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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story

Reeve, Clara · 1784

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

London, Charles Dilly, 1784. A New Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and pretty sturdy yet. Marbled paper over boards, heavily rubbed leather-backed, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Edges, tips rubb...

The Works of the Late G.A. Stevens, Esq. Consisting of His Celebrated Lecture on Heads, and Songs, Together with a Life of the Author

Stevens, G.A.; W.H. Badham, eds. · 1823

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Gloucester / Cheltenham / Worcester, Printed for Washbourn and Son; G. WIlliams; Knibb and Langbridge, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. An uncommonly pretty little pocketbook-sized exemplar, 4 3/4" x 3" tall and wide, respectively, of a now rare ...

The Gentleman's Magazine for January 1745, Volume XV, Proceedings and Debates in the Senate of Lilliput

Urban, Sylvanus [Cave, Edward] and Samuel Johnson etc. · 1745

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

London, Edward Cave, 1745. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Particularly lovely exemplar of the First Edition of the January 1745 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine. Edited and published by Edward Cave, whose nom-de-plume was Sylvanus Urban, it functioned as a...

Dr. Johnson and Lord Chesterfield

de Quincey, Thomas · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York, Ben Abramson, publisher, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 250 copies of this book have been printed in Garamond types by the Profile Press of New York in the Summer of 1945. The facsimile here is printed in the form of a collotype. Tall...

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. , with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, the Fifth Edition, Volume II, IV, V, VI

Smollett, Tobias; Robert Anderson, ed. · 1817

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Duncan, Stevens, & Co., for Silvester Doig & Andrew Stibling; Peter Hill & Co.; John Fairbairn, Edinburgh; W. Otridge; Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy; R. Scholey; G. Cowie & Col.; M. Fenner; B. Reynolds; W.H. Reid, London; Wilson & Sons, ork; and Johnston & Deas,...

Thomas of Reading, and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada

Deloney, Thomas; Charles Roberts Aldrich and Lucian Swift Aldrich, eds. · 1903

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.39 | ¥8,940)

New York, J.F. Taylor & Co., 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned interior, moderately toned endpapers, page edges. Limited Edition of 150 copies, this being Copy #24. Bound in small quart...

The Works of Spenser, Volume the Fourth

Spenser, Edmund · 1750

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)

London, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the fourth volume of the collected works of Edmund Spenser, known especially for The Faerie Queene, an English epic poem. The first three volumes were...

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 2 - for 1976

Allen, Robert R., General Editor · 0

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Published for the AMS Press, for the American Soci, Published for the Eighteenth-Century Studies, New York. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound cover in printed, illustrated softcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing t...

William de Morgan: A Post-Victorian Realist

Seymour, Flora Warren · 1920

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Chicago, Illinois, Bookfellows, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Limited Edition of 400 copies only. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Laid in is the author's simple bookplate, loose, quite fine. Br...

Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra, Complete in Two Volumes

Junius · 1801

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

London, T. Bensley, 1801. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This edition contains all the letters of "Junius," Philo Junius, and of sir William Draper and Mr. Horne to Junius, with their respective dates, and, according to the order in which they appeared in the Public Adv...

George Eliot's Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals

Cross, J. W. [Cross, John Walter] · 1885

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set of three hardcover copies comprising the life and letters and accomplishments of George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann or Mary Anne or Marian Evans...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in Two Volumes

Moore, Thomas · 1825

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,241)

Paris, A. & W. Galignani, 1825. First French Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An unusually lovely exemplar of a fine two-volume biography of a leading politician. Bound handsomely in polished red calf, deeply debossed illustrations to front covers, and gilt ruling to fr...

The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1754

Urban, Sylvanus · 1754

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

London, Henry & Cave, at St. John's Gate, 1754. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An uber-scarce-in-the-trade English imprint, there being currently no additional copies available on-line of this leading English "gentleman's magazine" of politics, current events, h...

Wren's London

De Maré, Eric · 1975

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Folio Press, 1975. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Beautifully bound in blue cloth, with fine gilt designs to front cover, lettering to spine. Virtually pristine inte...

Merrie Conceited Jests, of George Peele Gentleman, Sometimes Student in Oxford. Wherein Is Shewed the Course of His Life Etc.

Peele, George · 1809

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

London, Henry Bell, 1809. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Buy, reade, and judge, the price does not grude; It will doe thee more pleasur, thantwice so muc treasure." From the personal library of the noted erotobibliophile and literary sleuth, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Complete in Four Volumes

Lord Macaulay; Trevelyan, George Otto, ed. · 1876

$172.00 (€156.05 | £130.19 | ¥27,457)

Leipzig, Germany, Bernard Tauchnitz Edition, 1876. Bernard Tauchnitz Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Scarce in the trade in this condition, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. An attractive set, complete in four volumes, of the Bernard T...

Mainly on the Air

Max Beerbohm · 1946

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, William Heinemann, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny, printed dust jacket, not much wear to panels but with s...

Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three

Bentham, Jeremy; W. Star, ed. · 1952

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

London, The Royal Economic Society, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in three volumes, published in First Edition, First Printing states in 1952, 1952, and 1954, respectively, Volume One, Two and Three. A perfectly serviceable set of three referenc...

Parliament: Report from the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Acts; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix [Command 351], Together with Index

House of Commons · 1881

$116.00 (€105.24 | £87.80 | ¥18,518)

London, England, House of Commons, by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Published in London: House of Commons, July, 1881, comprising an indispensable reference tool for students and historians of English social ...

Parliament: Report from the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Acts; [Command 323] Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix

The House of Commons · 1879

$84.00 (€76.21 | £63.58 | ¥13,409)

London, England, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, for the House of Commons , 1879. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highligh...