Story of Patsy
by WIGGIN Kate Douglas
1883. First Edition. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas, under her maiden name SMITH, Kate Douglas. The Story of Patsy. San Francisco: C.A. Murdock, 1883. Slim 12mo, original printed paper wrappers; pp. 27. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. $4500.Rare first edition of the author's first book, a fundraising tool for the kindergarten she founded, Silver Street Kindergarten, California's first free kindergarten.As the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin is often considered one of the finest American... Read More
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Birds' Christmas Carol
by WIGGIN Kate Douglas
1887. First Edition. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. The Birds' Christmas Carol. San Francisco: C.A. Murdock, 1887. Small quarto (6 by 6-1/4 inches), original tan printed paper wrappers. Housed in a custom chemise. $1200.First edition, the privately published true first edition of Wiggin's beloved holiday tale, in fragile original wrappers.The Birds' Christmas Carol, one of Wiggin's earliest children's books, was written and privately published to raise money for childrens' education. Her holiday tale of ""Carol Bird, an invalid girl so named... Read More
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Magazine cover signed
by MACARTHUR Douglas
1950. Signed. MACARTHUR, Douglas. Magazine cover signed. [New York: Time-Life], August 28, 1950. One folio sheet, measuring 10-1/2 by 14 inches. $2200.Original cover of Life Magazine with portrait of MacArthur, signed by him across the front of his uniform.""MacArthur's career was one of the longest and most controversial of any American military figure, including active service as a general from 1918 to 1951. His genius as a leader was demonstrated most lucidly in his pioneering reforms as West Point... Read More
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Philosophical Essays
by STEWART Dugald
1810. First Edition. STEWART, Dugald. Philosophical Essays. Edinburgh: William Creech, and Archibald Constable, et al., 1810. Quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf expertly rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine and spine label neatly laid down, raised bands. $2750.First edition of this collection of the Scottish philosopher's essayson the works of Locke, Berkeley, Hartley, Priestly, and Darwin, and also on Beauty, the Sublime, and Tastein nicely restored contemporary calf-gilt.Stewart (1753-1828) wrote and lectured extensively on philosophy and political economy. ""It was... Read More
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Map of Love
by THOMAS Dylan
1939. First Edition. Signed. THOMAS, Dylan. The Map of Love. Verse and Prose. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, (1939). Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom slipcase. $8800.First edition in book form, twice inscribed by Thomas, once beneath the frontispiece portrait by Augustus John: As I was, or might have been, to Norman Unger from [line pointing at name beneath portrait], and a second time on the front free endpaper: Norman Unger. Dylan... Read More
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Two typed letters signed
by HOOVER J. Edgar
1938. Signed. HOOVER, J. Edgar. Two typed letters signed. Washington, June 18 and July 2, 1938. Two sheets of FBI/DOJ letterhead, each measuring approximately 7 by 9-1/2 inches. $2200.Two typed signed letters written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on FBI letterhead, the first in response to a request by a young man named Clarence Schudel for an autographed copy of an FBI personnel manual and the second responding to Schudel's ""thank you"" note and enclosing more booklets and... Read More
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Chronicle of England
by DOYLE James E. EVANS Edmund
1864. First Edition. (ENGLAND) DOYLE, James E. (EVANS, Edmund, engraver). A Chronicle of England. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. Thick quarto, contemporary full green straight-grain morocco, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands with red morocco inlays, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $2800.First edition of Doyle's popular history, with 81 intricate in-text color wood-engravings by Edmund Evans, ""the greatest wood-engraver of the Victorian era,"" after Doyles original drawings, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Rivière.""While comparatively young Doyle abandoned... Read More
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Two Letters Addressed to... Parliament
by FRENCH REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund
1797. First Edition. (FRENCH REVOLUTION) BURKE, Edmund. Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, On the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. Philadelphia: Printed for William Cobbett, 1797. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-3) 4-64, 1-22. $2800.First and only 18th-century American edition, preceded by the 1796 first English edition, of Burke's explosive demand for a ""religious war a moral war"" against revolutionary France and its ""armed doctrine aiming... Read More
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Dream Life of Balso Snell
by WEST Nathanael WILSON Edmund
1931. First Edition. WEST, Nathanael. The Dream Life of Balso Snell. Paris, New York: Contact Editions, (1931). Octavo, original tan stiff-paper wrappers, uncut. $1750.Limited first edition of West's first novel, number 234 of only 300 copies for sale in America (total of 500), a ""deliberately blasphemous"" introduction to his disruptive and unique genius, followed by Miss Lonelyhearts, Cool Million and Day of the Locust before his tragic death in 1940, in original wrappers.Much of West's debut novel, Dream Life... Read More
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Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, or Oxford Blues
by PACKE Edmund
1847. First Edition. PACKE, Edmund. An Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, or Oxford Blues: Its Services, and the Transactions in which it has Been Engaged, from its First Establishment to the Present Time. London: Parker, Furnivall, 1847. Octavo, original navy cloth recased with original spine laid down. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $1100.Early edition of this 19th-century work on the history of the Oxford Blues cavalry regiment, who fought in the French... Read More
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Aquarelle. Auf seiner Reise um die Erde
by HILDEBRANDT Eduard
1871. First Edition. HILDEBRANDT, Eduard. Aquarelle. Auf seiner Reise um die Erde. [Watercolors. From his Trip around the World]. Berlin: R. Wagner, 1871-74. Very large folio (17-3/4 by 21-5/8 inches), title leaf on heavy cardstock and 34 fine plates on textured paper mounted on cardstock; housed in the publisher's deluxe green leather-backed green cloth gilt portfolio box, large sepia portrait of Hildebrandt set in front board oval under glass, original brass clasps. $15,000.First edition of this collection of 34... Read More
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Declarations and Other Pleadings
by COKE Edward
1659. First Edition. COKE, Edward. The Declarations and Other Pleadings Contained in the Eleven Parts of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke Sometime Lord Justice of England, and One of His Majestes' Council of Estate. Rendered into English, by W. Hughes for the Benefit of all Students, and Practizers of the Common Law. London: Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, 1659. Small folio (7-1/2 by 11 inches), period-style full dark brown mottled calf, raised bands, red... Read More
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First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England
by COKE Edward
1639. COKE, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; or, a Commentary upon Littleton. London: G. Kearsly and G. Robinson, 1775. Large folio (10 by 15 inches), contemporary full reverse calf sympathetically rebacked, retaining original red morocco spine label, raised bands. $2200.Later folio edition of Coke's First Institutes, among the greatest of British legal texts and a fundamental influence on America's founding fathers and American revolutionary principlesthe first to be edited and revised by... Read More
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Third (and Fourth) Part of the Institutes
by COKE Edward
1671. COKE, Edward. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes. BOUND WITH: The Fourth Part Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts. London: A. Crooke, et al.; John Streater, et al., 1671. Two volumes bound in one. Small, thick folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full sheep, raised bands, renewed morocco spine label. $3000.Fifth editions of the Third and Fourth Institutes, dealing with criminal law... Read More
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Slaveholding a Malum in Se
by JACKSON Joseph TYLER Edward
1921. First Edition. TYLER, E[dward]. R. Slaveholding a Malum in Se, or Invariably Sinful. Harford: S.S. Cowles, 1839. Octavo, original tan self-wrappers, original stitching; pp. (1-3), 4-48. $1200.First edition of Tyler's searing analysis of arguments defending slavery in this incendiary work that prompted local leaders to offer gunpowder to ""blow the damned abolitionist down,"" delivered by him in a Brattleboro chapel as a ""mob formed outside cannons were fired,"" with Tyler especially demolishing pro-slavery claims that enslaved people willingly... Read More
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Smith's Trial
by MACNALLY Leonard SMITH Edward
1800. First Edition. (MACNALLY, Leonard). SMITH, Edward. Smith's Trial. A Full and Authentic Report of the Trial for a Rape Alleged to Have Been Committed on the Body of Miss Sarah Rawson. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, 1800. Octavo, later half red morocco, marbled boards. $1500.Scarce first edition of the detailed transcript of the trial of Edward Smith, accused of assaulting Sarah Rawson and holding her captive in the officers' barracks for three days; with MacNally's cross-examination, and an... Read More
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Legislatorial trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England
by QUEEN CAROLINE BARRON Edward
1820. First Edition. (QUEEN CAROLINE). [BARRON, Edward]. The Legislatorial Trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England, Consort of George the Fourth, for the Alleged Crime of Adultery with Bartolomeo Bergami. London: H. Rowe, 1820. Octavo, contemporary quarter speckled calf, marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt-decorated. $1400.First edition: An uncommon contemporary account of one of the greatest royal scandals of the 19th century, with five engraved plates including a folding frontispiece of the courtroom.Following the charge of adultery... Read More
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Never Mind
by ST. AUBYN Edward
1994. First Edition. Signed. ST. AUBYN, Edward. Never Mind. London: Heinemann, (1992). Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition of the first novel in St. Aubyn's renowned five-book series of Patrick Melrose novels, signed by St. Aubyn on the title page.""Edward St. Aubyn's five Patrick Melrose novelspublished beginning in 1992 and collected, to lavish praise, in 2012owe their popularity to the way they cross genres to satisfy two distinct cravings. St. Aubyn does a reasonably good rendition... Read More
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by GIBBON Edward
1804. First Edition. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Philadelphia: William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, 1804-05. Eight volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt, burgundy morocco spine labels. $9800.First American edition set, of one of the greatest classics of Western thought, with three folding engraved maps, in a beautiful contemporary binding.""This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width... Read More
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Hall's Chronicle
by HALL Edward
1809. HALL, Edward. Hall's Chronicle; Containing the History of England, During the Reign of Henry the Fourth to the End of the Reign of Henry the Eighth. London: J. Johnson; F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne, et al., 1809. Folio (10 by 12-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown gilt- and blind-ruled calf expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $2500.Fine early 19th-century folio edition of this rare and influential historyoriginally published in 1548... Read More
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Les Reports
by LITTLETON Edward
1683. First Edition. LITTLETON, Edward. Les Reports des Tres Honorable Edw. Seigneur Littleton, Baron de Mounslow en le 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ans del Reign de Roy Charles le I. London: Thomas Bassett, Samuel Heyrick, William Crooke, and William Hensman,, 1683. Folio (8 by 12-1/2 inches), period-style reverse calf, raised bands; pp. [10], 376, [20]. $1100.First edition of this posthumous collection of Edward Littleton's reports, with engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White.""The reason why these Reports came... Read More
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Cambria Depicta
by PUGH Edward
1816. First Edition. [PUGH, Edward]. Cambria Depicta: a Tour through North Wales, Illustrated with Picturesque Views. London: E. Williams, 1816. Folio (9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), 20th-century three-quarter red straight-grain morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $6200.First edition of this wonderfully illustrated tour of North Wales, written in ""a lively and entertaining style,"" with 71 fine hand-colored aquatints. This copy richly extra-illustrated with the inclusion of 23 hand-colored aquatints from Compton's Northern Cambrian Mountains of 1820, for... Read More
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Orang-Outang: or the Anatomy of a Pygmie
by TYSON Edward
1699. First Edition. TYSON, Edward M.D. Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: Or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man. London: Printed for Thomas Bennet and Daniel Brown, 1699. Tall quarto (9 by 11 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, red morocco spine label, raised bands, original endpapers retained. $16,000.First edition of Tyson's ""epoch-making"" anatomical study that laid a foundation for the theory of evolution, ""the first work... Read More
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Poetical Works
by YOUNG Edward
1892. YOUNG, Edward. The Poetical Works. New York and London: (Chiswick Press), circa 1892. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers with floral designs incorporating blue, green and white morocco inlays, green morocco-gilt doublures with red morocco inlays in a floral design, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $1600.Later Aldine edition of the poems of Edward Young, including his immortal long poem Night Thoughts, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with... Read More
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Portrait of Shunkin
by TANIZAKI Junichiro HOSOE Eikoh
2000. First Edition. Signed. TANIZAKI, Junichiro. A Portrait of Shunkin. New York: The Limited Editions Club, (2000). Large quarto, original mauve cloth, paper label, original gray cloth clamshell with paper label. $1800.Splendid illustrated edition of one of Tanizakis best stories, number 21 of only 300 copies signed by photographer Eikoh Hosoe and calligrapher Shunkei Yahagi.With three lovely photogravures after photographs by world-renowned photographer Hosoe, each illustrating the heroine Shunkin ""as she might appear in her varied moods at crucial... Read More
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