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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book, lacking the original dust jacket. First printing, July, 1903 stated on the copyright page. White paint a bit rubbed on the front board. Housed in a custom red quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. A Klondike Gold Rush adventure novel told from the point of view of the dog Buck, The Call of the Wild is also a consideration of the thin line that separates "civilized" creatures from their primal origins. Though he begins life as the pampered and much-loved pet of a California gentleman, Buck is stolen and forced into service as a sled dog in the Alaska Yukon. The lowest member of his pack, Buck faces abuse from his incompetent human owners as well as violence within his team as the dogs jockey for higher positions that aide their survival. Ultimately, Buck must relinquish his individualistic tameness to find his place as a trustworthy team leader and he must tap into the most primitive tendencies that lay…
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The Call of the Wild
by London, Jack
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Captains Courageous
by Kipling, Rudyard
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1897. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. An attractive copy of Kipling's classic tale of the Grand Banks. A Nearly Fine copy of the book with a contemporary gift inscription on the half-title and very slight foxing throughout. An extremely bright, pleasing copy in the original cloth, all edges gilt. A fantastic coming-of-age story set on the rough seas. Famously adapted for the screen in 1937, for which Spencer Tracy won a best actor Oscar. A maritime coming of age story, Captains Courageous follows Harvey Cheyne from his spoiled and privileged childhood, to a life-changing experience on the sea that transforms him into a good man. After falling overboard off a luxury liner and being rescued by the crew of a fishing boat, Harvey's eyes are opened to different cultures and classes of the world. He learns the value of hard work and gains a new appreciation for adventure and loyalty. Near Fine.
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Captains Courageous
by Kipling, Rudyard
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New York: The Century Co, 1897. First edition. Near Fine. Preceding the first British edition. An attractive copy of Kipling's classic tale of the Grand Banks. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt, red, and black. Top edge gilt. A Nearly Fine copy of the book on account of a small spot to the front joint else a square and bright, retaining its gilt and colors; internally fresh and unmarked. A fantastic coming-of-age story set on the rough seas, it was famously adapted for the screen in 1937, for which Spencer Tracy won a best actor Oscar. A maritime coming of age story, Captains Courageous follows Harvey Cheyne from his spoiled and privileged childhood, to a life-changing experience on the sea that transforms him into a good man. After falling overboard off a luxury liner and being rescued by the crew of a fishing boat, Harvey's eyes are opened to different cultures and classes of the world. He learns the value of hard work and gains a new appreciation for adventure and loyalty. Near Fine.
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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss [Theodor S. Geisel]
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New York: Random House, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. First printing in matte boards with a single signature and original dust jacket, priced at 200/200. A Near Fine copy of the book with trivial bumping, soiling and wear to board edges. Small bump to the top of the spine. No previous ownership markings or soiling to any pages. Dust jacket is Very Good+ with some minor soiling and rubbing, a small closed one inch tear to rear panel. Dr. Seuss' renowned children's classic. The book, which follows the visit of a clever top hat ensconced cat to a suburban home, was written by Dr. Seuss in response to John Hersey's challenge that he come up with a more entertaining and engaging basic reader. The book sold over a million copies in its first three years in print and would make Dr. Seuss a household name. The Cat in the Hat appears on the School Library Journal's list of the Top 100 Picture Books of all time in addition to the National Education Association's list of Teachers' Top 100 Books…
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The Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J. D. [Jerome David]
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1951. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Exceptionally bright and fresh, extremely scarce in this condition. Jacket with only negligible wear at the extremities, but retaining all the vivid red and yellow colors on the front panel and spine. With all relevant issue points, including original price (in the correct place on the flap), Salinger's hair touching the upper edge of the rear panel, and "First Edition" stated on the copyright page. Housed in a custom red quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Salinger's novel was not the first coming-of-age story to highlight teenage angst, but it sits squarely at the pinnacle of those efforts. It offers Holden Caulfield's perspective on school, New York City, sexuality, family and friends, and, of course, phonies, with a subtext on alienation and loneliness running throughout the book. "In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition:…
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Cat's Cradle
by Wain, Louis
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London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1908. First edition. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers with original red silk tie, gray end-papers.[48] pages. Eight full-page color (including one double- page) illustrations and forty-nine smaller color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to one corner, otherwise a Near Fine copy of this very fragile and precious little book. A fine collection of favorites including: Jack Horner, Miss Muffet, Jack-in-the-Box, Santa Claws and Hey Diddle Diddle. The illustrations also include cats playing cricket, watching a magic lantern and playing 'Squib'. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves"…
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Cats at School
by Woodhouse, C.S. Louis Wain (illustrator)
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London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1911. First edition. Quarter green cloth over color pictorial, heavy-card stock boards. Some soiling to boards, upper corners creased. Tall octavo. Collating [2], 4-23, [1, blank]. With twenty full-page color plates, including frontispiece. In all an excellent copy. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells). Wood 36. Dale, p. 76.
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Cats at Play
by Rackham, Arthur. Louis Wain, Mary Gladwin (illustrators)
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London: John F. Shaw, 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards, corners a little worn.Small quarto (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm). A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color, with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain, and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham (so initialed) on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce, with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light, it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book, unheralded, on page forty, is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe, in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance, a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket, as small as…
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Cats at Play
by Wain, Louis
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London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1917. First edition. Publisher's full color staple-bound pictorial wrappers. Oxidation at staples, light wear at edges and spine head, third gathering loose at two staples (of three). Folio (13 1/8 x 10 1/8 in; 334 x 258 mm). Twelve pages with one to two captioned scenes in color, inner covers illustrated in black and white. An excellent copy of a book that would normally have been destroyed by child. A particularly difficult Wain title to find in any condition, with the present being utterly exceptional. "From 1883, Wain began to draw cats as they had never been drawn before, cats in humorous guises, in human situations, but always beautifully handled...although he was sometimes forced to draw dogs before he became well- known!" (Houfe). Dale 34.
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes
by [Helen Hunt Jackson] H. H.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. A much nicer than usual copy with just the slightest wear to corners. Contemporary ownership signature of Georage Wilcox to front endpaper. Text block square, clean, and tight. Measuring 187 x 122mm and collating complete including the adverts to the rear: x, 457, [1, blank], 6. An important activist work difficult to find in collectible condition, Helen Hunt's account of the U.S. government's crimes against indigenous communities intended to raise awareness and generate a push for legislative and ethical change. Novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and activist for the improved treatment of first nations people of the U.S. "Her greatest achievement was her pioneering work for Indian rights. After hearing the Ponca chief Standing Bear speak about the dispossessed Plains tribes, she vowed to write an expose of the government maltreatment…
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The Character of a Town Miss
by [Sex Work] Anonymous
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London: [printed for Charles Hindley], 1873. First thus. Original quarter cloth over printed card. Measuring 213 x 143mm and complete in 8 pages. A Near Fine example, with a touch of soiling and offsetting to card wraps; rear endpaper torn with minor loss, with remnant adhering to excess publisher's glue on the rear pastedown. Antiquarian Charles Hindley's first separate facsimile publication of the pamphlet originally published in 1680 by Rowland Reynolds, this being one of six copies on this yellow paper. First separate issue from his 1871-1873 set in 3 volumes titled Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana: The Old Book Collector's Miscellany which drew together sixteenth and seventeenth century works in history, literature, and biography. Scarce across the board, OCLC reports 15 copies of the 1680 first edition and 5 copies of the present reprint; no copies of either appear in the modern auction record or in trade. A late seventeenth century satire on the rising fame and wealth of courtesans in London,…
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Charles I.
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London: Goupil & Co, 1898. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in full crushed morocco with five bands to spine and ornate gilt to spine and boards. All edges brightly gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Blue and brown morocco doublures. Silk moire endpapers. Number 378 of 500 copies printed on Japanese paper. Spine gently sunned; some bumping to corners. Front hinge tender but holding well. Light offsetting to endpapers. Internally wide margined and unmarked, with just a hint of toning to some margins. A lovely copy of Sir John Skelton's posthumously published biography of a controversial English king. The second son of King James of England & Scotland and Queen Anna of Denmark, Charles I was not the heir the court had planned upon; but on the untimely death of his elder brother, Charles ascended, radically changing the English monarchy forever. A firm proponent of the Divine Right of Kings, a lover of theatre and masque performance, and the husband of a Catholic princess from the de Medici line, Charles'…
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Charlotte Bronte's Works, with Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte's Works (in 6 vols.)
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London: Robert Riviere & Son, [N.D.]. Temple Press Edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in half calf over cloth, with ornate gilt to spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 170 x 105mm and collating complete with frontis, half title, and full title to each volume. A Near Fine set, with some minor marks to closed text blocks of several volumes and small bump to the crown of Shirley. In all, a lovely, square example of these important feminist novels. The moorlands surrounding Haworth Parsonage "had a profound influence on the writing of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte...at their home the children created a rich imaginary world. Any books that came their way were eagerly devoured, and they produced their own books as well" (Bronte Society). As the sisters rose to adulthood, their novels began to focus on the complex emotional lives of women from all walks of life -- from orphans to governesses to heiresses -- but with the greatest emphasis on those whose educations and…
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The Chase. A Poem
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London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1796. First thus. Finely bound by Mansell in full tree calf with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. A tall copy measuring 290 x 225mm and collating xv, [1, blank], vii, [1, blank], 126: complete including 13 wood engravings by Bewick. A lovely copy, with minimal rubbing along joints; internally fresh and unmarked. The best-known poem by country gentleman Somerville, The Chase is a "Miltonic blank verse that traces the history of hunting up to the Norman Conquest of England (1066) and gives incidental information on kennel design, stag hunting, otter hunting, and the breeding and training of dogs" (Britannica). It was first published in 1735. In a most English poetic form, Somerville captures the feel and the origins of elite English country life; and his words are brought to visual life with Bewick's intricate illustrations.
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Children's Poetry
by [Craik, Dinah Mulock] The Author of John Halifax
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London: Macmillan, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by J & JP Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen for S. Drostane's College. Full calf with gilt to spine and college crest in gilt to front board. All edges and endpapers marbled. Small bump to crown of spine; occasional light foxing largely confined to margins. Presentation inscription to front blank: "S. Drostane's College. John Patrick Cash, Prize for Writing -- Third Form. Midsummer 1887. Presented by Major Cash, Strathpeffer." A charming copy of this scarce book of poetry by a leading women's activist, it is the only first edition on the market and is held by only 10 institutions in the U.S. according to OCLC. A surreptitiously activist selection of poems designed for children by activist Dinah Mulock Craik. "Although she had the training to become a governess, she turned to writing as a profession. Her earliest work was in genres that could be quickly written and sold...consolidating Dinah Mulock's reputation as a popular writer who…
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Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep
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London: John Murray, 1816. First edition. Bound in full red polished calf by Zaehnsdorf: gilt ruled on the boards, marbled end papers, all edge gilt. Bound without the half-title or ads. With the armorial bookplate of Duff Cooper, First Viscount Norwich, on the front paste-down. A bit of rubbing along the outer joint, but holding well. A few spots of foxing internally, mostly on the binder's blanks. A lovely copy of one of Coleridge's best works. Mythical in both its content and creation, Kubla Khan emerged from one of Coleridge's laudanum induced dreams. By his own account, Coleridge dreamt of the Mongol emperor not in his historical context as a tyrant, but as a figure of contradiction and artistic complexity. "Coleridge's Khan is a kind of artist, summoning into being with a God-like command not only the beauty of the pleasure-dome but the ordered loveliness of its cultivated gardens, full of sweet smells and tinkling streams, all sheltered from the outside world by robust ‘walls and towers'"…
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Citizen of the Galaxy
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Fine first issue book with Scribner's A to copyright page. In a Near Fine jacket with minimal rubbing to extremities and small chip to rear panel near crown of spine. A pleasing copy. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's imperialist novel Kim, Citizen of the Galaxy considers a future in which humans engage in trade with extra terrestrial communities engaged in slavery. Interplanetary laws seek to limit the trading of human slaves, but when a young boy Thorby is purchased at an auction on the planet Jubbul, readers get insight into the grassroots abolition movements that are potentially more effective at fighting for freedom. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
by [Sex Work] [Wilson, Harriette]
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London: Printed and Published by the Author, 1830. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating [2], civ, [2, half title], 196; [2], 313, [1, blank]; [2], 282: with half title of volume I bound out of order and without half titles to remaining volumes, else complete. A tight, square copy with a bit of shelfwear to extremities and some rubbing along rear joint. Internally with occasional marginal staining to volumes I and II; heavier staining to pages 117-21, 160-66, and 196 of volume I and to pages 20-21 of volume II with all text remaining legible. Volume III largely fresh and unmarked. A scarce book institutionally and in trade, the last copy appeared at auction nearly 70 years ago. The present is the only example on the market. Published five years prior, Harriette Wilson's notorious memoir promised readers a controversial and unapologetic take on…
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A Clockwork Orange
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London: Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in the publisher's original black cloth, a few white scuff marks on the rear board. In a Near Fine first issue dust jacket with deeper flaps and the original price of 16s on the lower front flap. Two small punctures to the front panel and one to the front flap. A striking copy of this controversial novel that became an equally controversial film. A story that raises questions about crime, punishment, and human nature. Setting out in a London of the future, Alex seeks thrills and entertainment by committing "a little of the old ultraviolence" on other citizens of the city. Following a particularly violent episode, Alex is jailed and submits to a new form of physical and psychological punishment that will affect his own humanity for the rest of his life. "A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess' most famous novel, and its impact on literary, musical, and visual culture has been extensive. The novel is concerned with the…
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[Coachman set]
by Greenaway, Kate
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London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1880. Card 1. Coachman with crop in hand, single figure in oval signed "K.G.", with a beige border, scroll caption upper left "Greeting" and "Marcus Ward & Co" printed on lower margin. (Schuster & Engen , 251. 1d) Card 2. Girl in blue dress blowing kiss, single figure in oval signed "K.G.", with a beige border, scroll caption upper left "Greeting" and "Marcus Ward & Co" printed on lower margin. (Schuster & Engen , 251. 2a) Card 3. Boy in pink coat and tricorner hat, single figure in oval signed "K.G.", with a beige border, scroll caption upper left "Greeting" and "Marcus Ward & Co" printed on lower margin. (Schuster & Engen , 251. 3a) These cards have been mounted onto a sheet of cream silk with an all-round fringe and two tied tassles. A fine example of Victoriana. This variant presentation not noted by Schuster & Engen and obviously rare in this very interesting state.
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