The Wind in the Willows (Limited edition)
by Grahame, Kenneth; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
London: Methuen & Co, 1951. First thus. Very Good +. One Hundredth Edition", number 361 of 500 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. A Very Good+ copy. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 298 x 235 mm.). [2, blank], xii, 178 pp. Twelve mounted color plates (including frontispiece), twelve black and white vignette chapter headings, and three other black and white drawings. Internally fine and fresh. Publisher's full white calf, smooth spine lettered in gilt. Small... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows (Signed limited edition)
by Grahame, Kenneth; Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator)
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. First thus. Fine/Near Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the illustrator, Ernest H. Shepard. Bound in publisher's full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf in the publisher's printed slipcase. Illustrated in color throughout by Shepard, with illustrated map endpapers and a title-page vignette. Some sunning to spine, but still a lovely, Fine copy, bright and fresh throughout. Slipcase Near Fine with some sunning to edges. The Wind in the Willows, Grahame's famed children's... Read More
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Poems of the Chase
by Graham, Sir Reginald (compiler)
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. First edition. Fine. Small quarto (8 3/16 x 6 5/8 inches; 208 x 169 mm.). viii, 135, [1,] pp. Bound for Hatchards ca. 1912 (most likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe) in full brick morocco, covers richly decorated in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, pale gray end-papers. Armorial book-plate of Sir George Smith on front paste-down. Two ink... Read More
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Poems of Mr. Gray
by Gray, Thomas
Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First Scottish Edition. Contemporary full morocco with gilt to spine and boards. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 295 x 220mm. Rebacked with original spine laid down; minor shelfwear to lower boards. Light staining to the upper corners of pages 16-17 with no text affected and occasional scattered foxing, else a clean copy. A charming copy of Thomas Gray's influential and stirring poems, in a lovely fine binding. The English poet,... Read More
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The Quiet American
by Greene, Graham
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955. First edition. Fine/Fine. Original publisher's blue cloth gilt in dust jacket. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Dust jacket just a bit worn at edges, still an excellent copy. Often seen as Greene's great post-war work, The Quiet American follows Thomas Fowler's relationship with idealistic American CIA agent Alden Pyle, one which intrudes on both professional and personal ground. The work drew on Greene's experience as a war... Read More
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The End of the Affair
by Greene, Graham
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Dust jacket panels a little foxed, with a little chip to head of spine. The cloth spine somewhat dulled. A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good + dust jacket. An important and deeply personal work from "the most accomplished living novelist in the English language" (John Irving),.The End of the Affair follows a tryst between a writer and married woman that... Read More
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![Kate Greenaway's Almanacks for 1925, 1926, and 1927. Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1925 [together with] Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1926 [together with] Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1927](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/732/1337732251.0.l.jpg)
Kate Greenaway's Almanacks for 1925, 1926, and 1927. Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1925 [together with] Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1926 [together with] Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1927
by Greenaway, Kate
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1926. First edition. First editions. Three volumes, oblong twelvemo (2 7/8 x 4 1/16 inches; 73 x 103 mm.). and twelvemo (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches; 98 x 74 mm. & 4 1/8 x 2 15/16 inches; 104 x 75 mm.). Collating [24] pp; [24] pp. and [24] pages. All fine copies with the original printed glassine wrappers. The color illustrations for the 1925 Almanack were originally used in the Almanack... Read More
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Come and Play in the Garden (Original artwork)
by Greenaway, Kate
London, 1883. First edition. Fine. A 4 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches original pen, ink and watercolor illustration. Greenaway's drawing is reproduced on page 51 of the book Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883). A sweet image with two girls dressing in matching outfits, standing in the garden. One appears engaged with picking daisies while the other looks out at the viewer. This illustration has all of the typical gentility and warmth... Read More
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One page Autograph Note Signed about the exchange of a book
by Greenaway, Kate
Autograph Note on Card, Signed. 39 Frognal, Hampstead. N.W. 20 Dec, 1890. One page, 3 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (79 x 89 mm.). In full: "I am wondering if you are gone or not but anyhow / I sent the card as promised -- the name of / the Book is "Italians of today" by René Bazin -- I / went to see Mrs. Miller yesterday - she seemed wonderfully / well and in great spirits -... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book
by Greenaway, Kate
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Later edition. Small square octavo (3 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 92 x 95 mm.). [iv], 128, [6] pp. Colored frontispiece, eleven full page color illustrations and numerous plain drawings in the text. Bound ca. 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board-edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original fleece-lined, red cloth... Read More
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[Coachman set]
by Greenaway, Kate
London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1880. Card 1. Coachman with crop in hand, single figure in oval signed "K.G.", with a beige border, scroll caption upper left "Greeting" and "Marcus Ward & Co" printed on lower margin. (Schuster & Engen , 251. 1d) Card 2. Girl in blue dress blowing kiss, single figure in oval signed "K.G.", with a beige border, scroll caption upper left "Greeting" and "Marcus Ward & Co" printed on lower margin. (Schuster & Engen... Read More
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![Kate Greenaway's Calendar for 1884. [A set of four cards in original printed envelope]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/185/732/1337732185.0.l.jpg)
Kate Greenaway's Calendar for 1884. [A set of four cards in original printed envelope]
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. Four cards (three oblong quarto & one quarto , measuring approximately 9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; 249 x188 mm.), each with colored and floral borders or decorations, containing costumed figures in color and a calendar for 1884. The four cards contained in the original cream envelope (issue B - without the space for a postage stamp in the upper right corner) with an illustration printed in black on left-hand side,showing mother... Read More
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Kate Greenaway (Signed limited with original artwork)
by [Greenaway, Kate]; M.H. Spielmann; and G.S. Layard
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Edition de Luxe. Near Fine. Number 181 of 500 numbered copies, signed by the artist's brother, John Greenaway. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches; 267 x 206 mm.). xix, [1], 300, [1], [3, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and fifty-three color plates after Kate Greenaway, with descriptive tissue guards, and numerous black and white illustrations, including thirty-four half-tone plates. Publisher's white cloth over beveled boards, front cover and spine lettered in... Read More
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Dirty Jim (Original artwork)
by Greenaway, Kate, artist
London, 1883. First edition. A 5 x 6 inch original pen, ink and watercolor illustration by Greenaway that is reproduced on page 24 of the book Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883). A gentle image of a young boy and two women; one in a brown dress and apron cleans the young child's hand while opposite a woman in a fine pink dress holds the boy's other hand. This illustration has all of... Read More
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Frogs and Snakes (Original artwork)
by Greenaway, Kate
London, 1870. First edition. Original watercolor (8 x 9 in.), sympathetically matted and framed. One of six watercolor designs for Diamonds and Toads (Frederick Warne & Co., 1871), a children's toy book in the Aunt Louisa's Toy Books series. This fantastically vivid and full watercolor drawing from early in Greenaway's career depicts a young woman holding in her right hand a large tankard and looking horrified as two huge frogs and two snakes jump and slither out... Read More
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A Day in a Child's Life
by Greenaway, Kate; Myles B. Foster
London: Edmund Evans, 1881. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in; 243 x 208 mm). 29, [1, printer's slug] pp. Color-printed wood-engraved text illustrations, most accompanied with musical notations. Publisher's light green glazed pictorial boards, beveled edges with green cloth backstrip, light green coated endpapers, all edges stained green. Thomson variant 31a with border of six narrow brown rules alternating with five yellow rules; inside border at each corner containing a yellow sunflower. In the publisher's printed... Read More
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Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Addressed to A. E. Grimke. Revised by the Author
by Grimké, A[ngelina] E.
Boston: Printed by Isaac Knapp, 1838. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (177 x 107 mm). Contemporary blue boards, neatly rebacked to style in beige buckram, original yellow printed paper label on front cover. Binding a little soiled but presenting smartly, recased, corners and inner hinges expertly repaired, contents crisp and clean: a very good copy. An activist for universal human rights, Angelina Grimké was one of the only white Southern women to fight simultaneously for abolition and... Read More
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Francis the First
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Bayntum-Riviere (binders); Francis Hackett
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 133 mm.). [x], [1]-479, [1, blank] pp. Sixteeen photogravure plates. Bound by Bayntun (Rivière) Bath ca. 1948 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full wine red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards. Covers with elaborate floral design corner-pieces. Front cover with an oval border of gilt thistles and leaves and in the center a fine hand-painted portrait miniature (3 1/4... Read More
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The Little Visitors. In Words Composed Chiefly of One and Two Syllables
by [Hack, Maria] M. H.
London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1815. First edition. Original publisher's drab boards with paper label to upper cover. Measuring 140 x 90mm and collating complete with all four plates present: 101, [1, blank], [4, adverts]. Gentle rubbing to boards, but tight, square and pleasing. Faint ownership signature to front endpaper. Some offsetting to endpapers and title page; light scattered foxing throughout. Three inch tear to pages 21-22 archivally closed with all affected words remaining legible; marginal stain to plate... Read More
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The Well of Loneliness (Signed limited edition)
by Hall, Radclyffe
New York: Covici Freidi, 1929. First thus. Near Fine. Number 86 of 225 copies of the Victory Edition in two volumes, signed by the author. A Near Fine set with a spot on the front board of volume one and silver gilt on the spines a little rubbed, but generally in excellent condition internally and quite handsome overall. Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is a ground-breaking novel featuring lesbian relationships and gender nonconformity, which argues that... Read More
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A Pageant of Great Women
by Hamilton, Cicely
London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910. First edition. Very Good. Small quarto. 69 pp. (printed on one side only). With fifteen photo plates (including frontispiece) by Lena Connell (1875 - 1949) of suffragists and actresses in costume as the great women of history. The photographs, which capture stars like the leading acress Ellen Terry (as Nance Oldfield) and the theater producer Edith Craig (as Rosa Bonheur), were sold to raise funds for the suffrage cause and were later exhibited... Read More
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Practical Remarks on Popular Education in England and Wales
by Hamilton, Henry Parr
London: John W. Parker, 1847. First edition. Fine. Recent blue paper wraps. 61 pages with half and full titles present. Pages hand numbered in pencil on upper right corners, else unmarked. Scarce in institutions and on the market, the present copy is the only one on the market, and OCLC reports that of the 9 known copies only 2 are held in the U.S. "The public mind is at length fully awakened to the necessity of educating... Read More
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Tinkers (Signed first paperback edition)
by Harding, Paul
New York: Bellvue Literary Press, 2009. First edition. Fine. First paperback issue. Signed on the title-page by Paul Harding. A Fine copy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010. "A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality" (Pulitzer committee). Fine.
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A Pair of Blue Eyes (in 3 vols.)
by Hardy, Thomas
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. First edition. Fine. First edition in book form (first published serially in Tinsleys' Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873). One of presumably 500 copies printed. Three small octavo volumes. [6], 303, [1, blank]; [6], 311, [1, blank]; [6], 262 pp. Complete with half-titles. Bound ca. 1910 by Zaehnsdorf in three quarter green crushed morocco gilt over green cloth boards ruled in gilt. Spines lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers, top edges... Read More
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A Circuit Rider's Wife (Signed First Edition)
by Harris, Corra
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1910. First edition. Fine. Original green publisher's cloth binding brightly stamped in gilt. A tight, square, pleasing copy with just a bit of rubbing to the lower corners and some light scattered foxing to the edges of text block. Bookplate of B.L. McMillon to front pastedown. Internally pleasing and unmarked. With eight illustrations. Signed on the title page by author Corra Harris, one of Georgia's most successful female writers. In her own time, Corra... Read More
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