The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts in his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke
by Homer; George Chapman, translator
London: printed [by Richard Field and William Jaggard] for Nathaniell Butter, 1616. First complete edition. Very Good +. Folio (272 x 183 mm) in two parts: [26], 341, [9]; [12], 193, [1], 195-349, 352-376, [2] pp. Collating complete aside from three blanks (2G8 in the Iliad; R8 and 2I8 in the Odyssey). Finely bound by Riviere & Son... Read More
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Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Held at Hartford, September 9, 1870
by [Hooker, Isabella Beecher]
Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. First edition. Near Fine. Tracts of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association No. 2. Original printed self-wraps stitched at spine. 24 pages. Toning to front wrap; light chipping to outer edge of rear wrap and a small split at lower joint holding well. Signed in type on the rear by Isabella... Read More
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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover (Presentation copies in 3 vols.)
by Hoover, Herbert
New York: Macmillan, 1952. First editions. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing of volume 1, first printings of volumes 2 & 3. Three octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 232 x 155 mm.). xii, 496; xiv, 405, [1, blank]; xvi, 503, [1, blank] pp. The three volumes containing 26 black & white photogravure plates. Each volume inscribed... Read More
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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims...Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann
by Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
Boston: Printed for the Author...For Sale by Cupples, Upham & Co, 1883. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Some fraying to head and tail of spine. Some dampstaining and contemporary markings to endpapers: 1886 ink ownership signature and two early colored pencil signatures, as well as an American Merchant Marine Library (Boston,... Read More
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Keystone Normal School Course Notebook
by [Women in Education] Fannie S. Hottenstein
Kutztown, PA, 1890. Quarter roan over marbled boards measuring 8 x 6.25 inches and comprised of 73 pages of manuscript text (including a mixture of notes passed between friends on the verso of the final leaf and on the rear pastedown). Spine largely perished with boards and textblock held together by cords. Several leaves neatly excised towards rear. Containing... Read More
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Sex and Education
by Howe, Julia Ward (editor)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. First Edition. Very Good +. Original brick publisher's cloth binding stamped in blind with gilt to spine. Shelfwear to crown and foot of spine with some loss to cloth; gentle rubbing to boards and corners. Joints cracked but still holding well. Coated brown endpapers. Previous ownership signature of Frank X. Henke on front endpaper.... Read More
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Back Street (Signed Limited Edition)
by Hurst, Fannie
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1931. First edition. One of 250 signed copies. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Half morocco with gilt on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. In all, a lovely copy of this important post-WWI novel. A prolific novelist and short story writer, Hurst's work was highly popular in the years after World War I. "Back Street... Read More
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Everybody's Pepys
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Samuel Pepys; Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator)
London: Bell and Sons, 1927. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). [xxiv], 570 pp. Fifty-seven full-page black and white plates and three text drawings. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1927 (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full medium blue morocco with a very ornate multi-fillet gilt frame enclosing a vari-colored morocco onlaid illustration with... Read More
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![George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper [Bound with:] The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/076/010/1702010076.0.m.jpg)
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper [Bound with:] The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] George Cruikshank (illustrator)
London: David Bogue, 1854. First edition. Small quarto (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 170 x 127 mm.). [1-5], 6-31, [1, blank]; [1-5], 6-32. Twelve etched plates. Bound with: George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk (London: George Routledge and Sons, [ca. 1870]). Later edition. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in full dark blue... Read More
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The Haggadah
by [Fine Binding - Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Arthur Szyk (illustrator)
Jerusalem [and] Tel Aviv: Published by "Massadah" and "Alumoth, 1957. Later trade edition. A special copy of the 1957 trade edition bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in the deluxe full morocco binding of the original edition of 1939. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 268 x 210 mm). Printed in black, sanguine, purple, blue, red, and green... Read More
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Cooking School, Grace Institute
by [Cookery] [Immigration]
New York: Grace Institute, 1900. First edition. Good. Manuscript journal.170 x 205 mm. [107] pp., neatly and clearly written in ink (plus four pages in pencil), with three mimeographed recipes pasted in. With the name Johanna Mundorff and the date "Mar 7, 1900" in ink to title-page. Flexible waxed cloth over paper wrappers, detached, with front wrapper partially... Read More
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Tales of a Traveller. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (in 2 vols.)
by Irving, Washington
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Near Fine. This British edition, which includes five pieces not present in the American edition, was published in on August 25, 1824. Though volume one of the American edition had been published by Carey & Lea on August 23, volume two was not published until October of that year (Bowden). The complete... Read More
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Ramona. A Story
by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. Near Fine. Original green publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt on the spine and black and gilt on the front board. Floral endpapers. A Near Fine copy with a bit of faint spotting to the boards and lower corners gently bumped. Contemporary gift inscriptions to the front endpaper and occasional marginal foxing,... Read More
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The Madonna of the Future
by James, Henry. Jim Dine (photographer)
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. First Thus. Fine. Publisher's cloth binding in Fine condition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Jim Dine, this being copy number 180. Quarto (12 1/4 x 8 3/4 in; 311 x 220 mm). Complete, including one photogravure by Jim Dine. Originally appearing in The Atlantic Monthly in March 1873, James' The... Read More
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A Dictionary of the English Language (in 2 vols.)
by Johnson, Samuel
London: W. Strahan, 1755. First edition. Two large folio volumes (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 422 x 251 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces. Title-pages with light staining, first title-page (A1) with an early faded ink inscription at foot of page and small expert repairs to the fore and... Read More
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Commonplace book of a Victorian woman refusing to perform as "angel in the house
by [Commonplace] [Women's Social History] Victoria Jones
East Coast, US, 1862. Morocco stamped in gilt, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches and containing thirteen manuscript pages in a variety of hands with entries from women and men living in East Coast states including New York and Vermont. A somewhat celebratory, somewhat satirical collection of contributions dedicated, ironically, to a woman named Victoria who, unlike the queen, insisted... Read More
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Ulysses
by Joyce, James
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. Very Good +. One of 750 copies on handmade paper, from the wider First edition limitation of 1000 copies. This copy marked as number 482. Modern blue half morocco gilt over marbled boards, bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to front pastedown. Front free endpaper with some marginal restoration, a few... Read More
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Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First trade edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Contemporary owner's name and bookplate on the front endpapers, some foxing to the closed text-block and to the early and late leaves. Price-clipped dust jacket with the yellow titling faded, minor chips and tears,... Read More
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Joyce, James
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy with bright gilt on the spine. Shelfwear to extremities. Front inner hinge starting, but holding. Some offsetting to front endpaper and early ownership signature to front pastedown. Page 16 with slight skinning affecting several lines of text. Joyce's first novel recounts the... Read More
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Joyce, James
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy with minor shelfwear to extremities. Spine toned. Rear inner hinge tender, but holding. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Joyce's first novel recounts the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus, the artistic alter-ego of Joyce himself. Stephen grows... Read More
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Maria Menzikoff and Fedor Dolgoronki. A Russian Tale Founded on Fact..
by [Juvenile]
London: J. Bailey, 1800. First edition in English. Modern card wrappers, measuring 173 x 105mm and collating complete including frontis: [2], 28. Bookplate of children's collector Albert Howard to recto of rear wrap. 3.75 inch tear along title, repaired along verso; some toning along fore-edge of text block and outer margins. A scarce and delicate piece which does not... Read More
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The History of Japan: Giving an Account of The antient and present State and Government of that Empire
by Kaempfer, Engelbertus; J.G. Scheuchzer (translator)
London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward… and Charles Davis, 1728. Second edition in English. Near Fine. London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward… and Charles Davis, 1728. Second edition in English and the first to include the Appendix on the 1673 English voyage to Japan. The first English edition was published... Read More
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Critik der reinen Vernunft
by Kant, Immanuel
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781. First edition. Very Good +. First edition, an uncut copy, of one of the most influential philosophy books ever published: Kant himself (very modestly) judged the work as comparable with the Copernican heliocentric revolution. Octavo (215 x 129 mm), pp. [xxiv], 856. Wood-engraved title vignette, wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled... Read More
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (In Two Volumes)
by Kavanagh, Julia
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, with gilt to spine and top edges. Mild shelfwear to extremities and small split to the crown of Vol I holding well. Marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Robert Heysham Sayre, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1824-1907) and the ownership signature... Read More
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The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue
by Kay, R.
New Castle: M. Angus & Son, 1801. First edition. Featuring eight woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Nineteenth century pebbled cloth with gilt to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Corners gently bumped and some bubbling to cloth of front board; rear hinge a bit tender and rear pastedown faintly soiled. Internally pleasing, with some offsetting to the title page and occasional light... Read More
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