Literature from Michael Carroll Dooling

London: The Bookman's Journal, 1923. First Edition . Full Vellum. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Number 84 from an edition limited to 200 signed copies, full vellum and pastedowns are slightly rippled (typical of this title); The colophon reads, "This is the fourth of the Vine Books issued to subscribers from "The Bookman's Journal"… Read more about this item

Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8.25. Holograph letter, dated 4-18-11, on Miller's green stationery with the upper left imprinted "From / Joaquin Miller, / The Heights / Dimond, Cal." The letter, written on one side only, is difficult to read but relates to his admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It reads in part, "...Hawthorne (was) great, very… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. First Edition . Full Red Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First issue owith the mis-numbered pages (corrected fairly quickly by the binder), original beige covers bound in, vignette of Tom Thumb standing on a bull's head on front cover and repeated on title page, frontispiece plus… Read more about this item

New York: (Harcourt Brace), 1928. Apparent First Edition . Printed Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Contains 19 pp., frontispiece of Lytton Strachey from "Observations" by Max Beerbohm, 2 additional b&w photos of Clive Bell and Virginia Woolf. Designed by Robert S. Josephy and Printed by L. F. White Company… Read more about this item

London: L. Wayland, 1792. First Edition . 8vo, bound in ¾ brown leather with tan cloth, pp. (4), 64, (4); front joint cracked, about 6 internal leaves have old faint waterstains, an early owner has written the words "William Tell" on the title page. rear end page has label from John Howell / Importer / San Francisco. This… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. Second Edition . 3/4 Calf/Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second Edition of the first of The Waverley Novels published five weeks after the first edition with minor revisions and one new paragraph (volume II, p. 294), three volumes, calf spine and tips with… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1941. Blue Printed Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. From an edition of 250 copies printed as a Christmas keepsake by Caroline Newton, daughter of A. Edward Newton. Slight sunning of spine, from the Holliday Bookshop in New York with their label on rear, inside cover and a… Read more about this item

Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. First Editions . Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Combined for sale together - Aldous Huxley's first two published works. The Burning Wheel was published in 1916 and is bound in beige wraps with paper labels on the front cover and the spine; small chip at base of… Read more about this item