GREAT TRADE ROUTE.
New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. 1st Edition (Harvey A77a). 408 pp. Color frontispiece. 8vo. Bluish-grey cloth binding. Brown dust jacket [later issue, with Biala credited]. More
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A CAB At The DOOR. A Memoir.
New York: Random House, (1968). 1st edition. [8], 244, [4] pp. 8vo. Green cloth binding with marooon stamping. Violet topstain. Dust jacket. More
PHYSICAL THEORY Of ANOTHER LIFE.; By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm.
London: William Pickering, 1836. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1595). ix, [1], 321, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/4". Later tan full polished calf binding with gilt spine stamping. Gilt dentelles. Speckled edges. Currer "was born shortly after the death of her father, Richard Richardson Currer in 1785. Shortly before..... More
SPRING COMEDIES.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1871. 1st edition. viii, [2], 340 pp. Contents: A Wedding Story; A Stupid Story; A Scotch Story; A Man's Story. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Publisher's original terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine; light brown eps. Barker [later Broome] was a...... More
MEDITATIONS On DIVINE SUBJECTS. By Mrs. Mary Lloyd.; To Which is Prefixed, An Account of Her Life and Character.
New - York / New - London: Re-printed by S. Green, 1802. 1st printing by this New London printer (American Imprints 2546); first published in 1745 (cf. Sabin 41694). 80 pp. 8vo, in 4s. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". Tan leather spine over period marbled paper boards. Pemberton was Mrs Lloyd's son..... More
The BODY, MIND, And SPIRIT; or, The Life of Nature, of Reason, and of Heaven, Separately Traced in Man.
London: H. J. McClary, 32, Saint James Street, 1853. 1st Edition. 125, [3] pp. 2 page advert for this title follows text. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. "The mental eye beholds by comparison, without a microscope, the..... More
PROSE & RHYME.
Glasgow: R. & J. M'Intyre, 1853. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to one Allen Osborne. [8], 146, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding. Pale yellow eps. More
At The CLUB. Poems.
[Oakland?]: Grand Entrances Press, (1988). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. 23, [3] pp. 8-1/2" x 7". Black & white glossy covers, stapled. "My experiences in Oakland bars provide the inspiration for the poems that follow." The author is "a Black gay poet who lives in Oakland, California. A native of Chicago..... More
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LETTER [1973].
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, (1974). 1st edition. Ltd to 520cc. Unpaginated. 5" x 8". Lt brown wrappers printed in violet. More
PAISAJE Con FIGURAS.
Madrid: Coleccion Juan Ruiz, 1956. 1st Edition. [5] - 104, [6] pp. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Marbled full brown leather binding with green & maroon leather labels to spine. Marbled eps. More
The POETICAL WORKS Of MR. JOHN MILTON.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, 1720. 2 volumes. 590, [14]; 527, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of Milton in each volume. T.p. & internal copperplate vignettes. 4to. 11-1/2" x 9-3/8". Modern speckled brown quarter calf bindings, with marbled paper boards. Deep maroon & black leather..... More
The VICTORIANS And AFTER. 1830 - 1914.; With a Chapter on Economics by Guy Chapman.
New York: Robert M McBride & Co., 1938. 1st edition. 371, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5" Grey cloth binding. Dust jacket. A survey of the literature of the time. More
The DESERTED VILLAGE.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 1st edition thus, i.e., with the Abbey illustrations. xxvi, [2], 119, [1] pp. Illustrated by Edwin A. Abbey R.A. Royal 8vo. Publisher's red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. AEG. Goldsmith's famous pastoral poem, first published in 1770, and here sympathetically illustrated by..... More
APPRECIATIONS And CRITICISMS Of The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1911. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 840). xxx, 243, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. TEG. A collection of Chesterton's introductions used in the Everyman publications of Dickens' works. More
The POPULAR BOOK. A History of America's Literary Taste.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition. [12], 351, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
FARMING.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1891. 1st Edition (Wright 3877). Text unpaginated, though 102 pp. 4 page publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated by Frost. 8vo. 9" x 6". Green cloth spine over green patterned paper boards, with title embossed to front board. Per Wright, "Of a city man..... More
A SELECT COLLECTION Of LETTERS Of The ANTIENTS ...; Written Originally by ... Socrates, Pythagoras, Euripedes, Eenophon, Aristotle .. Hippocrates, Cicero, Seneca, Augustus Casar, Mark Anthony, Brutus and Cassius, ....
London: Printed for T. Hartley, 1703. 1st Edition. [16], 440 pp. P. 223 misnumbered 232. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Modern dark brown quarter leather binding, with marbled paper boards. Dark maroon leather labels to spine. Savage, an author & priest, was an individual described as "very jolly". The DNB tells..... More
The SONG Of HIAWATHA.
Chicago: S. C. Andrews, (1898). Minnehaha Edition. 188, [6] pp. Illustrated 8vo. Pale green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & a floral/pastoral design to front board. TEG. More
VIRGINIA WOOLF.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1942). 1st US Edition. [6], 40, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with yellow lettering. Printed buff paper dust jacket. More
POOR WHITE. A Novel.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. 1st Edition, 1st issue (Ahearn APG 008a; Johnson AFE 4th, p. 25). [6], 371, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Blue cloth binding with light blue topstain. Printed yellow dust jacket. More
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The OLD LIFE - BOAT [as published in] OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. February. Number 38.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st printing. [65] - 128, 4 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Color frontis by Bobbitt & Hooper. Cuts throughout the issue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed orange wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
MAN COLLECTING. Manuscripts and Printed Works of WILLIAM FAULKNER in the University of Virginia.; On Exhibition in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Departments of the University of Virginia Library Charlottesville Virginia. Honoring Linton Reynolds Massey 1900 - 1974.
Charlottesville, Virginia: University Printing Office, 1975. 1st Edition. #87 of 100 hardback copies. SIGNED by the compiler, with her corrections throughout. With a PRESENTATION card laid-in. [6], 142, [2] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Crane was the UVa curator of the..... More
DAYS In The EAST. A Poem.
London: Smith Elder and Co., Cornhill. 1842. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to one "Captain Aurthur" iv, 115, [1 (blank)], 24 pp. Errata slip tipped-in after the blank page, followed by a 24 page July 1842 publisher catalogue. Frontispiece map. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with..... More
SATIRE And SATIRISTS. Six Lectures.
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1854. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1387). INSCRIBED by the author [as "the author"] on the ffep. vi, [2], 276 pp. 24 page January 1854 publisher catalogue [6-7/8" x 4-1/4"] tipped-in at rear. Cut adorns top of p. 1 of the publisher catalogue. 8vo. 7-3/4" x...... More
EDWARD The BLACK PRINCE. A Tragedy.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED presentation copy from the author, signed with his initials. 218, [2 (blank)], 32 pp. 32 page publisher catalogue [dated May 1846] concludes volume. 8vo. 7" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine &..... More