THE END OF THE ROAD signed first by JOHN BARTH - 1958

Illustrated; with a full-page fold-out garden plan. Modern pebbled brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. London: Published by A. Cobbett, 1838. An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, William Cobbett gained a reputation as a rabble rouser, famed for his political publications aimed at working class readers. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm laborers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain and although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. While supporting these more progressive policies, he was at the same time opposed to abolition. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, his opposition to authority stayed constant.Cobbett issued numerous volumes on agriculture, encouraging the cultivation of unique flora, such as a variety of maize he named "Cobbett's… Read More

Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1891, in-8, brochŽ, couverture rŽparŽe. 2 ff.n.ch., pp. 5-59, 2 cartes dŽpliantes hors texte (thŽ‰tre de la guerre en Virginie ; bataille de Gettysburg). Unique Ždition sous forme de livre : le texte avait prŽalablement ŽtŽ publiŽ dans l'Avenir militaire. En sus d'une carrire militaire des plus classiques, le colonel Fernand de Parseval de Foudras (1840-1909) avait ŽtŽ choisi en 1887 par le comte de Paris pour parfaire l'Žducation militaire de son fils a”nŽ. A ce titre, comme Gouverneur du jeune duc d'OrlŽans, il accompagna le prince aux Indes, pendant les dix-huit mois qu'il passa dans l'armŽe anglaise. Plus tard, il visita avec lui quelques champs de bataille en Europe, puis aux Etats Unis, lors du voyage qu'y fit le Comte de Paris, en 1890, pour se remŽmorer les souvenirs de la guerre de SŽcession. C'est ce dernier voyage qui fait l'objet de notre texte. Envoi autographe de l'auteur.

[ London: ] The Primrose Academy, 1998 One of 225 copies designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press for the Primrose Academy. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator.. Quarter charcoal cloth over boards printed in blue with a cat pattern. Gilt spine title ("Oscar, Lily and Hodge"). . Small quarto. . Fifty or so engravings (mostly of cats). Printed on Zerkall mold-made paper with text in black, light brown, and light blue. A fine copy in the cream-colored paper slipcase. A deluxe combined edition of two books illustrated by Yvonne Skargon. The Appearance of Being Oscar, a collection of quotes by Oscar Wilde, first appeared in 1988; Lily and Hodge and Dr. Johnson first appeared in 1991.

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xxxxiv, 466, [16] index and errata, [1] colophon, [1] blank; in contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine; a very good copy. Rare first edition of this unusual work on Christian marriage by the prolific Udinese writer Francesco Beretta (1678-1768).Beretta discusses the aims of marriage, before examining its social effects and benefits, and describing the various types of marriage, as well as the different motives and requirements of those who enter into it. He goes on to examine the importance of wealth, beauty, and good health, before discussing the role of obedience in marriage, inward and outward modesty, clothing and ornament, conversation, dining, theatre ("dangerous to modesty"), love, piety, the good use of time, the period between betrothal and marriage, and the marriage ceremony itself. The author wrote on a number of subjects, including the history of Friuli, theological and biblical exegesis, and philosophy.

New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full page full color dedication on the front blank featuring the animal king. Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee from Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability. .

Illustrated; with a full-page fold-out garden plan. Modern pebbled brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. London: Published by A. Cobbett, 1838. An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, William Cobbett gained a reputation as a rabble rouser, famed for his political publications aimed at working class readers. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm laborers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain and although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. While supporting these more progressive policies, he was at the same time opposed to abolition. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, his opposition to authority stayed constant.Cobbett issued numerous volumes on agriculture, encouraging the cultivation of unique flora, such as a variety of maize he named "Cobbett's… Read More

Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1891, in-8, brochŽ, couverture rŽparŽe. 2 ff.n.ch., pp. 5-59, 2 cartes dŽpliantes hors texte (thŽ‰tre de la guerre en Virginie ; bataille de Gettysburg). Unique Ždition sous forme de livre : le texte avait prŽalablement ŽtŽ publiŽ dans l'Avenir militaire. En sus d'une carrire militaire des plus classiques, le colonel Fernand de Parseval de Foudras (1840-1909) avait ŽtŽ choisi en 1887 par le comte de Paris pour parfaire l'Žducation militaire de son fils a”nŽ. A ce titre, comme Gouverneur du jeune duc d'OrlŽans, il accompagna le prince aux Indes, pendant les dix-huit mois qu'il passa dans l'armŽe anglaise. Plus tard, il visita avec lui quelques champs de bataille en Europe, puis aux Etats Unis, lors du voyage qu'y fit le Comte de Paris, en 1890, pour se remŽmorer les souvenirs de la guerre de SŽcession. C'est ce dernier voyage qui fait l'objet de notre texte. Envoi autographe de l'auteur.

[ London: ] The Primrose Academy, 1998 One of 225 copies designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press for the Primrose Academy. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator.. Quarter charcoal cloth over boards printed in blue with a cat pattern. Gilt spine title ("Oscar, Lily and Hodge"). . Small quarto. . Fifty or so engravings (mostly of cats). Printed on Zerkall mold-made paper with text in black, light brown, and light blue. A fine copy in the cream-colored paper slipcase. A deluxe combined edition of two books illustrated by Yvonne Skargon. The Appearance of Being Oscar, a collection of quotes by Oscar Wilde, first appeared in 1988; Lily and Hodge and Dr. Johnson first appeared in 1991.

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xxxxiv, 466, [16] index and errata, [1] colophon, [1] blank; in contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine; a very good copy. Rare first edition of this unusual work on Christian marriage by the prolific Udinese writer Francesco Beretta (1678-1768).Beretta discusses the aims of marriage, before examining its social effects and benefits, and describing the various types of marriage, as well as the different motives and requirements of those who enter into it. He goes on to examine the importance of wealth, beauty, and good health, before discussing the role of obedience in marriage, inward and outward modesty, clothing and ornament, conversation, dining, theatre ("dangerous to modesty"), love, piety, the good use of time, the period between betrothal and marriage, and the marriage ceremony itself. The author wrote on a number of subjects, including the history of Friuli, theological and biblical exegesis, and philosophy.

New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full page full color dedication on the front blank featuring the animal king. Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee from Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability. .