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The Life Of Sir Richard Burton
by Wright, Thomas
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- Used - Three quarter navy calf and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols
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- First edition
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- 1906
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- Hardcover
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$350.00
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London: Everett & Co, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy calf and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 291, 291, xxv [Appendix & Index]. 22 x15 cm. Sixty one full page photographs (plates & maps). The first lengthy biography of Burton after the sanitized life written by Burton's widow in 1894. Wright had access to extensive and previously unpublished… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mark Twain's Speeches; With An Introduction By Albert Bigelow Paine And An Appreciation By William Dean Howells
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Orig. red cloth front cover gilt emblem bright, backstrip sunned. Very good
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- 1923
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- Hardcover
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$40.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover gilt emblem bright, backstrip sunned. Very good. 396 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Clean, bright copy. Item Price
$40.00
Four Score Years Of Sport
by Kendall, Walter G.
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- First edition
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- 1933
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- Hardcover
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$20.00
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Boston: The Stratford Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy nubby cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. 201 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Dr. Kendall. A compendium of Kendall's sports interests including Dogs and Self Defense. Item Price
$20.00
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The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
by Jerrold, Blanchard
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- Used - Orig. publisher brown cloth spines and front covers decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. 2 Vols
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- First edition
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- 1882
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$225.00
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth spines and front covers decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. 2 Vols. Cruickshank, George. 284 & 280 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, very bright copy partly unopened. Bookplates free front endpapers of both volumes. Item Price
$225.00
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz
by Dickens, Charles
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- Used - Full green levant with large central pictorial inlays of Grimaldi as a clown and as another theatrical character in various colo
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- First edition, second issue
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- 1838
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- Leather_bound
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$6,900.00
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London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, second issue. leather_bound. Full green levant with large central pictorial inlays of Grimaldi as a clown and as another theatrical character in various color morocco's within a geometric gilt frame. Aeg. Two vols. Cruikshank, George. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half-titles, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank,… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,900.00
Stories From The Italian Poets: With Lives Of The Writers
by Hunt, Leigh
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- Used - Contemporary brown polished calf. Teg. Very good/Near fine. 2 Vols
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- First edition
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- 1846
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$125.00
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London: Chapman And Hall, 1846. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown polished calf. Teg. Very good/Near fine. 2 Vols. 415, 515 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Commentary on Dante, Bolardo, Ariosto, Tasso, et al. Clean, fresh copy, raised bands, double gilt cover panels, spine panels richly decorated win floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, nicks to backstrip heads. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Cocteau A Biography
by Steegmuller, Francis
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- Used - Orig. black cloth, covers and spine lettered in blue. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper
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- First edition
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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$40.00
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, covers and spine lettered in blue. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 583 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Book label of the Fireside Book Shop. Item Price
$40.00
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Golden, Arthur
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- Used - Orig. quarter black cloth and white boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper
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- First edition
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
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$90.00
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New York: Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black cloth and white boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 434 pages. 24 x 16,5 cm. Type in Fairfield, the first typeface by Rudolph Ruzicka. Item Price
$90.00
Correspondence Of Ernest Caylus 1836-1874
by Caylus, Ernest
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- First edition
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- 1933
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$100.00
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Paris: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards and marbled endpapers.Very good. 107 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Frontispiece of Caylus who was a French journalist during his days in America. Ernest Caylus (1813-1878) was a young Frenchman forced to flee political unrest at home, coming to America in 1835. Most of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Greek, By Several Hands To which is prefixt The Life of Plutarch
by Plutarch
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- Used - Uniformly bound in period Cambridge style binding brown calf. Very good. 5 Vols
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- 1703
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$995.00
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1703. leather_bound. Uniformly bound in period Cambridge style binding brown calf. Very good. 5 Vols. 633, 624, 600, 750, 736 pages. 20 x 13 cm. With 53 engraved plates (including 5 frontispieces), tables, and ads. At the end of Vol. IV page of Tonson ads. Early ownership signatures of John and Anne Amson. Raised bands,… Read more about this item Item Price
$995.00
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Farmington
by Darrow, Clarence S.
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- Used - Orig. green pictorial front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good
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- Second edition
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- 1904
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- Hardcover
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$1,400.00
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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green pictorial front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 277 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Signed presentation copy. "In remembrance of my one night stand in Yoho Valley" from Clarence S. Darrow to my friends JW Barker/Gladys Barker. Yoho Valley situated in British Columbia, Canada. In a… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,400.00
Autobiography
by Gill, Eric
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- Used - Orig. dark salmon cloth. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1940
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- Hardcover
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$95.00
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London: Cape, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Very good. 283 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Eight full page illustrations. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Early owner inscription free front endpaper. Item Price
$95.00
The Athenians * Harriet And Mary * Shelly At Oxford
by Scott, Walter Sydney (Editor)
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- Used - Quarter brown morocco and blue buckram boards. Near fine. 3 vols
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- First edition
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- 1944
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- Hardcover
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$450.00
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London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco and blue buckram boards. Near fine. 3 vols. 87, 84 & 79 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm "the complete set of the letters contained in these three books had lain for over a century in a drawer, till Mr. Scott found and collated them. Full titles for… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Tono-Bungay
by Wells, H.G.
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- 2008
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$475.00
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San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front and spine paper labels. Fine in matching decorated slipcase. 331 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 300. Planitin text with Brush Script handset -- the 82 publication of the press. Laid-in 24 page pamphlet: Notes For Tono-Bungay by Edward Mendelson from the Penguin Classics… Read more about this item Item Price
$475.00
Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor
by Ticknor, George
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- 1909
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$30.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Hardcover. Orig. Navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 524 & 533 pages. 8vo, illustrated. SPILLER p.116. "...contains much documentary material on the development of historical scholarship." Ex-library, no exterior marking, bookplates only. Backstrips nicked at extremities. Item Price
$30.00
Letters Of Mary W. Shelley (Mostly Unpublished) With Introduction And Notes
by Harper, Henry H.
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- Used - Orig. tan boards rubbed at extremities. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1918
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$150.00
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Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan boards rubbed at extremities. Very good. 191 pages. Limited edition, one of 150 copies. Mostly unopened. "Printed by the Bibliophile Society for the owner of the originial manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members." The first few letteres in this collection were written after… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Adams An American Dynasty [with] Jefferson A Revealing Biography
by Russell, Francis
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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$30.00
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New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated. Item Price
$30.00
The Poetical Works Of Charles Churchill. With Copious Notes And A Life Of The Author
by Tooke, W.
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- Used - Late 19th century tan calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 3 vols
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- 1854
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- Hardcover
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$125.00
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1854. Hardcover. Late 19th century tan calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 3 vols. 256, 352, 356 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Frontispiece with tissue guard of Churchill, Vol. !. Comprehensive Index. English poet noted for his lampoons and polemical satires written in heroic couplets. He won his fame independently in 1761 with… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Empire
by Vidal, Gore
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- Used - Orig. maroon cloth, front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase
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- First edition
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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$150.00
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New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 486 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 250, signed by Gore Vidal in black ink. Item Price
$150.00
A*M*B Some Aspects Of His Life And Times Begun In Playful Mode For His Entertainment On His 75TH Birthday And Now Completed For His Sorrowing Friends As A Token Of Remembrance And Affection
by Lewis, Oscar
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- Used - Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good
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- First edition
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- 1941
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- Hardcover
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$70.00
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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head. Item Price
$70.00