New York: New York University Press, 1971. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 240 pages and with 76 illustrations. First U.S. edition. Includes the work of Bruegel, Hogarth, Gillray, Cruikshank, Thackeray and Phiz. Jacket rubbed and chipped with small tears. Old price sticker on front pastedown. READ MORE about VICTORIAN NOVELISTS AND THEIR ILLUSTRATORS
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1958). thick 8vo. cloth. viii, 931+(1) pages. Third edition. List of English authors, literary works, and literary societies of importance. READ MORE about OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 25827
10 volumes
Paris: Dumoulin, Libraire, 1870--1877. large 12mo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 10 volumes. Complete set of this publication, which is the second edition of a series originally published in 1843--1852 (Besterman 3658). Hauréau aimed to compile a complete history of the people, political movements and traditions of Maine, France. Arranged alphabetically by author. Entries consist of extensive discussions of each author's background and work. Contains approximately 4,000 entries. Covers of all volumes chipped, torn..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE DU MAINE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 77362
2 volumes.
London: George Redway, 1897. 8vo. original green cloth stamped in gilt. xviii,294,(2); (vi),379 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Filled with comments on authors of the day. Minor cover rubbing. Ink ownership inscriptions on front pastedowns and free endpapers. READ MORE about FOUR GENERATIONS OF A LITERARY FAMILY, THE HAZLITTS IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND AMERICA. THEIR...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 18272
Heslington: The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 58 pages. With letters to David Constable, Henry Colburn, Thomas Cadell and others. READ MORE about WILLIAM HAZLITT TO HIS PUBLISHERS, FRIENDS, AND CREDITORS: TWENT Y-SEVEN NEW HOLOGRAPH LETTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 41163
Uppsala, Sweden: n.p., 1968. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 195 pages. With a preface, sources, appendix, and indices. With research and descriptions of the manuscripts. Extremities worn with paper loss or tears at some corners, spine faded. READ MORE about CONTAMINATION AND INTERPOLATION, A STUDY OF THE 15TH CENTURY COLUMELLA MANUSCRIPTS.aut-in
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Leipzig: Deutsche Bücherei, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 57, (3) pages. Written in German, with foreword by Prof. Dr. Helmut Rötzsch. In celebration of the 175th Birthday of Heinrich Heine. Contains 17 black-and-white illustration and figures. With a verification of images at the end. One small tear on spine and one on the upper edge of the dust jacket. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATIONEN ZU HEINRICH HEINE
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket, with DVD. 644 pages, plus 112 on DVD. Edgar Grissom's Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography can succinctly be described as the culmination of all previous endeavors in Hemingway bibliography. Grissom corrects the work of previous bibliographers, adding numerous editions and printings to the periods they covered and addressing the years 1975-2009, which had previously been left untouched. This is the only..... READ MORE about ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Wilmington: Caraday Travel Books, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 248 pages. First edition. Travels with her grandchildren across Europe. With photographs by the author, a Wilmington resident. Presentation from the author on the verso of the free endpaper. Jacket worn with pieces missing. READ MORE about A TALE OF TWO JOURNEYS, A JOURNEY WITH CAROL, A JOURNEY WITH DAVID
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Wilmington: Caraday Travel Books, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 248 pages. First edition. Travels with her grandchildren across Europe. With photographs by the author, a Wilmington resident. Presentation from the author on the verso of the free endpaper. Minor jacket wear. READ MORE about A TALE OF TWO JOURNEYS, A JOURNEY WITH CAROL, A JOURNEY WITH DAVID
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 122041
Winchester: P. & G. Wells, 1910. 12mo. original stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 72 pages. First edition of the author's first book. Herbert (1890-1971) was a staff writer for Punch and Member of Parliament for Oxford Universilty (1935-1950). Spine chipped, crease on front cover. READ MORE about POOR POEMS AND ROTTEN RHYMES
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Los Altos: William Kaufmann, (1977). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 175, (3) pages. First edition. READ MORE about INTO PRINT, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WRITING, ILLUSTRATING, AND PUBLISHING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62358
Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005
New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 96655
Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, (1989). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 109 pages. First edition. catalogue of an exhibition of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. This writer and teacher was also a great bibliophile who was fascinated with English life and letters. He was also obsessed with John Baskerville and this catalogue includes several books printed by Baskerville. Illustrated. READ MORE about LICHTENBERGS BUCHERWELT, EIN BUCHERFREUND UND BENUTZER DER GOTTINGER BIBLIOTHEK. KATALOG DER...
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1956. small 4to. paper wrappers. 36 pages. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des BuchwesensBand I, Lieferung 2, 1956. Sociological article on the position of the author and the book in society. Author's card loosely inserted. Wrappers chipped at spine. READ MORE about DIE STELLUNG VON DICHTER UND BUCH IN DER GESELLSCHAFT
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1883. 8vo. original cloth, gilt stamped spine. vi, 398 pages. William Ballantyne Hodgson was born in Edinburgh on 6 October 1815. He was educated at the Royal High School in the city. After working briefly at a lawyer's office he entered Edinburgh University in 1829. He did not graduate but did employ himself lecturing around Fife on literature, education and phrenology. In 1870, Hodgson was in Bournemouth and the following year in..... READ MORE about LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM BALLANTYNE HODGSON
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(Bamberg): Collibri, (1993). 12mo. paper-covered boards. 141, (2) pages. Written in German. Limited to 220 copies. With a foreword. A biographical study with various tributes. Laid-in is a color picture of Hoffmann by Horst Janssen. READ MORE about E.T.A. HOFFMANN IM VERVIELFÄLTIGUNGSGLAS, BILDER UND GEDICHTE
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(Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, 1946). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (4) pages printed French fold. Limited to 75 numbered copies. Houghton Library Brochure Number Five. Nicely printed on fine paper. READ MORE about HOGARTH TO HIS WIFE, JUNE 6, 1749
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. 8vo. cloth with gilt lettering and design. (viii), 61 pages+fold out seating plan. A description of the medical profession dinner honoring Oliver Wendell Holmes. Includes menu description, toasts, speeches, illustrations and fold-out seating plan. Front and back decorative endpaper with pale green maze design. Light foxing on frontispiece. Boards slightly faded and worn at top and bottom of spine and edges. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS AT THE DINNER GIVEN BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK APRIL 12, 1883...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 87216
Volume IV complete in 9 issues.
Praha: n.p., 1924-25. large 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (viii), 312 pages. Volume IV complete in 9 issues. Nine issues, containing prose, poetry, drama, essays, and illustrations, of the monthly Czech periodical "Host" bound together in one volume. Volume IV 1924-25. This magazine, designed for the modern intellectual, contains the best work of 1924 and 1925 from Czechoslovakia, Russia, and Germany. Illustrated with reproductions of art work by artists such as Malevich, Gropius, and others..... READ MORE about HOST; MESICNIK PRO MODERNI KULTURU. IV
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Cambridge: At the University Press, 1961. large 12mo. cloth. xv, (i), 204 pages. First edition thus. Reminiscences, appreciations, and critiques of the writings of A.E. Housman. It includes a preface by John Carter who also edited the work. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Indexed. Spine faded with some marks on the covers. READ MORE about A.E. HOUSMAN, SELECTED PROSE
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 84 pages. Edited correspondence of over 40 years. Jacket has pieces missing along edges. READ MORE about SCHOLAR-FRIENDS, LETTERS OF FRANCIS JAMES CHILD AND JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, (1972). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 295 pages. Reprint of the 1898 first edition. Chapters on Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Whitman, Longfellow, Holmes and others. READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOKMEN, SKETCHES, CHIEFLY BIOGRAPHICAL OF CERTAIN WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 344 pages. An analysis of how authors are elevated to the status of great writers by a top literary critic. Preface, table of contents, introduction, afterword and index. Dust jacket lightly worn. READ MORE about WHO ARE THE MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS?
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115066
(Wilmington): Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware Writers, 1945. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. First edition. A collection of 32 poems, 21 of which were previously seen in publications such as The New York Times, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Commonwealth of Virginia, and others. Hudson was Poet Laurate of Delaware for a number of years. Spine sunned, edges tanned, light wear. READ MORE about HOW CAN THE HEART FORGET?
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