Item 225749A Marianne Moore Reader.
Price: $400
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition, first printing. Read More Item Details for A Marianne Moore Reader Add to Wish List
Item #225749
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Price: $400
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition, first printing. Read More Item Details for A Marianne Moore Reader Add to Wish List
Item #225749
Price: $850
[New York: Privately Printed, 1880; 1881]. One of a few copies printed. A Shakespeare New York Calendar: "...one of a few copies printed..." Rare and charming little calendars compiled by this New York antiquarian, member of the New York Historical Society, and co-founder of the Bradford Club, which was a...... Read More Item Details for Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare by a New Yorker Add to Wish List
Item #17145
Price: $5,000
London: Printed for the Proprietors. Published by Alex. Hogg, [1794]. First edition, second issue, with new title page, and some alterations in the preliminary matter. The New Wonderful Magazine. Marvels, prodigies, oddities, whimsical anecdotes, bizarre tales, all wonderfully illustrated in this rare delight, which surely must be one of the..... Read More Item Details for The New Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of Extraordinary Productions, Events, and Occurrences, in Nature and Art. Consisting entirely of Matter which come under the Denomination of MIRACULOUS! QUEER! ODD! STRANGE! SUPERNATURAL! WHIMSICAL! ABSURD! OUT OF THE WAY! and UNACCOUNTABLE! ... Vol. I. for the year 1793 Add to Wish List
Item #22145
Price: $1,250
[New Zealand: ca. 1890]. The 2nd King of the Maoris: a Rare Carte-de-Visite. A rare care-de-visite portrait of Tawhiao (c. 1822-1894), the 2nd Maori King, who “…left a legacy of religious principles from which his people would draw a future dream for Tainui: the rebirth of a self-sufficient economic base..... Read More Item Details for Carte de visite portrait of Tawhiao, 2nd Maori King, captioned “Tawahio [sic] the Maori King” Add to Wish List
Item #232384
Price: $300
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Read More Item Details for Strange Interlude Add to Wish List
Item #225992
Price: $1,000
[New York]: Pach Brothers, n.d. [c. 1978?]. Rare and Early Oates Portrait. A fine, early, portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio, the Pach Brothers. Oates won the..... Read More Item Details for Bust Portrait of Joyce Carol Oates, signed ("Joyce Carol Oates") Add to Wish List
Item #56589
Price: $1,000
London: T. Hookham, 1831. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Read More Item Details for Crotchet Castle. By the author of Headlong Hall Add to Wish List
Item #300966
Price: $12,500
London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1817. First edition. Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding. “ANTHELIA MELINCOURT, at the age of twenty-one, was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year, and of a very ancient and..... Read More Item Details for Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes Add to Wish List
Item #250494
Price: $550
Ithaca, N.Y: Published by the Cornell University Press for the Middle Eastern Institute, [1952]. First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip. This book chronicles Philby's two trips to the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia in 1932 and in 1936-1937 which were at the time almost unknown and uncharted..... Read More Item Details for Arabian Highlands Add to Wish List
Item #266499
Price: $1,250
London: William Pickering, 1853. Reprint of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book of 1569. Mary Byfield's Best Work. Mary Byfield (1795-1871) worked for the Chiswick Press nearly her entire life, and her contributions played a large part in the looks of many of the smaller Pickering editions. For this volume she cut..... Read More Item Details for The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church … together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Add to Wish List
Item #24989
Price: $3,750
Venice: Carlo Palese, sold by Lorenzo Baseggio, 1787. First edition. Pinelli Library Catalogue with Prices Realized. A beautiful, large-margined copy of the catalogue of the great Pinelli library in Venice, written by Abbé Morelli, of the Biblioteca Marciana, for the purposes of dispersal. The library was assembled over the course..... Read More Item Details for Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti Magno Jam Studio Collecta, a Jacopo Morellio Bibliothecæ Venetæ D. Marci Custode Descripta et Annotationibus Illustrata Add to Wish List
Item #309403
Price: $1,250
London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition (one of 1,000 copies printed, 500 of which were used for the combined edition with EXULTATIONS). Read More Item Details for Personae Add to Wish List
Item #234263
Price: $4,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. No. 44 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock the first printing from new plates, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Read More Item Details for Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson Add to Wish List
Item #266028
Price: $3,500
New York: Harpers, 1923. First edition, deluxe issue. No. 22 of 50 copies signed by Merle Johnson & editor Francis J. Dowd, with an extra plate. Read More Item Details for Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit. The Romance of American History Pictured by Howard Pyle, Compiled by Merle Johnson: With Descriptive Text from Original Sources Edited by Francis J. Dowd Add to Wish List
Item #258648
Price: $3,500
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., Imprimeur de L'Institut, 56, Rue Jacob, 56, 1888. Read More Item Details for Le Costume Historique. Types principaux du vêtement et de la parure rapprochés de ceux de l'interieur de l'habitations dans tous les temps et chez tous les peuples, avec de nombreux détails sur le mobilier, les armes, les objects usuels, les moyens de transports, etc Add to Wish List
Item #216913
Price: $4,500
London: W. Clowes for Trübner & Co, 1861. First edition. Sadleir's Copy. MICHAEL SADLEIR'S COPY of the scarce first edition of one the great historical novels. Set in of the latter part of the 15-century, and against a background of the Reformation, the invention of printing, and a wealth of..... Read More Item Details for The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages Add to Wish List
Item #40070
Price: $4,000
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. "Réaumur’s greatest work in natural history ... He seemed fascinated about all with insect behavior, obviously admiring the industry, dilligence, ingenuity, organization, and skill of those small creatures ... Réaumur, in short, was a pioneer in applied entomological research ... His descriptions were minute and exacting..... Read More Item Details for Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des Insectes Add to Wish List
Item #308929
Price: $1,750
New York: Scribner's, 1895. Read More Item Details for Color Poster for Christmas Issue of Scribner's magazine entitled "Scribner's for Xmas" Add to Wish List
Item #225057
Price: $500
Hilversum: De Heuvelpers, 1929. Colophon reads: "Printed in the spring of 1929 by S.H. de Roos at DE HEUVELPERS, HILVERSUM, HOLLAND from: the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by William Rossetti, London, 1911. The third publication of the press is printed in 125 copies of which 110 for sale..... Read More Item Details for Hand and Soul Add to Wish List
Item #258721
Price: $8,500
Paris: Didot l’aîné, 1796. First edition. “Aux armes, citoyens” — the first Printing of ‘La Marseillaise’ in a Book. First edition, containing the first authorized appearance in book form of "La Marseillaise.” The famous poem by Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) appears at pp. 57-59 as “Le Chant des Combats, vulgairement..... Read More Item Details for Essais en vers et en prose Add to Wish List
Item #250015
Price: $2,500
London: R. Ackermann, 1809-11. First edition. DR. SYNTAX BEGINS HERE. "Quite the most original and prosperous of poetry journals at the beginning of the 19th century" (Graham), The Poetical magazine is an important color plate work notable for the first appearance of the famous Doctor Syntax: The Schoolmaster's Tour ran..... Read More Item Details for The Poetical Magazine. Volumes One through Four Add to Wish List
Item #63044
Price: $12,500
London and New York: George Allen and Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903-1909. Library edition, one of 2062 copies printed. With Ruskin A.L.s. Profusely illustrated (including many previously unpublished drawings) and scrupulously annotated, the Library Edition remains the definitive collection of Ruskin's work; two thousand and sixty-two copies were printed, of..... Read More Item Details for The Works of John Ruskin. Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn Add to Wish List
Item #62046
Price: $1,250
New York: The Scribner Press, 1908. First edition, Copy No. 3 of only 20 printed. One of 20 Copies, Inscribed to J.P. Morgan by the Author. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, Esq. / With sincerest regards / & compliments of the Author / John Barry Ryan /..... Read More Item Details for The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive Add to Wish List
Item #33139
Price: $2,500
New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1843. Printed for Private Circulation. Presentation from America’s ‘First Arabist of Note’. Inscribed on front cover "Rev. Dr. Bacon with the respects of the author." Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), “America’s first Arabist of note”, studied theology and Hebrew, and graduated from Yale in the..... Read More Item Details for An Inaugural Discourse on Arabic and Sanskrit Literature, delivered in New Haven, Wednesday, August 16, 1843 Add to Wish List
Item #256061
Price: $1,250
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First edition. Inscribed with a Nutshell Kid vignette. Inscribed “For Bob Wilson [drawing of a Nutshell kid] Maurice Sendak / April '81”. Read More Item Details for Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids, Music by Carole King Add to Wish List
Item #264833