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Paris: Apud Andream Pralard, Bibliopolam, via Jacobaea, ad insigne Occasionis, 1684 First Delphin edition. Full still vellum ruled in gilt. Five paneled spine with brown calf label. . Small quarto. Wood-engraved title page vignette; engraved head and tail pieces; initial letters. Some leaves misnumbered, but the text is consecutive and complete Covers and spine have some worming. Contemporary ink signature on front end pastedown and front flyleaf. A good or better copy. The Delphin classics were an edition of the Latin classics, intended to be comprehensive, originally published in the 17th century. Twenty-five volumes were created in the 1670s for Louis, le Grand Dauphin, heir of Louis XIV. Thirty-nine scholars contributed to the series, which were edited by Pierre Huet and several co-editors, including Jacques-Benigne Bossuet and Ann Dacier. Each work included a Latin commentary and verbal index in addition to additional notes and appendices from the editors. The original volumes each have an… Read More

Denver: Range Pre, 1944 One of 150 signed copies. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Very good.

Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1975 One of 140 copies produced by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. "The four stories in the present edition were selected on the basis of most favorable reviews by literary critics, plus an inclination toward textual and geographical variety — Rome, New York, Paris, and England… "{. Bound by the Allens in vermilion and beige Fortuny print cloth, hand-blocked in Venice. . Folio. Full-page, three-color illustration (designed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen) at the beginning of each story. Printed with German ink on all-rag paper made specially for the Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill in England. The typeface is Romanèe, designed by Jan Van Krimpen for Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Minor toning to edges. Otherwise a fine copy with the original prospectus and in the original acetate dust jacket. "The Allen Press, a husband-and-wife enterprise for some thirty-six years, is one of the very few presses in the world producing books… Read More

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1853 Second English edition, published the year after the first. Original red blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. . Two volumes, small octavo. Six engraved plates. Binding extremities lightly worn, spines a bit cocked, 1 1/2 inch tear along front joint of Volume I. A good, tight set. Susan Warner (1819-1885) grew up in New York City. When her family was in difficult financial straits, she took up writing. Her first novel, The Wide, Wide World, appeared in 1849, followed by Queechy, which appeared at the end of 1850. Both were extremely popular in both England and America. "The source of her popularity…seems to have been her sensibility, which equaled that of any of the more extravagant English novelists of the later eighteenth century. It was her descriptions of the emotions of her characters—emotions that found expression in tears on almost every page—that compensated in the minds of her readers for the absence of action" (Granville Hicks, writing in the D.A.B.)

London: Trustees of the B.M. [Horace Hart], 1912 First edition. Half red morocco over red cloth boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Folio. Spine slightly faded, three ownership signatures, bookplate. A very good, clean copy. Donati, Bib. Miniat. I, 388.

Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1982 One of 350 copies. This copy NOT signed by Greene, and labeled "For review. Azure cloth with paper spine label. Octavo. Fine, without slipcase.

Los Angelesw: 1959 First edition. Ivory cloth binding with original mylar. Octavo. Frontisportrait. A fine copy.

New York: Pocket Books, [1988] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j. The half-title is signed by about twenty-five people involved in the project.

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1976 One of about fifty copies printed on an Albion hand press. The introductory essay is signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Ritchie has signed his essay on Quince, with all his various pseudonyms: Davie Dicher, James Beattie Pitwood, Betsey Ann Bristol, Peter Lum Quince, and Peter Mallory, plus his own name. Original marbled wrappers with printed paper label. . Octavo. Seven woodcut illustrations from designs by Paul Landacre. Title-page in green, salmon and light green. Wrappers lightly browned around the edges, possibly a flaw in the manufacturing, as we've seen this in other copies. Otherwise a fine, fresh copy. This book gives a thorough chronicle of Ritchie's various pseudonyms, detailing when each was used. It is followed by Ritchie's poem, "A Smattering of Quince."

Pris: Fridericus Leonard 1691 First Delphine edition of Horace, edited by Louis Desprez. The Delphine editions of Latin authors, edited by Pierre Huet, were created for Louis, le Grand Dauphin, the heir of Louis XIV. Many, including this one, became the standard texts and were frequently reprinted. Contemporary Dutch vellum. Covers panelled in blind, with central blindstamped ornament, spines lettered in ink. . Two volumes, quarto. Minor soiling, a few leaves lightly browned, but overall a very good set. With the armorial bookplates of George Pretyman (1750-1827), Bishop of Lincoln, and armorial bookplates of a later owner. Pretyman (1750) was a close adviser to William Pitt throughout his life, particularly on matters of finance. Pitt appointed him to the diocese of Lincoln in 1786, a see he held until 1820, when he moved to Winchester. He wrote a two-volume biography of Pitt in 1821.