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Pisa, a Spese dell' Autore, 1854. Hard Cover. 606, [2] page; 24.5 cm. "The most prolific and most incorrigibly Romantic of the many men who wrote historical novels in the period was Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi of Leghorn" (Wilkins, p. 432). The theme of Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599), the Roman woman beheaded for plotting to kill her father, appealed to Romantic writers-- Shelley's tragedy foremost among them. This novel isn't necessarily good history-- the first objective history was by Bertolotti in 1879. This privately printed edition is very rare; the edition usually cited is that of Milan, 1872, a full generation later and after the fall of the Papal government-- the real villain of the novel. The corrupted Papacy was the target of writers about Beatrice, and the Church's censorship made its publication dangerous in 1854. Very good copy, bound in 3/4 leather with marbled-paper boards; top of spine torn. Stock#OB305.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain [pseud. of Samuel Clemens] by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 - 1889
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
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Beatrice Cenci. Storia del Secolo XVI
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The Writings of Nancy Maria Hyde of Norwich, Conn. Connected with a Sketch of her Life
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Norwich [CT]: Printed by Russell Hubbard, 1816. Hard Cover. 252 pages; 19.7 cm. Edited by Mrs. Lydia Sigourney. Shaw & Shoemaker 37903; BAL 17616. Bound in contemporary printed boards with new spine. This copy is untrimmed. It was "restored" by a public library, which taped the spine and varnished the boards. Dragonfly Bindery, George & Pat Sargent, has brought it back to something approaching orriginal condition but with darkened boards. Stock#OB536.
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Braunschweigisches Magazin 32ster Band... fur das Jahr 1819
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Braunschweig / Brunswick, Germany [1820]. Hard Cover. [12] pages, 836 columns; 21 cm.; 52 weekly issues. Contains a note on the Inns of North America (col. 721); a description of St. Helena (Napoleon's exile); a review of John Jones's book on the Peninsular Campaign and articles on Botany Bay, Oliver Cromwell, music, and making Porter Beer. Bound in comtemporary paper-covered boards; good+. Stock#OB541.
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Poesie Piemontese e Italiane.: Follie Religiose, Poema In Ottava Rima Scritto in Lingua Piemontese con note italiane dell' Autore.
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Brusselle [i.e. Torino], 1847. Special title-page: "Follie Religiose, Poema In Ottava Rima Scritto in Lingua Piemontese con note italiane dell' Autore." Other works include most of Calvo's writings: Il Diavolo in statu quo; Favole Morali. Eduardo Calvo was trained as a medical doctor. His sympathies for the French Revolution prompted these mock-heroic poems in the Piedmontese dialect which attack credulity and superstition-- for which read the Catholic Church. The republicanism of all his writings in this volume, printed in 1847, comes at a time when revolutionary, nationalistic feelings ran high in Italy; the false imprint indicates the danger of censorship faced by a printer of such seditious literature. Diz. Biog. It. 17: 36-38; Parenti, Diz. dei Luoghi di Stampa Falsi, p. 41. Hard Cover. 265 pages; title from front wrapper (missing from this copy); contemporary ink owner name. Handsomely bound in 3/4 leather by James DiMarcantonio, Hope Bindery. stock#OB381.
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Trois Contes. Texte définitif de la Bibliothèque-Charpentier
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Paris, Librairie de France, 1929 [cover 1928]. Hard Cover. 110 p., illus.; 24 cm. Series: Oeuvres complètes illustré es de Gustave Flaubert. Édition du Centenaire. Issued with the author's Par les Champs et par les Grèves, Pyrenees - Corse. Illustrations par Georges Dufresnoy. Original wrappers bound into 3/4 leather; very good. Stock#OB686.
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Beatrice Cenci. Storia del Secolo XVI
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Pisa, a Spese dell' Autore, 1854. Hard Cover. 606, [2] page; 24.5 cm. "The most prolific and most incorrigibly Romantic of the many men who wrote historical novels in the period was Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi of Leghorn" (Wilkins, p. 432). The theme of Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599), the Roman woman beheaded for plotting to kill her father, appealed to Romantic writers-- Shelley's tragedy foremost among them. This novel isn't necessarily good history-- the first objective history was by Bertolotti in 1879. This privately printed edition is very rare; the edition usually cited is that of Milan, 1872, a full generation later and after the fall of the Papal government-- the real villain of the novel. The corrupted Papacy was the target of writers about Beatrice, and the Church's censorship made its publication dangerous in 1854. Very good copy, bound in 3/4 leather with marbled-paper boards; top of spine torn. Stock#OB305.
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The Writings of Nancy Maria Hyde of Norwich, Conn. Connected with a Sketch of her Life
by Hyde, Nancy Maria, 1792-1816. / Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
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Norwich [CT]: Printed by Russell Hubbard, 1816. Hard Cover. 252 pages; 19.7 cm. Edited by Mrs. Lydia Sigourney. Shaw & Shoemaker 37903; BAL 17616. Bound in contemporary printed boards with new spine. This copy is untrimmed. It was "restored" by a public library, which taped the spine and varnished the boards. Dragonfly Bindery, George & Pat Sargent, has brought it back to something approaching orriginal condition but with darkened boards. Stock#OB536.
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Braunschweigisches Magazin 32ster Band... fur das Jahr 1819
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Braunschweig / Brunswick, Germany [1820]. Hard Cover. [12] pages, 836 columns; 21 cm.; 52 weekly issues. Contains a note on the Inns of North America (col. 721); a description of St. Helena (Napoleon's exile); a review of John Jones's book on the Peninsular Campaign and articles on Botany Bay, Oliver Cromwell, music, and making Porter Beer. Bound in comtemporary paper-covered boards; good+. Stock#OB541.
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Poesie Piemontese e Italiane.: Follie Religiose, Poema In Ottava Rima Scritto in Lingua Piemontese con note italiane dell' Autore.
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Brusselle [i.e. Torino], 1847. Special title-page: "Follie Religiose, Poema In Ottava Rima Scritto in Lingua Piemontese con note italiane dell' Autore." Other works include most of Calvo's writings: Il Diavolo in statu quo; Favole Morali. Eduardo Calvo was trained as a medical doctor. His sympathies for the French Revolution prompted these mock-heroic poems in the Piedmontese dialect which attack credulity and superstition-- for which read the Catholic Church. The republicanism of all his writings in this volume, printed in 1847, comes at a time when revolutionary, nationalistic feelings ran high in Italy; the false imprint indicates the danger of censorship faced by a printer of such seditious literature. Diz. Biog. It. 17: 36-38; Parenti, Diz. dei Luoghi di Stampa Falsi, p. 41. Hard Cover. 265 pages; title from front wrapper (missing from this copy); contemporary ink owner name. Handsomely bound in 3/4 leather by James DiMarcantonio, Hope Bindery. stock#OB381.
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Trois Contes. Texte définitif de la Bibliothèque-Charpentier
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Paris, Librairie de France, 1929 [cover 1928]. Hard Cover. 110 p., illus.; 24 cm. Series: Oeuvres complètes illustré es de Gustave Flaubert. Édition du Centenaire. Issued with the author's Par les Champs et par les Grèves, Pyrenees - Corse. Illustrations par Georges Dufresnoy. Original wrappers bound into 3/4 leather; very good. Stock#OB686.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court, by Mark Twain
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University of Michigan Library, 2006-09-13. Paperback. Good.
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The Red Rover: A Tale (Complete in One Volume) (Cooper's Works)
by James Fenimore Cooper
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New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1855. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. "New Edition. Complete in One Volume." Title page dated 1855. Copyright date 1827. Original light-brown half-leather binding with multi-colored marbled boards and leather corners. Gilt decoration on spine and gilt lettering on red and black leather title labels on spine titled "Cooper's Works" and "Red Rover / -- / 10". (Title page does not state that this is part of Cooper's Works.) All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers matching the marbled boards. 534 pages. Measures 7 3/8" x 5 1/8" x 1 3/8". VERY GOOD condition. Book is bright and very clean, very tight and square, with strong, sound hinges and joints with no cracking. Light general surface wear and edge wear to the exterior all around with rubbed corner tips. Some mottling/toning to the spine and a tear down the center of the red title label which remains firmly…
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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A Frivolous Distinction: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
by Byrde. Penelope
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Tight, bright, clean and square. Faint sticker shadow on back cover. 42 pages of text including "A Brief Guide to Textile terms", "references to the novels and letters", and a bibliography. Plus 16 full page illustrations. 5.75x8.25x.25". Inspired by the 1975 celebrations held at Steventon, Chawton and Bath - some of the places connected to the novelist's life - which included displays of costume, needlework and needlework tools, at the Bi-Centenary of Jan Austen's birth.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (in Two Volumes)
by Charles Dickens
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations on 39 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xviii + 435 and x + 430 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD + condition. Both volumes have bright, clean exteriors with…
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (in Two Volumes)
by Charles Dickens
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. V and VI of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations on 40 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xvi + 436 and x + 433 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Vol. I is NEAR FINE and Vol. II is VERY GOOD. Vol. I is in excellent condition but Vol. II is cracked…
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Barnaby Rudge and Hard Times (in Two Volumes)
by Charles Dickens
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne / G. Cattermole / F. Walker. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, first printing, of Vols. IX and X of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1867. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne and G. Cattermole in Barnaby Rudge and F. Walker in Hard Times on 36 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xi + 475 and vii + 471 text pages.…
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the bible story of Esau.
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Dombey and Son (in Two Volumes)
by Charles Dickens
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Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, second issue, with title pages dated 1869 (first published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields, which became Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1869). Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne on 38 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all the illustrations that appeared in the 1848 first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. ix + 454 and ix + 459 text pages.…
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The Novels of Victor Hugo
by Victor Hugo
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New York and London: The Co-operative Publication Society . Valjean Edition.The Valjean Edition of the Novels of Victor Hugo (7 of 9 Volumes) by Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables IIIBy Order of the KingHistory of a Crime Ninety-ThreeHans of IcelandNotre Dame deParisToilers of the Sea
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