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John James Audubon’s Magnificent Birds of America The Very Fine Baby Elephant Folio - A Pristine Copy Arranged by Roger Tory and Virginia Marie Peterson

[Audubon]; Peterson, Roger Tory and Virginia Marie. AUDUBON’S BIRDS OF AMERICA: The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio (New York: Abbeville, 1981) First edition and first printing, and a subscribers copy, of the very fine Baby Elephant Folio Edition updated by famed naturalists, ornithologists, artists, Roger Tory and Virginia Peterson. This copy with publisher’s prespectus subscription booklet with reserve form specifically for members and friends of the National Audubon Society. The booklet signed by important New York publisher Kenneth Seeman Giniger beneath the photograph of him examining the folio on the rear cover of the booklet. Portrait of Audubon by John Syme as frontispiece, 435 fine colour plates, many folding, from Audubon’s original paintings, extensive additional illustrations throughout in both colour and black and white, sectional titlepages printed on heavy wove stock in gilt.

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Thick folio [15.25 by 12 inches], in the publisher’s fine original binding of half black/brown morocco over white linen, the spine decorated with fine 19th century style gilt compartments, in the original slipcase of white linen backed boards with a large colour paste-down label on one board. A very fine copy, the book is as mint and pristine as is the prospectus for Society members, the slipcase only with some minor rubbing to the label and a little expected soiling to the white linen.

FIRST EDITION, AND A SUBSCRIBER’S COPY WITH ASSOCIATION, OF THIS FINE AND FITTING TRIBUTE FROM THE AUDUBON SOCIETY TO THEIR FOUNDER. This edition magnificently reproduces Aububon’s plates, but differs from previous editions in that the plates are organized phylogenetically instead of by the order of their original subscription.

Jane Austen’s Classic Novels - The “Only Complete” Edition Illustrated Throughout

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Austen, Jane. THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN. [SENSE AND SENSIBILITY; PRIDE AND PREJUDICE; MANSFIELD PARK; EMMA; NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION; MINOR WORKS] The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources (London: Oxford University Press, 1960) 6 volumes. Third Edition, reprinted. With numerous illustrations in each volume. The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen which is cited as the only complete edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines, in the original

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dustjackets. A very nice and collectable set, the text bright, fresh and clean, the cloth in excellent condition with sharp corners and no rubbing, the jackets with just minor edge wear and some sun mellowing to the spines.

AN UNUSUALLY NICE SET AND NOW QUITE SCARCE. Originally, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY appeared in 1811, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in 1813, MANSFIELD PARK in 1814, EMMA in 1815, and NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION posthumously in 1818 and the MINOR WORKS issued over time. Here we find them all perfectly united in this attractive cloth set.

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Sir Samuel Baker’s Ismailia - 1874 The Suppression of the Slave Trade in Central Africa

Baker, Sir Samuel W. ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized

by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with over 50 engraved plates and with one full page colour map and one large folding colour map. Tall 8vo, very handsome contemporary full polished calf, the covers diced within roll-tooled borders accomplished in gilt, the spines with raised bands richly decorated with center and border designs within fine full gilt decorated compartments,dark

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morocco labels lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt tooled edges and turn-ins. A fine and handsome set, internally unusually fine and fresh, the maps and plates in excellent state, the bindings solid and attractive with only very minor evidence of age.

A CLASSIC WORK BY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AFRICAN EXPLORERS OF HIS TIME. The scarce and rarely found account of the Khedive of Egypt’s expedition, which Baker commanded, to suppress the slave trade in Central Africa. It was one of the first practical steps taken for the purpose.

Charles Bukowski’s Selected Letters - Autographed All Three Volumes in Limited Format With Serigraph First Editions in Very Fine Condition

Bukowski, Charles. SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY Selected Letters 1960-1970 [and] LIVING ON LUCK Selected Letters 1960s-1970s Volume 2 [and] REACH FOR THE SUN Selected Letters 1978-1994 Volume 3 (Santa Rosa, CA.: Black Sparrow Press, 1993; 1995; 1999) Together three volumes. First editions, Volume I is one of 600 special hardcover copies numbered and SIGNED by the author, this copy with a small drawing by Bukowski, Volume 2 is one of 1000 special hardcover copies, Volume 3 is one of 376 special hardcover copies hand-numbered and with an original colour serigraph print by Bukowski. Each volume with

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Burns, Robert. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS...

(London: George Virtue, ND [circa 1840]) An early, handsome illustrated edition. With over 35 engravings on steel by noted artists such as W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and others. Tall and thick 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter red calf over pebbled boards, the spine beautifully gilt decorated in compartments between wide gilt tooled bands, each compartment is elaborately decorated around a central tool in a shell motif,

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Burton, R.F. [THE LAND OF MIDIAN]. ITINERARIES OF THE SECOND KHEDIVAL EXPEDITION; MEMOIR EXPLAINING THE NEW MAP OF MIDIAN MADE BY THE EGYPTIAN SUBOFFICERS [With:] A VISIT TO LISSA AND PELAGOSA [in:] THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. VOLUME 49. (London: Jonn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1879) First Edition Illustrated with 4 finely printed large folding maps in black and white and colour. 8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth, blocked in blind in panel designs on the covers, the

[Captain John Brown; Harper ’s Ferry; Civil War]; DeWitt, Robert M.. THE LIFE, TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN, KNOWN AS “OLD BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE,”WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION AT HARPER’S FERRY. (New York: Robert M. De Witt, [1859]) First Edition, very uncommon. With a full page portrait of John Brown and seven full page plates.

8vo, handsomely bound up in fine brown linen, the spine with leather label gilt. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved, a bit of occasional spotting to the paper as would be expected.

The Finding of the Tomb of Tut Ankh Amen The Archaeological Discovery That Thrilled The World

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Carter, Howard and A. C. Mace. THE TOMB OF TUT ANKH AMEN, Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter (London: Cassell and Co, 1930, 1927) 2 volumes. First editions, fourth impression of the first volume, first edition, first impression of the second volume. With over 200 illustrations from photos. 8vo, publisher’s original mustard cloth lettered in gilt and decorated with scarab designs in gilt and black on the upper covers. A very pleasing and handsome set.

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spine lettered and decorated in gilt, preserved in a fine cloth covered slipcase. A superb, pristine, as mint copy.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN SUPERB CONDITION. This book is the first presentation and first issuance of the rare sequel to THE GOLD MINES OF THE MIDIAN and THE LAND OF MIDIAN (REVISITED) covering Burton’s second gold-mining expedition to Midian in the northwest of Arabia, sponsored by the Egyptian Khedive, Ismail I.

The Life and Trial of Captain John Brown - Harper’s Ferry Rare First Edition, First Issue - DeWitt - 1859 An Extraordinary Event in American History With Period Illustrations - A Handsome Copy

Price: $395.

one compartment with a burgendy morocco letting label gilt.

A beautiful copy in a handsome period binding, the rear board detached but easily repairable, minor age wear to extremities.

A FINE EARLY ILLUSTRATED COLLECTED EDITION OF BURNS’ WORKS. The steel engravings are of excellent quality and reflect the rural charm and humor of the ploughman poet’s beloved works.

R.F. Burton’s Visits to Midian, Lissa & Pelagosa Explained A Superb Copy of the First Edition With Fine Folding Maps Included

Price: $895.

a frontispiece featuring artwork by the author, a photograph of the author and letter facsimiles, titlepages printed in black and red. 8vo, each in decorated paper-covered boards featuring colour artwork by the author, backed in orange, yellow and red cloth with paper spine labels artistically decorated. All three volumes are very fine, pristine and essentially as mint.

FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF BUKOWSKI’S SELECTED LETTERS IN LIMITED FORMAT. With signature and drawing by the author. These titles were all very handsomely published by Black Sparrow Press.

Robert Burns’ Complete Works - A Handsome Copy Illustrated With Fine Steel-Plate Engravings

Price: $1450.

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Price: $950.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK. ‘The extraordinary outbreak at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia, on the night of the 16th of October, 1859, the forcible seizure of the national Arsenal, the capture, imprisonment and killing of the people, and the almost immediate suppression and extermination of the insurgents, are events...which awakened in the public a desire to know the facts concerning the outbreak and is suppression with the trial of the leader, John Brown.’ This book is a period work, replete with illustrations, on an experience in American history, still resonating in the present time. Copies of the book rarely appear in the marketplace.

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VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. A cornerstone work of Egyptology, Carter’s rendering is the story of what must must be the most famous archaeological excavation of all time, challenged only by Schliemann’s discovery of Troy. Both awe inspiring and bewildering whenever the treasures are beheld, they are only the fruits plucked from one of the most extraordinary and exciting archeological adventures ever made. The story of the expedition remains even today as one of the great books of modern history.

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George Catlin - Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence...

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John Cheever - His First Novel - 1957

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An Exceptionally Rare Autograph Presentation Copy Signed Author of The North American Indians and The Indian Portfolio

First Edition - The Wapshot Chronicles

Catlin, George. CATLIN’S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, WITH HIS NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION... (London: by the author, 1848) 2 volumes. First Printing of Volume I and the second of Volume II. The books do not differ in size or presentation and are a matching set. Both volumes have been partnered since they were presented by Catlin to the recipient. VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN BOTH VOLUMES

BY CATLIN IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, 1848. With 24 plates after drawings by the author. 8vo, bound in the original blue cloth lettered with pictorial decorations on the upper covers in gilt and on the rear covers in blind. A fine and as pristine

copy internally, partially unopened, the bindings tight and clean, but with spines sympathetically replaced at a later date and the upper cover of Vol. II replaced to match.

RARE AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GEO. CATLIN. We can find only one other copy of this book to have appeared in recent times--the Manney-Silver copy sold some years ago in the rooms. Printed at a later date as ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM.... The publishing of these volumes celebrated the opening of Catlin’s Indian Gallery in London.

Cheever, John. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green boards backed in black cloth, the spine lettered in yellow and red, in the scarce original dustjacket. The book in fine condition, the jacket well preserved and attractive with only a bit of general mellowing and a very light evidence of use.

Original price still shows on dustjacket flap.

Romualdo Zotti’s Rare Edition of Dante A Fine and Very Handsome Set of this Influential Printing

Dante Alighieri. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA Illustrata di Note Da Romualdo Zotti [Dell Inferno; Del Purgatorio; Il Paradiso; Vita di Dante] (London: Presso di R. Zotti, 1819-1820) 3 volumes. The second of Zotti’s two rare Italian editions printed in England, revised and with expanded notes and commentary. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Dante in volume one. 8vo, full contemporary dark calf, the boards with a rolled frame in blind, the spines gilt tooled flat bands creating compartments with either gilt lettering or central gilt tooled devices. A fine and beau-

Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend - 1865 First Edition - In Handsome Antique Full Morocco

Dickens, Charles. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865) 2 volumes bound as one, retaining both original titlepages. First edition. Numerous illustrations by Marcus Stone. 8vo, in contemporary three-quarter pebble near black dark green morocco over marbled boards. The spines finely decorated with multi-ruled gilt framed compartments bordered with floral vine tools separated by raised gilt decorated bands, two compartments gilt lettered, edges marbled. A very nice and proper copy, the text very clean and fresh and solid, the binding with some

A Very Rare Early Printing of John Donne’s Poetry Poems on Several Occasions Printed in London in 1719 by Tonson

Donne, John, D.D. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS... With Elegies on the Author’s Death. To this Edition is added, Some Account of the Life of the Author. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, and Sold by W. Taylor, 1719) Very scarce and very early printing of one of the most elusive of all early English offerings of Donne’s poetry. With finely engraved pictorial head and tail pieces throughout. 8vo, antique half calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands bordered with gilt rules and with

The Grand Paradise Lost of Gustave Doré In Near Perfect Period State in Original Wrappered Parts

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[Doré, illus.] Milton, John. MILTON’S PARADISE LOST. Illustrated by Gustave Doré... (London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1881]) 25 parts, complete. Rare weekly parts issue of the Doré ‘Milton’. With the 50 magnificent plates after engravings

by Gustave Doré, issued two plates per part with captioned guards. Large folio, in the original blue paper wrappers printed in black featuring the title on the upper cover and publisher’s advertisements on the rear and inside covers. The set is now conserved in a very fine folding box. An extraordinary set, very

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FIRST EDITION OF CHEEVER’S DEBUT NOVEL, and only his third book after two collections of short stories. The novel was quick to win acclaim by critics and fellow writers such as Saul Bellow and Robert Penn Warren. It won the 1958 National Book Award. It is a somewhat autobiographical novel about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village.

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tiful set, internally as fresh, clean and solid as could be found.

The contemporary calf bindings very handsome and proper, one hinge of volume III quite tender, easily repairable.

RARE, OF ZOTTI’S TWO PRINTINGS OF DANTE THE TOTAL NUMBER LISTED IN LIBRARY HOLDINGS IS ONLY 43 COPIES, AND THIS EDITION BEING ONLY 23 OF THOSE. Of these listed, some are incomplete and most do not have the portrait of Dante.

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Price: $950.

expected age mellowing but still quite handsome.

FIRST EDITION, this was the second to last book that Dickens would write, and the last one that he would actually finish. Like most of Dickens’ work, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was published in monthly serial parts, the first in May of 1864 and the last in November of 1865. This two-volume set was released almost immediately after the issue of the final episode. An extremely well-preserved set of the first edition of one of Dickens’ final efforts.

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a red morocco lettering label gilt lettered. A very handsome and tight copy, quite clean and in good order. Only a bit of occasional spotting to the text.

RARE AND VERY DESIRABLE. AN EARLY PRINTING OF DONNE’S POETRY, ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER OF ALL ENGLISH POETS AND ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS TO OBTAIN IN AN EARLY ANTIQUARIAN PRINTING.

finely preserved, as near as new as could be reasonably wished.

Both the text and plates to Doré’s Milton are often found foxed but this set is completely clean and free of it all but for the last few text leaves of the final part and the faintest amount on the first few leaves of part one.

THE VERY SCARCE PARTS ISSUE AND THIS COPY IN A SUPERB AND BEAUTIFUL STATE OF PRESERVATION, a truly fine set of these 25 delicately wrappered parts.

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Our Little Ones Library - c 1896

Heartwarming Stories in Miniature Bindings

[Early Children’s Books; Child; Illustrated Child]; [Nister, Ernest]. [OUR LITTLE ONES LIBRARY] A LITTLE PICKLE; A SNOWFIGHT; THREE FRIENDS; LIKE GRANDPA; CAT’S CRADLE; MISS BUSY BEE (Nuremberg: Ernest Nister, ca. 1896) 6 volumes. Each volume complete with black and white sketches and full page colour chromo-lithographic illustrations. 12mo, in the original bindings of charming full-colur illustrated boards

North of Boston - A Robert Frost Classic One of the Great Works of American Poetry The First American Edition - In the Rare Dustjacket

Frost, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915) First Edition Thus, Stated Third edition but actually the second printing of the First Edition Printed in America. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and lettered in gilt within a double-ruled frame on the upper cover, in the publisher’s original dustjacket printed in black on the upper cover and spine. A fine and handsome copy, only the most minor of mellowing to the tips, the

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housed in the original illustrated fold-over chemise. RARE IN THIS COMPLETE STATE. A very well preserved and pleasing set, with only minor evidence of wear or use, and far less than might be expected.

DELIGHTFUL CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED MINIATURES. Titles include: The Little Pickle, Miss Busy Bee, Cat’s Cradle, Like Grandma, Three Friends, and the Snowfight.

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Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. A New Edition, with additional notes, by William Smith (London: John Murray, 1903) 8 volumes. With an engraved frontispiece from the famous Joshua Reynolds portrait of Gibbon and an abundance of fine large maps, many with colour. 8vo, publisher’s bright royal-blue textured cloth ruled and decorated on the covers in blind, spines lettered in gilt. A very fine set, internally fresh and clean and in excellent

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Gill, Eric. ID QUOD VISUM PLACET. A Practical Test of the Beautiful (Waltham St. Lawrence: Privately printed for the Author by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, 17 September, 1926) SCARCE LIMITED EDITION of only 150 copies hand-numbered and signed by Eric Gill at Capel-Y-Ffin, this copy being number 18. With a wood engraved title and two fine copper-engraved plates by the author, Eric Gill. 8vo, printer’s original buff boards backed in buckram, upper board

Grant, Ulysses S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition.

With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece and folding manuscript facsimile and with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and with a gilt medallion on the upper covers, with floral endpapers. A very nice and honest set, handsome and well preserved, internally clean and fresh, the green cloth still bright and unfaded, one end leaf and pastedown with separation restored in Vol. 2,, a little rubbing to the cloth along the shoulders

The First American Novel About Whaling Miriam Coffin - In Original Cloth

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Hart, Col. Joseph C. MIRIAM COFFIN, Or the Whale-Fisherman: A Tale (San Francisco: H. R. Coleman, 1872) 2 volumes in one.

A new edition, the first in one volume, the first to list Hart as the author and the first San Francisco printing. With four pages of music for “The Serenade”. 8vo, original green cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. A very fresh, bright and essentially fine copy.

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with paper lettering label printed in black, edges untrimmed.

Internally quite fine, and a well preserved copy with light mellowing to the paper and the spine. A very presentable and quite handsome copy.

QUITE SCARCE, ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY HIM. The title of Gill’s essay is the definition of beauty as given by St. Thomas Aquinas, “that which pleases by being seen”.

Ulysses S. Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil War The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned - First Edition - 1885

Price: $695.

state of preservation and as pristine. The handsome bindings with virtually no evidence of age or wear, very bright and solid and attractive.

A very handsome Victorian set of the greatest historical work ever undertaken. Adams, in his Manual of Historical Literature, states that “the superiority of this edition is very great, not simply in its material appearance, but also in its more essential characteristics.

It has excellent maps, and it embodies the notes of Milman, Guizot, and Wenck.

Id Quod Visum Placet - A Practical Test of the Beautiful

First Edition of an Eric Gill Rarity One of 150 Copies Only - Signed by Gill

Price: $1850.

jacket unusually well preserved, whole and without chipping, just a bit of wear at the fold lines and extremely minor rubbing to the spine.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. THIS ISSUE WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN AMERICA.

Gibbon’s Great Masterpiece on the Roman Empire A Fine Victorian Set in Superb Full Morocco

Price: $1250.

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Price: $750.

and extremities, very minor evidence of an old stain at the top margin of the preliminaries only of Vol. 1.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF ‘THE FINEST MEMOIRS OF WAR EVER PENNED’. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectible copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

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THE FIRST AMERICAN NOVEL ABOUT WHALING. This is an interesting association copy, having belonged to Eastman Johnson, the most respected and renown genre painter in America during the 1860s and 1870s. Johnson has singed the copy at the end of the book and written notes on sperm and right whales on the rear fly.

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Samuel Johnson - The Lives of the English Poets London - 1854 Extra Illustrated - 3 Volumes A Very Fine Set in Elaborately Decorated Morocco Gilt

Johnson, Samuel. LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS... (London: John Murray, 1854) 3 volumes. Portrait of Johnson as frontispiece and extra-illustrated with 100 engraved plates throughout all three volumes. 8vo, in a lovely richly tooled bindings by Zaehnsdorf of full morocco, the covers elaborately decorated with full gilt borders multi-ruled, enclosing arabesque tooled framework along the border decorations reaching deeply into the covers, floral tools in gilt at the corners, the spines with raised bands dividing the compartments enclosing richly and

With Rockwell Kent’s Famous Illustrations - 1930 The First Trade Issue - Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

[Kent, Rockwell, Illus.] Melville, Herman. MOBY DICK, or The Whale (New York: Random House, 1930) The First trade edition of this illustrated classic. With beautiful reproductions of Rockwell Kent’s artwork which originally appeared in the scarce Lakeside Press Limited Edition. 8vo, full black cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in silver after designs by Kent on both the upper cover and spine. A very attractive copy, the black cloth and silver embellishments are very bright and unfaded, the textblock is clean and fresh.

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fully tooled panels in gilt, lettering in gilt in two compartments.

A very nice set.

A HANDSOME SET OF THIS REVERED WORK. It took Johnson four years to write these lives, and much of their charm lies in the anecdotes and reminiscences which the author was able to provide. He spent much time in the company of men of letters and his retentive memory preserved many of the facts and criticisms which fell from their lips.

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Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer - Grove Press

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The First Authorized and Trade Edition of a Classic Work

[Lawrence, T. E.] Doughty, Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence... (London: Philip Lee Warner, for the Medici Society Ltd. and Jonathan Cape, 1921) 2 volumes. First edition with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence and the First book published by Jonathan Cape, 300 copies were offered for sale of 500 printed. Portrait frontispiece in the first volume, maps, plans, and collotype plates from the 1888 edition, including some folding. The large, cloth-backed folding map originally slipped into a pocket and now bound in at the rear. This map is rare and is generally missing. 8vo, in very fine contemporary full burgundy crushed morocco, the spines with raised bands

Miller, Henry. TROPIC OF CANCER (New York: Grove Press, 1961) First authorized and first trade edition issued in America.

With a long introduction by Karl Shapiro and a preface by Anais Nin. 8vo., publisher’s original cloth backed boards in dustjacket.

A handsome, clean and pleasing copy, some light evidence of age or shelving to the dustjacket, the book very fine.

FIRST AUTHORIZED AND FIRST TRADE EDITION ISSUED

Montgomery, Field-Marshal The Viscount. EL ALAMEIN TO THE RIVER SANGRO. NORMANDY TO THE BALTIC (London: The Arcadia Press, 1971) First Edition, One of 265 Numbered Copies only, Signed on the Title-Page by Field-Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. Illustrated with a profusion of photos, maps, and diagrams. Thick royal 8vo, publisher’s original full black crushed morocco lettered in gilt in compartments of the spine, decorated with military insignia and a facsimile of Mont-

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Olmsted, Frederick Law. A JOURNEY IN THE SEABOARD SLAVE STATES, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York: Dix and Edwards, 1856) First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and decorated in overall designs in blind on the covers and spine. A handsome copy, the cloth very well preserved with some light expected age evidence, internally very fresh and clean and crisp. The tips in quite pleasing condition and with just a little of the usually present wear, head and tailcaps in pleasing condition.

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IN AMERICA. Of the book, John Ciardi said, [it] “is a substantial work of art. The violence of Miller’s attack on orthodoxy and falseness is indispensable to his human vision of things. In [the book] the test is ferocity, a ferocious and yet naive sincerity that castigates all sham. It cannot fail to be moral finally, because the ferocity is radically moral.

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Price: $1050.

gomery’s signature on the upper cover in gilt, gilt decorated turn-ins, a.e.g., in a protective cloth slipcase. A mint copy.

FIRST EDITION, LUXURIOUSLY BOUND AND SIGNED

BY MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN. A BEAUTIFUL AND VERY FINE COPY. The first combined edition of these two works, issued on the anniversary of the battle at El Alamein.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s Journey to the Seaboard Slave States The First of His Series on the Slave Economies and States A Very Well Preserved Copy - Uncommon Thus - 1856

Price: $2850.

and lettering in gilt, gilt tooled turn-in featuring both a frame of gilt vines and gilt dentelles in Greek key, board edges gilt ruled, marbled endpapers and t.e.g. The endpapers with the manuscript ownership notation of Capt. C. Evelyn Benson, director of Lloyd’s Bank. A fine and truly handsome set, just the very lightest evidence of age to the binding edges.

RARE, AND THE COPY OF AN IMPORTANT GENTLEMAN. THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION WITH T.E. LAWRENCE’S INTRODUCTION. Published in the same format as the first edition, this important printing is the first with T. E. Lawrence’s introduction.

El Alamein to the River Sangro - Normandy to the Baltic One of 265 Copies Only - Signed

by Montgomery of Alamein First Edition Specially Bound and Presented

Price: $750.

A BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THE FIRST TRADE EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK, ILLUSTRATED BY ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS, Herman Melville’s classic nineteenth century whaling story and Rockwell Kent’s definitively twentieth century artistic style might strike one at first as an odd juxtaposition. The end-product speaks for itself however and this truly handsome book has become a classic in it own right. Fantastically rendered, it ranks among the finest of illustrated novels.

Travels in Arabia Deserta - Ch. Doughty & T. E. Lawrence An Unusually Handsome Set - With Fine Provenance ‘A Bible, A Classic, Its Completeness is Devastating’

Price: $1950.

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A VERY IMPORTANT WORK AND A VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN PLEASING CONDITION. Early in his career, the renowned landscape architect worked as a writer and journalist. He was fascinated with the American slave economy, and was hired by the New Daily Times to travel through the south and do research.

His writings on the subject were published over time, and this was the first entry of the collection which eventually concluded after the start of the Civil War. His antislavery views energized and educated his New Englander readership.

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With Original Native American Art - Signed One of 45 Copies Only - Includes the Rare Phonograph Record Rare Native American Stories Beautifully Printed Rare Native American Stories Beautifully Printed

[Native American Philosophy K’ehgosone; Talamantez, Ines; Bräm, Thüring; Mengershausen, Cornelia. K’EHGOSONE [Texts of the American Indian Translated From the Original Languages

by Ines Talamantez] (Del Mar, CA.: Ettan Press, 1975) Original art portfolio of prints laid in and including the rare phonograph record of music by Thuring Bram: “Flexagon” and “Children Songs of the American Indian.” RARE LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 45 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES OF A TOTAL PRINTING OF 51. The six additional copies were printed for the authors only. With very fine provenance, owned and from the private library of Haven O’More, one of the great collectors of the 20th century. With eight beautiful color etchings by Cor-

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nelia v. Mengershausen, each one is numbered and signed by the artist. Folio sheets and record, original thick portfolio, enclosed in a folding box of white suede with Indian weaving, slipcase is fitted with a stiff protective pocket for the 33.3 RPM phonographic disk and all are housed in the original protective case. A pristine, as mint set, the white suede with slight evidence of having been touched.

RARE FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE AND VERY SCARCE, one of only 45 copies such of a total print run of only 51. The phonograph record is of music by Thüring Bram: ‘Flexagon’, and ‘Children Songs of the American Indian.’ We know of no other complete copy that is available with the record intact.

Venice and Its Story- A Fine Copy - T. Okey - 1903 First and Limited Edition with FullPage Colour Plates

Okey, T. VENICE AND ITS STORY (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1903) First Edition, the Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies only. Profusely illustrated with 52 colour plates, 11 reproductions of paintings, 20 tinted illustrations, 31 illustrations in text by Nelly Erichsen, W. K. Hinchliff and O. F. M. Ward and with two maps, one of which is large and multi-folding. 4to, publisher’s original white buckram, the upper cover lettered in gilt and elaborately decorated in gilt all-over designs incorporating the Lion of St.Mark and the city of Venice. Spine extensively decorated and lettered in gilt. A fine copy. The white buckram

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Orwell, George. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. (London: Collins, 1947) First edition. With 8 Colour Plates and 17 black and white Illustrations. 8vo, bound in the original publisher’s illustrated boards, and with the colour dustjacket. A copy in very fine condition, the jacket with just a touch of shelving evidence.

FIRST EDITION. FROM THE BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES.

The Knave of Hearts - The Preferred Cloth Binding

Maxfield Parrish’s Spectacular Masterpiece With Brilliant Colour Illustrations Throughout

[Parrish, Maxfield, Illus.] Saunders, Louise. THE KNAVE OF HEARTS. With Pictures by Maxfield Parrish (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925) First edition and the best issue bound in cloth and oversized. Decorated with a beautiful colourplate pictorial cover, stunning pictorial endleaves and a profusion of very fine colour illustrations throughout by Maxfield Parrish.

4to, (350 x 295 mm), publisher’s original black cloth with the full size pictorial colour pastedown on the upper cover, and colour illustrated endpapers. A handsome copy with the head and tail

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe A Well Preserved Set in Original Vellum Gilt Extra

Poe, Edgar Allan. THE COMPLETE WORKS... (New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s, 1902) 10 volumes.

The Arnheim edition, one of 500 numbered sets signed by the publisher. Numerous illustrations on Japan vellum paper, decorations in text by Frederick Simpson Coburn. 8vo, finely bound in vellum and boards, the backs gilt extra and beautifully designed. A well preserved and handsome set. The spines with some mellowing or aging as is usual, the text-blocks clean and

Pogany’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Price: $175.

A FINE COPY AND QUITE A PLEASING BOOK. Colourplates and black and white illustrations and text on the English people as seen through the eyes and political ideology of George Orwell, the author of ANIMAL FARM and 1984, those brilliant satirical works on society, revolution and the crushing of freedoms. It is a book which provokes and causes one to examine one’s own thinking and beliefs.

Item Number: 30 Price: $2150. of the spine in very nice condition, some minor mellowing to the black cloth and pastedown and some bumping to the corners, otherwise very bright and clean and well preserved.

THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BRILLIANT ILLUSTRATED BOOK. Perhaps Parrish’s best work, and certainly a very scarce book in nice condition. As Parrish himself said, “The reason I wanted to illustrate THE KNAVE OF HEARTS was on account of the bully opportunity it gives for a very good time making the pictures. Quoted in Ludwig, p. 48.

Item Number: 31 Price: $3000. in excellent condition. The bindings strong and tight and clean, the corners sharp and in fine condition.

A VERY SCARCE SET, one of the nicest editions of Poe ever published. The Arnheim Book-Lover’s Edition includes very impressive illustrations printed on Japan vellum. Each volume has a decorated titlepage and limitation page printed in black and red. It contains all of the poetry and stories for which the author is so well known, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Item Number: 32 Price: $295.

[Pogany, W. illus.; Fitzgerald, Edward]. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Presented by Willy Pogany (London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d.) First edition thus. Beautifully illustrated with 16 full color tipped-in plates, exquisite decorative borders and incidental illustrations by all by Willy Pogany 8vo, publisher’s original bright honey-brown cloth elaborately decorated on the upper cover and spine with an arabesque designs and stylized lettering all in gilt. A pristine copy, very pleasing, very

well preserved, bright and clean, textblock and illustrations all in very nice condition.

A VERY HANDSOME ISSUE OF THE POGANY ILLUSTRATED RUBAIYAT. An exquisite volume in beautiful publisher’s cloth. Based on Fitzgerald’s translation, Pogany has filled each page with decorative Islamic style borders and decorations, accompanied by 16 full page tipped-in color plates. A fine example of Pogany’s work, a beauty by any definition.

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is clean but for a bit of dustiness to the upper cover, and the gilt is very bright, internal pages crisp and unblemished and the many illustrations in excellent condition, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed.

A TRULY EXQUISITE BOOK IN THE LOVELY WHITE CLOTH AND GILT BINDING, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR PAINTINGS AND TINTED DRAWINGS. RARELY SEEN IN THIS CONDITION. A comprehensive history of Venice from its earliest settlers, through its complex political, social, and religious development.

George Orwell - Illustrated Throughout - A Fine Copy The English People First Edition

Price: $5850.

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Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World - London - 1614 The Truly Rare First Edition, First Issue Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World - London - 1614 In Fine Contemporary Binding

Raleigh, Sir Walter. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (London: Printed for W. Barre, 1614) First edition, first issue, with the Errata leaf at the end. With the engraved title-page and the “Minde of the Frontispiece” leaf, and 8 double-page plates and maps as issued. Folio, very handsomely bound in the original contemporary calf, the spine sometime renewed to style in an expert and sympathetic manner, fully gilt, with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces gilt. A superior, beautiful copy, the text-block very large and barely trimmed, opening leaf with some expert

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refurbishment and strengthening, a clean, crisp and fine copy, with the covers well preserved and the spine panel beautifully accomplished and expertly restored.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF RALEIGH’S MASSIVE TOME AND A CORNERSTONE WORK IN HISTORIOGRAPHY. ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1600’s. This is the only volume published of the massive history Raleigh planned and began while in the Tower of London after the accession of James I.

Frederic Remington - Illustrator of the American West

Item Number: 34 Price: $750.

One of the Great Everest Books in Fine Condition

Item Number: 35 Price: $375.

Frontier Sketches First edition

Everest 1933 - Hugh Ruttledge

Remington, Frederic. REMINGTON’S FRONTIER SKETCHES. (Chicago: The Werner Company, [1898]) First Edition. Howes R-206, Dykes #327. With an introduction by George S. Rowe, and fifteen plates with tissue guards by Remington. Oblong small folio, original white decorated cloth. Minor cover spots and light cover soiling, but an uncommonly near fine copy.

Ruttledge, Hugh. EVEREST 1933 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934) First edition, early issue, October 1934, same as the first issue in the same binding and as the first issue. With 59 sepia full-page illustrations from the original photos, 3 diagrams in text, 4 maps (3 folding). Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A fine, handsome and clean copy.

Remington is arguably the most influential of Western American artists who ever lived. This book was published near the pinnacle of his career and contains some of his best works thus far. George S. Rowe’s introduction describes how Remington captures the Romantic image of the Indian as a fighter, and a natural fixture of a frontier that is now gone, preserved only in art and imagination.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. A SCARCE ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST TREKS UP EVEREST, SCARCE IN SUCH EXCELLENT CONDITION. This is the story of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, led by Hugh Ruttledge, the author, and describes one of the earliest attempts made to climb Mount Everest.

Henry Savage-Landor’s Across Widest Africa - 1907 The First Journey Across “Widest Africa” First Edition - A Very Pleasing and Handsome Set

Savage-Landor, A. Henry. ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as Seen During a Twelve Month’s Journey From Djibuti to Cape Verde (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1907) 2 volumes.

First edition. With 160 illustrations from photographs and a large color folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered and ruled on the spines and covers.

A very pleasing, well preserved and handsome set, the cloth

Kenilworth: A Romance - Sir Walter Scott - 1821 A Very Fine Copy of the Scarce First Edition A Novel of Kenilworth Castle - Following Ivanhoe by a Year

[Scott, Sir Walter]. KENILWORTH; A Romance (Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, 1821) 3 volumes. First edition, First Issue. 8vo, beautifully bound in fine contemporary calf, the spines with raised bands gilt, compartments fully gilt decorated, contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt letterd, the covers with gilt stippled frames surrounding decorated central panels rolled in blind,

Item Number: 37 Price: $750. corner pieces of the panels in blind, edges marbled, end-leaves marbled. Slight wear to the spines, though fine, tight copies with all half titles.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK WHICH FOLLOWED IVANHOE BY A YEAR. Finely bound in full period calf, gilt extra. A novel of Kenilworth Castle with much ado about the Elizabethan Court in the time of Shakespeare.

South - A Core Work in Antarctic Literature The Scarce First American Issue Shackleton’s Expedition of 1914-1917

Shackleton, Ernest. SOUTH: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917 (New York: Macmillan Company, 1920) First American Edition. With a color frontispiece, 87 illustrations from photos and drawings, and a folding map at the rear.

Tall 8vo, original ribbed green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and cover. An unusually bright and fine copy, the green cloth

Item Number: 38 Price: $2250. unfaded and fresh, the text fine indeed.

ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE SOUTH POLAR OEUVRE. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EPICS IN THE HISTORY OF ANTARCTIC TRAVEL AND ONE OF THE MOST HARROWING TALES EVER PENNED OF RESCUE AND HUMAN TRIUMPH.

Wallace Stegner - Inscribed and Signed First Edition One Nation - Boston - 1945 - ‘To Jinny... with love’

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Stegner, Wallace, and the editors of Look. ONE NATION (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945) First Edition, Affectionately and very personally INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER “For Jinny, with gratitude and (whisper) love. Wally Stegner...Breadloaf, Aug. 26, 1946”. Jinny was close to Stegner for many years.

Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. 8vo,

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clean and very solid, quite fresh but for the lightest evidence of shelving, internally solid and clean, the plates and folding map in excellent order.

SCARCE. This is the account of the first journey taken across Africa at its widest point with “pleasure as its sole object,” covering over 8,500 miles in a space of 364 days. Like much of Savage-Landor’s work, these two volumes have since become fixtures in any collection of Africana.

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publisher’s original beige boards, the spine lettered in brown and orange. A nice copy with some subtle age mellowing.

A HANDSOME COPY OF THIS INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. A LIFE-IN-AMERICA PRIZE BOOK. The Editors of LOOK produced this book as a concerned response to a growing wave of intolerance and prejudice.

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The Big Rock Candy Mountain - New York - 1943

Item Number: 40 Price: $2450.

Stegner, Wallace. THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN (New York: Duell,Sloan, and Pearce, 1943) First Edition, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STEGNER “For Jinny ...Wally”. Jinny was a very personal friend of many years. She and Stegner remained in touch with one another and were close for decades. 8vo, publisher’s original rust boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy but for some subtle mellowing or evidence of age to the spine tips and wear to the jacket. The jacket

does have some significant chipping to the spine panel.

A FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT STEGNER TITLE. THE RECIPIENT WAS A PERSONAL FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR’S FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. In every sense this is a “big” book. It was the author’s big book, it was a big source book for the author’s ongoing writing. It is big in the sweep of its canvas through the developing West from Nevada to Saskatchewan.

Wallace Stegner Inscribed and Signed First Edition

The Confessions of Nat Turner - First Edition A Presentation Copy Signed by William Styron

Styron, William. THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER. (New York,: Random House, 1967) First Edition. This copy is a presentation copy inscribed and signed in full by Styron dated Oct. 21, 1967. A Pulitzer Prize winner. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth in the dustjacket. A fine fresh copy in a fine jacket minus a small crease to the dust jacket flap.

Item Number: 41 Price: $750.

FIRST EDITION AND A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; it also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of slavery.

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King - 1859 The Scarce First Edition - A Morte D’Arthur Classic

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. IDYLLS OF THE KING (London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859) First edition, first issue, and with the ads in first state. 8vo, publisher’s original olive green ribbed cloth, blindstamped on the covers and gilt-lettered on the spine.

Internally a fine copy, the textblock uncommonly fresh and bright with little sign of use, the cloth also well preserved and attractive but for the rear hinge which is split but is easily repairable.

Item Number: 42 Price: $550.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. An expansion of Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur,” THE IDYLLS OF THE KING was well received, and helped to restore Tennyson’s popularity after the critical failure of his previous volume of poems.

The Creation of the Modern Nation of Egypt Inscribed by the Author - A Copy With Superb Provenance Given to a Highly Important Official in Africa - First Edition

White, Arthur Silva. THE EXPANSION OF EGYPT UNDER ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONDOMINIUM (London: Methuen and Company, 1899) First Edition, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE, the famous Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria. His role was similar to that of Cecil Rhodes elsewhere in Africa though he lacked Rhodes’ thirst for publicity. With outlines and tables and four large folding maps printed in colour. 8vo, original red cloth lettered

Item Number: 43 Price: $325. and decorated on the spine in gilt, the upper cover with gilt rule and decorated with Arabic symbols. A very handsome and bright copy, the textblock unusually clean and appearing as pristine, just a hint of very minor and occasional aging, the cloth especially well preserved and bright with no fading and no real wear.

FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE HERO OF THE NATIONAL AFRICAN COMPANY SIR GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE, DATED 1899.

Signature of Whittier Included with Warm Inscription A Fine and Bright Copy in the Original Cloth

Whittier, John Greenleaf. SNOW-BOUND: A WINTER IDYL. (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.) With a mounted signature of Whittier after the title-page “Always thy friend, John G. Whittier”. First Edition, the second issue with the last page unnumbered. Currier, p.98. Grolier-English; American Hundred #73. One of the few American books to have the distinction to appear both on the Grolier English Hundred and the American Hundred. 12mo, original cloth, now enclosed in open faced box.

A Fine and bright copy.

SNOW-BOUND is a grand narrative poem, the events of the poem take place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire.

Oscar Wilde’s Last and Most Poignant Work The Ballad of Reading Gaol One of 800 Copies Only - The True First Edition - 1898

[Wilde, Oscar]. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL BY C.3.3.

(London: Leonard Smithers, 1898) First edition, one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter buff cloth over mustard coloured cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy, only a hint of mellowing to the buff cloth.

Item Number: 45 Price: $2950.

THE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON FINE, HANDMADE PAPER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde’s last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time, the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work.

An Anthology of Sixty Years of The New Republic

Item Number: 46 Price: $75.

Zwick, Edward (editor). LITERATURE AND LIBERALS: An Anthology of Sixty Years of The New Republic; With an Introduction by Irving Howe. (Washington DC: The New Republic Book Company, 1976) First Edition. 8vo, original red cloth over boards, spine lettered in black and gilt, upper cover with

publisher’s device in blind, in the original dustjacket. An essentially pristine copy in the dustjacket.

Includes: Robert Frost, Edmund Wilson, W.H.Auden, Anne Sexton, Ernest Hemingway, Lionel Trilling, Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty and many others.

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