WOMEN IN LOVE.
London: Martin Secker, (1921). First trade edition. 8vo. 508, (4, publisher’s ads). Roberts A15c. Original brown cloth, gilt spine title. Owner’s name on front endpaper, text browned, else very good. More
Literature
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MEN IN PRINT ESSAYS IN LITERARY CRITICISM BY T. E. LAWRENCE.; Introduction by A. W. Lawrence
[London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. 4to. 59p., [i]. Quarter blue niger & cream cloth, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Slight rubbing to spine ends, cloth with slight foxing, top corners bumped. Number 472 of 500. More
MINORITIES; Edited by J.W. Wilson with a preface by C. Day Lewis
London: Bertram Rota & Jonathan Cape, 1971. 8vo. Original yellow quarter morocco, grey cloth boards, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Facsimiles of Lawrence's handwriting throughout. Number 43 of 125 signed by C. Day Lewis and J.W. Wilson. Small ink spot on fore edge, else a very good copy..... More
CRUSADER CASTLES, THE LETTERS.; WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. LAWRENCE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition. 1 of 56 copies issued for copyright purposes. 8vo. 29pp. Original printed cream wrappers, (somewhat darkened at the edges). Very good. O'BRIEN A191. More
THE DIARY.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition. 1 of 56 copies issued for copyright purposes. 8vo. 25pp. Original printed cream wrappers (a little darkened at the edges). Very good. O'BRIEN A195. More
AN ESSAY ON FLECKER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition. 1 of 56 copies issued for copyright purposes. 8vo. 4pp. Original printed cream wrappers (a little darkened at the edges). Very good. O'BRIEN A199. More
Debs and the Poets.
Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair, (c1920). Introduction by Upton Sinclair. First edition. Small 8vo. 99 pp. Inscribed on the front pastedown in the year of publication "From the author." Introduction: "[The contributors] have been moved to indignation by the treatment of [Eugene V. Debs] and they have expressed their indignation" in..... More
THE LIFE OF A LOVER. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS.
London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1804. 8vo. 6 volumes: xi, 320; 336; 314; 363; 298; 376 pp. Sophia Lee (1750-1824) was born of theatrical parents, and, as the oldest child, took care of her sisters when their mother died at an early age; her first work, a...... More
THE HUNDRED RIDDLES OF THE FAIRY BELLARIA
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1892. Pink cloth with pictorial borders on boards, title printed in red and black on front cover and spine. 17 x 14cm. Frontis. illustration, xii, 149pp. Numerous illustrations by the author. Some rubbing and light soiling to cloth. Leland was a popular writer at..... More
MADAME DE STAEL AND THE GRAND-DUCHESS LOUISE. A Selection from the Unpublished Correspondence of Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise of Saxe-Weimar, from 1800 to 1817. Together with a Letter to Bonaparte, First Consul; and Another to Napoleon, Emperor.; By the Author of "Souvenirs of Madame Recamier."
London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1862. 8vo; xxiii, 223 pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in green calf, with gilt-decorated spine and five raised bands, gilt borders, all edges gilt. A very good copy. With tipped-in autograph letter dated 8 August 1825 from French writer and politician Benjamin Constant to..... More
Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise: A Selection from the Unpublished Correspondence of Madame de Stael and the Grand-Duchess Louise of Saxe-Weimar, from 1800 to 1817; Together with a Letter to Bonaparte, First Consul and Another to Napoleon, Emperor, by the author of "Souvenirs of Madame Recamier"
London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1862. First edition in English (first published in French, the same year, in Paris). Small 8vo. xxiii, 223 pp. Tipped-in at the front is a two-page autograph letter from French writer and politician Benjamin Constant, dated 8 August 1825, to the poet Maurice de Guerin;..... More
Tony Butler
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1865. First edition. 12mo. 3 volumes: (4), 322; (4), 324; (4), 322 pp. Half-title to each volume. Later tan calf, gilt, thin gilt rules around edges of boards, with small corner ornaments, spines richly gilt with ornamentation, maroon morocco spine labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled..... More
THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE. DECORATIONS BY VALENTI ANGELO.
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. First edition. 1 of 300 copies hand-colored by the illustrator and signed by both Angelo and Lewis. 8vo. 153pp. Original rust cloth-backed yellow patterned boards, printed paper spine label. Corners bumped. Very good. More
THE CHILDERMASS: Section I.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. First edition, 1/225 copies (this #144) signed by the author. 8vo. (8), 322 pp. Original yellow buckram (some soiling), gilt spine title. Scattered light foxing, offset to endpapers, owner’s name on front endpaper, else very good. More
RUDE ASSIGNMENT: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-Date. Illustrated with works by the author.
8vo. 231 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, 22 plates. Advance copy, possibly for review, with many marginal pencil markings and notes in an unidentified hand. Original plain brown wrappers (spine partly eroded, other wear at the extremities). Still a good copy of a scarce issue of this title. More
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838.
Boston, (MA): James Munroe and Co., 1838. First edition. 8vo. 31 pp. BAL 5184. Cooke, p. 66. American Imprints 50212. In this address Emerson “cleared his mind once and for all of any remaining conviction that the Church as constituted was the place for scholars and prophets. He declared it..... More
THE ABYSMAL BRUTE
New York: The Century Co., 1913. First edition. Small 8vo. (4), 169, (1, publisher's ad). Frontispiece from a drawing by Gordon Grant. Boxing novel about a naive young man from the sticks who finds corruption in big-city boxing, made into two movies, "The Abysmal Brute" in 1923 starring Reginald Denny..... More
A Daughter of the Snows.; With illustrations in color by Frederick C. Yohn
Philadelphia, (PA): Lippincott, 1902. First edition. 8vo. 334 pp. Four color plates; half-title and ad leaf. With the ownership signatures of American philosopher George Herbert Mead and his sister-inlaw Mabel Wing Castle on the front endpaper; Mead (1863-1931), associated with the pragmatists at the University of Chicago, was one of..... More
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WATER CELEBRATION, Boston, October 25, 1848, Exercises at the Fountain. [caption title]
[Boston: np], 1848. Broadside. 29 x 22.5 cm. Old fold lines, with slight soiling along the folds. Order of exercises: I. Hymn by George Russell [printed in two columns]. II. Prayer by Rev. Daniel Sharp. III. Ode. By James Russell Lowell, Esq. To be sung by School Children. [8 verses..... More
THE OXFORD BOOK OF FRENCH VERSE: XIIIth Century - XXth Century
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. First edition. 12mo. xxxv, 553 pp. With a tipped-in autograph letter, signed by the French poet Pierre-Jean de Beranger, 28 October 1829, to a M. Becker, apparently an aspiring song writer who had sent Beranger some of his songs (some evidence of repair along..... More
AT THE MOON'S INN.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. 8vo. Blue cloth (dull), illustrated dust jacket (rubbed and a little worn around the edges). First edition. Novel of the DeSoto expedition. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Very good. More
THE LOUISIANA BOOK: Selections from the Literature of the State.; Illustrated with Portraits.
New Orleans: R. F. Straughan, Publisher, 1894. First edition. 26cm. xvii, 1l, 576pp., 2l. Frontis. illustration. Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt front board and spine. Wear to spine ends, rear hinge starting. Presentation copy from the editor to C. Van R. Cogswell. Historical sketches by Gayarre, Cable and others on..... More
The Far Familiar, Fifty New Poems. Frontispiece by Arthur Rackham.
London: Richards, (1938). First edition. Small 8vo. 79, (1) pp. Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket (bleedthrough at base of spine from old tape repair). (9639). More
Merope: tragedia..
Firenze: Per Leonardo Ciardetti, a spese del Gabinetta Letterario, 1817. 12mo. 108 pp., engraved frontispiece. Contemporary binding, probably English: green calf sides with diapered panels framed by gilt filets and corner-pieces around elaborate blind centerpieces of massed scroll, leaf, and flower tools; spine panels and bands tooled in gilt and..... More