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Litchfield: Collier and Buel, [1793]. 12mo. viii, (4) blank, 304 pp., (6) pp. subscribers list, (1)p. errata. Front endpaper lacking, top inch of blank front flyleaf clipped away, taking an old ownership signature. Period full leather binding, gilt ruled spine, gilt stamped red morocco spine label. Front joint starting at both..... More
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1785. 8vo. 170 x 100 mm., [6 ¾ x 4 inches]. [8], 304, [2] pp., including errata leaf at end of text. Bound in contemporary brown sheep skin, red leather label. Stamped “Ex Libris Wilson H. Kimnach” on front pastedown. A very good copy in an original..... More
Milano: Dall Stamperia Reale, 1809. 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. 104 pp. Original marbled paper wrappers, some light foxing in the text. Excellent copy, printed in an edition of 1,300 copies, some on fine paper. Rare first edition of Foscolo’s controversial essay celebrating his..... 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
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
Venizia: Presso Antonio Savioli, 1775. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches]. 107 [1] pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards; binding soiled, title in ink on spine, text block lightly foxed throughout. First edition, followed by a Verona edition, with addition, printed in 1798. A select bibliography, listing..... More
