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1912138734London: T. Werner Laurie 1912. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-261 262: blank 263-264: ads note: first leaf is a blank first signature printed in blue and black original mottled green cloth front panel stamped in black spine panel stamped in gold publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. Mixed collection of romances; title story an absurdly syllogistic utopia in a wicked parody of Swift; "Zero" a clairvoyant bulldog loyal unto death; "In a London Garden" a sequence of short fables including "The Little Death" and "The Ghostly Music" thanatophilia recalling youthful fantasies. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-280. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1283. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 143. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1662-64. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 152. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Reginald 11119. Hubin 1994 p. 624. NCBEL IV 698. Lacks the front free endpaper scattered foxing to preliminaries owner's signature on first blank a very good copy. #138734 T. Werner Laurie unknown books
1912118830London: T. Werner Laurie 1912. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-261 262: blank 263-264: ads note: first leaf is a blank title and half-title pages printed in blue and black original mottled green cloth front panel stamped in dark green spine panel stamped in gold publisher's monogram stamped in dark green on rear panel. First edition. Mixed collection of romances; title story an absurdly syllogistic utopia in a wicked parody of Swift; "Zero" a clairvoyant bulldog loyal unto death; "In a London Garden" a sequence of short fables including "The Little Death" and "The Ghostly Music" thanatophilia recalling youthful fantasies. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-280. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1283. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 143. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1662-64. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 152. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Reginald 11119. Hubin 1994 p. 624. NCBEL IV 698. Armorial bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Slight spine lean mild tanning to endpapers and minor foxing to edges of text block a bright very good or better copy. #118830 T. Werner Laurie unknown books
1902156158New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1902. Octavo pp. 1 i-iv v-viii ix-x 1-263 264: blank 84 illustrations by Tom Browne original dark red cloth front stamped in white and black spine stamped in black. First edition. "Ansteyan fantasy about a ring which causes each of its owners to take on the personality traits of the previous one. The central motif is more interesting than the ones tiredly exhibited by the common run of Ansteyan pastiches." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-282. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Literature 1279. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy p. 742. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Reginald 11120. NCBEL IV 698. Spine panel a bit darkened touch of wear to spine ends and corner tips inner hinges cracked some foxing to the first few and last few leaves a very good copy. #156158 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
190295557London: Grant Richards 1902. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-xii 1-230 231 232: blank 87 illustrations by Tom Browne original pictorial red cloth front panel stamped in black and white spine panel stamped in black. First edition. "Ansteyan fantasy about a ring which causes each of its owners to take on the personality traits of the previous one. The central motif is more interesting than the ones tiredly exhibited by the common run of Ansteyan pastiches." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-282. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Literature 1279. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy p. 742. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Reginald 11120. NCBEL IV 698. Corner tips a trifle soft a bright nearly fine copy. #95557 Grant Richards unknown books
687683 engraved plates. 5 1 pp. 4 leaves of explanatory text one leaf of ads at end an Isaac Taylor catalogue. Large 4to cont. speckled calf carefully rebacked by Aquarius double gilt fillet round sides spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: I. Taylor 1774. First edition and a fine copy with the "Schlossbibliothek Dessau" stamp on verso of title. This was one of the most successful and influential of the 18th-century architectural pattern books and was extremely successful in popularizing the Adam style of ornamentation. This is the first of Pain's books to express the influence of Robert Adam. Pain "was constantly in print either with a new book - he published eleven between 1758 and 1793 - or with a revised enlarged edition of an earlier one. In America the demand for his books exceeded that of any other eighteenth-century English author. "Intending 'plainly and faithfully to answer the purpose of the manual artificer' he pared his text to essential instructions and wherever possible engraved these on the plates themselves for the convenience of working users. The plates are the raison d'être of his books. They are clear unpretentious undeceptive outline representations of whole parts.and of details in a scale large enough to work from."-Harris pp. 338-39. Fine copy. Some offsetting of plates and title browned around edges. ❧ Harris 640. unknown books
6877148 engraved plates several double-page and one double-page & folding. 3 p.l. 15 leaves of explanatory text. 4to cont. marbled sheep joints well-repaired flat spine gilt. London: J. Taylor 1823. The "Ninth Edition" and a fine copy. The first edition appeared in 1788. Pain "was constantly in print either with a new book - he published eleven between 1758 and 1793 - or with a revised enlarged edition of an earlier one. In America the demand for his books exceeded that of any other eighteenth-century English author. "Intending 'plainly and faithfully to answer the purpose of the manual artificer' he pared his text to essential instructions and wherever possible engraved these on the plates themselves for the convenience of working users. The plates are the raison d'être of his books. They are clear unpretentious undeceptive outline representations of whole parts.and of details in a scale large enough to work from."-Harris pp. 338-39. Scarce. The plates are numbered 1-146 with the additional "Back Plate 3" and "Face Plate 65." ❧ Harris 660. unknown books
1919132084London Glasgow Melbourne Auckland: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1919. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-235 236: printer's imprint 237-342: ads four inserted plates with illustrations by Arthur Garratt original red cloth front panel stamped in blind spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Twelve problems solved by the Problem Club. Queen The Detective Short Story 84. Hubin 1994 p. 624. Cloth a bit soiled mostly spine panel mild wear to cloth at upper spine end a very good copy. Scarce. #132084 W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. unknown books
1916142404London: Martin Secker 1916. Small octavo pp. 1-7 7-63 64: printer's imprint original black cloth printed paper label on spine. First edition. An idiosyncratic essay by a writer who was a fine practitioner of the form himself. Part of a series of a dozen or so short books the publisher commissioned dealing with various literary genres and forms. Some faint damp staining to cloth especially on spine panel offsetting to free endpapers a good copy of an uncommon wartime book. #142404 Martin Secker unknown books
19359068Privately printed 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Light water damage to cover touch of foxing boards minutely warped else tight bright and unmarred. Orange boards and navy blue binders tape. 8vo. 43pp 6 leaves of plates. Illus. mono-prints <br/><br/>Limited and privately printed edition of one thousand copies for sale only to adult collectors of curiousa and students of psychology. Illustrated in color with bright color block mono printing. Scarce and out-of-print limited edition novel for those engaged and otherwise interested in sadomasochistic fantasy and/or communities. [Privately printed] hardcover books
021879New York; 1893: Cassell Publishing Co. First American Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece 328pp. Cassell's Juvenile Series. Illustrated. The story of two young men Graeme and Cyril who had been constant companions. This is a story of the two boys growing up. Bound in gold cloth lettered and decorated in red spine lettered in gilt decorated in red. Spine darkened closed tear to frontispiece. A very good copy. Cassell Publishing Co unknown books
18931336354New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo; Good; pp 328; dark yellow/burgundy pictorial spine with gilt text; no jacket; decorated front in burgundy; exterior shows modest shelf wear; minor rubbing to edges and joints; lightly smudged rear; sturdy boards; text block exterior has age toned somewhat; gift inscription to ffep; frontispiece; mild toning toward interior edges; defect to gutter at pp 156-157 236-237; illustrated. 1336354. FP New Rockville Stock. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
