Item 453Idylles de Bion et de Moschus

Bion of Phlossa; Moschos of Syracuse; Jean-Baptiste Gail (translator)

Fine early unsigned binding on this French translation of minor Greek poets. There are two duplicate plates, and a third duplicate plate appears to have been excised. Two stamps to title page of Luka Szanton, one dated 1906.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune... Chez Gail, L'An Troisiéme [i.e. 1794-1795]. Illustrated with five plates after Barbier, including portrait frontispiece of the translator, J.B. (Jean-Baptiste) Gail. 106, [2 advertisement] pp. Binding height: 5.75" (14.6 cm). Early straight-grain red morocco, attractively gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with five plates after Barbier, including portrait frontispiece of the translator, J.B. (Jean-Baptiste) Gail. 106, [2 advertisement].....

Item 181The Raven and the Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan Poe; John Henry Nash (typographer)

San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Co., [1907]. Illustrated from photogravures after paintings by Galen J. Perrett, and initials and decorations by Will Jenkins. Typography by John Henry Nash Publisher's quarter sheep, gray boards, decorations in black and lettering in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

Item 211Selected Poems

Gerard Manley Hopkins

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1954. Publisher's vellum-backed patterned boards; **LACKS slipcase**.

Item 7The Helmsman

James Vincent Cunningham

Cunningham's first published book. Number 2 in the Colt Press Poetry Booklets series.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1942. 31 pp. One of 300 copies, only 150 of which were bound by Colt Press. First Edition. Publisher's stiff boards with floral-illustrated jacket pasted on, printed cover label. 31 pp. One of 300 copies, only 150 of which were bound by Colt Press.

Item 186Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

First trade edition of the Pennyroyal Press/California issue of the classic illustrated by Barry Moser.

University of California Press: Berkeley, 1985. Illustrated with reproductions of woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with reproductions of woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith.

Item 120Candide

Voltaire

New York: Pantheon Books, [1944]. Illustrated by Paul Klee. This is copy IX, one of 50 hand-bound by Gerhard Gerlach with two sets of separate prints of the illustrations in rear pocket, 26 each on white and yellow tissue paper. There were 625 total copies in the edition. Does not include the original plain slipcase. Publisher's morocco-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated by Paul Klee. This is copy IX, one of 50 hand-bound by Gerhard Gerlach with two sets of separate prints of the illustrations in rear pocket, 26 each on white and yellow tissue paper. There were 625.....