Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
by Eliot, George
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Near Fine. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 197 x 122 mm.). [6], 364 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements, [4,unnumbered ads for the third edition of “Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle"] pp. Original cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter A, no priority established) with covers decoratively paneled in blind... Read More
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The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters (in 2 vols.)
by [Bible in English]
London: R. Bowyer, 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages (with a separate title-page for the New Testament) and sixty-two plates (including two frontispieces) from the works of Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, and others. Lower corner... Read More
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The Spanish Pole-Cat: or, the Adventures of Seniora Rufina..
by [Erotic Literature] Castillo Soloranzo, Alonso de
London: Printed for E. Curll in Fleet Street, 1717. First thus. Contemporary full calf with gilt label to spine. All edges speckled red. Measuring 155 x 90mm and collating complete including frontis and terminal advertisement: [4], 394, [2]. Shelfwear to extremities and slight bowing to boards. Contemporary annotations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers with portions of... Read More
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The Petticoat: An Heroi-comical Poem. In two books
by [Erotic Literature] [Chute, Francis]
London: R. Burleigh [false imprint for E. Curll], 1716. First edition. Bound to style in quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. All edges marbled. Measuring 185 x 112mm and collating complete including half title: [4], iii, [1, blank], 39, [1, blank]. With catchword 'behold' on page 27 and floral ornament above 'Finis' on page 39 as... Read More
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Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino. Ex Benedictine Nun
by [Erotic Literature] [Caracciolo, Henrietta]
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First English language edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 179 x 119mm and collating complete including photographic frontis: x, 374. A square, tight copy with some loss to upper spine label and gentle rubbing to boards. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light scattered... Read More
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A Collection of Travels Thro' Various Parts of the World...Containing an Accurate Account of the Religion, Laws, Manners, Commerce, and Constitution of Many Different Nations (in 2 vols.)
by [Erotic Literature] Derrick, Samuel
London: John Wilkie, 1762. First edition. With title page of volume II erroneously dated MDCCXII as called for by ESTC. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, measuring 168 x 100mm and collating complete: [20], 338; [12], 324. A square copy with joints professionally renewed; some chipping to spine labels and gentle shelfwear to boards. Faint dampstaining to lower corner... Read More
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The Golden Book of St. John Chrysostom, Concerning the Education of Children. Translated out of the Greek
by [Evelyn, John] J.E., Esq
London: B.M. for G. Bedel and T. Collins, 1659. First edition. Twelvemo measuring 90 x 140mm (pages). Collates complete: [48], 90, [6]. Internally a pleasing copy, trimmed a bit close along the header but always retaining the page number and running titles. Small closed tear to lower margin of A6; some light marginal soiling on occasion, not affecting text.... Read More
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Handwritten and Illustrated Friendship Album
by [Commonplace Book] Evelyn
Scotland; United States, 1928. Oblong album measuring 135 x 185mm and containing 79 handwritten pages and 16 original illustrations. Presented to Evelyn by her father, the album opens with a hand-drawn bookplate and dedication; entries from friends, most from Aberdeen, are dated across five years and document Evelyn's time in school and in her early work. A research rich... Read More
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Adventures of a London Doll...Written by Herself
by Fairstar, Mrs. (illustrated by Miss Margaret Gillies)
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Second edition. Very Good +. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Light rubbing to boards and spine, and gentle bumps to corners. Marbled endpapers. Early ownership signature of Emma Billings Hathaway to front endpaper. Frontis a bit loose at bottom corner but holding well; first signature a bit proud.... Read More
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Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville versus...Ellen Sears Grand d'Hauteville. Habeas Corpus for the Custody of an Infant Child
by [Family Law] [Women's Rights] [Sears, Ellen]
Philadelphia: W. S. Martien, 1840. First edition. [bound with] The Petition of Henry C. De Rham, to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, To Except Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville, From the Operation of the Law 'To Secure the Fulfillment of Certain Contracts and for the Relief of Married Women in Certain Cases.' Together with a Remonstrance of Ellen... Read More
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Memoirs of the Nobility, Gentry &c. of Thule: or, The Island of Love. Being a Secret History of Their Amours, Artifices, and Intrigues (in 2 vols.)
by [Erotic Literature] [Sex Work] Fantosme
London: Printed for W. Webb, 1742. First edition. Bound to style in 19th century sheep with morocco and gilt to spines. Measuring 168 x 96mm and with occasional mispagination but collating complete: xxiv, 300; [2], 336. Some offsetting to preliminary and terminal leaves and occasional light foxing and marginal chips not affecting text; discreet archival repairs to short tear... Read More
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Soldier's Pay
by Faulkner, William
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good only dust jacket. Book clean and fresh, with a small Nashville bookseller's label on the rear paste-down. Dust jacket only Very Good on account of some moderate chipping at the spine ends and corners, one inch tear... Read More
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To a Co-Ed" in Ole Miss. The Yearbook of the University of Mississippi. Volume XXIV
by [Faulkner, William]
[Oxford, Mississippi], 1920. First edition. Embossed sheep over card, stamped in gilt to front board. Marbled endpapers. A bit of rubbing and shelfwear to covers; spine cracked and several signatures loose but in all holding well. Ownership stamp to front pastedown. Internally a pleasing example, with minimal wear and no marking. A Fine copy of this scarce piece, which... Read More
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The Wild Palms (Signed Limited Edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. About Fine. Octavo, with burgundy quarter cloth over wood-grain papered boards. Copy 148 of two hundred fifty copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Slightest bit of chipping to edges, otherwise Fine. A clean, square and bright copy of this literary classic. Consisting of two interwoven short stories with... Read More
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Pylon (Signed limited edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. First edition. Near Fine. Octavo. Original blue cloth over silver boards with blue airplane stamped on the front board, silver top-stain. Number 133 of 310 signed limited copies, with the signed limitation page in the rear. A Near Fine copy of the book with the spine faded, minor rubbing... Read More
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Number 210 of 750 copies of the signed limited edition. A Fine book in a Near Fine example of the publisher's acetate dust jacket with minor chipping to the corners and spine ends of the acetate jacket. "This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel Sanctuary was written... Read More
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The Unvanquished (Signed limited edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, original half burgundy cloth and patterned paper boards, top edge gilt. Number 164 of two hundred fifty signed copies. Complete with author's signature on the limitation page. A Near Fine copy of the book with the spine a bit faded and a previous owner's stamp on the half-title,... Read More
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A Fable (Signed limited edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing, one of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by William Faulkner. Publisher's blue cloth. Top edge dark blue. Some toning to endpapers at gutter and some offsetting from title-page to facing blank. Publisher's glassine dust jacket quite chipped, with back panel separating. Some dustsoiling and shelfwear to... Read More
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The Sound and the Fury
by Faulkner, William
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book with a bright white spine, previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down and just slight toning and wear at extremities. Jacket with the spine well faded, as usual, and a... Read More
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Number 9 of 750 copies of the signed limited edition. Book in Near Fine condition with spine a trifle faded at the base and a previous owner's stamp on the half-title, otherwise quite fresh. In a Near Fine example of the publisher's acetate dust jacket with a small... Read More
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Go Down, Moses and Other Stories
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1942. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, fresh and unread. Primary binding in black cloth, stamped in red and gilt and with a deep red topstain. Original bookstore ticket on the rear pastedown. In a price-clipped dust jacket that is otherwise in Near Fine condition with just minimal wear at... Read More
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A Fable
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1954. First trade edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. First printing, in the first issue dust jacket with "8/54" at the bottom of the front panel. Publisher's red cloth boards. Jacket with a bit of abrasion to edges, but still an excellent example, retaining its bright blues. A Fable, which... Read More
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Women's Suffrage. A Short History of a Great Movement
by Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1912. First edition. Fine. Small octavo (measures 165 x 107mm). Original green publisher's cloth binding with spine and front board lettered in black. A clean, square, tight copy. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers, else internally a surprisingly fresh, clean-margined copy. Well represented institutionally but uncommon in trade, this... Read More
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Infantine Stories; in Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables
by Fenwick, Eliza
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Early edition. Very Good. Twelvemo. 144 pp. With six copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary quarter roan over drab boards. Spine titled and ruled in gilt. Edgewear, mostly to corners. Contemporary ink inscription, "Schoolroom Eatington" (?), to front pastedown. Tear to center of one plate with minor loss to part of... Read More
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A Little Book of Western Verse (With Autograph Poem)
by Field, Eugene
Chicago: [self published], 1889. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies printed for subscribers, this number 139. Signed by the printer, John Wilson & Son before the list of subscribers. Exquisitely bound by Ringer Bindery (Chicago) in full crushed blue morocco, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Ruled in gilt with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and... Read More
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