Essay on Criticism. WITH: Facsimile
by POPE Alexander ROOSEVELT Eleanor ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1928. Signed. (ROOSEVELT, Eleanor) (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) POPE, Alexander. An Essay on Criticism. WITH: Facsimile [1711 first edition]. San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1928. Slim folio (9 by 13 inches) and slim octavo, original parchment and blue paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut, original slipcase. $2600.Limited edition, one of only 250 copies, of renowned printer John Henry Nash's publication of Pope's Essay on Criticism, comprising both a beautifully printed folio volume and... Read More
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Eastern Love
by MATHERS E. Powys
1930. (EROTICA) MATHERS, E. Powys (translator). Eastern Love. New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). Three volumes. Octavo, original half vellum gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $950.Limited edition, number 1050 of 1500 copies, of this collection of Asian erotic literature, with 16 color plates by Franz Felix.With a ""Notice to Booksellers and Individual Subscribers"" tipped into Volume I. ""This extraordinary collection of Oriental Folk Lore, ancient, medieval and modern, is offered to Booksellers and Subscribers with the advice of the Publishers... Read More
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Book of Common Prayer
by BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
1723. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. London: John Baskett and the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1723. Tall folio (10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full mottled calf expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, corners and spine panels with gilt device of the crown of King George I, raised bands, renewed endpapers, all edges gilt. $8250.Beautiful early 18th-century tall folio edition of the venerable Book of Common... Read More
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Five Scientific Papers
by JOULE James Prescott
1849. First Edition. JOULE, James Prescott. Five Scientific Papers: On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. BOUND WITH: On the Air-Engine. BOUND WITH: THOMSON, William and JOULE, J.P. On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. BOUND WITH: JOULE, J.P. and THOMSON, W. On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion, Part II. BOUND WITH: Introductory Research on the Induction of Magnetism by Electrical Currents. London: Philosophical Transactions, 1849-55. Quarto, modern marbled paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $3800.First appearances of... Read More
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Bakchesarian Fountain
by PUSHKIN Alexander LEWIS William D.
1849. First Edition. PUSHKIN, Alexander. The Bakchesarian Fountain. By Alexander Pooshkeen. And Other Poems, by Various Authors. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1849. 12mo, original tan printed paper wrappers respined and recornered; 72 pp. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6200.First edition in English of Pushkin's popular third book.This translation of Bakhchisaraiskii Fontan (Moscow 1824) is one of the poet's first appearances in English, published 12 years after his death in a duel, preceded by G. Borrow's translation of The Talisman... Read More
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Well of Loneliness
by HALL Radclyffe
1929. First Edition. Signed. HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Two volumes. Octavo, original silver-stamped cloth and paper boards, top edges gilt, uncut. $2000.Signed limited edition, number 202 of 225 copies signed by Radclyffe Hall, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. This is the ""Victory Edition,"" published nine months after the first edition, to celebrate the successful defense of the work against obscenity charges in New York's appellate court.The Well of Loneliness provided an open... Read More
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Dictionary of English Furniture
by MACQUOID Percy EDWARDS Ralph
1924. First Edition. MACQUOID, Percy and EDWARDS, Ralph. The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period. London: The Offices of ?Country Life,? 1924-27. Three volumes. Folio (11 by 16 inches), original green cloth, marbled endpapers, original dust jackets with mounted color illustrations. $1850.First edition of this pictorial dictionary of English furniture, richly illustrated with dozens of color photographic plates and hundreds of in-text halftones of landmark furniture styles, in rare original dust jackets.The... Read More
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Bat-Poet
by SENDAK Maurice JARRELL Randall
1964. First Edition. Signed. (SENDAK, Maurice) JARRELL, Randall. The Bat-Poet. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, (1964). Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition, presentation copy, of this children's story about embracing individualism, inscribed to a close friend and neighbor: ""For Elizabeth From Maurice Sendak May '75.""""In this story about a young bat who cannot sleep during the day and follows his own individual and isolating creative lights, Jarrell offered his young readers what many consider to... Read More
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Oliver Cromwell
by CROMWELL Oliver GARDINER Samuel Rawson
1899. First Edition. GARDINER, Samuel Rawson. Oliver Cromwell. London: Goupil, 1899. Folio (10 by 13 inches), contemporary full tan morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $3000.Limited edition of Gardiners highly regarded biography of Cromwell, one of 1475 wide-margined copies printed on fine paper, illustrated with lithographed color frontispiece portrait, 44 engravings (most full-page) and manuscript facsimiles, handsomely bound by Bumpus.When Scotland began to rise up against Charles I in 1637, Oliver Cromwell was poised at the center... Read More
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Trial of Renwick Williams
by WILLIAMS Renwick
1790. First Edition. (WILLIAMS, Renwick). The Trial of Renwick Williams, (Commonly Called the Monster) for Assaulting and Wounding Miss Ann Porter. London: Printed for D. Brewman, [1790]. Slim quarto, 20th-century full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label; frontis., pp. 18. $1850.First edition of a detailed account of the sensational trial of the ""London Monster,"" with an engraved frontispiece hand-in-waistcoat portrait of the accused, elegantly bound by Joseph Zuffant of Monastery Hill Bindery.100 years before Jack the Ripper,... Read More
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Pictorial Negro League Legends
by RETORT Robert D.
1992. First Edition. Signed. (BASEBALL) RETORT, Robert D. Pictorial Negro League Legends. (New Castle, Pennsylvania: R.D. Retort Enterprises, 1993). Quarto, original stiff paper wrappers. $5500.First edition of this illustrated compendium of Negro League players and teams, signed by the author and 46 players, including Henry Kimbro, Lorenzo Piper Davis, Lyman Bostock Sr., Monte Irvin, Sam Hairston, Bill Gleason, Doc Dennis, Frank Bradley, Nat Peeples, Jehosie Heard and Otha Bailey. The majority of the players have signed next to their... Read More
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Ladies Calling in Two Parts
by ALLESTREE Richard
1673. (ALLESTREE, Richard and FELL, John). The Ladies Calling in Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man Oxford: At the Theater, 1677. Octavo, contemporary full brown mottled calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $1350.Early (fifth) edition of this classic instructional book for women, with engraved frontispiece, in handsome contemporary calf-gilt.The authors explain that this account is ""a necessary Charity to the Sex, to acquaint them with their own Value, animate them to some higher thoughts... Read More
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Works
by ALLESTREE Richard
1687. (ALLESTREE, Richard). The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of the Whole Duty of Man The Second Impression. Oxford: George Pawlett, 1687. Folio (10 by 15 inches), contemporary full dark brown paneled calf rebacked with original spine preserved, later red morocco spine label, raised bands, later pastedowns. $1850.Second folio edition of the works of Richard Allestree, including The Whole Duty of Man, with engraved frontispiece, an impressive folio volume.Richard Allestree was a canon of Christ Church and... Read More
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Ladies Calling in Two Parts
by ALLESTREE Richard
1673. (ALLESTREE, Richard and FELL, John). The Ladies Calling in Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man Oxford: At the Theater, 1677. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $1350.Early (fifth) edition of this classic instructional book for women, with engraved frontispiece, in beautiful contemporary calf-gilt.The authors explain that this account is ""a necessary Charity to the Sex, to acquaint them with their own Value, animate them to some higher thoughts of... Read More
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Autobiography
by AVEDON Richard
1993. First Edition. Signed. AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, (1993). Folio (11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches), original brown cloth, photographic self-portrait mounted on rear cover, original printed acetate wrapper. $950.First trade edition of this impressive folio retrospective, boldly signed and dated by Avedon in the year of publication, containing over 280 full-page and double-page plates in tritone black and white, in original printed acetate.""With the publication of An Autobiography, a massive, very personal collection of his photographs,... Read More
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English Gentlewoman
by BRATHWAITE Richard
1631. First Edition. BRATHWAITE, Richard. The English Gentlewoman, Drawne out to the Full Body: Expressing, What Habilliments doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements doe Best Accomplish Her. London: by B[ernard] Alsop and T[homas] Fawcett for Michael Sparke, 1631. Small quarto, early 20th-century full brown calf rebacked in calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands. $2800.First edition, second issue, with the appendix present and mentioned in the table of contents, of the most popular... Read More
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Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England
by BRATHWAITE Richard
1723. BRATHWAITE, Richard. Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England [Barnabae Itinerarium] Together with Bessy Bell. London: S. Illidge, 1723. 12mo, early 20th-century full plum morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1250.Third edition of Brathwaite's ""rollicking"" and ""sprightly"" travel narrative in verse, charmingly illustrated with copper-engraved frontispiece and five full-page plates, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by renowned French bookbinder Petrus Ruban.""The most famous of Brathwaite's works appeared in 1638... Read More
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Justice of the Peace
by BURN Richard
1776. BURN, Richard. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1776. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $2000.Later edition of this ""classic"" manual for Justices of the Peace, ""immediately recognized as authoritative,"" with an appendix concerning Justices of the Peace in Scotland.""Burn's publications reveal a man fascinated by the structures within which he lived and worked. His first book, The... Read More
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Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
by HOOKER Richard
1611. HOOKER, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. Eight Bookes [Books I-V]. London: Printed by William Stansby (to be sold by Matthew Lownes), 1611. Small folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, yapp edges. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5500.Second collected edition of ""the earliest statement of the original contract as the basis of government [and] the first statement of the principles behind the English Constitution,"" Richard Hookers significant theological and... Read More
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Life and Shape
by NEUTRA Richard
1962. First Edition. Signed. NEUTRA, Richard. Life and Shape. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1962). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition, association copy, inscribed by Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan, his colleague at UCLA, and her husband, the writer William Morgan, ""To Barbara Morgan and her husbandwho have suffered making the best book about a man, who deserves only the third bestMost cordially and sincere wishes to them and theirs, Richard Neutra."" Additionally inscribed by the artist... Read More
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Memoirs
by NIXON Richard
1988. Signed. NIXON, Richard. Memoirs. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, (1988). Octavo, original full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $1000.Collectors edition, signed by Nixon on a tipped-in leaf.Illustrated with numerous photographs taken throughout Nixon's political career. First published in 1978. With Easton Press ""special introduction"" pamphlet written by Nixon advisor Raymond K. Price, Jr. laid in. Fine condition.
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Spectator
by ADDISON Joseph STEELE Richard
1819. (ADDISON and STEELE, et al.). The Spectator. New Edition, Carefully Corrected from the Originals, with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes. London: J. Johnson et al., 1808. Eight volumes. Octavo, contemporary full navy straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt- and blind-tooled spines and covers, raised bands, all edges gilt. $1600.Early 19th-century edition of this pioneering English periodical, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Joseph Addison in Volume I, handsomely bound in contemporary straight-grain morocco-gilt.Presenting essays by Addison, Richard Steele, Alexander Pope,... Read More
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Discourse on the Love of Our Country
by AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRICE Richard
1789. First Edition. PRICE, Richard. A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789 to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain. With an Appendix. London: Printed by George Stafford for T. Cadell, 1789. Slim octavo, period style half brown calf and marbled boards; pp. 4], 51, [1], 13, [3]. $7500.First edition, first impression, of one of Price's most important and famous works, his controversial and incendiary sermon on the revolutionary progress of... Read More
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Legacies
by BRADBURY Ray KING Stephen BLOCH Robert CHIZMAR Richard
2010. First Edition. Signed. (KING, Stephen, et al.). CHIZMAR, Richard, editor. Legacies. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2010. Octavo, original full blue leatherette, original dust jacket, original matching traycase. $1500.Signed limited first edition, number 103 of 500 copies, signed by almost all contributors including Stephen King.Ten classic horror stories from legendary authors Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, David Morrell, Peter Straub, Robert Bloch, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, paired with original color and black-and-white... Read More
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Romance of Perfume
by BARBIER George LE GALLIENNE Richard
1928. First Edition. (BARBIER, George) LE GALLIENNE, Richard. The Romance of Perfume. New York and Paris: Richard Hudnut (William Edwin Rudge), 1928. Slim octavo, original illustrated white paper boards, uncut; original cardboard slipcase. $950.First edition of this beautiful color-illustrated volume on perfume, with a laid-in pamphlet advertising Richard Hudnuts Paris perfumery.Doubtless published to commemorate the opening of Richard Hudnut's perfumery in Paris, this lovely book is accompanied by a special pamphlet (in pocket at rear) entitled ""At 20 Rue... Read More
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