Master Humphrey's Clock
by DICKENS Charles
1840. First Edition. DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Three volumes. Large octavo, contemporary full green cloth, burgundy morocco spine labels, uncut. $2500.First edition in book form, with frontispieces and almost 200 in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne (""Phiz""). Includes The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.When Dickens conceived of this work, he ""had already written his preface to [Nickleby], in which for the first time he adopts that fond and agreeable... Read More
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Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by DICKENS Charles
1837. First Edition. DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter purple polished calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled boards and edges. $6500.First edition, bound from the original parts (mixed first and later issues), of one of Dickens' greatest works, with 43 illustrations by Seymour, Phiz, and Buss, attractively bound.""From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been firmly established It was written by Dickens when... Read More
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Works [Nonesuch Dickens]
by DICKENS Charles
1937. DICKENS, Charles. The Works [Nonesuch Dickens]. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. Twenty-five volumes (including wood-engraved plate in clamshell box uniform with 23 text volumes). Tall octavo, original full colored cloth, original black morocco spine labels. $8000.The famed Nonesuch Dickens, one of the best and most sought-after editions of Dickens works, one of only 877 sets produced, with hundreds of illustrations reprinted from the original wood- or steel-engraved blocks by various artists including Cruikshank, Phiz, Graves, Stone and Tenniel. This... Read More
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Works
by DICKENS Charles
1887. DICKENS, Charles. Works. London: Chapman and Hall, circa 1887. Thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $11,000.Illustrated Library Edition, with over 400 black-and-white plates after the original illustrations, handsomely bound by Blunson.""His imaginative freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness and pity, his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit, his superabundance of creative energy, have built a deathless niche in the temple of... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by DE GAULLE Charles
1959. DE GAULLE, Charles. Typed letter signed. Paris: June 22, 1959. Letterhead leaf (8 by 10-1/2 inches). $2900.Original June 22, 1959 typed letter in French signed by de Gaulle on his letterhead, dated six months after he became President of France and the same month he visited Mont-Mouchet to pay tribute to the French Resistance in the heroic 1944 battle against Nazi forces, here praising Léon Beer-Gehler for his role in the struggle and for continuing to honor the... Read More
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Evers
by EVERS Medgar EVERS Charles
1971. First Edition. Signed. (MEDGAR EVERS) EVERS, Charles. Evers. New York and Cleveland: World, 1971. Octavo, original white cloth, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $1250.First edition of Charles Evers' complicated memoir of his brother, his explosive rage at Medgar Ever's murder, and his own resolve to continue his brother's work, noting""racists cant kill all of us who believe in freedom""inscribed by him on the title page, ""Thanks for reading my book, Charles Evers, Mayor, Fayette, Miss. 4-5-89.""Charles Evers always... Read More
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Evers
by EVERS Medgar EVERS Charles
1971. First Edition. Signed. (MEDGAR EVERS) EVERS, Charles. Evers. New York and Cleveland: World, 1971. Octavo, original white cloth, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $1250.First edition of Charles Evers' complicated memoir of his brother, his explosive rage at Medgar Ever's murder, and his own resolve to continue his brother's work, noting""racists cant kill all of us who believe in freedom""signed by him on his photographic image in the book's opening pastedown.Charles Evers always felt protective of his younger brother... Read More
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Works of Shakespeare (Imperial Shakspere)
by SHAKESPEARE KNIGHT Charles
1876. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakspere. Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. London: Virtue, [1873-76]. Two volumes. Thick folio (11 by 15 inches), contemporary full burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, bevelled edges, all edges gilt. $4200.The magisterial Victorian ""Imperial Edition"" of the Bard's works, edited by Charles Knight, two folio volumes illustrated with 41 steel-engraved plates, including a frontispiece and additional engraved title page in each volume, beautifully bound.""From 1837 Knight had been occupied... Read More
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Old England
by KNIGHT Charles
1845. First Edition. KNIGHT, Charles. Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities. London: James Sangster, (1845). Two volumes in one. Folio (10-1/2 by 14 inches), contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, endpapers and edges marbled. $1400.First edition of this compendium of English antiquities, ""regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal and popular,"" richly illustrated with 24 full-page folio chromolithographs and upwards of two thousand wood engravings, handsomely bound.The two dozen chromolithographs depict interior views of some... Read More
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Knight's Cyclopaedia of London, 1851
by KNIGHT Charles
1851. First Edition. (LONDON) KNIGHT, Charles. Knight's Cyclopaedia of London, 1851. London: Charles Knight, (1851). Thick octavo, contemporary full brown pebbled morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, all edges gilt. $950.First edition of this encyclopedic survey of London, presumably produced to coincide with the Great Exhibition of 1851, richly illustrated and very handsomely bound in full contemporary morocco-gilt.""During the 1830s and 1840s Knight became a well-known and respected figure in London literary, publishing, and political circles In... Read More
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Elia and Last Essays of Elia
by LAMB Charles
1823. First Edition. [LAMB, Charles]. Elia and Last Essays of Elia. London: Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon, 1823, 1833. Together, two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $2000.First editions, constituting the first collection in book form of all Lambs Elia Essays.""The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works... Read More
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by MACKAY Charles
1852. MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher's brown gilt- and blind-stamped cloth, elaborately gilt-stamped spines, printed endpapers, top edges gilt. $2800.Second edition of this important, entertaining and influential early study of crowd behavior, subsequently used to explore popular psychology and to chart the stock market, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in original gilt-stamped cloth.Noted Scottish poet and journalist Charles Mackay attempted... Read More
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Norwood
by PORTIS Charles
1966. First Edition. Signed. PORTIS, Charles. Norwood. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $6800.First edition of the first novel from the author of True Grit, in the elusive original dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Portis: ""For J C of Spokane, with best regards, Charles Portis Aug. 15 1994 Little Rock.""The publicity-shy Portis, who died in in early 2020, ""drew a cult following and accolades as the work of... Read More
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Dog of the South
by PORTIS Charles
1979. First Edition. Signed. PORTIS, Charles. The Dog of the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Octavo, original half ivory cloth, original dust jacket, custom half green morocco clamshell box. $4000.First edition of the third novel by Portisauthor of True Grit and ""possibly the nation's best unknown writer""a handsome copy in the original dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ""For J C, the Buick driver of Spokane, with best regards, Charles Portis Aug.... Read More
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Cloister and the Hearth
by READE Charles
1861. First Edition. READE, Charles. The Cloister and the Hearth. London: Trübner, 1861. Four volumes. 12mo, early-20th century full lavender morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, brown morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. $2500.First edition. presentation copy of this sweeping story of romance and religion against the backdrop of the early Renaissance, perennially popular and often hailed as the finest historical novel in English, inscribed on a tipped-in leaf in Volume I, ""H.O. Nethercote Esq. with the author's kind... Read More
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Sermon Preached before... Hutchinson... the Honorable House of Representatives of... Massachusetts-Bay
by TURNER Charles
1773. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TURNER, A..M., Charles. A Sermon Preached before His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq: Governor: The Honorable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 26th, 1773. Being the Anniversary of the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province. Boston: New-England: Richard Draper, 1773. Octavo, modern half calf-gilt, marbled boards; pp. (3-5), 6-45 (1). $2800.First edition of the influential minister's bold 1773 election sermon, asserting ""the traditional Protestant doctrine of resistance""... Read More
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Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points
by HASSAM Childe
1925. First Edition. HASSAM, Childe. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A. of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Folio (9-1/2 by 11 inches), original half black cloth, original glassine, original numbered cardboard box. $2600.Limited first edition of the catalogue raisonné of artist Childe Hassam's etchings and dry-points, number 226 of only 400 copies printed, featuring dozens of reproductions, including many folio plates, of Hassam's best works.This... Read More
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Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
by CHIPPENDALE Thomas SHERATON Thomas HEPPLEWHITE A.
1938. CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. WITH: HEPPLEWHITE, A. and Company. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide. WITH: SHERATON, Thomas. Complete Furniture Works. New York: Towse, 1938-46. Three volumes. Folio, original cloth, original dust jackets. $1850.Modern facsimile editions of the great works by the three preeminent furniture designers, with over 920 plates of their designs and photographs of pieces exemplifying their respective styles. With an autograph presentation in one volume from the publisher to the editor, ""To my... Read More
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Treatise Concerning Statutes
by HATTON Christopher
1677. First Edition. HATTON, Christopher. A Treatise Concerning Statutes, or Acts of Parliament: and the Exposition thereof. London: Richard Tonson, 1677. 16mo, 18th-century full speckled calf neatly rebacked, raised bands; pp. [16], 85, [3]. $1650.First edition of this legal treatise by Queen Elizabeth Is Vice-Chamberlain and Lord Chancellor.Sir Christopher Hatton (c. 1540-1591) was Queen Elizabeth I's advisor and close confidante. Though Hatton held numerous official positions within Queen Elizabeth's government from Lord Chancellor to Vice-Chamberlain of the royal household,... Read More
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First Lady. A Portrait of Nancy Reagan
by REAGAN Ronald REAGAN Nancy WALLACE Chris
1986. First Edition. Signed. (REAGAN, Nancy and Ronald) WALLACE, Chris. First Lady. A Portrait of Nancy Reagan. From the NBC White Paper reported by White House Correspondent Chris Wallace. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1986). Quarto, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.First edition, inscribed by the President, ""With Best Wishes. Ronald Reagan June 3, 1994"" and with a slip tipped in inscribed by the First Lady, ""Best Wishes Nancy Reagan.""An extensively illustrated account of the life of Nancy... Read More
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Wonderful Stories for Children
by ANDERSEN Hans Christian
1846. First Edition. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Wonderful Stories for Children. Translated from the Danish by Mary Howitt. London: Chapman and Hall, 1846. Small octavo, original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $17,000.First edition of the extraordinarily rare first translation into English of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, with four hand-colored plates, in original cloth.""Wonderful Stories for Children was the first translation into English of the 'modern' fairy tales of Andersen, although his stories... Read More
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Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton
by BURTON Isabel BURTON Richard F. RICHARDS Alfred Bates WILSON Andrew BADDELEY St. Clair
1886. Signed. (BURTON, Richard F.) (BURTON, Isabel) RICHARDS, Alfred Bates, WILSON, Andrew, and BADDELEY, St. Clair. A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 12mo, original black paper-covered boards respined, with Burton's signature printed in gilt on both front and rear. $2000.Second edition, presentation copy of this contemporary biography of Sir Richard F. Burton, with Woodburytype frontispiece portrait, inscribed by his wife, Isabel Burton: ""Robert Mackay Smith with the sincere regard of his... Read More
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Plea of Clarence Darrow In Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
by DARROW Clarence
1924. First Edition. Signed. DARROW, Clarence. Plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, 1924, In Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. on Trial for Murder. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, [1924]. Octavo, original red- and black-printed front wrapper, plain rear wrapper. $6500.First edition, authorized and revised by Darrow from the trial speech, of his passionate defense of teenage murderers Leopold and Loeb, a presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication by him to the widow... Read More
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Story of My Life
by DARROW Clarence
1932. First Edition. Signed. DARROW, Clarence. The Story of My Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.First trade edition of Darrow's autobiography, signed by him on the half title.""When Clarence Darrow died in 1938 at the age of 81, few disputed that he was one of the great advocates of his generation. There were other lawyers in his lifetime who contributed more to the development of legal science, who rose to... Read More
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Poets of America
by STEDMAN Edmund Clarence
1885. First Edition. STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence. Poets of America. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1885. Two volumes extended to six. Octavo, early 20th-century full crushed maroon morocco gilt, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt. $19,000.First edition, number 84 of 150 large paper copies, extra-illustrated with many engraved portraits and an extraordinary collection of autograph material from 54 different authors bound in. Very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by the Monastery Hill Bindery.This extra-illustrated set, assembled by... Read More
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