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"NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THIS LABEL ON THE BATTLE": Mark Twain's Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches; from the library of American journalist William Safire
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain.
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878.
First edition, second issue of Twain's collection of short stories with the author's name in facsimile autograph, undecorated cream end-papers, and second state scrap book illustration to the rear paste down. BAL 3378. Small octavo, original green cloth stamped in black with gilt titles to the spine. From the library of 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…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 127364
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it": Finely Bound Set of Moliere's Oeuvres Complètes de Molière
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878.
Finely bound set of Moliere. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in full red morocco, illustrated with plates, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Edited by Adolphe Regnier. With the slipcovers in marbled paper. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 104673
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"As art it is perfection" (Dostoevsky); Rare First Russian Edition Of Tolstoy’s Masterpiece Anna Karenina
TOLSTOY, Leo. [Count Lyof N Tolstoi].
Anna Karenina.
Moscow: T. Ris, 1878.
First edition in Russian of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles, raised bands. Housed in a custom box. In near fine condition. First editions in Russian are rare.
Price: $27,500.00 Item Number: 126365
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The Poetical works of Chaucer; finely bound by Bayntun Bindery
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.
Finely bound set of Chaucer's poetical works. Small octavos, four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Chaucer to volume one. In near fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 90435
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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First Edition of Sir Richard F. Burton's The Gold-Mines of Midian
BURTON, Sir Richard F.
The Gold-Mines of Midian and The Ruined Midianite Cities.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878.
First edition of the sequel to 'Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.' Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt, rebacked, beveled edges, black endpapers, illustrations in text, folding map of North-Western Arabia, advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145227
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; inscribed by him
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1879.
Early edition with sixty-second thousand stated on the title page of this classic work, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Edith Mary Alice Berkeley from the Author, May 15/80." Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, publisher's cloth s, all edges gilt, housed in a modern scarlet morocco slipcase and chemise. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18 x 12 cm); 192 pp., [2] pp. ads, half-title; electrotyped frontispiece, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. In near fine condition. From the library of actor William E. Self, with his book…
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 142979
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First Edition, Presentation copy of The Land of Midian (Revisited); Inscribed by Richard F. Burton
BURTON, Richard F.
The Land of Midian (Revisited).
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879.
First edition of the sequel to Burton's The Gold Mines Of Midian (1878), describing Burton's second expedition through Midian in northwest Arabia. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black pictorial decorations to the front panel, beveled edges, black endpapers, illustrated with folding lithographic map of the land of Midian with water printed in blue in Vol. I, 6 chromolithographic plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, 10 wood-engraved plates, and numerous additional illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page of Vol.…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 145223
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Finely bound Spanish printings of Bartolomé de las Casas' histories of Peru and Chile
[DE LAS CASAS, Bartolomé].
Colleccion de Libros Espanoles: Varias Relaciones del Peru y Chile; De Las Antiguas Gentes del Peru.
Madrid: Miguel Ginesta/Manuel G. Hernandez, 1879-1892.
Finely bound Spanish printings of Bartolomé de las Casas' histories of Peru and Chile. Octavo, two volumes bound in one half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges untrimmed, original wrappers bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139017
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First Edition of Alfred Tennyson's The Lover's Tale; Finely Bound with an Erotic Fore-Edge Painting
TENNYSON, Alfred.
The Lover’s Tale. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879.
First authorized edition of this classic poem, following the small "pirated" edition of 1870. Octodecimo, bound in red morocco by Sotheran & Co. with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, decorated with an erotic concealed fore-edge painting depicting a woman posing suggestively for four admiring gentlemen. The term 'fore-edge painting' can refer to any painted decoration on the fore-edges of the leaves of a book which is concealed when the book is closed…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146761
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"Few men of equal genius and of equal eminence can have led on the whole a simpler life": First edition of Henry James' biographical Study on predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne
JAMES, Henry.
English Men of Letters: Hawthorne.
London: Macmillan an Co, 1879.
First British edition of James' classic biographical study of his great predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne. Octavo, original scarlet cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing. Edited by John Morley.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 81054
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"Few men in civil life have had a career more crowded with incident, enterprise, and various intercourse with the world than mine": Struggles and Triumphs; Signed by P.T. Barnum
BARNUM, P.T.
Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879.
Author's edition of this utterly engaging autobiography, revised, enlarged, newly illustrated and written up to December 1878 by the author. Duodecimo, original hard-grain cloth with gilt titles and portrait of P.T. Barnum to the spine, blind stamped triple ruled frame with ornamental corners enclosing central quatrefoil device, gray top stain, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Phineas T. Barnum, 33 black and white illustrations, many of which are by True Williams, the famed illustrator of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.' Signed by the author on the Publisher's Note page, '"Compliments of P. T. Barnum." In very good condition with rubbing to the…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145347
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Rare Globe Terrestre d'apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes
BERTRAUX, Emile .
Globe Terrestre d’apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes [Terrestrial Globe].
Paris: Emile Bertraux, 1879.
A fine and highly detailed French terrestrial library globe showing the earth's geography as it was mapped in the late nineteenth century. The globe includes the oceans' major currents, the declination of the sun, color-coded European colonial possessions, the locations of railway tracks, telegraph lines, and ocean liner routes, as well as the tracks of various explorers, including Columbus, Cook, Vancouver, D'Urville, and Freycinet, among others. The globe consists of twelve hand-colored lithographed paper gores and two calottes pasted to a plaster and wood sphere; the globe's graduated brass meridian circle is set within a later stand consisting of a…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 136769
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First edition of Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage
Opinions of Women on Women’s Suffrage.
London: Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879.
First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women's Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage and containing the opinions of English women in official positions, scientific and political careers, and principals of colleges and high schools among others. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135724
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First edition of J.B. McClure's Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and War
MCCLURE, J.B. [Ulysses S. Grant].
Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and War.
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, Publishers, 1879.
First edition of McClure's compilation of the speeches, wartime and travel memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gold, peach endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Grant. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, name to the front endpaper. A bright example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146820
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale; finely bound and decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bickers and Son, 1880.
Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a fore-edge painting of Squire Thornhill visiting the Primrose family, illustrated. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138744