The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition, numbered 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches (230 x 145 mm); iv + 152 + ii pages, printed on English hand-made paper in 14 pt....

4 vols.; 8vo, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (165 x 102 mm) , vol. 1: (6), xl, 293; vol. 2: (1), 314; vol. 3: 910, xi, 331; vol. 4: 91), 322. With 28 copperplate engravings designed by F. Hayman and engraved by G. V. Neist; all are signed by both artist and engraver; all have “Vol” and “p.” indications, except those for Vol. I., which have “p." indications only. Three-quarter tan calf binding with marbled paper, all edges stained yellow, gilt title, decorations and raised bands on spine. The antique bindings...

RARE, LIMITED TO 5 COPIES, SIGNED BY ROGERS, EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY. New Southgate: John Bale and Sons for H.A. Rogers, 1887. Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes. AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith...

Quesnot de La Chênée, Jean-Jacques La femme démasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau la Haye (The Hague): Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1698. First Edition. 12mo, 5 x 2 3/4 inc...

A beautiful book produced by Franco Maria Ricci in a limited edition of only 6,000, this being number 1547. With black silk covers and a presentation clam shell box...

Christie's: 2011, Duarte Pinto Coelho Collection, Madrid & Trujillo, Spain. 1st Ed auction catalog with 753 lots all photographed in color and fully descr...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Garzon Florez, illustrator (Colombian, 20th Century), Celso Roman, author (b. 1947)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ...

The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas. Published by Viking, 1981. The White Hotel is a novel written by the British poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas. It was first published in Ja...