Dante Alighieri. The Vision; or Hell Purgatory, and Paradise. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1869. Reint edition. Twelvemo. 587pp (indexed). Contemporary dark green half-leather over marbled paper boards, spine decorated in gilt, with gilt-stamped title, marbled endleaves.Spine rubbed and cracked, with slight loss at spine head; boards gently rubbed and edgeworn; endleaves.....

[Miniature Book] Ankenbrand, Jr. Frank. A Calendar of Haiku: A Seasonal Dialogue (Robert E. Massmann, REM Miniatures). [New Britain, Conn.]: REM Miniatures, [1970]. First edition, Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at Art Press and signed by Robert E. Massmann. Two folded sheets, closed dimensions: 55 mm x 46 mm.....

William Edmondstone Aytoun. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885.  Thirtieth edition. 16mo (approx. 6.5 x 4.5 inches). Handsomely rebound in red polished morocco by Relfe Brothers of London. Gilt-stamped titles to spine, five raised bands, Royal Mount School of Colwyn Bay crest to front cover, marbled.....

Flora Ellice Stevens. Shores of Nothing. Waco, TX: Printed by Carl Hertzog for Arthur Ewing Stevens, 1942. First edition, one of 115 copies. Octavo. 40pp. Publisher's brick-colored card wraps, stringbound, original glassine dust wrapper.  From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder.....

Richard Herzfeld. Erhard Amadeus Dier, illustrator. Silhouetten: Gedichten Eines Deutsch-Amerikaners (Silhouettes: Poems of a German-American). Wien: Artur Wolf, 1927. First edition. With illustrations signed by Erhard Amadeus Dier. Octavo. 76pp. Illustrated with 16 pencil signed monochrome etchings by Dier. Publisher’s red half-leather over textured paper boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt.....

Paul Bowles. Days – Tangier Journal: 1987 – 1989. New York: The Ecco Press, 1991. First edition. Inscribed by Paul Bowles and Abdeloahaid Boulaich, and signed by Phillip Ramey. Octavo. 108pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s black quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red, original unclipped.....

William Stanley Braithwaite. Lyrics of Life and Love. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1904. First edition. Octavo. 80pp. Author portrait frontispiece. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over charcoal gray paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover in yellow, deckled edges.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and.....

Gwendolyn Brooks. Primer for Blacks. Chicago: Brooks Press, 1980. Second printing. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks: "For Gertrude Baker. / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / June 3, 1984."   Octavo. 15pp. Publisher's blue paper wraps, staplebound. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

Elizabeth B. Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1913. Illustrated edition. 24mo (5.75 x 4.5 inches). Illustrated with mounted engravings. Bound in green three-quarter leather over patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London.  Spine and front cover tooled in gilt, gilt stamped titles in compartments, five raised bands, top.....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Poetical Works of  Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With Two Prose Essays. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. No stated edition. Octavo. 667pp. Bound in blue leather by Riviere & Son, spine and boards decorated in gilt with gilt stamped title to spine, 5 raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn-ins.....

Samuel Butler. William Hogarth, illustrator. Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: With Additions. To which are added Annotations, With an Exact Index to the Whole. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts, Design'd and Engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth. London: Printed for.....

[SIGNED] Raymond Carver. Robert McChesney, illustrator. Winter Insomnia. Santa Cruz: Kayak Books, 1970. First edition, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies.Signed by Raymond Carver. His second published book. Octavo. 56pp. Illustrated with color plates by Robert McChesney. Publisher's perfect bound card wraps.

George Colman, The Younger. My Night-Gown and Slippers; or Tales in Verse. Written in an Elbow Chair. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797. First edition. Inscribed by the author.  Quarto. 33pp.  Bound in burgundy half-morocco over mottled paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, all edges gilt.