Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt (binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun). Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all... Read More
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The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller (in 2 vols.)
by [Dickens, Charles (contributor)]
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. First edition in book form, first issue, with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. Two octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 206 x 130 mm.). [iii-v]vi[vii]viii, [1]2-384; [vi], 350. Twenty-eight engraved plates by various artists including Robert Seymour and Robert William Buss. Publisher's dark green bead-grain cloth over boards, covers... Read More
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition. Very Good +. Octavo (leaves 212 x 133 mm). First edition, bound from the original monthly parts as published from June to December 1859, with the stab-holes visible; this copy with the earliest state of p. 213 misnumbered “113” and the signature “b” present on the list of plates, as preferred... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end... Read More
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Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens (in 3 vols.)
by Dickens, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Near Fine. Second issue, with the title-page authorship credit to Charles Dickens instead of "Boz" and with the “Church” version of the final plate. First state of volume III with "pilaster" instead of "pier" or "pedestal" on page 164. Almost all the internal flaws according to Smith present. Three octavo volumes (7... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. First issue with the 'eight-line errata' (following all but a very few of the points in Smith), in book form of Dickens' seventh novel, bound from the original monthly parts, with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm). xvi, [1,... Read More
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood; [Bound with] John Jasper’s Secret
by Dickens, Charles; Henry Morford
Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. First edition in book form. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). vii, [1, “Illustrations”], 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens (“Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co.”), wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown, and twelve wood-engraved plates, two by the firm... Read More
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Twelve original character studies from David Copperfield
by Dickens, Charles; Kyd (pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clark, illustrator)
[n.p., London], 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating David Copperfield, signed by the artist. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm). Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'David Copperfield' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front... Read More
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Poems - Second Series
by Dickinson, Emily
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892. Second printing. Near Fine. One of 1,000 copies of the second printing (with 1891 on the copyright page and 1892 on the title-page). Publisher's green cloth over white boards decorated in gilt (Myerson's A binding). 230 pp., with the four page facsimile of "Renunciation" in the preliminaries. All edges gilt. An attractive copy, bright... Read More
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Fanchette. Se vend au profit de Fanchette
by [Disability] [Assault] [Social Justice] Sand, George
Paris: [Imprimerie de Schneider et Langrand], 1843. First edition. Contemporary 19th century quarter calf binding with green boards; gentle wear to edges. Internally an excellent copy with original wraps bound in; occasional light foxing and small paper loss to margins of last two leaves, neither affecting text. Octavo collates complete with 31 pages. An exceptionally rare copy of Sand’s... Read More
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Laura Bridgman." [From:] [The American Journal of Education, vol. 4, no. 11, December 1857], pp. [383]-400
by [Disability] [Bridgman, Laura] Howe, Samuel Gridley
[Hartford, Connecticut]: [F.C. Brownell], 1857. First edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Extract (18 pp.) bound in modern paper wrappers. Clean and fresh throughout. A fine copy. Samuel Gridley Howe’s report on the education of Laura Bridgman (1829 – 1889), the first deaf-blind person to receive formal schooling in the United States. This report covers the first three years of... Read More
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The Young Cripple and His Job [and] City Planning for Girls. Social Service Monographs No. 4 [and] No. 5
by [Disability] [Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., editor] Hathway, Marion; Addition, Henrietta Silvis
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. First edition. Very Good. Both issues in publisher's stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 130; vii, [3], 150 pp. One issue with an editor's preface by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866 – 1948). The Young Cripple with chip to spine and a bit of chipping to edges; small adhesive stain to front cover; and library... Read More
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Une Partie De Polo
by Disney, Walt
Paris: Walt Disney, Hachette, Silly Symphonies, 1936. First edition. Publisher's color pictorial blue boards, color pictorial endpapers. Forty-three black and white drawings of which twelve are full-page. Three magnificent double-page color pop-ups. Some very light toning to blank margins. Small faded area at top of front board, minimal rubbing to extremities, still a Near Fine copy. Mickey, Donald... Read More
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Mickey et le Prince Malalapatte
by Disney, Walt
Paris: Walt Disney, Hachette, Silly Symphonies, 1935. First edition in French. Publisher's color pictorial blue boards, color pictorial endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. A Near Fine copy in the scarce and equally Fine original color pictorial dust jacket. 64 pages. Forty-four black and white drawings of which eight are full-page. Four magnificent double-page color pop-ups. Some very light toning... Read More
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A Lecture on the Best Means of Promoting the Intellectual Improvement of Youth
by Dodd, J. P.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847. First edition. Fine. Recent green paper wrappers. Collates [4], 51 pages: complete. Pages hand numbered in upper right hand corners; minor marginal annotations on pages 37 and 46. Overall, an exceptionally clean and pleasing copy of this rare educational tract, which argued for widespread education as the best method of attaining... Read More
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland
by Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]
New York: James O'Kane, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt. Twelvemo. 346, [2, ads] pp. Complete with four plates (including frontispiece). A bright copy with a small smudge to lower board and just a bit of foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Otherwise clean and fresh throughout. Small contemporary ink gift inscription to... Read More
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The Mystery of Cloomber (Inscribed)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: Hodder & Soughton's Sevenpenny Library, 1914. Later edition. Near Fine. Small octavo (6 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 162 x 108 mm.). [i-iv], v-vi, 7- 259, [1, blank] pp. [3 pp, advertisements on rear endpapers]. Including colored frontispiece and title-page printed on glossy paper. Publishers embossed salmon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed in ink on title-page... Read More
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1905. Very Good +. First English edition of the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (preceded by the first American edition by about one month). Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 13/16 inches; 187 x 122 mm.). [8], 403, [1, printer’s imprint], [4, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Sixteen plates (including frontispiece). Some occasional light, mainly... Read More
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[Collection of Sherlock Holmes Novels] (15 of 18 volumes)
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: John Murray, 1964. Uniform Edition. Uniformly bound (probably by Morrell) for Henry Sotheran (stamp-signed on the front free endpaper) in three-quarter red polished calf over red cloth boards. Spines ruled in blind with five raised bands and blue morocco gilt lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Mildest uniform fading to spines. Fifteen (of eighteen) volumes, including the... Read More
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A Study in Scarlet
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1888. First edition, second printing. First edition in book form of the first Sherlock Holmes story (preceded only by the story’s appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887). Second impression with mis-spelling “youuger” for younger in the second paragraph of the publisher’s preface. A fine copy. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 185... Read More
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The Sign of Four
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition. Near Fine. First edition in book form, second issue binding, with foot of spine reading “Griffith Farran & Co.s. Standard Library.” Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). [4], 283, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. With the numeral “138” on the contents page incomplete... Read More
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Rodney Stone
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1896. First edition. Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 127 mm. ). [8], 366, [12, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Eight plates by Sidney Paget (including frontispiece, with tissue guard). Original black diamond-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Dark brown coated endpapers. Hinges a bit cracked yet... Read More
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The Valley of Fear
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
New York: George H. Doran, 1914. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing, of the fourth and final novel in the Sherlock Holmes series (there were also a number of short story collections). It preceded the UK edition by three months. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 6 plates... Read More
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The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (Signed author's edition in 12 vols.)
by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1903. First thus. Near Fine. Twelve octavo volumes, bound by Bayntun in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards, marbled end papers, top-edges gilt. Together occupying approximately 16 inches (40 1/2 cm.) of shelf space. A Near Fine set overall with all outer joints repaired, internally quite clean and fresh. Set number 443... Read More
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National Education. What it is, and What it Should Be
by Dufton, John
London: John W. Parker, 1847. First edition. Fine. Recent paper wraps. 72 pages complete with both half and full titles bound in. Handwritten numbers to upper right corners and one small marginal notation. In all, a clean and complete copy of this important part of the debate on national education in England. With no other copies on the... Read More
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