A. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
The Defence Of Guenevere And Other Poems.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 170 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 printed in red and black in Golden type on hand-made paper, and complete with three terminal blanks. Full woodcut page border, numerous 10-line and smaller woodcut initials. The only Kelmscott Press book with a hand lettered title calligraphic title executed by F.S. Ellis, and the first book bound in limp vellum. PETERSON A3 & A5. Our copy in blindstamped brown morocco, decorated endpapers, raised bands, spine labels printed in gilt. Binding signed "HCF 1916." Full brown morocco front and back covers decorated in blind. Teg. Near fine. $4,500.00
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B. _____.
The Love-Lyrics & Songs Of Proteus By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt With Love-Sonnets Of Proteus By The Same Author Now Reprinted In Their Full Text With Many Sonnets Omitted From The Earlier Editions.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 251 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, printed in red and black in Golden Type. There is a separate title to each of the four parts into which the poems are divided. William Morris border on page one. The only Kelmscott book with initials in red. Morris wrote to Jenny Morris, "'...it looks very gay & pretty with its red letters, but I think I prefer mine in style of printing'". Two woodcut borders, numerous woodcut initials, printer's device on colophon page. Gilt spine lettering bright, partly unopened. PETERSON 3. SCOTT pp.83-84. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Fine. $4,500.00
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C._____.
Syr Ysumbrace.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. 41 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Frontispiece, a woodcut designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Uniform with Sire Degravaunt, from the same source: an ancient metrical romance, reprinted from the Thornton MS, in the library of Lincoln Cathedral is printed in Chaucer type, in black and red. The third in series from the "Thornton Romances." Edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell. Limited edition, one of 350. PETERSON A48. SCOTT p.110. Orig. gray boards and beige cloth spine. Fine. $3,995.00
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D. _____.
The Tale Of the Emperor Coustans And Of Over Sea.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 130 pages. 16mo, 15 x 11 cm, printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French -- in this instance two tales. Limited edition, one of 525 copies. The first of these stories, which was the source of "The Man Born To Be King" in THE EARTHLY PARADISE was announced as in preparation in the list of March 31, 1894. FORMAN (153) notes "Page 39 is a half-title" for the start to the second title, THE HISTORY OF OVER SEA. SCOTT, p.98. Armorial bookplate George Allison Armour. Text bright and clean, tiny nick at backstrip head. Original holland-backed boards. Near fine. $3,995.00
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E. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
Hand & Soul.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott,, 1895. 56 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Printed in Golden type in black and red. Wood-cut title page. This was the only book Morris printed for the American public, and the only Kelmscott book to bear the name of an American publisher. The English and American copies have a slightly different colophon. The shoulder-notes were added by Morris. Way became a personal disciple of Morris, and later visited England to see him at Kelmscott House, where he was told how Morris "wanted to make some nice books, but had no thought of developing such a business as has come to the Press." Way then described their arrangement for the joint book, which was to be Rosetti's "Hand and Soul." SPARLING 36. SCOTT p103. Fresh, crisp copy. Book plate of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) poet, author and critic. Limited edition one of 525 copies of a total edition of 546 (311 copies for the American, 235 copies for the English market). This copy sold by Way and Williams, Chicago. PETERSON. A36. Stiff vellum, beveled edges. Fine. $4,600.00
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F. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.
Maud. A Monodrama.
Hammersmith: Kelmscott, 1893. 69 pages. 25.1 x 14 cm. Printed in red and black, title and first leaf with full woodcut borders, woodcut initials and decorations designed by William Morris. Limited Edition, one of 500 copies of a total edition of 505. Peterson A17. Title and first leaf with decorative woodcut borders, decorative woodcut initials, decorations and devices, stanza numbers printed in red. Following the discovery of some typographical errors "four cancellans leaves were printed...and were perhaps inserted in at least a few copies of Maud." (see: Peterson). Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties. Fine in near fine original green card slipcase with front cover gilt lettering. Full vellum. $4,850.00
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[19th CENTURY]]
1. Ainsworth, William Harrison.
Stanley Brereton.
London: George Routledge, 1881. First edition. 252, 277, 290 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This is Ainsworth's last novel. He was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. Popular in his lifetime, his novels sold in large numbers. he is described by S.M. Ellis as one of the most picturesque personalities of the nineteenth century. Prefaced to the first volume is Ainsworth's long account of the testimonial banquet given to him at Manchester Town Hall in September 1881, which is described by Wolff as useful for any account of his life and work. This last novel not in SADLEIR. Slight rubbing to extremities, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Three quarter maroon morocco and red cloth. Teg. Very good. 3 vols. $370.00
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[19th CENTURY]
2. Anonymous.
Errors and their Consequences; Or, Memoirs Of An English Family.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1819. First edition. [XX] 389, 318. pages. 9.2 X 5.5 cm. Errata in second volume rear. The preface indicates the writer is male, also, in the preface notes seeking advise from two friends, then throwing their suggestions in the round bin with the following: "I had mistaken their characters, they had mistaken mine." A a scare 19th century novel with only 5 on JISC Library Hub, all in the UK. Holdings in OCLC seem to confirm the previous. Owner's signature on free front endpapers of both volumes. Flat spines lettered in gilt with gilt florets in the panels. Contemporary half maroon calf, marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid-down. Very good. 2 vols. $995.00
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[Late 19th Century]
3. Barrie, James M.
The Little Minister.
London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First edition. 232, 239, 232 pages 19 x 13 cm. Bound by Baynton of Bath. 12 pages of publisher ads end of Vol. ! with original cloth covers and spines laid-in. First book form edition. First published serially in "Good Words" magazine the same year, 1891. Considered Barrie's best work, one of several of his novels based in the fictional town of Thrums, modeled after Barrie's home village of Kirriemuir. Raised bands, spines richly gilt, green and tan spine labels, inner dentelles, marbled enpapers. 20th century full tan calf. Aeg. Fine in very good matching cloth slipcase. $395.00
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[EARLY 20th CENTURY]
4. Beckett, Samuel, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams.
Our Exagmination Round His Facification For Incamination Of Work In Progress with Letters Of Protest By G.V.L. Slingby and Vladimir Dixon.
London: Faber And Faber, (1929). First English language edition. 191 (2) pages. 19 x 14.5 cm. Published from the original French sheets. Critical essays on Joyce's "Finnegans Wake. Beckett, in Joyce's company at the time, and his essay (the first of the essays here published, by virtue of the alphabet) is his first publication notes, "It takes few intellectual prisoners: " . . . if you don’t understand it, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is because you are too decadent to receive it." Clean copy, pencil notations front free endpaper. Orig. azure blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper with slightly faded spine. $300.00
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[20th CENTURY]
5. Blackburn, Philip C. & Lionel White (Editors).
Logical Nonsense The Works Of Lewis Carroll With An Introduction, Biography, Notes And A Bibliography.
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1934. First edition. 568 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 45 of 125 copies on Strathmore Permanent rag paper, signed by Lionel White and Philip C. Blackburn in ink. Appendix. Almost pristine copy, mostly unopened, extensively decorated and lettered in gilt. Orig. publisher crimson morocco. Fine. $475.00
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[POETRY]
6. Brooke, Rupert.
Fragments.
Hartford: Finlay Brothers (printers), 1925. First edition. 23 pages. 19.5 x 15.5 cm. Copy "A" of 99 "To Aid Britain" and signed R.M.G.P. [Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter]. A collection of his fragmentary works, some from his copy of Horace, used by him while at Rugby. "The verses from his copy of Horace, now in my possession, are here first printed." Laid-in what appears to be a post card with a black and white portrait of a soldier in military uniform, dated 1914-1917. Mauve endpapers. Orig. vellum spine lettered in gilt and brown boards. Fine in creased original glassine wrapper. $495.00
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[POETRY]
7. _____.
The Collected Poems Of Rupert Brooke The Title-Page And Portrait Cut On The Wood by C. Raverat.
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher To The Medici Society, Ltd, 1929. 156 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 811 of 1000, printed in the Ricciardi fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. Interior contents clean and bright, slight toning to front cover, backstrip darkened. Orig. gray cloth and boards, front cover paper label. Very good. ($225.00
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[THEATRE]
8. _____.
Lithuania A Drama In One Act.
Chicago: The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. First edition. 41 (4) pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. The Chicago Theatre was a repertory, and experimental art-theatre producing modern and classical plays, both tragedy and comedy at popular prices. It was located on Michigan Avenue in the Fine Arts Building. The play takes place in rural Lithuania, a impoverished family is visited by a wealthy stranger. Brooke never anticipated seeing his play produced. A few tiny nicks to front cover fore-edge, otherwise, clean fresh cover with interior likewise. Orig. illustrated gray wrappers front cover bordered in brown. Near fine. $300.00
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[SATIRE]
9. Burnet, Thomas & George Duckett.
A Second Tale Of A Tub: or, The History of Robert Powell the Puppet-Show-Man.
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First edition. [4] xlii [43] 219 [5] pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. The second edition appeared the same year. A political satire on the statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). It takes the form of an account of Martin Powell (fl.1709-29), the somewhat physically deformed, and noted Irish showman who ran a celebrated puppet-show in Covent Garden. It also, of course, adopts the title of Swift's celebrated Tale of a Tub (but is not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of this work's spurious sequels etc). Powell is presented in the frontispiece as a hunchback, which appears to be true. The author's substitution of "Robert" for Powell's real name, Martin, made to render the obvious satire more effective. Burnet was an English wit; barrister and judge. He wrote this work at age 21 with his friend and colleague George Duckett. The allusion of puppet strings controlled by a higher power was a popular analogy of political machinations of the period. Engrave bookplate of John Collins, Devises. Contemporary owner inscription notes the satire's intent, some old scribbling on blank endpapers, moderate text toning. Contemporary full Cambridge style brown calf, tooled panels with tulip florets at each corner. Very good. $695.00
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[POETRY]
10. Byron, George Gordon, Lord.
Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte.
London: John Murray, 1814. First edition. 14 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. With half title and one page advertisement. With Francis Lewis Randolph's bookplate and shelf label. "Very rare, in any condition -- the half-title is usually lacking." RANDOLPH p.40.. "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in octavo size the Ode to Napoleon is by far the rarest. It is now almost impossible to find a copy in the original printed paper wrappers." TINKER p.545. WISE BYRON, I pp.98-99. Interior contents clean and fresh. Contemporary quarter red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine. $1,125.00
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11. Byron, George Gordon, Lord.
Sardanapalus, A Tragedy. The Two Foscari, A Tragedy. Cain, A Mystery.
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. 439 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. With half and bastard titles. WISE. II p.32-33. Scattered, intermittent foxing mostly marginal, raised bands, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Late 19th century quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. $290.00
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[POETRY]
12. C. Hazelwood, Shannon & J.W. Gleeson White (Editors).
The Pageant.
London: Henry & Co., 1896-1897. First edition. 243 (ix), 266 (vii) pages. 10.5 x 8". Complete collection of this important periodical that originated from the close artistic and literary collaboration of artists at the end of the 19th c. Illustrated throughout with 41 monochrome and colour plates and some in text vignettes or pl. In Vol. I : title-page designed by Selwyn Image, original lithograph by James Abbot McNeil Whistler, and contains the 1st publication of 2 poems by W. B. Yeats. Vol. II contains 1 original woodcut in 5 blocks by L. Pissarro and ill. by G. Moreau, L. Housman, Puvis de Chavannes, W. Crane, etc. Endpapers designed by Lucien Pissarro. Wear to backstrip extremities, rubbing to corners. Orig. dark salmon cloth, front covers lettered in gilt with and with gilt motifs. Very good. 2 vols. $395.00
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13. Conrad, Joseph.
Suspense A Napoleonic Novel.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First edition. 274 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Large paper, limited edition, copy 227 of 375 with Conrad autograph laid-in. Conrad's posthumously published last, unfinished novel of historical intrigue, set in Genoa in 1815 during the period of the Napoleonic Wars. It was preceded by serializations in Hutchinson's Magazine, the American serial version in the Saturday Review of Literature and the first American book edition, a limited issue of which was published by Doubleday on 3 July 1925. The English edition was published the next day. Armorial bookplate of E. Hubert Litchfield. Original decorative vellum boards, decorated with ship design and lettered in gilt, blue stripe and blue corners, blue dust-jacket lettered with design on spine. Teg. Fine in fine orig. glassine overwapper, and housed in fine blue slipcase. $620.00
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[FORE-EDGE]
14. Cowper, William.
The Globe Edition The Poetical Works Of William Cowper Edited With Notes And Bibliographical Introduction By William Benham Vicar of Margate and Professor of Modern History at Queen's College, London [FORE EDGE].
London: Macmillan, 1874. [lxiii] 536 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Fore-edge painting of Blarney Castle. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, latter slightly darkened. Owner inscription paste down front endpaper dated 1875. Full dark navy morocco. Very good. $475.00
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[FICTION]
15. Douglas, Norman.
South Wind.
Chicago: Argus Books, 1929. First illustrated edition. 288, 300 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 40 copies (this copy out of series) signed by Austen and Douglas with an original ink drawing, "A Clubland Habitué," signed by John Austen. Illustrated by Austen, 15 plates of which 5 are colored. It is Douglas's most famous book and his only success as a novelist. Nepenthe, the Italian island is the fictional setting of South Wind, or Capri in light disguise. Norman was perhaps more well known for his scatological limericks rather than his Mediterranean travel works. One commentator noted, that in his day Douglas was regarded as one of the smartest things going. Part of that smartness was his keeping, for the whole of his long depraved life, one jump ahead of the law. Bright, sharp set, raised bands, spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endapers. Three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 2 vols. $795.00
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[POETRY]
17. Drayton, Michael [1563-1631].
The Works Of Michael Drayton, Esq A Celebrated Poet in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James I, and Charles I.
London: J. Hughs, 1748. First edition. 12 {2} 400 pages. 16" x 10.5". First collected edition. List of Subscribers, engraved vignette at title, and several elegantly engraved headpieces, woodcut headpieces, and initials. Born within a year of Shakespeare and dying when Milton was twenty three. CBEL Vol.IV, p.168. "Drayton was much admired by his contemporaries. The title "golden mouthed," first given him by Fittzgeffry, clung to him, and Meres praises him for the purity and preciousness of his style and phrase." ESTC N25790. Bookplate of William Hamper (1776-1831) front pastedown, and 19th century presentation bookplate from John Warrington Museum and Library. Raised bands, two red leather spine labels printed in gilt, scrape to one spine panel, marbled endpapers. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities, interior generally clean. Quarter period half russia and marbled boards. Very good. 750.00
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[20th CENTURY]
18. Dreiser, Theodore.
A Gallery of Women.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 823 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 346 of 560, signed by Theodore Dreiser. A bright, fresh set, slight toning spine extremities, covers decorated in silver in leaf and branch design. A work of non-fiction. Orig. publisher's quarter vellum and decorated boards. 2 vols. Very good. $280.00
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[POETRY]
19. Dryden, John.
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems WITH Poems On Various Occasions; And Translations From Several Authors.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1700-1701. First Collected edition. 646, 232 pages. 33 x 20 cm. ESTC R31983 bound with T124515, the two works are generally found bound together. Of the second work, as ESTC notes, "Absalom and Achitopher,``The Medal,`Religio laici` and `The hind and the panther` each have separate title pages of the tenth, fourth, fourth and third editions respectively, but the register and pagination are continuous." Second title page printed in red and black. Generally a clean copy with minor toning, a few small tears, one or two cryptic, if not amusing margin notes in the second title. Raised bands, gilt leather spine label. Modern Cambridge style binding in full brown morocco. Very good. $1,050.00
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[NOVEL]
20. Du Maurier, George.
Trilby.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1894. First edition. 246, 259, 172 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This his most famous of George du Maurier’s three novels, Trilby being his second is credited with having inspired Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, not to mention it fitted into the gothic horror genre that was undergoing a revival. It was said that in his later years he resented the persistent attention the novel was given. At the end of Volume III a voluminous 43 pages of adverts. Armorial bookplates of Francis Scott Smith. Clean, fresh text, very slight crinkling of spine heads, small book label of Widdison Booksellers, Sheffield at rear p fresh text, very slight crinkling of spine heads, small[l book label of Widdison Booksellers, Sheffield at rear pastedown. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Near fine. 3 Vols. $420.00
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20A. Faulkner, William.
A Fable.
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. 437 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. This novel conceived in 1944 took nine years to completion. Time and place World War I. Very bright, fresh copy, covers and contents, price clipped dust wrapper. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover decorated in black and slightly lighter maroon. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at edges, spine slightly faded. $275.00
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20B. _____.
Go Down, Moses And Other Stories.
New York: Random House, 1942. First edition. 383 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Bright, very clean copy with seven short stories including, "The Bear." PETERSON A21d. Price clipped dust wrapper. Orig. black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper top stained red, nicked at bottom front cover and backstrip head and foot. $800.00
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20C. _____.
Intruder in the Dust.
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. 247 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. $3.00 price on front cover flap, dust wrapper designed by McKnight Kauffer. PETERSON A24b. Overall, a very bright, fresh copy. His first novel published since "The Hamlet" in 1940. Orig. black cloth, front cover lettering in blue and gilt, slight fade to gilt. Fine in fine wrapper. $350.00)
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20D. _____.
The Reivers A Reminiscence.
New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. 305 pages. 20.4 x 14 cm. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser. Unclipped dust wrapper with $4.95 price. Faulkner turns the corner to comedy with a heroic journey from Jefferson, Mississippi to Memphis. A bright, fresh almost as new copy. Orig. crimson cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. $275.00
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[18th CENTURY]
21. Fenelon, Francois De Salignac De La Mothe.
Les Avantures De Telmaque Fils D'Ulysse.
Paris: Jacques Estienne, 1717. 526 pages. 16 x 9.5 cm. Twenty-six engraved plates mostly after Giffart, large folding map, engraved head piece. A biting attack on absolute monarchy, and one of the most popular works of the century. BRUNET Vol. II, pp. 1212-1213 gives this edition praise: "De Toutes les anciennes editions du Telemaque imprimees a Paris, celle-ci est la plus belle et celle qui merite le plus de conserver une place dans la bibilotheque d'un curioux." Text generally clean, frontispiece slightly shaved at margin, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, half centimeter loss at spine head, small creases lower backstrip, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full mottled calf. Very good. $390.00
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[18th CENTURY SATIRE]
22. Fielding, Henry.
Miscellanies.
London: A. Millar, 1743. First edition. 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp. 26-27. "The first volume contains a preface. largely autobiographical, followed by some poems.....early compositions of the heart rather than the head.........The second volume contains more interesting matter: the long Lucianic fragment, "A Journey from this World to the Next." which begins with some of Fielding's happiest satire in the coach-driver of the spirits from earth......In the third volume, he printed the most brilliant piece of work that he had yet achieved, "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." Generally clean, lower corner of G1 in Vol.1 torn away not affecting text, tiny ink stain, title of Vol. II, overall; fresh, firm set, raised bands, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Full modern dark brown calf in period style. Fine. 3 vols. $550.00
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[TEN VOLUMES]
23. _____.
The Works Of Henry Fielding, Esq; With The Life of the Author. A New Edition, In Ten Volumes.
London: W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne et al, 1784. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces in each volume by Colyer, a well-known engraver working in London during the later 18th and early 19th centuries who at one time was official engraver of the queen, plus additional portrait of Fielding in Vol. one. ''New edition'' of a compilation first issued in 1762 and reprinted every few years during the 18th century. Prefaced by Arthur Murphy's long biography and appreciation of Fielding, this set contains the great writer's novels, plays, journals, essays, and miscellaneous publications. Armorial bookplates of Sir Samuel Hannay, bound by Haddon & Co., New York, marginal dampstain vol. one frontispiece and Fielding portrait, raised bands, spine panel gilt floret in corners. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Near fine. 10 vols. $950.00
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[POETRY]
24. Gray, Thomas.
An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard.
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1858. 26 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Bound by the Monastery Hill Press, blind stamped by Kelliegram inside back cover. "The quatrain of ten syllables in which the Elegy was written had been used before, but never, perhaps with conspicuous success, except in Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis.' In Gray's hands, it acquired a new beauty, and a music of its own." [see CHEL, Vol.X, p.124]. NORTHRUP 493. Tan morocco, raised bands, covers decorated in gilt and blind. Aeg. Near fine. $475.00
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[18th CENTURY]
25. Gueulette, Thomas-Simon.
Les Mille Et Une Heure, Contes Peruviens.
London: Nyon et al, 1759. Nouvelle Edition. 407, 490 pages. 17 x 10 cm. "Peruvian Tales, related, in One Thousand and One Hours, by one of the Select Virgins of Cusco, to the Yncka of Peru." Text in French. The author, a French magistrate and prolific writer of tales. PALAU 110068 & SABIN 29143 for the English editions. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplates, modest tip rubbing, generally clean and fresh copy. Contemporary mottled brown calf. All edges marbled. Very good. 2 vols. $350.00
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[ESSAY COLLECTION]
26. Halliday, Andrew (Editor).
The Savage-Club Papers.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867-1868. First edition. 342, 304 pages.20 x 13 cm. Nuerous illustrations by Dore, Gilbert, Cruikshank, et al., engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. Literature contributed by members of the club, bound by Morrell with the original gilt pictorial covers and spine by Charles Bennett bound-in. Three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 2 vols. $395.00
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[POETRY]
27. Hartley, Marsden.
Twenty-Five Poems.
Paris: Contact Editions, (1923). First edition. 60 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Signed by Hartley on the title page, an unopened copy from an edition surmised to be only 300 copies. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. A superlative copy. The author/painters first book. This an early publication of Contact Editions, issued shortly after publishing Hemingway's Ten Poems. Orig. gray printed wrappers lettered in black in the original glassine sleeve. Fine. Original Wraps. $1,025.00
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[ AMERICAN EDITION]
28. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The Snow Image, And Other Twice-Told Tales.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Field, 1852. First American edition. 273 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts at front of book with ads dated January 1852. This, the final collection of short stories written by Hawthorne was reputed to be his least popular book, commercially. BAL 7607. Rubbing to spine head and foot. Orig. brown publisher's cloth sharp, with front and back cover decorations in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. $295.00
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[SCHOOL DAYS]
29. Hughes, Thomas.
Tom Brown At Oxford.
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1861. First edition. 319, 338, 309 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. With adverts in volumes I and II. A sequel to "Tom Brown's School Days," and a continuation of his Hughes' own education when in 1842 he went on to Oriel College, and graduated B.A. in 1845. At Oxford, he played cricket for the university team in the annual University Match against Cambridge University. SADLEIR 1234. WOLFF 3331. Armorial bookplates of G.D.L. Horsburgh. Binder label of Burn, Kirby Street. Orig. navy cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt. 3 vols.Very good. $650.00
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[ESSAYS]
30. Huxley, Aldous.
Essays New And Old.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. 257 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition, copy 366 of 560 signed by Huxley. Spine sunned, edges of boards slightly faded. printed at the Florence Press with wide text margins. Interior clean. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. $350.00
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31. _____.
The World Of Light A Comedy In Three Acts.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First edition. 104 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 160 signed by Huxley. Sharp, bright copy, bookseller label of Philip P. Duschnes. Quarter brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated blue boards. Teg. Near fine. $350.00
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[AMERICAN FICTION]
32. James, Henry.
Wings of the Dove.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. 329, 435 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. The novel explores one of James’s favorite themes: the cultural clash between naive Americans and sophisticated, often decadent Europeans. Bright, fresh copy. BAL 10647. Orig. brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 2 vols. $425.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
33. _____.
The Madonna of the Future.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. First edition thus. 67 pages. 32 x 22.5 cm. With an introduction by Arthur C. Danto and a photogravure by Jim Dine. Limited edition, copy 111 of 125 signed by Jim Dine. Laid-in, an accordion fold announcement of the book by Arion Press explicating the genesis of the tale. James had not yet published a novel, this story appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in the spring of 1873. Orig. tan lettered cloth. Fine. $295.00
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[LATE 19th CENTURY]
34. Jerrold, Blanchard (Editor).
The Best of all Good Company: A Series Of Daily Companions For The Pocket And The Pormanteau; Ashore And Afloat; In Town And Out Of Town; At Home And Abroad Part I. A Day With Charles Dickens.
London: The Useful Knowledge Company, 1871. First edition. 62 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Original yellow wrappers in fine condition bound-in, with Knife and Fork Advertisement,[devoted to the art of eating healthily] and sample of Dicken's handwriting. Bound by Birdsall, raised bands, spine richly gilt, triple gilt cover border fillets frame center panel with gilt florets at four corners, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate, front cover rehinged. Interior contents very fresh and clean. Full crushed red morocco. Fine. $290.00
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[AMERICAN REGIONALISM]
35. Jewett, Sara Orne.
Deephaven.
Boston: James S. Osgood And Company, 1877. First edition, first issue. 255 pages. 15 x 11 cm. Born in Maine this was Orne's first novel written when she was nineteen years old in the tradition of American literary regionalism, stories with local color in and around the southern seacoast of Maine. BAL 10871, with "was" for "so" on line 16, p.65. Orig. publisher's brown cloth, spine and front cover decorated in gilt. All edges red. Very good in fine beige and brown folding case. $500.00
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[WORLD WAR II]
36. Jones, James.
From Here To Eternity.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. 861 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. This novel, his first won the 1952 National Book Award. With first issue dust wrapper, and with an additional later issue dust wrapper. Gilt spine lettering with minor loss. Orig. black cloth in slightly nicked dust wrapper at upper corners and backstrip head. Very good. $250.00
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[FANTASY]
37. Kafka, Franz.
Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer Ungedruckte Erzahlungen und Prosa aus dem Nachlass.
Munich: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931. First edition. 266 pages. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor was instructed by Kafka to destroy his unpublished work. Fortunately, Brod ignored the request, published the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935. Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" (The Great Wall of China), including the story of the same name, as he did with "Amerika," and "Das Schloss." All three are now considered to be the Definitive Editions. Text in German. Epilogue by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps. Owner inscription second free endpaper dated 1934, three leaves of adverts at rear, clean and fresh copy, spine sunned. Orig. blue cloth, gold spine label printed in red. Near fine. $650.00
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[FICTION]
38. _____.
Ein Landarzt Kleine Erzahlungen * In Der Strafkolonie * Ein Hungerkunstler.
Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919 - 1924. First editions. 189, 69, 86 pages respectively. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. The first two works published in a Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Only a few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) is one, He prepared Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) for print, but it was not published until after his death, thanks to Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor who ignored Kafka's request to destroy his unpublished work. Text in German. Bright, clean and very fresh copy. Orig. green cloth spine, Art Deco decorated cloth with blue spine label printed in gilt. Fine. $1995.00
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[CLASSICS]
39. Keynes, Geoffrey.
William Blake's Laocoon A Last Testament With Related Works:On Homers' Poetry and On Virgil, The Ghost of Abel.
London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1976. 62 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Limited edition, special copy VIII of XXXII (total edition of 438) signed by Geoffrey Keynes in red ink on Lana rag paper. Plates reproduced by collotype in Paris at the workshops of the Trianon Press (France), under the supervision of Arnold Fawcus. Orig. full brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine beige basket weave cloth slipcase. $590.00
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[PIRATED EDITION]
40. Lawrence, David Herbert.
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. Pirated edition. 365 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 1000. Title printed in red and black, clean, very fresh copy, wide text margins. Orig. red boards, paper label backstrip. Near fine. $550.00
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