The Works of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles - 1818

London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. The Writings (limited edition of 1500 copies, this being No. 654): xviii, 364 pages+ vii, 397 pages + vii, 430 pages. The Life (published 1927; limited edition of 1480 copies, this being No. 864): xv, 397 pages. Quarto. Portrait frontispiece and many b/w plates. Notes at the end of each volume. The Life has appendices, notes and index. Original vellum-backed marbled papered boards. Gilt titling on the spines. All edges uncut. Partially unopened. Very slight spotting. Some offsetting on endpapers. *A very beautiful set.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1998. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Good. In clear mylar Brodart cover - Owners single name also. Flat signed by author on title page. First editions/first printings have no mention of any awards on the cover and have the number line ending with a 1 Publisher Notes A novel of angels, wine, and love without boundaries set in nineteenth-century Burgundy. One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard. Drunk, he stumbles on an angel: "Someone had set a statue down on the ridge. Sobran blinked and swayed. For a second he saw what he knew--gilt, paint and varnish, the sculpted labial eye of a church statue. Then he swooned while still walking forward, and the angel stood quickly to catch him." Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be a far more… Read More

314 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover in pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition limited to 12,000 copies.Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the United Kingdom on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It had been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from 27 May to 15 July 1933. It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the fourth full-length novel to be set there, and forms a direct sequel to Summer Lightning (1929), with many of the same characters remaining at the castle from the previous story. It also features the re-appearance by Lord Tilbury, who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925).Condition:Previous owner's name on front end paper verso. Jacket with the number .25 under the unclipped price of $2.00, edges… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.

This is a scarce, very early Charles Dickens book that was published when he was only 25 years old. "PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE, ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG" by Boz ("Boz" was the pen name of Dickens). 1837; Carey, Lea and Blanchard; Philadelphia. The book contains "Other Tales and Sketches, from Bentley's Miscellany, and the Library of Fiction" including a story by James Fenimore (spelled "Fennimore" on the contents page) Cooper titled "An Evening of Visits." There are 11 stories in all - please see the photos for the complete list of contents. This is one of the first stories by Dickens published in book form in the United States.Condition:Worn corners (the tips of the boards are exposed); 1/2" cloth tears at the top edge of the spine, small cloth tears at the bottom edge. The front board bows at the center just a bit. There is a crack at the front hinge between the end papers. The pages are in good condition with only some occasional light foxing (heaviest on the title page - see photo) and staining.… Read More

1822 Don Quixote Cervantes Chivalry Motteux English Lockhart Notes SCOTTISH 5v

"Small wonder if the world received Don Quixote with delight! There was nothing like unto it before: there has been nothing to eclipse it since". – Rius, D. Leopoldo.
A rare, 19th-century English translation of Cervantes' masterpiece – "Don Quixote". This edition, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, is considered a desirable English translation, which was very popular after its release in 1700. However, this edition was criticized and condemned by later printers for:
· Adopting a frivolous style, rather than a more serious and ironic tone
· Turning Don Quixote and Sancho Panza into buffoons
· Casting the work in a "Franco-Cockney" rather than Spanish culture
This 1822 edition was published in Edinburgh, printed in five volumes, and includes a 'life of Cervantes' by J.G. Lockhart – the first edition to feature Lockhart's essay.
Item number: #11346
Price: $599
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1869 Famous English Literature Milton Latimer Selden James VI England Scotland
"English Reprints" is a fascinating collection of famous pieces English literature. This five-volume set includes the following works:
· The Revelation to The Monk of Evesham (1196) - 1869
· - James VI of Scotland, I of England - The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie. (1585) / A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604) - 1870
· - Sir Robert Naunton - Fragmenta Regalia (1630) - 1870
· - Thomas Watson - Poems (1582-1593) - 1870
· - William Habington - Castara (1640) - 1870
· - Roger Ascham - The Scholemaster (1570) - 1870
· - Tottel's Miscellany - Songes and Sonettes by Henry Howard, Sir Thomas Wyatt. Nicholas Grimald, and Uncertain Authors (1557) - 1870
· - Thomas Lever - Sermons (1550) - 1871
· - William Webbe - A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) - 1871
· - John Milton - Areopagitica (1644) - 1869
· - Master Hugh Latimer - Sermon on the Ploughers (1549) - 1869
· - Stephen Gosson - The School of Abuse… Read More

1845 1ed Eugene Sue Mysteries of Paris anti-Catholic English Novel Literature 3v

'The Mysteries of Paris' is a classic French novel by Eugene Sue, published in the mid-19th-century. In many ways, 'Mysteries of Paris' was a landmark work as well as being controversial. Sue was one of the first French authors to fuse characters from different social classes making this work popular amongst all readers, not just upper or lower classes.

However, this work, which follows the mysterious life of a German Duke, is one of the most famous 'anti-Catholic' novels. Along with 'The Wandering Jew', this book depicted various aspects of underclass society and helped establish the 'city mysteries' literary genre. This 1845 English first edition features nearly 700 illustrations throughout!
Item number: #12036
Price: $599
SUE, Eugene
The Mysteries of Paris
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845-1846. First Authorized English Edition.

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1843 1ed Crusoniana Juan Fernandez Islands Robinson Crusoe Selkirk Shipwreck
'Crusoniana' is a rare, 19th-century historical account of the South Pacific island which inspired the famed story 'Robinson Crusoe'. Known today as the Juan Fernandez Islands, this island famously housed marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose story became the basis for Defoe's famous epic.
Written by Thomas Sutcliffe, 'Crusoniana'
covers the life and shipwreck of Selkirk, who eventually became the governor of the Juan Fernandez Islands.
This impressive first edition is known to be quite valuable much in part to the fine, full-page engravings.
Item number: #18575
Price: $750
SUTCLIFFE, Thomas
Crusoniana; or, Truth versus fiction elucidated in a history of the islands of Juan Fernandez
Manchester [England] Pub by the author; printed by P. Grant, 1843. First edition.

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1734 Dryden Fables Ancient & Modern Homer Ovid Chaucer Boccaccio English Lit

John Dryden was a 17th-century English poet who was known as England's very first Poet Laureate and would lead England into a literary period that would become known as the Age of Dryden. He also established standard forms of English poetry though his satires, fables, epigrams, poems, and plays.
'Fables, Ancient and Modern' is Dryden's translations of some of the most famous and iconic works of ancient literature. Dryden includes selections from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', Homer's 'Iliad', and even stories from Giovanni Boccaccio, all translated into English verse.

Item number: #19863
Price: $599
DRYDEN, John
Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head ever-against Catharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]

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