Butcher's Moon.
New York: Random House, 1974. Stated first edition. Read More about Butcher's Moon
Price: $200
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Ten Years in South Africa: Only Complete and Authentic History of the British German Legion in South Africa and the...
[Chicago: B. S. Wasson & Co, 1892]. First Edition. Read More about Ten Years in South Africa: Only Complete and Authentic History of the British German Legion in...
Price: $150
Superbly Bound with hand-colored plates throughout
The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar. Translated into English Verse by Abraham Moore.
Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. The Olympic Edition, of 12 on Royal Japanese vellum, this copy unnumbered. Superbly Bound with hand-colored plates throughout. From the most deluxe and smallest edition of Breviary Treasures series, which also included the Athenian Edition (100 copies on Royal Japan), the Tiber..... Read More about The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar. Translated into English Verse by Abraham Moore
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Superbly Bound with hand-colored plates throughout
Sayings of Epictetus.
Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1904. The Olympic Edition, of 12 on Royal Japanese vellum, this copy unnumbered. Superbly Bound with hand-colored plates throughout. From the most deluxe and smallest edition of Breviary Treasures series, which also included the Athenian Edition (100 copies on Royal Japan), the Tiber..... Read More about Sayings of Epictetus
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Confessions.
N.p. [London?]: Privately printed by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1904. A beautiful set of the first unabridged translation of the complete Confessions. Read More about Confessions
Price: $750
The Burning of the Brothel.
(London: Printed at the Goliard Trust for Turret Books, 1966). First edition, number 20 of 75 numbered copies Signed by Ted Hughes, of a total edition of 300. Read More about The Burning of the Brothel
Price: $350
Finely bound with a tipped-in signature
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co, 1910. Seventh edition. Finely bound with a tipped-in signature. Read More about The Five Nations
Price: $600
Finely Bound, with an Autograph Letter, Signed
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. Finely Bound, with an Autograph Letter, Signed. The letter, on a folded 8vo sheet, is undated..... Read More about Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
Price: $3,500
In Inlaid Binding by Rivière
Everybody’s Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged and Edited by O.F. Morshead.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1935. Shepard, Ernest H. In Inlaid Binding by Rivière. The inlay is based on one of Shepard’s illustrations of Pepys dressed in a long coat, vest and collar, holding a candle and yawning, illustrative of Pepys’ famous line - “And so to bed.” The inlay..... Read More about Everybody’s Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged and Edited by O.F. Morshead
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Imagist Anthology 1930 … Forewords by Ford Madox Ford & Glenn Hughes.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First American edition, one of 1000. Read More about Imagist Anthology 1930 … Forewords by Ford Madox Ford & Glenn Hughes
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Astarte. A Fragment of Truth Concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron.
London: Christophers, 1921. New edition, with Many Additional Letters, Edited by Mary Countess of Lovelace. NO. 66 OF 125 COPES FOR SALE IN ENGLAND. Lays out the case against Byron, with all the evidence in letters and testimony, in the matter of Lady Byron and Augusta Leigh; i.e., the allegation..... Read More about Astarte. A Fragment of Truth Concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron
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The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State of the Republic of Florence. Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes...
London: printed for T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Robson, New Bond-Street; G. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; T. Becket, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, Strand, 1775. Second edition, corrected. This translation first published in two volumes in 1762. Includes Machiavelli's The Prince, Art of War, History of Florence and more..... Read More about The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State of the Republic of Florence. Translated from...
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Forster on Authorship, the Reader, & Anonymity
Anonymity An Enquiry.
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. The Hogarth Essays XII. Forster on Authorship, the Reader, & Anonymity. Read More about Anonymity An Enquiry
Price: $100
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. Translated from the French.
London: Printed for Longman and Co.. 1839. A New and Improved Edition. Read More about The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians,...
Price: $1,750
INSCRIBED BY HARDY
A Laodicean.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited St. Dunstan's House, 1890. new Edition. INSCRIBED BY HARDY. Inscribed on the half-title, "You Faithfully Thomas Hardy." Read More about A Laodicean
Price: $1,500
The first collected writings of Jefferson, in a contemporary binding
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Charlottesville, VA: Published by F. Carr, and Co, 1829. First edition. The first collected writings of Jefferson, in a contemporary binding. The first collected writings of Thomas Jefferson, issued three years after the sage's death and edited by his grandson and the executor of his estate, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The..... Read More about Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas...
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The Jungle Book [with:] The Second Jungle Book.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1932, 1915. Uniform editions, later printings. Nicely Bound Copy of a Beloved Book. Writing from his home in Vermont, but drawing on his memories of his Anglo-Indian youth and his studies in Eastern philosophy, Kipling wrote a timeless mythical cycle of stories about the man-cub, Mowgli..... Read More about The Jungle Book [with:] The Second Jungle Book
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The Charity of Charles Dickens: His Interest in the Home for Fallen Women and a History of the Strange Case...
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1929. First edition, one of 425 copies. Read More about The Charity of Charles Dickens: His Interest in the Home for Fallen Women and a History of the...
Price: $100
Orphans of the Sky.
London: Gollancz, 1963. First edition, preceding the American. Classic Heinlein, originlly published in Astounding. Uncommon. Read More about Orphans of the Sky
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Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition, first state, unexpurgated, with the poem by Siegfried Sassoon on pp. 341-343. With the fine poem by Sassoon, transcribed from a letter written to Graves; the story of the poem's suppression in later issues is well known. Read More about Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography
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Methuselah's Children.
London: Gollancz, 1963. First U.K. editiion. Read More about Methuselah's Children
Price: $150