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The Aldine Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetical Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1886.
Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, decorated with botanical headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, light toning to the text blocks, and a bookplate to the front pastedown of Vol. VI. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145246
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The Aldine Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetical Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: William Pickering, 1852.
The Aldine edition of Chaucer's brilliant poetical works. Duodecimo, six volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer to Vol. I, decorated with botanical headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels, very light toning to the endpapers of each volume. Edited by Richard Morris LLD with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146338
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First edition of Madame Guizot's History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789; elaborately bound in crushed red morocco
GUIZOT, M.
L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes Petits-Enfants Par Ms. Guizot. [The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789. Related For The Rising Generation by M. Guizot].
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1872-1876.
First edition of Guizot's history of France, continued by Madame Guizot de Witt from her father's notes. Quarto, 5 volumes bound in three quarter crushed red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated. In very good condition. A very attractive binding.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137202
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying": The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick; finely bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf
HERRICK, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.
London: William Pickering, 1825.
Finely bound nineteenth century printing of Herrick's collected poems. Octavo, two volumes bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137228
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability": Rare Second Edition of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine
OSLER, William.
The Principles and Practice of Medicine.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895.
Rare first printing of the second edition of Osler's magnum opus. Thick octavo, bound in contemporary leatherette. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140471
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"Statesman, Warrior, Writer, and Painter, his genius had few parallels ever": First Edition of Elizabeth Longford's Winston Churchill; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
LONGFORD, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill].
Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.
First edition of Elizabeth Longford's photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe , gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs. Foreword by Anthony Eden. Afterword by Winston S. Churchill, M.P. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139533
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First edition of Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon; finely bound in full morocco
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [Eleanor Farjeon].
Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.
London: The Medici Society, 1930.
First edition of Eleanor Farjeon's modern adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, elaborately illustrated with full color plates after the drawings of William Russell Flint including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119841
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The Large Paper Edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett; Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press
SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Novels of Tobias Smollett.
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926.
The Large Paper edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in three quarter morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in, Illustrated with frontispieces and several inserted plates each with lettered tissue guard. In near fine condition. An attractive set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144984
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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SELECTED WORKS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE; FINELY BOUND
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [The Bertrams, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mary Gresley and An Editor’s Tales].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1872.
Finely bound collection of a selection of three of Trollope's best-known works. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110524
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"Best African Wishes": Signed Limited First Edition of Osa Johnson's I Married Adventure
JOHNSON, Osa.
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.
Signed limited first edition of Johnson's classic work, number 167 of 520 copies. Octavo, original half cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Boldly signed by the author, "Best African wishes Osa Johnson." In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142059
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FIRST EDITION OF J.M. KEYNES' A REVISION OF THE TREATY; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.
First edition of Keynes' classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146084
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First Edition of The Lake: A Play in Three Acts; Inscribed by Legendary Actress Katharine Hepburn
MASSINGHAM, Dorothy. In Conjuction with Murray MacDonald [Katharine Hepburn].
The Lake: A Play in Three Acts.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, raised bands, speckled edges. Presentation copy, inscribed by Katherine Hepburn who starred in the first Broadway production, "To Richard Aldrich Katharine Hepburn." With Richard Aldrich's Casa de Aldrich armorial bookplate on free front endpaper. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by Hepburn.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147963
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First Edition of Anthony Powell's Temporary Kings
POWELL, Anthony.
Temporary Kings.
London: Heinemann, 1973.
First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142957
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“But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect": First Edition of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Claverings.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.
First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110699
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“My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me": The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.
Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene, illustrated. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An attractive binding.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138812
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Finely bound collection of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine; featuring Arthur Rackham's first printed colour plate
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.
Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur "Rackham's 1st printed colour plate" (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the frontispiece. Quarto, Vol. II, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with numerous full page and in-text illustrations including 6 coloured plates. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142843
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"THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAPPENS TO BE MYSELF IS ONLY OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE": FIRST EDITION OF CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S LIONS AND SHADOWS
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.
First edition of Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104893
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LIMITED SPONSOR'S EDITION OF JOHN MARSHALL’S LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON; SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR PHILEMON TECUMSEH SHERMAN
MARSHALL, John [George Washington].
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States.
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co, 1925.
Sponsor's edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington; specially prepared for Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, five volumes bound in full leatherette, tissue-guarded frontispieces in each volume, illustrated with several tissue-guarded plates in each volume. Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities and spine of each volume. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145735
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The New Whole Duty of Man; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age, AS the Old Whole Duty of Man was design’d for those unhappy Times in which it was written: And Supplying the Articles of the Christian Faith, Which are Wanting in that Book. Though Essentially Necessary to Salvation. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Printed for W. Bent, 1823.
Finely bound example of this classic Protestant devotional work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a maritime view, engraved frontispiece. In good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright. Ownership inscription.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 138215
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Samuel Smiles' Lives of the Engineers; decorated with a beautiful fore-edge painting of a steam locomotive
SMILES, Samuel.
Lives of the Engineers. The Steam-Engine. Boulton and Watt. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: John Murray, 1878.
Finely bound example of Smiles' work on Boulton and Watt. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by John Bumpus with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Decorated with a beautiful disappearing fore-edge painting of a steam locomotive. In near fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 135624
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Finely bound collection of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.
Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 96168
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 119411
