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 about The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (18 vols
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 about After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. Ex-Library, first edition. Hardcover. Large square octavo. (xliii) [1] 152pp. + 148 pages in Arabic. 3/4 black pebbled leather over dark blue pebbled leather boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge in black. The book is an English language translation of the original letters and... More about The Letters of Abu L-'Ala of Ma'arrat Al-Numan
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 about Del primo libro de le lettere di M. Pietro Aretino; Il secondo libro de le lettere di M. Pietro...
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 about The Love Letters of Honoré de Balzac (1833-1842
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 about Ovid's Epistles: With His Amours. Translated into English Verse, By the Most Eminent Hands
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959-1966. Hardcover. Large octavos. Orange, black and white illustrated dust jackets, with white lettering on front cover, and black lettering on spine. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and publisher's device on spine. Inscribed and signed by the editor at the front free endpaper of the first... More about Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (4 vols.) [SIGNED
Charlottesville; London: University Press of Virginia, 1996-2001. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). LXX, [8], 549, [3]pp (Vol. 1); 505pp (Vol. 2); 483pp (Vol. 3); XXII, [2], 465, [3]pp (Vol. 4); XXIII, [5], 500, [4]pp (Vol. 5). Original photo-illustrated dust-jackets over green cloth, with gold and black... More about The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume 1, 1829-1859; Volume 2, 1860-1865; Volume 3, 1866-1870;...
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 about Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle Prepared for Publication by Thomas Carlyle. 3 Vols
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 about Graphic Illustrations of the Life and Times and Samuel Johnson, LL.D
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. Hardcover. 12mo. xiii, 206pp. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boads. With matching marbled endpapers. Ex-libris designed by W.T. Hopson. Pages untrimmed. Corners bumped. Fading to spine, with six compartments. Large paper edition. 1/150 numbered copies. In very good condition. More about Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody
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 about When Huck Finn Went Highbrow [INSCRIBED BY COUNTESS ESTELLE DOHENY
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 about Briefwechsel zwischen Christian Garve und Georg Joachim Zollikofer nebst einigen Briefen des...
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 about Precept and Example in the Instructive Letters of Eminent Men to their Younger Friends with Short...
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 about Wilde v Whistler: An Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986-1997. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1 (1865-1895): (xlii) 548pp. Vol.2 (1896-1900): (lxxxi) 790pp. Blue-Green dust jackets with white lettering on covers and spines. Vol.1, dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and publisher's device on the spine. Vol.2 with black buckram boards. These are the first 2... More about The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Volumes I & II
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 about Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott: Briefe, nebst einigen damit verwandten Briefen seiner Freunde;...
New York: Macmillan, 1954. First Am 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 staining to... More about The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers
St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavos. Green cloth boards, with gilt lettering on spines. Blue endpapers. The set is collection of personal letters and correspondences, and a detailed biography of the famed Romantic poet Robert Southey, as edited and organized by his son. Bindings with some... More about The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (complete in 6 vols
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 about The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to Ron by Jack Kolb on front free endpaper. Small Quarto. xix (i), 841pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light blue endpapers. Frontispiece. "Hallam is best remembered as the subject of what is, certainly... More about The Letters of Arthur Henry Hallam [INSCRIBED
Berlin: Vortrupp Verlag, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (1) 94 (2)pp. Original black clothe with black lettering Reichsbund emblem on debossed yellow labels of cover and spine. Color frontispiece. Reichsbund emblem on title page. War letters of German Jews killed in action edited by the National Coalition of German-Jewish Front... More about Kriegsbriefe gefallener Deutscher Juden
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 about The Letters of George Meredith
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 about Wilhelm von Humboldts Briefe an eine Freundin. 2-vol. set (Complete
Verona: Donald Windham, 1976. Limited edition. Softcover. 182/500. 333(3)pp. Original acetate dustjacket over illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on spine; housed in blue cloth slipcase. "In the 1940's, as now, Tennessee was mobile. I was stationary. And when we were in different places he wrote to me. I don't know... More about Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham