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London, 2020, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. As new.. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering. 120 pages. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own. Novelist and poet Robert Nye wrote about an earlier volume of his poetry: "I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might not otherwise be said." And Helen Vendler wrote about the same volume that Freeman's poetry "gave me such pleasures, poem by poem.".

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. Cloth slightly worn; fine copy in the original printed dust jacket.. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in BAL and Mattila are dated December 6 and 8.

Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70. Some faint foxing; corner of one leaf torn, only effecting the blank margin; very good copy.. 4to, modern blue paste-paper boards, paper label on the upper board, untrimmed. Vignette title-page and six vignettes in the text. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors and subjects, etc., and as with most things by the antiquary Sir Egerton Brydges (1762-1837), they are entertaining.

London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. Fine copy.. Small 4to, original printed tan paper boards, untrimmed. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and theologies whatsoever so was Shelley's Faith above those articles and doctrines which many accept in place of Religion. Shelley's Faith was in the Eternal Goodness, in the Eternal Truth, and in Eternal Love." W. Kineton Parkes (1865-1938) was a novelist, art historian and librarian who had some involvement with the Pre-Raphaelites and compiled an interesting anthology entitled Painter Poets. His Shelley's Faith was probably first read as a paper, possibly before the Shelley Society, though that is not so stated. This publication has the earmarks of the involvement of T. J. Wise, but the stated limitation may not be as… Read More

London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833, 1833. First and only edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 196. Edges a little rubbed; very good, untrimmed copy.. 8vo, modern brown paper spine, orange-brown paper boards and printed paper label, untrimmed. Frontis and three plates. With half-title. One of three European travel narratives by Elizabeth Strutt (circa 1785-1867), a prolific novelist, whose publishers included the Minerva Press. Her travel writings were representative of the new class of cultural tourists, who descended on Europe as travel became less arduous and perilous. She was accompanied by her husband, landscape artist and etcher Jacob George Strutt (1784-1867). The four handsome etchings in this work of views from the Loire River are not signed, but are certainly by him. Her travelogue is a day-by-day rendering of her impressions of the people and places they encountered as they traveled down France's longest river, through some of its most scenic country and famous wine districts. They had… Read More

Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31, 1829. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. Spines a little faded and slightly smudged; some light foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, 20th century tan quarter calf (signed Kering & Muller on the spine of volume one), marbled paper boards, spines with handsome gilt floral decorations and lettering, marbled edges. Frontis portrait. With half-titles. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob," this being one of the earliest, if not the earliest example of his use of that nom de plume. Soirées de Walter Scott is a collection of French historical tales, inspired by a visit Scott made to Paris in 1826, during which Scott and Lacroix met, probably at a soirée at Princess Galitzin's, where James Fenimore Cooper was also in attendance. In the first… Read More

London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1864, 1864. First edition. NCBEL III, 554. Edges slightly rubbed; very good copy.. Small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, untrimmed. A substantial collection of over 100 sonnets by Charles Turner (formerly Tennyson and often referred to as Tennyson-Turner), an accomplished and prolific sonneteer (his collected poems contained over 400). In the ODNB, Roger Evans writes that this 1864 collection, Turner's second book, "reveals the influence of the sacramentalist idiom of Keble [i.e., John Keble, Church of England clergyman and poet, 1792-1866], a pronounced antipathy to current neologistic thinking, and a sensitive delicacy in its descriptions of natural forms." Charles Turner (1808-1879) was the brother of Alfred and Frederick Tennyson. Under the terms of a will, an inheritance from an uncle requested that he change his surname.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906, 1906. First edition. Smith, American Fiction 1900-1925, B-389. Cloth a little soiled; very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial blue-gray cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis and four plates. The first novel by one of the most popular American novelist from the turn of the century, Inscribed on the front free endpaper to collector John Stuart Groves: "To Mr. John Stuart Groves / A first edition of a / first novel warrants / any author's autograph. / Rex Beach." Groves' small leather book-platel opposite the inscription, which has offsett onto the inscription.

London: Printed in the Year, 1689, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). Edges rubbed with some loss at the end and foot of the spine; hinges starting, but sound; some spotting and small stains; very good copy.. Folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, blind rules and decorations, red morocco spine label, gilt lettering "State / Tracts / Vol. / I" 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of some particular Gentlemen, who set an extraordinary value and estimate upon them." Politics and life under Charles II are the primary subjects, with an emphasis on anti-Catholicism, including poet Andrew Marvell's An Account of the Growth of Popery, first published in Amsterdam in 1677. There was a second volume in 1692, and both volumes were reprinted together in 1693. See ESTC R17906 and R28848. From the library of prominent Englishman… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. Cloth a little worn; tear in the rear free endpaper volume one; tear in the printed label on volume two; very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original black cloth and printed paper labels. Two pages of publisher's advertisements in volume two. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels by New York journalist Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), followed his novel Norman Leslie (1835), which Edgar Allan Poe famously and scandalously lambasted in a review that became a cause célèbre in Knickerbocker literary circles.