Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Front hinge a bit tender. Some foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise very clean throughout. A Very Good+ copy of an uncommon work promoting the rights of children in education and the home. Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784 - 1836) wrote her guide to early childhood education for mothers... Read More
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The Czarina; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia (in 3 vols.)
by Hofland, Barbara
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 186 x 118 mm.). [2], 302; [2], 317, [1, blank]; [2], 325, [1, blank] pp. Contemporary half plum calf, decoratively ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively ruled and numbered in gilt and ruled in blind with four raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, edges sprinkled red. Spines faded to brown, corners lightly rubbed, spine labels a tiny bit chipped. Some... Read More
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Poems
by [Hofland, Barbara] Hoole, Barbara
Sheffield: J. Montgomery, 1805. First edition. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt and morocco to spine. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 148 x 90mm and collating complete with subscriber's list: li, [1, blank], 256. Discreet repair to upper joint near crown and joints starting but sound. Occasional light scattered foxing, but a largely clean and fresh copy internally. Several small pinholes to title and dedication leaves not affecting text. Bookplate of Mary Oates to front pastedown, with her husband George Oates (1789-1827)... Read More
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by [Hogg, James]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. First printing, one of just a thousand copies; reports indicate that fewer than three hundred actually sold. In 1828, the leftover sheets were reissued with a new title-page as The Suicide's Grave; or, Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner, and a severely bowdlerized version was published in 1837 as volume five of Tales and Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd. The work was not published again in unexpurgated form... Read More
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Odysseias [The Odyssey] (Large paper copy)
by Homer
Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1758. First thus. Near Fine. The rare large paper issue of the beautiful Foulis folio edition of the Odyssey. Near-contemporary diced russia rebacked with gilt spine. Two volumes, folio. Measuring 245 x 385 mm. [viii], 297; [iv], 336 pp. Bound without terminal blanks, otherwise complete. Pages ruled in red with half-titles and title-pages elaborately ruled in red and green. Corners somewhat rubbed. Some foxing to preliminaries in volume... Read More
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Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Held at Hartford, September 9, 1870
by [Hooker, Isabella Beecher]
Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. First edition. Near Fine. Tracts of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association No. 2. Original printed self-wraps stitched at spine. 24 pages. Toning to front wrap; light chipping to outer edge of rear wrap and a small split at lower joint holding well. Signed in type on the rear by Isabella Beecher Hooker, in her capacity as chair. A critical organ of this influential state organization, the present Annual Meeting and... Read More
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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover (Presentation copies in 3 vols.)
by Hoover, Herbert
New York: Macmillan, 1952. First editions. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing of volume 1, first printings of volumes 2 & 3. Three octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 232 x 155 mm.). xii, 496; xiv, 405, [1, blank]; xvi, 503, [1, blank] pp. The three volumes containing 26 black & white photogravure plates. Each volume inscribed on front free endpaper "To my good friend Ida Koverman from Herbert Hoover." Publishers blue cloth, front covers with signature... Read More
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Keystone Normal School Course Notebook
by [Women in Education] Fannie S. Hottenstein
Kutztown, PA, 1890. Quarter roan over marbled boards measuring 8 x 6.25 inches and comprised of 73 pages of manuscript text (including a mixture of notes passed between friends on the verso of the final leaf and on the rear pastedown). Spine largely perished with boards and textblock held together by cords. Several leaves neatly excised towards rear. Containing notes from Fannie Hottenstein's courses in teacher training, the present volumes offer researchers a range of study topics, including the... Read More
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Fields of Wonder (Presentation copy)
by Hughes, Langston
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marion - who finds the world a field of wonder for her lens - Sincerely, Langston, Atlanta University, March 17, 1947." A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine slightly rubbed, extremities bumped; jacket unclipped, spine and folds browned, extremities lightly worn with a few small chips. ... Read More
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One-Way Ticket (Presentation copy)
by Hughes, Langston
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Happy Holidays to Marion - Sincerely, Langston, Christmas, New York, 1948." A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in bronze, yellow paper sides, front cover lettered and decorated in blind, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. Lightly rubbed, hint of sunning to spine ends, contents slightly toned but clean.... Read More
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Back Street (Signed Limited Edition)
by Hurst, Fannie
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1931. First edition. One of 250 signed copies. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Half morocco with gilt on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. In all, a lovely copy of this important post-WWI novel. A prolific novelist and short story writer, Hurst's work was highly popular in the years after World War I. "Back Street is one of her two best remembered novels. The story of a woman who devoted her life to being the... Read More
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The Haggadah
by [Fine Binding - Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Arthur Szyk (illustrator)
Jerusalem [and] Tel Aviv: Published by "Massadah" and "Alumoth, 1957. Later trade edition. A special copy of the 1957 trade edition bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in the deluxe full morocco binding of the original edition of 1939. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 268 x 210 mm). Printed in black, sanguine, purple, blue, red, and green inks on [56] double-folded leaves. Fourteen full-page and numerous vignettes and border decorations printed in color. Text in English and... Read More
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Everybody's Pepys
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Samuel Pepys; Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator)
London: Bell and Sons, 1927. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). [xxiv], 570 pp. Fifty-seven full-page black and white plates and three text drawings. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1927 (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full medium blue morocco with a very ornate multi-fillet gilt frame enclosing a vari-colored morocco onlaid illustration with painted highlights, reproducing the black and white plate in the book "So To Bed" (facing p.400). Gilt ornamented raised bands.... Read More
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Tales of a Traveller. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (in 2 vols.)
by Irving, Washington
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Near Fine. This British edition, which includes five pieces not present in the American edition, was published in on August 25, 1824. Though volume one of the American edition had been published by Carey & Lea on August 23, volume two was not published until October of that year (Bowden). The complete full text, with the five ommitted pieces, was first published in the United States in 1825. Two volumes, octavo.... Read More
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Ramona. A Story
by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. Near Fine. Original green publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt on the spine and black and gilt on the front board. Floral endpapers. A Near Fine copy with a bit of faint spotting to the boards and lower corners gently bumped. Contemporary gift inscriptions to the front endpaper and occasional marginal foxing, else internally unmarked. Complete with four pages of publisher's ads in the rear. In all, a square, pleasing copy of... Read More
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The Madonna of the Future
by James, Henry. Jim Dine (photographer)
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. First Thus. Fine. Publisher's cloth binding in Fine condition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Jim Dine, this being copy number 180. Quarto (12 1/4 x 8 3/4 in; 311 x 220 mm). Complete, including one photogravure by Jim Dine. Originally appearing in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1873, James' The Madonna of the future was hailed as a masterpiece. The narrative of two gentlemen discussing art, life and deferred fame... Read More
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The Works of Samuel Johnson (in 16 vols.)
by Johnson, Samuel
Troy, New York: Pafraets Book Company, 1903. The Connoisseurs' Edition. Fine. One of 150 numbered sets. Leaves measuring 150 x 235 mm, with the set together occupying 66 cm (26 in) of shelf space. A Fine set. Half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spine in six compartments with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Bookplates of Robert Watchorn to upper pastedowns and bookplates of William N. Johnson to upper free endpapers. Color frontispiece in each volume. First volume... Read More
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A Dictionary of the English Language (in 2 vols.)
by Johnson, Samuel
London: W. Strahan, 1755. First edition. Two large folio volumes (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 422 x 251 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces. Title-pages with light staining, first title-page (A1) with an early faded ink inscription at foot of page and small expert repairs to the fore and lower edge and top left-hand corner with no loss of text. Expertly repaired closed tear to left-hand margin with no... Read More
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From Here to Eternity (Signed limited first edition)
by Jones, James
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Deluxe issue ("Presentation Edition"), signed by the author on publisher's tipped-in sheet. This being copy 572. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth. Slight lean to spine. Toning to upper endpapers and a couple dusty finger marks to top edge. In the first issue dust jacket with the author's portrait on the back panel (later issues replaced the portrait with reviews). Jacket price-clipped with some wear and... Read More
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Joyce, James
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting, but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions:... Read More
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Joyce, James
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender, but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows up ensconced in rigid institutions: the church, school system, family, and national politics. Feeling trapped, Stephen experiences a series of... Read More
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Exiles. A Play in Three Acts
by Joyce, James
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Published simultaneously with the English edition on May 25, 1918 (see Slocum & Cahoon, 14 and 15). A Fine copy of the book in Near Fine dust jacket. [vi], 154 pp. Publisher's green cloth over tan blindstamped boards. A touch of foxing to edges and top edge dusty, otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket rubbed and a bit foxed, with just a few short tears to the rear panel. Overall... Read More
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers, some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded, minor chips and tears, mostly a the extremities, and some smudges to the jacket panels. Among the most influential and complex Modernist... Read More
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Ulysses
by Joyce, James
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. Very Good +. One of 750 copies on handmade paper, from the wider first edition limitation of 1,000 copies. Based on Sylvia Beach's records, it has been asserted that, out of the three issues of the first edition, this one was sent out first. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards, bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with... Read More
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Maria Menzikoff and Fedor Dolgoronki. A Russian Tale Founded on Fact..
by [Juvenile]
London: J. Bailey, 1800. First edition in English. Modern card wrappers, measuring 173 x 105mm and collating complete including frontis: [2], 28. Bookplate of children's collector Albert Howard to recto of rear wrap. 3.75 inch tear along title, repaired along verso; some toning along fore-edge of text block and outer margins. A scarce and delicate piece which does not appear in the modern auction record and which OCLC reports at only 4 libraries, and a testament to the rising... Read More
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