(København): Gyldendals Julebog, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 74, (3) pages. First edition. H.C. Branner, the Danish writer, is known for his collections of short stories, including Om lidt er vi borte(Well Soon Be Gone, 1939) and To minutters stilhed(Two Minutes Silence, 1944). Illustrated with a picture of Branner. Pages unopened. In Danish. READ MORE about HC BRANNER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63016
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1956. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 260 pages. Revised from her FIFTY YEARS ... Jacket chipped. Annotated list of best sellers. Jacket chipped. Ink inscription. READ MORE about 60 YEARS OF BEST SELLERS, 1895-1955
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 9006
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1956. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 260 pages. Revised from her FIFTY YEARS ... Annotated list of best sellers. Jacket worn with small pieces missing. READ MORE about 60 YEARS OF BEST SELLERS, 1895-1955
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 96416
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1945. 8vo. cloth. viii, 140 pages. First edition. Wear at spine ends. Back cover spotted. READ MORE about FIFTY YEARS OF BEST SELLERS 1895-1945
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 53446
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). 8vo. rebound in later green cloth. (2), frontis, [4 (1 blank)], vii-ix, [1 (blank)], 296 pages.; 4 plates (including fontis). First edition. Lacks the 16-page catalogue of Hodder & Staughton publications. Rebound in neat green cloth. Occasional faint spots of foxing and minor bumping to several page edges. Frontispiece lacks tissue guard. Overall very good. Contents are otherwise unmarked, tightly bound. 4 color illustrations, including a color..... READ MORE about RED EVE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136965
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913. 8vo. original red cloth. 335 pages. First American edition. Front gutter cracked. Some minor wear to covers. Soiling to boards. Some occasional foxing and tears to textblock. Exlibris bookplate on front free endpaper. From the Author's Note, "Mr. Allan Quatermain's story of the wicked and fascinating Mameena, a kind of Zulu Helen, has, it should be stated, a broad foundation in historical fact." B&W and color illustrations. From..... READ MORE about CHILD OF STORM
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136964
N.P. n.p., 1934. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 21 pages. Inscribed on front cover from the compiler to Sir Matthew Nathan. A privately issued Christmas printing regarding the literary Kingsleys. READ MORE about KINGSLEYS. WITH CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM RICHARD WALDEN HALE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 80275
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 360 pages. Companion to Sutherland's OXFORD BOOK OF LITERARY ANECDOTES which concerned English authors. Covers Anne Bradstreet (d.1612) to Sylvia Plath (d.1963). Bookplate. READ MORE about OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN LITERARY ANECDOTES
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 22907
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Fine in fine dust jacket. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important..... READ MORE about JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136523
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 351, (3) pages. First edition, near fine. And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books. READ MORE about CASANOVA WAS A BOOK LOVER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 101173
A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. Part Third.
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1908. 8vo. original publisher's green cloth with gilt decoration. (iv), xiii, 355 pages. A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. Part Third. First edition. Pettit 129. The third and final part of Hardy's imaginative play that mixes the historical figures of the Napoleonic Wars with supernatural beings. Although Hardy considered the play to be his great work, it was not..... READ MORE about THE DYNASTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 94357
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883. 8vo. original light brown cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in dark brown. 262, (2) pages. First edition. A novel placed in Delaware by this Delaware author. Has an advertisement for his ELFLORA as the last leaf. Ownership inscription on front pastedown in pencil. Light soiling to spine, else near fine. READ MORE about THE FATE OF MARCEL
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 67784
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1887. 8vo. Bound in decorative cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. 236 pages. First edition limited to 3,200 copies printed. BAL 7114. Covers lightly rubbed, with some minor wear at spine ends and along hinges. Corners bumped. Preliminary pages very lightly foxed, else a very good copy. Joel Chandler Harris is best known for writing the Uncle Remus stories. READ MORE about FREE JOE, AND OTHER GEORGIAN SKETCHES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 137335
Illustrated by George Gibbs.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. 8vo. gree cloth. 181 pages. Illustrated by George Gibbs. First edition. Very light wear to spine ends, hinges, and corners. Beginning preliminary pages just starting to become loose. Else a fine copy of this lovely edition. Illustrated with 8 plates, bound in a green pictorial cloth designed by William James Jordan. READ MORE about A LITTLE UNION SCOUT
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 137413
Illustrated by Frederick S. Church.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. Green cloth stamped with gilt rabbit on front and black cover gilt titled spine, white butterfly patterned endpapers. xxxvi, [2], 416 pages. 19 plates. Illustrated by Frederick S. Church. First edition of the second Uncle Remus collection of stories. (BAL 7109). A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Very scarce in this condition. Widely illustrated with scenes from the familiar tales, including images of Brother Fox, Brother Bear..... READ MORE about NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 138033
Illustrated by George Gibbs.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1900. 8vo. Bound in green illustrated cloth stamped in black and gilt. vii, 310 pages. Illustrated by George Gibbs. First edition. A near fine copy. READ MORE about ON THE WING OF OCCASIONS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 137415
Illustrated by Frederick S. Church and James Henry Moser.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881. 8vo. Green cloth stamped with gilt rabbit on front and black cover gilt titled spine, white butterfly patterned endpapers. (iv), 231, (1), (8 in ads) pages. Illustrated by Frederick S. Church and James Henry Moser. First edition, second state. (BAL 7100. Grolier Childrens 100 #45. Grolier American 100 #83. Peter Parley to Penrod p.56), with "presumptuous" on page 9, but the ads..... READ MORE about UNCLE REMUS, HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS: THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 138032
New York: D. Appleton, 1915. 8vo. Deep red cloth-covered boards decorated in black & lettered in gilt to front & spine, top edge gilt. xvii, 265 pages. Later printing. Spine ever-so-slightly faded, else a fine copy. The author's most well-known book. READ MORE about UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 137412
Translated by Paul Tabor.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 572 pages. Translated by Paul Tabor. First edition. Fine in very good jacket, which has light chipping and loss along head of spine. READ MORE about THE STAR-GAZER
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 137287
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. 8vo. Blue decorative cloth binding filled in black and gilt; decorative endpapers. 263, 32 pages. First English edition. Bookplate of Henry Keppel on front pastedown. Rear hinge starting. Light wear to edges and hinges. A very good copy. Thirty-nine Illustrations by Paul Hardy, A. Forestier, and J. Gulich. Advertisements in rear. READ MORE about BARKER'S LUCK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 137211
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. 8vo. Blue decorative cloth binding filled in black and gilt; decorative endpapers. 263, 32 pages. First English edition. BAL 7381. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Thirty-nine Illustrations by Paul Hardy, A. Forestier, and J. Gulich. Advertisements in rear. READ MORE about BARKER'S LUCK
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 137572
2 volumes.
(Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington), 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 189-320; pp. 331-484. 2 volumes. A bibliographical article appearing in the periodical "American Literary Realism 1870-1910", Volume Five, Numbers Three and Four, published in Summer and Fall of 1972. Number Three contains entries 1-1200, with Number Four containing entries 1201-2179. Contans an index by subject and author. Pages 361-368 are reversed and bound upside-down. Minor wear and fading at extremities. READ MORE about " BRET HARTE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY COMMENT."
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 101331
London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 8vo. Bound in red cloth boards with illustrations on spine and front board. 274 pages. First English edition. BAL 7373. Spine lightly faded. A very good copy. Thirty-nine Illustrations by Paul Hardy, A. Forestier, and J. Gulich. Advertisements in rear. READ MORE about THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL'S, ETC
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137215
Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1885. 8vo. Bound in original brown cloth, decorated all over in blind, the upper cover and spine gilt-lettered. 260 pages. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. First edition thus, first printing. BAL 7330. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A near fine copy. Printed by the Riverside Press. READ MORE about BY SHORE AND SEDGE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137568
Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1871. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt on spine, iv, 212 pages. First English edition and printed by the University Press. BAL 7255. A near fine copy. READ MORE about CONDENSED NOVELS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137271
