Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (with original artwork)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. Very Good +. With original sketch by E. W. Kemble, artist of the iconic Huckleberry Finn frontisportrait, tipped onto the verso of the front free endpaper. The sketch is inscribed "To Ralph from E W Kemble" and captioned: "By gum: I do believe a Sody Fountain in Cairo would be a great snap." A solid, Very Good+ copy of the book, with no repairs or... Read More
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 2nd Printing. Very Good +. Second printing. Original blue cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, peach coated endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end (dated Dec. 1, 1876), half-title printed on the verso of the frontispiece. A Very Good+ copy overall. Minor wear to the spine ends and extremities, some discoloration to the spine and the rear board.... Read More
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Very Good +. Second state lacking: "The S King" on p. 59 and with damaged type on p. 72, but this copy with the extremely scarce half-title. "Most collectors are content with a copy with early states of pages 59 and 72, and any copy with the extremely rare half-title is coveted regardless of the other states" (Kevin MacDonnell, "Collecting Mark Twain...") A Very Good+ copy overall with... Read More
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Life on the Mississippi
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American edition. Very Good +. 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 Very Good+ copy with the front inner hinge expertly repaired, slight wear at the spine ends and corners, otherwise an attractive copy. Previous owner's name: W. H.... Read More
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What is Man? (Limited edition)
by [Twain, Mark] [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: De Vinne Press, 1906. First edition. Near Fine. First edition, limited issue, number 143 of 250 copies; a presentation copy, inscribed beneath the limitation by Twain's friend and literary executor, "John S[andborn] Phillips from A[lbert] B[igelow] Paine." Second issue, as usual, with p. 131 ending, "thinks about | it" (APG). Original blue-gray boards, morocco label, gilt. Near Fine copy with a previous owner's bookplate (John C. Gerber). Lower corners gently bumped and faint soiling to front... 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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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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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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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the book. Inner hinges repaired and first blank excised, otherwise a fairly clean, bright copy overall. With all three generally accepted first printing points. Frontis bust of Twain in the first state. Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he flees his own abusive father and aids Jim in his escape from slavery, Twain's novel has been praised... Read More
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Roll, Jordan, Roll (Signed limited edition)
by Ullman, Doris; Julia Peterkin
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition. Fine. One of 350 copies (327 for sale) signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullman, with an additional photogravure signed by Ullman. 341 pp. Complete, with all ninety copperplate photogravures and accompanying tissue guards. Publisher's half buff cloth over blindstamped brown paper boards. Spine titled in gilt. Slight bubbling to cloth at spine. Some faint scuffing to boards. With the publisher's brown paper slipcase, somewhat scuffed. A Fine copy in... Read More
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The Grey World
by Underhill, Evelyn
London: William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Original gray publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and black. A pleasing, square copy with some sunning to spine and light foxing to the closed edges of the text block and title page. Early gift inscription to front endpaper: "With warmest good wishes for Dec. 22, 1926 from Alice Herbert." The first novel by the prolific writer, pacifist, and philosopher, it has become quite scarce with no other copies on the market and... Read More
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the World..
by Vancouver, George
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Edwards, 1798. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 299 x 239 mm) plus folio atlas volume (22 x 16 3/4 inches; 560 x 430 mm), collating: [8], xxix, [1, blank], [2, ads], [4, contents], [2, list of plates], 432; [10], 504; [10], 505, [3, errata] pp. Eighteen engraved plates, one of which is a map in the text. Ten folding maps and six plates of... Read More
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My Sweet Orange-Tree
by Vasconcelos, Jose Mauro de
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American edition. Fine/Fine. And the first English-language edition, preceding the UK edition by a year. A clean, Fine copy of the book in a bright, fresh jacket that is also just about Fine, save for a small indentation on the front panel near the spine. Originally published in Brazil in 1968 and translated into English here by Edgar Miller, Jr. A classic coming-of-age story, following the mischievous and precocious... Read More
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Poésies de Paul Verlaine
by Verlaine, Paul
Paris: Librairie Albert Messein, 1926. First edition. Near Fine. One of 500 copies on "papier Vélin à la forme," out of a total edition of 550 numbered copies. Eighteen large octavo volumes (9 13/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 249 x 160 mm.). All illustrations in pochoir. Publisher's harlequin leather (calf and morocco) in brown, purple, tan, red, green, gray, orange, black, and maroon by René Kieffer (with his ticket on front free endpaper of most volumes). Covers decoratively... Read More
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Works (in 15 vols)
by Verne, Jules
New York: Vincent Parke and Company, 1911. Edition d'Amiens. Limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is 122 and signed by R.G. Lancaster, Registrar. Bound by Frost of Bath ca. 1960 in full crimson polished calf, covers with double-gilt rules, spines with five shallow raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, purple and green morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges and turn-ins decoratively gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Fifteen large octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5... Read More
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The Green Ray
by Verne, Jules
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. First edition in English, later issue with 32 page publisher's catalogue dated September 1883 at rear (first was November 1882). A Near Fine copy. Octavo (7 x 4 3/4 in; 178 x 121 mm). viii, 312, 32 (publisher's catalog) pp. Frontispiece, title vignette and forty-three black and white plates (included in pagination) by L. Benett, reprinted from the first French edition, one map. Bound in... Read More
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Tinker, Tailor
by Vredenburg, Edric. Louis Wain (illustrator)
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1914. Original quarter brown cloth over beveled brown boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in black and white with laid-on color plate. Spine lettered in black. Collating 136, [4, ads]. Twelve color plates (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white text illustrations. Corners and spine ends a little rubbed, inner front hinge expertly strengthened, some minor marginal soiling to some leaves. Still a Very Good copy. One of the rarest of all... Read More
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Beowulf. An Epic Poem
by Wackerbarth, A. Diedrich (translator)
London: William Pickering, 1849. First edition in English verse. Very Good. Second edition in English, fourth overall, but the first edition to present the influential poem in English verse. Complete: xlvi, 159, [1] pp., with the folding map frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down and retaining original paper spine label. Spine chipped, with some loss to cloth and label. Some discoloration to cloth, mostly to lower board, and some bumping to edges of boards.... Read More
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The Ring of the Nibelungen
by Wagner, Richard
London: Schott's, 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition (and 1st combined edition) in English (translated by Alfred Forman) of The Rhein-Gold, The Walkyrie, Siegfried, and Dusk of the Gods, preceded only by privately printed separate issues of the 4 individual parts (1873-1875) to secure copyright, which had a total of just 238 pages. This is the complete librettos, with 351 pages of snugly printed tiny type, containing all the dialogue and stage directions for all 4 parts.... Read More
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Fun and Frolic
by Wain, Louis (illustrator)
Springfield [Massachusetts]: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1920. First American edition. Original quarter brown cloth over color pictorial glazed boards (plain tan rear board). Corners and board edges a little worn, inner hinges cracked. Quarto (10 x 8 inches; 256 x 205 mm.). 252 unnumbered pages (256 including covers and inside covers). Title -page illustrated by Louis Wain and eight other illustrations by Louis Wain including one double-page full color, two other color illustrations and five others either tinted or black... Read More
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Father Tuck's Post Card Painting Book
by Wain, Louis
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1903. First edition. Artistic Series No. 2530. Pictorial glossy wrappers in full color. Complete with all post cards present and uncolored; thus scarce. Unusually clean, and with just a tiny chip to lower right corner of front wrapper and a crossed out ink inscription dated 1904 on inside front wrapper. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 in; 266 x 202 mm). Sixteen leaves (including inside covers) comprised of eight leaves with four full color, gum... Read More
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The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old
by Wain, Louis (illustrator); John Hannon
London: Burns & Oates, Ltd, 1908. First edition. Publishers red cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. Spine ends a little worn, slight staining to upper cover . Quarto (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 240 x 171 mm.). Collating xiv, 78. Including monotone frontispiece and ten full- page monotone plates. Light marginal foxing, otherwise an excellent copy of this extremely unusual Louis Wain title. This is a fascinating little book... Read More
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Animal Happyland
by Wain, Louis (illustrator); A.W. Ridler
London: James Clarke & Co, 1913. First edition. Publishers glazed color pictorial boards, front cover with a fine full-color drawing by Harry B. Nielsen. Lower cover with advertisements, spine lettered in black. Some light wear to extremities, otherwise Near Fine. Small quarto (9 5/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 237 x 195 mm.). Sixty unnumbered pages. Title-page illustration by Louis Wain, and fourteen full-page monotone plates alternately printed in green, brown, blue and purple, of which five are by Louis... Read More
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To Nursery Land with Louis Wain
by Wain, Louis
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1909. Second edition. Second, enlarged edition, the companion to the Tuck book of the same title issued in the same year. Publisher's red cloth backed color pictorial boards. Large quarto (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in; 262 x 190 mm). Collating 48, [1, adv.], [1 , blank]. Full-color frontispiece (Tommy on his Travels). Text on every page. Sixteen pages printed in two colors (green and black, red and black, orange and black). Neat gift... Read More
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Cat's Cradle
by Wain, Louis
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1908. First edition. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers with original red silk tie, gray end-papers.[48] pages. Eight full-page color (including one double- page) illustrations and forty-nine smaller color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to one corner, otherwise a Near Fine copy of this very fragile and precious little book. A fine collection of favorites including: Jack Horner, Miss Muffet, Jack-in-the-Box, Santa Claws and Hey Diddle Diddle. The illustrations also include cats playing cricket, watching... Read More
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