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A Sketch of the Career of Richard F....
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. First edition. An expansion of the extremely rare "Sketch By An Old Oxonian"... Read More
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Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several Citizens of Massachusetts concerning the Charge of...
Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, L. L. Lewis, Printer, 1829. First edition, with a period in imprint at end of “Congress-street”. The previous October the National Intelligencer had contained a statement made by the President denouncing “certain citizens of Massachusetts as having been engaged in a design to... Read More
Price: $200
The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. First edition. Signed "Henry Cabot Lodge. A Memory March 22nd 1907" on flyleaf and below a card from Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich giving this book. On pastedown is the bookplate of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and his cut signature. Read More
Price: $125
Taking on the World, Joseph and Stewart Alsop-Guardians of the American Century.
New York: Viking, (1996). First edition. This copy is inscribed by Patricia "Tish" Hankey Alsop, wife of Stewart to her sister-in-law Corinne , 'sis", Alsop Chubb, "For Sis with love from Tish February 1996." A fine association copy. Read More
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"Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need"
Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's question regarding the value of Ambler's...
London: 1 November, 1957. "Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need" Interesting letter from Ambler, in answer to the question, "How important to you was your high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Ambler points out that in England "there is no real equivalent of 'high school'... Read More
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My Lord what a Morning.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition. Anderson's autobiograph, inscribed on the ffep: "To Ulric de Vaere with kind regards from Marian Anderson." Read More
Price: $500
Limited edition, signed
Tar. A Midwest Childhood.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. Limited to 350 copies, this being number 344. Signed by Anderson on the limitation page. Limited edition, signed. Autobiographical novel. Read More
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Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego].
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More
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Three Elegies. Lycidas by John Milton. Adonais by Percy B. Shelley. Thyrsis by Mathew Arnold.
At the Ashendene Press, 1899. Number 18 of 50 copies printed from Fells english type. "The last book printed on the Ashendene Press before its removal to Shelley House, Chelsea..." Read More
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Jane Austen Her Contemporaries and Herself. An Essay in Criticism.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. Inscribed. Susan Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney are the contemporaries examined Inscribed by the author on flyleaf. Read More
Price: $75
Biographia Dramatica, or, A Companion to the Playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish...
London: Printed for Messr. Rivingtons, 1782. New Edition, usual cancels. Read More
Price: $300
![The Works of Anna Ltitia Barbauld With a Memoir [and] A Legacy for Young Ladies [edited by Lucy Aiken]. Anna Laetitia Barbauld.](/pictures/thumb/33423.jpg?v=1438724398)
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The Works of Anna Ltitia Barbauld With a Memoir [and] A Legacy for Young Ladies [edited by Lucy Aiken].
Boston: Published by David Reed, 1826. First American editions. First published in London in 1825 and 1826. Wendell Copy. Read More
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Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor
Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world induces me to request your...
Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow and this is a very interesting letter. Read More
Price: $950
Abdul. An Allegory.
[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. One of 500 copies. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Read More
Price: $900
Abdul. An Allegory.
[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. First edition, one of 500 copies. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Read More
Price: $750
A Book of Americans.
New York: Farar and Rinehart, 1933. Child, Charles. First edition, #21 of 125 copies, signed by both Benéts and Childs. Read More
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Milton Berle An Autobiography with Haskel Frankel.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1974]. First edition. Inscribed, "To 'Darling Shirley'(Clurman) 'Bright' 'Nifty' 'Attractive' 'Sharp' and a 'Lady' With respect Milton" Read More
Price: $150
Thomas Bewick, His Life and Times.
Newcastle: R. Robinson, 1887. A large and handsome study of Bewick's life, with reproductions of his work. Read More
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Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch - with a small selection from letters addressed to him and bibliographical notes on a....
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies. Read More
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![Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, embracing the Tradition of his Nation–Indian Wars in which he has been engaged–cause of Joining the British in their late War with America, and its history-Description of the Rock-River Village-Manners and Customs-Encroachments by the Whites, contrary to Treaty-Removal from his Village in 1831. With an Account of the Cause and General history of the late War, his Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson Barracks and Travels through the United States Dictated by Himself [to Antoine LeClaire]. Black Hawk, John Barton Patterson.](/pictures/thumb/30727.jpg?v=1438724379)
Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, embracing the Tradition of his Nation–Indian Wars in which he has been engaged–cause of...
Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. Second or third edition, two editions published this year, both the same pagination but with different portraits. Inportant Indian biography dictated by Black Hawk after returning from his trip to Washington in 1833 where he explained his actions to the government. Read More
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First years of the Life of James Lackington, the present Bookseller Finsbury-Square, London, Written by Himself...
London: Printed for the Author, Finsbury-Square, Moorfields; and sold by all other Booksellers, [?1793]. The Thirteenth edition, corrected and much enlarged. An amusing work. Read More
Price: $150
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764. Including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide). Frederick A. Pottle, editor.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. Number 329 of 1050 deluxe copies. From The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Read More
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Boswell's London Journal.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. First edition, Deluxe Issue, Number 992 of 1050 copies. From The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Read More
Price: $150