Glenarvon
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact... Read More about Glenarvon
Price: $2,000
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Lady Caroline Lamb's notorious and deliriously written roman à clé to exact... Read More about Glenarvon
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for the Author, and Published by C. Chapple, 1810. First edition. Clarke published other works about this scandal under her initials, M.A.C. She was the mistress of the Duke of York and here she defends herself from charges that she used the liaison for her own advantage. Read More about The Rival Princes; or, a Faithful Narrative of Facts, relating to Mrs. M. A. Clarke's Political...
Price: $300
New-York: Published by David Longworth (E. M. Blunt & Co.), September, 1810. First (American) edition. Mary Anne (Thompson) Clarke (1776–1852) was the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York. She became his mistress in 1803, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. In 1809 it was discovered that she had been..... Read More about THE RIVAL PRINCES; Or, A Faithful Narrative of Facts, Relating to Mrs. M. A. Clarke's Political...
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[London: 1872]. Published at p. 213 of Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875). ‘something to respect, something to admire, something to love’. An outstanding manuscript leaf of a humorous talk by Mark Twain on women, his “Speech at a Scottish Banquet in London”, delivered in..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Leaf from a Speech in Praise of Women
Price: $7,500
n.d.[after 1913]. Pioneer of First Ladies, and the Jackie Kennedy of Her Day. Frances F. Cleveland (1864-1947) was the youngest woman (21 years old) to serve as First Lady, the first First Lady to be married in the White House (to Grover Cleveland), and the first to serve two non-consecutive..... Read More about New Year’s Greeting Card, signed (“Frances F. Cleveland Preston”
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London: Printed by B. Bensley, Andover and Published by the Author, 183, Fleet-Street, 1829. First Edition. Read More about Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life
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New York: Putnam, (1975). First edition. Inscribed on flyleaf "For Coleen (sic) with a kiss William Hamilton" Read More about Terribly Nice People
Price: $125
Philadelphia: Nathan Kite, 1833. First edition, Nathan Kite imprint issue. Text includes: "A testimony of the Monthly Meeting of Upper Evesham, New Jersey, concerning our beloved friend, Elizabeth Collins, deceased." Read More about MEMOIRS OF ELIZABETH COLLINS, Of Upper Evesham, New Jersey, A Minster of the Gospel of Christ, in...
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons the Knickerbocker Press, 1889. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep: "Mrs. Frank Northrup/ Compliments of/ Septima M. Collis/ March 1896." Read More about A Woman's War Record
Price: $500
New-York: Printed and Sold by William Durell, at his Book Store and Printing-Office, 1792. First American edition (of this translation). Mary Collyer (1716/17-1762/63), novelist and translator, is the author of 'Virtuous Orphan,' 'Felicia to Charlotte,' and 'Memoirs of the Countess de Bressol'. 'The Death of Cain' is Mary Collyer's translation..... Read More about THE DEATH OF CAIN, In Five Books; After the Manner of The Death of Abel. By A Lady [Mary Collyer
Price: $400
[New York: The Colony Club: Privately Printed, 1984]. First edition. Read More about The History of the Colony Club 1903-1984
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[London]: Garnstone Press, [1972]. No. 17 of 100 copies, signed by the author. Greig was Ivy Compton-Burnett’s typist from 1945 until the author’s death in 1969. Read More about Ivy Compton-Burnett. A Memoir
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London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1929. First edition. Third Book, in Dust Jacket. Compton-Burnett's third novel, the one by which, as Connolly puts it: "The pattern is now set: Scarlatti-like dialogue, atrocious crimes, tyranny enthroned in the bosom of the family, the Victorian paterfamilias as a root of all evil and..... Read More about Brothers and Sisters
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London: Gollancz, 1951. First edition. Read More about Darkness and Day
Price: $175
London: Gollancz, 1951. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, “Louise Collis from Ivy Compton-Burnett Sept. 1951”. Read More about Darkness and Day
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London: Gollancz, 1937. First edition. Read More about Daughters and Sons
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood Ltd, 1911. First edition. First Book. Read More about Dolores
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London: Gollancz, 1944. First edition. Read More about Elders and Betters
Price: $225
London: Gollancz, 1939. First edition. Rare in Dust Jacket. Read More about A Family and a Fortune
Price: $750
New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1958. First American edition. Read More about A Father and His Fate
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London: Gollancz, 1957. First edition. Read More about A Father and His Fate
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London: Gollancz, 1963. First edition. Read More about A God and His Gifts
Price: $100
London: Gollancz, 1959. First edition. Read More about A Heritage and Its History
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1935]. First edition. Read More about A House and Its Head
Price: $850
London: Gollancz, 1971. First edition. Final novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969). Read More about The Last and the First. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Sprigge and a Critical Epilogue by Charles...
Price: $75
London: Gollancz, 1947. First edition. Signed. Signed by the author on the title page. Read More about Manservant and Maidservant
Price: $500