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DEATH COMES For The ARCHBISHOP.

Cather, Willa [1873 - 1947].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 1st trade edition (Crane A16.i). [8], 303, [1 (publisher colophon)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green linen cloth binding with printed paper title labels to spine & front board. No dust jacket. The much-hyped typos [P. 20 & 57] touted as first edition issue...

Price: $225.00

The AUTOBIOGRAPHY Of ARTHUR MACHEN.; With an Introduction by Morchard Bishop and with Three Portraits.

Machen, Arthur [1863 - 1947].

London: The Richards Press, 1951. 1st Edition thus (Goldstone & Sweetser 20j & 21g). 307, [1] pp. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. 8vo. Original publisher's brick red cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Red topstain. Printed grey paper dust jacket. Contains "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and...

Price: $125.00

The RIME Of The ANCIENT MARINER.; With an Introduction by John Livingston Lowes.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Lowes, John Livingstone - Contributor. Wilson, Edward A. - Illustrator.

New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). Reprint. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over printed pictorial green cloth boards. Lacks slipcase.

Price: $20.00

SALOME. A Tragedy in One Act.; Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with a New Introduction by Holbrook Jackson.

Wilde, Oscar [1854 - 1900]. Douglas, Lord Alfred [1870 - 1945] - Translator. Jackson, Holbrook [1874 - 1948] - Contributor. Angelo, Valenti [1897 - 1982] - Illustrator.

New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). 1st edition thus, i.e., with the Angelo illustrations. Cf. VALENTIA ANGELO [BCC: 1976, pp. 64-65]. [3] - 51 pp. Printed french-fold. Each page with yellow & orange decorative border. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering...

Price: $25.00

The WORKS Of BEAUMONT And FLETCHER, In Fourteen Volumes. With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes.

Beaumont, Francis [1585? - 1616] & John Fletcher [1579 - 1625]. Weber, Henry - Editor.

London: Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, 1812. 1st edition thus (NCBEL I, 1709). Per the NCBEL, this set adds "Faithful Friends" 14 volumes. 2 portraits & a facsimile plate in Volume I. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Period full calf bindings with gilt stamped & decorated spines. Red speckled edges...

Price: $295.00

In GHOSTLY JAPAN.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904].

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Limited, 1899. 1st UK edition (Perkins, p. 40). Cf. BAL 7934n. [12], 241, [1 (blank)] pp. Bound with the US sheets. Illustrated with frontis, 3 inserted plates & intratextual cuts/drawings. Crown 8vo. Pale blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering & white floral design. TEG.

Price: $145.00

The WORKS Of BEN. JONSON. In Seven Volumes.; Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected; with Notes Critical and Explanatory.

Jonson, Benjamin [1573? - 1637]. Whalley, Peter [1722 - 1791] - Editor.

London: Printed for D. Midwinter .... 1756. 1st edition thus (NCBEL I, 1655). 7 volumes. LIst of Subscribers in Volume I. This set adds "The Case is Altered" in Vol. VII. Copperplate frontis engraving of Jonson in Volume I. 10 copperplate engravings. 8vo. Period full brown calf bindings with maroon...

Price: $750.00

The FIRST [SECOND THIRD] TOUR Of DOCTOR SYNTAX, In Search of the Picturesque [of Consolation; of a Wife]; A Poem. Three Volumes.

Combe, William.

London: Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, 1855. Later editions. [4], 272; [4], 277, [1 (blank)]; [4], 279, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated in color by T. Rowlandson. Volume I: frontis, engraved t.p. with vignette, 29 inserted & numbered plates, b/w tailpiece p. 272; Volume II: frontis & 23 inserted plates; Volume...

Price: $450.00

The POETICAL WORKS. In Seven Volumes. A New and Revised Edition.

Wordsworth, William [1770 - 1850].

London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Later edition. 7 volumes. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 12mo. Period maroon half-calf with marbled boards, edges & eps. Spines extra gilt, with maroon & dark green spine labels.

Price: $175.00

The POETICAL WORKS Of GEOFFREY CHAUCER.; With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.

Chaucer, Geoffrey [ca 1343 - 1400?]. Morris, Richard [1833 - 1894] - Editor. Nicolas, Sir Harris [1799 - 1848] - Contributor.

London: Bell and Daldy York Street, (n. d.). Later edition, ca late 1880s / early 1890s. 6 volumes: I. Memoir. Introductory Discourse Glossary. II-III. Canterbury Tales. IV. The Court of Love. The Parlement of Briddes. The Boke of Cupide. The Flower and the Leaf. Troylu and Cryseyde. V. Troylus and...

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The QUEEN Of The AIR:; Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm.

Ruskin, John [1819 - 1900].

London: George Allen, 1900. Fifteenth Thousand. x, [2], 270, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG.

Price: $35.00

The WORKS Of EPICTETUS. In Two Volumes.; Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments. Translated from the Greek.

Epictetus [ca 55 - 135 AD]. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth - Translator.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1891. New and Revised Edition. 2 volumes: xvii, [3], 221, [1 (blank)]; iv, 288 pp (including Index). 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Period dark green half-morocco bindings with marbled boards & eps. TEG.

Price: $75.00

The PLAYS Of PHILIP MASSINGER, In Four Volumes.; With Notes Critical and Explanatory, by W. Gifford, Esq.

Massinger, Philip [1583 - 1640]. Gifford, William [1756 - 8126] - Editor.

London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F. and C. Rivington; ... By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleverland-Row, St. James's. 1805. 1st Edition. 4 volumes: clix, [1 (blank)], 343, [1 (blank)]; 520; 590, [2]; [2], 589, [1 (errata)] pp. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo. Original publishers green half-morocco, with marbled boards, edges & eps.

Price: $175.00

The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order... In Two Volumes. [bound with] The PRINCIPAL CORRECTIONS And ADDITIONS to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of DR. JOHNSON.

[Johnson, Samuel. 1709 - 1784]. Boswell, James [1740 - 1795].

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1791. 1st edition, 1st issue (Grolier 100 ENGLISH, #65; Pottle 79). 2 volumes: xii, [16], 516, [2 (blank)]; [4], 586, [2], 42 pp. Vol II, p 585 misnumbered 587; 586 as 588. Other mispaginations [see Pottle]. Vol I, p....

Price: $7,500.00

MISCELLANIES.; Articles and Stories Now First Collected by Albert Mordell.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904]. Mordell, Albert - Editor.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. 1st UK edition (BAL 7985). 2 volumes. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale blue dust jackets printed in dark blue. "Miscellanies contains a collection of articles and stories written by Lafcadio Hearn before he went to...

Price: $225.00

KOTT . Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904].

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1902. 1st edition (BAL 7938; Perkins, pp. 45-46). vii, [3], 251, [3] pp. Adverts last two pages. Title page in 3rd state. Illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. 8vo. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering/cover device. TEG. Dust jacket, which replicates binding design. Uncommon in jacket.

Price: $225.00

HISTORICAL SKETCH BOOK And GUIDE To NEW ORLEANS And Environs. With Map.; Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City. Edited and Compiled by Several Leading Writers of the New Orleans Press.

Coleman, William H. - Compiler. Cable, George Washington [1844 - 1925]; Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904] - Contributors.

New York: Will H. Coleman, No. 70 Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885. 1st edition, Third Printing, State A (BAL 2340/7915; Howes C574; Perkins, pp 8 - 10). Per Perkins, "Second issue" [4], 324 pp. 2 page index at rear. Final gathering State A. Chapter XL, pp. 293 - 299 by...

Price: $2,250.00

The MEDICI.

Young, Colonel G. F.

London: John Murray, 1930. Reprint, first published in 1909. 2 volumes: xxix, [3], 538; xii, 576 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine.

Price: $50.00

GLEANINGS In BUDDHA-FIELDS.; Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904]. Whitman, Sarah Wyman [1842 - 1904] - Binding designer.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Limited, (1897). Later edition, cf. BAL 7929 for the 1st edition of 1897. 296 pp. Bound with the US sheets. Crown 8vo. 7" x 4-3/4". Blue cloth with gilt lettering / design [by Sarah Wyman Whitman]. TEG.

Price: $25.00

LETTERS Of A POET To A MUSICIAN. Lafcadio Hearn to Henry E. Krehbiel.; [as published in] The CRITIC And Literary World. April 1906. Vol. 48 No 4

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904]. Krehbiel, Henry E.

New Rochelle: Published for The Critic Company by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. 1st printing. Pp 309 - 318. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8". Original publisher's buff paper covers printed in red & black. Krebhbiel was the dedicee for Hearn's work, "Some Chinese Ghosts"

Price: $95.00

HEARN And His BIOGRAPHERS.; The Record of a Literary Controversy. Together with a Group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904]. Lewis, Oscar [1893 - 1992]. Tunison, Joseph [1849 - 1916].

San Francisco: The Westgate Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press]. 1930. 1st edition (BAL 8015; Magee 133). Limited to 350 cc. [8], 110, [2] pp. Facsimile photograph, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, captioned tissue guards for each. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Green quarter cloth over burnt orangish boards. Printed paper title label to spine.

Price: $75.00

FATHER And I. Memories of Lafcadio Hearn.

[Hearn, Lafcadio. 1850 - 1904]. Koizumi, Kazuo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. 1st edition (BAL Vol 4, p. 105). viii, [4], 208 pp. Frontispiece. 3 inserted plates. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Linen cloth binding with blue & red lettering/rules. Pale blue dust jacket.

Price: $47.50

The ROMANCE Of The MILKY WAY and Other Studies & Stories.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. 1st edition (BAL 7943; Grolier Catalogue 124). xiii, [1], 209, [1] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brownish-grey cloth binding with yellow decorations [designed by Bruce Rogers]. Top edge stained yellow.

Price: $75.00

The FATE Of VIRGIL as Conceived by Dante.; A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter Savage Landor and Willard Fiske.

Anderson, Melville Best.

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. 1st Edition (O'Day, p. 75). #92 / 350 cc. v, [1 (blank)], 19, [3] pp. Small folio. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4". Green cloth spine over blue-gray paper wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to spine & front cover. Per O'Day, "This imagined conversation...

Price: $47.50

APPRECIATIONS Of POETRY.; Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.

Hearn, Lafcadio [1850 - 1904]. Erskine, John [1879 - 1951] - Editor.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922. Later printing of the UK edition, cf. BAL 7958n. xiv, [2], 408 pp (including Index). 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine.

Price: $45.00

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