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Sebastian Van Storck

By: (Alastair) Pater, Walter

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...
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LETTERS CONCERNING MYTHOLOGY

By: Anonymous [Thomas Blackwell and Others]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, n.p.: 1748

Seller ID: k200801d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8vo, full calf. [xvi] 411 [index xv] Thomas Blackwell (1701-1757) was a Scottish classical scholar who wrote influential works on Homer as well as on Greek mythology. There are nineteen letters in all, the first six written anonymously, with Blackwell responsible for letters seven to nineteen. Classical mythology had been discussed throughout the Christian era from a variety of unsympathetic standpoints: firstly by critics who saw it as a fanciful form of history; next by Christian commentators who treated the classical gods as thinly-disguised demons; and finally by modern rationalists who...
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LES FLEURS DU MAL [Limited Editions Club]

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Limited Editions Club: 1940

Seller ID: k190126n

Condition: Good

Limited Editions Club, New York and Paris, 1940. This single volume only, French text; published as a two volume set with the second volume being the English translation “Flowers of Evil.” Illustrations by. Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. 8vo, pale blue stiff paper wrappers in glassine dust jacket. No. 83 of 1500 copies. No slipcase issued. A good copy: interior is very clean but several of the gutters are somewhat loose; still fully intact. Chipped at spine ends. Glassine envelope yellowed at spine with several edge tears and 2” dampstain on back cover, not affecting the book.
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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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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 R...
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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...
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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...
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Master Humphrey's Clock/The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: Chapman and Hall: 1840

Seller ID: k190719m

Condition: Good

First edition in book form, bound from the original parts, of both "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge". 8vo, ¼ leather, maroon cloth, with gilt rulings, titles, five raised bands. Three volumes bound as two. Marbled end papers, all edges marbled. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written by Dickens from April, 1840 to December, 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included, followed by th...
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Epitaph : a Poem / by Theodore Dreiser with scarce glassine d/w.

By: Dreiser, Theodore and Fawcett, Robert (Illus. )

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Heron Press: 1929

Seller ID: s200901d

Binding: Japanese Silk

Condition: Fine

1st edition, with scarce original glassine d/w and slipcase. Small 4to, 59 pp. A fine copy; bound in silver-gilt blocked Japanese silk. Printed on hand made Keijyo Kami paper (limited to 400 copies in this binding). Signed signed by both the author and illustrator Robert Fawcett. Another 200 copies were bound in leather, 200 copies in Japanese silk. ##### Condition. Fine. A pristine copy, with scarce glassine d/w. Slipcase Very Good, with several spots of rubbing/ light peeling; 1/2” tear at bottom.
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Time and the Gods

By: Dunsany, Lord

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1922

Seller ID: 121318

Small 4to. Vellum-backed orange cloth, front, spine and rear panels ruled in gold, leather label lettered and ruled in gold affixed to spine panel, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Limited edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Dunsany with each plate signed by artist Sidney H. Sime. A deluxe edition of Dunsany's second book, first published in 1906 by William Heinemann. New "preface" by Dunsany dated 19 October 1922. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-118. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 574. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 75. Tymn (ed), Fant...
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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 w...
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Hubert's Arthur. Being certain curious documents found among the literary remains of Mr N. C., here produced.

By: Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cassell, London: 1935

Seller ID: k190126t

Condition: Fine

8vo, red cloth dustjacket, 453 pp. an alternative retelling of English history from the point of view of Hubert de Burgh. In Hubert's narrative, which begins with an account of the struggle for succession in the wake of King Richard Lionheart's death, young Duke Arthur of Brittany does not die at the hands of King John, but instead ascends to the throne. Hubert relates Arthur's adventures as he combats the wily John, fights in the Crusades, and wages battle against the treacherous Simon de Montfort, before facing perhaps his greatest challenge when his reign is threatened by the crucifixions...
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[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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Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signature of Rudyard Kipling]

By: Hamlin Garland

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York: 1928

Seller ID: k190126c

CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to back free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing page. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two photographs of Garland and company on the half-title, along with a guest pass to the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens signed by Rudyard Kipling who, as a member, gave Garland admittance. Another photo of Garland on the verso and a fourth affixed to a blank page facing page 205. Unknown whether the extra items were added by Garland or another.
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OLD MAID'S FOLLY: Black Venus and Other Texas Legal Tales

By: Hankerson, James A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: N.P. (Austin, Roger Beacham: 1987

Seller ID: m190723b

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, grey boards, black cloth spine with titles on paper label. 76pp. with frontis protrait. Designed by W.R. Holman in an edition of 250 copies, printed at Wind River Press. A collection of stories from the life and times of author's father who practiced law in West & East Texas. Condition: near fine; a bright, tight copy. Internally pristine; a fine copy overall but with several small spots on covers.
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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...
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