Category: Literature

Sebastian Van Storck

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York; John Lane, London : 1927

Seller ID: k190126u

Condition: Fair

4to, illustrated linen, gilt titles. With 8 full-page tipped-in color by Alastair. No. 591 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed in pencil by the artist. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: Fair; the text block and illustrations are fine. The significant flaw is that it is lacking the backstrip on the spine, otherwise covers are good overall with several light stains.. The penciled signature on the plate on p.30 is present, but faint. Lacking original slipcase.
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Sebastian Van Storck

By: Alastair and Walter Pater

Price: $300.00

Publisher: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. , Dodd, Mead and Company, London And New York : 1927

Seller ID: k200115b

Condition: Near fine

Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full-page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that presents nearly fine. Covers: A small soil smudge about ½”x1” on both panels near center of spine; otherwise fine with no bumping or rubbing. Internally: near fine -- some light toning and spotting to front matter pages occasionally very faint foxing; this appears to be a defect in the ...
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Image for Cento Ethicus. Ex ducentis Poetis hinc inde contextus, per Damasum Blyerburgium Batauum. Iuuentutis maxime Institutiontioni accomodatus.

Cento Ethicus. Ex ducentis Poetis hinc inde contextus, per Damasum Blyerburgium Batauum. Iuuentutis maxime Institutiontioni accomodatus.

By: Blyenburg, Damasus van.

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 150309

16 mo, grey boards, quarter leather. Blyenburg (1558-1668), a dutch poet, published this compilation of selections from modern Latin poets. A revised edition, first published the year earlier in 1599. CONDITION: Fair; Covers quite worn, but intact, with substantial staining. Title is inked onto the spine. Inked signatures on ffep; front hinge partially split. Inked number on title page; small inked library rubber stamp image on verso of title page. 1" x 2" damp stain at bottom center of inside front cover and extending into the first dozen pages or so and again at the back cover. Other damp s...
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New Numbers / A Quarterly Publication of the Poems of …… Vol. 1 No. 3. August 1914

By: BROOKE, Rupert; Lascelles Abercrombie; John Drinkwater; Wilfred Wilson Gibson

Price: $50.00

Publisher: England, Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: Crypt House Press. : 1914

Seller ID: k210515n

Condition: Fair

8vo, blue-grey wrappers. A short-lived periodical [4 issues] "devoted exclusively to new poems" by the four contributors, this issue containing pp. 109-152 of the series. 4 poems by Brooke.
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CONDITION: Fair; Covers toned; 1/2" chip top of spine, corners bumped, several edge nicks. Interior is good; a reasonably tight copy but with occasional light foxing.
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Image for The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

By: Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy / William Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: York, Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.] : 1783

Seller ID: s200901b

Binding: Vintage rebinding

Condition: Good

1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to match contemporary bindings. ##### Du Fresnoy ( 1611-1665) had a modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered for his Latin poem De arte graphica, first published in Paris in 1684 and containing his observations on the art of painting, including a critical treatise with general advice to students. William Mason (d.1797) spent several years on this new version translated into English couplets. Includes a Preface and a verse Epistle to Sir Joshua Re...
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Birch Bark Poems, Vol. 1.

By: Charles F. Lummis

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Chillicothe, OH, Charles Lummis : 1884

Seller ID: k200613a

Condition: Very good

2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (12) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lummis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the printing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edition. First published while Lummis was working for a small publishing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. Th...
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The Wapshot Chronicle

By: Cheever, John

Price: $155.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers : 1957

Seller ID: 042407b

1st ed., 8vo in price-clipped dustjacket. Cheever's debut novel. The book itself is fine. The dust jacket is very good with a 1/2" closed tear at bottom right of front and upper front at spine and light-wear elsewhere. Also a 2" square paper label announcing the book's selection for the 1958 National Book Award. The label could probably be removed but I have left it in place.
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Le Monde comme il est [The World As It Is]

By: CUSTINE, Astolphe (Marquis de)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Brussells, Louis Hauman et Comp : 1836

Seller ID: k200801b

Binding: Marbled boards

Condition: Good

CUSTINE, Astolphe (Marquis de) Le Monde comme il est [The World As It Is] Brussells, Louis Hauman et Comp, 1836. 2 vols. 1st Belgian edition. 16mo. Half-leather, marbled boards. 4 raised bands, gilt titles on burgundy labels, marbled edges. 278 pp. 322 pp. First published in Paris in a larger format,1835.##### A dark comedy, quite popular in its time. The protagonist, Edmond d'Offlize, boasts that he can seduce a very rich heiress whose face is so ugly that it would be acceptable "only in the land of the frogs." A great muddle of ardor and manners ensues. The Marquis de Custine (1790-1857...
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Short story “Holiday” in The New Pearson’s Magazine July, 1923

By: Dashiel Hammett

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New Pearson's Magazine : 1923

Seller ID: k200225c

"Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest works of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignette, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a patient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the bank, and catches a bus to Tijuana. He spends some time playing the ponies at the track and then drinking with a couple of bar girls. With economical, prose Hammett lets us know that in addition to his lung disease, Paul is suffering from a bad case of ennui; he doesn’t care whether his horses pay off or ...
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DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PRIEST AND A DYING MAN

By: De Sade, Marquis

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Chicago, Pascal Covici : 1927

Seller ID: k221017b

Condition: Good

1st ed., small 4to, decorated cloth, 52 pp+. on handmade paper, deckled edges. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Samuel Putnam. Number 415 of 650 copies. One of de Sade's earlier works, but from an unpublished manuscript first published in France in 1926. The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life. deSade completed the notebook which contains the Dialogue while imprisoned at Château de Vincennes. He took the manuscript with him when he was transferred to the Bastille in 1784. Followin...
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The Way of the Whirlwind [ in d/w]

By: Durack, Mary and Elizabeth

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Consolidated Press, Sydney : 1943

Seller ID: k200115d

Condition: Very good

THE BLACK BOOK: (1st ed., 1st state; advance review copy)

By: Durrell, Lawrence

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Dutton, New York : 1960

Seller ID: k190721c

Condition: Fine

First U.S. edition; first state. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Conforms to the first issue points identified by McBride's "Points Of Issue" (1996): Front flap states "Lawrence Durrell's Black Book is the first piece of work by a new English writer …" not "T.S. Eliot said…" - Also with the year 1936 x’d out on the copyright page and replaced by 1959. A fine copy in very good d/w; just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corners. Jacket is not price-clipped but has wear to edges and corners with se...
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Spider Kin [Inscribed copy]

By: Forman Brown; Marian Brand (illus.)

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Chicago, Robert Packard & Co : 1929

Seller ID: k210130h

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. 8vo. Green spider-web patterned boards, cloth back, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles. This is his first book, a poetry collection. #####Frontispiece and 3 full-page woodcuts by Packard, all with spider-web patterned glassine guards. This issue with the illustrated jacket precedes the more common edition issued in wrappers, also with a jacket...
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Image for TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO

[The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...]
IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]

TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO [The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...] IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]

By: GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Milano: Fratelli Treves : 1902

Seller ID: k190212e

Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several full-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in Italian. A tragic play in verses, presented for the first time at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on December 9th 1901. The text centers on the story of how Francesca da Rimini falls in love with her husband's brother in the 13th century. The play is based on an episode from Dante Al...
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THE LAST THIRTY DAYS OF CHRIST. [Inscribed Copy]

By: Hartmann, Sadakichi

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Privately printed: NY : 1920

Seller ID: k190719l

Condition: Poor

1st ed. 8vo, brown boards, 109 pp, No. 53 of 3000 numbered copies. With an inscription by Hartmann to Paul Jordan Smith -- “from [as Bernard Shaw expressed it] ‘the man who writes about the last 30 days of Christ when the first day Him has not yet dawned upon Earth.” Smith was an American Universalist minister who also worked as a writer, lecturer and editor. However, he is most well known for originating the hoax art movement Disumbrationism. Giving himself the Russian-sounding pseudonym Pavel Jerdanowitch, Jordan-Smith painted a small group of crudely Postimpressionist canvases that he then ...
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The Abysmal Brute

By: Jack London

Price: $425.00

Publisher: The Century Company : 1913

Seller ID: cr200613d

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed, second state.12mo. "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at foot of title page.1 page undated ads at back. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, in dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale. frontispiece by Gordon Grant. This copy is in the second binding state, which is identical in design to the first except for the colors. Sisson & Martens p. 70; Blanck 11945. Near fine; a clean tight copy with just some dust discoloration on top edge. In very good d/w with just a few small edge and corner nicks. Bookstore ink-stamp on back end-paper.
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The Road Through the Wall

By: Jackson, Shirley

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus and Company : 1948

Seller ID: 121301

Condition: Near Fine

First edition (with stylized FS to the copyright page.) Pages browned as usual, else fine in good, price-clipped dustwrapper with very minor edgewear and large tear to rear panel. Where the original price was clipped, there is a small rubber-stamped $3.00 price. Uncertain if this was a publisher repricing or a bookstore. A particularly bright copy of the author's first book.
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Abaft the Funnel

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $130.00

Publisher: NY, B. W. Dodge & Company : 1909

Seller ID: cr201010a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

8vo, 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition; in pictorial blue cloth with red printed titling. 360 pp. This pirated edition by Dodge predates the authorized Doubleday edition by two months. Dodge published only one edition, but with three binding variants. The third issue was the first to include a dustjacket, although Richards believes. A fine copy except for prior owner's inked signature on fep. In VG d/w. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette and Turnovers. [Martindell 112; Livingston 328, Richards A227]
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CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., : 1897

Seller ID: cr220617a

Condition: Very Good

With illustrations by I.W. Taber. 8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, a.e.g.
viii, 245, [1], [2, ads] pp.

First UK edition of this nautical adventure story, written while Kipling lived in Vermont. 21 black-and-white illustrations. [2] pages of ads to rear. Richards, A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68

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Condition: VG; Book lightly cocked (as often found); high points in gilt illustration on spine lightly rubbed. Owner's inked signature inside fep; very light spotting foxing to half-title and end papers.
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The Quest. [First Separate Printing - Ltd to 12 copies]

By: KIPLING, Rudyard

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Edward H. Crussell : 1933

Seller ID: cr220722d

Condition: Fair

12 pp; 12mo stapled grey wrappers. Colophon: "Set by Hand and 12 copies printed; none of which are for sale; VII-XI-XXXIII." A forty-line, four-stanza poem about a knight returning from battle. First, and only, separate publication. The poem was first published in The Book of Beauty / A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day; edited by. F. Harcourt Williamson; London; Hutchinson & Co, 1897. It was next reprinted by E.W. Martindell in Fragmenta Condita: The Unrecorded Portion of my Kipling Collection. (Appendix to 'A Bibli...
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