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HUDIBRAS, A Poem, By Samuel Butler, with Notes, Selected from Grey and Other Authors; to Which are Prefixed, A Life of the Author, and a Preliminary Discourse on the Civil War, &c. In Two Volumes. A New Edition Embellished with Engravings
London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 1819. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vos. Later olive leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles and decorative blindstamp to spine with five raised bands. Minor rubbing to extremities. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown. Some foxing internally. Else clean and sound. 12 aquatints, all.....
THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX and Other Short Fiction
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. First edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Full leather with three raised spine bands and titles and decorations gilt. AEG. Moire endpapers, ribbon marker. A very fine copy. Unread. Bright, tight and sharp. A lovely production. 305pp. True first edition, preceding trade. Part of the First.....
Lettres intimes, 1842-1845. Précédées de ma soeur Henriette par Ernest Renan
Paris: Calmann-Levy, nd. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Very good in later quarter leather over marbled boards. Pages toning. Starting at title page. Else a clean and sound example. Handsome edition. 408pp.
UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. First edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Full leather with three raised spine bands and titles and decorations gilt. AEG. A very fine copy. Unread. Bright, tight and sharp. A lovely production. True first edition of this posthumous Faulkner collection. 660pp. with notes and biobliography.
THE PLAYS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY
London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Rebound in full green leather and marbled endpapers. Three bands and gilt titles to spine. Very good plus to near fine, Minor edgewear. Faint foxing to edges. Quite handsome. 1150pp. Collects 27 of Galsworthy's plays.
AFTER SCHOOL DAYS: A Story for Girls
Boston: D Lothrop Co, (1887). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's original decortive cloth. Very good. Minor rubbing, shelfwear. Slight lean. A few stary pencil marks here and there. Clean and sound overall. Scarce first-person juvenile novel from the author of "How They Learned Housework." 196pp. plus ads.
Die Geschichte der Bürgerkriege von Granada. Aus dem Altspanischen übertragen von Paul Weiland. Mit einem Vorwort von Paul Ernst. Mit altitaliensichen Holzschnitten.
München: Georg Müller, 1913. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vos. Half leather over beautifully-designed and subtly-patterned floral boards with intricately gilt spine. Complete in two volumes. Very good with minor rubbing overall, a couple of bumped corners. Two scuffs to rear paper-covered board of Vol. II. Else an exceptionally elegant and lovely.....
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Gesammelte Werke Dritter Band: Niels Lyhne & Novellen, Briefe, Gedichte [Two Volumes]
Jena und Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1905. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full vellum with ornate gilt floral theme and titles to front board and spine. TEG. Very good to near fine. Minor rubbing, toning to vellum. Occasional foxing. Else clean, sound, and remarkably bright. Handsome edition of two of the great Danish.....
ARCHITEC-TONICS: The Tales of Tom Thumtack, Architect
New York: The William T. Comstock Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and red to front, gilt lettering at spine. Color frontispiece and title page, profusely illustrated in partial-page, black-line woodcuts throughout. Spine cloth, lettering faded. Front illustration shelf rubbed, areas.....
THE RED BOOK OF HEROES
London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green, 1909. First edition. Leather Bound. 12mo. Contemporary rebind of 3/4 red Morocco over marbled boards. AEG. Original decorative cover and spine bound in. Raised band and gilt titles/designs to spine. Marbled endpapers. Near fine with small scuff/rubbing to top of spine. Else bright.....
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CORRESPONDENCE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL THE LIBERATOR [Complete in Two Volumes]
London: Johh Murray, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vos. Contemporary half-leather over marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Gilt titles and five raised bands to spines. TEG. Frontis portrait to volume one. Very good or better. Some rubbing to edges of leather. Else a clean, sound, and very handsome set. Edited with.....
DES LUFTSCHIFFERS GIANNOZZO SEEBUCH. ALMANACH FÜR MATROSEN, WIE SIE SEIN SOLLTEN
Lepzig: Insel-Verlag, 1912. First edition thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by Emil Preetorious, first edition thus. 8vo. Original illustrated boards. Very good plus to near fine with just minor wear, rubbing. With cover and 16 striking full-page illustrations by the noted stage designer, perhaps best known for his ground-breaking Wagner sets. A......
Gargantua und Pantagruel. Aus dem Französischen verdeutscht durch Gottlob Regis
Munchen und Leipzig: Georg Muller, 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete in two volumes, beautifully bound in matching original parchment with elaborately gilt vignette borders; four raised bands and gilt titles to spine. TEG. Silk bookmarks to both volumes. Very good to near fine, with some minor wear/bumping to the edge of.....
PAUL GAUGUIN 1848-1903
Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1925. Second edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Handsomely rebound in quarter navy leather over marbled boards; red leather label and artist pallette vignette to spine. Striking Art Deco octopus-themed endpapers. Edges speckled. Joints well-rubbed, though sound, with some chipping. Shelfwear to board edges. Very good overall.....
The Life of Pasteur
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1923. Later edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Handsomely rebound half-leather over blue cloth with five raised spine bands and gilt titles with decorative elements. Minor rubbing to edges. Remnants of PO bookplate to front pastedown. Offsetting from leather to ffep and pastedown. TEG. Very good.....
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