DR. F. J. FURNIVALL. Victorian Scholar Adventurer.
Norman, Oklahoma: Pilgrim Books Inc., (1983). 1st Edition. 302 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Blue dust jacket. More
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ENGLISH LITERATURE At The CLOSE Of The MIDDLE AGES.; Edited by F.P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobree.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. 2nd printing, with corrections. [8], 247, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 21.5 cm x 15 cm. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
The COMING PRINCE or The Seventy Weeks of Daniel with an Answer to the Higher Criticism.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. Seventh Edition. lv, [1 (blank)], 311, [3] pp. 2 page advert at rear. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine (professionally recased, with cloth reinforcement to hinges). More
LONDON ALMANACK For The YEAR Of CHRIST 1861.
[London]: [Company of Stationers], 1861. 1st printing thus (Welsh 4677). Unpaginated. though 24 printed pages. Illustrated, including double page engraving of Royal Freemason's School for Female Children. 2-5/16" x 1-1/4" Full maroon morocco binding. AEG. Pale yellow eps. Full deep maroon slipcase. More
THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION.
London: The Trianon Press for the Blake Trust, 1972. 1st edition thus. 1 of 616. 2 volumes. 20 plates in color collotype and stencil. 4to; 8vo Quarter sienna-brown morocco, marbled boards, slipcase. A facsimile of the Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress; description and bibliographical statement by Sir Geoffrey... More
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA; or, A Classical Dictionary, Containing A Full Account of all the Proper Names Mentioned in Antient Authors.; To Which are Subjoined, Tables of Coins, Weights, and Measures, In Use among the Greeks and Romans.
Reading: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788. 1st Edition (PMM 236). Unpaginated. 8vo. Period full brown calf with gilt stamped maroon title label to spine. "... the first of a new kind of manual: the rendering of a body of knowledge not easily accessible in any other form into a series... More
![The Staircase of Fairlawn Manor. A Christmas Story. [to be published in] The LADIES HOME JOURNAL. Christmas. Publisher Advertising Brochure, Mamie Dickens, Mary. 1838 - 1896.](/pictures/thumb/44732.jpg?v=1542149900)
The Staircase of Fairlawn Manor. A Christmas Story. [to be published in] The LADIES HOME JOURNAL. Christmas.
[Philadelphia]: [1891]. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. Illustrated with 4 cuts, including one of Mamie Dickens. 5-1/2" x 4-1/4". Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An advertising brochure for the Christmas issue of LADIES HOME JOURNAL [December, 1891. Vol IX, No. 1], which features Part I of this story by Mamie Dickens. More
The RED ROMANCE.
London / Chicago / New York: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, (1899). 1st Edition in English. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION by the Translator, on the ffep, in the year of publication. 212, [12 (publisher adverts)] pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8". Original publisher's red cloth binding with siver stamped lettering. "One of the proteges... More
GREED. Parts 8, 9, 11; Broadside / Flyer No. 6
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, (n. d.). First Edition. Single sheet of blue paper printed to recto only. Printed in black and purple with Black Sparrow Press device. Broadside 14" x 10" More
BATTLE Of NEW ORLEANS. Supplement to The Boston Sunday Globe. March 29, 1896.; NOTE: Cut Carefully on Outlines and Follow Directions and in Order of Numbers.
Boston: 1896. 1st edition thus. Single sheet of card stock, recto printed with full color chromolithography, verso blank. 7-1/2" x 10" "The Battle of New Orleans was a series of engagements fought between December 14, 1814 and January 18, 1815, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812... More
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT At MOBILE. Supplement to The Boston Sunday Globe. April 5, 1896.; NOTE: Cut Carefully on Outlines and Follow Directions and in Order of Numbers.
Boston: 1896. 1st edition thus. Single sheet of card stock, recto printed with full color chromolithography, verso blank. 10" x 7-1/2" "Farragut was assigned command of an attack on the important Confederate port city of New Orleans. After fighting past Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson, Farragut captured New Orleans... More
![MANUSCRIPT LEAF [from Chapter XXV of] THAT LASS O' LOWRIES. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1840 - 1924.](/pictures/thumb/44673.jpg?v=1542149865)
MANUSCRIPT LEAF [from Chapter XXV of] THAT LASS O' LOWRIES.
Ca 1876. Cf. BAL 2033. 1 sheet of commercial blue-lined paper, 2 pages of mss, 68 lines, ~ 325 words. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 12-1/2" x 7-1/2" Mss with slight variances from the printed version [as found online at UPenn's digital library]. Provenance: From the collection of George... More
In The CLOSED ROOM.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. 1st printing (BAL 2100). [6], 129, [1] pp. Frontispiece and 7 inserted plates, with color drawings by Jesse Wilcox Smith. 8vo. Bespoke full green morocco binding with elaborate gilt decorations, & red heart inlays to the four corners of each board. TEG. Gilt... More
SEBAGO - WOHELO CAMP FIRE GIRLS.; With an Introduction by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick.
Battle Creek, Michigan: Good Health Publishing Company, 1915. 1st Edition. 249, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Brown cloth binding printed in dark brown. Decorative eps. Dust jacket. More
The WADSWORTH - LONGFELLOW HOUSE Its History & Its Occupants.
Portland, Maine: The Bradford Press, 1938. 39, [1] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-7/8". Printed brown paper wrappers, sewn. Now house in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The SATIRES Of DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS, Translated into English Verse. With Notes and Illustrations.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Col .. For G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, 1802. 1st Edition. [4], lxvii, [1 (blank)], 496 pp. Eratta slip bound-in after p. 496. Frontispiece engraving of Gifford. 4to. 10-7/8" x 8-5/8". Later 3/4 binding of deep red sheep with red cloth boards. More
The POEM Of BUNKER HILL.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the author, as "Harry" [10], 158 pp. "With the Compliments of the Publishers" card laid-in. 8vo. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Light orange topstain. Dust jacket. More
RAMBLES With An AMERICAN.
New York: Duffield & Company, 1910. 1st US edition (bound with Scottish sheets). 376 pp. Frontis of Dickens (Maclise portrait) + 20 additional illustrations, 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering/decorations. An American visits England at the beginning of the 20th c., and records his thoughts... More
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: A Novel. By the Author of "Jane Eyre."
New York: Coolidge & Wiley, Publishers, 12 Water Street, 1848. 1st US Edition thus, i.e., by this publisher (Smith, pp 76 - 79). 112 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Modern deep burgundy quarter calf binding with complementary marbled paper boards. Black leather spine labels. New eps [with period bookseller ticket... More
A SOLDIER And MR. LINCOLN. The Fifty-Sixth Grove Play of the Bohemian Club.
San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 1961. 1st edition. x, 70, [2 (blank)] pp. T.p. cut. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6". Dark grey and white floral paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title onlay to spine. Insert "notice" of last minute cast changes. More
SHAKESPEARE And The ENCLOSURE Of COMMON FIELDS At WELCOMBE, Being a Fragment of the Private Diary of Thomas Greene, Town Clerk of Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1614 - 1617, Reproduced in Autotype, with Letterpress Transcript, Edited With an Introduction and Notes by C. M. Ingleby, LL.D.
Birmingham: Printed for the Editor by Robert Birbeck, Broad Street. 1885. 1st Edition (Jaggard, p. 123). Copy V of a limitation of 55 total copies [mss note after statement of limitation stating "and 5 copies for presentation". Association copy. [4], xiii, [5], 19, [3 (blank)] pp. 2 page plan of... More
![[INSIDE ELI (or How to Get On At Yale)] This Pamphlet is published by the Yale Society for the Occasional Resuscitation of the Harkness Hoot. Dedication: To one Wit from Another. Dave Calleo, Henry S. F. Cooper.](/pictures/thumb/44512.jpg?v=1542149779)
[INSIDE ELI (or How to Get On At Yale)] This Pamphlet is published by the Yale Society for the Occasional Resuscitation of the Harkness Hoot. Dedication: To one Wit from Another.
[New Haven, CT]: The Yale Society, [1955]. 1st printing (presumed). Date of publication from OCLC. [1], 10, [1] pp. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Printed self-wrappers (lacking outer wrappers?), stapled. A satirical look back on Yale for the benefit of freshman... "During the past few weeks you have been flooded with official... More
A PUBLISHER And His FRIENDS. MEMOIR And CORRESPONDENCE Of The LATE JOHN MURRAY, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768 - 1843. In Two Volumes.
London / New York: John Murray / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. 1st edition. Vol I - xv, [1 (blank)], 496 pp. Vol II - xi, [1 (blank)], 549, [1] pp. Frontis portrait in each volume. Vol I with sketch of Byron facing p. 350. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Brown patterned paper eps. More
EIKON BASILIKE. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings.
[London]: 1648. Early edition (Madan 21; Almack 15; Wing E-270). [4], 302, [16] pp. Numerous mispaginations throughout. Double-page engraved frontispiece by William Marshall, "designed for this edition". [Madan]. 8vo: A - U^8 (D1 mis-signed as E1) ¶^4 (a)^4. 6-1/4" x 3-13/16" (16 cm x 9.7 cm). Full red morocco leather... More
SCIENCE And HEALTH With Key to the Scriptures.
Boston: Published by the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, (1906). 700 pp. 4-3/8" x 3". Bound in full brown suede, with gilt stamped lettering to spine & gilt stamped Christian Science emblem to front cover. More