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[Collected Works in Original Cloth] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe : with Notices of his Life and Genius . . . In Two Volumes; [offered with] The Literati : some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays [Association Copies]

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) · 1850

$3,274.00 (€2,970.43 | £2,478.15 | ¥522,649)

New York J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown 8vo (185 x 11...

Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole [Unopened]

CAZOTTE, Jacques (1719-1792; Jean-Émile Laboureur, 1877-1943 (Illustrates) · 1921

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,108)

Paris Chez Camille Bloch Limited Edition Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiec...

Omoo : A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

MELVILLE, Herman (1918-1891) · 1922

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

London Constable [through 1924] First Edition thus Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's second novel, first published by John Murray, in London, on March 30, 1847. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): xiv,375,[1]pp. Publisher's slate-blue cloth, spine and covers ...

[Forgeries] The Spectacles [First and Second Printings]

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) · 1938

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.24 | ¥103,604)

Philadelphia Richard Gimbel First Edition Two copies, First and Second Printings, of this curious Poeana. Small 8vo (89 x 137mm): [2],14pp. Original staple-bound dappled purple card covers (first) and salmon pink wrappers (second), both printed in black. Text setting identical...

The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv’d five and forty years undiscover’d at Paris : Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most Remarkable Transactions of Europe : And, Discovering several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682. Written, originally in Arabick, Translated into Italian, from thence into English. And now Published with a Large Historical Preface and Index, to Illustrate the Whole. By the Translator of the First Volume

MARANA, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693) · 1741

$724.00 (€656.87 | £548.01 | ¥115,577)

London Printed for G. Strahan, S. Ballard, J. Brotherton, W. Meadows, T. Cox, W. Hinchliffe, J. Stag, J. Clarke, in Duck-Lane, S. Birt, D. Browne, T. Astley, S. Austen, J. Shuckburgh, L. Gilliver, J. Hodges, E. Wicksteed, J. Oswald, J. Comyns, C. Bathurst, T. Fisher, J. Carter...

The Borderers: A Tale [The wept of Wish Ton-Wish]

COOPER, James Fenimore (1789-1851) · 1829

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

London Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street First Edition Scarce First Printing, complete in three volumes, of the "first anti-miscegenation novel in our literature [Fiedler]. 12mo: xiv,299,[1]; [2],311,[1]; [2],316pp. Contemporary pink half calf over marbl...

Orley Farm . . . With illustrations by J. E. Millais

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1862

$289.00 (€262.20 | £218.75 | ¥46,135)

London Chapman & Hall First Edition Complete in two octavo volume: viii,320; viii,320pp, with 40 full-page wood-engraved plates that Trollope considered the "best he had seen 'in any novel in any language.'" (Ray) Contemporary green polished half-calf spines in six compartment...

Poems

HARTE, Bret (1836-1902) · 1871

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

Boston Fields, Osgood First Edition First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority note...

The works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late new edition of M. Le du Chat, By Mr. Ozell. Who has likewise added at the bottom of the pages, a translation of the notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, of the said M. du Chat, and others: in which notes, never before printed in English, the text is not only explained, but, in multitudes of places, amended, and made conformable to the first and best Editions of this learned and facetious author. Adorn'd with 15 very neat copper-plates

RABELAIS, François (ca. 1490-1553?) · 1737

$2,149.00 (€1,949.74 | £1,626.62 | ¥343,059)

London printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, for J. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the King’s-Arms in New-Bond-Street; and C. Corbett, at Addison’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-street, First Edition thus A gorgeous set...

Israel Potter : His Fifty Years Of Exile

MELVILLE, Herman (1918-1891) · 1923

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,069)

London Constable [through 1924] First Edition thus Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's eighth book, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, then in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co., in March, 1855....

The Golden Lion of Granpere

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1872

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

New York Harper and Brothers First Edition Scarce First American (and first illustrated) Edition of Trollope's "very best shorter book." (Walpole) Royal 8vo (231 x 142mm): 124,[4]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and twenty-three further wood-engraved illustrations by Dalzi...

Under the Deodars [Indian Railway Library, No. 4]

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) · 0

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,069)

Allahabad / London Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888] First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x...

Septimius Felton or The Elixir of Life [First State]

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864) · 1872

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

Boston James R. Osgood First Edition With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only 3000...

Three Partners, or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill

HARTE, Bret (1836-1902) · 1897

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

Boston Houghton Mifflin First Edition First printing ("1897" on the copyright page and title page), issued simultaneously with the London edition, of this late Jack Hamlin novel, set in the California Gold Rush. Small 8vo: [4],342pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (also issued in ...