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![Typee] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence Among the Native of a Valley of the Marquesas. Herman Melville.](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/313865.jpg?v=1669653472)
London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomare”). Fine first... Read More about Typee] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence Among the Native of a Valley of the Marquesas ...
Price: $7,500
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1959-1964. First. Read More about Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6
Price: $450
London: J. Saville & Co, 1927. Shepard, Ernest H. First edition. Number 92 of 160 copies, signed by the author and Artist. Read More about Let's Pretend. Poems
Price: $600
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. Inscribed by Aiken on the flyleaf to ALLEN TATE, who supplied the lengthy blurb on the rear panel of the dust jacket ("ALLEN TATE says of Conrad Aiken ... 'he represents the perfection of a vanishing American type: the complete man of letters ... '")..... Read More about Selected Poems
Price: $750
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. The poem is revised from its earlier appearance. The number of copies printed is not known. Read More about Senlin: A Biography
Price: $1,000
New York: George Braziller, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed by the author to poet ALLEN TATE, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967." Read More about Thee
Price: $750
London: George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand OR, John & Robert Maxwell, 1877. Vol. II: The Guide of the Desert, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John,, 1876; The Insurgent Chief, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John, 1876; The Flying Horseman, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St..... Read More about Collection
Price: $400
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a...... Read More about Behind the Bungalow
Price: $150
“London [i.e., Newcastle?]: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1744”. Pirated edition (?). Bound with 3 others: [ANONYMOUS]. Lucius and Celadon: or, a Dialogue on the Existence and Immortality of the Soul. [4], 68 pp. 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I. Thompson and Company, for Thomas Slack, 1755. ESTCN33841; Apparently..... Read More about The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books
Price: $450
![Item #333028 Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]. Bella Akhmadulina](/pictures/thumb/333028.jpg?v=1656546639)
Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More about Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons
Price: $250
Berlin: S. Efron, [n.d., 1920]. Nice copy of this emigré edition of these poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Originally published in 1913. Read More about Chetki. Stikhi
Price: $225
![Item #333036 Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems]. Anna Akhmatova](/pictures/thumb/333036.jpg?v=1656546641)
New York: Izd-vo im. Chekhova, 1952. Read More about Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems
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![Item #339644 Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book]....](/pictures/thumb/339644.jpg?v=1665000191)
[Peterburg]: [Alkonost], 1922. Third edition, published in 1922. First published in 1917, it was Akhmatova’s third book, written during the disintegration of her marriage and as a world war raged on, it is a deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Uncommon edition. Read More about Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book
Price: $375
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
Price: $150
Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Read More about La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo
Price: $1,250
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. Alastair. No. 556 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed by Alastair. Immaculate Copy. Read More about Sebastian Van Storck
Price: $900
New York: April 18, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961. Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
Price: $2,000
New York: April 18, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
Price: $1,500
Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”
Price: $75
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of these Letters of a Portuguese Nun in only 5 letters. Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis..... Read More about Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated by W.R. Bowles
Price: $200
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. My Boys, Etc
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. Shawl-Straps
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. Shawl-Straps
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG: My Boys, Etc
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First British Edition, Low's copyright cheap ed. of American books. Scarce, OCLC locates only one copy, in Germany. Read More about Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Price: $300
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Read More about The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
Price: $600