Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe par H. Lucas
by Lucas, H.
Paris: F. Sayy, 1864. Third edition. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale brown coated endpapers with advertisements printed in black, uncut. Partially unopened. Clean, mainly marginal tear to page 181/182 with no loss of text. Front free-endpaper not present. Minimal wear to corners, text spotted, the hand colored plates bright and fresh.Collating [iv], iv, 216, pages with hand-colored half-title and seventy- nine fine hand-colored engraved plates of Butterflies and Moths. An... Read More
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Ten Days in Japan. For the Canadian Pacific
by Lum, Berll (Bertha Lum)
Canada: [Candian Pacific Railway], 1930. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's color-printed orange paper wrappers. Wrappers professionally strengthened at spine. Some chipping to edges. A clean, fresh copy. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Bertha Lum, including ten full-page illustrations (two in color) and lively color-printed pictorial endpapers. This Japanese travel itinerary aims to "give the most important and interesting things to see in ten days," including shrines, gardens, and wrestling matches. Lum (1869 - 1954) was an... Read More
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David Elginbrod (in 3 vols.)
by Macdonald, George
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First edition. Near Fine. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 199 x 125 mm.). viii, 325, [1]; vi, 335, [1]; vi, 398. A few leaves in gathering N in Volume I poorly opened at top and a few leaves in gathering H in Volume III poorly opened at edge (not affecting any text). The front cover of Volume I shows evidence of a lending library label having once been affixed,... Read More
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The Moving Target
by Macdonald, John Ross [Kenneth Millar]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition. Fine/about Fine. A Fine copy of the first Lew Archer novel. Book is clean and appears unread with a deep red topstain. In a just about Fine dust jacket with two short tears and the spine color perhaps one shade lighter than the front panel. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. A superior copy overall and a Haycraft Queen cornerstone. Ross Macdonald's acclaimed mystery novel that birthed the... Read More
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (in 3 vols.)
by Mackay, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. Near Fine. Three volumes, octavo (leaves 221 x 138mm), collating: [6], 400; [6], 406; [6], 404 pp. Bound without publisher's advertisements, as often, and without half-title in volume one. Otherwise complete with the half-titles in volumes two and three, and with five engraved portraits: a frontispiece in each volume and two additional portraits in volume three. Nineteenth-century half polished red calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine in six compartments with raised bands.... Read More
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by Maclean, Norman
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities and along the spine fold. Jacket price clipped, but still showing part of the original dollar sign. Overall a pleasing, unread example. Norman Maclean's 1976 semi-autobiographical short story collection, including the titular piece along with "Logging and Pimping and 'Your pal, Jim'" and "USFS 1919: The... Read More
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Harriet and her Cousin; or, Prejudice Overcome
by [Macrae, Lady Flora Maitland]
Edinburgh: Thomsons Brothers, 1822. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 140 x 80mm and collating complete including frontis and publisher's catalogue to rear: vii, [1, blank], 199, [1, errata], 8, [1, blank]. A Near Fine copy with some scuffing to boards and joints, and small chip to foot of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper: "Margaret Jane Palliser. Dublin 1824." A scarce work of juvenile fiction aimed at young women, it... Read More
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Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Najira, Knight of the Golden Fleece...to Pay his Court to Henry VIII, in 1543-4
by Madden, Sir Frederic (translator); Pedro de Gante
London: Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1831. First edition. Near Fine. Full title: Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Najira, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c. to England, to Pay his Court to Henry VIII, in 1543-4: Written by his Secretary, Pedro de Gante. Translated as closely as possible from the original ms. in the British Museum, formerly in the Library of Iriarte, the Spanish Poet, with Notes. Extracted from the journal of the Royal... Read More
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Hours of Gladness
by Maeterlinck, Maurice. Edward J. Detmold (illustrator)
London: George Allen & Co, 1912. First trade edition. Original cream-colored cloth. Front cover lettered in gilt with floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray after a design by Detmold (signed E.J.D. at lower right), back cover with a similar floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. White endpapers with small black floral vignette, all edges uncut. Mild soiling to cloth, spine very slightly darkened, small stain at upper edge of rear cover.... Read More
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An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes
by Magill, Edward
Philadelphia: Charles A. Dixon and Co, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wraps, with stitching holding well. Small stamp of Andover Newton to top corner of front wrapper. Mild offsetting and toning to exterior, with top rear corner bent. 14 pages. Internally complete, clean and unmarked. The present argument for coeducation in the U.S. has become quite scarce, with no appearances in the modern auction record and no other copies on the market. Composed and presented... Read More
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The Naked and the Dead (Signed first edition)
by Mailer, Norman
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Nearly Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Slight wear to the spine ends and a faint crease running up the spine of the jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Mailer's first novel, a masterful saga of the Second World War. Mailer wrote the novel while studying in Paris, and based much of it on his own experiences serving... Read More
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The Naked and the Dead
by Mailer, Norman
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Nearly Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Slight wear to the spine ends; dust jacket price-clipped and toned along the edges. Very slight wear at the spine ends. Mailer's first novel, a masterful saga of the Second World War. Mailer wrote the novel while studying in Paris, and based much of it on his own experiences serving in the Pacific. The book... Read More
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Death Valley in '49. Important Chapter of California Pioneer History
by Manly, William Lewis
San Jose, Cal: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co, 1894. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy. 498 pp., complete with four plates (including frontispiece). Publisher's mustard yellow cloth. A bit of fading to spine and darkening to edge of upper board. Some toning to endpapers at gutter. Shallow nick to edge of front endpaper and to edge of preliminary blank. An excellent, clean and fresh copy. William Lewis Manly's Death Valley in '49 is a... Read More
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John Hopkins' Notions on Political Economy
by [Marcet, Jane] The author of Conversations on Chemistry, Political Economy, &c
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Greene & Longman, 1833. First edition. Near Fine. Contemporary violet cloth binding with label to spine. All edges speckled red. Spine a bit sunned. Bookplate of Thomas Henry Farrer to front pastedown. Internally a clean, tight, complete copy of this rare work. The only copy presently on the market, this scarce book documents Marcet's efforts to expand knowledge access to the working classes in order to make political self-advocacy possible. A peer of... Read More
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Pair of diaries documenting ten important years in the life of a young woman
by [Women's Social History] Ruth Marden
Madison, Maine, 1919. Pair of diaries, totaling 752 pages in a single hand, both from Madison, Maine resident and teacher Ruth Marden. Standard Diary and Daily Reminder (1909): First diary comprised of 371 pages in a single hand, with the ownership signature of Ruth Marden to header of title page. In addition to 365 detailed entries for the year, she includes an additional 6 pages of gifts recorded, addresses, and birthdays to the rear. Red cloth with gilt... Read More
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Pre-Marital Property Agreement and Will
by [Marital Property] [Wills and Land Grants] Poulter, Mary and James Danvers
[Surrey], 1808. Vellum manuscript measuring 520 x 670mm with text to recto only. Original horizontal and vertical foldlines. Some minor toning to recto and verso. £1 impressed duty stamp and seal of King George III adhered to upper left corner with tin. Married in Southwark Christ Church, Surrey on 27 June, 1808, Mary Poulter and James Danvers previously established through this document their shared property and inheritances in the event that one pre-deceased the other. "As the... Read More
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Aucassin & Nicolette
by Mason, Eugene (translator)
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910. Fine. Finely bound ca. 1910 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed on verso of front endpaper). Full scored red calf, covers with double-gilt ruled borders surrounding a blind-stamped geometric design. Front cover lettered in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, olive green morocco lettering label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.Small quarto (6 15/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 121 mm.). Collating viii, 72: complete, including... Read More
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Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South
by Mayo, Rev. A. D.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern Women in Education." Two early ownership stamps to front wrapper and title page read "Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH"... Read More
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Suttree (Inscribed first edition)
by McCarthy, Cormac
New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "For John & Ann | Best wishes | Cormac McCarthy." The recipients were John Egerton and Ann Bleidt. John Egerton (1935 - 2013) was an author and journalist writing extensively on Southern culture and race relations. Removed remainder mark from the text block, minor soiling to the rear board, but generally a decent copy... Read More
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Linda's Pictures (Inscribed association copy)
by McCartney, Linda
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed by the photographer on the half title: "For Peggy, Quincy and midgets, love & kisses, Linda McCartney, 1982." The recipients were Quincy Jones, his third wife Peggy Lipton and their daughters, Kidada and Rashida. In 1982, Paul McCartney worked with Jones on Michael Jackson's Thriller album, dueting on "The Girl is Mine." Quarto. Original grey cloth, illustration to front cover in black,... Read More
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Arte Del Navigare dell'eccel Dottor Pietro Da Medina
by Medina, Pietro da
Venice: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. Second edition in Italian. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 197 x 145 mm.). [xiv], 137, [3, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black and with a large woodcut. Full-page woodcut map of Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and the New World on page 33 (identical to the 1554 edition) and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. Numerous woodcut head pieces and initial letters. Early ink name on either side of woodcut,... Read More
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The Works (in 36 vols.)
by Meredith, George
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1911. First Thus. [The Memorial edition], limited to 1025 copies, this being copy 527, numbered and initialed (GMM) by Meredith. Thirty-six octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 216 x 142 mm.) occupying approximately 44 1/2 inches (113 cm.) of shelf space. Contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt by Birdsall of Northampton (stamp- signed). Spines decoratively gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Original cloth covers preserved... Read More
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The Poetical Works of George Meredith
by [Fine Binding - Root & Son]; George Meredith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Octavo. (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 133 mm.). xvi, 623, [1, blank] pp. Inserted frontispiece portrait. Affixed to a front blank are two newspaper clippings dated 1929 and 1931. The verso of the portrait also has two newspaper clippings affixed and is inscribed in blue ink by the literary scholar Carl Emery Malugin (the blue ink has 'bled' through and shows on the portrait, and many leaves have his marginal... Read More
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A Breath from the Veldt
by Millais, John Guille
London: Henry Sotheran, 1895. First edition. First trade edition. Folio (15 1/8 x 11 5/8 in; 384 x 296 mm). x, 236 pp.Bound c. 1949 in half crimson morocco over pale red cloth ruled in gilt. Spine with six raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpaperes, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engravings exhibit light spotting to margins. A very small rub spot to lower board. Otherwise a fine copy. Thirteen uncolored electro-engravings with tissue... Read More
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Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel (Inscribed first edition)
by Miller, Henry
Tucson: Loujon Press, 1966. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. One of 26 copies in the "A to Z Leather Inscription Edition" inscribed by Henry Miller to the poet Jack Grapes (this being copy G). The inscribed copies were the most limited in a total edition of 1,524 (which also included 99 signed copies). Beautifully bound in half crimson morocco by the Schuberth Bookbindery in San Francisco. This is a lovely, quirky production designed, edited, and letterpress printed by... Read More
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