Cries of London
by SMITH John Thomas TUER Andrew
1839. SMITH, John Thomas Smith. The Cries of London. BOUND WITH: TUER, Andrew W. London Cries: with Six Charming Children. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son / Field & Tuer, 1839, [1883]. Large quarto, late nineteenth-century three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $4000.First edition of this collection of this work on the street cries of London, extensively extra-illustrated (some of which are hand-colored) for a total of 114 plates. Bound together... Read More
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Sermon Preached before... Francis Bernard
by STAMP ACT BERNARD Francis ELIOT Andrew
1765. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (STAMP ACT) ELIOT, Andrew. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq And the Honorable House of Representatives, Of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, May 29th 1765. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province. Boston: Green and Russell, 1765. Slim octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt, black morocco spine label, uncut; pp. (3-5) 6-59 (1). $3800.First edition of the influential Boston pastor's most famous... Read More
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All My Pretty Ones
by SEXTON Anne
1962. First Edition. Signed. SEXTON, Anne. All My Pretty Ones. Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and The Riverside Press, 1962. Slim octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $2900.First edition, presentation copy, of Sexton's second collection of autobiographical poetry, inscribed in the year of publication to illustrator Barbara Swan, whose lithograph, ""The Musicians,"" inspired the 1964 poem, ""To Lose the Earth"": ""For Barbara, with love and thanks for ""The Musicians""Anne. Dec-1962.""A collection ""of torment and reflection transposed into... Read More
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Common Law Epitomized
by GLISSON William GULSTON Anthony
1679. GLISSON, William; GULSTON, Anthony. The Common Law Epitomiz'd: with Directions How to Prosecute and Defend Personal Actions. London: Hen. Brome and Tho. Bassett, et al., 1679. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf rebacked and recornered, burgundy morocco spine label. $1100.Second edition of this summary of procedural law, expanded by law reporter and legal writer William Style.Glisson and Gulston's work includes much on action on the case, covenant, debt, detinue, and trespass, among other subjects. Editor William Style's own Practical... Read More
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Autograph letter signed. WITH: Envelope inscribed. WITH: National Bulletin inscribed
by ANTHONY Susan B.
1894. Signed. ANTHONY, Susan B. Autograph letter signed. WITH: Envelope stamped, postmarked ""Mar 4,1894,"" autograph return address. WITH: The National Bulletin, January, 1894, autograph marginalia. Three items. ALS, cream card stock (2-7/8 by 5-3/8 inches); envelope (3 by 5-1/2 inches); National Bulletin, (6 by 8-1/2; pp. 4). Housed together in a chemise and custom clamshell box. $9000.Rare 1894 collection of autograph materials signed by Susan B. Anthony, featuring a fascinating one-page March 4, 1894 autograph letter signed by her,... Read More
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Boston Slave Riot
by SLAVERY BURNS Anthony
1854. First Edition. (SLAVERY) (BURNS, Anthony). Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns. Boston: Fetridge, 1854. Slim octavo, modern half calf and marbled boards. $3000.First edition of a seminal pre-Civil War pamphlet on the 1854 arrest and Boston trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose return to his Virginia slave owner at the order of the Boston court sparked public fury and ""set Boston on its ear in the spring of 1854,"" inspiring Whitman to write his Boston... Read More
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Dance to the Music of Time
by POWELL Anthony
1951. First Edition. Signed. POWELL, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time. London: William Heinemann, (1951-75). Twelve volumes. 12mo, modern full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $6800. First editions of all 12 books in Powells vast multi-volume A Dance to the Music of Time novel, with a signed autograph inscription by Powell tipped into the first volume, handsomely bound.""The last surviving member of that prolific, gifted generation of English writers who came out... Read More
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Fisher King
by POWELL Anthony
1986. First Edition. Signed. POWELL, Anthony. The Fisher King. London: Heinemann, (1986). Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition of Powell's skillful modern interpretation of an Arthurian character, signed on the title page by him and with four autograph text corrections.Drawing from Arthurian legend in which the Fisher King is a maimed and sexually damaged ruler of a barren country, Anthony Powell develops his modern interpretation on a cruise ship and transfers the Fisher King's more... Read More
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Manuale del Profumiere
by ROSSI Antonio
1902. First Edition. (PERFUME) ROSSI, Antonio. Manuale del Profumiere. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1902. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. $1200.First edition of this illustrated guide to perfume-making, with 700 recipes and 58 in-text wood-engraved illustrations.Rossi's practical guide for the perfume-maker includes hundreds of recipes and many wood-engraved illustrations of the distilleries and other equipment used in turn-of-the-20th-century manufacture of perfumes, essences and scents. With publisher's 64-page ad catalogue at rear. Text in Italian. Repair to front inner paper hinge, spine slightly... Read More
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Worst Journey in the World
by CHERRY-GARRARD Apsley
1922. First Edition. CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-13. London: Constable, (1922). Two volumes. Octavo, original half white cloth, gray paper boards, original paper spine labels, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000.First edition, rare first issue, of Cherry-Garrards firsthand account of the most famous of Antarctic expeditions, richly illustrated with reproductions of sketches and photographs made by members of the crew (a number printed in color), five maps, and ten folding panoramas.Cherry-Garrard served... Read More
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Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit
by ARABIAN NIGHTS MARDRUS J.C.
1920. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) MARDRUS, J.C. Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit. Traduction Littérale et Complète du Texte Arabe par le Dr. J.C. Mardrus. Paris: Fasquelle, circa 1920. Eight volumes. Large quarto, contemporary half green calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines with red morocco onlays and spine labels, raised bands, patterned paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $4000.Lovely illustrated edition of Mardrus colorful French translation of the Arabian Nights, illustrated with 156 color reproductions of intricate illuminated miniatures from... Read More
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Disputatio de generatione et corruptione
by ARISTOTLE
1787. (ARISTOTLE). Disputatio de Generatione et Corruptione. No place, circa 1700. Quarto, contemporary limp vellum. $1200.Attractive late 17th or early 18th-century manuscript of Aristotelian commentary in Latin, featuring decorative inked headers and illustrations.This manuscript volume contains over 300 pages of painstakingly inked notes engaging with Aristotle's treatise De generatione et corruptione, covering ""Rarefactione et condensatione,"" ""Actione et passione,"" ""De mixtione,"" etc. On the last page is a list of Aristotelian quotescaptioned ""Quaedam scitu digna,"" or ""Some things worth knowing""attributed... Read More
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Denizens of the Jungles
by STERNDALE Robert Armitage
1886. STERNDALE, Robert Armitage. Denizens of the Jungles: A Series of Sketches of Wild Animals, Illustrating Their Forms and Natural Attitudes. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1886. Oblong folio (18-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), original green cloth. $2200.Expanded second edition of Sterndale's ""quite scarce"" collection of sketches, with 12 folio lithographs of the wild animals of India in their natural habitats, including ""evocative sketches"" of tiger, elephant, leopard, gaur, entellus monkeys (langur), wild boar, rhinoceros, sambar deer, and Marco Polo... Read More
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100 Years of Negro Freedom
by BONTEMPS Arna
1961. First Edition. Signed. BONTEMPS, Arna. 100 Years of Negro Freedom. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition of this cultural history, with eight pages of black-and-white photographic portraits, presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication by Bontemps on the front free endpaper: ""For John and Elise, becauseas the man saidthere are not many John Hopes anywhere, With all the best, Arna Bontemps, June 24, 1961. Fisk.""""Bontemps' historical interests also led... Read More
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Book of Negro Folklore
by HUGHES Langston BONTEMPS Arna
1959. First Edition. Signed. HUGHES, Langston and BONTEMPS, Arna, editors. The Book of Negro Folklore. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $1100.Second printing of this collection of African American folklore, presentation copy inscribed by editor Arna Bontemps, who authored the Introduction, on the front free endpaper: ""For Elise Hope, Arna Bontemps, 8-8-61.""""Bontemps and Hughes edited The Poetry of the Negro (1949) and The Book of Negro Folklore (1958) Bontemps' historical interests also led... Read More
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Origin and History of Beer and Brewing
by ARNOLD John P.
1911. First Edition. Signed. ARNOLD, John P. Origin and History of Beer and Brewing. From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of Brewing Science and Technology. Chicago: Alumni Ass'n of the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology, 1911. Tall quarto, original pictorial orange- and black-stamped green cloth, patterned endpapers. $3200.First edition of Arnold's widely praised and comprehensive history of beer, spanning the prehistoric era through the late 18th century, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: ""With compliments to the Misses... Read More
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Theory of Economic Growth
by LEWIS Arthur
1955. First Edition. LEWIS, W. Arthur. The Theory of Economic Growth. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket. $2000.First edition of Sir Arthur Lewis' 1955 groundbreaking work that confirmed his position as ""a leading authority on economic growth and political and social change in emerging nations,"" the first Black economist awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, won jointly in 1979 with Theodore Schultz, in very scarce original dust jacket.Sir Arthur Lewis, born in... Read More
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Case of Passmore Williamson
by SLAVERY WILLIAMSON Passmore CANNON Arthur
1856. First Edition. (SLAVERY) WILLIAMSON, Passmore. Case of Passmore Williamson. Report of the Proceedings on the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Issued by the Hon. John K. Kane, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, In the Case of the United States of America Ex. Rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson, Including the Several Opinions Delivered; And The Arguments of Counsel, Reported by Arthur Cannon, Esq., Phonographer. Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt &... Read More
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Napoleon et Ses Contemporains
by NAPOLEON DE CHAMBURE Auguste
1833. (NAPOLEON) CHAMBURE, Auguste de. Napoleon et Ses Contemporains. Paris: Gustave Ducasse, 1833. Quarto, modern three-quarter crimson morocco gilt, raised bands, olive morocco spine labels, marbled boards. $2600.Early edition of this military officer's ""historical sketches"" of Napoleon and his contemporaries, with frontispiece portrait and 45 fine engravings depicting scenes from Napoleon's life and career, printed on papier de Chine and mounted, handsomely bound.Auguste de Chambure was a colorful and charismatic officer who served throughout the Napoleonic wars; his name... Read More
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Works
by DOBSON Austin
1892. DOBSON, Austin. Collected Poems. Two volumes. WITH: Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Three volumes. WITH: Four Frenchwomen. WITH: Miscellanies. WITH: Horace Walpole: A Memoir. Together, eight volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $1650.Selected works of Henry Austin Dobson, beautifully bound with frontispiece portraits of Dobson, Steele, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Mademoiselle de Corday.Dobson's poetical contributions to Trollope's St. Paul's magazine from 1868 to 1874 attracted widespread popular and... Read More
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History of England
by MACAULAY Thomas Babington
1899. MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second. WITH: Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay. Edited by his Sister Lady Trevelyan. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $3000.Later edition of Macaulay's enormously influential history, together with a collection of his famous essays and orations, handsomely bound by Dutton.""The first historical work deliberately... Read More
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Banks Dictionary of the Black Ghetto Language
by BANKS Carl J.
1975. First Edition. BANKS, Carl J., Jr. Banks Dictionary of the Black Ghetto Language. Los Angeles, California: Saidi, 1975. Slim octavo, original black-stamped pictorial yellow wrappers. $1800.First edition of this concise 1970s dictionary of ""Black Talk,"" or African-American Vernacular English.Written by a Navy veteran from Los Angeles, this work attempts to bring African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) into the mainstream, arguing that ""[t]here needs to be courses in all schools entitled BLACK TALK."" Banks' dictionary includes 521 entries roughly arranged... Read More
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Promised Land
by OBAMA Barack
2020. First Edition. Signed. OBAMA, Barack. A Promised Land. New York: Crown, (2020). Octavo, original silver-stamped gray cloth, original slipcase. $1400.First edition, first printing of the much-anticipated first volume of Nobel laureate President Obama's memoir, signed by him on the publisher's tipped-in leaf""the story will continue in the second volume, but Barack Obama has already illuminated a pivotal moment in American history""with 32 pages of color and black-and-white illustrations, publisher's deluxe edition with photographic portrait affixed to front panel... Read More
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New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive
by BARRAUD C.D. TRAVERS W.T.L.
1877. First Edition. (NEW ZEALAND) BARRAUD, C.D.; TRAVERS, W.T.L. New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. Elephant folio (16-1/2 by 21 inches), modern three-quarter black morocco, raised bands; section of original red cloth cover with gilt title and vignette mounted to front pastedown. $5000.First edition of one of the finest color plate books dealing with New Zealand, with 30 striking elephant folio lithographs24 of them printed in color and mountedof scenery throughout New... Read More
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Poetical Works
by BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett
1890. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poetical Works. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. Six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary half red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2800.Handsomely bound, illustrated six-volume set of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems, including her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Collected works of one of the most romantic figures of the 19th century, featuring her novel in verse Aurora Leigh as well as the beloved Sonnets from the Portuguese, along with her... Read More
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