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Selections From the Poetry of Robert Herrick
by Robert Herrick and Edwin A. Abbey  Notes New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. Folio, 24x30cm. 188pp. First edition. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, red, black and ochre. Rebacked, retaining the original backstrip; new endpapers. All edges gilt. Engraved illustrations throughout by...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith and Arthur Rackham Notes Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [no date]. Large octavo, 19x25cm. [232pp]. First edition thus. Original blue-grey cloth, front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham...
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Race Rock 1st Edition
by Peter Matthiessen Notes New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1ED, 306pp. Good/Fair: Blue cloth spine with black boards, yellow titles on spine; book is clean & binding is tight, small 39cent ink-stamp on rear paste down; DJ has very light soiling on rear panel; there is some...
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Rare Books: $75.00 Hardcover
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Man and Wife, 1st Edition US
by Wilkie Collins Notes NY: Harper Brothers, 1870. First edition. Tall octavo in brown Victorian cloth with title in gold on spine. Chip out of the cloth on top of spine. Front hinge weak. Browning to text. This is Collins' rarest work. A story dealing with domestic abuse...
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Rare Books: $350.00 Hardcover
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Some Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to E. H. N. Patterson of Oquawka, Illinois, with Comments by Eugene Field, Limited Edition
by Edgar Allan Poe Notes Chicago: The Caxton Club, (1898). Quarto, 22x29cm. 32pp. Limited edition, one of 186 unnumbered copies, printed on handmade paper. Original red cloth, printed paper label mounted on both boards. Contains 6 tipped-in facsimiles. Spotting to the front...
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After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
by Oscar Wilde Notes Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. Limited edition of 400 copies of which this is number 392. 8vo. 59pp. Decorated paper over boards. No DJ. Pages are good. Binding is good. Boards have some soiling and bumped corners. Gilt letters on spine are fading...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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Story of O 1st Edition US
by Pauline Reage Notes Grove Press NY NY 1965 1st US Edition Translated from the French by Sabine d'Estate. Book is clean, spine ever so slightly cocked from reading. Dust Jacket in mylar, has two 1" tears at upper right back of jacket. G/P 6-26-2008...
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Rare Books: $1200.00 Set Hardcover
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The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 2 Volumes Signed
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Notes Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. 2 volumes. Duodecimo, 12x18cm. xxix,293pp; xiv,336pp. Reprint edition, with an ALS from Dante Gabriel Rossetti tipped onto the front free endpaper of volume 1. In addition, two bookplates bear the signature of...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Leather
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Cider House Rules 1st Edition Thus Signed
by John Irving Notes Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1985 Limited 1ed 548pp (Full leather stamped in gilt; raised bands; all edges gilt; "privately printed and personally signed by John Irving exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society"; frontispiece by...
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Rare Books: $160.00 Hardcover
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Book of Ruth 1st Edition Signed
by Jane Hamilton Notes new york: ticknor & fields, 1988. 1ED 328pp. Quarter bound in black cloth over gray boards; Hamilton's first novel which presents an exquisitely written and modern analogue for the biblicaal story which pertains to the great great grandmother of King...
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Der Goldkafer und Andere Novellen Limited Edition
by Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Kubin Notes Munich: Georg Muller, 1910. Quarto, 17x25cm. 171pp. Limited edition, number 193 of 1000 copies. Original quarter japon vellum, black paper over boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Text in German, translated by Gisela Etzel. 14...
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Rare Books: $400.00 Hardcover
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Shapes of Clay 1ST Edition 1ST State
by Ambrose Bierce Notes San Francisco: W.E.Wood, 1903 First edition, first state, octavo in deep green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt & purple; [i]-xvi, [1]-396pp. On laid paper w/untrimmed fore & lower edges, top edge gilt. Page 71, lines 5 & 6 transposed, as per BAL 1122...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Hardcover
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The Bridge in the Jungle 1st US Edition
by B. Traven Notes New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Octavo, 13.5x19.5cm, 286pp. 1st US edition. Original green cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Minor sunning to the edges of the boards. Some staining to the joints, possibly from internal glue. Dust jacket is edgeworn with...
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Rare Books: $2500.00 Set Hardcover
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes (16 Volumes)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Notes Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891-1896. 16 vols., Large Paper Edition no.114 of 275. Full blue morocco with ornate gilt cover and spine panel design. Inner covers also full morocco w/ red morocco inlaid and gilt rule. Recto of front feps...
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Rare Books: $120.00 Hardcover
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Master of the Revels a Comedy in Four Acts 1st Edition Signed
by Don Marquis Notes Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Red cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. Spine sunned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. VG+/no jacket...
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Rare Books: $150.00 Leather
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Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. With Several of His Most Intimate Friends, 2 Volumes
by William Cowper Notes London: Henry Colburn, 1824. 2 volumes. Octavo, 13x22cm. First edition. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards; spines with compartments decorated in gilt and blind, gilt-stamped morocco labels. Each volume with a portrait frontispiece. Boards...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Set Hardcover
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The Marble Faun, 1st Edition US, 2 Volumes
by Nathaniel Hawthorne Notes Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 1st US Edition (preceded by a week by the UK Edition), 2 volumes. Volume 1 has a weakening hinge, some chips to the head and the foot of the spine, volume 2 is badly cocked, with some wear to the head and the foot of the...
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Rare Books: $600.00 Hardcover
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The Old Man and the Sea 1st Edition
by Ernest Hemingway Notes New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Octavo, 14.5 x 21 cm. 140pp. First edition. Original light blue cloth, front board stamped in blind, spine stamped in silver. In an unclipped second state dust jacket (with the author's photographic portrait on...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Leather
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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In Which Are Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, 2 Volumes
by Tobias Smollett and George Cruikshank Notes London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. 2 volumes. Octavo, 11x17cm. 422pp, 448pp. First edition thus, illustrated by George Cruikshank, in a fine signed binding by Zaehnsdorf. Full 19th century tan calf panelled in gilt, inner dentelles gilt; spines with...
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Rare Books: $3000.00 Slipcase
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Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel
by Henry Miller Notes Tucson: Loujon Press, 1966. Orange Oasis Limited Edition. Hand printed and bound with many gorgeous colored and textured papers, & breathtaking delicate laid-in japanese sheets. Includes original photographic portrait of Miller bound in. Orange Oasis...
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