The Battle of Life
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Very Good +. Vignette title in the fourth state (Smith II.8). Some edgewear to binding and covers marked, lacking advertisement leaf but with half-title present, early blue ink gift inscription 'JMH from HH' to the front free endpaper, a little spotting, small portion of loss to foot of title inner margin. Bound in a publisher's red full morocco gilt, with the original gilt designs to both covers within a foliate border,... Read More
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Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress (in 3 vols.)
by [Dickens, Charles] Boz
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Near Fine. First issue, with the "Boz" title-pages in each volume and the "Fireside" plate facing p. 313 in volume three (the "Church" plate also bound in facing p. 315). Complete, with the half-titles in volumes one and two, and the correct ads at the end of volume one and the beginning of volume three. A lovely, Near Fine set, unusually clean and fresh throughout, with just a bit of foxing and... Read More
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. Very Good +. Bound in the publisher's full crushed purple morocco, all edges gilt. Stamped in gilt on the spine and with blind rules on the boards and spine. With original yellow-coated end papers. Joints holding well although three short tears at the crown where it looks like someone pulled the book from a shelf at the crown, causing three .5 inch tears. Inner hinges just starting, but holding well. The... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition. Near Fine. First edition in book form, first issue following all points in Smith. This copy with the vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. According to Smith "An earlier 13-line errata leaf exists with the same data that is found on the 14-line leaf; the setting was changed to 14-lines for a better balance." Octavo (8 11/16 x 5... Read More
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Bleak House
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition. Very Good +. Complete with all 40 plates which include the frontispiece, title-page and the 10 "dark plates." Has all three typographical errors associated with the first edition, first issue: P.19, line 6: "elgble"; P.209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair"; and P.275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." In what we believe is a publisher's full straight-grain morocco binding, plain yellow end papers, all edges gilt. Joints repaired, moderate darkening... Read More
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Twelve original character studies from Oliver Twist
by Dickens, Charles; Kyd (pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clark, illustrator)
[n.p., London], 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating Oliver Twist, signed by the artist. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm). Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'Oliver Twist' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front wrapper. Wrappers expertly repaired. Housed in a green cloth portfolio. The Toby Crackit plate a little browned on margins. Near... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Very Good. Bound in the original publisher's deluxe full green morocco binding, gilt titles, stamped in gilt and blind, yellow end papers, all edges gilt. A Very Good copy with creasing and wear to the spine (one short tear at the head), some foxing to the plates. Armorial bookplate of Henry Gillett on the front paste-down. Bound without the half-title, otherwise complete with the engraved frontis and 39 plates by Phiz.... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Very Good. A rare copy of Nickleby in the original publisher's cloth. This copy without some of the earliest issue points: pg. 123 and pg. 160 with corrected spellings, first four plates without Chapman and Hall imprints. A Very Good copy with wear to the cloth along the lower spine hinge and at the board edges. Original yellow end-papers with some splitting at the inner hinges. Moderate foxing to the plates,... Read More
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A Christmas Carol [bound with:] Cricket on the Hearth [and:] The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition. Very Good. A Christmas Carol is the correct first printing with "Stave I" and the textual points outlined in Smith, with the half-title printed in blue and the title-page printed in red and blue. Complete with the four inserted hand-colored steel engraved plates. The Cricket on the Hearth with the textual points outlined in Smith and the second state of the advertisement for Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's... Read More
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Poems - Second Series
by Dickinson, Emily
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892. Second printing. Near Fine. One of 1,000 copies of the second printing (with 1891 on the copyright page and 1892 on the title-page). Publisher's green cloth over white boards decorated in gilt (Myerson's A binding). 230 pp., with the four page facsimile of "Renunciation" in the preliminaries. All edges gilt. An attractive copy, bright and fresh throughout, with just a bit of soiling to boards. Contemporary ink ownership signature to preliminary blank. Near Fine.... Read More
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Fanchette. Se vend au profit de Fanchette
by [Disability] [Assault] [Social Justice] Sand, George
Paris: [Imprimerie de Schneider et Langrand], 1843. First edition. Contemporary 19th century quarter calf binding with green boards; gentle wear to edges. Internally an excellent copy with original wraps bound in; occasional light foxing and small paper loss to margins of last two leaves, neither affecting text. Octavo collates complete with 31 pages. An exceptionally rare copy of Sand's first work on social justice, of which only 500 were printed. This copy is the only one known to have... Read More
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Asylum Record. A Paper of Local Interest Published at the N.H. Asylum. Vol. 1. No. 5
by [Disability]
Concord, N.H.: [New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane], 1888. First edition. Very Good. Quarto newspaper (255 x 375 mm., folded), 4 pp. Slight chipping to edges, with loss to a couple words at center horizontal fold. A couple spots of foxing. A Very Good copy of a remarkable and rare example of printing in unusual circumstances. Per OCLC, only two institutions hold any copies of the Asylum Record (Library Company of Philadelphia and the New Hampshire Historical Society).... Read More
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Laura Bridgman." [From:] [The American Journal of Education, vol. 4, no. 11, December 1857], pp. [383]-400
by [Disability] [Bridgman, Laura] Howe, Samuel Gridley
[Hartford, Connecticut]: [F.C. Brownell], 1857. First edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Extract (18 pp.) bound in modern paper wrappers. Clean and fresh throughout. A fine copy. Samuel Gridley Howe's report on the education of Laura Bridgman (1829 - 1889), the first deaf-blind person to receive formal schooling in the United States. This report covers the first three years of Bridgman's education at the Perkins School for the Blind, focusing on the efforts of Howe and other Perkins educators to... Read More
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The Young Cripple and His Job [and] City Planning for Girls. Social Service Monographs No. 4 [and] No. 5
by [Disability] [Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., editor] Hathway, Marion; Addition, Henrietta Silvis
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. First edition. Very Good. Both issues in publisher's stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 130; vii, [3], 150 pp. One issue with an editor's preface by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866 - 1948). The Young Cripple with chip to spine and a bit of chipping to edges; small adhesive stain to front cover; and library ink stamps of the University of Chicago to inside of front wrapper, first leaf, and last leaf. Dustsoiling and a... Read More
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Mickey et le Prince Malalapatte
by Disney, Walt
Paris: Walt Disney, Hachette, Silly Symphonies, 1935. First edition in French. Publisher's color pictorial blue boards, color pictorial endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. A Near Fine copy in the scarce and equally Fine original color pictorial dust jacket. 64 pages. Forty-four black and white drawings of which eight are full-page. Four magnificent double-page color pop-ups. Some very light toning to blank margins. This is the French edition of Mickey Mouse in King Arthur's Court (New York, 1933). Many... Read More
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Une Partie De Polo
by Disney, Walt
Paris: Walt Disney, Hachette, Silly Symphonies, 1936. First edition. Publisher's color pictorial blue boards, color pictorial endpapers. Forty-three black and white drawings of which twelve are full-page. Three magnificent double-page color pop-ups. Some very light toning to blank margins. Small faded area at top of front board, minimal rubbing to extremities, still a Near Fine copy. Mickey, Donald and Goofy play in a polo match against several Hollywood stars including Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and Harpo Marx.... Read More
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A Lecture on the Best Means of Promoting the Intellectual Improvement of Youth
by Dodd, J. P.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847. First edition. Fine. Recent green paper wrappers. Collates [4], 51 pages: complete. Pages hand numbered in upper right hand corners; minor marginal annotations on pages 37 and 46. Overall, an exceptionally clean and pleasing copy of this rare educational tract, which argued for widespread education as the best method of attaining social equality. A scarce work, the present copy is the only one on the market, with OCLC reporting 2 copies... Read More
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland
by Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]
New York: James O'Kane, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt. Twelvemo. 346, [2, ads] pp. Complete with four plates (including frontispiece). A bright copy with a small smudge to lower board and just a bit of foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Otherwise clean and fresh throughout. Small contemporary ink gift inscription to preliminary blank. A Near Fine copy. Hans Brinker, the story of a Dutch boy who hopes to win a... Read More
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Three Soldiers
by Dos Passos, John
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing, with three preliminary blanks, no terminal blanks, and misprint "signing" on page 213; in first state dust jacket (without the reviewer quotes). A Fine copy of the book in nearly Fine dust jacket. Book is clean, fresh and appears unread. Small bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper. Jacket with minor fading to the spine, but otherwise bright and without chips or tears. An excellent copy.... Read More
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Rodney Stone
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1896. First edition. Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 127 mm. ). [8], 366, [12, publisher's advertisements] pp. Eight plates by Sidney Paget (including frontispiece, with tissue guard). Original black diamond-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Dark brown coated endpapers. Hinges a bit cracked yet firm. Otherwise a near fine copy. Chemised in a quarter olive green morocco slipcase. Rodney Stone is a novel... Read More
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The Mystery of Cloomber (Inscribed)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: Hodder & Soughton's Sevenpenny Library, 1914. Later edition. Near Fine. Small octavo (6 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 162 x 108 mm.). [i-iv], v-vi, 7- 259, [1, blank] pp. [3 pp, advertisements on rear endpapers]. Including colored frontispiece and title-page printed on glossy paper. Publishers embossed salmon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed in ink on title-page "With homage to Belgium / Arthur Conan Doyle". A near fine copy. The Mystery of Cloomber is the... Read More
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1905. Very Good +. First English edition of the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (preceded by the first American edition by about one month). Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 13/16 inches; 187 x 122 mm.). [8], 403, [1, printer's imprint], [4, publisher's advertisements] pp. Sixteen plates (including frontispiece). Some occasional light, mainly marginal foxing. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Early ink signature "Mary V.B.M." and... Read More
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A Study in Scarlet
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1888. First edition, second printing. First edition in book form of the first Sherlock Holmes story (preceded only by the story's appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887). Second impression with mis-spelling "youuger" for younger in the second paragraph of the publisher's preface. A fine copy. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 121 mm.). [iii] title; [iv] blank; [v] publisher's preface (with paragraph 2, line 3: youuger); [vi] blank; [vii] contents;... Read More
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The Sign of Four
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition. Near Fine. First edition in book form, second issue binding, with foot of spine reading "Griffith Farran & Co.s. Standard Library." Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). [4], 283, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. With the numeral "138" on the contents page incomplete and reading "13," as usual, and with "wished" appearing as "w shed" on p. 56, line 16. "The [remaining] sheets... Read More
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[Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels] (15 of 18 volumes)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: John Murray, 1964. Uniform Edition. Uniformly bound (probably by Morrell) for Henry Sotheran (stamp-signed on the front free endpaper) in three-quarter red polished calf over red cloth boards. Spines ruled in blind with five raised bands and blue morocco gilt lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Mildest uniform fading to spines. Fifteen (of eighteen) volumes, including the following Sherlock Holmes titles: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ([1960]); The Return of Sherlock... Read More
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