• Title: HISTORY | OF | SECRET SOCIETIES, | AND OF THE | REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FRANCE | From 1830 to 1848; | CONTAINING SKETCHES OF | LOUIS-PHILLIPE AND THE REVOLUTION OF FEBRUARY; | TOGETHER WITH | PORTRAITS, CONSPIRACIES, AND UNPUBLISHED FACTS. | BY | LUCIEN DE LA HODDE. | Translated from the Paris Edition of 1850. | BY AN AMERICAN. | PHILADELPHIA: | J. B. LIPPINCOTT AND CO. | 1856. || Pagination: blank leaf, [i, ii] – ht / blind, [iii, iv] – t.p. / imprim., [v-vi] – preface / blind, [vii] viii-xv [xvi] [17] 18-479 [480], blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; [1]-308. Binding: 22.8 x 15 cm, publisher's purple blind-spamped cloth to boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lucien de la Hodde (French, 1808 – 1865). Original title: Histoire des sociétés secrètes et du parti républicain de 1830 à 1848 : Louis-Phillippe et le Révolution de février, portraits, scènes de conspirations, faits inconnus. — Paris: Julien, Lanier, 1850. Translated by John Wolcott Phelps (American, 1813 – 1885).  
  • Title vol. 1: XIX CENTURY FICTION | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD | BASED ON HIS OWN COLLECTION | BY | MICHAEL SADLEIR | IN TWO VOLUMES | VOLUME I | PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE | AND PUBLISHED | in Great Britain by | / CONSTABLE & CO LTD | 10–12 ORANGE STREET | LONDON W.C.2 / in the U.S.A. by the | CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY | PRESS | LOS ANGELES, CAL.|| DJ vol. 1: XIX CENTURY FICTION | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD | BASED ON HIS OWN COLLECTION | BY | MICHAEL SADLEIR | IN TWO VOLUMES | VOLUME ONE | Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac | Explanatory Guide – Acknowledgements | FIRST EDITIONS IN AN AUTHOR-ALPHABET | COMPARATIVE SCARCITIES || Pagination: [4 blanks] ix-xxxiii, [2] 3-398 [399] [2 blanks] Collation: 4to; π2 [a]-d4 [1]-504. Title vol. 2: XIX CENTURY FICTION | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD | BASED ON HIS OWN COLLECTION | BY | MICHAEL SADLEIR | IN TWO VOLUMES | VOLUME II | PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE | AND PUBLISHED | in Great Britain by | / CONSTABLE & CO LTD | 10–12 ORANGE STREET | LONDON W.C.2 / in the U.S.A. by the | CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY | PRESS | LOS ANGELES, CAL.|| DJ vol. 2: XIX CENTURY FICTION | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD | BASED ON HIS OWN COLLECTION | BY | MICHAEL SADLEIR | IN TWO VOLUMES | VOLUME TWO | “YELLOW-BACK” COLLECTION | FICTION SERIES || Pagination: [2 blanks] [8] [2] 3-195 [196 blank] [2 blanks]. Collation: 4to; π4 1-234 246. Binding: burgundy cloth, gilt vertical lettering to spine, Verity Hewitt (Canberra, AU) bookshop sticker to front pastedown; laid paper; cream DJ with lettering to front and spine. Edition: First limited edition of 1025 of which 1000 for sale. Unnumbered.
  • Hardcover, green publisher's paper boards, gilt lettering in the figural frame, black label with gilt lettering and gilt in compartments to spine. 21 x 13.5 cm, print run 2,500. pp.: [4] 5-714 [715/6] [4]. Title: ТОРКВАТО ТАССО | Освобожденный | Иерусалим | Перевод с итальянского | В. С. ЛИХАЧЕВА | Подготовка текста, предисловие, комментарии | А. О. ДЁМИНА | {publisher's device} | Санкт-Петербург | «НАУКА» | 2007 || ISBN 978-5-02-026954-5 Original: Torquato Tasso. La Gierusalemme Liberata.
  • Front pictorial wrapper: ЛЕВ ТИХОМИРОВ | ЗАГОВОРЩИКИ | И | ПОЛИЦИЯ | С ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕМ В. И. НЕВСКОГО | МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ || Title page: РЕВОЛЮЦИОННОЕ ДВИЖЕНИЕ В РОССИИ В МЕМУАРАХ | СОВРЕМЕННИКОВ | ПОД РЕДАКЦИЕЙ В. НЕВСКОГО И П. АНАТОЛЬЕВА | ЛЕВ ТИХОМИРОВ | ЗАГОВОРЩИКИ | И | ПОЛИЦИЯ | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ В. НЕВСКОГО | МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД || Title verso: Обложка – гравюра на дереве | работы Н. П. Дмитровского | {printer’s device} | Издат. № 2633 | Ленинградский Областлит № 8371 | Тираж 5.000 экз. | 1928 г. Back wrapper: Заказы направлять: | [….] | {publisher’s device} | 1 р. 25 коп. | Р || Pagination: [1-3] 4-229 [3]; pp. 205-226 – notes, 227-229 – index. Collation: [1]8 2-148 154. Binding: publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lettering to spine and back cover. Print run 5,000 copies. Provenance: П. Ю. Перкон (to front cover nut-ink inscription: «П. Перкон», blue ink stamp to cover and t.p.: «БИБЛИОТЕКА | П. Ю. ПЕРКОНЪ | №» Personae: Перкон, Петр Юрьевич [Густавович] (Latvian, 1885 – 1938) — member of the communist party (Bolsheviks) since 05.1905; arrested: 05.02.1938, shot: 22.04.1938. — Previous owner. Невский, Владимир Иванович [Кривобоков or Кривобок, Феодосий Иванович] (Russian, 1876 – 1937) — arrested: 20.02.1935, shot: 26.05.1937. — Editor of the series and author of the foreword. Анатольев, П. И. [Фаресов, Анатолий Иванович; Faresov, Anatoly (Russian, 1852 – 1928). — Editor of the series. Тихомиров, Лев Александрович (Russian, 1852 – 1923). — Author of the text. Дмитревский [Дмитриевский; Дмитровский], Николай Павлович (Russian, 1890 — 1938) — arrested 15.12.1937 , shot: 02.01.1938. — Artist/engraver of the woodcut on the cover.
  • Title: МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ | ХРОНОГРАФИЯ |Перевод, статья и примечания | Я. Н. Любарского | КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ | Перевод | Д. А. Черноглазова и Д. Р. Абдрахмановой | «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2003 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [1-8] 9-396 [4], frontis. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 5-89329-594-3. Михаи́л Пселл [Μιχαήλ Ψελλός; Michael Psellos] (Byzantine, 1018 – c. 1078). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003).
  • Front cover: И. ТРОЦКИЙ | ЖИЗНЬ | ШЕРВУДА | ВЕРНОГО | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ПОЛИТКАТОРЖАН | 19 • МОСКВА • 31 || Title page: И. М. ТРОЦКИЙ | ЖИЗНЬ | ШЕРВУДА – ВЕРНОГО | (ОЧЕРКИ И МАТЕРИАЛЫ) | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ВСЕСОЮЗНОГО ОБЩЕСТВА ПОЛИТКАТОРЖАН И ССЫЛЬНО-ПОСЕЛЕНЦЕВ |1 9  МОСКВА  3 1 || Pagination: [1-4] 5-277 [3]. Collation: 8vo;  [1]8 2-178, 184. Binding: Quarter burgundy cloth, paper over cardboard. Library ‘pocket’ to front pastedown. Inscriptions and marks: Inscription to t.p. in purple ink: «323.2/П76»; stamp in purple ink “193” and “3” handwritten; black in stamp “1935”; purple ink oval stamp: «БИБЛИОТЕКА * МОСК. ХУДОЖ. ТЕАТРА *», inside handwritten: 3703; same stamp at p. 278. Print run: 5,000 copies. Contributor: Исаак Моисеевич Троцкий (Russian-Jewish, 1903 – 1937) – author of the text.
  • Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, to front wrapper in frame “П. БЕЗСАЛЬКО | АЛМАЗЫ | ВОСТОКА | С ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕМ | А. ЛУНАЧАРСКОГО | {vignette vase with flowers} | РИСУНКИ | С. ВИТБЕРГА || Ex-library book with stamps and stickers. Title page: П. БЕЗСАЛЬКО | АЛМАЗЫ | ВОСТОКА | {publisher’s device «КНИГОИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ПЕТРОГРАДСКОГО СОВДЕПА / КНИГА НАРОДУ» | Издание Петроградского Совета | Рабочих и Красн. Депутатов | 1919 || Pagination: [1-4] 5-85 [3], total 88 pages, 12 full-page black and white plates. Collation: 8vo; [1]-58 64, total 44 leaves, plates within collation. Contributors: Безсалько, Павел Карпович (Russian, 1887 – 1920) – author. Луначарский, Анатолий Васильевич (Russian, 1875 – 1933) – author if the foreword. Vidbergs, Sigismunds (Latvian-American, 1890 – 1970) – artist. Бельгова, Полина Борисовна (written "ПОЛИНА БОРИСОВНА ЬЕЛЬГОВА") – dedicatee, unidentified.
  • Title (chain border): CANDIDE | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS BY | MAHLON BLAINE | {vignette} | NEW YORK | WILLIAMS, BELASCO | AND MEYERS || Title verso: (top) COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY WILLIAMS, BELASCO & MEYERS || (bottom) PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BY J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK || Pagination:[1-6] 7-144, headpiece, frontispiece and 5 plates after Blaine’s pen drawings, within the pagination. Binding: 25 x 16.5 cm; blue cloth, blind-stamped frame, stamped-gilt lettering to front board and spine, thick wove paper, upper edge blue, fore-edge untrimmed, yellow vergé endpapers. Arouet, François-Marie [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author. Woolf, Herman Irwell [Chambers, Dorset] (British, 1890 – 1958) – translator. Blaine, Mahlon [Hudson, G. Christopher] (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator. Williams, Belasco and Meyers (NY) – publisher. J. J. Little & Ives Company (NY) – printer. See the Cameo Classic reprint [LIB-2777.2021].
  • Vol. 1: Front wrapper and title page (in red and black): CONTES | ET | NOUVELLES | DE | LA FONTAINE | ILLUSTRATIONS | EN COULEURS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | PREMIER ET DEUXIÈME LIVRE | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – blanks, [2] – h.t. / limit., [2] – t.p. / blank, [6] – advert., [2] – d.t.p., 1-164 [165-6], [4] – table, [2] – imprint / blank, [2] – blanks; total 188 pages (94 leaves) with 35 in-text black illustrations, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece. Vol. 2: Front wrapper and title page similar to Vol. 1 but TROISIÈME, QUATRIÈME ET CINQUIÈME LIVRE under the vignette. Pagination: [2] – blanks, [2] – h.t. / limit., [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – d.t.p., 1-233 [234], [4] – table, [2] – colophon / blank, [2] – blanks; total 250 pages (125 leaves) with 42 in-text black illustrations, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece. Edition: Limited edition of 3,000 copies, this copy is № 1 (stamped in black in vol. 1). Printed on the 10th of June, 1938 by J. Dumoulin (H. Barthélemy – director, Louis Malexis – mise en page); stencil-colouring (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier under direction of the artist. Binding: Two volumes 26.3 x 20.3 cm, uniformly bound in publisher’s pictorial flapped wrappers with vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine and publisher’s device to back wrapper. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.