front jacket..... More
New York: Scribner, 2013. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. [4], 383, [5] pp. Publisher's red boards, white linen spine, dust jacket. Very good copy. First edition of Rachel Kushner’s second novel, set in New York City and Italy, which explores "the mystique of the feminine, the..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, [2002]. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. [6], 373 [1] pp. Illustrated with 24 half tone images from the Origo Archive at La Foce. Publisher's blue boards with white linen spine, dust jacket. Very good copy. Highly readable biography of Iris Origo whose..... More
With: The Unique and Splendid Effects of Fonthill Abbey. Catalogue of the Extensive Assemblage of Costly and Interesting Property, which Adorns this Magnificent Structure: Embracing part of the Furniture, the Bijouterie, Composed of Precious Gems . . . With: The Pictures and Miniatures at Fonthill Abbey. Catalogue of the Well-selected..... More
London: Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Warwick-Lane, [1732-33]. 8vo. 205 x 140 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. Engraved title-page and 12 engraved plates. Bound in later decorated paper boards. With a typed paper label identifying this copy as “Nevinson Loan 1979..... More
N. p., (J. T. Moss). 1909. Large 8vo. 235 x 175 mm., [9 1/4 x 7 inches]. 400 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken especially for this volume. Original cloth, with medallion of the Red Cross in center of the upper board and the title in gilt surrounding the..... More
Washington, D. C. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University, 1972. 8vo. 255 x 175 mm., [10 x 7 inches]. [x], 114 pp. Illustrated with 59 black and white illustrations. Bound in original green cloth, title in gilt on upper board. Very good copy. Inspired by the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Large 8vo. 240 x 170 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches]. xxix, [1], 329 pp. Illustrated with one hundred illustrations throughout the text. Bound in original red paper boards, white linen cloth spine, red cloth wrapper; tail of spine with some minor transfer..... More
Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Essential Books, 1960. 8vo. 220 x 170 mm., [9 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated a map of Rome and 168 heligravure images in black and white. Bound in original gray cloth, decorative dust jacket by Yves Brayer. Dust jacket shows minor wear..... More
Santa Rosa (CA), Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 266 pp., plus a full-page portrait of Fante and a one page biography. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy.First Black Sparrow edition, originally printed in 1938. Fante's first novel, an autobiographical story of..... More
London:2017. Puskin Press, 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [6], 184 pp., plus 2 pp. ads. Original black boards, dust jacket. Very good to fine condition.First edition. Published from a newly discoverd diary, the textt describes the prelude to the coming of the WWII as..... More
(New York): Europa Editions:, 2020. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. 322 pp. Original white cloth boards, dustjacket. Very good copy in fine dust jacket.First American Edition. Follow up to the Neapolitan Quartet that rocked the literary world with it insights into the lives of young girls..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1932. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated with 20 collotype reproductions. Original black cloth; stamped in gilt, top edge stained black. Original cream dust jacket, plain wrappers. Bookseller's ticket of Paul Elder & Co., San Francesco to rear..... More
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1884. 8vo. 175 x 125 mm., [7 x 4 3/4 inches]. 300 pp., plus 8 pp. of ads for H/M travel books. Original blue publisher's cloth. Very good copy.First edition thus, two of the chapters appeared in The Atlantic in 1881..... More
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1918]. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Pascoe and Eight others Illustrations. 8vo. 225 x 145 mm., [9 x 5 1/2 inches]. [xii], 274 pp., plus31 pp. ads for Methuen publications, dated February 1931. Bound in Original blue cloth, title in gilt set within..... More
In Roma: Presso Monaldini Mercante di Libri, Nella Stamperia di Gio, Zempel, 1787. 8vo. 180 x 125 mm., [7 x 4 ¾ inches]. 61, [3] pp. Printed on thick paper and illustrated with an engraved title-page vignette by G. Giordano and decorative woodcut initial letters. Bound in 19th century marbled..... More
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Brantwood (Coniston, Windermere): Printed for the Author, ca. 1866. Narrow folio 445 x 140 mm., [17 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. Printed on recto only. Folded across the middle, edges with minor tears, light use and foxing at edges, First (?) separate printing of these two poems, the first on..... More
In Vicenza: per Francesco Vendramini Mosca, 1778. 8vo. 175 x 115 mm., [7 x 4 ½ inches]. [2], 3-31, [1] pp., (A-B8). Original decorative paper wrappers; a few minor holes in the wrappers, chipped at edges, otherwise very good. Later booksellers stamp in ink of Libreria Giuseppe Giomo and front..... More
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. Three vols, 12mo. 205 x 130 mm., [ 8 x 5 ¼ inches]. viii, 319 [1] pp., plus 8 pp. ads.; [2], 282 pp., plus 24 pp. ads.; [2], 286 [2] pp., plus 16, [2] pp. ads. Bound in original light blue fine morocco-grained cloth..... More
Firenze: Stampata in Bologna con licenza de’Superiori et restampata in Firenze, 1592. 8vo. 145 x 95 mm., [5 2/4 x 4 inches]. [4] leaves. Title printed with an typographical border. Bound in recent half red morocco over marbled paper boards, title gilt on spine. A fine copy. Originally published in..... More
Roma, ca, 16980. Small folio. 300 x 210 mm., (12 x 8 ¼ inches). Engraved architectural title-page with two women holding the crown over the text, 31 number plates of Martyrs after paintings by Niccolo Circignani engraved by Giovanni Battista Cavaliere, plus and additional plate designed by Cornelio Cort of..... More
Romae: Ex Typographia Medicaea, 1611. Folio. 360 x 245 mm., [14 x 9 ¾ inches]. Printed in red and black throughout. Illustrated with large printer’s devise on the title-page, one large woodcut of the Pope conducting a confirmation of a young boy, small woodcuts reflecting the rites of the Church..... More
Milano: Philippe Foyot per Rocco & Ambrosio da Valle, 1521. Two parts on one volume. Large 8vo. 280 x 190 mm., [11 x 7 ¼ inches]. [18] including a blank leaf, 161, [1] ff.; [16], 146 ff. Large woodcut frontispiece introducing the second part of an image representing and a...... More
