A Gallery of Children (Signed limited edition)
by Milne, A. A.; Henriette Willebeek Le Mair (illustrator)
London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1925. First edition. Near Fine. Edition Deluxe, number 32 of 500 copies (of which 485 are for sale), numbered and signed by the author. A Near Fine copy. Large quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 317 x 256 mm.). [2, blank], 105, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color pictorial title and twelve color... Read More
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Now We Are Six
by Milne, A.A.; E.H. Shepard, Illustrator
London: Methuen & Co, 1927. First edition. Near Fine. Deluxe issue in the publisher's green morocco binding. All edges gilt. With the original ribbon bookmark. Spine a bit rubbed at head and tail of spine. Endpapers lightly toned, otherwise very bright and clean throughout. Lacking the rare original box. Overall a Near Fine copy of the desirable and... Read More
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Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes
by Milton, John
London: Printed by J. M. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstree, near Temple Bar, 1671. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy overall, bound in early 20th century full crushed morocco with simple blind-rules and small gilt fleurons in the corners. Decorative gilt turn-ins and all edges gilt, plain end papers. Leaves measure 175 x... Read More
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The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated)
by [Milton, John]
New York and London: [Chiswick Press], 1900. Near Fine. Two small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [i]-lxiv, [1]-337, [1, imprimateur]; [i]-xvi, [1]-387, [1, blank] pp. Title-pages printed in black and red, extra-illustrated by the insertion of twelve engraved plates, including four hand-colored, all with tissue-guards, with a life of John Milton. Handsomely... Read More
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Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes
by [Fine Binding - Alfred de Sauty] John Milton
London: John Starkey, 1680. Second edition. Fine. With a separate title-page for Samson Agonistes. Octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 165 x 108 mm.). [1]-132, [4 publisher's catalog] pp. A8-G8, I4. Leaf A1 with license printed verso before title. Bound ca. 1900 by Alfred De Sauty (stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full brown morocco... Read More
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Our Village (Fine binding)
by Mitford, Mary Russell; Hugh Thomson, illustrator
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in full brown crushed morocco. Gilt detailing to front board and spine. Top-edge gilt. Binding in excellent condition overall. A previous owner's inscription on the first blank (and a bookplate on the verso of front end paper). Slight foxing internally, mostly at the early and late leaves.... Read More
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Making a Business Woman
by Monroe, Anne Shannon
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1912. First edition. Near Fine. Original red publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt and a bit of sunning to the spine. Lacking the scarce jacket. Internally clean and unmarked with the exception of an early ownership signature to front pastedown. Retaining the two page publisher's adverts at rear featuring "New Books Primarily... Read More
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Twenty Years in Assam; Further Leaves from Assam; Autumn Leaves from Assam; [and] Stray Leaves from Assam (Family presentation copy)
by Moore, [Jessie Traver]
Nowgong, Assam, India: Published by Mrs. P.H. Moore, 1916. First edition. Near Fine. All four volumes of Jessie Traver Moore's travel accounts of India, with one volume inscribed by Moore to her father on his birthday. Each volume is one of 500 copies published by Moore, with the first three printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Calcutta... Read More
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Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont...on the Subjects of Religion and Public Education
by More, Hannah
London: T. Cadell in the Strand, 1793. First edition. Near Fine. A tall, wide-margined and surprisingly fresh copy measuring 210 x 130mm (pages) and collating complete: xv, [1, blank], 48. Bound in modern burgundy cloth with gilt to spine, bearing the bookplate of J.O. Edwards to the front pastedown. Internally unmarked. A scarce and assertive work by the... Read More
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Onesimus; or, the Run-Away Servant Converted. A True Story
by [More, Hannah]
London and Bath: J. Marshall, R. White and S. Hazard, 1796. First edition. Complete in 16 pages, with woodcut to front wrap. Disbound but holding well, with the front wrap a bit tender near the foot of spine. Small ink notation to upper front corner and pages with some mild toning, else unmarked. Of the three scarce variants listed... Read More
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Mormon Expositor: vol. 1, no.1
by [Mormonism]
Salt Lake City, 1875. First edition, second printing. Very Good +. The first and only issue of an anti-Mormon publication circulating "obscene" sermons supposedly preached by Mormon leaders including Brigham Young (though Flake-Draper notes that they are "doubtfully authentic"). 150 x 220 mm. [4] pp., complete. Two sheets of paper, somewhat browned and brittle, with a few chips... Read More
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Beloved
by Morrison, Toni
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy. Unclipped dust jacket a bit smudged to front panel, else Fine. A very attractive example. Morrison's powerful novel of guilt, sacrifice, and redemption won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Chronicling the life of a Black woman named Sethe during and after her enslavement, the novel... Read More
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Register
by [Mourning] [Child Mortality]
[Massachusetts], 1821. Beautifully hand-colored manuscript on one sheet with all text to recto. Measuring 245 x 215mm. Retaining its bright colors; with chipping and loss to all edges, not affecting images or text. A unique tribute by a mother to her late daughter. The bright colors and floral arrangements of the present piece suggest that it was originally... Read More
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Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response (Translated by Jeanette Beer)
by Moser, Barry (illustrator); Richard de Fournival
North Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. First thus. Fine. One of 200 copies, this one marked "AP" and signed in pencil by Barry Moser on the colophon. Unpaginated. With forty-six engravings by Moser. Designed by Barry Moser and Chase Twichell and printed by Harold McGrath. Original full vellum. In the original pale blue cloth slipcase with a bit... Read More
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Observations on the Education of Children; and Hints to Young People on the Duties of Civil Life
by Mott, James
New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1816. First edition. Disbound with remnants of the wrapper to the spine. Complete in 34 pages including title page, with some leaves repeated: [2], 3-18, 13-20, 19-28. Measuring 100 x 160mm. Irregularly trimmed, with some headers shaved close and some loss to the text of the bottom lines recto and verso of the... Read More
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The Writings of John Muir. Manuscript Edition (in 10 vols.)
by Muir, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Limited edition. Fine. One of 750 numbered copies, this being copy 153, with a leaf of ink manuscript (195 x 155 mm.), heavily edited in pencil by Muir. A Fine set. Ten volumes, octavo (145 x 213 mm)., occupying 385 mm. (15.5 inches) of shelf space. With hand-colored frontispieces in each volume, plus many... Read More
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The Law Relating to the Property of Married Persons, with an Appendix of Statutes (Presentation Copy)
by Murray, David (M.A. Hon. LL.D. Member of the Faculty of Procurators Glasgow)
Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1891. First edition. Fine. Original blue publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine. With some toning to endpapers and half title, else internally bright and unmarked.Collating xvi, 169, [170-173], 174-249, [1, blank]: complete, including half title. An exceptionally pleasing copy, inscribed by Murray on the front endpaper: "R. E. Aitken, Esq. C.A.... Read More
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The Young Maiden
by Muzzey, Artemis Bowers
Boston: William Crosby & Co, 1840. First edition. Very Good +. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards embossed in blind. Some wear to extremities. Slight sunning to spine and faint spotting to boards. Brown endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature of Cyrus N. Pollard to first blank. Light scattered foxing throughout, else a clean and unmarked... Read More
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Pale Fire
by Nabokov, Vladimir
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine copy in the Very Good+ dust jacket. Ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf, leaving a slight impression on the half-title. Still a clean and fresh copy with red topstain bright and unfaded. Price-clipped jacket with a bit of toning at spine and top edge of... Read More
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The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Alfred De Sauty]; George C. Napier
Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1897. Limited edition. Fine. Limited to 550 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, a Fine copy. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 222 x 149 mm.). [i]-xiv, [2, map, verso blank], [1]-216 pp. Twenty-four fine photogravure plates and seventy-two engravings in the text. Removed bookplate from front flyleaf. Bound ca. 1905 by Alfred De... Read More
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An Affecting History of the Captivity and Suffering of Mrs. Mary Velnet, the Italian Lady. Who was seven years a slave in Tripoli…written by herself
by [Captivity Narratives]
Boston: William Crary, 1804. First edition. Good. Publisher’s quarter brown calf over paper-covered wooden boards. Twelvemo. 96 pp. With the frontispiece (a partial nude of the titular character). Complete aside from lower flyleaf. Paper toned and wearing away from boards at edges. A woman’s contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Browning to leaves throughout. A Good... Read More
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Espana en el Corazon
by Neruda, Pablo
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla, 1937. First edition. Good. A worn, but complete copy of this scarce publication by one of Latin America's most prominent poets. Original self wrappers printed in red, gray and yellow, spine cracked and professionally reattached (lacking a small chip), wrappers soiled, and a dampstain affects the top edge of leaves throughout. Rare in... Read More
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The Hole Book & The Slant Book & The Rocket Book (in 3 vols.)
by Newell, Peter
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First editions. Near Fine. Near fine copies. Three octavo volumes: The Hole Book (8 5/8 x 7 inches; 219 x 178 mm.). 52 pp; The Slant Book (8 3/4 x 7 inches; 222 x 178 mm.). 48 pp; The Rocket Book (8 5/8 x 7 inches; 219 x 178 mm.). 48 pp.... Read More
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Religious and literary commonplace book of a young woman
by [Commonplace Book] [Spirituality] Frances Phoebe Newton
[England], 1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board, measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads "Frances Phoebe Newton, A Present from her Mother, Mrs. A. Morley. July 31st, 1841." On the first page, Phoebe has created a formal title page: "Phoebe Newton's Album. July... Read More
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In Powder & Crinoline (Signed limited edition)
by Nielsen, Kay (illustrator); Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; [Fine Binding - Sangorski & Sutcliffe]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Fine. Edition Deluxe, number 40 of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. A Fine copy. Large quarto (12 x 9 7/8 inches; 305 x 252 mm.). [2, limitation leaf], xii, [13]-163, [1] pp. Inserted title and twenty-six mounted color plates on gray paper with descriptive tissue-guards. Fifteen black &... Read More
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