Ask Mamma: or, the Richest Commoner in England (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. First issue, in the original thirteen monthly parts, March 1857-April 1858. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. A lovely, rather astonishing set with minimal wear, confined to spine extremes and small closed tear to fore-edge of Part I. Plates clean and bright. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm)... Read More
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![Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [And:] Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. [And:] “Ask Mamma;” or, The Richest Commoner in England. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. [And:] “Plain or Ringlets?” With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. [And:] Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds. With illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. [And:] Hillingdon Hall or, The Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. With illustrations by Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. (in 6 vols)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/916/297/1339297916.0.m.jpg)
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [And:] Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. [And:] “Ask Mamma;” or, The Richest Commoner in England. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. [And:] “Plain or Ringlets?” With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. [And:] Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds. With illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. [And:] Hillingdon Hall or, The Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. With illustrations by Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. (in 6 vols)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London. Mixed Edition. Together six octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 7/16 inches; 219 x 137 mm.). All first editions in book form except for Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, which are the first illustrated editions (first published in three volumes, without illustrations, in 1843 & 1845). Uniformly bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco by Riviere... Read More
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Confessions of Zeno
by Svevo, Italo (Aron Ettore Schmitz)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American edition. Fine/Very Good +. A lovely copy of Svevo's best work, a novel that is widely regarded as the "great modern Italian novel." Book Fine with a touch of mottling to the cloth on the rear board, otherwise clean, fresh and unread. In a Very Good + price-clipped dust jacket... Read More
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The Works...with Notes and a Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott (in 19 vols.)
by Swift, Jonathan
London: Bickers & Son, 1884. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being No. 497), signed by the publishers. Nineteen octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches; 216 x 143 mm.) occupying approximately 25 1/2 inches (64 3/5 cm.) of shelf space. Early twentieth-century three-quarter turquoise polished calf, ruled in blind, over marbled boards by Tout & Sons... Read More
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Woman, or Ida of Athens (in 4 vols.)
by [Sydney, Lady Morgan] Owenson, Miss [Sydney]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Contemporary half morocco over drab boards with gilt to spines. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Corners of volume I bumped and gentle shelfwear to edges of rear board; else a pretty, square, and pleasing set. Armorial bookplate of John Warneford Armstrong (1770-1858), the known atheist and republican heir of landed... Read More
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Wine, Women, and Song. Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] John Addington Symonds
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. Fine. One of 50 large-paper copies. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in an "Exhibition" binding of full red crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt with multi-line borders and floral decorations. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red silk liners... Read More
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The Book of Job (Signed limited edition)
by Szyk, Arthur (illustrator); [Bible in English]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. First thus. Near Fine/Very Good. Limited edition, number 478 of 1,950 copies signed by Arthur Szyk. Folio (12 x 8 1/2 inches; 304 x 216 mm.). 148, [2, blank], [1, limitation], [5, blank] pp. Eight mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. Publishers three-quarter creme leather over white paper boards, front cover pictorially... Read More
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Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (Inscribed)
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Taylor & Hessey]; Jane Taylor
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Fourth edition. A superb example. Twelvemo (6 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 162 x 98 mm.). [2, blank], [iv], [1]-174, [2 blank] pp. Inscribed by the author on the first blank: "Wiggiston[?] from J. Taylor." Bound ca. 1820 by [Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, London] in full maroon straight-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt... Read More
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
by Taylor, Robert Louis
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's cloth titled in black and stamped in teal. Publisher's cloth titled in black and stamped in teal. Unclipped dust jacket with just a bit of rubbing to back panel and toning to back flap. A Fine, bright, unread copy in the attractive Near Fine... Read More
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Collection of four manuscript Temperance speeches from an anonymous Midwestern woman
by [Women's Activism] [Temperance]
Ohio, 1887. Collection of four manuscript Temperance speeches written in a single hand, and comprised of 25 pages on varying sized sheets. Authored by a leader of an Ohio county branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the speeches address the history of the movement, its progress, its need for women's volunteerism and donations, and its connection to multiple... Read More
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Secretary's Book of the Pekin Women's Christian Temperance Union, Organized April 20, 1881
by [Women's Movements] [Temperance]
[Pekin, NY], 1909. Secretary's ledger with half calf over cloth, measuring 9 x 7 inches and comprised of 133 manuscript pages bound and one sheet laid in loosely at rear. Documenting the meetings, finances, elections, inductions, and deaths of members from 1903-1909 of a local chapter of the influential Women's Christian Temperance Union which sought to protect women and... Read More
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Lyrical Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Selected and Annotated by Francis T. Palgrave
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
London: Macmillan, 1885. First Thus. Finely bound by Bumpus in full morocco ornately stamped in gilt to spine and boards. All edges brightly gilt. Inner dentelles gilt. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 150 x 95mm. Slight sunning to spine and bumps to corners, else a tight, bright binding. Preliminary and terminal leaves foxed, with remainder of textblock fresh and unmarked. A... Read More
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Vanity Fair (Signed Limited)
by Thackeray, Henry Makepeace. Lewis Baumer (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Fine. Original publisher's pictorial vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Boards slightly bowed and lacking silk ties. Some offsetting to endpapers and occasional light foxing not affecting illustrations. Number 38 of 350 copies signed by the illustrator, and complete with twenty mounted color plates with titled tissue-guards. ... Read More
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Vanity Fair
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Very Good +. First issue with the heading on p. 1 in rustic type, the advertisement for "The Great Hogarty Diamond" before the frontis and the illustration of "the marquis of Steyne" on p. 336 (later suppressed). Illustrated by the author in 40 steel engraved plates and numerous woodcuts throughout the... Read More
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. The Kensington Edition. Near Fine. Thirty-two octavo volumes (8 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 217 x 143 mm.) occupying approximately 51 inches (129 1/2 cm.) of shelf space. A Near Fine set, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco, ruled in gilt, over pink mottled paper boards. Frontispieces, plates, and text illustrations,... Read More
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Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World (in 3 vols.)
by Thackeray, W. M.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1857. First edition. Original pebbled publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 195 x 125mm and collating complete with half title to volume I: [8], 329, [1]; [4], 304; [4], 301, [1]. A Near Fine copy, with the front hinges cracked but holding on volumes II-III and minor tanning and... Read More
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Hell's Angels
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth boards with silver biker stamp. Upper board a bit dusty at bottom edge and some rubbing to lower free endpaper. Dust jacket with two small closed tears at top edge (unrestored) and a bit of toning to... Read More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's blindstamped gray boards. Some fading to top edge of boards and some foxing to top edge of closed text block, but clean and unmarked internally. Dust jacket with a just a bit of toning to top edge of front panel. Bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown. An attractive... Read More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A sharp, Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Some fading to the board edges, as usual, but clean and unmarked internally. Dust jacket with the spine a trifle faded, faint dampstain at the base of the spine and a crease to the rear flap. A handsome copy... Read More
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
by Thompson, Hunter S.
New York: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Fine/Fine. Fine book in like jacket with only trivial wear. Small bump to corner and trivial wear to jacket corners, with one small nick to front upper corner and a faint crease to top edge of rear panel. An exceedingly pleasing copy. A classic look at American politics focusing... Read More
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Eloise
by Thompson, Kay; Hilary Knight, Illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book spine slightly cocked and boards with minor soiling, but clean and unmarked internally. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright and pleasing, with spine just a bit toned. A handsome copy of a charming book. A classic work... Read More
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Eloise in Moscow (Inscribed first edition)
by Thompson, Kay; Hilary Knight, Illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine book in like dust jacket. Book with a small bump to the lower board and the spine a bit rolled. In a Near Fine dust jacket with a few professionally repaired tears. Inscribed by the author: "For Jane with love Kay Thompson and me... Read More
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An Artist's Safari
by Thompson, Ralph
London: Collins in Association with The Tryon Gallery, 1979. Small folio (11 x 7 11/16 inches; 279 x 195 mm.). Collating [160]. One of twenty copies signed in pencil on the title-page by Ralph Thompson and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter brown morocco, ruled in gilt, over tan cloth boards. Vellum tips. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt... Read More
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The Poets of Great Britain (in 2 vols.)
by Thomson, James
New York and London: Chiwick Press & Charles Whittingham, 1900. Fine. A Fine set. Two small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [i]-cxx, [1]-260; [vii], [1, blank], [1]-324 pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a memoir of Thomson. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twelve engraved plates, including four hand-colored, all with... Read More
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War and Peace (in 3 vols.)
by Tolstoi [Tolstoy], Count Lyof
London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. The rare first UK edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Rebound in full blue crushed morocco by the Chelsea bindery. Top edges gilt, dark maroon end papers, front and rear cloth covers bound in at the end. Three octavo volumes, all dated 1886 on the title pages, collating: viii, 9-429;... Read More
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