Literature
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Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928. Rackham, Arthur. 2nd Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2344602 2nd printing of trade edition, printed the same year as the limited edition by the same publisher. Rebound in full leather. Spine and edges a bit toned, 102, [3] pp. Green full leather, red morocco…
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Le Guin, Ursula K. [Kroeber] [LeGuin]
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The Dispossessed: A Novel First edition signed by the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winner New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Winkowski, Fred. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2344299ISBN: 0060125632 First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page (‘For Larry, at last. Ursula Leguin’). Light crease down front jacket flap, spine head lightly pushed.…
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London, Jack; London, Charmian
Dutch Courage and Other Stories First edition in original jacket (BAL 11985) New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Richards, G.M. [George Mather]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2341511 First edition (BAL 11985). Includes original jacket with $1.75 price on flap. Two edges of front jacket flap trimmed (this appears to have happened with most if not…
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Taps at Reveille First edition in scarce first state jacket, includes amusing note from an acquaintance of the author’s New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2334401 First edition, first state, in original first issue jacket. Jacket toned, some loss from jacket corners, amusing ink note from an acquaintance of Fitzgerald’s…
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Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1935. Rackham, Arthur. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2328412 First American edition. Near fine in good jacket. Two 1 inch closed tears on front jacket edge along spine, one repaired with clear tape by previous owner, jacket spine toned, portion of jacket a bit foxed. Boards and interior clean and bright.…
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Three Short Poems
Zaehnsdorf binding, #10 of 30 copies London: Printed for Private Distribution Only, 1898. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2307474 Limited edition, #10 of 30 copies. Rebound in full red leather by Zaehnsdorf. 25 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Three short poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (author of…
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of The Seven Gables 1851
12mo (18 x 11 cm). 344 pp. Brown cloth publisher’s binding with blind stamping to covers and spine. Gilt titles to spine. 1 cm missing to head/tail of repaired/reattached spine. Corners rubbed. Four page publisher catalogue dated March 1851. Signature of PO (B. Verplanck) to head of title page, pencil notation of same to rear…
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Fleuret, FernandÉloge de la plaquette.Les Plaquettes, Paris, 1939
One of the very few copies of this work. Complete with the handwritten addressed envelope. Limited edition of 111 copies, of which this is number xli. Description: Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers and original glassine jacket. Quarto: 31 × 21 cm; [14] ll. (unpaginated). Printed from 16 pt Astrée on hand-made paper, edges…
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(Golden Cockerel Press) Chaucer, Geoffrey. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE.
Considered the most scarce of all golden cockerel press titles Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, 4to., quarter niger over patterned paper boards gilt, with panelled spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, publisher’s slipcase. (xi), 312 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 225 numbered…
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Cervantes, Miguel De. HISTORY OF THE VALOROUS AND WITTIE KNIGHT-ERRRANT DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA.
Two Volumes. Two volumes. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927, folio, full green morocco by the W.H. Smith bindery (signed on lower turn-ins), five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. (xiii), 268; (x), 257 pages.$ Printed in an edition limited to 225 copies (Ashendene no.36; Ransom 39; Franklin p.57, 196, Tomkinson p.8 of Ashendene section). There were…