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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

WILSON, Edmund (1895-1972) · 1931

$3,499.00 (€3,174.61 | £2,648.47 | ¥558,745)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First printing (with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page) of Wilson's first collection of critical essays, charting the influence of the French Symbolist poets on such revolutionary twentieth-century texts as Joyce's Ulysses...

[Geology] Ancient Sea-Margins as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land

CHAMBERS, Robert (1802-1871) · 1848

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Edinburgh & London W. & R. Chambers & W. S. Orr Scarce First Edition of Chambers's detailed study of sea level changes along the Scottish and English coastlines, illustrated with color folding map. Demy 8vo (228 x 138mm): vi,337,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece view of ...

[Original Cloth] An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From Its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member [bound with:] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia

MILNOR, William, Jr. (1769-1848) · 1830

$1,039.00 (€942.68 | £786.44 | ¥165,915)

Philadelphia Judah Dobson First Edition of this early history of America's oldest angling society, Second Issue, with portrait of Gouvernor Morris by St. Memin inserted after Introduction. Bound with the first American book on fox hunting. 8vo (220 x 140mm): viii,127,[1]; [ii]...

The Missing Man

EDWARDS, H. Sutherland (1828–1906) · 1885

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Remington & Co. First Edition First Impression of this rare shilling crime novelette. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 112mm): [2],164pp, with historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers printed in red and black, priced one shilling. Booksell...

[Unionism] The Cripple Creek Strike, 1903-1904

LANGDON, Emma F., Mrs. (1875–1937) · 1904

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

Victor, Colo. Copyrighted . . . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon First Edition True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-gua...

The Spider's House

BOWLES, Paul (1910-1999) · 1957

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London Macdonald First Edition First Printing of Bowles's third novel, set in Fez during the anti-colonial uprisings against the French. Crown 8vo (196 x 127mm): 384pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered in gold; dust jacket illustrated by Stein and printed in black, blu...

[Maritime] The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship. Illustrated with engravings. In two volumes.

STEEL, David · 1794

$3,649.00 (€3,310.71 | £2,762.01 | ¥582,698)

London Printed For David Steel, Union-Road, Little Tower Hill Rare First Edition of Steel's exhaustive treatise on shipbuilding (complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound as one), a massive work addressing all things maritime in the age of sail. Demy 4to (262 x 204m...

A dictionary of the first, or oldest words in the English language: from the semi-Saxon period of A.D. 1250 to 1300. Containing an alphabetical inventory of every word found in the printed English literature of the 13th century

COLERIDGE, Herbert (1830-1861) · 1863

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

London John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly First Edition thus First Edition (under this title) of this "foundation stone" of The New English Dictionary. Slim demy 8vo (219 x 139mm); vii,[1],102,[2]pp. Contemporary green quarter roan over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red le...

Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]

BRAINE, John (1922-1986); John Minton (1917-1957) · 1957

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

London Eyre & Spottiswoode First Edition First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton....

The Schwerdt Collection. Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Drawings relating to Hunting, Hawking and Shooting formed by the late C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Esq.

[SOTHEBY & CO.] · 1939

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Sotheby & Co. [through 1946] Complete in six portions continuously paginated. Royal 8vo (242 x 180mm): [2],86; [6],93-187,[1]; [4],193-244; [4],249-308; 311-358; [2],363-396pp, with 90 full-page plates (some folding). Sage-green stiff wrappers, upper covers decorated an...

[Auction Catalog] The Ducal Estate of Stowe, Near Buckingham. The Historical Seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and for some years the residence of the Late Comte de Paris. Messrs. Jackson Stops will Sell by Auction, at Stowe House, on Monday, July 4th, 1921, at 1 o'clock the Freehold of the Historic Mansion & Estate . . . On the Eighteen Days following (from July 5th to July 28th . . . will be Sold the Contents of the Mansion

[STOWE HOUSE]; [JACKSON STOPS] · 1921

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

Northampton and Towcester Buckingham; London Messrs. Jackson Stops [and others] Limited Edition Catalog of the auctioneer Jackson Stops announcing the sale of the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, the "most magnificent of [Britain's] private estates" and ...

The History of Moses

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894); A. Edward Newton (1864–1940) · 1919

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Doylesford, Penna. Privately Printed [for] A. Edward Newton, "Oak Knoll" Limited Edition reproducing Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest literary composition. Foolscap 8vo (178 x 120mm): [2],10pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of Israelites Going Out of Egypt (from a ch...

[Letters from an American farmer] Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, écrites a W. S. Ecuyer, Depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'a 1781. Traduites de l'Anglois par ***

CRÈVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St Jean de (1735-1813) · 1784

$1,624.00 (€1,473.44 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,332)

A Paris Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente First Edition in French, First Issue (with errata, not found in second issue) of the author's free translation (adding a second volume) of his Letters from an American Farmer, "as literature, unexcelled by any American work o...

[Russian Literature] The Devil [Dyavol]

TOLSTOY, Leo (1829-1910) · 1926

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers First Edition (so stated) in English of this posthumously published novella, translated by Aylmer Maude. Crown 8vo (203 x 120mm): x,[2],104pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over scarlet paper-covered boards, spine stamped in g...

Proust

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989) · 1931

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Chatto & Windus First Edition A superb First Impression (with misprint "hölder" for "holder" on p. 70) of Beckett 's scarce first commercially published book (after Whoroscope, brought out the previous year by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press), one of only 3,000 copies printe...

Rabbit, Run

UPDIKE, John (1932-2009) · 1961

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London André Deutsch First British Edition A stunning First Impression (unread and virtually pristine) of the author's second novel (after The Poorhouse Fair), the first installment in the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series. Crown 8vo (196 x 130mm): [8],307,[3]pp. Publisher’s medi...

American Notes for General Circulation

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1868

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York D. Appleton First Edition thus Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-poi...

Mosquitoes : A Novel

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) · 19271933

$551.00 (€499.92 | £417.06 | ¥87,988)

New York Liveright Publishing Corporation Second Edition of Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and following a group of artists on a four-day yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain. Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],9-349,[1]pp, "apparently from the original plates." (Pete...

[Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] The West Indies and the Spanish Main

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1860

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,126)

London Chapman & Hall Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196...

[Lady Chatterley's Lover] My Skirmish with Jolly Roger [offered with:] A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger"

LAWRENCE, D. H. [David Herbert, 1885-1930] · 19291930

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

New York / London Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the f...