Taps at Reveille
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition, second state, with pp. 349-52 canceled. Fitzgerald's second collection of... Read More about Taps at Reveille
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The Complete Works of... With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. In Twelve Volumes [WITH] Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. A Romance...
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1888; 1889. Riverside Edition. Read More about The Complete Works of... With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. In Twelve Volumes...
Price: $600
The Complete Works of... With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. In Twelve Volumes.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1888; 1889. Riverside Edition. Read More about The Complete Works of... With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. In Twelve Volumes
Price: $550
Fanshawe, and Other Pieces.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876. Second Edition, first printing. Read More about Fanshawe, and Other Pieces
Price: $250
SECOND EDITION
The Scarlet Letter, A Romance.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Second Edition, first printing, with the Hobart & Robbins imprint on copyright page. SECOND EDITION. With new preface "Preface to the Second Edition" dated March 30, 1850." Read More about The Scarlet Letter, A Romance
Price: $1,250
Tanglewood Tales, For Girls and Boys; Being A Second Wonder-Book.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853. First Edition, ads dated July, 1853 with Tanglewood Tales in press, with imprint of Boston Stereotype Foundry on copyright page. Read More about Tanglewood Tales, For Girls and Boys; Being A Second Wonder-Book
Price: $850
True Stories From History and Biography.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Billings, Hammat. First Edition. This selection prints together Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old People, Liberty Tree and Biographical Stories. Hawthorne made minor revisions for this selection. Read More about True Stories From History and Biography
Price: $750
His Second Book
Twice-Told Tales.
Boston: American Stationers Co., John B. Russell, 1837. First edition. His Second Book. Hawthorne’s second book, and although it was not the dismal failure that Fanshawe had been, it attracted hardly any notice when it was issued thus in 1837. Now, of course, it is one of the most famous..... Read More about Twice-Told Tales
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His Second Book, Doheny Copy
Twice-Told Tales.
Boston: American Stationers Co., John B. Russell, 1837. First edition. His Second Book, Doheny Copy. Hawthorne’s second book, and although it was not the dismal failure that Fanshawe had been, it attracted hardly any notice when it was issued thus in 1837. Now, of course, it is one of the..... Read More about Twice-Told Tales
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First Appearance of “The Celestial Railroad”
The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review. Vol. XII, no. LIX.
New York: J. & H.G. Langley, May, 1843. First appearance in print of “The Celestial Rail-Road”. First Appearance of “The Celestial Railroad”. Rare first appearance "The Celestial Railroad" at pages 514-523 of this journal. Hawthorne’s satire on Pilgrim's Progress was pirated and printed separately a few months later, to the..... Read More about The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review. Vol. XII, no. LIX
Price: $350
WITH SIGNED DOCUMENT
The Writings of….
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. Autograph Edition, limited to 500 signed and numbered copies, this copy no. 498, signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Hawthorne's daughter. WITH SIGNED DOCUMENT. With document signed by Hawthorne as the consul at Liverpool for the ship Yorkshire of New York on Oct. 26, 1853. Read More about The Writings of…
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Deluxe Edition with A Page of Manuscript
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company/ The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906. First Edition. One of 200 copies, entirely uncut, containing a page of Hearn's manuscript. Deluxe Edition with A Page of Manuscript. The manuscript talks of "I am only the Soul of a peony." Read More about The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First Edition. designed by Bruce Rogers. Read More about Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Price: $150
William Lyon Phelps’s Copy
Life and Literature by . . . Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. First Edition. William Lyon Phelps’s Copy. Inscribed to William Lyon Phelps: “To Wm. Lyon Phelps/Christmas 1917/ from Dodd Mead & Co.”. Read More about Life and Literature by . . . Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine
Price: $150
WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF
The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. limited to 750 numbered sets this is Number 147, with a leaf bearing Mrs. Hearn"s autograph bound in Vol. 1 and a page of Hearn's Manuscript tipped in. WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF. The Manuscript reads in part:" Then becoming wiser in their own conceit, they likewise..... Read More about The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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Die Romantische Schule.
Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1836. First edition. Read More about Die Romantische Schule
Price: $800
Französische Zustände.
Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1833. First edition. Read More about Französische Zustände
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The Prose and Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland.
New York: Printed for Subscribers only by Croscup and Sterling Company, [1902]. Düsseldorf edition, number 15 of 250 copies printed on Holland Paper, signed by the publishers. This was one of the last works by Charles Leland. He died in 1903. Read More about The Prose and Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
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The Old Man and the Sea. Introduced by Charles Scribner.
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, [1990]. Eisenstaedt. Alfred. Number 106 of 600 numbered copies, signed by the photographer. Read More about The Old Man and the Sea. Introduced by Charles Scribner
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Autograph Manuscript, signed (“H.W. Herbert”) for the sketch “The Vale of Warwick”.
[Newark or New York ?]: [ca. 1854]. “In all the river counties of New York, there is none to my mind, which presents such a combination of all natural beauties, pastoral, rural., sylvan, and at times almost sublime, as old Orange, nor any part of it, to me, so picturesque..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed (“H.W. Herbert”) for the sketch “The Vale of Warwick”
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‘my true friend, honest, fat Tom, of Warwick’
Autograph Manuscript, Signed, of Herbert’s Tribute to Thomas Ward known as “Tom Draw”.
The Cedars, Newark, NJ: Feb. 1, 1854. ‘my true friend, honest, fat Tom, of Warwick’. Immortalized by Herbert in his sporting novels as “Tom Draw,” Thomas Ward was Herbert’s many-sided, rotund friend. The manuscript originally appeared in a Middletown newspaper and was reprinted as a small four-page leaflet (here supplied)..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, Signed, of Herbert’s Tribute to Thomas Ward known as “Tom Draw”
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Fine “Frank Forester” Autograph Letter
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Mr. Hooper” from Herbert's Newark, NJ, home The Cedars.
Newark, NJ: March 17, 1855. Fine “Frank Forester” Autograph Letter. The letter reads, in part: “I have succeeded in procuring a copy of the article on Webster with which you were pleased and herewith enclose it to you. I hope the article on the Spirit and its Editor came safely..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, to “Mr. Hooper” from Herbert's Newark, NJ, home The Cedars
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With 4-Page Typescript Story, 'Der verirrte böse Hund'
Der Kommandant von Kalymnos. Ein Mysterium aus dem Rokoko der Levante. Autograph Letter, signed Manuskript gedruckt. [With:] "Der verirrte böse...
Venedig [i.e., Vienna: printed for the author by Paul Kaltschmidt], 1926. One of 100 copies, this being no. 79. With 4-Page Typescript Story, 'Der verirrte böse Hund'. Rare novella, issued in an edition of just one hundred copies by the Viennese-born author, dramatist, and artist Friedrich (Fritz) von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1877-1954)..... Read More about Der Kommandant von Kalymnos. Ein Mysterium aus dem Rokoko der Levante. Autograph Letter, signed...
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Gertrud. Roman.
München: bei Albert Langen, 1910. Fünfte Auflage. Read More about Gertrud. Roman
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Gertrude. Translated fom the German "Gertrud" by Hilda Rosner.
London: Peter Owen, Vision Press, n.d. [1955]. First edition of this translation. Read More about Gertrude. Translated fom the German "Gertrud" by Hilda Rosner
Price: $250