London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. 4to. quarter leather, cloth, top edge gilt. (iv), 43, (2) pages. Limited to 275 numbered copies. (Chanticleer 53). Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. The smallest touch of fading to the leather spine, else a beautiful copy. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. In his True History, which begins by warning the reader that its events are completely untrue and impossible, Lucian describes a voyage that starts on the.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. 8vo. original brown cloth, paper spine label. xxviii, (29)-278, (2), (12) pages. Volume 1 (of two) volumes. First edition of author's first book. (BAL 1152). With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume ("Just Published ... Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"). No priority assigned by BAL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in.....