Europe from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1970). First American edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), xv & 168 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket which is quite faded at the spine but otherwise very good. Contents Include: Services: The Epic of Tullus Hostilius and the Myths of Indra: Myth and Epic; The "Horatii" and the "Āptya";… Read more about this item

London: John C. Nimmo, 1893. First edition. Complete in two octavo volumes (9.5" x 7.25"), xxxii & 469; viii, 443 & [2] pages, profusely illustrated including one folding chart of the Sistine Chapel. Publisher's one quarter green over lighter green cloth with the coat of arms of Buonarroti Simoni in gilt, red, blue & black on the upper covers, the… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1930 per K-E date code). Reprint, originally published in 1921. Tall quarto (12.5" x 9.25"), xvii, [2] & 3 - 246 & [1] pages plus 25 plates in black & white plates & 11 in color with two smaller color illustrations tipped-in. Publisher's buff paper over boards with a large color illustration applied… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book & Art Shop, (1966). First American Edition. Tall quarto (12.5" x 10.25"), 192 pages plus numerous plates providing 750 illustrations of which 135 are in color. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt within black blocking on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket & original plain, thick card box. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in near fine… Read more about this item

[Paris]: Chez "Eve"/ Ateliers M. A. D., no date (1938 ?). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.5"), 12 unnumbered pages, with illustrations throughout from photographs often featuring "les Jolies Filles d'Eve" who generally pose sans attire. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps, with whimisical cover illustration by Auguste Liquois. Slight edge wear, lightly foxed, small loss in the lower margin of… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1979). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink at the second blank page by Kilmer. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xiv & 251 pages, illustrated. Publisher's red cloth lettered in yellow on the spine in pictorial dust jacket. Text in French & English. Edges of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in very good… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Company, 1912. Reprint, originally published 1911. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xi & 397 pages, with frontis portrait & numerous plates hors texte. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others uncut. Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled & briefly rubbed mostly at the spine extremities & corners, text block cracking in a… Read more about this item

Venezi: Marsilio Editori, (2016). First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 447 pages, profusely illustrated (often in color). Publishers pictorial paper over boards lettered pale gray on the spine & covers. Text in Italian & English. Lightly rubbed, brief edge wear, small shadow on the rear cover from now removed label, otherwise very good. "A century of Italian interior design seen through the… Read more about this item

Modena, Italy: Franco Cosimo Panini, (1998). Two volumes, first editions. Small folios (12.5" x 9.75"), 512 pages (text & architectural elevations & plans); 699 pages (plates "Atlas"). Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated black linen in thick plain plastic dust jackets housed in a gilt-lettered & color illustrated slipcase. Text in Italian & English. Text block on the plate volume beginning to slip… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in the year of publication at the first blank page by Colonel Booth. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Top corners bruised, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very… Read more about this item

London: Edward Moxon, 1839. Early printing of the first illustrated edition, originally published in 1830. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.25"), viii & 327 pages, with illustrations in text throughout. Later 19th century full green pebbled morocco lettered in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. Binding moderately rubbed, corners bruised, foxing mostly at pastedowns, endpapers, & early leaves, otherwise Very Good. … Read more about this item

Benjamin, Park (editor). Celebrated Crimes ... The Countess of Saint Geran ... as published in The New World. New York: J. Winchester, Extra series, number 81, May, 1843. Small folio, (12.25" by 8.25"), 32 pages & covers. Original self wraps, sewn, with an engraved illustration at the masthead with sentiment below: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; For the whole… Read more about this item

New York: Orion Press, 1970. First American edition. Octavo (8.25 x 5.5"), 439 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's black cloth lettered in blue & silver, in pictorial dust jacket. Top edge stained blue. Margins slightly sunned, otherwise fine in near very good, lightly soiled dust jacket with edge wear including modertate losses mostly at the bottom of the rear panel. "It is… Read more about this item

Goteborg, Sweden: Goteborgs Konstnarsklubb. Two issues, N: R 3, [Volume 1, No. 3], 1940; N: R 4 [Volume 1, no. 4], 1940. First editions. Quartos (11.5" x 8.5"), 24 & 28 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's stapled pictorial card covers. Text in Swedish. Modest edge wear, light soiling/ staining to the covers of one issue, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good. Paletten is… Read more about this item

Boston: Porter Sargent, (1935). First trade edition. Quarto (10.5" x 7.5"), 332 & [1] pages plus LXXX plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth. Binding lightly soiled & sunned, bruise at the top edge of the lower cover, brief foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good. An exhaustive account, chapters include: The Origin and Spread of Mosaic; The Characteristics and Technique of… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, Dissertation Services (microfilm of typescript), 1981. Octavo (8.25" x 6.5"), 22 erratically paginated preliminary leaves including errata & 296 pages, all printed recto only. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Cloth lightly spotted, otherwise very good. "The Old Orthodox, those who remained faithful to the Orthodox Church as it was before the changes of the mid-seventeenth century,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's name & date at ffep, minor foxing mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear including a few short closed tears & tiny losses, soiled, foxed, rubbed, & browned at the… Read more about this item

Benjamin, Park (editor). Pauline ... as published in The New World. New York: J. Winchester, Extra series, number 31; volume II, number 7, November, 1842. Tall quarto, (12.25" by 8.25"), 32 pages. Original self wraps, sewn, with an engraved illustration at the masthead entitled "for the whole boundless continent is ours." Text in two columns. Toned, stained, moderately tattered, shallow diagonal… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Chez Devambez, [1918]. Pictorial paper wraps, sewn. Paris: Chez Devambez, no date [1918]. Oblong sextodecimo (5" x 6.5"), 28 unnumbered pages providing text in English with 12 color pochoir illustrations captioned in French adjacent. Printed on thick laid paper. Original printed & illustrated self wraps, sewn.Moderately soiled, edge wear including a small loss at the lower corner… Read more about this item

London: David Nutt, 1898. London: David Nutt, 1898 First edition Small octavo (775" x 525"), viii, [1] & 462 pages plus [2] pages of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt Binding lightly spotted & soiled, foxing & offsetting at pastedowns & endpapers, otherwise Very Good The author was an authority on poet Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of… Read more about this item