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The Large Paper Author's Autograph edition of the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe; signed by her Specially For This Edition A Few Months Before Her Death
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896.
The Large Paper Author's Autograph edition of the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Octavo, 16 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant pigskin with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Signed by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the limitation page 'Specially For This Edition A Few Months Before Her Death', "Harriet Beecher Stowe July 5 1896." In very good condition.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142393
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FINELY BOUND SET OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
COOPER, James Fenimore.
The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.
New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1856.
Octavo, 17 volumes. Bound in full tan leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to board edges. Raised bands, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 3663
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The Riverside Edition of the writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
PICKARD, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier].
The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.
Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontipieces. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 109568
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"Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean": Finely Bound Set of The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; With Eight Original Photographs
MUIR, John.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript edition of The Writings of John Muir. One of only 750 numbered copies, this is number 461. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in the original green with morocco spine labels with gilt titles, containing the original gelatin silver photographic frontispiece to each volume with tissue guards present, illustrated with numerous photogravure and halftone plates; folding map in volume two. Edited by William Frederic Badè. The scenes depicted in the inserted photographs are: The House of John Muir, Martinez, California; The Cathedral Spires, Yosemite National Park; Eucalyptus on Muir's Ranch, Martinez, California; An Orange Tree in Front of Muir's House,…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 96258
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"you see stretching from the spurs of Ritter a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires": The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; with an original autograph manuscript page from Muir's The Mountains of California
MUIR, John.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir, one of 750 numbered sets produced with an original autograph manuscript page bound into the first volume. Octavo, 10 volumes in the publisher's deluxe three quarter crushed levant morocco over cloth boards with gilt titles and tulip stamping to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in, illustrated with 69 photogravures, including colored frontispiece, 34 halftone plates of the author's sketches, 7 maps, and 2 plates of his drawings. One of 750 numbered sets with an original manuscript page bound…
Price: $10,000.00 Item Number: 143457
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"Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean": Finely Bound Set of The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; With Eight Original Photographs
MUIR, John.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript edition of The Writings of John Muir. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in original special deluxe three quarters morocco over marbled boards, leather edges ruled in gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, matching endpapers, top edges gilt. With volumes 1 through 8 of this set each containing an original gelatin silver photograph at the front, each with a printed tissue guard. Kimes does not describe an edition with these additional real photo frontispieces. The binding matches that of Kimes 342. The scenes depicted in the inserted photographs are: The House of John Muir, Martinez, California;…
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 76020
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The large paper edition of The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn; with volume I signed by Koizumi Setsu
HEARN, Lafcadio. Edited by Elizabeth Bisland.
The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922.
The Large Paper Edition of Lafcadio Hearn's collected writings. Octavo, 16 volumes bound in full blue levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, elaborately gilt citron levant morocco doublures, watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt with others uncut, ribbons bound in, tissue-guarded tipped-in frontispieces in color. One of 750 numbered sets printed at the Riverside Press, this is number 653. Volume I is signed by Hearn's second wife, Koizumi Setsu, in Japanese characters. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 118027
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THE RIVERSIDE EDITION OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, HANDSOMELY BOUND
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Writings of Longfellow.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1886.
Octavo, three-quarters leather, 14 volumes. Top edge gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies. This is set number 144. It also includes the three volume Final Memorials of Longfellow by Ticknor and Company published in 1887. All volumes are numbered 144 of 300 copies. Each volume contains the bookplate of noted American poet and publisher Scofield Thayer, best known for his art collection, which is housed in the Metropolitan Mueseum of Art. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3612
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The Royal Edition of The Writings of Mark Twain
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens].
The Writings of Mark Twain.
Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1899-1907.
The Royal edition of the writings of Mark Twain. Octavo, 21 volumes of the original 25 bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards for Brentano's with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with many full-page illustrations, including etchings, photogravures, and engravings, with numerous frontispiece portraits of Twain. One of an unstated number of copies of the Royal edition, this is number 287. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 138944
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The Definitive Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain; Signed by Mark Twain and his biographer and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Writings of Mark Twain. [Including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and the Pauper; A Tramp Abroad].
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-27.
The Definitive edition, one of 1024 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive edition and signed 1024 single leaves in 1906 in anticipation of this edition. Octavo, 37 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine over marbled boards, each volume illustrated with frontispiece and plates. In very good condition.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 125020
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RARE EARLY PRINTING OF The Yankee Slave Driver or The Black and White Rivals
[SMUCKER, Samuel Mosheim].
The Yankee Slave Driver; or, The Black and White Rivals.
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1858.
Early printing of this early American abolitionist novel set in Louisiana and attributed to Samuel Smucker. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, recased, illustrated. In very good condition. Reinforced interior hinges. Rare.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142308
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Original theatrical poster from the Broadway Performance of Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking; signed by Joan Didion and actress Vanessa Redgrave
DIDION, Joan. [Vanessa Redgrave].
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Signed Theatrical Poster.
New York: Prof. D.R. McClennahan, 2006.
Original theatrical poster from Vanessa Redgrave's performance of Didion's 2005 best-selling memoir at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Signed by Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave on the lower portion of the poster. In near fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143250
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“A SINGLE PERSON IS MISSING FOR YOU, AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS EMPTY": FIRST EDITION OF JOAN DIDION'S THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HER
DIDION, Joan.
The Year of Magical Thinking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Rogers with thanks Joan Didion 9.11.15." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 131291
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First Edition of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jose Saramago 1.2006." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133715
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Uncorrected Proof of Saramago's The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Signed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
Uncorrected proof of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original blue wrappers. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 2631
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First Edition of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.
Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.
First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author's second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Nadir Jose Saramago 10.28.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140786