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New York and London 161 Broadway: 6 Waterloo Place: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First edition. Issued as No. XXVII of Wiley & Putnam's Library of America. Whittier's second work of prose. Read More about Supernaturalism in New England
Price: $750
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. First edition, 8vo format (BAL gives no priority). Read More about The Divine Tragedy
Price: $100
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition, ads dated November 1863. Read More about In War Time and other Poems
Price: $100
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition, first issue, with the final page numbered 52, below the printer's slug. First edition of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead,” with frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter... Read More about Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl
Price: $550
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co. New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First edition, BAL binding B (no priority). Read More about Poems
Price: $150
Houghton, South Africa: 2 February 2007. On the legacy of Gandhi. Mandela recognizes Gandhi's legacy in South Africa and at large in a letter addressed to the members of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha. In part: "The influence of Gandhi had a profound affect throughout Africa, as a philosophical... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Nelson Mandela"), to the South African Hindu community, on...
Price: $12,500
Yellow Springs, OH: November 3, 1853. The "father of American public school" writes to accept the invitation of the State Teacher's Association of Ohio to deliver their annual address, and to express his admiration. In part: "I sincerely hope the time has now come when I can establish cordial relations... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Horace Mann"), to L. Andrews, accepting the invitation of the...
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Leipzig: J.F. Gleditischii, 1722. First edition. First edition of this seminal work in Greek lexicography, widely used in the Roman Catholic Church and remaining, through many later editions, a standard work in the pedagogy of ancient Greek throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Uncommon in first edition. Read More about Lexicon Manuale Graecum, omnibus sui generis lexicis … ut prima Vocum Graecarum ordine...
Price: $650
Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, [1794]. The Twelfth Edition. With Wilmington, DE, Bookbinder's Ticket. Read More about The Young Book-Keeper's Assistant: shewing him in the most plain and easy manner, the Italian way...
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London: W. Strange, 1837. First edition. Duncombe's issue. First Pickwick Adaptation. The first of what would be many dramatizations of the Pickwick Papers. The wrappers are for Duncombe's Acting Edition of the British Theatre, No 265. Read More about Peregrinations of Pickwick; a Drama, in Three Acts ... Printed from the Acting Copy, with...
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First edition, first issue, with p. [x] misnumbered xvi, etc. First edition of Dickens' brilliant, unflattering, and controversial (especially in America) account of his travels in America, along with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America one of the most famous and important accounts of the new... Read More about American Notes for General Circulation
Price: $2,000
Paris: FURME ET CIE, libraire éditeurs, 45, rue Saint André des Arts, 1864. Read More about Physiologie du Goût. Précédée d'une notice par Alp. Karr
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London: John Murray, 1837. First edition. Read More about A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea
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Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Company, [1904]. Second edition (first published in April 1904, 266 pp.). Early modern American vegetarian cookbook, including numerous recipes for protose (a gluten- and peanut-based food) and nuttolene, health foods invented and marketed by Kellogg’s Sanitas Nut Food Co. (among the advertisers in the... Read More about The Vegetarian Cook Book. [At head of title:] Substitutes for Flesh Foods
Price: $1,000
London: Timothy Atkins, 1717. First separate edition. Originally published in Swift's second book, Miscellanies in 1711, this is the scarce first separate edition. Only one copy appears in RBH, sold in 1968. Read More about An Argument to prove, That the Abolishing of Christianity in England, May, as Things now stand,...
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Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, [1977]. Second edition. Read More about Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos
Price: $500
Buenos Aires: Editorial Columba, [1967]. Signed. Borges the great reader presents an insightful and wide-ranging survey of American literature from Mather and Freneau to Cooper, Emily Dickinson, and O. Henry, from Eliot and Faulkner to Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Heinlein and Bradbury. Read More about Introducción a la literatura norteamericano
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Austin: University of Texas Press, [1964]. First edition in English. Signed. First appearance in English of Otras inquisiciones (1952), Borges’ outstanding collection of literary reflections. Attractive copy, signed by the master and dated 1968. Read More about Other Inquisitions 1937-1952. Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms. Introduction by James Irby
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Mexico: Fundo de Cultura Economica, [1965]. Second edition. Read More about Antiguas Literaturas Germanicas
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Buenos Aires: ECO, [1967]. Signed. Lecture on the literature of the fantastic, presented on 7 April 1967, touching upon Kafka, David Garnett’s Lady into Fox, the Arabian Nights, the dream of Chuang Tzu, H.G. Wells, Poe, and Oscar Wilde. With an item of Borges ephemera, the program for: ICA Presents Four..... Read More about La Literatura Fantástica. Conferencia pronunciada en la Escuela No 38 Camillo y Adriano...
Price: $750
Buenos Aires: Emece, [1965]. Second printing. Read More about El lenguaje de Buenos Aires
Price: $500
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Buenos Aires: Rueda, [1968]. The classic Argentine epic poem, El Gaucho Martin Fierro, with an introduction by Borges. Read More about Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges
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Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More about Las Kenningar
Price: $1,750
London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition, second issue (remainder binding). Read More about Etruscan Bologna
Price: $350
London: Published by the Royal Geographical Society. John Murray, 1873. First edition. Burton's contribution to this volumes ends on page 164. "He had, however, written two appendices, which, being of a controversial and critical nature [quelle surprise], were rejected by the R.G.S. These appendices ... were published privately at Trieste... Read More about The Lands of Cazembe. Acerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and Annotated by Capt....
Price: $750