Item 217380Captain Antifer.
Price: $750
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, [1895]. First American edition in cloth. Read More Item Details for Captain Antifer Add to Wish List
Item #217380
James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a wide-ranging list of nineteenth-century literature. It features mostly English titles, but some are in English translation (in many cases, first-edition translations into English), and a number are in French. Of note are an autograph letter, signed, by Émile Zola, regarding a rewrite of his first major novel, Un marriage d'amour; Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance (1894), one of 50 large paper copies; the second edition of Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1862, scarcest issue); and a first-edition copy of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (by Currer Bell, 1857).
Price: $750
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, [1895]. First American edition in cloth. Read More Item Details for Captain Antifer Add to Wish List
Item #217380
Price: $1,500
Rouen: Éduoard Frère, Éditeur, 1836-1838. First edition, one of 40 large paper copies on vélin (with watermarks J, D). Imprimé par Nicétas Periaux, rue de la Vicomté, 55. King Arthur of the Round Table. The Roman de Brut, a paraphrase of Geoffroy of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, chronicles in verse..... Read More Item Details for Le Roman de Brut par Wace Poète du XIIe Siècle. Publié pour la Premiére Fois d'après les Manuscrits des Bibliothèques de Paris. Avec un Commentaire et des Notes par M. Le Roux de Lincy [With:] Analyse critique et littéraire bu Roman de Brut Add to Wish List
Item #44163
Price: $11,000
London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street, 1894. First edition, one of 50 Large Paper copies. Large Paper Copy, One of 50. An attractive large paper copy. Wilde's witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893..... Read More Item Details for A Woman of No Importance Add to Wish List
Item #256986
Price: $5,000
Grasmere: June 20 [1808]. On the orphans of George and Sarah Green. "I have just received your obliging letter informing me of the Collection which by your means has been made for our Grasmere Orphans. I thank you sincerely for your kind and successful exertions in their behalf.... It will..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed "W. Wordsworth" to Elizabeth Fox, Lady Holland, acknowledging her donation to the Grasmere orphans Add to Wish List
Item #313739
Price: $7,500
London: Longman, Rees , Orme, Brown, Green and Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition. Presentation Copy to the Earl of Lonsdale. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publishers "From the Author" on the half-title and in a presentation binding. A fine provenance: sonnets XLII and XLIII (pp. 228-9) are addressed..... Read More Item Details for Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #219489
Price: $2,500
Paris: 8 June 1867. Regarding his first major novel. Zola writes that he has rewritten the beginning of Un marriage d'amour, requesting that proofs be sent soon, that he convey to Arsène Houssaye thanks for proposing to advertise the novel's publication, suggesting that the work be published in two installments..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed ("Emile Zola"), [to Charles Coligny?] Add to Wish List
Item #314779