To Kill a Mockingbird
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, nd. Reprint, 60th printing. Signed on tipped in slip on ffep. Read More about To Kill a Mockingbird
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A Letter to American Teachers of History.
Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were. Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It..... Read More about A Letter to American Teachers of History
Price: $750
![The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner]. W. A. G....](/pictures/thumb/249059.jpg?v=1631822625)
The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner].
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More about The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner
Price: $450
A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Read More about A Walk on the Wild Side
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The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More about The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt
Price: $300
![The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken]. Hans Christian Andersen](/pictures/thumb/323783.jpg?v=1636044710)
The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken].
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More about The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken
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Stories from Hans Andersen.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953). First Trade Edition with Dulac illustrations. Read More about Stories from Hans Andersen
Price: $400
Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi.
Paris: Hachette, 1905. Read More about Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi
Price: $100
Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit.
New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More about Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit
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ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of..... Read More about ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Price: $75
Benêt on John Brown: “I tried to do my best with him…”
Autograph Letter, signed, to the literary agent, Major Pond, on Benêt’s “John Brown’s Body” and a possible lecture series under...
[New York]: September 17, 1928. Benêt on John Brown: “I tried to do my best with him…”. Fascinating letter, written soon after the publication of Benêt’s most enduring poem, JOHN BROWN’S BODY (1928), to America’s most eminent literary agent of the day, Major Pond. “Thank you very much indeed for..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to the literary agent, Major Pond, on Benêt’s “John Brown’s...
Price: $600
Stephen Crane … The American Men of Letters Series.
New York: William Sloane Associates, [1950]. First edition. First edition of Berryman's biography of Stephen Crane, signed ("John Berryman") on the title-page. Read More about Stephen Crane … The American Men of Letters Series
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He Created the Myth of Nietzsche
Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The Dedication...
Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First editions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. He Created the Myth of Nietzsche. Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan..... Read More about Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche...
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The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
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The Shyp of Fooles. Translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509. Edited by Phyllis C. Robinson.
Seal Harbor, Maine: Printed & Sold at High Loft, (1982). Number 122 of copies 51 to 200 of the regular edition. Printed in 16 pt. Blado, on Gutenberg paper at High Loft, the printing office of August Heckscher; by Tom Coleman and Karen MacDonald, printers. Read More about The Shyp of Fooles. Translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509. Edited by Phyllis C. Robinson
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Stucke (Plays), complete.
Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1957-1965 (Volume 9 is dated 1965). All are first editions except Vol I and IX. Read More about Stucke (Plays), complete
Price: $300
One of 85 copies
Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust.
[Munich: Bremer Presse, 1932]. First edition, no. 61 of 85 copies, signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. One of 85 copies. Scarce trial specimen in preparation for a proposed edition of Goethe. Read More about Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust
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Victoria und ihre Geschwister, mit fliegenden Fahnen und brennender Lunte.
Berlin: Maurersche Buchhandlung, 1817. Read More about Victoria und ihre Geschwister, mit fliegenden Fahnen und brennender Lunte
Price: $300
The Mountain Muse. Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and The Power of Virtuous and Refined Beauty.
Harrisonburg, Virginia: Davidson and Bourne, 1813. First Edition, without half-title. Read More about The Mountain Muse. Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and The Power of Virtuous and...
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Wozzeck.
Leipzig: Im Insel-verlag [Boeschel & Trepte], 1920. Number 455 of 520 copies of this the first separate edition of this tragedy. It was from this work that the Austrian composer Alban Berg composed his very successful opera “Wozzeck” (1925). These fragments were first published posthumously in 1850 as “Wozzeck”... Read More about Wozzeck
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The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.
Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855. First Edition, first issue. A nice copy of this classic, which we would venture to say, has virtually never been out of print since this first edition. Bulfinch dedicated it “To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet alike of the many and of the few..... Read More about The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes
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Tarzan of the Apes.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first state, with printer’s name set in two lines of Old English type. The first edition of the first Tarzan novel — a brighter than usual copy. The child of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were marooned in West Africa, Tarzan ("White..... Read More about Tarzan of the Apes
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First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin
Price: $250
O Pioneers!
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [June], 1913. First Edition, first issue with date on title-page and copyright page. Read More about O Pioneers!
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Coniston.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Shinn, Florence. Number 40 of 100 copies of this special edition on Japanese were printed June, 1906, of which sixty are for sale. With TLS laid in mentioning working on this book and his regets that he cannot come to ABA dinner honoring him..... Read More about Coniston
Price: $150
Collection of Autograph Sentiments in German, including Love Poems with drawings, preserved in a Green Velvet Book Box with Handcolored...
Altdorf, Weingarten, etc. [Germany]: 1852-1862. Charming and decorative mind-nineteenth-century German album of sentiments, most dated variously between 1852 and 1854. On the verso of a poem headed Trennung (Separation) and inscribed “Tobis seiner liebsten Anna” is a portait of a pensive young man and the caption “Jetzt bin ich’s nicht..... Read More about Collection of Autograph Sentiments in German, including Love Poems with drawings, preserved in a...
Price: $750