Collection of four manuscript Temperance speeches from an anonymous Midwestern woman
by [Women's Activism] [Temperance]
Ohio, 1887. Collection of four manuscript Temperance speeches written in a single hand, and comprised of 25 pages on varying sized sheets. Authored by a leader of an Ohio county branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the speeches address the history of the movement, its progress, its need for women's volunteerism and donations, and its connection to multiple other parts of the women's movement in and beyond the U.S. The speeches provide information on how grassroots organization helped... Read More
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Vanity Fair (Signed Limited)
by Thackeray, Henry Makepeace. Lewis Baumer (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Fine. Original publisher's pictorial vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Boards slightly bowed and lacking silk ties. Some offsetting to endpapers and occasional light foxing not affecting illustrations. Number 38 of 350 copies signed by the illustrator, and complete with twenty mounted color plates with titled tissue-guards. Considered by its author to be a novel without a hero, Vanity Fair follows the path of the social climbing... Read More
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Vanity Fair
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Very Good +. First issue with the heading on p. 1 in rustic type, the advertisement for "The Great Hogarty Diamond" before the frontis and the illustration of "the marquis of Steyne" on p. 336 (later suppressed). Illustrated by the author in 40 steel engraved plates and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. A Very Good+ copy in an early cloth binding. Minor wear to the spine ends and corners, some bubbling... Read More
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (in 52 vols.)
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: The Chaucer Company, 1900. Limited edition. Near Fine. One of just fifteen sets (this being set number two), lavishly bound by Zaehnsdorf for Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and with signed original drawings by one of Thackeray's illustrators in each volume (some in color). Fifty-two volumes, octavo. Leaves measuring 255 x 174 mm, with the set occupying 180 cm (170 inches) of shelf space. A lovely, Near Fine set. Elegantly bound for the publisher by Zaehnsdorf in full green... Read More
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. The Kensington Edition. Near Fine. Thirty-two octavo volumes (8 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 217 x 143 mm.) occupying approximately 51 inches (129 1/2 cm.) of shelf space. A Near Fine set, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco, ruled in gilt, over pink mottled paper boards. Frontispieces, plates, and text illustrations, after the originals. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut. Two volumes with... Read More
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Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World (in 3 vols.)
by Thackeray, W. M.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1857. First edition. Original pebbled publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 195 x 125mm and collating complete with half title to volume I: [8], 329, [1]; [4], 304; [4], 301, [1]. A Near Fine copy, with the front hinges cracked but holding on volumes II-III and minor tanning and foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves of the same. Occasional instances of rough opening causing chips or closed tears at... Read More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A sharp, Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Some fading to the board edges, as usual, but clean and unmarked internally. Dust jacket with the spine a trifle faded, faint dampstain at the base of the spine and a crease to the rear flap. Overall, an appealing copy of Thompson's most famous work. The crackling and infamous roman à clef, the genre-defining work of "gonzo journalism"... Read More
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Fine/Fine. Fine book in like jacket with only trivial wear. Small bump to corner and trivial wear to jacket corners, with one small nick to front upper corner and a faint crease to top edge of rear panel. An exceedingly pleasing copy. A classic look at American politics focusing on the 1971 Democratic Party primary process, by the inventor of Gonzo Journalism. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, Thompson chronicles in... Read More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's blindstamped gray boards. Some fading to top edge of boards and some foxing to top edge of closed text block, but clean and unmarked internally. Dust jacket with a just a bit of toning to top edge of front panel. Bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. The crackling and infamous roman à clef, the genre-defining work... Read More
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Eloise
by Thompson, Kay; Hilary Knight, Illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book spine slightly cocked and boards with minor soiling, but clean and unmarked internally. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright and pleasing, with spine just a bit toned. A handsome copy of a charming book. A classic work of children's literature, featuring the precocious and adventurous Eloise. A six-year-old girl living among adults at the Plaza Hotel, Thompson's... Read More
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Eloise in Moscow (Inscribed first edition)
by Thompson, Kay; Hilary Knight, Illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine book in like dust jacket. Book with a small bump to the lower board and the spine a bit rolled. In a Near Fine dust jacket with a few professionally repaired tears. Inscribed by the author: "For Jane with love Kay Thompson and me Eloise Dadada." A pleasing copy of this children's classic, which finds the intrepid Eloise away from the Plaza Hotel on... Read More
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An Artist's Safari
by Thompson, Ralph
London: Collins in Association with The Tryon Gallery, 1979. Small folio (11 x 7 11/16 inches; 279 x 195 mm.). Collating [160]. One of twenty copies signed in pencil on the title-page by Ralph Thompson and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter brown morocco, ruled in gilt, over tan cloth boards. Vellum tips. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt with two raised bands and with the Zaehnsdorf monogram in gilt at the foot of the spine. Top edge gilt.... Read More
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The Poets of Great Britain (in 2 vols.)
by Thomson, James
New York and London: Chiwick Press & Charles Whittingham, 1900. Fine. A Fine set. Two small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [i]-cxx, [1]-260; [vii], [1, blank], [1]-324 pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a memoir of Thomson. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twelve engraved plates, including four hand-colored, all with tissue-guards. Handsomely bound almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery ca. 1900, in full red morocco, covers with double gilt border... Read More
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War and Peace (in 3 vols.)
by Tolstoi [Tolstoy], Count Lyof
London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. The rare first UK edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Rebound in full blue crushed morocco by the Chelsea bindery. Top edges gilt, dark maroon end papers, front and rear cloth covers bound in at the end. Three octavo volumes, all dated 1886 on the title pages, collating: viii, 9-429; iv, 5-360, [32 p. publisher's catalogue, dated Sept. 1886]; iv, 5-387, [4 p. publisher's catalogue]; complete with all half-titles. A... Read More
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by Toole, John Kennedy
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. First state jacket with stars in the background of the black portions of the jacket and no Chicago Sun-Times review on the rear panel. Dust jacket with a spot of minor abrasion, but still an excellent example, with the original lettering color still present. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, A Confederacy of Dunces depicts the... Read More
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The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer translated into English Blank Verse
by Homer; William Cowper (translator)
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. First thus. Near Fine. Publisher's blue paper boards with printed paper spine labels. Two volumes, quarto. xvii, [11], 668; [1], 583 pp. A large copy, untrimmed and partially unopened. From the library of Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate to upper pastedown of each volume. Some chipping and dustsoiling to boards, mostly to volume one. A very clean set overall with just a bit of foxing to first and last few leaves of... Read More
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Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 (in 4 vols)
by [Travel] [Topography] Abbey, Major J.R.
San Francisco: Alex Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Later edition. Reprint authorized by the trustees of J.R. Abbey and Dawsons. Four folio volumes measuring 310 x 232 mm. Faux leather with gilt to spines, all in Fine jackets. Collating xx, 399; xxi, 428; xiii, 299; xiv, 301-675: complete, including 633 illustrations. A pleasing set in all. Drawing from his own collection, Major J. R. Abbey producied the following representation of landscape and architecture of the 18th and 19th... Read More
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Extra Illustrated)
by Trevelyan, George Otto
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First edition. Extra Illustrated with seventy-seven fine portraits and views, including thirty-seven in color. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 209 x 133 mm.). Bound ca. 1910 by Root & Son of London (stamp-signed on front turn-ins) in full dark green morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, green silk liners and end leaves, all edges gilt. Headcap... Read More
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All Religions are One
by [Trianon Press, The]; William Blake
London: Trianon Press, 1970. First thus. Fine. Limited edition, number 9 of 600 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 in; 298 x 230 mm). (28) pp. Ten color plates. Original quarter green morocco over marbled boards. In the original marbled board slipcase. "Through aphoristic declarations and accompanying emblem-like designs, Blake argues for the essential unity of all religions as expressions of the "Poetic Genius"... Read More
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Complete portraiture of William & Catherine Blake
by [Trianon Press, The]; Blake, William; Geoffrey Keynes
London: Trianon Press, 1977. First thus. Fine. Limited edition, number 135 of 600 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in; 290 x 210 mm). 154 p. Ten color plates. Original quarter brown morocco over cloth boards. In the original cloth slipcase. A singular collection of all portraits and related sketches of Blake, his wife, and places they lived, by a range of artists to... Read More
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Orley Farm
by Trollope, Anthony
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Near Fine. Bound in green half morocco over pebbled cloth. With half titles, but bound without the ads. Collation: viii, 320; viii, 320. An early issue with stab holes visible throughout both volumes; volume I conforming to all issue points for Sadleir's second issue and volume II a first issue with a third issue title page. An attractive contemporary binding in Near Fine condition, internal contents very clean. A contemporary owner's... Read More
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Matthias and His Impostures: or, the Progress of Fanaticism
by [Truth, Sojourner] William L. Stone
New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1835. First edition. Very Good. Twelvemo. 347, [12, ads] pp. Bound without the half-title, otherwise complete. Rebound in modern green leather. Some foxing and toning throughout. Still a Very Good copy of the uncommon first edition. Matthias and His Impostures contains the first substantial record of the life of Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree (1798 - 1883), and the only substantial record of her life published before her Narrative of... Read More
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The Writings of Mark Twain (in 37 vols)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Stormfield Edition. Limited to 1,024 numbered sets. Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Original dark blue fine-bead cloth, gilt triple-rule border with the gilt stencil signature of Mark Twain on the front cover. Spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Title-pages printed in red and black. Photogravure frontispieces and plates (including portraits) after drawings, paintings, etc. by E.W. Kemble, Howard Pyle, Dan Beard, W.H.W. Bicknell, P. Newell, J.Allen St. John, A.B. Frost, and others.... Read More
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A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy overall, spine very slightly cocked and a little dulled (with minor wear at the extremities). Original terra cotta cloth, stamped in black and gold. Endpapers printed in red with publisher's advertisements. This is Blanck's first binding state, with the JRO & CO monogram on the front of the cover. Each of these two sketches first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly: "A True Story" in... Read More
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Life on the Mississippi
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition. Fine. First State, with the image of Twain in flames on p. 441 and with "The St. Louis Hotel" caption on p. 443. In the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignettes on the front board and spine. A copy in exceptional condition. In Fine condition overall. Binding still tight and appearing unread. Gilt on front cover and spine still bright. A spot of minimal rubbing at the top... Read More
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