Manuscript. Loose leaf. In original black wooden frame (11 1/2 x 14 3/4"), gilt ruling; with copperplate engraving (6 1/2 x 4") with oval mat and original letter (8 1/8 x 5 1/4") pasted to black mat, protected by glass. Dear friend, I sent your theater ticket last night by..... More
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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1880. Original letter. Loose leaf. Small Octavo (7 x 4 1/2"). 6pp. Original letter penned onto heavy light blue paper, taped together at left edge. R. Duckworth letter, with header 32. Abercorn Place (St, John's Wood), close to Regent's Park, and Abbey Road with the..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 1970-1995. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering over green labels on the spines. Includes vol.1-10, 12-18, 23. This is a collection of the letters and correspondence of the famed Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle. This..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiii [i], 593 [1]pp. Original full calf with gilt ruling on covers and spine with gilt lettering on dark brown label of spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Hand-colored frontispiece engraving of "Camp of Hasan, A Bedouin Chief". A portion of the work..... More
Paris: Le Normant, Impr.-Libraire, 1805. New edition, revised and corrected. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [4] 308, [4] 366, [4] 272, [4] 283, [4] 359pp. Original calf with decorative framing on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spines. Marbled edges. Brown endpapers. Each volume with frontispiece engraving and tissue guard, printed by Maradan..... More
Constantinopel [i.e. Rostock]: [Stiller], 1794. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxii, 290. Original gray paper boards. With a preface by the editor praising the advantages of the highly improved postal service of the time, transporting mail and passengers. Highly entertaining collection of ten mostly anonymous letters contemplating and expressing thoughts, including..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1941. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 73/350. Quarto. 83 (1)pp. Original vellum covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar, in light plum paper-covered slipcase. Top edge gilt. Title page with etching by Mario Vellani-Marchi. Top and bottom edges uncut. Thirty-four unpublished Rilke letters to..... More
London: G. Wells, 1682. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts, small octavo. Collation: A2, [star]8, B-O8, P2; (second series) K-2H8, 2I4 (= 296 leaves). [20], 211, [1 blank], 129-487, [1 blank]pp. Index of letters bound between the reader's preface and the Life of Morin. Texts in Latin, with occasional passages in..... More
London: Downey & Co., 1901. First English language edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xvi,351pp. 329,ixpp. Gold-lined blue calf over marbled boards with gold decoration on spine. Hand-bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon markers. Ex-libris of Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson (* see below) on free..... More
London: NP. Original manuscript letter. Loose leaf. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2") John Tenniel (1820-1914) illustrated the classic versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The one-page letter introduces his friend as a candidate for the post of Medical Inspector to the Artist's Annuity Fund. It is..... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1729. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 1 plate, (24)pp. 1 plate, 348pp., 11 plates, with tissue guards. 19th century three-quarter calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine, over marbled boards with guilt ruling; raised bands, protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers..... More
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 397, 399, 341 (24)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Black endpapers. "The letters which form these volumes were placed in my hands by Mr. Carlyle in 1871. They are annotated throughout by himself. The few additional observations..... More
London: John Murray, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated with sketchings and letters from Johnson's life. Water staining to top of pages, not affecting text or images. Corners bumped. Some wear to boards and spine. Good condition. More
Leiden: Brill, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (10), 264pp. Index and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with black spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 3 photographs. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). An edition of the scholarly letters of..... More
New York: Thomas F. Madigan, Inc., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Original half vellum over blue paper covered boards, with facsimile of Mark Twain's signature printed on front board and gold lettering on spine. Ex-libris of Lucy Smith Battson (ex Lucy Doheny) on free front endpaper. Inscription of..... More
Breslau: Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1804. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 466pp. Marbled paper covered boards with red label at spine. Red page edges. Printed on high quality paper. Letter exchange between acclaimed Enlightenment philosopher Christian Garve and Swiss theologist and church song composer Georg Joachim Zellikofer (for both: see below). Minor..... More
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825. Hardcover. Duodecimo. (xv) 272pp. Textured dark brown leather boards with gilt ruling on the covers. Spine with gilt lettering on a black label, and gilt-stamped floral motifs. Brown speckled edges of book block. Gilt tooling along the edges of the covers. Engraved frontispiece. The work..... More
Paris: Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, (1946). Limited edition. Softcover. 911 of Nos. 101 to 1600 on white vellum. Quarto. 160(3)pp. Original handmade textured gray artists wraps with red vignette and black lettering on cover, housed in light gray cardboard clamshell box with light blue Rilke initials and black lettering on cover..... More
Paris: Calmann Levy, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). [2] 55, [1], 316pp. Original half pebbled cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This volume comprises 91 never-published-before letters written by the Genevan philosopher..... More
St. Louis: Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "Mr. & Mrs. E. B. Butler with regards of W. K. Bixby St Louis 2/20/23" on front endpaper. 1/250. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original green quarter-cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering and decorative ruling on cream label..... More
London: Privately Printed, 1906. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover. 400 copies on small quarto paper, and 100 large paper copies on demy octavo paper, have been printed of this brochure. Contains a review by Oscar Wilde on Whistler's famous "Ten O'Clock-Lecture" given on February..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xxvii, 272 [1]pp., 10 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original light brown three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and tooling on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black..... More
New York [Oxford]: Macmillan [Blackwell], 1954. First British edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xvi, 732 pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and d/j. Minor wear to edges. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. One corner worn. Dj chipped to head and tail of spine. Minor creasing. Some..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and black label of spine, in original dustjacket with red and black lettering on spine. Green top edge. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton, "The letters Rilke wrote during..... More
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xliv, 568, vii, 569-1119pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with gray and white lettering on spine, housed in a black slipcase with printed red label on spine. Violet endpapers. Frontispiece in both volumes. "Here we have not only..... More