Item 37044La Porte de Malétroit.
Price: $300
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More Item Details for La Porte de Malétroit Add to Wish List
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Item 315058A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors.
Price: $350
London: Printed for Longmans, Green, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823. First edition. Subscriber's list (p. ix-xliv) includes The King, Duke of York. Alexander Boyd who took 10 copies (as marked in pen), Sir Walter Scott (10 copies), James Watt, et al This book was published to get money for a...... Read More Item Details for A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors Add to Wish List
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Item 315002A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors.
Price: $250
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and |Brown, 1823. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors Add to Wish List
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Item 315057Miscellaneous Plays.
Price: $300
London: printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees and Orme, ater-Noster Row, 1804. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Miscellaneous Plays Add to Wish List
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Item 219333The Little Minister.
Price: $600
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First Edition, with half-titles and 16 pp. of ads dated “5 G.9.91.” in Volume I. Barrie's sentimental tale of the young Scottish preacher who marries, loses, and regains his gypsy bride, this three-decker novel was made into a highly successful play starring Maude Adams..... Read More Item Details for The Little Minister Add to Wish List
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Item 262964Scoticisms, arranged in Alphabetical Order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing.
Price: $1,250
Edinburgh: for William Creech & T. Cadell, London, 1787. First edition. An attractive copy of this interesting work: “The book is well wrote” (p.104) and was discussed by Beattie with Samuel Johnson (p.105 “The Scots have been accused of misapplying the active verb, To want … I mentioned this to..... Read More Item Details for Scoticisms, arranged in Alphabetical Order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing Add to Wish List
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Bixby to his Daughter and Son-in-law
Item 19742Burns Nights at the Burns Club of St. Louis. Edited with notes by Walter B. Stevens.
Price: $350
Saint Louis: Printed for Private Distribution to Lovers of Burns by the Burns Club of St. Louis [From the Press of Kutterer-Jansen, Saint Louis], 1918. First edition. RARE. Inscribed by Bixby to his daughter and son-in-law, 12/25/18. With articles by Albert Douglas, Thomas Augustine Daly, Dr. James W. Lee, Frederick..... Read More Item Details for Burns Nights at the Burns Club of St. Louis. Edited with notes by Walter B. Stevens Add to Wish List
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Item 303540Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres.
Price: $250
Brooklyn, New York: Printed by Thomas Kirk, Sands-street, 1807. Fourth American Edition from the ninth and last London edition. Balir was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Here offered in edition by the first Brooklyn Printer of his lectures while he was the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles..... Read More Item Details for Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres Add to Wish List
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Item 248555Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville Hanry Dundas.
Price: $450
County Fife, Scotland: November 2, 1795. [With:] HORSBRUGH, Thomas, Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos. Horsbrugh”), to Claud I Boswell. Cupar, Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to (10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold). 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. Torrential..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville Hanry Dundas Add to Wish List
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Second Book, With Signature Tipped In
Item 377937Scholar-Gipsies.
Price: $1,000
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First edition of the author’s second book. Nice copy of Buchan’s second book, published while he was still a scholarship student at Brasenose College, Oxford. Buchan became a reader for John Lane and contributed three stories to the Yellow Book With a signature..... Read More Item Details for Scholar-Gipsies Add to Wish List
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Item 63068The Complete Poetical Works of.
Price: $100
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1897]. Cambridge Edition. Read More Item Details for The Complete Poetical Works of Add to Wish List
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Item 232331The Complete Works of.
Price: $200
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, nd [c. 1886]. Read More Item Details for The Complete Works of Add to Wish List
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Item 237766The Complete Works of.
Price: $150
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, 1886. Edition de Luxe. One of 1000 numbered sets. Read More Item Details for The Complete Works of .. Add to Wish List
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Item 372498Poems.
Price: $5,500
Philadelphia: Printed for, and sold by Peter Stewart and George Hyde, 1788. First American edition, predating M'Lean's New York edition by a few months. The true first American editions of Burns’ Poems, and “very rare,” as Egerer acknowledges. “The honour of publishing the first American edition of Burns’s poem goes..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List
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WITH GARDNER PHOTOS
Item 339698Tam O'Shanter.
Price: $500
New York: W.J. Widdleton, 1868. Gardner, Alexander. First Edition thus. Read More Item Details for Tam O'Shanter Add to Wish List
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Item 307463The Works ... Including His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: With an Essay on His...
Price: $350
London: printed for the editor by Richards and Co, 1821. Read More Item Details for The Works ... Including His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: With an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character Add to Wish List
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Item 314382The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life.
Price: $300
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1813. Read More Item Details for The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life Add to Wish List
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Item 24836The Works of...with an Account of His Life.
Price: $250
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Sixth Edition. Read More Item Details for The Works of...with an Account of His Life Add to Wish List
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Item 261772The Cotter's Saturday Night.
Price: $150
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More Item Details for The Cotter's Saturday Night Add to Wish List
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Item 305557[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments].
Price: $22,500
[Edinburgh, etc: 1815-1823]. Alexander Campbell (1764–1824), composer and writer, published several collections of Scottish songs, and while a teacher in Edinburgh “gave lessons in harpsichord and singing. Among his pupils were Walter Scott and his brothers, but the lads had no taste for the subject and the master had no..... Read More Item Details for [Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments] Add to Wish List
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Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster"
Item 217156Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast.
Price: $350
[London], Middle Scotland Yard Whitehall: 19 March , n.y.[after 1822]. A witty acceptance letter to the mother of Thomas Hughes (author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS), from the Scottish poet Campbell (1777-1844), author of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. Accepting the invitation to breakfast with her and "the Bishop of Llandaff..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast Add to Wish List
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Item 310607Autograph Letter Signed ("T. Campbell").
Price: $700
Sydenham: 19 February 1816. Campbell (1777-1844) writes to an unnamed recipient, declining to review a volume of poetry but offering his services in making an introduction and mentioning the author and editor William Gifford and the publisher John Murray. The letter reads, in part: "Respecting the volume of Poems …..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("T. Campbell") Add to Wish List
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Item 56235Illustrations to the Poetical and Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart...from Drawings by George Cattermole, Esqre.
Price: $150
London: Published for the Proprietors by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster Row, nd. Read More Item Details for Illustrations to the Poetical and Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart...from Drawings by George Cattermole, Esqre Add to Wish List
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Item 307860The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction from the earliest Greek...
Price: $500
Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1816. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction from the earliest Greek Romances to the novels of the present age Add to Wish List
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Item 371100POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. number three.
Price: $400
Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press, [1962]. First edition. Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. was a periodical started by Ian Hamilton Finlay that was associated with the concrete poetry movement, but also published a number of avant-garde and traditional forms. It was published by Ian Hamilton Finlay's Wild Hawthorn Press which ran..... Read More Item Details for POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. number three Add to Wish List
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