Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Robert Burns
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second edition. Near Fine. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second edition. First Edinburgh edition (first published in Kilmarnock in 1786). First issue, with “Roxburgh” misprinted “Boxburgh” on p. xxxvii in the list of subscribers and “skinking” on p. 263, line 13... Read More
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Scots Ballads (Signed limited edition)
by Burns, Robert (illustrator)
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1939. First edition. Fine. One of sixty copies signed by the artist (only fifty of which were for sale). Publisher's deluxe full vellum titled in gilt. Folio. [81] ff., fully illustrated with black-and-white plates, calligraphic text, and elaborate head- and tail-pieces inspired by manuscript illumination. A lovely, Fine copy with the publisher's... Read More
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Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. First American edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth over gray paper boards. Top edge stained black. First issue unclipped dust jacket without the zip code in the publisher's address on back panel. A lovely copy in a bright dust jacket with just a bit of crinkling... Read More
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The Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Rear free end paper of the book excised and some splitting at the lower inside joint. Dust jacket with some overall age toning and a small chip at the base of the spine. First printing with the green border on... Read More
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Iracema, or Honey Lips; and Manuel de Moraes the Convert
by Burton, Isabel, trans. [J. de Alencar; J. M. Pereira da Silva]
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First English language edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by Boundey, Root & Son in half morocco over marbled boards. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally a pleasing copy, unmarked but for a previous ownership stamp from the Catholic University of America Library to the lower first title. Collates vii, [1, blank], 101,... Read More
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Love Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens (Signed limited edition)
by [Fine Binding - Charles Meunier] Luis de Camoens
London: Pirvately reprinted, 1886. Limited edition. Fine. Number 49 of 50 copies on Japan Paper, signed by the editor, B.B. Haggin. Small quarto (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 inches; 217 x 167 mm.). [iv], [117], [3, blank] pp. Original stiff paper wrappers decorated in gold bound in, and illustrated with very attractive, engraved head and tail-pieces. Additionally inscribed... Read More
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My Portfolio: A Miscellaneous Collection of Prose and Verse, Presented by Kind Friends for the Benefit of a Reformatory School
by Campbell, Louisa
Liverpool: Joseph A. D. Watts and Co, 1865. First edition. Fine. Original navy publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine. Gentle bumps to corners, else in about Fine condition. Faint offsetting to pastedowns and occasional light foxing, else a pleasing, clean and unmarked copy. Collates complete: viii, 228. Laid into the front are a poem by the author... Read More
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The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative
by [Captivity Narratives] Cornelius, Elias
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1822. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's red roan over blue paper-covered boards. Sixteenmo. 108 pp. Complete with frontispiece and one other plate. Gilt-titled spine. Paper over boards chipped and dustsoiled. Contemporary ink ownership signature (Mary Ann D Parker) to front verso of frontispiece. Toning to endpapers and some foxing throughout. Still a Very Good... Read More
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Thoughts in the Form of Maxims Addressed to Young Ladies
by Carlisle, [Isabella Howard] Countess Dowager
London: Printed for T. Cornell, 1789. First edition. Very Good. Bound without half-title, else complete including advertisement and errata leaves: iii-xii, [2], 68, 67-149 (with 49 misnumbered 29 and 148 misnumbered 248 as called for by ESTC). Contemporary sheep rebacked to style with red morocco spine label. Front board slightly bowed. Some marginal browning to first and last... Read More
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Sartor Resartus
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Thomas Carlyle
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. Fine. Sixteenmo (6 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches; 157 x 93 mm.). [vi], 306, [1, imprint], [5, blank] pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son, stamp signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full antelope crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively... Read More
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Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works [With] Translations from the German by Thomas Carlyle (in 34 vols)
by Carlyle, Thomas
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes (207 x 133 mm) uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches (131 cm.) of shelf space. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments.... Read More
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
by Carroll, Lewis [Charles Dodgson]
London: Macmillan & Co, 1872. First edition. Fine. Finely bound in three-quarter red crushed morocco over cloth boards with the Red Queen and White King stamped in gilt on the boards. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled end-papers and paste-downs. In excellent condition internally, with the first issue misprint "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Complete with all 50... Read More
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Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (in 2 vols.)
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 179 x 121 mm.). xxiii, [1, blank], 400; xxxi, [1, blank], 423, [1, blank] pp. With forty-six (ten full-page) illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with original tissue-guard. Verso of each title-page with small blue library accession number and a few... Read More
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Signed by Alice Hargreaves)
by Carroll, Lewis
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. First edition thus. Near Fine. Number 1368 of 1500 copies signed on the limitation page by designer Frederic Warde and signed on a tipped in sheet by Alice Hargreaves, the author's inspiration for the book. Full crushed morocco ornately stamped in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. A Near Fine copy with minor... Read More
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Silent Spring
by Carson, Rachel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A bright, Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Top edge yellow. Unclipped dust jacket bright and fresh with two open tears to top edge of front panel and bottom edge of back panel, not affecting legibility or design, and a bit of edgewear. A very attractive copy of... Read More
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If It Please You (Signed limited edition)
by Carver, Raymond
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited edition. Fine. A presentation copy, outside of the limited edition of 200 numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author on a leaf before the title page. A Fine copy. Bound in salmon-colored boards printed with bingo card design with black cloth backstrip and gilt title on spine. Only the... Read More
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Man in White, A Novel (Presentation copy)
by Cash, Johnny
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A signed presentation copy inscribed in blue ink to half-title "To Samantha Eggar, I loved working with you, you're wonderful. Look to the light, and shadows are behind. With much love, Johnny Cash." Jacket with vertical... Read More
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Conjugium Languens: Or, The Natural, Civil, and Religious Mischiefs Arising from Conjugal Infidelity and Impunity
by Castamore
London: R. Roberts, 1700. First edition. Rebound in modern drab boards with facsimile of title page to front cover. Measuring 190 x 135mm and collating [2], 28: bound without rear blank, else complete. Discreet marginal blindstamps of Wigan Free Public Library to the first two leaves, and final leaf Small hole to outer margin of pages 1-2 not affecting... Read More
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini written by himself. Edited and translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the same hand together with an introduction to this edition upon Benvenuto Cellini, artist and writer, by Royal Cortissoz with reproductions of forty original portraits and views illustrating the life. (in 2 vols)
by Cellini, Benvenuto. John Addington Symonds (translator)
New York: Brentano's, 1906. First Thus. Two octavo volumes (234 x 149 mm.). Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers. Neat ink inscription on front free end-papers. Decorated title-pages and forty photogravure plates. A fine and very attractive set. ... Read More
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The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. First UK edition. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Faint publisher’s stamp to rear free endpaper verso. Spine minimally rolled, hint of shelfwear to bottom edge of boards, contents faintly toned; else a near-fine copy in the faintly soiled jacket with lightly faded spine and slight rippling to... Read More
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Killer in the Rain
by Chandler, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with very slight wear at the extremities, retaining the original price of $5.50. This collection of Raymond Chandler short stories from the 30s and early 40s, many from the famed Black Mask magazine, was released after his death. In fact, Chandler... Read More
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The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602. Second Speght edition. Near Fine. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer, and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio (pages 327 x 212 mm) collating: [23], 376, [14] ff. Lacking the first blank A1 and the progenie of Chaucer plate. Textually complete, including the final errata leaf. Bound... Read More
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What's to be Done? A Romance
by [Chernyshevsky] Tchernychewsky, N. G.
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. First English language edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy of this scarce first translation into English. Originally serialized in the journal Sovremennik between 1862 - 1863. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in brown on the front board. Some wear to the spine ends and corners, slight dampstain to the lower edge of... Read More
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Child, Lydia Maria
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. First edition. Near Fine. An excellent, Near Fine copy. Publisher's cloth retaining the delicate paper label to spine. Measuring 110 x 185 mm and collating [6], 232 pp. Complete aside from the tipped-in errata leaf that is often missing. With the iconic frontispiece of an enslaved woman, kneeling in prayer, from an 1827... Read More
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London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
by Churchill, Winston S.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Very Good. First edition, handsomely bound, of Churchill's account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; "a splendid book both aesthetically and from a literary standpoint, the Ladysmith is one of the most sought-after titles in the canon" (Langworth, p. 54). Octavo (184 x 122... Read More
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