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Washington City: [Printed By Roger C. Weightman], 1813. First Edition, First Printing. [No Binding. Very good. A Very Good copy of the above-title in the Publisher's original paper, being a motion to amend the Constitutional method to elect Electors to choose determine the then-coming President and Vice President of the United States of America. The Proposal passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate but failed to be approved by a sufficient number of the individual States to take effect. [Shaw & Shoemaker, 30303.] Item #3160 There have been only 27 Amendments to the Constitution made, beginning with the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments. According to Article V of the Constitution, an amendment must either be proposed by Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of state legislatures. Either way, a proposed amendment only becomes part of the Constitution when… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown boards with the front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. The closed page block's top edge is in gilt as well. The volume is mildly askew, and the board corners and spine ends show minor rubbing and the closed page block's top edge shows a pair of small indentations. Wharton was an American writer who well-knew upper-class New York and portrayed their manners and lives during America's famed Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature (that being for her twelfth novel "The Age of Innocence" (Appleton & Company, 1920). Madame de Treymes is set in Paris, a city with which, and in which, Wharton had an affair. A Very Good copy of this notable Novella.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wrappers and Letters. Very Good +/[No Dust Jacket -- as issued]. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original pink wrappers in NEAR FINE CONDITION (showing wear to the spine -- including some splitting to the lower spine and a tear to the front cover near the spine as well as some general wear to the wrappers) signed by the presumed prior owner W. P. Burgess to the upper face of the front wrap and there dated by him "1865", the year of publication; TOGETHER WITH THREE MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, EACH SIGNED BY HALE, further together with ONE FIVE (5) PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN TO HALE dated November 15, 1893 written IN THE HAND OF GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER [Mason Gowdy's mother], having been dictated by him to her, and SIGNED BY GENERAL BRAYMAN AND MENTIONING HIS PLEASURE TO HEAR THAT HALE HAD MET THE GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER WHO MENTIONED BRAYMAN TO HALE UPON… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, March, 1925[Copyright 1923]. First Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A Very Good + copy of this 1925 (early) printing in the Publisher's original red cloth showing some pushing to the spine ends, light wear to each board's leading corners, and some darkening/soiling within the spine joints. A bookplate resides on the front free endpaper's recto and bears the presumed prior owner's signature. The closed page blocks top edge is stained light brown. The volume wears its SCARCE TO RARE DUST JACKET in Very Good condition which shows some edge wear as well as some darkening, marking, and modest wear to the spine panel. A rather nice and attractive copy in the dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good or Better. An EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE'S FAMED BIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN [SAMUEL CLEMENS] PUBLISHED IN 1928 IN THE RARE DUST JACKETS AND RARE SLIPCASE, being the second edition of such Biography in three volumes [AS WAS THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF 1912, WHICH PRECEDED THE TWO-VOLUME SECOND EDITION OF 1924]. Each Volume of this set bears the Publisher's edition code K-C, showing that each volume was published in November, 1928 and that it is a proper set. This set was issued in a small printing and seldom turns up with all three volumes present and this is the only set with the jackets and slipcase that has been seen at . The volumes are essentially Fine and show only minor surface marking, the upper leading corner of Volume II is nudged and that of Volume III is bumped. The EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUST JACKETS have some modest spine chipping and spotting as well as some old tape repairs inside and outside of… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good dust jacket, the third appearance of of any of Lagerkvist's books to appear in English (following "Barabbas" and "The Dwarf"), and being the first appearance of any collection of the author's short stories in English in book form. [The first American edition of this volume was not issued until 1973, a surprising delay given that Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.] The volume is bound in deep blue cloth and shows a thin line of sunning to top edge. The dust jacket shows general wear and a few tiny tears and chips, along with some differential toning to the rear wrapper, three small tape repairs to he verso, as well as a tide mark affecting the rear panel's spine edge and a small portion of the rear panel. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this copy is the nicest we ever have seen. No comparable Swedish edition was issued. SCARCE.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original purple cloth (some pushing near the spine corners, small indentation to the rear board), in a Near Fine dust jacket retaining its brightness (small indentation to the rear panel); a work on creating magical spaces for children. A quite nice copy.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, unread, copy of the first edition, first printing with a bit of sunning to the upper edges, in a near Fine dust jacket (with sunning to the jacket's spine and upper edge and a shadow from removal of a security sticker from the verso but otherwise Fine). The book was published soon after the author's death and is her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, No Date [Copyright 1980]. A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's red leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well. The leaves are printed on archival paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is moire fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the volume contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's Collector's Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, with a frontispiece and also with and multiple additional illustrations by Michael Aryton. The half title's recto hosts the standard Easton Press bookplate with the prior owner's name obscured by white tape. A Fine, tight and unread copy in an elegant binding. Copies in as nice a condition as is this copy are QUITE UNCOMMON to the market.

London: London, Strand, 1860. First Edition, First Printing. Self-Wrappers. Very good +. A Very Good or better copy of this Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round, a periodical conducted by Charles Dickens, showing with the leaves dog-eared -with some slight corner loss - and showing a few marginal tears. Dickens was the Editor of his periodical named "Household Words" published by Bradbury and Evans. Having a petty dispute with the Publisher in 1859, Dickens found himself subject to their whim and so decided to publish his own weekly magazine which he titled "ALL THE YEAR ROUND". William Henry Wills had been a sub-editor of Household Words under Dickens, but left with Dickens to take the same position at ALL THE YEAR ROUND and held a quarter-share in the new enterprise. According to the site of The Victorian Web: "full title was All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. With Which is Incorporated “Household Words” --in many respects continued where Household… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1951. First Edition, Second Impression. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Flint, William Russell. A Very Good copy of the first edition, second impression in the Publisher's peach-coloured boards with the front board lettered and lined in gilt and the spine lettered, lined, and decorated in gilt, in the green dust jacket lettered and decorated in red and showing general wear to the spine ends and to the panel corners and edges. W. Russell Flint (1880-1969) was was a Scottish Artist (and illustrator) best-known for his watercolours and depictions of the female body. A Very Good copy.

University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, sharp, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, being a collection of seven (7) the author's short stories, as well as her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. [Prior seller's price in pencil to the half-title.] The collection won the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY RITA CIRESI.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Very good +. A Very Good + or better copy of the First American Edition of this Dickens Christmas Number, being the fifth of his nine Christmas numbers (published from 1859-1867) in his famed periodical ["All The Year Round"], with Dickens having written only the first and last of the seven chapters comprising this tale. The second chapter was written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the third by Andrew Halliday, the fourth by Edmund Yates, the fifth by Amelia Edwards, and the sixth by Charles Dickens' son-in-law Charles A. Collins. This wrappered publication is in Very Good + or better condition with some soiling to the wrappers and only some slight loss to each cover's leading corner and to the lower spine, as well as a pencil note to the front wrapper's top edge. The rear wrapper's upper left corner shows some wrinkling. The inside rear wrapper is dated 1863 and hosts Harper's List of New Books. Copies of this publication are… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Revised Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good copy of the second American edition, first printing -- being the first revised edition (some wear to the spine ends and tiny rubs to the leading board corners) in a Very Good dust jacket (with some general wear, toning, tiny ink insertion in the title immediately prior to "Becket", small stain to the front panel at the "D" in "MURDER"); a dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury; an act which nearly cost Henry II the English Throne. In this second edition, Eliot deleted the dialogue of the three Priests which had appeared at the beginning of Part II and replaced it with a speech by the Chorus. These changes brought the text into conformity with a then-recent production of the Play at the Mercury Theatre in London. T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.