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The Works of Laurence Sterne. In Ten Volumes Complete. Containing, I. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. II. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. III. Sermons. IV. Letters. With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself

Sterne, Laurence

London: Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray, T. Becket, R. Baldwin, and T. Evans, (1783). Hardcover. 12mo. Bound in modern three-quarter brown calf over tan cloth with gold-stamped floral decorations and gold lettering on spine. Engraved... More

Price: $750.00

Atalanta in Calydon, A Tragedy [WITH A LETTER FROM SWINBURNE'S SISTER]

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

London: Edward Moxon, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Small quarto. (xii, *12 for 14) 111pp. Modern beige cloth slipcase. Beige buckram boards with gilt stamped debossed circular designs on the front cover, and gilt lettering on the spine. Beveled edges. The beautiful binding was designed by the artist and poet... More

Price: $750.00

In Memoriam

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

London: Edward Moxon, 1850. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. (viii) 210pp. Period green pebbled leather boards with gilt lettering on the spine. All edges of the book block in gilt. Binding by James Hayday. The publication is a first edition, first printing of the acclaimed work by Tennyson... More

Price: $750.00

A Tramp Abroad

Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1880. First UK single volume edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiii, 564, 32pp. Ads. Bayntun-Riviere Bath binding in red leather with gilt ruling and lettering, raised bands and dentelles; original cloth binding mounted to pages following Chatto & Windus ads at rear bound in. Gilt edges. Decorative... More

Price: $750.00

Paul Verlaine: Ausgewählte Gedichte

Verlaine, Paul

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1906. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/850. Sm. 8vo. 156,4pp. Gold decorated vellum. Spine sunned. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine. Some staining, discoloration and rubbing to boards and spine. Boards slightly bowed. Top edge gilt. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Illustrated title-page. Some of Paul Verlaine's... More

Price: $750.00

Convolute of 7 titles, poetry, essay, novel, and one speech [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]

Watzdorf-Bachoff, Erika von

NP: Various, 1912–1928. Various. Hardcover. Collection of four books of poetry, one novel, one essay, and a speech on the occasion of the commemoration for the liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor Friedrich Nauman by the Thuringia aristocrat Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff; various handwritten letters and notes by author, and ephemera... More

Price: $750.00

La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading [WITH 15 HAND-COLORED COPPER ENGRAVINGS]

Wilde, Oscar (Text by); G. Cornelius (Illustrations by); Henry D. Davray (Preface by)

Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/225. Large quarto. 25, [1] loose pages (Preface), XLV, [7] loose pages (Text), as issued. Original glassine over decorative dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Book housed in its publisher's paper covered chemise and decorative paper covered slipcase.Stunning limited edition of Oscar Wilde's "The... More

Price: $750.00

Les Soeurs Vatard

Hüysmans, J.-K. (Text by); J.-F. Raffaëlli (Illustrations by); Lucien Descaves (Preface by)

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs A. Ferroud. - F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1909. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/250. Quarto (10 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [4], vi, [2], 262, [2]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Tissue-guarded etched color frontispiece. Front cover and title with red and black lettering. Etched title... More

Price: $700.00

Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems

Alger Jr, Horatio

Boston: Loring, (1875). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 125pp. Original gold-stamped brown-purplish cloth with gold lettering on spine. Horatio Alger, Jr. was a 19th-century American author who was best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from poverty or humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security... More

Price: $675.00

Reminiscences [SIGNED]

MacArthur, Douglas

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Special Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed Douglas MacArthur on colophon. 893/1750. Quarto. viii, 438pp. original tan cloth with blind-stamped stars on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket; housed in brown paper-covered slipcase, brown stars and lettering on affixed tan band. Brown endpapers... More

Price: $675.00

Poems [WITH A SIGNED LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR]

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

London: Edward Moxon, 1848. Fifth edition. 12mo. (viii) 372pp. (2). Contemporary maroon morocco boards. Stamped motifs and lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. The front cover is missing. A signed letter from Tennyson to a friend, regarding his travel plans, dated "June 13th 1869", has been pasted onto the... More

Price: $675.00

Vie de Molière, avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages

Voltaire

Amsterdam: Jean Catuffe, 1739. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 92pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and borders on spine. Decorative endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initial. Second edition of Voltaire's critical essay on the life of Molière and his plays... More

Price: $675.00

La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]

Barbier, George (Illustrated by); René Boylesve, Albert Flament, Gérard d'Houville, René Bizet, and George Barbier (Text by)

Paris: Meynial, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 137, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces, and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921, "La Guirlande... More

Price: $650.00

Countdown, An Autobiography [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE THREE CREW MEMBERS OF APOLLO 8]

Borman, Frank; Robert J. Serling

New York: Silver Arrow Books - William Morrow, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 448pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over half cloth and paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Half-title inscribed and signed by the three crew members of Apollo 8, namely Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and... More

Price: $650.00

Le Serpent dans la Galère [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND THE ARTIST]

Duthuit, Georges (Text); André Masson (Illustrations by)

New York: Curt Valentin, 1945. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/425. Folio. 100, [2]pp. Original half grey cloth over illustrated paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by Georges Duthuit and André Masson, and dated September 17, 1945. Illustrated title page. Decorative initials. Collection of... More

Price: $650.00

Faust. Eine Tragödie von Goethe

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Jena: Eugen Diederichs, (1908-1909). Limited edition. Jubiläumsausgabe. Hardcover. 1/1000. 4to. 405,[1],pp. Full leather with blind-tooled decorations on front-and back board as well as spine. Gold-embossed title on cover. Raised bands. Clasps missing, but remnants of leather strips on edge of back board; two gold studs on fore edge of front..... More

Price: $650.00

Goethe's Werke: Goethe's nachgelassene Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Stuttgart/ Tübingen: Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1827-1833. Hardcover. 55 vol. in 28 books. Small 8vo ("Taschenausgabe"). All books are in half leather over marbled paper boards. Some volumes published during Goethe's lifetime. 10 volumes still retain the original green leather gold-stamped titles attached to spine. Some titles are loose but present (laid-in)... More

Price: $650.00

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824–1900, 5 Vols.

Houghton, Walter, E. et al

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv, 1194,xxii, 1221, xvii, 1012 (1), xx, 826, xiv, 923pp. Original printed dustjackets over red cloth with silver tooling and gilt lettering on spine, brodart protected, volume four with modern mylar. "The importance of Victorian periodicals to modern scholars can... More

Price: $650.00

The Works of Henrik Ibsen [SIGNED BY PUBLISHER]

Ibsen, Henrik

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911-1912. The Viking Edition, limited to 256 copies. Hardcover. Complete in 16 volumes. Octavo. Three-quarter cream cloth over paper-covered boards with printed title-label. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Ribbon marker. Some pages unopened as issued. Signed by publisher on limitation leaf in... More

Price: $650.00

The Royal Martyr: or, the History of the Life and Death of K. Charles I. [WITH] Eikon Basilike, or the Pourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings [WITH] A Vindication of King Charles the Martyr

King Charles I.

London: Richard Royston, 1693. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (1) 12, 288 (10), (1) 14, 272, 54pp. Modern brown leather with gilt ruling on covers, gilt tooling and lettering on spine; raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispieces. Dedicated "To The Kings most Excellent Majesty Charles II. By the Grace... More

Price: $650.00

L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune Selon Jules Laforgue, 1881-1886 [SIGNED, WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ETCHINGS]

Laforgue, Jules (Text by); [Jean] Jansem (Original etchings by)

Paris: Les Cent Une, 1974. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/122. Large quarto. 100, [8] loose pages, as issued. Uncut. Pages within printed wrappers in a decorative cloth chemise, housed in a matching decorative slipcase. Illustrated with four tissue-guarded original etchings by Jean Jansem, this striking edition of Jules Laforgue's "L'Imitation de... More

Price: $650.00

The Art of Papermaking [SIGNED]

Lalande, Joseph De; Richard MacIntyre Atkinson (trans.)

Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/355. 118pp. Three-quarter bronze floral decorated brown leather over brown burlap, gold lettering on spine. Unique color mottled/marbled endpapers. Forepage edges untrimmed as issued. The first English language translation of 'Art de Le Papier' by Joseph... More

Price: $650.00

Hell House [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]

Matheson, Richard

New York: The Viking Press, 1971. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated grey and blue dust jacket with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Dark blue cloth over black paper boards with silver and blue lettering on the spine. Not price clipped. Top edge of book... More

Price: $650.00

Adversaria, notae et emendationes in poetas Graecos quas ex schedis manuscriptis Porsoni apud Collegium SS. Trinitatis Cantabrigiae repositis deprompserunt et ordinarunt nec non indicibus instruxerunt Iacobus Henricus Monk A.M., Carolus Iacobus Blomfield A.M.

Porson, Richard

Leipzig: Gottl. Weigel, 1814. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii. 354(2)pp. Half leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine. Minor wear to leather and boards. Decorated page edges. Signature of previous owner to endpaper. Two-inch closed tear to bottom edge of endpaper. The original edition of works taken from manuscript notes of Richard... More

Price: $650.00

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Queen, Ellery, ed.

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak / B.G. Davis, 1945-1976. Softcover. Wrappers. Collection of eighty-seven issues. Covers are illustrated in color from 1945-1953. Small quarto. Vol. 8, #33, Aug. '46 is missing the back cover & front cover is loose at one staple; Vol. 11, #55, June '48 has tape on... More

Price: $650.00

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