The History of Female Favourites..
by [Sex Work] La Roche-Guilhem, Anne de
London: Printed for C. Parker, 1772. First English language edition. Contemporary calf with five raised bands. Measuring 217 x 127mm. Front blank neatly excised, else collating complete: [4], 324. Front board slightly bowed with small scuff; lacking spine label, and with cracking to joints near spine ends but remaining sound. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to the front pastedown. Minor worming to pastedowns and to preliminary and final leaves not affecting text. Internally fresh and unmarked. A... Read More
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The Court of Cupid. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with Great Additions (in 2 vols.)
by [Sex Work] [Thompson, Edward] The Author of the Meretriciad
London: Printed for C. Moran, 1770. First collected edition. Contemporary speckled calf, skillfully rebacked with original spines laid down. Gilt and morocco labels to spines. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 155 x 96mm and collating complete, including final advert leaf to volume II: [2], ii, 147, [1, blank]; [2], v, [1, advert], 139, [3]. Bookplates of J. O. Edwards to front pastedowns of each, with additional bookseller's ticket to front endpaper of volume II. Front endpaper of volume I detached at... Read More
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Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
by [Sex Work] [Wilson, Harriette]
London: Printed and Published by the Author, 1830. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating [2], civ, [2, half title], 196; [2], 313, [1, blank]; [2], 282: with half title of volume I bound out of order and without half titles to remaining volumes, else complete. A tight, square copy with a bit of shelfwear... Read More
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Life of Mrs. Jordan; including original private correspondence and numerous anecdotes of her contemporaries (in 2 vols.)
by [Sex Work] Boaden, James Esq
London: Edward Bull, 1831. First edition. Unsophisticated and bound in original publisher's quarter brown paper over drab boards with paper labels to spines. Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete including half titles to both, frontis to volume I, folding frontis to volume II, and adverts to rear of volume II: [6], xv, [1, blank], 368; [6], xiv, 364, [4, adverts]. Spines rubbed with chipping to paper labels and loss to extremities; outer joints cracked but holding well. Boards... Read More
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Kitty's Stream: Or, The Noblemen Turned Fisher-Men. A Comic Satire. Addressed to the Gentlemen in the Interest of the Celebrated Miss K---y F----R
by [Sex Work] [Fisher, Kitty] Funidos, Rigdum
[London]: A. Moore near St. Paul's, 1759. First edition. Bound in modern marbled wrappers with label to front. Measuring 195 x 155mm and collating complete: 15, [1, blank]. A surprisingly fresh and unmarked copy of this satirical piece centered on courtesan Kitty Fisher, who was beginning her career rise to fame. Scarce institutionally and in trade, ESTC reports only 8 copies in libraries. In the last 90 years it has appeared only once at auction, with this being the... Read More
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The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating
by [Sex Work] Montez, Madame Lola [Countess of Landsfeld]
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Brown coated endpapers. Externally a bright, pleasing copy with internal scattered foxing throughout. Previous owner's signature in pencil to half title. Collates xvii, [1], 19-132, [12]: complete with half title and adverts. Light scattered foxing, else clean and unmarked. In all, a pleasing copy. Scarce in trade and institutionally, OCLC locates 8 copies worldwide, of which 6 are in the... Read More
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The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating
by [Sex Work] Montez, Madame Lola [Countess of Landsfeld]
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Brown coated endpapers. Externally a bright, pleasing copy with internal scattered foxing throughout. Small snag to cloth at crown of spine and gentle bumps to corners. Collates xvii, [1], 19-132, [12]: complete with half title and adverts. Light scattered foxing, else clean and unmarked. In all, a pleasing copy. Scarce in trade and institutionally, OCLC locates 8 copies worldwide, of... Read More
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A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield (Signed First Edition)
by [Sex Work] Muilman, Teresia Constantia
London: Printed for the Author and sold at her House in White-Harte Street, 1750. First edition. Modern drab wrappers, all edges speckled red. Bound with blank pages to rear. Measuring 175 x 100mm. Collating [2], 41, [1, blank]: bound without the half title, else complete. Signed on the final page of text by the author: "Your Lordship's most obed[ient] serv[ant]! T. Muilman." Internally fresh and unmarked, with pages closely trimmed; no loss to printed text, but minor loss to... Read More
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The Killer Angels
by Shaara, Michael
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1974. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's blue paper boards. Minor toning to endpapers. Dust jacket a bit rubbed. A Fine copy in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Michael Shaara's classic Civil War novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975, is "a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg...but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant" (former American Historical Association... Read More
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The Heart of the Antarctic; Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
by Shackleton, E. H.; Hugh Robert Mill (intro)
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1909. First American edition. Near Fine. Quarto, two volumes. First American Edition. Originally published as a limited edition in London the same year. Publisher's blue cloth, titles, designs and rule in silver on the spine and front boards, top edges gilt. A Nearly Fine set, much nicer than usually found. Booksellers' tickets for W. A. Butterfield on the front end papers. A few spots of foxing, but overall clean and bright. Three folding maps... Read More
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The Novels of Henry Fielding
by [Shakespeare Head Press] Fielding, Henry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First Thus. Large Paper Edition, limited to 520 sets. Ten large octavo volumes (9 x 6 in; 230 x 150 mm). Publishers three-quarter red morocco over pale red cloth boards. Gilt decorated compartments. Frontispieces. A very Fine set. "The Elizabethan scholar A. H. Bullen established the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-up-Avon in 1904. His original aim was to produce a good edition of Shakespeare's works, and his ten volume Stratford Town Shakespeare was... Read More
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Shakespeares Lucrece. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1594
by Shakespeare, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First Thus. One of 1000 copies, originally released in a set of five volumes. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Front board bowed; lower ties present but upper ties missing from front and rear. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from the Malone Collection of the Bodleian Library. Originally issued in a set of five volumes, reproducing the exceptional Malone... Read More
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Shakespeares Pericles. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1609
by Shakespeare, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First Thus. One of 1000 copies, originally released in a set of five volumes. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Front board bowed; lower ties present but upper ties missing from front and rear. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from the Malone Collection of the Bodleian Library. Originally issued in a set of five volumes, reproducing the exceptional Malone... Read More
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Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio..
by Shakespeare, William
London: for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. Fourth folio. London: for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. Fourth folio. Folio (357 x 228 mm). Bound in a handsome nineteenth-century Victorian full black morocco binding. Boards stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt, with intricate gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses "To the Reader" on verso of the first leaf, double column text within typographical... Read More
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The Works of William Shakespeare
by Shakespeare, William
London: Macmillan, 1900. Fine. The Globe Edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). viii, 1,138 (double-column) pp. Bound ca. 1900, most probably by a student of Douglas Cockerell, in full brown morocco in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Both covers bordered in blind enclosing an elaborately decorated blind stamped lattice design, each with twenty-four blind-tooled squares enclosing a four leaf and central flower design. The twenty-four squares framed by one hundred... Read More
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Will Shakespeare. His Amatory Poems. The Sonnets. Venus and Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece. The Passionate Pilgrim
by Shakespeare, William
New York: The Bennett Libraries, Inc, 1928. One of 200 Large-Paper Copies printed on Holland Pannekoek Paper (out of a total edition of 1,000).Publishers (bound by Bennett, NY) full mottled calf, covers ruled in blind. Spine with five raised bands ruled in blind with two maroon morocco gilt lettered labels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A Fine copy, many of the pages uncut. Royal octavo (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 239 x 165 mm.). Collating [ii,... Read More
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La Tempete [The Tempest]
by Shakespeare, William [Edmund Dulac (illustrator)]
Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1912. First edition in French. First edition in French under this title, a translation of Shakespeare's play. Publisher's original wrappers with sea nymph vignette, in original glassine dust jacket. Aside from a few small nicks to the glassine jacket, this is a Near Fine copy. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in; 303 x 236 mm). 108, [2] pp with decorative wave borders. Forty mounted color plates with line borders, and captioned tissue guards.... Read More
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The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare. Revised by George Steevens (in 9 vols.)
by Shakespeare, William
London: by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nichol; from the types of W. Martin, 1802. First thus. Near Fine. Nine volumes, large thick folio (each volume measures approximately 13 by 17 in., together occupying about 22 in. of shelf space). Contemporary full burgundy morocco over wood boards, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spines, all edges gilt. This set complete with a 1802 general title page for each volume, all half-titles,... Read More
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The Sensitive Plant
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Percy Bysshe Shelley
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo (5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm.). 46, [2, blank] pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco, covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt, each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers, spine with five raised bands decoratively... Read More
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The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.)
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
New York and London: Chiswick Press and Charles Whittingham and Co, 1900. Later edition. Near Fine. A nearly Fine copy. Five small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [iii]-lxvi, [1]-203, [1, blank]; [vi], [1]-294, [1, printers device], [1, blank]; [iii]-xii, [1]-380; [iii]-x; [1]-345, [1, printers device]; [iii]-xiv, [1]-366, [1, printers device], [1, blank] pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a memoir at the beginning of volume one. The last volume contains... Read More
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The Sensitive Plant
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
London/Philadelphia: William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott Co, 1911. First Thus. First U.K. Robinson-illustrated Deluxe edition, a Heinemann "Xmas Art Book" that originally sold for 15 shillings. Publisher's deluxe binding of full vellum over boards, front cover and spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket with just some very minor rubbing at extremities. Small, neat and inoffensive ink stamped signature on half-title and title-page. Quarto (10 3/8 x 7 3/4... Read More
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![The Critic, Or a Tragedy Rehearsed... [bound with] The Cunning-Man, A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts. Originally written and composed by Mr. J.J. Rousseau](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/732/1337732158.0.l.jpg)
The Critic, Or a Tragedy Rehearsed... [bound with] The Cunning-Man, A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts. Originally written and composed by Mr. J.J. Rousseau
by Sheridan, Richard
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1766. Fourth edition of The Critic, second edition of The Cunning-Man. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style. With the bookplate of J.S. Bentley to the front paste down endpaper, and that of Thomas Merriman to the front free endpaper. Collating [10], 98; [8], 30, [1, adv.], [1, blank]. Engraved title page to The Critic. The Cunning-Man complete with the publisher's notice, dated Nov. 29, 1766, at... Read More
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The Stone Diaries (Signed first American edition)
by Shields, Carol
New York: Viking, 1994. First American edition. Fine/Fine. Following the London edition. Signed on the title-page and dated "3-23-94" by Carol Shields. Publisher's cream cloth spine over beige boards. A Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Carol Shield's novel of motherhood, marriage, and grief, which chronicles the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett from birth to death, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1995. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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War Without Violence. A Study of Gandhi's Methods and his Accomplishments
by Shridharani, Krishnalal
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. xl, 351 pp. Publisher's black cloth. Slight rubbing to one corner. Faint foxing to edges of closed text block and to lower pastedown. Red topstain mostly faded. Scarce dust jacket with spine faded, some foxing to spine and flaps, and a bit of chipping to edges and folds. Overall, an appealing copy of an uncommon work on... Read More
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Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood
by Singer, Samuel Weller
London: Printed by T. Bensley & Son for Robert Triphook, 1816. First edition. Limited edition, one of 250 copies for subscribers. Full red crushed morocco with gilt to spine and boards. Five raised bands. Dentelles gilt. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Robert Hoe III (1839-1909) to front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Mary Macmillin Norton below. Collating complete including subscribers' list, eleven engraved and eight colored woodcuts and two additional colored plates: xvi, [2], 373, [3].... Read More
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