Sunday, May 11, 2014

1895 A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES ROBINSON - STUNNING ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING - First American Edition

1895

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES ROBINSON

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ STUNNING ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.

Features:
• measures about 7.5" x 5.25"
• beautiful publisher's decorative green cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• intricate embossed gold gilt stamping to all three panels
• textblock top edge gilt, otherwise deckle edge
• frontispiece portrait and vignette title page
• profusely illustrated by Charles Robinson





Thursday, May 8, 2014

1903 STORY OF A SHORT LIFE BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING - PICTORIAL FINE BINDING

1903

THE STORY OF A SHORT LIFE
BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. H. WILLARD

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC CHILDREN'S ***

Publisher:
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1903.

Features:
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.5''
• beautiful decorative bright green cloth pictorial fine binding
• embossed color stamping
• frontispiece and vignette title page
• illustrated with full-page plates and part-page illustrations



Wednesday, May 7, 2014

1906 NATURE YEAR BOOK OF POETRY - ILLUSTRATED - PRINTED BY THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS - FULL SUEDE LEATHER BINDING

1906 FIST EDITION

NATURE YEAR BOOK
EDITED BY ESTHER MATSON

ILLUSTRATED

PRINTED BY THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS

*** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EMBOSSED GILT FULL SUEDE LEATHER FINE BINDING ~ ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

SELECTIONS FROM MANY IMPORTANT AUTHORS, INCLUDING
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, JOHN KEATS, EDMUND SPENSER, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, CONFUCIUS, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, ROBERT BROWNING, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, THOMAS CARLYLE, ROBERT BURNS, ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, WILLIAM COWPER, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, JOHN BURROUGHS, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, JONATHAN SWIFT, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, FRANCIS BACON, THOMAS GRAY, AUSTIN DOBSON, ETC., ETC.

New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1906.
Printed by D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press.

• First Edition - title page date matches copyright date - no additional printings listed
• measures about 7'' x 4.75''
• beautiful full flexible (limp, yapp edge) suede leather Arts & Crafts style fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• pictorial endpapers printed in brown
• frontispiece
• vignette color title page
• illustrated with full-page plates




Tuesday, May 6, 2014

CA. 1910 THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS BY JOHN BUNYAN - ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. BENNETT - Art Nouveau Binding

CA. 1910

THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
BY JOHN BUNYAN

WITH A PREFACE BY CHARLES KINGSLEY
AND 118 ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES H. BENNETT

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ DECORATIVE FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ CLASSIC ~  BIBLE PASSAGE REFERENCES ***

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, no date, circa 1910.

• measures about 8'' x 5.5''
• beautiful decorative blue cloth Art Nouveau poster style fine binding
• color stamping
• frontispiece
• illustrated with full-page color plates, black and white plates, and part-page illustrations





Monday, May 5, 2014

1902 POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN (LEAVES OF GRASS) - RARE ANTIQUE EDITION - ART NOUVEAU BINDING

1902

THE POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN
(LEAVES OF GRASS)

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1902.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and white stamping
• frontispiece photo portrait of Whitman with tissue-guard
• extra vignette title page printed in red and black - designed by Theodore B. Hapgood with his monogram lower left



Sunday, May 4, 2014

1906 FROM THE RANCH TO THE WHITE HOUSE - LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT BY EDWARD S. ELLIS - Pictorial Binding

1906

FROM THE RANCH TO THE WHITE HOUSE

LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
AUTHOR, LEGISLATOR, FIELD SPORTSMAN, SOLDIER,
REFORMER AND EXECUTIVE

BY EDWARD S. ELLIS

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ ROUGH RIDERS ~ SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ~ BATTLE AND CAMPAIGN DETAILS ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
New York: Hurst & Company, 1906.

Features:
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful decorative tan cloth pictorial poster-style fine binding
• embossed gold gilt spine lettering and color stamping
• frontispiece



Saturday, May 3, 2014

1926 COMPLEAT ANGLER BY IZAAK WALTON & CHARLES COTTON - ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND H. NEW FULL LEATHER SIGNED-BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE

1926

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
BY IZAAK WALTON & CHARLES COTTON

EDITED BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND H. NEW

*** RARE EDITION ~ FULL LEATHER GILT TOOLED FINE SIGNED-BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE ~ CLASSIC FISHING, ANGLING, SPORT ~ FINE MINT BOOK ***

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926.

• book measures 7.25" x 5"&
• hand-made full green morocco leather binding signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe on front turn-in
• spine in six compartments with gilt lily pads, tied fly, fish, lettering, borders and corner dot decorations
• front cover carries over border and corner decorations, adding large gilt vignette from the first edition title page and embossed cords at front hinge
• gilt stamped rule to all edges of boards, more gilt decoration to edge of spine ends
• textblock all edges gilt
• pictorial endpapers with gilt-ruled leather turn-ins
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• profusely illustrated throughout
• silk ribbon page-marker
• 454 pages + " The Anglers Calendar"
• full leather velvet-lined clamshell box (worn) also made and signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe









Friday, May 2, 2014

1911 LETTERS THAT LIVE - FINE SIGNED-BINDING BY BERTHA STUART - First Edition

1911 FIRST EDITION

LETTERS THAT LIVE
SELECTED BY LAURA E. LOCKWOOD AND MAY R. KELLY

SIGNED-BINDING BY BERTHA STUART [BS]

*** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EMBOSSED GILT FINE BINDING ~ ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE ~ CLASSIC LETTERS ***

INCLUDES LETTERS FROM MANY IMPORTANT AUTHORS AND HISTORICAL FIGURES, INCLUDING
JANE AUSTEN, CHARLES DARWIN, LEWIS CARROLL, EMILY DICKINSON, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, MATTHEW ARNOLD, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, WALTER SCOTT, ROBERT SOUTHEY, GEORGE CRABBE, JON KEATS, JOHN ADAMS, JOHN DONNE, DEAN SWIFT, ALEXANDER POPE, THOMAS GRAY, SAMUEL JOHNSON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, WILLIAM COWPER, ROBERT BURNS, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, CHARLES DICKENS, EDWARD FITZGERALD, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, CHARLES KINGSLEY, THOMAS HOOD, GEORGE ELIOT, ETC.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.

• First Edition - title page date matches copyright date - no additional printings listed
• measures about 7'' x 5.5''
• beautiful green cloth Arts & Crafts style fine signed-binding by Bertha Stuart [BS]
• ornate embossed gilt stamping to front, back, and spine
• textblock all edges gilt
• pictorial endpapers by Paul Martin (dated 1911)




Thursday, May 1, 2014

CA. 1899 STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - ANTIQUE FINE BINDING

CA. 1899

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC ***

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date, circa 1899.

• measures about 6'' x 4.25''
• beautiful decorative red cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed silver gilt stamping