Sketches from Punch's Book of British Costumes
by Sambourne, Edward Linley
London, 1874. Oblong twelvemo (3 x 5 1/2 inches; 75 x 140 mm.). Hand colored manuscript title-page and 59 original pen and ink hand-drawn satirical cartoons after images produced in Punch magazine, one dated January 1874. A fine Persian style lacquer 'wallet' binding ca. 1874, original purple velvet spine expertly restored, original silver clasp. Housed in a red felt... Read More
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Shane
by Schaefer, Jack
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Original cream cloth-grain boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed brown cloth solander box. Cloth bright and fresh, binding square and tight, light foxing to top edge of book block, contents clean and fresh, a Fine copy... Read More
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The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening
by Scott-James, Anne
London: John Murray, 1977. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 231 x 165 mm.). One of ten copies specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter green morocco, ruled in gilt, over green cloth boards. Vellum tips. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt with two raised bands and with Zaehnsdorf monogram in gilt at foot of spine.... Read More
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Live and Let Live; or Domestic Service Illustrated
by [Sedgwick, Catharine Maria]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. First edition. Near Fine. BAL second state, without the period following the word Illustrated on the title page. Original green publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine. Some rubbing to extremities and boards. In all square and sound. Small stains to front endpapers. Early ownership signature to header of title. With less... Read More
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The History of Female Favourites..
by [Sex Work] La Roche-Guilhem, Anne de
London: Printed for C. Parker, 1772. First English language edition. Contemporary calf with five raised bands. Measuring 217 x 127mm. Front blank neatly excised, else collating complete: [4], 324. Front board slightly bowed with small scuff; lacking spine label, and with cracking to joints near spine ends but remaining sound. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to the... Read More
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The Court of Cupid. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with Great Additions (in 2 vols.)
by [Sex Work] [Thompson, Edward] The Author of the Meretriciad
London: Printed for C. Moran, 1770. First collected edition. Contemporary speckled calf, skillfully rebacked with original spines laid down. Gilt and morocco labels to spines. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 155 x 96mm and collating complete, including final advert leaf to volume II: [2], ii, 147, [1, blank]; [2], v, [1, advert], 139, [3]. Bookplates of J. O. Edwards to front... Read More
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Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
by [Sex Work] [Wilson, Harriette]
London: Printed and Published by the Author, 1830. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating [2], civ, [2, half title], 196; [2], 313, [1, blank]; [2], 282: with half title of volume I bound out... Read More
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Life of Mrs. Jordan; including original private correspondence and numerous anecdotes of her contemporaries (in 2 vols.)
by [Sex Work] Boaden, James Esq
London: Edward Bull, 1831. First edition. Unsophisticated and bound in original publisher's quarter brown paper over drab boards with paper labels to spines. Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete including half titles to both, frontis to volume I, folding frontis to volume II, and adverts to rear of volume II: [6], xv, [1, blank], 368; [6], xiv, 364,... Read More
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Kitty's Stream: Or, The Noblemen Turned Fisher-Men. A Comic Satire. Addressed to the Gentlemen in the Interest of the Celebrated Miss K---y F----R
by [Sex Work] [Fisher, Kitty] Funidos, Rigdum
[London]: A. Moore near St. Paul's, 1759. First edition. Bound in modern marbled wrappers with label to front. Measuring 195 x 155mm and collating complete: 15, [1, blank]. A surprisingly fresh and unmarked copy of this satirical piece centered on courtesan Kitty Fisher, who was beginning her career rise to fame. Scarce institutionally and in trade, ESTC reports only... Read More
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The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating
by [Sex Work] Montez, Madame Lola [Countess of Landsfeld]
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Brown coated endpapers. Several small spots to front board. Lower corners gently bumped. Bookplate of Jane des Grange to front endpaper. Collates xvii, [1], 19-132, [12]: complete with half title and adverts. Light scattered foxing, else clean and unmarked.... Read More
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A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield (Signed First Edition)
by [Sex Work] Muilman, Teresia Constantia
London: Printed for the Author and sold at her House in White-Harte Street, 1750. First edition. Modern drab wrappers, all edges speckled red. Bound with blank pages to rear. Measuring 175 x 100mm. Collating [2], 41, [1, blank]: bound without the half title, else complete. Signed on the final page of text by the author: "Your Lordship's most obed[ient]... Read More
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The Killer Angels
by Shaara, Michael
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1974. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's blue paper boards. Minor toning to endpapers. Dust jacket a bit rubbed. A Fine copy in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Michael Shaara's classic Civil War novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975, is "a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg...but... Read More
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The Heart of the Antarctic; Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
by Shackleton, E. H.; Hugh Robert Mill (intro)
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1909. First American edition. Near Fine. Quarto, two volumes. First American Edition. Originally published as a limited edition in London the same year. Publisher's blue cloth, titles, designs and rule in silver on the spine and front boards, top edges gilt. A Nearly Fine set, much nicer than usually found. Booksellers' tickets for W.... Read More
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The Novels of Henry Fielding
by [Shakespeare Head Press] Fielding, Henry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First Thus. Large Paper Edition, limited to 520 sets. Ten large octavo volumes (9 x 6 in; 230 x 150 mm). Publishers three-quarter red morocco over pale red cloth boards. Gilt decorated compartments. Frontispieces. A very Fine set. "The Elizabethan scholar A. H. Bullen established the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-up-Avon in 1904.... Read More
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Shakespeares Lucrece. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1594
by Shakespeare, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First Thus. One of 1000 copies, originally released in a set of five volumes. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Front board bowed; lower ties present but upper ties missing from front and rear. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from... Read More
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Shakespeares Pericles. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1609
by Shakespeare, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First Thus. One of 1000 copies, originally released in a set of five volumes. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Front board bowed; lower ties present but upper ties missing from front and rear. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from... Read More
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Will Shakespeare. His Amatory Poems. The Sonnets. Venus and Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece. The Passionate Pilgrim
by Shakespeare, William
New York: The Bennett Libraries, Inc, 1928. One of 200 Large-Paper Copies printed on Holland Pannekoek Paper (out of a total edition of 1,000).Publishers (bound by Bennett, NY) full mottled calf, covers ruled in blind. Spine with five raised bands ruled in blind with two maroon morocco gilt lettered labels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A Fine... Read More
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Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio…
by Shakespeare, William
London: for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. Fourth folio. London: for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. Fourth folio. Folio (357 x 228 mm). Bound in a handsome nineteenth-century Victorian full black morocco binding. Boards stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt, with intricate gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Engraved portrait... Read More
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Shakespeares Venus and Adonis. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1593
by Shakespeare, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First Thus. Number 229 of 1000 copies bound and signed by the bibliographer Sydney Lee. Full vellum with gilt to spines and boards, measuring 250 x 200mm. Boards splayed, with front and rear ties lacking. Offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean and unmarked, with illustrations and text from the Malone Collection of the... Read More
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La Tempete [The Tempest]
by Shakespeare, William [Edmund Dulac (illustrator)]
Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1912. First edition in French. First edition in French under this title, a translation of Shakespeare's play. Publisher's original wrappers with sea nymph vignette, in original glassine dust jacket. Aside from a few small nicks to the glassine jacket, this is a Near Fine copy. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in; 303 x... Read More
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The Works of William Shakespeare
by Shakespeare, William
London: Macmillan, 1900. Fine. The Globe Edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). viii, 1,138 (double-column) pp. Bound ca. 1900, most probably by a student of Douglas Cockerell, in full brown morocco in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Both covers bordered in blind enclosing an elaborately decorated blind stamped lattice design,... Read More
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The Sensitive Plant
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Percy Bysshe Shelley
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo (5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm.). 46, [2, blank] pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco, covers bordered in gilt surrounding... Read More
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The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.)
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
New York and London: Chiswick Press and Charles Whittingham and Co, 1900. Later edition. Near Fine. A nearly Fine copy. Five small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [iii]-lxvi, [1]-203, [1, blank]; [vi], [1]-294, [1, printers device], [1, blank]; [iii]-xii, [1]-380; [iii]-x; [1]-345, [1, printers device]; [iii]-xiv, [1]-366, [1, printers device], [1, blank]... Read More
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The Sensitive Plant
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
London/Philadelphia: William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott Co, 1911. First Thus. First U.K. Robinson-illustrated Deluxe edition, a Heinemann "Xmas Art Book" that originally sold for 15 shillings. Publisher's deluxe binding of full vellum over boards, front cover and spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket with just some very minor... Read More
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![The Critic, Or a Tragedy Rehearsed... [bound with] The Cunning-Man, A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts. Originally written and composed by Mr. J.J. Rousseau](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/732/1337732158.0.m.jpg)
The Critic, Or a Tragedy Rehearsed... [bound with] The Cunning-Man, A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts. Originally written and composed by Mr. J.J. Rousseau
by Sheridan, Richard
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1766. Fourth edition of The Critic, second edition of The Cunning-Man. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style. With the bookplate of J.S. Bentley to the front paste down endpaper, and that of Thomas Merriman to the front free endpaper. Collating [10], 98; [8], 30, [1, adv.],... Read More
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