Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End
by Snyder, Gary
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition. 1st edition. Stapled printed wrappers, pencil mark erased from upper right corner, else fine. Issued as 'Writing 9.'.
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A Collection of Italian Playing Cards in Uncut and Proof State
by [Solesio, Faustino]
Genoa and Milan: Faustino Solesio and Giuseppe Beghi, 1930. Twelve folio sheets of playing cards in various states of production, totaling 362 cards. Woodcut printed sheets measure between approximately 510 × 340mm and 575 × 390mm. Printed in one to eight colors on thin paper or cardstock, one with a printed decorative back. Two sheets with penciled marginal annotations. Light general wear mostly confined to the blank margins; a few sheets with minor foxing, soiling, short tears, or small... Read More
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Chronicle of the Cid
by [Southey, Robert, translator]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First Edition. First edition in English, the first prose version in any language of the great Spanish realist epic, recounting the heroic life of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, 1040-1099). 4to (261 x 213mm), pp. [2], [ii], [10], [iii]-xli, [1], map, 468. Rebound in old marbled wrappers matching the page edges. No half title, else complete with fly-titles, errata and advertisements, all notes, and the engraved map of Spain and Portugal.... Read More
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Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus ; From Science, Vol. 81, No. 2113, pages 644-645
by Stanley, Wendell M.
Lancaster, PA: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1935. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo bifolium (229 x 153mm), pp. 4. Some light creasing, a short tear to the fold, near fine. Signed by Stanley. A landmark paper in twentieth-century biology, announcing the first isolation of a virus in crystalline form and demonstrating that the resulting material retained full biological activity; a result that forced a fundamental reconception of what viruses were and how they should be studied. The implications... Read More
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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
by Stanton, Elizabeth
New York: European Publishing Co, 1898. First Edition. 1st edition. Signed by Stanton, in ink, on the endpaper. Rare signed (RBH says no signed copies at auction, and logs only one signed copy sold in the trade and that was 37 years ago). Original cloth, 5 pinholes to title (whatever was pinned there is now gone), small bookplate, rubbing to the extremities else a bright, very good copy. Her signature is in the wavering hand of the period (she... Read More
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Everybody's Autobiography
by Stein, Gertrude
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. A little very light spotting on the boards, near fine in very good dustwrapper with some small chips and tears, and a little splitting at the bottom of the front flap fold.
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Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped, good or better dustwrapper with some chipping near the bottom of the front flap fold, and a large but faint dampstain. An uncommon play, adapted by Steinbeck from his own novel. Steinbeck's stage adaptation condenses his novella into a three-act tragedy ideally suited to theatrical presentation. The play's dialogue-driven format strips away narrative contemplation, rendering each character's thwarted ambitions through stark, unadorned exchanges that intensify the work's central... Read More
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The Red Pony [and] The Great Mountains [and] The Murder; in The North American Review
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The North American Review Corporation, 1934. First Edition. 3 volumes, individual issues (November 1933, December 1933 and April 1934) of the magazine, each containing the first appearance of Steinbeck stories. Original printed wrappers bound in plain brown paper covered boards, the front cover of the November '33 issue and the rear cover of the April '34 issue are used as a paste downs. Signed 'J.E. Steinbeck' in pencil on the top of the front cover of each... Read More
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Lie Down in Darkness
by STYRON, William
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing. A superb copy of the author's first book.
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A Tale of a Tub
by Swift, Jonathan
London: Nutt, 1704. First Edition. Near fine. First printing with the uncorrected text and the blank space on page 320 where the word "uterinus" was later inserted (a 2nd and 3rd edition were published the same year). His first major book, a classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified in the quarrels between Saint Peter, Martin Luther, and Jack Calvin. 19th century full, straight grain morocco. A near fine copy, clean, sound and complete with the Treatises leaf... Read More
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The Hon. Julius Caesar. A Travesty With Music in Three Acts. Presented by The Princeton University Triangle Club 1918-1919
by Tarkington, Booth And Post Wheeler
Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1919. First edition thus, revised by John Biggs, with additional lyrics by several others. Quarto. Canvas spine and pictorial wrappers. Chips to the bottom front wrap and corners of the first few pages, affecting no text, soiling and small spots to the wraps, a good copy. Musical score for the Triangle play. *OCLC* locates three copies.
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Southern Gothic
by Taylor, Maggie
Gainsville, 2001. Digital color pigment print,negative date 2001, printed and limited 2005, 14 1/2” X 13” (the image 9” X 9”), this issue for the Halsey Institute, College of Charleston. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 3 of 10, in pencil, in the margin. Light foxing (verso only), else fine. Framed and UV glazed. Ex–Gay Burke, acquired by her from Taylor. The tension between art and technology is almost over, though a few crusty traditionalists linger. Maggie Taylor was there... Read More
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
by Thackeray, William
New York: Appleton and Company, 1853. First Edition. Preceding the London book edition by three years. 2 vols., 8vo (173 × 115mm), pp. 267, [1]; 260. Green three-quarter morocco and marbled paper-covered boards, ca. 1900, by James Macdonald, who purchased the Club Bindery from the estate of Robert Hoe. Ruled in gilt, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments and lettering, blue marbled endpapers with Macdonald's stamp to the verso of the front free endpaper of each volume. Top edge gilt, original... Read More
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Mrs. Cardigan
by Thomas, Annie [Mrs. Pender Cudlip]
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1879. First Edition. 3 vols, 8vo (194 x 140mm), pp. [viii], 279, [1]; [viii], 259, [1]; [viii], 243, [1]. Publisher’s smooth brown cloth with a decorative design blocked in black, gilt spines. A bright, fine set with only the lsightest bit of rubbing. A scarce first edition of this work by Thomas, one of most popular and prolific writers of romantic fiction during the Victorian era. OCLC locates only 3 copies. Annie Hall... Read More
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Shelley
by Thompson, Francis
London: Burns & Oats, 1909. First Edition. 1st edition. Full red-orange morocco and gilt, with restoration to the hinges else very good.
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The History of Middle Earth, Volumes 1-12, and The Silmarillion
by Tolkien, J.R.R.
London: Allen & Unwin/Unwin Hyman/Harper Collins, 1996. First Edition. 13 vols., a complete set. Some pin-point rubbing to the tips of a couple volumes, else a fine set in fine, unclipped dust jackets. The Silmarillion and Volumes 1, 2, and 4 have no printed prices, as issued; Volume 4 has an A&U price sticker. Volumes 10 and 11 have printed prices on the flaps (in contrast to the unprinted export edition dust jackets, which by the usual standards of... Read More
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Scott Fitzgerald: A Life
by TURNBULL, Andrew
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. Uncorrected proof. Tall octavo. Spiral bound. Very good or better with two small tape remnants on the front wrap. Rare format of the first important biography of Fitzgerald.
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons
by Turner, Sharon
London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1805. First Edition. 4 vol. With the half-titles in vols. 2-4 as called for, vol. 1 with a folding hand-colored engraved map. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, page edges marbled, with occasional spotting and rubbing to the extremities, else very good. Ex-United Presbyterian Library with small stamp to verso of titles, label to front pastedowns, and in gilt stamp to the spines. The first serious attempt to reconstruct Anglo-Saxon... Read More
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches
by Twain, Mark
New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. First Edition. 12mo (176 × 123mm), pp. [4], 198, [2]. His first book, first printing (only 1,000 copies), first binding (approximately the first 100 copies of the 1,000). Original brown cloth, one of seven colors with no established priority (green is the most common, accounting for more than half the edition). Early owner's name to the top blank margin of the title page, tiny nick to the front free endpaper; otherwise fine, crisp, and... Read More
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Life on the Mississippi
by Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens]
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First Edition. The true first edition, preceding the American edition by 5 days. First binding with 32 pages of ads dated March 1883. Over 300 engravings by various artists. Spine faded half a shade, foxing to title and frontispiece from the tissue guard that’s between them, else near fine condition, uncharacteristically little wear, an unusual survivor. Scarce in this condition. Life on the Mississippi is part memoir, part travel book. It tells of Mark... Read More
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Orang–Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris; or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie
by Tyson, Edward
London: Thomas Bennet and Daniel Brown, 1699. First Edition. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski. Title page foxed and bearing three former owners’ signatures; folding plates with minor tears and small chips to the inner corners where they are commonly pulled when opened; else a near fine copy, with the two pages of advertisements at the end. Among the foundational books of science, and here in a notably attractive copy, a... Read More
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Parties: A Novel of Contemporary New York Life
by Van Vechten, Carl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. A small stain on the top edge, boards a bit soiled, an about very good copy without dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "For Emilio in memory of the time when we will go to parties again [three words indecipherable] Carlo. September 2, 1942." In this novel, Van Vechten thoroughly distills the peculiar intensity of late 1920s Manhattan, when the city functioned as a crucible for social experimentation. Racial boundaries temporarily... Read More
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Pagany: A Native Quarterly - 12 issues (Complete)
by [Various, edited by Johns, Richard]
Boston: Richard Johns, 1933. Full run of 12 issues. Edited by Richard Johns. All perfectbound quartos. Overall near fine with some toning and a small chip at the spine of one issue and two others with splash marks, but all in remarkably nice condition. This influential but short-lived literary magazine started by Johns with assistance from William Carlos Williams (from whose 1928 novel, *A Voyage to Pagany*, Johns derived the title). Unfettered by commercial concerns the magazine was able... Read More
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A Near Complete Set of The Limited Editions Club
by [Various]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Various places but mostly New York, 1929-1985. A massive assemblage of 528 individual titles, and 724 volumes. This collection stops in 1985 and the titles published in the successive years were greatly decreased, with only 50 more titles published. Meaning that completing this collection, might still be very difficult, but certainly not impossible. The vast majority of the collection is in near fine to fine condition. The Limited Editions Club (LEC) was... Read More
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A Natural and Civil History of California
by Venegas, Miguel
London: Rivington and Fletcher, 1759. First Edition. 2 vol. First in English of the foundational book on California, preceded only by the 1757 edition in Spanish from which it was translated. The natural history in this book is interesting, but it is the civil (political) history herein that is both valued and timeless because it is from the only first hand sources. Contemporary calf, a single penny sized worn spot to front free endpaper and a nick to one... Read More
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