A Confederacy of Dunces
by Toole, John Kennedy
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket, unread and virtually pristine. Jacket spine lettering still blue. First state jacket with stars in the background of the black portions of the jacket and no Chicago Sun-Times review on the rear panel. A major work... Read More
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Signed first edition)
by Toole, John Kennedy
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition. Fine/Fine. Signed by Walker Percy on the title-page. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket, unread and virtually pristine. Jacket spine lettering faded. First state jacket with stars in the background of the black portions of the jacket and no Chicago Sun-Times review on the... Read More
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The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer translated into English Blank Verse
by Homer; William Cowper (translator)
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. First thus. Near Fine. Publisher's blue paper boards with printed paper spine labels. Two volumes, quarto. xvii, [11], 668; [1], 583 pp. A large copy, untrimmed and partially unopened. From the library of Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate to upper pastedown of each volume. Some chipping and dustsoiling to boards, mostly to... Read More
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The Odyssey of Homer
by Homer; T. E. Lawrence (translator)
London: Printed in England [Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton, and Bruce Rogers], 1932. First thus. Near Fine/Near Fine. First and limited edition of Lawrence’s translation, one of 530 unnumbered copies. Quarto. With twenty-six woodcut roundels printed in gold and black (tissue guards laid in at the first several roundels). Original black morocco by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt,... Read More
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Mary Poppins
by Travers, P. L.
New York: Reynal &Hitchcock, 1934. First American edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good + copy in like dusk jacket. Bound in ostrich-egg blue publisher's cloth with title and illustrated portrait on the front. Small staining to front board and slight cocking to spine. Offsetting on front endleaves, an ownership bookplate, and sticker for Hutchinson's bookstore... Read More
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Extra Illustrated)
by Trevelyan, George Otto
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First edition. Extra Illustrated with seventy-seven fine portraits and views, including thirty-seven in color. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 209 x 133 mm.). Bound ca. 1910 by Root & Son of London (stamp-signed on front turn-ins) in full dark green morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines with five... Read More
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All Religions are One
by [Trianon Press, The]; William Blake
London: Trianon Press, 1970. First thus. Fine. Limited edition, number 9 of 600 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 in; 298 x 230 mm). (28) pp. Ten color plates. Original quarter green morocco over marbled boards. In the original marbled board slipcase. "Through aphoristic... Read More
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Complete portraiture of William & Catherine Blake
by [Trianon Press, The]; Blake, William; Geoffrey Keynes
London: Trianon Press, 1977. First thus. Fine. Limited edition, number 135 of 600 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in; 290 x 210 mm). 154 p. Ten color plates. Original quarter brown morocco over cloth boards. In the original cloth slipcase. A singular collection... Read More
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Orley Farm
by Trollope, Anthony
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Near Fine. Bound in green half morocco over pebbled cloth. With half titles, but bound without the ads. Collation: viii, 320; viii, 320. An early issue with stab holes visible throughout both volumes; volume I conforming to all issue points for Sadleir's second issue and volume II a first issue with... Read More
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The Gilded Age
by Twain, Mark; and Charles Dudley Warner
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. First UK edition. Fine. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco with double gilt rules on the boards and spine compartments. Top edges gilt, marbled end papers. A Fine copy, complete with all half-titles. Clean and fresh throughout. A few leaves in volume 3 a little bent at the lower margin.... Read More
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (Presentation copy)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. First edition. Good. Presentation copy, inscribed on the blank recto of the advertisement leaf: "With compliments of Mark Twain New York, May 9, 1867." The original recipient's name has been torn away (and the advertisement leaf has been repaired with a section from another first edition copy). The novel was published in... Read More
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Roughing It
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Near Fine. A lovely, Nearly Fine copy of the book. Spine gilt a bit dulled, light wear to spine ends and corners. First state of p. 242 and with the terminal advertisement (BAL 3337). (And with the other first state points, including the errors on pgs. 156 and 330 uncorrected).... Read More
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Life on the Mississippi
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American edition. Near Fine. First State, with the image of Twain in flames on p. 441 and with "The St. Louis Hotel" caption on p. 443. In the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignettes on the front board and spine. A Near Fine copy with bright cloth and gilt.... Read More
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Very Good +. Second state lacking: "The S King" on p. 59 and with damaged type on p. 72, but this copy with the extremely scarce half-title. "Most collectors are content with a copy with early states of pages 59 and 72, and any copy with the extremely... Read More
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 2nd Printing. Very Good +. Second printing. Original blue cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, peach coated endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end (dated Dec. 1, 1876), half-title printed on the verso of the frontispiece. A Very... Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (with original artwork)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. Very Good +. With original sketch by E. W. Kemble, artist of the iconic Huckleberry Finn frontisportrait, tipped onto the verso of the front free endpaper. The sketch is inscribed "To Ralph from E W Kemble" and captioned: "By gum: I do believe a Sody Fountain in... Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. Very Good. A rare copy in the publisher's blue cloth. Frontisportrait in the first state, with the three main first printing points on pgs. 9, 13 and 57. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. Minor wear or soiling throughout, but a Very Good copy overall. Housed... Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the book. Inner hinges repaired and first blank excised, otherwise a fairly clean, bright copy overall. With all three generally accepted first printing points. Frontis bust of Twain in the first state. Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn... Read More
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The Writings of Mark Twain (in 37 vols)
by Twain, Mark
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Stormfield Edition. Limited to 1,024 numbered sets. Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Original dark blue fine-bead cloth, gilt triple-rule border with the gilt stencil signature of Mark Twain on the front cover. Spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Title-pages printed in red and black. Photogravure frontispieces and plates (including portraits) after drawings,... Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Association copy)
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First edition. Very Good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publishers to Daniel Whitford, Twain's lawyer: "To Daniel Whitford, with regards of the publisher, Chas. L. Webster. New York, February 21st, 1885." Daniel Whitford, attorney for New York firm Alexander & Green, acted for Webster & Company and was also retained... Read More
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Roll, Jordan, Roll (Signed limited edition)
by Ullman, Doris; Julia Peterkin
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition. Fine. One of 350 copies (327 for sale) signed by Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullman, with an additional photogravure signed by Ullman. 341 pp. Complete, with all ninety copperplate photogravures and accompanying tissue guards. Publisher's half buff cloth over blindstamped brown paper boards. Spine titled in gilt. Slight bubbling to... Read More
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The Grey World
by Underhill, Evelyn
London: William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Original gray publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and black. A pleasing, square copy with some sunning to spine and light foxing to the closed edges of the text block and title page. Early gift inscription to front endpaper: "With warmest good wishes for Dec. 22, 1926 from Alice Herbert." The first novel... Read More
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Jester's Dozen (Signed limited edition)
by Updike, John
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited edition. Fine. Presentation copy, outside of limited numbered 150 signed and 50 signed and specially bound copies. A Fine copy, bound in paper boards with red, black, and yellow floral-patterned paper and black cloth backstrip, and maintaining paper title to spine. Extremely minor wear to corners of boards and slight toning to... Read More
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the World…
by Vancouver, George
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Edwards, 1798. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 299 x 239 mm) plus folio atlas volume (22 x 16 3/4 inches; 560 x 430 mm), collating: [8], xxix, [1, blank], [2, ads], [4, contents], [2, list of plates], 432; [10], 504; [10], 505, [3, errata]... Read More
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My Sweet Orange-Tree
by Vasconcelos, Jose Mauro de
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American edition. Fine/Fine. And the first English-language edition, preceding the UK edition by a year. A clean, Fine copy of the book in a bright, fresh jacket that is also just about Fine, save for a small indentation on the front panel near the spine. Originally published in Brazil... Read More
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