An Ideal Husband. By the author of Lady Windermere’s Fan.
London: Leonard Smithers & Co, 1899. First edition, trade issue, one of 1000 copies printed. Read More about An Ideal Husband. By the author of Lady Windermere’s Fan
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Ireland: Its Character, & c.
London: Jeremiah How, 209, Piccadilly, 1846. A New Edition. Read More about Ireland: Its Character, & c
Price: $650
Memoirs of the Different Rebellions of Ireland, from the Arrival of the English, with a particular detail of that which...
Dublin: Printed by Robert Marchbank for John Milliken, 32, Grafton Street and John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1801. Read More about Memoirs of the Different Rebellions of Ireland, from the Arrival of the English, with a...
Price: $900
The Beauties of Ireland; Being Original Delineations , Typographical, Historical and Biographical, of Each County.
London: Sherwood Jones & Co. Paternoster Row, 1825. First Edition. Read More about The Beauties of Ireland; Being Original Delineations , Typographical, Historical and...
Price: $400
Satire & Fiction...Preceded by The History of a Rejected Review by Roy Campbell.
London: The Arthur Press 53, Ossington Street, Bayswater. Enemy PamphletsNo. 1. Read More about Satire & Fiction...Preceded by The History of a Rejected Review by Roy Campbell
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A.O. Barnabooth. Son journal intime avec trente-deux gravures à l'eau-forte par Chas Laborde.
Paris: NRF, 1944. First illustrated edition, no. 206 of 320 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Montgolfier. Read More about A.O. Barnabooth. Son journal intime avec trente-deux gravures à l'eau-forte par Chas Laborde
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Par-delà bien et mal. La généalogie de la morale. Textes et variantes établis par G. Colli et M. Montinari. Traduits...
Paris: Gallimard, [1971]. Oeuvres philosophiques complètes, tome VII. New French edition of Nietzsche’s Jenseits von Gut und Bösen (1886) and its sequel. Read More about Par-delà bien et mal. La généalogie de la morale. Textes et variantes établis par G. Colli et...
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Humain, trop humain. Un livre pour esprits libres. I. Fragments posthumes 1876-1878 [and:] II. Fragments posthumes 1878-1879. Textes et variantes...
Paris: Gallimard, [1968]. Oeuvres philosophiques complètes, tome III. Read More about Humain, trop humain. Un livre pour esprits libres. I. Fragments posthumes 1876-1878 [and:] II....
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Astaroth.
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929. First edition, no. LVII of 109 copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma, watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Collection of short stories. Read More about Astaroth
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Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain.
Paris: A l'Emancipatrice, 1917. First edition. Alain was the pseudonym of French educator and philosopher Émile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951). He was a professor at the Lycée Henri IV, Paris, from 1909 to 1933 and had a profound influence upon the thinking of his students, who included Simone Weil, Raymond Aron, André..... Read More about Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain
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Vasco.
Paris: Librairie Plon, [1927]. First edition, no. CLXXIX of 200 numbered copies on velin pur fil Lafuna. Novel of Paris and Tahiti taking its title and protagonist from a phrase of Mallarmé, “Par son chant refleté jusqu’au sourire du pâle Vasco”. Published as no. 22 of the series Le Roseau..... Read More about Vasco
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The Works of.
Dublin: Maunsel & Company, Limited, 96 Middle Abbey Street, 1910. First Collected Edition. Vol 1. In the shadow of the glen. Riders to the sea. The well of the saints. The tinker's wedding.-- Vol. 2. The playboy of the western world. Deirdre of the sorrows. Poems. Translations from Petrarch. Translations..... Read More about The Works of
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Judge Mellon's Sons.
Privately Printed, 1948. First edition, one of 1500. The autobiography of William Larimer Mellon, founder of Gulf Oil, and nephew to Andrew Mellon. Read More about Judge Mellon's Sons
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Ce Que Je Crois. Avec les objections faites par quelques lecteurs et les réponses a ces objections.
Paris: Grasset, [1952]. First edition, review copy, wrapper marked S.P. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, “A Mlle M. A. [Niering?] cordialement André Maurois”. Originally published by Grasset as a 48-page chapbook in his Cahiers irréguliers series, Ce Que Je Crois soon sold out and and provoked responses..... Read More about Ce Que Je Crois. Avec les objections faites par quelques lecteurs et les réponses a ces objections
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A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, Intended as an Accompaniment to Melish’s...
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1818. Third edition. "Issued to accompany Melish's Map of the United States, which was sold separately and accompanied none of the editions" (Howes). Read More about A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish...
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D'homme à homme.
[Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan: Imprimé en Normandie pour Pierre Bettencourt], 1957. First edition. Typographic artist book and philosophical anthology from the press of literary prankster Pierre Bettencourt (1917-2006), with passages from Pascal, Michaux, Baudelaire, Borges, Donne, Eckhart, Gandhi, Gide, Goethe, Hallaj, Heidegger, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Racine, Rimbaud, Sartre, and others. The passages are..... Read More about D'homme à homme
Price: $500
One of 100 copies
Corps et Biens.
Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1930. First edition, no. LVII of 100 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. One of 100 copies. Collection of poetry and prose poems, including his Rrose Selavy (1923), a formally innovative sequence..... Read More about Corps et Biens
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One of 15 Copies
Les enfants tristes.
Paris: NRF / Gallimard, [1951]. First edition, no. 7 of 15 numbered copies on hollande Van Gelder. One of 15 Copies. Elegant, cynical novel of mid-century French family life. Roger Nimier (1925-1962) published a handful of novels, wrote screenplays, and worked as an adviser to publisher Gallimard in advocating publication..... Read More about Les enfants tristes
Price: $750
Public expressions of grief, for the death of General George Washington, at Dorchester ... [bound with:] An eulogy, on General...
Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1800. Everett's Eulogy and Harris's Discourse each have separate title pages, with imprint: Charlestown: Printed by Samuel Etheridge. M,DCCC. and were also issued separately (Evans 37387 and 37581 respectively). Washington's Address (Evans 38985) is also listed separately in Evans, but was evidently not so issued. The first..... Read More about Public expressions of grief, for the death of General George Washington, at Dorchester ... [bound...
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A Compendious History of New England, designed for Schools and Private Families.
Charlestown, MA: Samuel Etheridge, 1804. First edition. James R. Mellon (1857-1932) was one of the eight children of Judge Thomas Mellon. James managed banks under his brother Andrew Mellon's supervision. Read More about A Compendious History of New England, designed for Schools and Private Families
Price: $200
Thomas Mellon's Copy
A New and Elegant General Atlas.
Boston: Thomas & Andrews, May, 1812. Thomas Mellon's Copy. The first edition of this early, influential American atlas was published at Philadelphia in 1804, with an editions following at Boston in 1805. The present 1812 edition with seven new maps added (Austalasia, Polynesia, New-Granada, Carracas, Peru, Chili, and La Plata)..... Read More about A New and Elegant General Atlas
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Landmark Trial of a Master for the Murder of his Slave
A Report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the members of His Majesty's Council for the...
Middletown, CT: Tertius Dunning, 1812. First American edition. Landmark Trial of a Master for the Murder of his Slave. Hodge, a Tortola plantation owner, was tried and hanged for the brutal flogging and abandonment of his slave, Prosper, who was left to die without aid over a week's period. For..... Read More about A Report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the members of His Majesty's Council...
Price: $1,500
INSCRIBED BY JOHN LENNON
John Lennon: In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Robert Freeman [design]; John Lennon [drawings]. First U.K. edition. INSCRIBED BY JOHN LENNON. Inscribed, “To Melanie love from John Lennon xxx”. Read More about John Lennon: In His Own Write
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Salt Water Fishing.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937. Lawrence, W. Goadby. First London edition, from American sheets. Classic work on salt-water angling by one of the great fisherman of the pre-war period, in the uncommon London edition. Read More about Salt Water Fishing
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Wall Street and the Wilds.
New York: Outing Company, 1915. First edition. A fine chronicle of Wall Street and angling, by the financier and author of The Book of the Tarpon, and Florida Enchantments. States Bruns: “The man who cornered the gold market tells about it, and of his fishing experiences. A Classic”. Read More about Wall Street and the Wilds
Price: $225