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New York: B. W. Dodge & Co., 1909. First Edition. hardcover. Hinge cracked at the rear but very tight; covers bright and fresh. The dustwrapper is complete with only minor chipping at the spine tips and corners. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Livingston 328. Pirated Edition, preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold.
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ABAFT THE FUNNEL
by KIPLING, Rudyard
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THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed.
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AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION
by DICKENS, Charles
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Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Raymond F. Houlihan. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 9-3/4") bound in genuine tan calfskin leather and decorated gray boards; 316 pages. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Introduction by Angus Wilson. Of 2000 copies, this is out-of-series and not numbered. Illustrated with 8 watercolors, 12 black-and-white part-page sketches, and 20 thumbnail drawings by Raymond F. Houlihan and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY in two volumes
by (BYRON, Lord); (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor); [SOUTHEY, Robert - editor] et. al
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Bristol: Biggs and Co., 1799 & 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, handsomely bound. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15]. Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's "War Poem," but were canceled in all but two known copies as the poem was considered unpatriotic. A third volume was advertised but never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic poetry, here in unusually nice condition.
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ARROWS OF THE CHACE BEING A COLLECTION OF SCATTERED LETTERS PUBLISHED CHIEFLY IN THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS,-- 1840-1880 with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) tipped in
by RUSKIN, John
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Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Darkening to edges of text; soiling and rubbing to covers, heaviest to spine. Very Good. Two volumes in original boards with paper spine labels. Essays on Art Education, Architecture, J. M. W. Turner, Women: Their Work and Dress, and other topics. With a two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING by Ruskin to "My dear Barnes" dated 8 September 1878 tipped to the front endpaper. In full: I don't like to give Mr. Ellis trouble about so little a thing, and I daresay you will be good enough to find time to do it for me; -- I want the best accounts that have been given in the papers of a waterspout said to have destroyed a town in Hungary: and of the late steamboat catastrophe at Woolwich: --buy the back numbers of any paper that give details and a little account, for which I will at once remit you post order, -- and if you are faring any time soon through the Burlington [?] please buy from the nice old lady who…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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Holmwood, November 14. Letter. Creases from mailing. Near Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "A. C. Swinburne" on two adjoining 4-1/2" x 7" sheets to composer Theo Marzials. In large part: "I am afraid I did not answer your note yesterday, & today it rises on my sight like an avenging ghost. As a rule I find it necessary to leave such matters as the publishing of my songs with music wholly in the hands of the publishers, who have their own tariff fixed for the license; but of course I reserve my right to dispense with this in the case of friends, & was never more glad to make use of it than in yours." Marzials created a musical version of Swinburne's poem "Ask Nothing More of Me, Sweet," which became one of the most popular ballads of the 1880s.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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Landgate, 18 December 1887. Letter. Light crease from mailing with neat paper reinfocement of the crease on the verso. Fine. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "John Ruskin" ona 4-1/2" x 6-7/8" sheet of light blue paper addressed to George Barnard, artist, writer, and from 1843 to 1880, the drawing master at Rugby School. Along with Ruskin, Barnard had been a pupil of the landscape artist, J. D. Harding and was a prominent member of the Alpine Club, known for his Alpine scenes and views of Switzerland. In full: "I am glad of your letter, and that the drawings are secured for the [?]-- which will take better care of them than any private proprietor could-- They are [?] [?] of old watercolor paints. --but have too much in [?] work on them to be as interesting as rougher sketches. I hope you may have satisfaction in our arrangements of them."
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by the Author of FRANKENSTEIN
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Rome, 6 April [1843]. Letter. Mild crease from mailing. Near Fine. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Mary Shelley" written in Italian on one sheet of an 8" x 5" piece of paper folded to 4" x 5," dated 6 April [1843]. A rough translation: "Esteemed Sir. Thank you so much for your card -- and your kindness. I feel ashamed thinking about all the inconvenience that you are experiencing due to that annoying matter [strikethrough] of Tozzetti, but I am pleased that he is not obtaining all he was looking for. He deserved nothing. Thank you for the letter -- maybe others will come for us either sent to your address or simply to Florence. Would you graciously send someone to the post office to ask for our letters and send them here. My debt I would come and pay. I hope it is not too big to be a burden on my conscience, and I will find a way to repay it. [strikethrough] I hope that the weather has improved and that Nerina feels better. I would really love to see you and Nerina again. And who knows if I…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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Oxford, 7 February 1876. Letter. Mild creases from mailing. Near Fine. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin" on one side of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of Corpus Christi College stationery folded in half addressed to a Miss Rudkin. Ruskin requests that she send a bill [for the dress she purchased for him to give as a present]. "I don't usually let my debts stand so long; will you kindly send ... the account for my last indulgence in your charming and too tempting imaginations. Really, in the truth of old English -- that blue dress was 'excellent well fancied!'" In his letter to Ms. Rudkin written on October 29 of the previous year, Ruskin asked that she find "a pretty, quiet, thoroughly strong, and not fussy nor catchy sort of dress for Ethel Hilliard."
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT
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[1853]. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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Hernehill, 4 January 1837. Letter. Creases from mailing; minor soiling. Very Good. An early one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin," written when he was just 17 years old, on one panel of a 10" x 8" sheet folded in fours addressed to W. H. White, Secretary of the British Meteorological Society. In full: "I take the liberty of troubling you with the accompanying papers [not present], as I am not aware of the manner in which communications are usually presented to the Society. I shall be highly gratified of the members of the Meteorological Society consider these observations, for the accuracy of which I can answer, though of their utility I am doubtful, as in any degree interesting." In a letter to his father three days later, Ruskin wrote, "The Society would be much better employed, instead of listening to anticipations which never will be realised, and prophecies which the weather takes good care not to fulfil, in as certaining the causes and effects of phenomena which have actually taken…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
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[Rome], [April 1859]. Framed Letter. Light spotting to letter, some soiling at very bottom of letter covering up part of the words of the postscript. Letter examined out of frame and no other defects observed. Very Good. Handwritten letter SIGNED "Elizabeth B. Browning" on a 3-3/8" x 5-1/4" sheet of paper matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Browning has written "43 Bocca di Leone" as a return address. The letter is addressed to a Miss Shepard. In part: "I send the beef-tea, & will you let me know tomorrow when more shall be wanted -- & whether the gelatina made of chicken would be a desirable change?-- Use me, I beg of you-- I do congratulate you all, out of a full heart--." A postscript: "One word of verbal message to say how she is today." An interesting insight into the domestic side of the famous poet. EBB to Ada Shepard (4382), as published in THE BROWNINGS' CORRESPONDENCE, 26, 117, where the date is given as Sunday [?10] [April 1859: "Conjectural date…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): "one regrets one's youth more sharply in England than in France"
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n.p., n.d. . Framed Letter. A bit of staining in the margins. Near Fine, framed between two pieces of glass with a 1917 auction description for this letter glued to one side over blank space. An important two-page letter in Stevenson's hand and SIGNED twice by him with his initials "R.L.S." on two sides of a 9" x 8" sheet of paper so that each page of writing has a blank verso. Interesting and characteristic content addressed to his cousin, Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, about his health and contrasting England and France. In part: "I have not got the cold. Fanny is better.... I am so dry-rotten that I can do nothing. I have been as dry-rotten in the Savile Club (the old building) where it was endemic, like hospital gangrene; but never anywhere else. It is blame cold. As soon as you have got the pontoon started, better let me see. Do not be stumped by difficulty of beginning; remember that is always hard.... Dry rot is, I think, English; though I have felt its hand in Parry on the gay bullyvard. The…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) on Realism in Art and Literature and its Relation to Morals
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[17 January 1882?]. Manuscript. Minor staining. Near Fine. Twelve 5" x 8" pages written on 3 folded leaves, stitched together at the vertical fold, not signed but completely in Ruskin's hand. A presumably complete and untitled essay, possibly unpublished, on realism in art and its relation to morals. Ruskin begins, Realism in any work of art ... is by no means a modern attribute. We find it in the paintings of Raphael just as unmistakably as in those [of] Meissonier or Duran.... We may very properly call it the natural -- the human -- element of a work of art, and no doubt it is this element which pleases us most in all masterpieces.... But realism is not the sole end, nor even the chief end of artistic creations; if it were, we should prize a photograph more than one of Turner's landscapes.... Now contemporary fiction must be subject to the same laws as past fiction, only its worth must vary according to the merits of the present novelists.... The three greatest English novelists -- Thackeray,…
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AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
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5 July 1815. Framed Manuscript. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. A one-page (8" x 10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip Sidney. In full: "The chief use, then in Man of that he knows Is his painstaking for the good of all; Not fleshly weeping for our own made woes, Not laughing from a melancholy gall, Not hating from a Soul that overflows In bitterness, breathed forth from inward thrall; But sweetly rather to ease, loose, or bind, As need requires, this frail, fallen human kind. Lord Brooke./Peter House July 5th 1815/Wm Wordsworth."…
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THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. The spine is very worn with the leather all but rubbed away, although the gilt is still clear and bright and the covers are in nice shape; contents clean. Good only in a Good slipcase with the top edge partly detached. Zhenya Gay. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #393 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press.
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THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a few mild scratches. Zhenya Gay. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #1205 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press, rarely found in such nice condition as the spine is often badly rubbed or worse
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THE BEACH OF FALESA
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Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine in glassine and a complete, intact slipcase but with much staining. Millard Sheets. Tall quarto (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in cloth-backed paper with a grass-cloth Hawaiian design by the illustrator; 134 pages. Handsomely printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Introduction by Stevenson's biographer, J. C. Furnas. Copy #333 of 1500 illustrated by Millard Sheets and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. A handsome book.
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THE BEACH OF FALESA
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Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Near Fine in in a Very Good slipcase with typical soiling and a closed split. Millard Sheets. Tall quarto (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in cloth-backed paper with a grass-cloth Hawaiian design by the illustrator; 134 pages. Handsomely printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Introduction by Stevenson's biographer, J. C. Furnas. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated by Millard Sheets and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. A CLASSIFIED AND ANNOTATED LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO HIS LIFE AND WORKS 1797 - 1940
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Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a soiled, Very Good dustwrapper. Cloth; xvi, 428 pages with 2938 entries listing nearly 3,000 secondary works for bibliographies, biographies, general critical studies, studies of genres, studies of individual works, and topical studies. Descriptive annotations note reprintings and reviews.
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