19th Century Literature from

London: William Pickering, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to corners and spine. Near Fine. Two 4-1/4" x 6-7/8" volumes in later half mottled calf and marbled boards with matching calf corners, gilt-decorated spines with gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels, top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Herrick. James Russell Lowell's copy with his ownership SIGNATURE… Read more about this item

London: John Hunt, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers very slightly bowed, otherwise a Fine copy. Attractively bound in full green morocco leather with triple gilt rules on the covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt; 94, [2] pages. Bound with new endpapers, lacking as nearly always the case the two ad… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece… Read more about this item

Cambridge: John Smith for the University Press, 1829. First Edition. Wraps. Some fraying to the spine of the wrappers with loss, minor creasing. Near Fine. String-tied pamphlet in publisher's blue wraps (5-3/8" x 8-1/2"); 41, [3] pages. Tennyson's second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor's prize-winners of the year, and the first to appear under… Read more about this item

Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Evidence of bookplate removal on front pastedown; otherwise, Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Per Krough. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. Copy… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1893). Walden Edition. Hardcover. Large, personal bookplate on each front pastedown; minor spots of rubbing. Near Fine and attractive on the shelf. Ten 5" x 7-3/4" volumes bound in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather and marbled boards with heavy gilt spine decoration and lettering, top edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits of… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Bookplate of Rex Maugham on the front pastedown. Fine. Attractively bound in modern half green morocco leather and marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with five raised bands; top edge gilt. Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 where he built a house at Vailima. This is… Read more about this item

Cambridge, 1867. Letter. Normal folds from mailing; ink a bit light. Near Fine. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you… Read more about this item

[1828]. Manuscript. A few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very Good. Unsigned handwritten fragment of his working draft of this novel about the abduction of a woman by a pirate. Two pages in dark ink in his small hand, approximately 600 words, on both sides of an 8" x 3-1/4" sheet.… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Remains of bookplate removal on front endpaper. About Fine. Small (3-1/2" x 6") volume bound in full dark blue morocco leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat… Read more about this item

[New York]: [Limited Editions Club], [1982]. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine case. Fritz Eichenberg. Complete collection of 10 SIGNED wood engravings (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") by Fritz Eichenberg used to illustrate the Limited Editions Club edition of Dostoevsky's THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD, here presented as loose engravings individually SIGNED and numbered 7 of only 25 sets produced. Laid… Read more about this item

New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Co. Inc., (1949). Reprint. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine. Octavo (5" x 7-1/4") bound in 3/4 green morocco leather by Maurin with two raised spine bands and gilt decoration, marbled boards, top edge gilt; xxx, [iv], 568, [1] pages.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears to spine tips, cloth a bit darkened. Very Good. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound… Read more about this item

Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with some staining. David Gentleman. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in orange imported handmade grasscloth prepared by the primitive natives of a Pacific isle from the inner bark of honeysuckle stems, with a buckram shelfback stamped in gold leaf. Designed by Will Carter and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderately foxed throughout, as usually the case; wear with some loss to boards and light wear to joints but binding firm. Very Good. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's gilt-lettered brown morocco leather and boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings and 7 color plates (5 fashion… Read more about this item

Hartford et. al.: American Publishing Company, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Some toning to the paper, as often the case, with pages clean; hinges sound. Joints with a few small areas of loss of cloth, the spine lightly frayed at the tips. Very Good. Publisher's black cloth. BAL 3337: State A of page 242, with final ad leaf. Publisher's… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Mostly light, sporadic foxing; moderate rubbing to covers. Very Good. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners and a gilt-lettered red morocco label with the owner's name on the front cover. Illustrated with 19 steel engravings, 2 of which are hand-colored. Illustrations include fashion plates as well as a… Read more about this item

Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. First Edition. Softcover. About Fine in Fine chemise and slipcase. BAL 3412. Contains Clemens's 5-page Introduction. Issued in both wraps and cloth, this is a scarce set of unbound sheets consisting of 13 signatures (the preface sheet and front endpaper are loose), a result of the publisher's bankruptcy a few… Read more about this item

New York: Appleton, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain at the fore-edge margin starting at the front endpaper and extending and gradually reducing for about 70 pages; dampstain in corresponding area on the front cover with old staining mostly to the rear. Very Good. BAL 1683: First state; Binding A. SIGNED by Bryant on the front free endpaper and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George R. Graham & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing and staining; binding with only light wear. Very Good. Publisher's black morocco-backed embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Two pieces by Poe, also with contributions by Ann S. Stephens and James Russell Lowell, as well as a review of Melville's first book. Illustrated… Read more about this item