Mansfield Park
by Austen, Jane
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1814. First edition. Three volumes, duodecimo (180 x 110 mm), bound without half-titles. A Very Good copy. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked with the original spines laid down, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, twin gilt border to covers, marbled sides and endpapers. Occasional light foxing and finger-soiling to contents, leaf N6 of vol. I chipped with loss to a dozen letters and a few more slightly grazed, a couple of gatherings in vol. III... Read More
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The Works of Francis Bacon (in 10 vols)
by Bacon, Francis
London: Printed for J. Johnson...by H. Bryer, 1803. Near Fine. Ten octavo volumes (231 x 136 mm.). Bound (by Bickers) for Blackwell (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper) in early twentieth-century maroon scored calf. Covers ruled in gilt, smooth spines ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled green. Engraved frontispiece portrait by James Fittler in Volume I. A near fine set. A significant compilation of the... Read More
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam...in Five Volumes
by Bacon, Francis
London: A. Millar; J. R. Tonson; William Bowyer, 1765. Early edition. Bound to style in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt and morocco labels to spines. All edges speckled blue. Measuring 285 x 225mm and collating complete including frontis to volumes I-IV (no frontis called for in V) and folding tables in volumes I and IV: [12], xlii, [2], 575, [1]; [6], 658; [12], vi, 7-681, [74]; [2], xx, 529, [1]; vii, [1], 604. Top edges a... Read More
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Womanhood...With a Preface by Mrs. Mary Scharlieb..
by Baird, Mona
London: Health Promotion, Ltd, 1919. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. 215, [9, ads] pp. Publisher's gray paper wrappers. Some toning and foxing to wrappers, first few leaves, and edges of closed text block. Overall a Very Good copy of a scarce and radical work on women's health that advocates for women's economic equality and the right to vote. Written under the pseudonym of Mona Baird, Womanhood presents both a frank discussion of women's health and the author's... Read More
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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamram Arabs
by Baker, Sir Samuel W.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1867. First edition. Near Fine. Original dark blue cloth over boards, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Two small bookplates on front paste-down. Collating xx11, [2], 596, including portrait frontispiece, 24 illustrations on 23 plates, 2 colored maps (1 large folding). Some very light wear at spine extremities, otherwise Near Fine. A classic of exploration and big game hunting. The discovery of the... Read More
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Ismalia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Signed first edition). Macmillan and Co
by Baker, Sir Samuel W.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Near Fine. Two volumes, octavo. Signed by the author in black ink to front blank of volume 1. Bound in handsome modern half calf gilt over marbled boards to stylem with twin red morocco spine labels. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 52 plates, 2 lithographic maps, one folding. Scattered foxing, small repaired closed tear to inner margin of large folding map (as usual). A Near Fine copy. A work that is... Read More
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The Dandy Wife
by [Honorable Prostitution] [Economics of Marriage] [Women's Education] [Broadside Ballad]
London: T. Birt, 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor, OCLC documents only one example (at the National Library of Scotland). The present is the only example on the market. The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife"... Read More
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The Drought
by Ballard, J.G.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Fine/Fine. The preferred first British and hardcover edition. Original brown cloth gilt in dust jacket. Top edge red, a small Foyles book ticket to foot of front pastedown. A Fine, pristine copy in like dust jacket, rarely found in such beautiful condition. An exceptional example of Ballard's classic science fiction novel. Originally published in the United States in 1964 under the title The Burning World, it was retitled and published... Read More
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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
by Ballantyne, Robert Michael
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition. Good. First issue, with the plate "Terrible Encounter with a Shark" facing p. 76 (in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm.). viii, [9]-438, [2, blank] pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing p. 214 with original tissue-guard. Publisher's first issue binding of royal blue diagonal ripple-grain... Read More
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Tales of Superstition and Chivalry
by Bannerman, Anne
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood...by James Swan, 1802. First edition. Very Good +. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with printed paper spine label. Joints beginning to split (still holding) and some wear to corners. Some minor toning but overall quite clean. A fresh, Very Good+ copy in the desirable original boards. Octavo. [8], 144 pp. Complete with the scarce frontispiece and three plates. The frontispiece, a full-length female nude illustrating the story "The Prophecy of Merlin," generated some... Read More
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The Force of Example
by [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia]
London: Published by B. Tabart & Co. at the Juvenile & School Library, 1810. First edition. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards, rebacked with gilt to spine. Measuring 125 x 105mm and collating complete in 8 pages with hand-colored frontis and 8 hand-colored plates. A Near Fine copy in and out, with minimal rubbing to boards. Occasional marginal soiling, and archival reinforcement to fore-edge of title page and to a small hole in pages 3-4 not affecting text. OCLC... Read More
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The Admirable Crichton
by Barrie, J.M. Hugh Thomson (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being 94), signed by the artist. Original vellum over boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt within a double gilt rule and a triple green rule border. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties missing and vellum a bit dust soiled. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 10 inches; 309 x 253 mm.). Collating [2, limitation... Read More
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Il Pentamerone; or, The Tale of Tales (in 2 vols)
by Basile, Giambattista. Sir Richard Francis Burton (translator)
London: Henry and Co, 1893. Two octavo volumes ( 216 x 134 mm). Bound ca. 1920 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for J.W. Robinson Company (stamp-signed in black on verso of front endleaves). Covers triple ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments. Two black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges , decorative gilt turn-ins, navy blue endpapers with gilt 'moon' design, all edges gilt. Small chip on one of the... Read More
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Dot and Tot of Merryland (Inscribed first edition, with MS page)
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co, 1901. First edition. Fine. Small quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 162 mm.). [viii], [13]-225, [226], [2, blank] pp. Inscribed on recto of advertisement leaf "To the coming man if / not already came) / Harold McGrath / with the most obstinate / admiration of his friend / L Frank Baum. / Chicago / September / 6th 1901". Publisher's pictorial tan cloth. Front cover pictorially decorated in red, black and... Read More
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A Sketch of Modern France in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion, Written in the Years 1796 and 1797..
by [Beaumont, Louise Elisa] A Lady
London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. First edition. Near Fine. Bound to style in modern half calf over modern boards, with morocco and gilt label to spine. Renewed endpapers. Measuring 210 x 125mm. Collating viii, 518, [2]: complete, including final leaf of adverts. Small paper flaw to margin of 509-510 not affecting text and faint dampstain to upper margin of preliminaries, else a pleasing and clean copy internally. ESCT reports 15 libraries with copies (8 of... Read More
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En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book, uncommon in this condition. Spine slightly toned and a crease running the length, slight nicks at the spine ends and a small stain on the rear wrapper. Pages a bit toned, as usual, otherwise an excellent copy internally. Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy is one of the masterpieces of... Read More
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Ill Seen, Ill Said (Signed limited edition)
by Beckett, Samuel
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982. First thus. Fine. A presentation copy, outside of the 299 numbered and 26 lettered copies. Bound in blue marbled boards with navy leather backstrip with gilt tooling and title in gilt on spine. Extremely clean interior, signed by author on half-title. Published first in French in 1981 and translated by the author in the following year, Ill Seen, Ill Said, is a novella capturing the last moments of a dying woman.... Read More
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En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book. Front wrapper reattached and a tear repaired on p 29. Spine creased and a bit toned, text block also a bit browned, as often. Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy is one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century theater. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the fall and... Read More
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[Vathek] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript, with notes, critical and explanatory
by [Beckford, William]
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1786. First edition. Very Good +. Octavo (leaves measuring 195 x 115 mm). [viii], 334 pp. A Very Good copy, remarkably clean and fresh throughout. Appears to be lacking upper free endpaper, otherwise complete, with the errata leaf and the blanks. Unrestored contemporary tree calf with some edgewear, spine a bit rubbed, with upper joint beginning to separate at head (still holding firm). Early armorial bookplate of the Earl of Clare to upper... Read More
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![[Full score of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony] Sinfonie mit Schluss-Chor über Schillers Ode: "An die Freude" für grosses Orchester, 4 Solo- und 4 Chor- Stimmen, componirt und Seiner Majestaet de, König von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm III. 125tes Werk](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/742/281/1736281742.0.l.jpg)
[Full score of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony] Sinfonie mit Schluss-Chor über Schillers Ode: "An die Freude" für grosses Orchester, 4 Solo- und 4 Chor- Stimmen, componirt und Seiner Majestaet de, König von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm III. 125tes Werk
by Beethoven, Ludwig van
Mainz & Paris: B. Schotts Söhnen & Antwerp, A. Schott, 1826. First edition. Very Good. First edition of the full orchestral score for the Ninth Symphony, first trade issue, published 28 August 1826, without the list of names found in prepublication copies for subscribers and without the metronome markings added to copies from December onwards. Folio. Lithographic title page incorporating arms of Prussia, 226 engraved plates. Without the two-page list of subscribers; plates numbered 2322, often corrected from... Read More
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Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, with Life and Memoirs (in 6 vols.)
by Behn, Mrs. Aphra
London: John Pearson, 1871. First Thus. Facsimile reprint edition of the 1724 third edition of the Plays and 1735 edition of the Novels. Finely bound by Sotherans in half speckled calf with ornate gilt and morocco to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns of each; bookseller's ticket of W. G. Foyle to rear pastedown of each. Measuring 105 x 175mm each. Complete, including frontis. Internally fresh and... Read More
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Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Subjects: Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Inform the Manners, and Enlighten the Understanding
by Bennett, Rev. John
Hartford [CT]: Hudson & Goodwin, 1791. First American edition. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with morocco spine label. A tight, square copy. Contemporary ownership signature of Mary L. Hurd to header of first title page; pencil equations to the rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing and toning throughout, as is common in American imprints of this period; closed tear to the inner margin of 17-18 not affecting text. In all, pleasing and unmarked. Collating xii,... Read More
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Imitation. Affectionately inscribed by the Author to her sister, Mrs. Basil Montagu
by Benson, Maria
London: Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817. First edition. Publisher's quarter roan over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 135 x 80mm and collating complete including frontis: [4], 216. A charming example, with gentle bumps to corners and binding firm; rebacked with original spine laid down. Contemporary gift inscription to recto of frontis: "Fanny Tomkinson given her by Miss Morris. Febry 16th 1824." Slight offsetting to title and occasional foxing, but overall a fresh, unmarked example. Scarce... Read More
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The Book of Genesis
by [Bible in English] Robinson, Frederick Cayley, illustrator
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper (twelve copies on vellum were also produced) printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv, [1], 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece)... Read More
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The Collected Works (Family presentation copy)
by Bierce, Ambrose
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. Signed limited edition. Near Fine. Inscribed by Bierce to his daughter: "My daughter, Mrs. Helen Bierce Cowden - Ambrose Bierce." Also, with an excellent five-page ALS from Bierce to his daughter in the original mailing envelope mounted to the preliminary blank. One of 250 copies of the autograph edition, this being copy thirty-three. A Near Fine set. Twelve volumes, octavo (155 x 222 mm), together occupying about 52... Read More
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