The Works of Anatole France (Signed Limited Edition in 30 vols.)
by France, Anatole
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. Autograph Edition. Limited to 1,075 copies signed by the author, of which this is number 1,053. Thirty volumes (6 x 8 3/4 inches) occupying approximately 47 inches of shelf space. Bound by Stikeman for Charles Scribner's Sons in 3/4 crushed blue morocco over cloth, five raised bands, and gilt ruling to spines and boards.... Read More
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The Rival Roses; or Wars of York and Lancaster
by Francis, Eliza S.
London: Printed for the author; Sold by J.J. Stockdale, 1813. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. [4], 209, [4, ads]; 163, [1, errata], 8 [publisher's catalogue] pp. Original drab boards with cream paper spine. Soiling to boards. Paper spine labels mostly rubbed away. Volume one lacks front free endpaper. Edges untrimmed. Remarkably clean and bright throughout. A Very Good,... Read More
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Coila's Whispers
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); William Fraser
London: F. Harvey, 1872. Second edition. Number 6 of 50 copies printed. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm.). [ii blank], vi, 160, [i], [3 blank]. Etched half-title drawing by William M. Thackeray. Five full-page etchings on india paper by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son (stamp signed on verso of front... Read More
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The Works of John Galsworthy (Signed Limited Edition in 30 vols.)
by Galsworthy, John
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Manaton Edition. Near Fine. Limited to 780 sets signed by the author, of which this is number 36. Thirty volumes (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches) occupying approximately 50 1/2 inches of shelf space. Finely bound by Stikeman for Charles Scribner's Sons, in 3/4 green crushed morocco stamped in gilt to spines... Read More
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Inscribed first edition)
by García Márquez, Gabriel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition in English. Near Fine/Very Good+. Warmly inscribed on the dedication page by Gabriel García Márquez to actress Samantha Eggar, with a doodle of a flower: "Una flor para Samantha, de su amigo, Gabriel - 2000" ("A flower for Samantha, from your friend"). A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust... Read More
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Le Diable a Paris. (in 2 vols). Paris et les Parisiens. Mœurs et coutumes, caractèes et portraits des habitants de Paris, tableau complet de leur vie privée, publique, politique, artistique, littéraire, industrielle, etc., etc. Texte par MM. George dDe Balzac, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, Méry, A. Juncetis, Gérard de Nerval, Arsène Houssaye, Albert Aubert, Théophile Gautier, Octave Feuillet, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Bérat, précédé d’une Histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée. Illustrations Les Gens de Paris, Séries de gravures avec légendes par Gavarni. Paris comique, vignettes par Bertall. Vues, monuments, édifices particuliers, lieux célèbres et principaux aspects de Paris par Champin, Bertrand, d’Aubigny, Français
by [Gavarni and others, illustrators]
Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm.). Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities, head of spine of Volume... Read More
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book without any signs of previous ownership, a bright, clean copy. Book with a faint musty odor. Jacket with only slight rubbing and wear at the spine ends and extremities. First issue dust jacket retaining original price... Read More
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good + dust jacket. Book without any signs of previous ownership, a bright, clean copy. Paper-covered boards and dust jacket with a little rubbing to extremities, spine of dust jacket faded to blue. First issue dust jacket... Read More
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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First printing in matte boards with a single signature and original dust jacket, priced at 200/200. A Near Fine copy of the book with trivial bumping, soiling and wear to board edges. Small bump to the top of the spine. No previous ownership markings or soiling to... Read More
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (in 6 vols.)
by Gibbon, Edward
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1788. First editions. First state of volume one (with all errata uncorrected and cancels as called for). Six volumes, quarto (volume one 264 x 213 mm., others 271 x 216 mm.) Modern full speckled calf to style. One volume with the book label of Dr. Sydney Ross (1915 - 2013),... Read More
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The "Bab" Ballads (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; W. S. Gilbert
London: John Camden Hotten [and] George Routledge and Sons, 1872. First editions. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 184 x 133 mm. [&] 7 x 5 3/8 inches; 179 x 137 mm.). ix, [2], 14-222, [4, adv.]; viii, [1], 14-224, [4. adv.] pp. Black and white frontispieces with original tissue guards, black and white text illustrations... Read More
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![[Bible in English]. [Reproduction of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of] The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the authorized version of King James I. With decorations by Eric Gill](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/106/732/1337732106.0.m.jpg)
[Bible in English]. [Reproduction of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of] The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the authorized version of King James I. With decorations by Eric Gill
by Gill, Eric (illustrator)
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton at the September Press, 1988. First Thus. Fine. Limited to 600 copies, this being one of 480 unnumbered examples. Full black buckram by The Fine Bindery Limited. Spine with tan morocco label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher's, felt-lined cream buckram slipcase. Folio (13 x 9 1/4 inches; 330 x 235... Read More
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Human Work (the Author's copy)
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. First edition. Very Good. With the ownership signature of Charlotte Perkins Gilman ("C.P. Gilman"), her address (380 Washington St in Norwich, Connecticut, where she and her husband Houghton Gilman lived from 1922 to 1934), and the date ("Aug 8th 1931") in ink to front flyleaf. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth titled in... Read More
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The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture
by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New York: Charlton Company, 1911. First edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth with brown paper spine label. A bit of soiling to lower board and some rubbing to head and tail of spine. Contemporary ink ownership inscription (Emily P. Evans) to preliminary blank. A bit of foxing. A Very Good copy. In Gilman’s words, the Androcentric Theory supposes that men... Read More
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Thyrza. A Tale (in 3 vols.)
by Gissing, George
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1887. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 185 x 125mm and collating complete with half titles to all volumes and publisher's adverts to rear of final volume: [6], 291, [1]; [6], 316; [6], 298, [2, adverts]. A Very Good copy with minor bumps to extremities;... Read More
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A Jury of Her Peers (Signed limited edition)
by Glaspell, Susan
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine, bright copy in original publisher's wraps; internally fresh and unmarked. A Jury of Her Peers is the short-story adaptation of Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles (1916), in which two women unravel the truth behind a murder—that... Read More
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A Gentleman Volunteer: The Letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812-1813
by Glover, Michael (editor)
London: Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Large octavo (9 3/16 x 6 inches; 234 x 152 mm.). Collating [8], 181, [1, blank]. One of twenty-five copies signed (on the half-title) by Michael Glover and Sir Antony Read and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full black morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, front cover with an... Read More
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (in 12 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Thus. The Wakefield Edition, limited to 500 numbered sets, this being copy 468, with frontispieces to volumes I-VIII signed by the artists. Twelve large octavo volumes (9 13/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 248 x 163 mm.) occupying approximately 16 1/2 inches (42 cm.) of shelf space. Bound by MacDonald (stamp-signed) in contemporary... Read More
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (in 10 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First Thus. The Turk's Head Edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered sets (this being #552), signed by the publisher. Ten octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 6 inches; 220 x 150 mm.) occupyingapproximately 19 inches (49 1/4 cm of shelf space) Contemporary full green crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively panelled in gilt, with cream morocco... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield (in 2 vols.)
by Goldsmith, Oliver
Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins for F. Newbery, 1766. First edition. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in full crushed morocco ornately stamped in gilt to spine and boards. All edges gilt. Inner dentelles gilt. Blue coated endpapers. Measuring 155 x 90mm and collating complete: [2], 214; [2], 223, [1, blank]. A first edition plagued by misprints and errors,... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows (Signed limited edition)
by Grahame, Kenneth; Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator)
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. First thus. Fine/Near Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the illustrator, Ernest H. Shepard. Bound in publisher's full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf in the publisher's printed slipcase. Illustrated in color throughout by Shepard, with illustrated map endpapers and a title-page vignette. Some sunning to spine, but still a lovely, Fine copy, bright... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows
by Grahame, Kenneth
London: Methuen and Co, 1908. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy of the book in the publisher's original green cloth binding, stamped in gilt. Minor wear at the spine ends, short one inch split to rear inner hinge, faint ghost from removed article on front free end paper, but generally in excellent condition... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows (Limited edition)
by Grahame, Kenneth; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
London: Methuen & Co, 1951. First thus. Very Good +. One Hundredth Edition", number 361 of 500 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. A Very Good+ copy. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 298 x 235 mm.). [2, blank], xii, 178 pp. Twelve mounted color plates (including frontispiece), twelve black and white vignette chapter headings, and... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows (Signed limited edition)
by Grahame, Kenneth; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. First thus. Limited to 2,020 numbered copies (this copy being No. 1315), signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. A very fine, partially uncut copy. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 289 x 207 mm.). [2], 244, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates. Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards.... Read More
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Poems of the Chase
by Graham, Sir Reginald (compiler)
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. First edition. Fine. Small quarto (8 3/16 x 6 5/8 inches; 208 x 169 mm.). viii, 135, [1,] pp. Bound for Hatchards ca. 1912 (most likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe) in full brick morocco, covers richly decorated in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt... Read More
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