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Item 345616Three Monographs [Cover title]. [Comprising:] The Lost Literature of Capri [and] Tiberius [and] Saracens and Corsairs in Capri.

[Douglas, Norman].

Price: $7,500

Napoli: Luigi Pierro, Printers, July, 1906. Edition of 250 copies. Presentation Copy to J. E. Brooks. Three Monographs consists of the fourth, fifth and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Douglas, with a separate title page for each monograph and paginated continuously. Inscribed on the first title page..... Read More Item Details for Three Monographs [Cover title]. [Comprising:] The Lost Literature of Capri [and] Tiberius [and] Saracens and Corsairs in Capri Add to Wish List

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Item 320399The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Price: $38,000

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First editions of both titles. Raven with half title, "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books", name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales, third printing with three-line copyright. Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many..... Read More Item Details for The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales Add to Wish List

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Item 324477Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley.

(Shelley, Mary) Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

Price: $45,000

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. First edition. Inscribed by Mary Shelley in December 1839. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics (including Plato's “Symposium,” “Ion,” and fragments from “The Republic”) and 67 letters. “The Defence of Poetry” was edited by John..... Read More Item Details for Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley Add to Wish List

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Item 338567Around the World in Eighty Days.

Verne, Jules.

Price: $11,000

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. First London edition, catalogue dated October 1873. First London edition of Jules Verne's great novel of adventure and transportation, Le tour du monde en quatre vingts jours (first pulished in Paris in 1872-3). Read More Item Details for Around the World in Eighty Days Add to Wish List

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Item 319605The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.

Walton, Izaac.

Price: $75,000

London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. A Fine First of Walton’s ‘Angler’. A choice copy of the first edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler, a landmark of mid-seventeenth century English letters and one of the foundation stones of angling literature, with distinguished nineteenth century provenance. James..... Read More Item Details for The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Add to Wish List

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