The Other Side of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
by Fox Bourne, Henry Richard
London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's primary blue cloth gilt (there are examples of remainder bindings extant), octavo. Edges untrimmed, 32 pp. publisher's ads at rear (mostly uncut), pictorial bookplate of Herbert & Sarita Ward to front pastedown. Fore-edge foxed, otherwise a Fine copy with outstanding provenance. An extraordinary association copy of a noted rarity, a sharp critique of the "Scramble for Africa". The copy of Herbert Ward, sculptor, writer, and member... Read More
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The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox
by [Reynard the Fox]
London: T. Ilive, 1701. Early English editions. [Bound together with:] The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part. Containing Much Matter of Pleasure and Content. Written For the Delight of young Men, Pleasure of the Aged, and Profit of all. To which is added many Excellent Morals. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster, 1681. [And:] The Shifts of Reynardine, The Son of Reynard the Fox, Or a Pleasant... Read More
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The Works of Anatole France (Signed Limited Edition in 30 vols.)
by France, Anatole
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. Autograph Edition. Limited to 1,075 copies signed by the author, of which this is number 1,053. Thirty volumes (6 x 8 3/4 inches) occupying approximately 47 inches of shelf space. Bound by Stikeman for Charles Scribner's Sons in 3/4 crushed blue morocco over cloth, five raised bands, and gilt ruling to spines and boards. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly sunned. Approximately eight volumes with minor chipping or snagging to crowns. Overall... Read More
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The Rival Roses; or Wars of York and Lancaster
by Francis, Eliza S.
London: Printed for the author; Sold by J.J. Stockdale, 1813. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. [4], 209, [4, ads]; 163, [1, errata], 8 [publisher's catalogue] pp. Original drab boards with cream paper spine. Soiling to boards. Paper spine labels mostly rubbed away. Volume one lacks front free endpaper. Edges untrimmed. Remarkably clean and bright throughout. A Very Good, fresh copy of a scarce book. Eliza S. Francis sets her narrative poem against the backdrop of the War... Read More
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Coila's Whispers
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); William Fraser
London: F. Harvey, 1872. Second edition. Number 6 of 50 copies printed. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm.). [ii blank], vi, 160, [i], [3 blank]. Etched half-title drawing by William M. Thackeray. Five full-page etchings on india paper by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son (stamp signed on verso of front endpaper) in full dark blue crushed levant morocco. Both covers richly decorated in gilt with triple borders, each surrounding one... Read More
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The Works of John Galsworthy (Signed Limited Edition in 30 vols.)
by Galsworthy, John
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Manaton Edition. Near Fine. Limited to 780 sets signed by the author, of which this is number 36. Thirty volumes (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches) occupying approximately 50 1/2 inches of shelf space. Finely bound by Stikeman for Charles Scribner's Sons, in 3/4 green crushed morocco stamped in gilt to spines and boards. Five raised bands. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines sunned. Some light shelfwear to corners of several... Read More
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Signed limited edition)
by García Márquez, Gabriel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition in English. Fine/Fine. Signed limited issue. One of 350 copies signed by Gabriel García Márquez. A Fine copy in like dust jacket and slipcase. Publisher's pink-and-black cloth boards with publisher's lace-patterned dust jacket and matching slipcase. García Márquez's iconic novel of love, passion, and death is considered his best alongside One Hundred Years of Solitude. The present novel was García Márquez's first published after he won the 1982 Nobel... Read More
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Inscribed first edition)
by García Márquez, Gabriel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition in English. Near Fine/Near Fine. Trade issue. Warmly inscribed on the dedication page by Gabriel García Márquez to actress Samantha Eggar, with a doodle of a flower: "Una flor para Samantha, de su amigo, Gabriel - 2000" ("A flower for Samantha, from your friend"). A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth boards, sunned at top edge. With the bookplate of Samantha Eggar to upper pastedown. Some... Read More
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Garvey and Garveyism
by Garvey, Amy Jacques
Kingston, Jamaica: [United Printers Ltd.], 1963. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Publisher's brown cloth boards titled in silver. Spine a bit cocked, and some slight bumping to corners. Small contemporary ink ownership signature to top of title-page. Dust jacket with some wear to head and tail of spine and to corners, toning to spine, and some scuffing to back panel. A very appealing copy of an important record of... Read More
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Le Diable a Paris. (in 2 vols). Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes, caractèes et portraits des habitants de Paris, tableau complet de leur vie privée, publique, politique, artistique, littéraire, industrielle, etc., etc. Texte par MM. George dDe Balzac, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, Méry, A. Juncetis, Gérard de Nerval, Arsène Houssaye, Albert Aubert, Théophile Gautier, Octave Feuillet, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Bérat, précédé d'une Histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée. Illustrations Les Gens de Paris, Séries de gravures avec légendes par Gavarni. Paris comique, vignettes par Bertall. Vues, monuments, édifices particuliers, lieux célèbres et principaux aspects de Paris par Champin, Bertrand, d'Aubigny, Français
by [Gavarni and others, illustrators]
Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm.). Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities, head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired, front hinge of Volume I cracked, but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area... Read More
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book without any signs of previous ownership, a bright, clean copy. Book with a faint musty odor. Jacket with only slight rubbing and wear at the spine ends and extremities. First issue dust jacket retaining original price and fourteen titles on the rear flap, as well as the advertisement for The Cat in the Hat at $2.00... Read More
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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First printing in matte boards with a single signature and original dust jacket, priced at 200/200. A Near Fine copy of the book with trivial bumping, soiling and wear to board edges. Small bump to the top of the spine. No previous ownership markings or soiling to any pages. Dust jacket is Very Good+ with some minor soiling and rubbing, a small closed one inch tear to... Read More
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good + dust jacket. Book without any signs of previous ownership, a bright, clean copy. Paper-covered boards and dust jacket with a little rubbing to extremities, spine of dust jacket faded to blue. First issue dust jacket retaining original price and fourteen titles on the rear flap, as well as the advertisement for The Cat in the... Read More
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If I Ran the Circus (Inscribed first edition)
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. First printing, with pink boards and matching unclipped pink jacket priced 250/250. Inscribed by Dr. Seuss on the verso of front free endpaper: "For Lynne / Dr. Seuss." A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Some soiling and edgewear to boards, but internally a clean copy with just the faintest foxing to the final two pages and the rear pastedown. Jacket with some fading to... Read More
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The "Bab" Ballads (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; W. S. Gilbert
London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1872. First editions. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 184 x 133 mm. [&] 7 x 5 3/8 inches; 179 x 137 mm.). ix, [2], 14-222, [4, adv.]; viii, [1], 14-224, [4. adv.] pp. Black and white frontispieces with original tissue guards, black and white text illustrations throughout. Bound c. 1920 by Rivière & Son for the Gardenside Bookshop, Boston in full emerald crushed levant morocco with... Read More
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![[Bible in English]. [Reproduction of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of] The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the authorized version of King James I. With decorations by Eric Gill](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/106/732/1337732106.0.l.jpg)
[Bible in English]. [Reproduction of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of] The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the authorized version of King James I. With decorations by Eric Gill
by Gill, Eric (illustrator)
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton at the September Press, 1988. First Thus. Fine. Limited to 600 copies, this being one of 480 unnumbered examples. Full black buckram by The Fine Bindery Limited. Spine with tan morocco label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher's, felt-lined cream buckram slipcase. Folio (13 x 9 1/4 inches; 330 x 235 mm.) collating [1, blank], [1, imprint], 268, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank],[xiv], [1, colophon], [1, limitation], with sixty-four... Read More
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Human Work (the Author's copy)
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. First edition. Very Good. With the ownership signature of Charlotte Perkins Gilman ("C.P. Gilman"), her address (380 Washington St in Norwich, Connecticut, where she and her husband Houghton Gilman lived from 1922 to 1934), and the date ("Aug 8th 1931") in ink to front flyleaf. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt. Inner hinges expertly closed. Some dampstaining, causing a few blemishes to cloth and some wrinkling to leaves in first... Read More
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Thyrza. A Tale (in 3 vols.)
by Gissing, George
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1887. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 185 x 125mm and collating complete with half titles to all volumes and publisher's adverts to rear of final volume: [6], 291, [1]; [6], 316; [6], 298, [2, adverts]. A Very Good copy with minor bumps to extremities; some hinges tender and starting. Rear hinge repaired in volume 1. Minor marginal foxing and staining throughout, not affecting text.... Read More
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A Jury of Her Peers (Signed limited edition)
by Glaspell, Susan
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine, bright copy in original publisher's wraps; internally fresh and unmarked. A Jury of Her Peers is the short-story adaptation of Glaspell's one-act play Trifles (1916), in which two women unravel the truth behind a murder-that a woman has killed her abusive husband-and hide the evidence to protect the accused from jail. Set in the Midwest,... Read More
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A Gentleman Volunteer: The Letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812-1813
by Glover, Michael (editor)
London: Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Large octavo (9 3/16 x 6 inches; 234 x 152 mm.). Collating [8], 181, [1, blank]. One of twenty-five copies signed (on the half-title) by Michael Glover and Sir Antony Read and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full black morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, front cover with an oval onlaid red morocco medallion (3 1/2 x 2 15/16 inches; 88 x 75 mm.) stamped in gilt with the... Read More
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The Lord of the Flies
by Golding, William
London: Faber, 1954. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Original red cloth with white lettering on spine in pictorial dustwrapper. A Fine copy, in a very nearly Fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just the slightest toning to the jacket spine. Book with 9/54 written in pencil on the rear paste-down. Perhaps a review copy since the book was published on September 17th of 1954. An excellent copy, rarely found in this condition. Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell case. ... Read More
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Anarchism and Other Essays
by Goldman, Emma
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910. First edition. Very Good +. 277, [8, ads], [1] p. Complete, with the frontispiece. Publisher's gray cloth titled in black. Dustsoiling to cloth. Remains of a small removed bookplate to upper pastedown. A tight, square copy, very clean and fresh throughout. Very Good+ 277, [8, ads], [1] p. Complete, with the frontispiece. Publisher's gray cloth titled in black. Dustsoiling to cloth. Remains of a small removed bookplate to upper pastedown.... Read More
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (in 10 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Turk's Head Edition. Near Fine. One of one hundred numbered sets ("The Primrose Hundred") within the Turk's Head Edition of 1,000 copies, this being copy twenty. Leaves measuring 160 x 240 mm, with the set collectively occupying 42 cm (16.5 in) of shelf space. A Near Fine set. Attractively bound in full red morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Spine and boards elaborately stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some... Read More
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (in 12 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Thus. The Wakefield Edition, limited to 500 numbered sets, this being copy 468, with frontispieces to volumes I-VIII signed by the artists. Twelve large octavo volumes (9 13/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 248 x 163 mm.) occupying approximately 16 1/2 inches (42 cm.) of shelf space. Bound by MacDonald (stamp-signed) in contemporary three-quarter brown crushed levant morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands with gilt dots. Compartments with gilt decoration and red... Read More
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (in 10 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First Thus. The Turk's Head Edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered sets (this being #552), signed by the publisher. Ten octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 6 inches; 220 x 150 mm.) occupyingapproximately 19 inches (49 1/4 cm of shelf space) Contemporary full green crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt, with cream morocco floral onlays, spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments with cream morocco floral onlays, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt,... Read More
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