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My Rubaiyat by HARTMANN, Sadakichi - 1913
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St. Louis: The Mangan Printing Company, 1913. Hardcover. 16mo. Rebound in grey cloth with leather spine label. 79pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Several light blue crayon marks in margins. Scarce first edition of this verse collection by the bizarre Japanese-German poet (1869-1944), boldly inscribed by him on the front flyleaf: "To / Prof. Jno War Stimson / Presented by the Author / Oct. 1914." Accompanied by an Autograph Letter Signed from Hartmann, 1p, 8½" X 11", Beaumont, CA, 1928 March 14. Addressed to Mr. Freystadt. Very good. In part: "I wonder where you dug up my drama 'Christ'. I myself have no copy and would like to own one. Would you sell your copy -- for what you paid for it (or more)? -- No doubt, you want to keep it. I do not exactly understand what you mean by my 'entire theory of life' -- no biography as yet was published -- and I fear that I shall never finish my auto-biography, started years ago. It will remain a torso -- as typewriting is hard on my eyes -- besides it is a fearful waste of time.... there are two other works of mine you should study -- my 'Japanese Rhythms' and 'My Rubaiyat'. Having much leisure on hand, I made a small mimeographed edition of them -- both went through 3 or 4 editions previously and are entirely out of print...." Excellent biographical and bibliographical content.
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter calf with gilt spine decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and red marbled paper over boards. viii, 405pp; iv, 378pp; viii, 430pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear and scuffed marbled paper, though internally white, bright and near fine. A tight, quite handsome early printing of this English classic in a classy custom binding of the period; Ticknor and Fields first published "School Days at Rugby" in 1857 and "Tom Brown at Oxford" in 1861. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH, chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War, appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of the first volume in brown ink, dating it "Milwaukee, Wis. / Oct. 31, 1865." Inner flyleaf of the second volume ("Part First" of the 2-volume "Tom Brown at Oxford") bears pencilled nonauthorial gift inscription to him…
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter calf with gilt spine decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and red marbled paper over boards. viii, 405pp; iv, 378pp; viii, 430pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear and scuffed marbled paper, though internally white, bright and near fine. A tight, quite handsome early printing of this English classic in a classy custom binding of the period; Ticknor and Fields first published "School Days at Rugby" in 1857 and "Tom Brown at Oxford" in 1861. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH, chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War, appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of the first volume in brown ink, dating it "Milwaukee, Wis. / Oct. 31, 1865." Inner flyleaf of the second volume ("Part First" of the 2-volume "Tom Brown at Oxford") bears pencilled nonauthorial gift inscription to him…
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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We Loved Them Once
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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