HARRY MARTEN'S DUNGEON-THOUGHTS [caption title] by [ Linton, William J.] - 1845

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.. 319,[1] pp. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Portrait frontispiece engraving of the author after Rowse's crayon sketch, with tissue guard. Small nick and some fraying at the crown of the spine, faint old spot and tide mark at top edge near the gutter (faintly beginning at p. 207, then to end); still, a very good, bright, tight copy. First edition of Thoreau's third book, published posthumously and equipped with a preliminary 33 page biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. BAL records the edition consisted of 1558 copies. BORST A3.1.a. BAL 5236 and 20111.

1852. 1852 Florian FABLES DE FLORIAN; EGOLGUES ET CONTES EN VERS Paris: Librairie Pittoresque de la Jeunesse, 1852 263pp, index, illustrated throughout with full-page plates and engravings within the text Text in French 8vo Embossed brown cloth, small gold illustration on rear cover, gold titles and decorations on spine, gold title within an illustration stamped in gold, green and red on the front cover Pale yellow end papers with foxing/discoloration; scattered foxing and a few small stains throughout the text Some rubbing/wear on the ends of the spine, corners; Very Good attractive hardcover with bright gilt.

New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819 - 1820.. Seven parts bound in two volumes. Large octavo. 19th century calf, spines gilt extra. Bound without wrappers and adverts. Early manuscript index on front binder's blank in both volumes. Spines darkened and slightly crazed, joints a bit worn and slightly cracked in places (but sound), occasional spotting and foxing to Part I, brown spot in fore-edge of Part VII, clean 5 cm tear in top edge of leaf 63/4 of Part VII, with no loss, still a good set in contemporary dress. Old morocco faced slipcase. First editions, first printings, of each part of Irving's second major sequence publication, with BAL's state 'A' of the text on page 240. Neither the terminal blank for Part I, nor the slip against piracy that was inserted in some copies of Part II are present. THE SKETCH BOOK is among Irving's masterworks, printing for the first time in complete book form "Rip Van Winkle" (Pt. I), "Old Christmas" (Pt. V), and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Pt. VI). "That… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1853. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 306 Pp. + 6 Pp Ads, Complete Wrappers (Red, Printed In Black, With Spine And Both Panels, 5 Titles And 4 Forthcoming Titles On Rear Panel) Bound In At Rear. First Edition, Three Quarter Red Morocco, 5 Compartments, Gilt, Marbled Paper Boards And Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt. Bookplate Of Pre-Eminent Thackeray Collector Henry S. Van Duzer, Designed By Tiffany & Co.; His Thackeray Library Went To Auction In 1917. Binding With Slight Rubbing, Tight And Clean And Unfaded; Wrappers Almost Unbelievably Clean, As New, Bound In At Rear.

Philadelphia: John Watts. Good; Homemade but rather effective repairs to front hinge with leather . strips and paper, waterstain, bookplate remnants, and initials “DS” on . front pastedown, light foxing throughout, penciled page numbers at top of . first and last several leaves.. 1806. First American Edition. Hardcover. Original brown marbled calf. Lettering piece and gilt designs to spine largely perished. xii, 306 pp + [1] page of publisher’s advertisements. An early poetry collection by the Irish writer containing some of his impressions from travels in America and the Caribbean. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

London: Leonard Scott 1868, American edition. (Hardcover) 281pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 3 / 4 tan leather with marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, table, diagram, notes. There is a previous owner's name, the leather is very lightly rubbed at the edges, the inner hinges are cracked. (Ideas).

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.. 319,[1] pp. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Portrait frontispiece engraving of the author after Rowse's crayon sketch, with tissue guard. Small nick and some fraying at the crown of the spine, faint old spot and tide mark at top edge near the gutter (faintly beginning at p. 207, then to end); still, a very good, bright, tight copy. First edition of Thoreau's third book, published posthumously and equipped with a preliminary 33 page biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. BAL records the edition consisted of 1558 copies. BORST A3.1.a. BAL 5236 and 20111.

New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819 - 1820.. Seven parts bound in two volumes. Large octavo. 19th century calf, spines gilt extra. Bound without wrappers and adverts. Early manuscript index on front binder's blank in both volumes. Spines darkened and slightly crazed, joints a bit worn and slightly cracked in places (but sound), occasional spotting and foxing to Part I, brown spot in fore-edge of Part VII, clean 5 cm tear in top edge of leaf 63/4 of Part VII, with no loss, still a good set in contemporary dress. Old morocco faced slipcase. First editions, first printings, of each part of Irving's second major sequence publication, with BAL's state 'A' of the text on page 240. Neither the terminal blank for Part I, nor the slip against piracy that was inserted in some copies of Part II are present. THE SKETCH BOOK is among Irving's masterworks, printing for the first time in complete book form "Rip Van Winkle" (Pt. I), "Old Christmas" (Pt. V), and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Pt. VI). "That… Read More

One of 100 large-paper copies printed on hand-made paper. Overall size c.9.3/8 x 6.1/4 inches. c.24 x 16 cm. Original lithographic portrait of the author by Wilson Steer as frontispiece. pps 8 + 204. Usual browning to free end-papers o/w internally near fine. Binding slightly soiled and rubbed, more so on corner tips but a very good copy of the fragile boards.

New York, F. Tennyson Neely, 1898, hardcover, 224 pp, First Edition, Good condition in blue cloth boards decorated with red and silver. Straight and very firmly bound with no markings, spots to boards, spine a bit faded, light spine-end and corner wear, stain to bottom edge, faint evidence of dampstain to top edge of a few pages. The Georgia native and popular Victorian author of 30 novels presents a Sherlock Holmes-style detective story featuring a taunting villain, a particularly gruesome murder, and an Indian mystic and master hypnotist in a castle with a secret dungeon.