Category: Essays & Criticism

View Categories / Essays & Criticism

Sort

Showing 1-20 of 28

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]

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]

By: NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation: 1873

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...

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...
View More...

A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers

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...

American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c.

By: CAREY, Mathew, ed.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey: 1795

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...

Common Sense: or, Natural Ideas Opposed to Supernatural

By: d'Hohlbach, Baron

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...

Image for L'Esprit De L'Encyclopedie, Ou Choix Des Articles Les Plus Curieux, Les Plus Agreables, Les Plus Piquans, Les Plus Philosophiques De Ce Grand Dictionaire. 5 Volumes

L'Esprit De L'Encyclopedie, Ou Choix Des Articles Les Plus Curieux, Les Plus Agreables, Les Plus Piquans, Les Plus Philosophiques De Ce Grand Dictionaire. 5 Volumes

By: Denis Diderot; Jean Le Rond D' Alembert

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Geneve et Paris, Chez Briasson et Le Breton: 1767

Seller ID: k200418b

Condition: Fair

1st thus. 5 of 6 Volumes, lacking volume 1. Vol II (C-G): [4], 384 p. Vol III (G-M): [4], 380 p. Vol IV (M-V): [4], 334 p. Vol V (Supplement A-D): [4], 431 p. Vol VI [Supplement D-T] [4] 278 pp. ……Bound in contemporary calf, gilt spine with labels. Published in France between 1759-1771 in various editions and supplements, Diderot’s encyclopedia is most famous for presenting thoughts of Enlightenment essayists, including Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau. This is the compact edition which we believe had five regular volumes and three supplements. This set is 3 of the main volumes and two o...
View More...

Deaths Duell. A sermon delivered before King Charles I in the beginning of Lent 1630

By: Donne, John

Price: $65.00

Publisher: David R. Godine: 1973

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...

Books once were Men

By: George Barr McCutcheon

Price: $38.50

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co: 1931

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...

Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing in Proper Language.

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...

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...
View More...

THE ADVENTURER - 4 volumes

By: Hawkesworth, John; Samuel Johnson; Joseph Warton et. al.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, Charles Green Say, for J. Payne: 1754

Seller ID: k200418c

Condition: Fair

Printed by Charles Green Say, for J. Payne, London, 1754. Second edition. Four volumes. 12mo. (iv), 308p; (vi, 292p; (vi, 298p; (iv), 297p. The Adventurer was one of several 18th century English periodicals to publish the essays of Samuel Johnson. This 4-volume set contains all 140 numbers as in the first edition. Bound in contemporary calf, ribbed spine with gilt labels and double lined borders. 25 of the papers are attributed to Johnson, 70 to Hawkesworth. ##### Condition: Fair/Poor. The text blocks are clean and tight overall with only occasional light foxing; the only significant flaw ...
View More...

Exaggerated Nationalism

By: Le Gallienne, Richard

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...

Books Once Were Men / An Essay for Booklovers

By: McCutcheon, George Barr.

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...

The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States

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...

Prejudices: First Second & Third Series

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...

James Branch Cabell

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...

Europe After 8:15

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...

Reflections on the Death of Mishima

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...

Idiosyncrasy & Technique / Two Lectures by Marianne Moore

By: Moore, Marianne

Price: $35.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1958

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...

Invertebrate Spain

By: Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1937

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...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Essays & Criticism