How "Bigger" Was Born
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1940]. First edition. With a wonderful inscription from Wright to his close personal... Read More
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Portrait photograph of Peter Abrahams.
New York: November 25, 1955. Peter Abrahams (1919- ), is a South African novelist who was deeply influenced by his discovery of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. His early novel "Mine Boy" (1946) was the first to emphasize the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks. Read More
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Maria Edgeworth's Copy
The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, or, The Spanish Rogue,. To which is added, the Celebrated Tragi-Comedy, Celestina.
London: printed for R. Bonwick, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, J. Nicholson, S. Manship, R. Parker, B. Tooke, and R. Smith, 1707 & 1708. Volume II is dated 1707. Maria Edgeworth's Copy. Read More
Price: $750
The Divine Comedy, Beautifully Bound
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895. The Riverside Edition. The Divine Comedy, Beautifully Bound. Read More
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The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First printing. Read More
Price: $225
Alkibibla. A Disquisition upon Worshipping towards the East. In Two Parts. together with; A Letter to the Bishop of London,
London: J. Noon, 1740, 1731 & 1730. Second Edition. Read More
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First Book
The House of the Spirits. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American Edition of the author's first book. First Book. Read More
Price: $250
Superior Copy
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 276 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Laid in the front is a printed Merry Christmas note entitled “Bunyan's Biggest Contract”... Read More
Price: $450
Superior Copy
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 222 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Read More
Price: $350
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, second state, no. 25 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce. Read More
Price: $375
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Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods. [Introduction by H.G. Pickerring.].
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First Edition, second state, No. 106 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce. Read More
Price: $350
Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution
Revolution in France! [drop title].
[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the... Read More
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5 Boogie Woogie Piano Solos.
New York: Leeds Music Corporation, [copyrigh 1941]. Read More
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In Radio's Heyday, Its Most Popular Program
All about Amos ’n’ Andy and Their Creators Correll and Gosden.
Rand McNally, (1929). In Radio's Heyday, Its Most Popular Program. Signed on the first blank by the creators. Read More
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What the Moon Saw, and Other Tales … Translated by H.W. Dulcken.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. Bayes, A.W. First edition with these illustrations. Read More
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Tolv med Posten.
Copenhagen: Andreasen & Lachmann, 1940. Number 668 of 800 copies, signed by Grosserer Marius Maurinen on colophon, and by Andreasen on preface. With 12 wonderful illustrations, by Anton Hansen, Thor Bógelünd, Erik Stockmarr, Magnüs Bengtsson, Sikker Hansen, V. Steoft, Carl Jensen, Ebbe Sadolin, Albert Naür, Harald Hansen, Arne Ungermann, Herlief... Read More
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Animal Lore in English Literature. A Study of Superstitious Beliefs and Travellers' Tales.
London: John Murray, 1932. First Edition. This book belonged to Critic William York Tindall and has his signature on the end-paper. Read More
Price: $125
L'asino d'oro di … tradotto nuouamente in lingua volgare dal ... Sig. Pompeo Vizani ... Nuouamente ristampato, & aggiuntoui le...
Venice: Alessandro Zatta, 1668. " ... novamente ristampato, & aggiuntovi le Figure ... " Read More
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments...from the Text of Dr. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829).
London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890. The "Aldine" Edition. The Scott translation was first published first in 1811 and again in 1882, this third edition was issued in 1890. Read More
Price: $300
The Arabian Nights Entertainment: or, The Thousand and One Nights. Accurately describing the Manners, Customs, Laws, and Religion, of the...
London: Printed for Mathews and Leigh, Strand, by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, 1811. First edition. Read More
Price: $500
Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit. Traduction littérale et complète du D'J.C. Mardrus.
Paris: Eug. Fasquelle, Éditeur 11, rue de Grenelle. Read More
Price: $2,500
Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit. Traduction littérale et complète du D'J.C. Mardrus.
Paris: Eug. Fasquelle, Éditeur 11, rue de Grenelle. Read More
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Gymnasium Arabicum. In quo tres Priores Davidis Odae cum versione Latina, et notis critico-analyticus ….
Wittenberg: Impensis Georgii Marci Knochii, 1724. Arabic and Latin texts of the first three Psalms of David, with discussion of the Arabic grammar and vocabulary. Read More
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An Appendix to John Bull Still in his Senses: or, Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed from a manuscript found...
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-hall, 1712. Third edition (price from imprint “3 d”). Read More
Price: $600
John Bull Still in his Senses: being the third part of Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed for a manuscript...
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Second edition. Dated by the first purchaser at the foot of p. [3] “Aprl. 16, 1712”, the date of publication (see Bower & Erickson). This is the third of Arbuthnot's series, in Bower & Erickson's permutation (b), i.e., with p. 25 in... Read More
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Enter John Bull
Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify’d in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who...
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1712. First edition. Enter John Bull. The first of the famous series of “John Bull” pamphlets by Arbuthnot, who invented the figure which became England’s national symbol. Read More
Price: $1,500