London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. First edition, presentation copy. Engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initial letters. Slight offsetting and intermittent browning. Light creasing to a few leaves in in gathering H. The occasional minor stain. Inscribed by the author on the recto of front flyleaf: "To My.....

[n.p. ca. 1895]. These insulting valentines, commonly referred to as vinegar valentines or penny dreadfuls (sharing the nickname with Victorian-era dime novels), first appeared in the 1840s and maintained a prominent place in pop culture well into the twentieth century. They were produced from the cheapest paper and were designed.....

London: G. Hill, 1889. First edition. With two illustrations of the female reproductive system and a full-page illustration of a pessary. A very good, clean, and fresh copy of an uncommon health manual for women. Original purple cloth with gilt title. Sunning to spine and edges. Yellow endpapers. Octavo. 139.....

[n.p.:]: 1955-57. 137 sheets of hand-drawn sketches (sixty-two on 9” x 11 ” sheets, 75 on 5 ” x 8 ” sheets). Most with handwritten design descriptions, notes, and accompanying fabric swatches pinned or taped onto the sheets. Also with price lists, inventories, and printed ads for the Candy Jr......

[ New York: International Art Publishing Co., ca. 1896.]. Each leaf printed with a monthly calendar (March/April and November/December pairs are on one leaf). Each leaf beautifully chromolithographed (February-December with seasonal landscapes; January with a young girl and the title). Edges decorated with die-cut purple and white violets. Also with.....

Winter Haven, Florida: Anachronic Editions, 1986. One of 100 copies, signed by the Chayts, who both edited and printed this lovely production. Each section is designed to be typographically distinct to showcase over twenty different Ludlow typefaces and explore the graphic potential of the material covered. With bibliography. Printed on.....

London: John Long, [1929]. First edition. With twelve plates (including frontispiece) of black-and-white aerial photos. Some foxing to edges. Some toning to first and last few leaves. A very good copy of an uncommon book that is rare in the original pictorial dust jacket (printed in black and orange with.....

Mill Valley, California: Sunflower Press, [1994]. One of twenty-five deluxe copies specially bound by D’Ambrosio (in a total edition of sixty). Also signed by Cunningham on the colophon and by D’Ambrosio on the lower pastedown. With twenty-one illustrations by Gene Holtan: frontispiece, ten mounted full-page illustrations, and ten large vignettes.....

Washington, D.C. National War Garden Commission, 1919. First edition of this booklet published after World War I. The National War Garden Commission was created in 1917. Illustrated with text figures on almost every page. All text and illustrations printed in green. A fine copy. Original buff paper wrappers titled in.....

Oberlin, Ohio: R. Butler, Printer, 1870. Some soiling to wrappers and some foxing to leaves. A very good copy of a rare, fragile item from the first coeducational college in the United States. Original printed light gray wrappers. Small octavo. 1 pp. Oberlin College became coeducational in 1837, though women.....

[Vancouver, B.C.:]: Heavenly Monkey, 2020. One of thirty regular copies bound by Natasha Herman at Heavenly Monkey (out of a total edition of fifty numbered copies and eight hors commerce copies). The biography section on Griffo included here was issued in an earlier form as Millroy’s Fragments and Glimpses (1999).....

London: Longman & Co., [n.d., 1845?]. First edition. [27] leaves, printed on heavy card stock, including title-page in gilt and colors, printed on one side only; four introductory leaves, printed in Black Letter in red and black, on both sides, and [24] leaves of facsimiles from the Hours of Anne.....

Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1878-1881. First edition of this French missal published with the approval Charles-Théodore Colet (1806 – 1883), Archbishop of Tours at the time of publication, and former Bishop of Luçon. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece by Emile Berthiault. Pages bordered in red. Minor occasional foxing.....