OF THE USE OF RICHES, AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ALLEN LORD BATHURST by Pope, [Alexander] - 1732

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Near Fine books in Very Good jackets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition. Four volumes in jackets, 317 pp. [Rolling Stones], 153 pp.[Heart of the West, v2], 221 pp.[The Voice of the City], 164 pp. [Whirligigs]. Near fine to fine 16mo volumes, bright, tight, and handsome in purple cloth with bright gilt imprinting on the spines. Trace edgewear on a couple of them. Scarce dustjackets are well worn at corners and edges, and show spine discoloration, but are complete, including the $.90 price notation. About-VG jackets. Bookplate of Kathryn Davis on front pastedown of all four. A nice early collectible format of O. Henry titles, the Doubleday Page 1925 Biographical Edition was handsomely bound, the jackets bore praise from contemporary literary luminaries, and each ffep carried a Henry quotation. One sample: "I am… Read More

London: Printed for J. Parsons, 1796.. vii,[1],[9]-32pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Half-title not present, but very good. First edition of this satire occasioned by the "lost letters" of the Prince of Wales. ESTC locates only six copies (Yale, Huntington and Harvard only in the U.S.). NCBEL II:672. ESTC T9346,

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, [1910].. Olive cloth, spine stamped in gilt, blind device on upper cover. Foxing, extremities and spine a bit rubbed, with short snags at crown, but a good, sound copy. First edition, second binding, of Pound's first major volume of criticism. This is an interesting association copy, with the ownership signature of Schuyler B. Jackson, dated "15/8/21." A total of 1250 sets of sheets were printed, of which three hundred sets were used for the American issue, and an unspecified number of copies were bound up in this slightly later binding. GALLUP A5a.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). viii,402pp, 6pp of publishers adverts. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by James Craig. Publishers 1st issue binding of grey cloth, with light green lettering and design of Marble arch, blocked in blue, green and mustard, to the front panel. The spine is lettered in gilt within a green ruled border. Top edge gilt. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and the front inner hinge is cracked but firm. Overall a better than very good copy of this uncommon novel. (Glover and Greene; Victorian Detective Fiction. No. 303). Not in Wolff.

London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891.. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates, illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened, with some pale discolorations at edge, 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank, corners a trifle worn, the plates by Shannon somewhat faded (as usual) but still legible, a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good, sound copy, a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design, illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon, with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" (which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL, Christmas Number, 1888), "The Birthday of the Infanta" (which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ, March 30, 1889), "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Near Fine books in Very Good jackets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. Biographical Edition. Four volumes in jackets, 317 pp. [Rolling Stones], 153 pp.[Heart of the West, v2], 221 pp.[The Voice of the City], 164 pp. [Whirligigs]. Near fine to fine 16mo volumes, bright, tight, and handsome in purple cloth with bright gilt imprinting on the spines. Trace edgewear on a couple of them. Scarce dustjackets are well worn at corners and edges, and show spine discoloration, but are complete, including the $.90 price notation. About-VG jackets. Bookplate of Kathryn Davis on front pastedown of all four. A nice early collectible format of O. Henry titles, the Doubleday Page 1925 Biographical Edition was handsomely bound, the jackets bore praise from contemporary literary luminaries, and each ffep carried a Henry quotation. One sample: "I am… Read More

London: Printed for J. Parsons, 1796.. vii,[1],[9]-32pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Half-title not present, but very good. First edition of this satire occasioned by the "lost letters" of the Prince of Wales. ESTC locates only six copies (Yale, Huntington and Harvard only in the U.S.). NCBEL II:672. ESTC T9346,

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, [1910].. Olive cloth, spine stamped in gilt, blind device on upper cover. Foxing, extremities and spine a bit rubbed, with short snags at crown, but a good, sound copy. First edition, second binding, of Pound's first major volume of criticism. This is an interesting association copy, with the ownership signature of Schuyler B. Jackson, dated "15/8/21." A total of 1250 sets of sheets were printed, of which three hundred sets were used for the American issue, and an unspecified number of copies were bound up in this slightly later binding. GALLUP A5a.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). viii,402pp, 6pp of publishers adverts. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by James Craig. Publishers 1st issue binding of grey cloth, with light green lettering and design of Marble arch, blocked in blue, green and mustard, to the front panel. The spine is lettered in gilt within a green ruled border. Top edge gilt. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and the front inner hinge is cracked but firm. Overall a better than very good copy of this uncommon novel. (Glover and Greene; Victorian Detective Fiction. No. 303). Not in Wolff.

London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891.. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates, illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened, with some pale discolorations at edge, 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank, corners a trifle worn, the plates by Shannon somewhat faded (as usual) but still legible, a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good, sound copy, a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design, illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon, with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" (which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL, Christmas Number, 1888), "The Birthday of the Infanta" (which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ, March 30, 1889), "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The… Read More