Books Arts from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

London: William Pickering, 1825. Hardcover. Contemporary brown cloth. Very good. 314 (4) pages. 9.5 x 6 cm. Miniature book. Original spine paper label chipped with loss. Interior contents clean, illustrated with occasional wood engravings.

New York: Random House, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. tan calf spine and color illustrated boards. Fine in very good publisher's sunned slipcase. 132 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 2000, signed by Donald McKay, fabric and printing by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Drawings by McKay in black and white. Fresh,… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Three quarter green calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers, spines uniformly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands,… Read more about this item

Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Royal blue vertical panels, spine and fore-edge, and decorated front cover in delft blue flower sculptured damask. Teg. Fine. Lily Harmon. 336 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Introduction by Arthur Mizener, Illustrated by Lily Harmon with 12 full page water colors and an equal number of in text black and white… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated white cloth in classical motifs, gilt title. Teg. Fine in very good, spine nicked black cloth dust wrapper, spine printed in gilt.. Ricketts, Charles. 60 pages. 26 x 16 cm. A fictitious character, Jean Paul Raymond, created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate… Read more about this item

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound brown morocco, decorated cloth boards. Teg. Very good. Ravilious, Eric. 76 pages. 34 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 223 of 275 on Batchelor hand-made paper with Golden Cockerel watermark, wood engraved title, borders plus 29 wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious printed in brown and grey/green, bound by Sangorski &… Read more about this item

Paris: Bibliotheque Nouvelle De La Jeunesse, 1884. First French Edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cloth, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Sirouy, Achille. 238 pages. 23 x 19 cm. Illustrated by Achille Sirouy. Preface by Twain in French. Text block firm, Interior contents clean and fresh, covers lightly soiled. Sirouy was an engraver, lithographer, painter and illustrator.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1930. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled cream wrappers. Very good. 9 leaves. 22 x 14 cm. Introduction by Pepler discusses his start, noting "Cobden Sanderson gave me his blessing, but not his type. I had no intention of attempting to reach the "Doves "standard." Nine wood-cut engravings, some by Thomas Derrick, with a… Read more about this item

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound parchment spine and green boards. Fine. Nash, John. 36 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 291 of 380 [350 for sale] on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper with twelve wood engravings by John Nash. Printed in black and green in double columns. CHANTICLEER 23. "An experiment,… Read more about this item

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover escutcheon decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. Bray, Horace Walter. 94 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 192 of 350, wood-engravings designed and cut by Horace Walter Bray type, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Color lithograph escutcheon title page. The life of a Jacobean man… Read more about this item

Gambier, Ohio: The Kenyon Collegian, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Cream wrappers stamped in gold. Near fine. 56 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, assemblage of interviews, photos, recollections, and reflections on John Crowe Ransom, poet, teacher, and editor.

Austin: The Book Club Of Texas, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth covered boards, printed spine paper label. Fine. 109 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, One of 300 copies. Illustrated with Wood Engravings from William H. Emory's Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Facsimile of the original title-page and Map of antebellum… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. leather_bound. Orig full tan morocco, gilt spine title, raised bands. Teg. Fine. 202 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 14 of 1450. Harvey, refusing to believe what he was taught, was the first to understand and explain circulation. One of the major books in the history of medicine. Issued on the occasion… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Fine in clear acetate jacket with some loss. Teg.. Lydia, Mariette. 235 pages. 28 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 387 of 425 printed on Pannekoek paper in the Fleischman Greek and Lutetia types. Designed by Francis Meynell, printed by J. van Krimpen in Holland at the Press… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Orig. half red buckram spine, gold stamped with patterned boards. Fine. 8 vols. 3068 pages. 29 x 17 cm. Extensively annotated by the scholar-members of the Casanova Society of France. Text and notes translated by Arthur Machen; introduction by Havelock Ellis, and designed by Francis Meynell. Extensive Index. Limited edition copy 925… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter calf and gray boards. Near fine in good dust wrapper. 86 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Device on the title page designed by Stephen Gooden. Francis Meynell planned the book which was printed at the Fanfare Press. Limited edition, copy 188 of 1000. Book-label.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. yellow boards with red cloth spine. Backstrip paper label. Very good. 44 pp. 8vo, mostly unopened. Limited edition, copy 258 of 500. Coppard's first book of poems and the seventh book of the press. This was the first book in which separately numbered copies were issued. The book contained… Read more about this item

London: Trianon Press, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. half green morocco and marbled boards. Near fine in matching, fine slipcase. Unpaginated. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Ten plates. This early tract consists of ten etched plates averaging in size about 5.5 x 4 cm. Keynes notes there is "some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced, thought it… Read more about this item

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Hardcover. Original red buckram. Small rear cover spot. Near fine. 73 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Written at the age of 27 in 1627 and published anonymously when a Fellow of Merton College, it presents the experience of a man of the world as well as a cleric, and is even… Read more about this item