Nineteen Eighty-Four
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1949]. First American edition, later printing, in dust-jacket with $3.00 price. Read More about Nineteen Eighty-Four
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FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL' (1853) [in words of one and two syllables]
SIX SHORT STORIES FOR THE NURSERY. No. 6: FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL [cover title]. [Published anonymously].
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 178 Chesnut St, 1853. First edition. FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL' (1853) [in words of one and two syllables]. An uncommon American children's book; OCLC locates only two holdings [University of Connecticut, and Florida (which has an imperfect copy, lacking outer wrappers)]. [issued as "No. 6"..... Read More about SIX SHORT STORIES FOR THE NURSERY. No. 6: FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL [cover title]....
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ONLY TWO COPIES IN NUC
The Family and Guest (In the United States), by the Father.
New York: Printed by John P. Prall, No. 9 Spruce-Street, 1850. First edition. ONLY TWO COPIES IN NUC. A curious little volume of verse interleaved with blank pages. On the verso preceding the first page the author has written: "The blanks are for sketch or music, by who've taste, and..... Read More about The Family and Guest (In the United States), by the Father
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One of 15 Numbered Copies
Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage.
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, Éditiuon Jouast, 1887. One of 15 numbered copies (this begin No. 15) printed on Japan Vellum and printed with an extra suite of the vignettes. One of 15 Numbered Copies. Read More about Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage
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"The News We Like"
np: c. 1904. A seemingly unpublished poem about the one cent news issued by "Deh Joinal" including verses on Russo-Japanese War, striking miners, murderous wives and more. Read More about "The News We Like"
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![Item #345281 Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962]. Ansel...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/345281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1665000223)
Ansel Adams letters to Witter Bynner
Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962].
1962. Ansel Adams letters to Witter Bynner. Ansel Adams was one of many artists and writers that was friends with writer Witter Bynner (b.1881 - d.1968), having stayed with him and his partner Bob Hunt in Santa Fe. In this letter from the Fourth of July 1962 Adams writes to..... Read More about Correspondence from Ansel Adams to Witter Bynner [2 postcards; summer, 1962
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The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767. Fourth edition. Read More about The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles
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The Talking Horse and Other Tales.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1892. First edition. Read More about The Talking Horse and Other Tales
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![Item #219453 The Travelling Companions. A Story in Scenes [Reprinted from Punch] [WITH:] The Man...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/219453.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669650485)
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The Travelling Companions. A Story in Scenes [Reprinted from Punch] [WITH:] The Man from Blankley's and Other Sketches [Reprinted from...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892 & 1893. First editions. INSCRIBED. First title is inscribed on half-title "To Margaret F. Robinson from Anstey Guthrie." Read More about The Travelling Companions. A Story in Scenes [Reprinted from Punch] [WITH:] The Man from...
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Poems on Affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the Abdication of K. James the Second. Written by...
[London: s.n.], Printed in the year 1697; … 1699. First editions. Read More about Poems on Affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the Abdication of K. James the...
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Typed letter signed “Katharine Anthony”.
New York: 27 September 1958. Hartley had written to Anthony regarding the biographical information in ‘Twentieth Century Authors” and whether she had some additions which she responds that she does not and that “In a general way it covers the situation…It may interest you to know that I have a...... Read More about Typed letter signed “Katharine Anthony”
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Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit.
New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More about Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit
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The Hazards of Holiness. Poems 1957-1960.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Inscribed: "To/ La Jonathan (Williams)/ in memory of many happy/ moments in the midwest/ Brother Antoninus/ 1962." Read More about The Hazards of Holiness. Poems 1957-1960
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Speculation; or, A Defence of Mankind: A Poem.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1780. First edition, with presentation "From the Author" on the top of the title-page. Read More about Speculation; or, A Defence of Mankind: A Poem
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The Pleader's Guide, A Didactic Poem, in two books Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, With the Arguments...
Dublin: Richard Edward Mercier, 1797. First Irish Edition. Read More about The Pleader's Guide, A Didactic Poem, in two books Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, With...
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The Anvár-i Suhailí; or, The Lights of Canopus; Being the Persian Version of the Fables of Pilpay or the Book...
Hertford: Printed and Published by Stephen Austin, Bookseller to the East-India College, 1854. First edition. Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814-1883) was an orientalist and diplomat. He "was an industrious writer, and some of his books are valuable. His best-known works are his translations from the Persian of Sa'di's Gulistan (The Rose..... Read More about The Anvár-i Suhailí; or, The Lights of Canopus; Being the Persian Version of the Fables of...
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La Poète assassiné.
Paris: L'Edition Bibliotheque des Curieux. 4, Rue de Furstenberg, 1916. First edition. Cyril Connolly writes of Apollinaire: "By-passing Mallarme, Apollinaire returned to simpler and fresher forms in the style of Laforgue--and Villon. His imagery is dazzling, his vitality prodigious, his poetry, like Eliot's, both memorable and musical." The author died..... Read More about La Poète assassiné
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My Life and Times By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) edited with additions by E.D. Cuming.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1927. First Edition, one of 250 deluxe copies, #206. Read More about My Life and Times By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) edited with additions by E.D. Cuming
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Present from a Prince
The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod.
London: Kegan Paul, 1914. Present from a Prince. Handsome standard edition of this classic sporting work, with the small engraved card of Prince Dimitri de Russie (1901-1980, nephew of tsar Nicholas II), and his handwritten birthday wishes, “Many happy returns of the day, and best wishes Dimitri” [with a flourish]..... Read More about The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod
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Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego].
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More about Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego
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Gryphius' Appianus, 1551
De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, & Mithridaticus [Translated from the Greek...
Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. First Gryphius edition. Gryphius' Appianus, 1551. Read More about De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus,...
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L'asino d'oro di … tradotto nuouamente in lingua volgare dal ... Sig. Pompeo Vizani ... Nuouamente ristampato, & aggiuntoui le...
Venice: Alessandro Zatta, 1668. " ... novamente ristampato, & aggiuntovi le Figure ... " Read More about L'asino d'oro di … tradotto nuouamente in lingua volgare dal ... Sig. Pompeo Vizani ......
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Arabella, or "I Won't!"
Boston: Sabbath School Society Depository, No. 13 Cornhill, 1847. Read More about Arabella, or "I Won't!"
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments...from the Text of Dr. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829).
London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890. The "Aldine" Edition. The Scott translation was first published first in 1811 and again in 1882, this third edition was issued in 1890. Read More about The Arabian Nights Entertainments...from the Text of Dr. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829
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Caliphs and Sultans, Being Tales Omitted in the Usual Edition of the Arabian Nights Entertainments; rewritten and re-arranged.
London: L. Reeve & Co, 1868. First edition. Read More about Caliphs and Sultans, Being Tales Omitted in the Usual Edition of the Arabian Nights...
Price: $150