Blake's London: The Topographic Sublime
by Sinclair, Iain
2012. London: The Swedenborg Society, 2012. Small 8vo, xi, 60 pp.As new, in gray paper covered boards, and dust-jacket. § Second edition (2000 copies) - the first was 2011. The book consists of the transcript of a talk presented by Sinclair to a one-day conference on "Blake in Context" held on 2nd November 2007, commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Blake's birth, jointly convened by The Swedenborg Society and the University of London(Goldsmiths College). It is an... Read More
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Blake the Mystic Genius
by Sinderen, Adrian van
1949. Syracuse UP: 1949. 4to, 119 pp.. illustrations Original quarter cloth, slipcase. § 1100 copies printed. Bentley, Blake Books, 2898.
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Blake the Mystic Genius
by Sinderen, Adrian van
1949. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1949. 4to, 119 pp. illustrations Original quarter cloth, slipcase. Very good. § 1100 copies printed. Bentley, Blake Books, 2898. This has the "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" designs, and Blake's accompanying MS, nicely reproduced, the watercolors in color.
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The Discovery of Florida: Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes That Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida Now Just Given by a Fidalgo of Elvas
by Smith, Buckgingham (trans); Hammond George P. (Intro); Dean, Mallette (Illus)
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. Folio, 115 pp. Handcolored initials and decorations by Mallette Dean. Quarter white cloth and patterned orange paper boards. Endpapers toned. Very good. § Edition of 280 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California on French handmade paper and set in Franciscan type. A finely printed limited edition of the first modern English translation of the Gentleman of Elva's "True Relation", which described... Read More
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Odes and Sonnets
by Smith, Clark Ashton
1918. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1918. Slim 4to. 30 pages. Blue-grey boards, tan muslin backstrip with printed paper label. Backstrip label browned, light diagonal mark on upper board, spotting to lower board, contents clean and bright. Very good copy of a fragile book, hard to find in acceptable condition. Bookplate of Rosa Walter Meertief. § First edition, copy #242 of 300 copies, with a preface by George Sterling. The very scarce second book... Read More
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Nollekens and his Times
by Smith, John Thomas
1828. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 2 vols, 8vo, x, 424, vi, 488pp.Bound in contemporary marbled boards and quarter calf, recently sympathetically rebacked with gilt titles on the new labels. Generally a very good copy with some foxing of first signatures of each vol. § First edition. This interesting collection of biographical anecdotes about and around Nollekens by the keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum includes a section on Blake in vol. II, pages... Read More
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A Lima Lady on Horseback
by Smyth, William
1835. Peru (Lima presumably): c. 1835. Watercolor on paper, 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Matted, in very good condition. § Smyth (1800-77), was a Royal Naval officer and artist who entered the Navy in April 1813. Smyth passed his lieutenant's examination in 1819 and served as a passed midshipman and mate including on the Blossom under Frederick Beechey in the Pacific, 1825 -28, until commissioned lieutenant during that voyage, in May 1827. From June 1831 to... Read More
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Blake Society Annual Programmes and Miscellanea
by Blake Society
2000. London: The Blake Society, 2000 - 2017. From 2008 to 2017 there are 10 color illustrated annual programmes, the later versions with several high quality color reproductions of Blake's designs- usually 4 per programme. There are further miscellanea containing details of events, and several occasional lecture texts and articles on Blake's work produced by Members. All in very good or as new condition. §.
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The American West: The John F. Eulich Collection
by [Sotheby's]
1998. New York: Sotheby's, May 20, 1998. 4to, 114 pp. Illustrated in full color throughout. Glossy black coated boards, white lettering to backstrip and upper cover, color illustrated dust jacket. Fine. § Auction catalogue for the sale of John Eulich's collection: "a who's who in American Western art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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William Blake. Masters of Modern Art
by Soupault, Philippe
1928. London: John Lane, 1928. Small 4to, 61 pp., 40 plates. Original blue cloth. § Translated by J. Lewis May. Bentley, Blake Books, 2726B: "The plates include all the engravings for The Grave and 14 for Young's Night Thoughts. The essay is factually unreliable but it criticizes Blake's art usefully.".
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Sunday Under Three Heads
by Sparks, Timothy (pseud). Dickens, Charles
1836. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836. 16mo, 49 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers, in an elaborate custom green morocco box with floral gilt decoration. A near fine copy of this fragile pamphlet with very occasional spotting and a short split in the hinge of the front wrapper. § First edition of a pamphlet written by Dickens under the pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, defending the rights of the working class to a free Sabbath, in opposition to a... Read More
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The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blake's use of Biblical Typology in the Minor Prophecies
by Spicer, H.O.
1962. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1962. 8vo, 198pp. Dark blue paper wrappers. Title and author typed in sticker affixed to front. Facsimile of doctoral dissertation submitted to Indiana University. Very good. § Facsimile edition of doctoral dissertation. Bentley, BB, 2735.
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A Tight Squeeze; Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, Who, On a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money as a professional tramp
by Staats" [pseudonym, William Staats]
1879. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers & New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1879. Small 8vo, 282, (6, ads) pp. Original pink wrappers, printed with title and 3pp. of ads. Edges of wrappers worn with a few small chips, slightly larger chip to head and foot of backstrip, pages toned but clean, a very good copy of a fragile paperback. § First edition (offered in both wrappers and cloth; copies in wrappers are much harder to... Read More
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With Love & Eighty Candles : for M. E. K.
by Stallworthy, Jon
1970. Cambridge: Rampant Lion Press, 1970. [24pp.] uncut. Blue-green paperback, with hand-sewn binding. Previous owner's book label on lower inside front cover. Some fading to cover and slight edge wear. Pages are in fine condition. § Printed for the 80th birthday celebration of Margaret Elizabeth Keynes, grand daughter of Charles Darwin, and wife to noted Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes. Text includes a poem by Jon Stallworthy, several speeches by guests of the party, and a... Read More
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Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
by Stedman, Captain John Gabriel. Blake, William
1813. London: J. Johnson, 1813. 4to, 8 plates from the 1813 (third) edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette, measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm. § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro", "A Private Marine...." , "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys", "The Skinning of the Aboma Snake", " Family of Negro Slaves...," The Skulls of Lieut. Leppar...", "March Thro' a Swamp or Marsh, in Terra-Firma", "The Celebrated Graman... Read More
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Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
by Stedman, Captain John Gabriel
1796. London: J. Johnson, 1796. Vol I only. 4to, xviii, 407 (i.e. 415), (7, index, plates, errata) pp., with 40 hand-coloured plates as called for including hand-coloured frontispiece and title page vignette. Very good in contemporary brown calf with gilt rules, decoration, and titling to spine with five raised bands. Internally good: some offsetting and very occasional foxing; front endpaper torn but expertly repaired. § First edition. Sixteen of the plates (and per a recent discovery... Read More
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Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
by Stedman, Captain John Gabriel
1813. London: J. Johnson, 1813. 4to, 3 uncoloured plates by Blake, from Vol II; Size 26.5 x 20. 5 cm. Rather browned and foxed in places, particularly to the edges. § Third edition. The plates are: "The Quato... Monkeys", "Limes, Capsicum....", "Flagellation of a Female....". Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXIII p 71 - 75.
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The Journal... Including an authentic Account of his Expedition to Surinam, in 1772. Edited by Stanbury Thompson
by Stedman, John Gabriel
1962. London: Mitre Press, 1962. 8vo,xxiv, 437pp. With a portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, and 5 illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, dust-jacket a bit worn and chipped at edges, very good. § First edition of the journal, which was published in 1796 by Johnson as "Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam..." with 16 plates engraved by Blake.
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Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777. Elucidating the History of that Country & Describing its Productions, viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, & Roots; with an Account of the Indians of Guiana and Negroes of Guinea. Illustrated with 80 Elegant Engravings from Drawings Made by the Author
by Stedman, John Gabriel
1971. Barre: Imprint Society, 1971 2 vols., 4to, xviii, 220, [223]-480pp. [vol. I] xviii, 407 (i.e. 415), (7, index, plates, errata) pp., frontispiece, engraved title-page, 39 plates and 2 folding maps; [vol. II] iv, 404, (7, index, plates, errata) pages, engraved title-page and 40 plates. Blue cloth backed marbled paper over boards, with printed paper labels on spine, a fine as new set in slipcase § Limited to 1950 sets. An excellent facsimile reprint of the... Read More
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The Potter's House
by Stegner, Wallace
1938. Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1938. 8vo, 75 pp. Printed in black and red. Publisher's cloth, original glassine wrapper. A fine copy in almost pristine glassine toned (of course) with only one significant closed tear. § First edition, limited to 490 copies. Stegner's second book, the scarcest of his regularly published books.
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On A Darkling Plain
by Stegner, Wallace
1940. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940. 8vo 231 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy, contents a little age-toned but free of any marks. Dust-jacket unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and with chips to the spine panel, now protected in mylar. § First edition of Stegner's third novel, a fictional account of the aftermath of World War I.
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
by Steinbeck, John
1969. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Narrow 4to, 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers, lettered in black, with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered "11" in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers, box spotted, else very good. § Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden, in the form of letters to his friend and publisher, Pat Covici. The book was published posthumously in an edition of 600 copies.... Read More
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Steinbeck Country in Dubious Homage
by [Steinbeck, John]. Messner, Mike
1979. Privately printed by the author, 1979. Small 8vo pamphlet, 28 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Printed wrappers, staple bound. Lightly soiled, very good. § "This essay was published for distribution on the occasion of "John Steinbeck Week" in Salinas, California (February 24 through March 4, 1979). The intention of the author is to increase public awareness of the historical relationship between John Steinbeck and the politics of agriculture in California and the Salinas Valley.... Read More
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Galley Proof of Bradford Morrow Catalogue of Harry Valentine's Steinbeck Collection
by Steinbeck, John. Morrow, Bradford
1980. Bradford Morrow, 1980. Xeroxed manuscript, 8 1/2 x 11, unpaginated. Bound in blue boards, with number 8 and roman numeral 2 in white pen on backstrip. Laid in is a 2pp. foreword by John R. Payne on Bradford Morro letterhead, stamped in red "Advance Review Copy". Fine with some pencilled corrections to the text. § "Bradford Morrow's catalogue of Harry Valentine's John Steinbeck Collection is an event of signal importance for Steinbeck collectors through the... Read More
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Positano
by Steinbeck, John
1954. Salerno: Ente Provinciale..., [1954] Slim 8vo, 30 pp. Original cream stiff wrappers, small color illustration on upper cover, in the glassine. Small ownership signature dated 1958 on front blank. Near fine, glassine secured with tape at flaps. § First French language edition of the first separate printing of Steinbeck's Italian travel memoir, which was originally published as an essay in Harper's Bazaar, May 1953. The translation is credited to L. and G. Faure.
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