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
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
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 Thirty-four unpublished Rilke letters to.....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
Parigi (Paris): Matteo il Maestro, 1609. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/2"). [7], 283 leaves (First vol.); [8], 325 leaves (Second vol.). Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title on spine. Engraved vignette of a medalion bearing the portrait of Pietro aretino on each title page. The author..... 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: 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
Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 440/475, Large Octavo. 59 (1)pp. Original gray half cloth over decorative boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers and title page. 'Letters written by Oscar Wilde during the summer of 1897 after his release from prison to Robert Ross, who had approached..... 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
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1945. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 399 (1), two double page plates. 468 (1)pp. , 4 plates. Original light green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, partly on light brown-stamped square. Frontispiece photographs. Publisher's devices and decorative ruling on title pages. A Wartime..... 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
Charlottenburg: Egbert Bauer, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 473 (1)pp. Bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt ruling on covers and spine, here with tooling and gilt lettering on green label. Marbled endpapers. Green ribbon marker. Published by his sister Bettina von Arnim posthumously, as demanded in writing..... More
Leipzig: Weidmann, 1774. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in one. 8vo. viii. 487 (1)pp. 230pp. Original paper covered boards. Red page edges. Two title pages, both illustrated. Printers devices. Life and letters of renowned German poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769). Fold-out copper plate at end. Age wear to binding, especially at..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvii, 611 (1)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over red cloth with gilt publisher's device, lettering and ruling on spine. Work attempting to provide a much-needed collected edition. It brings together published, unpublished, Misses Lawrence, complete letters to Admiral Maxse and Leslie Stephens unedited..... More
Leipzig: Insel, 1910. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XX, 405, [3], [2], 426, [6]pp. Original gold-stamped blue cloth. Top edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Each title page in red and black lettering. Remarkable 2-vol. set compiling Wilhelm von Humboldt's letters to his female friend Charlotte Hildebrand Diede. Throughout his entire life..... More