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![Image for The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]](/assets/images/product/k190121l_1)
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation: 1873
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Inscribed by author
Seller ID: k190121l
Condition: Good
1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We bel... View more info
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... View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Cemetary Dance: 1991
Seller ID: k6493
1st ed., signed by Bradbury on the title page. Pristine copy! View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey: 1795
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: cr191112e
Condition: Poor
The American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c. Relative, or Having Affinity, to the Treaty with Great Britain. Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey, 1795. 1st ed. 288pp. Noted as Volume I [of a 3 volume set] contains the first four issues of Carey's periodical "American Remembrancer" dated Aug. 20, Aug. 27, Sept. 4, and Oct. 1, 1795. A collection of printed documents in support of “Jay's Treaty”, signed Nov. 19, 1794, which resolved severa; Anglo-American diplomatic issues arising out of the Definitive Treaty of Peace of 1783. A... View more info
Price: $200.00
Seller ID: 1248
8vo, full-calf, 204 pp. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789) was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He is best known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770), which presented a core of radical ideas that prompted the Catholic Church in France to threaten the crown with withdrawal of financial support unless it effectively suppressed the circulation of the book. The list of people writing refutations of the wor... View more info
By: Donne, John
Price: $65.00
Publisher: David R. Godine: 1973
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: 021802
Condition: Fine.
Small 4to, ¼ leather and marbled boards. #84 of an edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. John Donne's sermon "Deaths Duell" or "A Consolation to the Soule Against the Dying Life and Living Death of the Body" with a comprehensive essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Five engravings and engraved initial letters. Paper watermarked with John Donne's name. A virtually pristine copy; without d/w as issued. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, New Directions: 1946
Seller ID: 7363
New York: New Directions, 1946. Stapled Wrappers. 32 pp. essay entitled "Will the commercialization of publishing destroy good writing?" Farrell's observations on the future of books. Very timely for today. Very light 1/4" fade line along outer edge of front cover, otherwise fine. View more info
Price: $38.50
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co: 1931
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k0226c
Condition: Fine
1st ed; Limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. 12mo, Marble boards in acetate d/w and slipcase. Ribbon bookmarker. The book is virtually pristine with just some light toning to front and back flyleaves; slipcase also fine; acetate d/w is near fine but with several small open tears. View more info
By: Graves, Robert
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1927
Seller ID: 121303
1st ed in dustjacket. Very Good copy in fair dustjacket. Book has some age-toning on back endpapers, otherwise no reportable defects. Bookplate of actor/radio star Jean Herscholt (for whom the Academy Award Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award is named) is mounted inside front cover; store label of Hollywood Bookshop is inside back cover. Dustjacket is tanned and somewhat brittle, with the front cover present but partially detached. View more info
![Image for THE LAST THIRTY DAYS OF CHRIST. [Inscribed Copy]](/assets/images/product/k190719l_1)
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Privately printed: NY: 1920
Edition: 1st edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Hartmann to minister/writer Paul Jord
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... View more info
Price: $32.50
Publisher: n.p., Press of the Wooly Whale: 1935
Seller ID: g1011
1st ed., 16mo, 9 pp. First edition. Cloth backed decorated boards. Good copy with rubbed corners and scratches on back cover. Interior clean and tight throughout. A lovely production from this fine small press. The 8th of the Press' Armistice Day publications. Foreword by Melbert B.Cary Jr., founder of the Woolly Whale Press. Cover design by Charles W.Smith. Printed by George W. Van Vetchen, Jr. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: NY, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1931
Seller ID: cc1706301
8vo, marbled boards, black cloth spine lettered in gold, t.e.g, ribbon place marker. 1st ed. Limited to 1000 copies. An essay published in tribute to McCutcheon who was a noted collector of first editions and a lover of fine books. Introduction by William Dana Orcutt who designed the View more info
By: Mencken, H. L.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1919
Seller ID: C170626b
Limited first edition (981 of 1500 numbered copies), 8vo black Cloth, 374 pp., Good; rear cover slightly bowed, light surface wear, spine titles rubbed. Lacking d/w. View more info
By: Mencken, H.L.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1919, 1920, 1922
Seller ID: c1706295
3 volumes; 8vo black cloth. First Editions: no additional printings stated. Good-very good. Second series has titling on spine rubbed. Lacking d/w’s. View more info
By: Mencken, H.L.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: NY, Robert T. McBride & Company: 1927
Seller ID: c1707052
First edition. 12mo stapled slate blue wrappers. Simultaneously published in hardcover. 32 pp. biographical and bibliographic study by the noted critic. Published for free distribution to promote the Kalki Edition of Cabell's works. View more info
By: Mencken, H.L>, Nathan, George Jean; Wright, Willard Huntington.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: NY, John Lane Company: 1914
Seller ID: c170630b
12mo, orange cloth, black titles and décor. Satiric essays about travel in Europe, written on the brink of World War I. Very good, llight edgewar, spine darkened; bookplate on front pastedown. View more info
By: Miller, Henry
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Capra Press: 1972
Seller ID: 111508
Pristine copy, signed by Miller on the title page. This 1st softcover edition was published shortly after the first hardcover edition that was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies. View more info
By: Moore, Marianne
Price: $35.00
Publisher: University of California Press: 1958
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 031204
Condition: Fine
A fine copy of her two lectures - inaugurating the Ewing Lectures of the University of California Los Angeles. Though not stated, only 1000 copies were printed. Fine. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1937
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 015002
8vo, black cloth. Very good-near fine copy in VG d/w. Book has some light staining inside covers, otherwise fine. The staining appears to be an image transfer from the yellow d/w flaps. D/w has edgewear and a few small nicks but no significant tears or chips. View more info
Price: $135.00
Publisher: London, The Florence Press By Chatto & Windus: 1910
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: k190218d
Condition: Fine
8vo, faux vellum, gilt titles, ribbon ties. Limited Edition of 250 copies, With 12 color plates by Norman Wilkinson, with tissue guards. Near fine” Overall a clean and bright copy, front cover lightly bowed, bookplate inside front cover. #180 of 250 copies (of which 235 were for sale) printed on Aldwych hand-made paper. No dustjacket, as issued. Stevenson’s first book of essays, originally published in 1881. View more info
