In the midst of our Indian Summer here in New York, we're happy to send out a list of Autumn Arrivals, our first book list of the new season. We had saved up many special books to show you in person at the NYABF in September, but since it was rescheduled for next April, we decided to go ahead and release our reserves. This list is only the first installment of our new arrivals, there will be more to come in subject-specific lists, and many more will appear in an upcoming catalogue, now in the production stage. Among today's highlights are publications by and about William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley; nice copies of classic 20th century literature; signed and inscribed books from a private collection stored since the early 1930s; books on gambling, card-playing, and baseball; the first book to use the dollar sign ($); and many other selections.
London: Rudolph Ackermann & Paris: Galignani & Co. 18, rue Vivienne, [1853]. First edition. Gretna-Green is a village in Scotland famous for elopements, the first village in southern Scotland following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh. Read More about The Gretna-Green Bolt-A, Or, Young Ladies' Man-Ual
Price: $2,500
London: George Allen Ruskin House 156 Charing Cross Road, [1894]. Thomson, Hugh. First Trade edition. In the late 1880’s and through the 90’s, a remarkable illustrator made his appearance on the London scene: Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), perhaps the pre-eminent representative of what has come to be known as ‘the Wig..... Read More about Pride and Prejudice with a Preface by George Saintsbury
Price: $3,000
London: 1902. First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED. Inscribed to Dr. Jacob Schwartz (bookseller) on the ffep. Read More about Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal
Price: $1,000
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1866]. First edition. Includes sections on euchre, whist, bezique, all-fours, pitch, commerical pitch, French fours, all fives, cassino, cribbage, straight poker, draw poker and whiskey poker. Read More about The American Card-Player: Containing Clear and Comprehensive Directions
Price: $1,500
Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co, 1847. Fifth edition, Improved. The fifth edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary, by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green (1813-1887). Green's role as head of the New York Association for..... Read More about An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the...
Price: $2,000
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition, first printing. Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, To Have and Have Not portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s, and provides a social commentary on..... Read More about To Have and Have Not
Price: $3,250
London: Macmillan, 1897. Taber, I.W. First edition. Read More about 'Captains Courageous'
Price: $750
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. First Edition. WITH AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION, SIGNED. On the half-title Kipling has signed his name and below has written out an autograph quotation of four lines written of a refrain from the poem "South Africa" which appears on p. 170 of this volume. Kipling rarely wrote..... Read More about Collected Verse
Price: $2,750
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1938. First edition. Inscribed by "Ellery Queen" Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Emily Postlewaite - here is the book mentioned in Queen's Quorum -- 'one of the very few which traces teh vocational advancement of a professional policeman.' 'Ellery Queen'" Read More about Here Comes the Copper
Price: $750
[London: Chiswick Press. Printed for Siegfried Sassoon, April MCMXV]. First edition. One of 50 or 60 copies. Sassoon's last book of poetry published before his War experience. He spent the Spring of 1915 convalescing from a broken arm, and entered into his training with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in May..... Read More about Discoveries
Price: $2,500
London: William Benbow, 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of “Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems” published the same year. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems, this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints..... Read More about Miscellaneous Poems
Price: $2,250
London: Printed and Published by W. Clark, 1821. First published edition, thin paper copy. Though a piracy by William Clark – with the help of book pirate Thomas Moses, whose monogram appears in black letter below the imprint on the penultimate leaf – the is the first published edition of..... Read More about Queen Mab
Price: $2,000
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London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. One of 780 sets. Read More about Works] The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck
Price: $1,500
Np: 1831-1841. The first leaf depicts a calligraphic swan surrounding the date 1831. Includes the texts of 7 poems or quotations, from Milton, Hemans, Montgomery, Byron, etc. The last page includes "Centenary Hymn June Araby's Daughter" by J Fen Smith Jr. and dated December 1841. Read More about Manuscript commonplace book of poetry kept by a young woman practicing her penmanship and...
Price: $750
London: George Newnes Ltd, [1919-20]. First edition, in parts. In the Original Parts, Fine. Read More about The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. Written with the Advice and...
Price: $1,650