Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen (Signed limited edition)
by Nielsen, Kay (illustrator); Hans Christian Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Edition deluxe. Near Fine. Number 209 of 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist, a Near Fine copy. Large quarto (12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 310 x 250 mm.). [x], 11-197, [3, blank] pp. Text with decorative borders and initials. Twelve mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black... 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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Six Crises (Presentation copy)
by Nixon, Richard M.
New York: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/8 inches; 234 x 155 mm.). [xvi], [1]-460 pp. Inscribed by Richard Nixon to American Conservative Businessman William Clinton Mullendore. Many of the first seventy pages with underlining in blue ink. Bound in... Read More
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Marie Antoinette
by [Fine Binding - Cosway Style]; Pierre de Nolhac
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905. Later printing. Fine. A Fine copy. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 146 mm.). [viii], 268 pp. Title-page printed in red & black. A most unusual Cosway-Style Binding ca. 1920 believed to be by Cedric Chivers for the London Bookseller Chas. J. Sawyer, stamp signed in gilt on rear turn-in.... Read More
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Microscopic and Systematic Study of Madreporarian Types of Corals
by Ogilvie, Miss Maria M. (D.Sc.)
London: Dulau & Co, 1896. First edition. From the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Vol. 187, B, 1896): pages 83-345. Complete, including all 75 in text figures and the folding table. Disbound but with spine attached and holding. All edges marbled. Originating from a shorter paper read at and published by the Royal Society in 1895,... Read More
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Butterfield 8
by O'Hara, John
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First impression. Original glossy black cloth, lettering to spine in gilt. With dust-jacket. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Book is clean, fresh and appears unread. Dust jacket has been folded, showing faint crease lines. Minor wear at the spine ends and extremities, some... Read More
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Grapefruit (Signed First Edition)
by Ono, Yoko
New York: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Thus. Near Fine. The first Touchstone paperback edition of Yoko Ono's illustrated book, after the exceedingly rare 1964 first edition, of which only 500 copies were printed in Tokyo. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To Paul, Love Yoko Ono." In just about Fine condition, with only... Read More
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Grapefruit (Inscribed first edition)
by Ono, Yoko
Tokyo: Wuntemaum Press, 1964. First edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing, limited to 500 copies, inscribed on the first blank, “To Ann McMillan, 1965, Summer. Yoko Ono." Square octavo. Original perfect-bound white wrappers, lettering to front cover in black. Covers lightly dust soiled and marked, tiny chip to corner of front cover, corner of fore edge knocked... Read More
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The Warrior's Return and Other Poems
by Opie, Amelia
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1808. First edition. Contemporary full calf with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some gentle rubbing and slight bowing to boards, but pleasing and tight overall. Bookplate of J. O. Edwards to front pastedown. Inoffensive foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves, with text block fresh and unmarked. Measuring... Read More
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Animal Farm
by Orwell, George
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First American edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing, with "first American edition" on the copyright page. In the first issue dust jacket with the price of $1.75. Publisher's black cloth. A clean, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket with just a bit of creasing to edges. "The best fable in... Read More
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The Paper Chase (Uncorrected Proof)
by Osborn, Jr., John Jay
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition. Near Fine. An "Advance Uncorrected Proof" copy in blue paper wraps with a Houghton Mifflin label tipped on the front cover with the expected publication details. Additional notes in pencil and pen that appear to have been made by someone on the editorial staff. A Near Fine copy of the book... Read More
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The History of Joseph and his Brethren
by [Owen Jones and Henry Warren, illuminators]
London: Day & Son, 1865. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, covers decoratively stamped in gilt and blue, spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Inner hinges expertly and invisibly repaired, some minor rubbing and creasing to corners, otherwise near fine.Large quarto (11 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches; 285 x 215 mm.). Twenty-six leaves printed on... Read More
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Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. With Drawings by Ben Shahn
by Owen, Wilfred
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. First edition thus. Fine/Very Good +. Copy number 9 (IX) of 35, bound in the publisher's half-leather binding with an extra proof on Japanese vellum bound in and signed by the artist, Ben Shahn. A Fine, unworn copy in a Very Good+ publisher's slipcase, with only trivial cracking at a few of... Read More
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Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
by Paine, Thomas
Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. First American edition. Very Good. An exceptional survivor in wrappers as issued. With both issue points present: stating "Second Edition" on the title page and containing the infamous "Jefferson extract." Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete: [1]-105, [1, blank]. With general toning and light soiling throughout. Contemporary ownership signature to... Read More
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Eritrea on the Eve
by Pankhurst, E. Sylvia
Essex: New Times and Ethiopia News" Books, 1952. First edition. Very Good/Good +. Publisher's red cloth titled in black. Octavo. 72, [4] pp. With photographic frontispiece and fourteen double-sided photographic plates and three maps. Some foxing to cloth and to leaves, mostly at preliminaries. Some marginal toning. Original dust jacket with some foxing and some chipping to edges,... Read More
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The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
by Parkman, Francis
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Very Good. Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth. Octavo. [2, ads], 448, [8, ads] pp. Complete with two-page engraved decorative title. Binding "A" (author's name in sans serif typeface on spine, noted only in the first printing), terminal catalogue "B" (not affecting priority, BAL 15446). A very good, tight copy. Some rubbing... Read More
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Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla…
by Parry, William Edward
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (210 x 265 mm). xxx, [2, half-title], 571, [1, errata] pp. Complete with thirty-one plates and eight folding charts (as called for in the list of illustrations). Contemporary patterned calf rebacked with original spine laid down. Some dampstaining to top edge of lower board. Marbled edges and endpapers. Two... Read More
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Paterson, Katherine
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with the contemporary ink ownership inscription of actor Ruth Gordon (1896 – 1985) on the front free endpaper along with a notation that the book won the Newberry in 1977. Otherwise an excellent copy... Read More
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Paton, Alan
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing with Scribner's A and seal on the copyright page. A Near Fine copy of Paton's famous first novel. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner's name on the front end paper and a small blemish to the front board. In a price-clipped Near Fine... Read More
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In the Grip of the Nyika. Further Adventures in British East Africa
by Patterson, J[ohn] H[enry], Lieutenant-Colonel
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with a gilt camel and tribesman within a double circular frame, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Front inner hinge cracked but still a near fine copy with the just the mildest of rubbing to cloth extremities. xvi, 389, [1, blank], [1, Map],... Read More
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Seymour's Humorous Sketches
by Peake, Richard Brinsley. Robert Seymour (illustrator)
London: George Routledge, 1846. First Thus. Bound by Root & & Son ca. 1910. Three-quarter green morocco ruled in gilt over green cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, pale green marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine very slightly faded, otherwise near fine. Octavo (9 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 239... Read More
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A Booke of Presidents Exactly Written in Maner of a Register, Newly Corrected with Addicions of Diuers Necessary Presidents..
by [Phayer, Thomas]
London: Richard Tottelli, 1572. Early edition. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with five raised bands. Measuring and 140 x 90mm collating complete: [16], 159 leaves. Boards somewhat cracked and dry, with bumps to corners; some soiling to both pastedowns. Heavily annotated in a contemporary secretary hand throughout, as well as later additions from a nineteeth century owner; these are... Read More
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Poems. By the Incomparable, Mrs. K.P.
by Philips, Katherine
London: Printed by J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664. First edition. Very Good. Small octavo (168 x 112 mm): A-Q8 R4; 130 leaves, pp. [xvi], 242, [2]. Contemporary English blind-ruled sheep, 18th-century brown morocco label. Woodcut wreath device to title, woodcut initial to B1. Early ownership inscriptions of William Smith (struck through) and H. Butler, both of Balliol College,... Read More
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Picasso: Toreros. With Four Original Lithographs
by Picasso, Pablo (illustrator); Jaime Sabartés
New York: George Braziller, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English, first printing, published simultaneously with the French edition. Translated from the French by Patrick Gregory. Oblong folio. 153 pp. With over a hundred full-page illustrations by Picasso, including four lithographs (one of which is in twenty-four colors) designed especially for this publication and printed... Read More
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket
by Poe, Edgar Allan
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. First edition. Very Good +. Publisher's blue cloth retaining original paper spine label. Twelvemo. 201, [1, blank], 14 [publisher's catalogue] pp. Collating complete, retaining the two-page preliminary catalogue (dated May 1838), the terminal publisher's catalogue, and the flyleaves. With leaf F2 (p. 65) incorrectly signed "G2," as called for in BAL. Some... Read More
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