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Limited Edition de Luxe of Frank Samuel Child's An Old New England Town; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
CHILD, Frank Samuel [William Tecumseh Sherman].
An Old New England Town: Sketches of Life, Scenery, Character.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
Limited edition de Luxe of this sketch of Old New England towns; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, bound in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling in six compartments within gilt raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Judge Roger M. Sherman, illustrated with tissue-guarded black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper. One of three hundred copies, this is number 146. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146273
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First Edition of New York Close-Up; from the library of American journalist William Safire
MCCRARY, Tex and Jinx Falkenberg. [William Safire].
New York Close-Up.
New York: New York Herald Tribune, 1949-1951.
Bound collection of New York Close Up columns, from the library of American Journalist William Safire. Folio, original boards with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132199
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First edition of Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Voces Populi and Voces Populi Second Series; finely bound in three quarters vellum by morrell
ANSTEY, F. [Thomas Anstey Guthrie].
Voces Populi.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890.
First edition of Guthrie's collection of short comedic plays which originally appeared in Punch magazine. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters vellum by Morrell with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with twenty illustrations to volume I and twenty-five to volume II by Partridge including frontispieces. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplates to the pastedowns.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 112304
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Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas
THIERS, Adolphe.
Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131402
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First Edition of Anthony Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Vicar of Bullhampton.
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1870.
First edition in book form of Anthony Trollope's controversial novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over pebbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled and marbled endpapers, with thirty-five illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece by H. Woods (although 30 are stated). In very good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 112316
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Finely bound example of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Great Boer War; finely bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Great Boer War.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1901.
New edition, being the fourteenth impression, of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work on the Boer War, which he revised sixteen times throughout the course of the war. Octavo, bound in full morocco for the Edinburgh Angus Club with their insignia stamped in gilt to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, folding map at rear. In near fine condition. Edinburgh Angus Club bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 118603
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized”: The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy
HARDY, Thomas.
The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Trumpet-Major; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; A Pair of Blue Eyes; Two on a Tower; The Return of the Native; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales.]
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c. 1896.
The American edition of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels. Octavo, seventeen volumes bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spines, author's initials stamped in gilt to the front panels, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, author's signature in facsimile opposite the frontispiece of volume I. In very good condition with some toning to the spines, ownership signature and gift inscription to the front free endpaper of some volumes. The first uniform and collected edition of Hardy's works in America.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147342
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“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”: Signed Limited Edition of Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale
BENNETT, Arnold.
The Old Wives’ Tale.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Bennett's masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rare original slipcase.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114732
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The School For Scandal; Finely Bound by Asprey
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley; Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The School For Scandal.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1911.
Finely bound by Asprey. Quarto, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 25 tipped in color plates by Hugh Thompson. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 61082
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"The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears": The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Finely bound and with the original wrappers bound in
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Complete. [Lay of the Last Minstrel; Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; Rokeby; Lord of the Isles].
New York and Boston: Charles S. and Joseph H. Francis, 1841.
Francis' revised complete edition of Scott's poetical works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound into 5 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137035
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"ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE": Finely bound edition de luxe of Laurence Stern's The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
STERNE, Laurence.
The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1910.
Finely bound example of Sterne's popular travelogue which helped establish the genre of travel writing and Sterne as the "most eminent novelist of the period" (Baugh, 1022). Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colored plates by Everard Hopkins. In very good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138940
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..": Finely Bound example of The Poetical Works of John Milton
MILTON, John. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges.
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Printed For Thomas Tegg, 1842.
Finely bound example of Sir Egerton Brydges' compilation of Milton's poetical works. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait of Milton. In very good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 122634
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Finely Bound example of The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.
Finely bound example of the Golden Treasury. Octavo, bound in full morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised spine bands, inner dentelles, moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 109328
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Limited Edition of The Prince of Pleasure; Signed by J.B. Priestley
PRIESTLEY, J.B.
The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency 1811-20.
London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.
Signed limited edition of this social and political commentary on the Regency Period. Super octavo, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, decorative gilt morocco inlays and gilt patterning to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustration of the Snuff-box believed to have been presented to the 1st Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent on the verso of the frontispiece, frontispiece of The Prince Regent in Garter Robes by Sir Thomas Lawrence, generously illustrated with paintings,…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145562
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The author's autograph edition of Richard Byrd's Little America; one of one thousand numbered copies signed by him
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Byrd’s account of his first expedition to the South Pole. Octavo, original publisher's half parchment over blue boards, with 74 illustrations and maps. Author's Autograph Edition, one of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author and publisher on the limitation leaf, this is number 139. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140404
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Finely Bound Example of The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; Introduction and Notes by T. Ashe.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1885.
The Aldine edition of Coleridge’s poetical works, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Duodecimo, two volumes bound in three quarter calf over gilt boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engraved frontispieces, head-pieces, and initials. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146831
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Rare first edition of Henry M. Stanley's My Kalulu
STANLEY, Henry M.
My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave: A Story of Central Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873.
First edition of Stanley's popular classic. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with 16 engravings.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139235
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Elaborately illustrated finely bound John Carne's views of Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c.
CARNE, John.
Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c.
London, Paris, & New York: Fisher, Son, & Co, 1836.
Early printing of Carne's collection of views of Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor. Quarto, bound in full elaborately blind-stamped morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt central vignette to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, illustrated with a series of views drawn from nature by W.H. Bartlett and William Purser. In very good condition. Bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147942
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“Time is counted, not by hours, but by heart-beats": The Poetical Works of Robert Browning; finely bound in full polished tree calf
BROWNING, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder. & Co, 1897.
Finely bound example of Browning's collected poetical works. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Browning to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138644
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Hannah Zeller's Wild Flowers of The Holy Land; illustrated with fifty-four beautiful color plates
ZELLER, Mrs. Hannah. Preface by H. B. Tristram. Introduction by Edward Atkinson.
Wild Flowers of The Holy Land.
London: James Nisbet and Co, 1883.
Third edition of this classic work on the field flowers of Palestine. Quarto, original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, illustrated with fifty-four tissue-guarded plates by Hannah Zeller of Nazareth printed in color comprising detailed botanical illustrations of the flora of the Holy Land including the Palestine Bramble, Thistle, Egyptian Thrift, Apple of Sodom, Pink Anemone, Oleander, Wild Flax, Persian Cyclamen, Pomegranate, Hollyhock, Blue Lupin, and Indian Sage. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. A very bright example, rare in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146422