(East Aurora, New York: Printed and Bound by the Roycrofters, 1915). First edition. A drama about the adventures of Ulysses after the capture of Troy, while en route home by sea, when he encounters the Isle of the Enchantress Circe. Isaac Flagg (1843-1931) was a Greek professor at UC Berkeley.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Second edition; first separate illustrated edition. BAL 9789. A handsome large format illustrated edition of Howells' famous Christmas story, one of the most popular and often read American Yuletide tales. Christmas Every Day was first published in 1893 with two other stories.....
(New York: American Art Union), 1849. First American Art-Union edition. BAL 10340; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 603. ¶ One of several collaborations between the great American artist Felix O.C. Darley and the great American author Washington Irving, two of which were publications for the American Art Union of stories.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First illustrated edition. BAL 10353; not found in Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators. A popular tale of early Dutch settlers in New York by Washington Irving, which first appeared in Bracebridge Hall (1922). Here it is separately printed with ten lithographed plates after drawings.....
(Santa Cruz: The Quail Press, 1977). First edition, number 205 of 240 numbered copies, signed by Killion. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
London: "Fun" Office, 1885. First edition. BAL 11628. From the library of the publishers of this volume, the Dalziel brothers, the large and highly skilled clan of illustrators and engravers that played a key role in English illustration of the Victorian era. The Dalziels published several poems by Charles Godfrey.....