Rare In Dust Jacket
Item 318606Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune.
Price: $350
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [n.d., ca. 1907]. Early reprint. Read More Item Details for Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune Add to Wish List
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![Item #376724 Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/376724.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773428526)
An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the upper Mississippi River
Item 376724Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For...
Price: $2,250
London: Published by George B. Whittaker; and George Smith, Liverpool, [1828]. An Audubon rarity: the journal of his first journey to the upper Mississippi River. In 1810, Audubon moved to Henderson, Kentucky to establish himself in the merchant business with his partner Jean Ferdinand Rozier. In December of that year..... Read More Item Details for Journey up the Mississippi [pp. 104-27, in:] The Winter Wreath, A Collection of Original Contributions in Prose and Verse [For MDCCCXXIX] Add to Wish List
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IN DUST JACKET
Item 307143Commercial Paper. Text Book for Merchants, Bankers and Investors.
Price: $750
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts: Babson Statistical Organization, [1912]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Commercial Paper. Text Book for Merchants, Bankers and Investors Add to Wish List
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Extensively Annotated by a Contemporary Reader
Item 371469Epistole Pauli.
Price: $27,500
[Leipzig]: [Wolfgang Stockel], September 28, 1510. Edited by Johann Kusthuert, this printing of the Epistles of Paul was intended for the student market, with the introduction addressed to studiosis sacarum litterarum tyronibus. In addition, the colophon reads: Imp[re]ssu[m] ad altissimi Dei laude[m] ac studiosoru[m] Sacre Scripture tyronu[m] p[er]fectu[m] in officina..... Read More Item Details for Epistole Pauli Add to Wish List
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Item 59640American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review. Volume I, Numbers 1-VI; Volumes II, Numbers 1-VI.
Price: $650
New York: published for [Horatio] Biglow & [Oliver L.] Holley, Esqrs. by Kirk & Mercein...Daniel Fanshaw, Printer, No. 241 Pearl-street, May, 1817-April 1818. Espeacially notable department was the 'Museum of Natural Sciences,' edited by Professor C.S. Rafinesque, one of the Reviews most valuable contributors. A survey of the progress of..... Read More Item Details for American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review. Volume I, Numbers 1-VI; Volumes II, Numbers 1-VI Add to Wish List
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Item 324763Secunda pars Examinis decretorum Concilii Tridentini, Complectens Explicationem Locorum, De Sacramentis in genere, De Baptismo, De Confirmatione ….
Price: $1,000
Francofurti Ad Moenum: [Paul Reffeler], 1576. Attractive dated example of a later sixteenth-century German binding. The book is the second part (only) of the four-part Examinis Concilii Tridentini of Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz, a consideration of the decrees of the Council of Trent from a Lutheran perspective. Read More Item Details for Secunda pars Examinis decretorum Concilii Tridentini, Complectens Explicationem Locorum, De Sacramentis in genere, De Baptismo, De Confirmatione … Add to Wish List
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Item 307367[Empty covers].
Price: $2,000
Rome: ca.1650-80s. Empty covers from a binding by the Rospigliosi atelier of Rome, active from the early 17th through the early 18th centuries and patronized by a long procession of Church officials and foreign dignitaries. Foot lists more than 90 known bindings by the Rospigliosi workshop (Henry Davis Gift, pp..... Read More Item Details for [Empty covers] Add to Wish List
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Item 218503Il Decamerone di Messer Giobvanni Boccaccio.
Price: $500
Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1909-1915. First edition thus. Read More Item Details for Il Decamerone di Messer Giobvanni Boccaccio Add to Wish List
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Item 241063Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
Price: $350
London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More Item Details for Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America Add to Wish List
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1888 Work in Dust Jacket
Item 334788Editha's Burglar. A Story for Children.
Price: $400
Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888. First edition, state 2 [BAL 2071, priority undetermined]. A scarce title in dust jacket. Read More Item Details for Editha's Burglar. A Story for Children Add to Wish List
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In Dust Jacket
Item 322266The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London.
Price: $250
London: Charles Hindley [The Younger], 1886. Second edition. Read More Item Details for The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London Add to Wish List
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IN DUST JACKET
Item 221652Hieroglyphic Bibles: Their Origin and History. A hitherto unwritten Chapter of Bibliography. With Facsimile Illustrations ... And a New Hieroglyphic...
Price: $800
Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894. Read More Item Details for Hieroglyphic Bibles: Their Origin and History. A hitherto unwritten Chapter of Bibliography. With Facsimile Illustrations ... And a New Hieroglyphic Bible told in Stories. By Frederick A. Laing Add to Wish List
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Superior Copy in Original Dust Jacket
Item 367836The Red Badge of Courage.
Price: $27,500
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition, first issue. Crane's classic tale of fear, shame, bravery, and redemption has captivated generations of readers with its naturalistic, impressionistic literary style, groundbreaking for its time. A contemporary review stated, "At times the description is so vivid as to be almost..... Read More Item Details for The Red Badge of Courage Add to Wish List
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Item 210852The American Baron.
Price: $300
New York: Harpers Magazine, 1871. First edition in parts. De Mille, a Canadian (1837-1880), was a very popular writer of the period covering the last quarter of the nineteenth century. One of his best known works, "The Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder," is rather reminiscent of Poe's "Narrative..... Read More Item Details for The American Baron Add to Wish List
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IN PARTS
Item 316914The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
Price: $4,000
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, in the original monthly parts, with some issues (1, 3, 4) in later issued states. The first two parts of Pickwick sold out quickly, necessitating reprints before even the third part was released. It gained in popularity such that parts one through eight..... Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Add to Wish List
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Item 217926The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club containing a Faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions...
Price: $400
London: The Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1931-1932. 20 parts. Copy no. 298 of 1000 of the Lombard Street Edition, signed by the editor, being an excellent facsimile of the original parts issue. Printed at the University Press, Oxford. Read More Item Details for The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club containing a Faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by Boz Add to Wish List
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Item 255655Some Early American Hunters. Being stories from The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, first published in 1830...
Price: $250
New York: Derrydale Press, 1928. First Edition. Number 317 of 375 copies. A fine extract from a brief, and now rare, early sporting journal, which contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Read More Item Details for Some Early American Hunters. Being stories from The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, first published in 1830 at Philadelphia Add to Wish List
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Item 334621THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Scenes of Clerical Life I. [Cover Title]: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Large Paper...
Price: $150
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1908. First edition (by this publisher), publisher's salesman's sample; salesman's sample for the 'Large Paper Edition of the Works of George Eliot' (including salesman's blank order form for subscribers). Laid into the salesman's sample is an original (blank) order form, for use..... Read More Item Details for THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Scenes of Clerical Life I. [Cover Title]: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Large Paper Edition Add to Wish List
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Item 210390The Little Man. and Other Satires.
Price: $300
London: William Heinemann, [1915]. First edition. In dust jacket. Read More Item Details for The Little Man. and Other Satires Add to Wish List
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CLEON DUST JACKET
Item 210391Swan Song.
Price: $200
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Swan Song Add to Wish List
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IN PARTS
Item 351971La Grande Guerre par les artistes.
Price: $600
Paris: Chez Berger-Levrault & Georges Cres, [1914-1915]. First Edition. The last part that is not included was an Easay and an Index. Read More Item Details for La Grande Guerre par les artistes Add to Wish List
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Item 311997Auli Gellii, Luculentissimi Scriptoris, Noctes Atticae.
Price: $550
Lugduni [Lyon]: apud Antonium Gryphium, 1566. A nice pocket edition of the Noctes Atticae or Attic Nights, the celebrated miscellany of Aulus Gellius (2nd century C.E.), which preserves fragments of many lost works of classical literature. With a lexicon of Greek phrases at pp. 692-[736]. Read More Item Details for Auli Gellii, Luculentissimi Scriptoris, Noctes Atticae Add to Wish List
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Item 312079[Le Vite de Dodici Cesari di Gaio Suetonio Tranquillo. Tradotte in lingua toscana per M. Paolo del Rosso cittadino fiorentino]...
Price: $750
[Venice: Appresso Baldassare Costantini al segno di S. Georgio. Colophon: In Vinegia: per Giouan Griffio ad instanza di Baldassare Costantini, al segno di S. Georgio, 1554]. Early edition of this Italian translation of Suetonius’ Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Read More Item Details for [Le Vite de Dodici Cesari di Gaio Suetonio Tranquillo. Tradotte in lingua toscana per M. Paolo del Rosso cittadino fiorentino] Add to Wish List
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Item 244354View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
Price: $300
London: John Murray, 1819. Second edition. Read More Item Details for View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages Add to Wish List
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Item 214502Letters from The Raven. Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin. With Introduction and Critical Comment by the...
Price: $450
New York: Brentano's, 1907. First edition. "In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the [black] question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and these are translations from..... Read More Item Details for Letters from The Raven. Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin. With Introduction and Critical Comment by the Editor Milton Bronner Add to Wish List
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