Price: $1,750
London: Printed & Sold by J. Fentum No. 78 corner of Salisbury Street, Strand, n.d. [c. 1770-1781]. A Jovial Jig to TNUC. A very rare bawdy song issued by Fentum, music engraver, seller and publisher, who was at this address from ca. 1770-1781. The key is in F, the meter..... Read More Item Details for T N U C or the Roundelay Add to Wish List
Item #27690
Price: $3,000
n.p: v.d., ca. 1818-1839. 'Stanzas by the Countess of Blessington' and 4 Autograph Letters Signed. 1: “Stanza’s [sic] by The Countess of Blessington.” 1p. on folded sheet. A 16-line, 4 stanza poem opening with the line, “Like some lone Bird who in a Cage Confined …” 2: Autograph letter signed..... Read More Item Details for Collection of 4 autograph letters to various recipients and one fair copy poetical manuscript, in addition with one autograph letter by Lord Blessington to Sir William Gell Add to Wish List
Item #300351
Price: $15,000
Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1845. Presented by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Edith Marion Story, from her affectionate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rome - Dec 26 - 59.” Edith Story (1844-1907) was the daughter and youngest child of the expatriate American sculptor, lawyer..... Read More Item Details for Margherita Pusterla, racconto di Add to Wish List
Item #220208
Price: $11,500
Amsterdam: T.B. Elwe, 1794. First edition. 53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This significant contribution to late eighteenth-century botanical art ably demonstrates the superiority of Dutch horticulture in the period. The 53 plates include stunning illustrations of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas, many of them further..... Read More Item Details for Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden Add to Wish List
Item #300498
Price: $16,000
Poulton-Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral: 1951-1952; published by Cassel, 1953. First Publication of the Diaries of Lewis Carroll: the Editor's Manuscript. Before the publication of this work, the Diaries of Lewis Carroll had been largely unavailable after their temporary disappearance following the publication of Collingwood's THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL..... Read More Item Details for Editor's Holograph Manuscript of THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL, NOW FIRST EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED by ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. Vol. I: 1855-67 Vol. II: 1867-98 Add to Wish List
Item #222605
Price: $10,000
Los Angeles: 29 May 1942. Chandler Sells Part of His Soul. Chandler assigns film rights for his third novel, completed in March 1942, here still bearing his original title, The Brasher Doubloon as well as the alternate title that Chandler gave it at Blanche Knopf’s suggestion. The High Window was..... Read More Item Details for Original Typed Document, signed in ink (“Raymond Chandler”), dated 29 May 1942, assigning exclusive motion picture rights for his unpublished book “entitled BRASHER DOUBLOON (alternate title HIGH WINDOW)” Add to Wish List
Item #233756
Price: $900
London: [Printed for T. Payne and Son,], 1777. First edition, second state of C4, canceled and omitting the phrase "and were probably composed by him" Chatterton, who committed suicide at the age of 17, became a veritable symbol to the Romantics of a tragic genius misunderstood by his contemporaries, a...... Read More Item Details for Poems, Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century Add to Wish List
Item #252928
Price: $11,000
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1886. First edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. The first edition in publisher's cloth of perhaps Hardy's greatest novel — one of only 758 copies printed, of which just 600 were bound. In uncommonly fresh condition. Read More Item Details for The Mayor of Casterbridge: the Life and Death of a Man of Character Add to Wish List
Item #300887
Price: $3,500
Kent: Private Press of Lee Priory by Johnson and Warwick, 1815. First edition. ONLY COPY ON INDIA PAPER; and the other copy one of an edition of 80 copies. UNIQUE COPY ON INDIA PAPER, IN A HAYDAY BINDING. A lovely Hayday binding housing a regular copy and then another copy..... Read More Item Details for Breton's Praise of Virtuous Ladies. Edited by Egerton Brydges Add to Wish List
Item #257690
Price: $12,500
N.p: March 10, 1864. 'Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with golden hair': The Children's Hour. Beautiful presentation of this fair copy by Longfellow of one of his most delightful poems, "The Children's Hour" [ ... ] Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, of "The Children's Hour," Signed ("Henry W. Longfellow") Add to Wish List
Item #239709
Price: $7,500
[Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street, Bond Street, 1819. First edition, one of 250 copies, without initial blank. Hoe Copy of Shelley's verse drama. First edition of Shelley's dramatization of this dark tale of parricide, child abuse, and incest — based on actual events — and..... Read More Item Details for The Cenci. A Tragedy Add to Wish List
Item #219217
Price: $2,750
[London: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street (Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair), c. 1843]. First edition. 'Liberty is dead!' — Political Tract by Shelley. According to Wise: "In 1843, when advertising the present pamphlet for sale, Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an..... Read More Item Details for "We Pity the Plumage, but Forget the Dying Bird." An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Charlotte. By The Hermit of Marlow Add to Wish List
Item #245808
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[Harold Wollvine Dickins], 1923. A series of 5 etchings of New York City scenes by the Russian-Scottish artist and architect William Walcot (1874-1943) William Walcot was a Scottish-Russian architect, architectural draftsman, graphic artist, and etcher known for his adoption of the Art Nouveau style and the many buildings he designed..... Read More Item Details for [Five etchings of New York City scenes] "Brooklyn Bridge," "Park Avenue," Forty-Second Street," "Battery Park," and "Lower Broadway" Add to Wish List
Item #300442
Price: $7,500
London: Longman, Rees , Orme, Brown, Green and Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition. Presentation Copy to the Earl of Lonsdale. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publishers "From the Author" on the half-title and in a presentation binding. A fine provenance: sonnets XLII and XLIII (pp. 228-9) are addressed..... Read More Item Details for Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #219489