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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. A Novel, from the German...
Boston: Wells and Lilly-Court Street, 1828. First American edition. The first American edition, translated by Thomas Carlyle, who... Read More
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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 is... Read More
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![The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner]. W. A. G. Alexis, i e. Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haering.](/images/noimage.png)
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
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Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit.
New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More
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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
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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... Read More
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
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![Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The Dedication Copy. [With:] Wartburg. Spruchgedichte, 1933. "Exemplar Nr. 2', additionally inscribed, "Ohne Gefahr keine Rettung". [And] Griecheneiland, 1934. [And] Das weiße Pferd. No. 8 of 120 copies, [1936]. [And] Straßburg. Ein Gedichtkreis, 1928. [And] Nietzsche. Versuch eine Mythologie, 1929. Ernst Bertram.](/pictures/thumb/43917.jpg?v=1438724498)
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
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Signed by Borges
El Buitre.
[Buenos Aires: Ediciones Librería La Ciudad, por Franco Maria Ricci, 1979]. Limited first edition, no. 101 of 4,000 copies. Signed by Borges. SIGNED by Jorge Luis Borges on the title-page. The sixth volume in the series La Biblioteca de Babel, named after Borges' famous short story. All selections in the... Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Skin"... Read More
Price: $4,500
First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More
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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. Kitaj, R.B. First edition, one of 100 copies signed on the title page and numbered by Burroughs. Read More
Price: $400
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
Price: $150
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … By Mark Twain.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition, mixed state. The first edition of Twain's enduring classic of boyhood, the book that prompted Hemingway to state: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There... Read More
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![Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts … [bound with:] The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frederick Schiller, Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE.](/pictures/thumb/307974.jpg?v=1509377660)
Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts … [bound with:] The Death of Wallenstein. A....
London: Printed for N.T. Longman and O. Rees, By G. Woodfall, 1800. First edition of Coleridge's English translation. The first English edition of Schiller’s Wallenstein, set in Germany during the Thirty Years War, and translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from a manuscript copy of the first German edition of 1799... Read More
Price: $650
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
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India Proofs
The Cooper Vignettes. From drawings by F.O.C. Darley. India proofs before letters.
New York: James G. Gregory (Successor to W.A. Townsend & Co.), 1862. First edition. India Proofs. Read More
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Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor.
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. First edition. Read More
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Sketches of Switzerland. By an American.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
The Dresden Water Witch
The Water Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale by the author of Pilot, Red Rover etc. etc....
Dresden: Printed for Walther, 1830. First edition, one of just a few copies to survive, the rarest of Cooper's works. The Dresden Water Witch. The Water Witch was written in Naples and was first printed in Dresden in September 1830, a month before the English edition, and two months before... Read More
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Peter Schlemihl.
London: G. & W.B. Whitaker, 1824. Cruikshank, George. First edition, third issue, with title dated 1824 (not 1823) and without a hyphen in 'Ave Maria' on title page. Read More
Price: $450