Thoughts in the Form of Maxims Addressed to Young Ladies
by Carlisle, [Isabella Howard] Countess Dowager
London: Printed for T. Cornell, 1789. First edition. Very Good. Bound without half-title, else complete including advertisement and errata leaves: iii-xii, [2], 68, 67-149 (with 49 misnumbered 29 and 148 misnumbered 248 as called for by ESTC). Contemporary sheep rebacked to style with red morocco spine label. Front board slightly bowed. Some marginal browning to first and last few leaves, otherwise clean throughout. Bookplate of Peter Stewart Young (and some evidence of older, removed bookplate) to upper pastedown.... Read More
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Sartor Resartus
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Thomas Carlyle
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. Fine. Sixteenmo (6 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches; 157 x 93 mm.). [vi], 306, [1, imprint], [5, blank] pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son, stamp signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full antelope crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively ruled in gilt surrounding a very elaborate floral design in pointillé, spine with five raised bands, similarly decorated and lettered... Read More
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Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works [With] Translations from the German by Thomas Carlyle (in 34 vols)
by Carlyle, Thomas
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes (207 x 133 mm) uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches (131 cm.) of shelf space. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments. Two volumes professionally repaired at top of spines. Engraved frontispieces and plates. The Library edition, originally issued in 30 volumes... Read More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1914. Limited edition. Fine. One of 1,000 copies on paper (this being copy 427) printed by the Riccardi Press for the Medici Society (twelve copies printed on vellum were also produced). A lovely, Fine copy, specially bound in the publisher's full vellum titled in gilt. A bit of toning to the vellum and just a bit of bowing to boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Preliminary blank with early... Read More
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Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (in 2 vols.)
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 179 x 121 mm.). xxiii, [1, blank], 400; xxxi, [1, blank], 423, [1, blank] pp. With forty-six (ten full-page) illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with original tissue-guard. Verso of each title-page with small blue library accession number and a few leaves in each volume with the almost imperceptible blind stamp of the College of the Holy Names, Oakland, California. Bound... Read More
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The Hunting of the Snark
by Carroll, Lewis; Edward A. Wilson (illustrator)
New Rochelle [New York]: The Peter Pauper Press, 1935. Limited edition. Fine. One of 275 copies from the Peter Pauper Press. Illustrated with charming color vignettes by Edward A. Wilson. Printed in black and color on pale green paper. Publisher's green cloth over patterned paper boards. Boards sunned at top edge, otherwise a Fine copy. "The Hunting of the Snark," Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem satirizing epic tales, was first published in 1876. This lovely limited edition, ornamented... Read More
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Silent Spring
by Carson, Rachel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A bright, Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Top edge yellow. Unclipped dust jacket bright and fresh with two open tears to top edge of front panel and bottom edge of back panel, not affecting legibility or design, and a bit of edgewear. A very attractive copy of Rachel Carson's pivotal work of modern environmentalism. "A marine biologist and nature writer, Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental... Read More
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Silent Spring
by Carson, Rachel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A bright, Fine copy in Near Finy dust jacket. Top edge yellow. Unclipped dust jacket bright and fresh with just a bit of edgewear. An excellent copy of Rachel Carson's pivotal work of modern environmentalism. "A marine biologist and nature writer, Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring. Outlining the dangers of chemical pesticides, the book led to a nationwide ban on DDT...and... Read More
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If It Please You (Signed limited edition)
by Carver, Raymond
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited edition. Fine. A presentation copy, outside of the limited edition of 200 numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author on a leaf before the title page. A Fine copy. Bound in salmon-colored boards printed with bingo card design with black cloth backstrip and gilt title on spine. Only the slightest fading to the spine, interior as new. Raymond Carver's short story (also called After the Denim in other... Read More
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Conjugium Languens: Or, The Natural, Civil, and Religious Mischiefs Arising from Conjugal Infidelity and Impunity
by Castamore
London: R. Roberts, 1700. First edition. Rebound in modern drab boards with facsimile of title page to front cover. Measuring 190 x 135mm and collating [2], 28: bound without rear blank, else complete. Discreet marginal blindstamps of Wigan Free Public Library to the first two leaves, and final leaf Small hole to outer margin of pages 1-2 not affecting text; gutters of leaves A2 and A3 archivally strengthened. A clean copy internally, with the only markings being a contemporary... Read More
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Woman Suffrage and the Home. Interurban Woman Suffrage Series No. 4
by Catt, Carrie Chapman
New York: Interurban Woman Suffrage Council, 1907. First edition. Good. 104 x 140 mm. [8] pp. Good only, with predation to top margin, not touching text. Dampstaining, toning, and old creases. Still a remarkable survival. This is a rare item: OCLC records only one copy (Bryn Mawr), it has not appeared at auction, and this is the only copy on the market. This exceedingly scarce pamphlet argues against the common anti-suffrage argument that "politics is a business,... Read More
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini written by himself. Edited and translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the same hand together with an introduction to this edition upon Benvenuto Cellini, artist and writer, by Royal Cortissoz with reproductions of forty original portraits and views illustrating the life. (in 2 vols)
by Cellini, Benvenuto. John Addington Symonds (translator)
New York: Brentano's, 1906. First Thus. Two octavo volumes (234 x 149 mm.). Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers. Neat ink inscription on front free end-papers. Decorated title-pages and forty photogravure plates. A fine and very attractive set. The memoir of the Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier and musician . Brought into English by John Aldington Symonds,... Read More
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Killer in the Rain
by Chandler, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with very slight wear at the extremities, retaining the original price of $5.50. This collection of Raymond Chandler short stories from the 30s and early 40s, many from the famed Black Mask magazine, was released after his death. In fact, Chandler did not want the collection published during his lifetime because he had re-used many elements of these stories in his... Read More
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The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. First UK edition. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Faint publisher's stamp to rear free endpaper verso. Spine minimally rolled, hint of shelfwear to bottom edge of boards, contents faintly toned; else a near-fine copy in the faintly soiled jacket with lightly faded spine and slight rippling to bottom of spine. First UK edition, first impression, originally published in America in 1943. This was the fourth of... Read More
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The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602. Second Speght edition. Near Fine. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer, and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio (pages 327 x 212 mm) collating: [23], 376, [14] ff. Lacking the first blank A1 and the progenie of Chaucer plate. Textually complete, including the final errata leaf. Bound by Seton & Mackenzie of Edinburgh in nineteenth century half vellum over marbled boards with elaborate gilt spine. Dampstain to... Read More
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What's to be Done? A Romance
by [Chernyshevsky] Tchernychewsky, N. G.
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. First English language edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy of this scarce first translation into English. Originally serialized in the journal Sovremennik between 1862 - 1863. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in brown on the front board. Some wear to the spine ends and corners, slight dampstain to the lower edge of the front board, brown stamping rubbed. Rear inner hinge just starting, but holding well. Complete and unrestored. With the penciled... Read More
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Child, Lydia Maria
New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition. Good. Following the Boston edition of 1833. Octavo. 216 pp. Lacking flyleaves, otherwise complete. Contemporary teal cloth with spine titled in gilt. Foxing and some wear to corners. Contemporary paper numerical label to upper board. Some foxing throughout. A Good+ copy of one of the cornerstone works of the abolitionist movement, in which Child exposes the violence of chattel slavery in the South as well as the violence... Read More
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Child, Lydia Maria
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. First edition. Near Fine. An excellent, Near Fine copy. Publisher's cloth retaining the delicate paper label to spine. Measuring 110 x 185 mm and collating [6], 232 pp. Complete aside from the tipped-in errata leaf that is often missing. With the iconic frontispiece of an enslaved woman, kneeling in prayer, from an 1827 painting by Henry Thomson (retaining the original tissue guard); and two full-page illustrations (a diagram of manacles and an illustration... Read More
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Ian Hamilton's March
by Churchill, Winston
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy with minor offsetting to first and last leaves and a few stains internally. An edited collection of newspaper reports tracking General Ian Standish Montieth Hamilton's Boer War campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, which included ten major battles. Churchill, a rising political and military star, arranged to have the reports published in a... Read More
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Savrola. A Tale of Revolution in Laurania
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. First British edition. Good. First British edition, handsomely bound, of Churchill's only novel, a melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state. Octavo (182 x 121 mm). Bound in mid-twentieth-century blue half morocco by Bayntun, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Faded contemporary ownership signature to title page; bookplate of John Thoburn Williamson (1907-1958), Canadian diamond magnate who built a significant book collection. Spine... Read More
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Very Good. First edition, handsomely bound, of Churchill's account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; "a splendid book both aesthetically and from a literary standpoint, the Ladysmith is one of the most sought-after titles in the canon" (Langworth, p. 54). Octavo (184 x 122 mm). Colour folding map frontispiece, 2 folding maps; 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Mid-twentieth-century blue half morocco by Bayntun, spine... Read More
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Lord Randolph Churchill (in 2 vols.)
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. First edition. Very Good. First edition of Churchill's biography of his father, the Conservative Party statesman Lord Randolph Churchill, handsomely bound. 2 vols, octavo (216 x 140 mm). Photogravure portrait frontispieces, 13 plates and 3 facsimiles, 1 folding, 1 double-page. Mid-20th-century blue half morocco by Bayntun, spines lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate of John Thoburn Williamson (1907-1958), Canadian diamond magnate who built a significant book... Read More
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
by Churchill, Winston
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1900. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner's gift inscription on the half-title and minor foxing, illustrated and with maps throughout. An early work by the young Churchill, London to Ladysmith recounts his experiences as a soldier in the Second Boer War. These experiences would prepare Churchill to follow in the footsteps of other distinguished family... Read More
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (in 4 vols.)
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Cassell and Company, 1958. First edition. Fine. Four vols, octavo (239 x 149 mm). Attractively bound in recent full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. Couple of leaves lightly spotted, but overall an excellent set. First editions, first impressions, of Churchill's great history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States. "Spanning four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesar's invasion... Read More
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Thoughts and Adventures [bound with:] Painting as a Pastime
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1948. First edition. Very Good. First editions, handsomely bound together. "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers, Thoughts and Adventures comprises essays on a wide array of subjects, attesting not only to the breadth of the author's comprehension but of his personal experience" (Langworth, p. 154). The essays muse on his career, his hobbies, the First World War, politics, and the future. Painting as a Pastime was published as one of the essays.... Read More
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