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Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903-1905. The Athenian Edition, Number 78 of 100 copies on Royal Japanese vellum. A choice set of this finely printed compendium of world literature: Comprising: The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius. Translated by Jeremy Collier, illus. by A.G. Learned The Ecolgues of Vergil. Translated by Baron..... Read More about Breviary Treasures
Price: $3,500
Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsey & Co. for Manners and Miller, Edinburgh and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1814. First edition. The second of Mary Brunton's (1778-1818) three novels. "A great novel written in the first person which tells of a spoiled young woman's journey to maturity and love..... Read More about Discipline. a Novel
Price: $1,000
London: T. Payne, 1775. Second Edition. Reverend Burnaby was the son of a wealthy clergyman and graduate of Queen’s College, Cambridge. “There is a pleasant tone, a wise and educated spirit in this record, which make ample amends for the obvious influences of the writer’s religious and political views upon..... Read More about Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the Years 1759 and 1760; with...
Price: $750
Harrisburg: Stackpole, [1953]. First edition, number 40 of a limited edition, signed by the author. Deluxe Issue. Read More about Advanced Fly Fishing
Price: $450
New York: Grove Press, [1962]. First American edition. Inscribed on the title-page, "For Bob Wilson all the best at Thanksgiving William S. Burroughs Nov 23, 1974." Read More about Naked Lunch
Price: $3,500
New York: Grove Press, [1967]. First American edition, revised and expanded from the Olympia Press edition. Inscribed on the title page: “for Bob Wilson | William S. Burroughs”. Read More about The Ticket that Exploded
Price: $2,000
London: Everett & Co, 1906. First edition. Read More about The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Price: $500
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1832-1833. Read More about The Works of Lord Byron: with His Letters and Journals, and His Life by Thomas Moore, Esq
Price: $2,000
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1833. Third edition. Read More about Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life
Price: $900
Venice: Società Albriziana, [1737]. Beautiful copy of this impressive edition, with the Italian translation of Francesco Baldelli, Palladio's corrections, and the stunning engravings adapted from the Samuel Clarke edition. Read More about C. Julii Caesaris Quae Extant Omnia, Italica Versione ... auxit Hermolaus Albritius
Price: $2,000
Poulton-Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral: 1951-1952; published by Cassel, 1953. First Publication of the Diaries of Lewis Carroll: the Editor's Manuscript. Before the publication of this work, the Diaries of Lewis Carroll had been largely unavailable after their temporary disappearance following the publication of Collingwood's THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL..... Read More about Editor's Holograph Manuscript of THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL, NOW FIRST EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED...
Price: $16,000
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition, second issue with Doubleday Page & Co at foot of spine. Inscribed. Inscribed "To Judge James S. Young. Willa Sibert Cather, Pittsburgh November 13, 1910" and signed Linda B. Young beneath on the front free-flyleaf - a rare inscription of this..... Read More about The Troll Garden
Price: $5,500
Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1990. Chatham, Russell. First edition, number 191 of 275 copies, signed by the author with a pencil remarque of landscape on half-title. Read More about One Hundred Paintings. Essays by Jim Harrison, Chris Waddington and Russell Chatham
Price: $1,750
London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First Edition, with half-titles. First Edition of Chesterfield's Letters. Read More about Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his...
Price: $2,500
[London]: The Library of Imperial History in association with Charles Scribner's Sons and the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, [1973-75]. Centenary Limited Edition. One of said-to-be 3000 sets for both the British and American markets. The Centenary Limited Edition. The definitive set of works by Churchill, produced with the cooperation of..... Read More about The Collected Works of
Price: $5,500
Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First edition. Clancy's first novel, INSCRIBED on the half title "To Vicki / with best wishes / Tom Clancy" Read More about The Hunt for Red October
Price: $1,500
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, [1878]. First edition, first issue with Twain's name on title in roman, thirteen lines of text on page 101 and the reading “health offi……could” on page 91, 4 lines from the bottom. Read More about Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain
Price: $1,250
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1923. Wyeth, N.C. Later printing. Western Artist John Edward Borein's Copy, Inscribed to Him by His Mother. Inscribed to the artist Edward Borein, "1872 / 1924 To Ed. from his loving Mother, Annie B. Boreim" John Edward Borein (1872-1945), son of a California deputy sheriff, was..... Read More about An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody
Price: $750
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1929]. First trade edition. Inscribed to His Publisher. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf, "To John Farrar, my friend, Marc Connelly. New York, March 21, 1930." An early Farrar imprint, based on Roark Bradford's stories OL' MAN ADAM AN' HIS CHILLUN - this amusing, touching play won..... Read More about The Green Pastures
Price: $2,500
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first state, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110. Conrad’s first book, recording the experiences of Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer who travels to Borneo in search of a goldmine. Almayer's Folly establishes many of the interests and themes that would..... Read More about Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River
Price: $2,500
[London]: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd, [1983]. First edition, number 32 of 35 specially bound copies, signed by the author. One of 35 Copies. Read More about A Line on Salmon
Price: $2,000
London: J. Robins and Co, 1824. First edition. Fifty Portraits of Phenomenal People. A wonderful compilation indeed, with fine engraved portraits of early 19th-century characters. Among the attractions, who are described in short paragraphs preceding the engravings that make up the bulk of the book, are the French cross-dresser the..... Read More about Fifty Wonderful Portraits
Price: $2,000
New York: 126 William Street, [1898]. First edition, no. 9 of 125 copies. A Stephen Crane Rarity, Signed. The only “signed and limited edition” of a book by Stephen Crane, the Lanthorn Book was issued for members of the Lanthorn Club on William Street in New York. It contains the..... Read More about The Lanthorn Book, being a small collection of Tales and Verses read at the Sign of The Lanthorn …
Price: $6,000
[Colophon:]“Newe Castle upon Tine”: by Andro Reid for yee author“, 1881. Second Edition, one of 100 copies printed. Only Copy Bound in Morocco. The much enlarged edition of one of the most curious and beautiful books in all of angling literature, printed for “those who have, in vain, searched for..... Read More about The Compleatest Angling book that euer was writ, being done out of ye Hebrewe and other Tongues,...
Price: $9,000
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch at the Red-Lion in Pater-noster-Row; and James Hodges at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, 1739. Seventh edition (first published in 1685). Has been erroneously attributed to Richard Blome; the author Robert Burton was the pseudonym of printer and bookseller Nathaniel Crouch (1632?-1725?). First..... Read More about The English Empire in America or, A view of dominions of the Crown of England in the West Indies....
Price: $2,500