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The Rainbow Book. Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mrs. M.H. Spielmann
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The Rainbow Book. Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mrs. M.H. Spielmann

by [Rackham, Arthur] [Hugh Thomson, illustrator] Spielmann, M.H.

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. First edition. First edition in book form; the stories originally appeared in Little Folks in 1905-1906, with the same illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Cream pictorial end-papers printed in olive green, top edge gilt. Slight fading to spine, small stain at top of front cover, neat ink inscription (dated 1909) on front end-papers. Collating [2], xvi, 289, [2], [1, blank], with twenty plates including a color frontispiece and seven full- page black & white plates by Arthur Rackham. In addition there are eight black & white drawings in the text by Rackham (for the stories Adventures in Wizard Land and Father Christmas at Home). There are three full-page black & white plates, and four black & white drawings in the text by Hugh Thomson (for the stories The Little Picture Girl and Christmas at the Court of King Jorum). Additional black and white plates and text illustrations by Partridge, Baumer, Rountree,… Read More
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The Rakish Husband
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The Rakish Husband

by [Bawdy Broadside] [Sex Work] [Marriage]

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London: Jennings, 1809. Early edition. Broadside measuring 250 x 360mm and printed in five columns to recto only. Deckled bottom edge. A Near Fine example with a bit of toning to edges and archival reinforcement to verso along central fold line. Scarce in any version, Bodleian Broadside Ballads records The Rakish Husband (or The Rakish Husband's Garland) across nine variants -- the present undocumented -- from 1757 to 1836. While the majority open "You gallant beaus of pleasure," the present opens "Come all you rakish husbands" (an opening present in only two recorded variants). While ESTC is unavailable at the time of cataloguing, OCLC reports only one existing copy of this variant (at the BL). No examples appear in the modern auction record, and the present is the only example in trade. The Rakish Husband speaks to turn of the century anxieties about the rising wealth and influence of London's demi-monde community. Casting successful sex workers as a danger to men's economic power, the broadside… Read More
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Ramona. A Story
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Ramona. A Story

by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. Fine. Original mustard publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt on the spine and black and gilt on the front board. Floral endpapers. A Fine copy with a touch of wear at the corners and front hinge invisibly strengthened. Morocco bookplate of John Stuart Groves to front pastedown. Loosely laid in publisher's check from Fields, Osgood & Company for $75 made out to Helen Hunt in 1870 and endorsed by the author on the verso. Complete with four pages of publisher's ads in the rear. In all, a bright, pleasing copy of an important work usually found in worn condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase with chemise. Following a series of devastating personal losses, Helen Hunt Jackson turned to writing both fiction and non-fiction as a means of supporting herself. Throughout her career, her works had a decidedly progressive bent. "By the 1880s, when Jackson first visited Southern California, she was an unabashed activist as well as a belletrist.… Read More
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Ramona. A Story
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Ramona. A Story

by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. Near Fine. Original green publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt on the spine and black and gilt on the front board. Floral endpapers. A Near Fine copy with a bit of faint spotting to the boards and lower corners gently bumped. Contemporary gift inscriptions to the front endpaper and occasional marginal foxing, else internally unmarked. Complete with four pages of publisher's ads in the rear. In all, a square, pleasing copy of an important work usually found in worn condition. Following a series of devastating personal losses, Helen Hunt Jackson turned to writing both fiction and non-fiction as a means of supporting herself. Throughout her career, her works had a decidedly progressive bent. "By the 1880s, when Jackson first visited Southern California, she was an unabashed activist as well as a belletrist. Ramona offers an almost unmitigated denunciation of U.S. imperialism in California, presenting the region in a dystopian light, as a paradise… Read More
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Readings on Poetry
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Readings on Poetry

by Edgeworth, Maria [and Richard Lovell Edgeworth]

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London: R. Hunter, 1816. First edition. Contemporary roan over marbled boards with remnants of the original paper label. All edges speckled blue. Measuring 135 x 85 mm and collating complete: xxviii, 213, [11, publisher's adverts]. A square, solid copy with boards and spine generally rubbed and worn. Internally pleasing, with contemporary ownership signature of A. D. King to front pastedown and annotation in the same hand to the rear endpaper verso; minor spotting to outer margin of preliminaries and short closed tear to outer margin of second advert leaf, with all text legible. In all a pleasing copy of a scarce book, which has only sold twice at auction since 1972. The present is the only example on the market. While the daughter-father duo responsible for this work consider the poetic educations of both sexes, Maria was largely responsible for the book's lessons and shaped it as a resource for mothers and daughters who hadn't the privilege of a literary education (Slade). Her mark can be seen in… Read More
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The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales
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The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales

by Carter, Forrest

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Gantt, Alabama: Whipporwill Publishers, 1973. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine book in like jacket, with very slight foxing to the closed textblock and a miniscule closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear jacket panel. In all, an exceptional copy of this scarce Southern novel. Josey Wales is a tale of vengeance, following the title character's transformation from peaceful midwestern farmer to rebel vigilante following the murder of his family by a gang of Unionists during the Civil War. Joining forces with Confederate outlaws sympathetic to his hatred of the Northern army, he ultimately refuses to surrender at the war's end and disappears into the South to begin a new life. The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales was the basis for the breakout Clint Eastwood film of the same name, for which Eastwood himself bought the rights, directed, and starred. The novel's scarcity is directly linked to its Hollywood history, in fact, as one of the conditions of sale on the movie rights dictated that the book's first… Read More
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The Red Pony (Signed Limited Edition)
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The Red Pony (Signed Limited Edition)

by Steinbeck, John

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New York: Covici Friedi Publishers, 1937. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Number 513 of 699 signed copies. A Near Fine copy of the book with the spine a bit faded and a small bump to the lower front corner near the joint. In excellent condition internally, clean and unmarked. In a Very Good slipcase with joints reinforced. Lacking the original glassine. A coming of age tale as only Steinbeck can tell it. Mischievous and a little destructive, Jody Tiflin takes his first step into adulthood when his father Carl gives him an important gift: his first horse to raise up, a red pony that Jody names Galiban. Bonding and growing together, Jody takes the responsibility of the red pony seriously; he cares for him daily, ground trains him, gets him into bridle and saddle, and excitedly anticipates the day when he'll finally be able to ride Galiban. But before that can happen, tragedy strikes. In an accident no one could have predicted, Jody loses Galiban, learns about the pain of loss, and realizes the… Read More
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Register
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Register

by [Mourning] [Child Mortality]

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[Massachusetts], 1821. Beautifully hand-colored manuscript on one sheet with all text to recto. Measuring 245 x 215mm. Retaining its bright colors; with chipping and loss to all edges, not affecting images or text. A unique tribute by a mother to her late daughter. The bright colors and floral arrangements of the present piece suggest that it was originally intended to document joyful family milestones. Titled "Register," its first section declares that it is of "the Family of Adolphus Draper who was born August & Married Belinda Axtell Sept. 18th 1816, who was born July 9th 1797." Below this is added less happy news, however. "Sacred to the memory of Rebeckah Draper, only child of Adolphus & Belinda Draper who was born Oct. 5th 1817 & departed this life August 26th 1821." In contrast to the piece's visual vibrancy, Belinda adds a final verse to the piece's foot: "Rebeckah, tho thou art in heaven and we on earth, May this one hope delight us, That thou will hail our second birth, When death shall… Read More
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The Reivers (Signed limited edition)
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The Reivers (Signed limited edition)

by Faulkner, William

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New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. Fine/Fine. Number 164 of 500 copies of the signed, limited edition of this Faulkner high spot. A Fine copy of the book in like publisher's acetate dust jacket. Red spine remains unfaded, a lovely copy overall. Published in 1962, The Reivers was Faulkner's final novel. It would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize, making Faulkner one of only a handful of authors to win the prize multiple times. Set in Faulkner's famous Yoknapatawpha County, The Reivers takes place in the early 20th century and follows the adventures of the young Lucius Priest. The title of the book comes from the fact that Lucius and his friend become reivers when they steal - reive - his grandfather's car. The book was also adapted into a film in 1969, starring Steve McQueen. "The good news about The Reivers is that it is one of the best novels Mr. Faulkner has written and much the most direct, simple and readily comprehensible" (Contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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Religious and literary commonplace book of a young woman
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Religious and literary commonplace book of a young woman

by [Commonplace Book] [Spirituality] Frances Phoebe Newton

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[England], 1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board, measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads "Frances Phoebe Newton, A Present from her Mother, Mrs. A. Morley. July 31st, 1841." On the first page, Phoebe has created a formal title page: "Phoebe Newton's Album. July 31st, 1841." A dense and research-rich piece, in which a young woman documents her reading from a variety of sources including collections of poetry, popular magazines and circulars, church sermons, and oral stories within her community. Potential projects include but are not limited to Victorian reading practices, women's reading, the intersection of popular and evangelical literatures, genealogy, and paleaography. Within her commonplace book, Phoebe gravitates toward poetry and short anecdotes in which the narrating voice calmly uses rhetoric and logic to undermine non-believers or convert doubters. Her faith is the underlying basis for each… Read More
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Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont...on the Subjects of Religion and Public Education
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Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont...on the Subjects of Religion and Public Education

by More, Hannah

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London: T. Cadell in the Strand, 1793. First edition. Near Fine. A tall, wide-margined and surprisingly fresh copy measuring 210 x 130mm (pages) and collating complete: xv, [1, blank], 48. Bound in modern burgundy cloth with gilt to spine, bearing the bookplate of J.O. Edwards to the front pastedown. Internally unmarked. A scarce and assertive work by the famed Bluestocking, the 1793 first edition is reported at no institutions and has not appeared at auction. Across her involvement in abolition, women's education, and integration movements, Hannah More adeptly learned to use chapbooks and cheaply distributed publications like the present work to disseminate ideas. "As an independent woman writer, much of her work was directed to the female sex, but her desire to see women play a more constructive role in society came into conflict with her own fear of certain revolutionary ideas. Consciously aware of the techniques of propaganda that she saw being used in radical literature...[she sought] to… Read More
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Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul...
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Report of the d'Hauteville Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the Suggestion of Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville versus...Ellen Sears Grand d'Hauteville. Habeas Corpus for the Custody of an Infant Child

by [Family Law] [Women's Rights] [Sears, Ellen]

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Philadelphia: W. S. Martien, 1840. First edition. [bound with] The Petition of Henry C. De Rham, to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, To Except Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville, From the Operation of the Law 'To Secure the Fulfillment of Certain Contracts and for the Relief of Married Women in Certain Cases.' Together with a Remonstrance of Ellen S. d'Hauteville...Providence: Knowles & Vose, 1841. First edition. [bound with] Review of the d'Hauteville Case: Recently Argued and Determined in the Court of General Sessions...Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Co., 1841. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Finely bound by Bradstreet's in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Samuel F. Barger to front pastedown. Measuring 225 x 135mm and collating complete including titles: 295, [1, blank]; 124, [2, errata]; [2], 44. A just about Fine copy, with some inoffensive pencil annotations and corrections to volume I and occasional… Read More
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Reports and Realities from the Sketch Book of a Manager of the Rosine Association (Association Copy)
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Reports and Realities from the Sketch Book of a Manager of the Rosine Association (Association Copy)

by [Sex Workers] [Activism and Reform] [Townsend, Mira Sharpless]

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Philadelphia: John Duross, 1855. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in blind with gilt to spine. A tight, square copy with sunning to the spine. Scattered foxing to preliminaries, with remainder of text block surprisingly clean and bright. Early ownership inscription to the front endpaper reveals this to be a family-owned copy, passed down from the author Mira Sharpless Townsend: "The poetry and full contents of this book was written by my great grandmother Mira Sharpless Townsend who was the founder of the Rosine Association (Home -- as it was called). Claire Spenser Grubb." A scarce title with an important association to the founder of a key organization aiding women gain educational and employment opportunity after escaping the sex trade. Nineteenth century Philadelphia was a hotbed of reform, giving women a range of opportunities of civic and political involvement. The Rosine Association emerged out of this space -- and it was a direct response to problems in… Read More
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)

by Faulkner, William

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New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Number 210 of 750 copies of the signed limited edition. A Fine book in a Near Fine example of the publisher's acetate dust jacket with minor chipping to the corners and spine ends of the acetate jacket. "This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel Sanctuary was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events of its prequel. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. And the book begins as the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. Told partly in prose and partly in dramatic form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present" (Random House). Adapted by Camus for the French stage, this novel contains one of Faulkner's most famous lines: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)
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Requiem for a Nun (Signed limited edition)

by Faulkner, William

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New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Number 9 of 750 copies of the signed limited edition. Book in Near Fine condition with spine a trifle faded at the base and a previous owner's stamp on the half-title, otherwise quite fresh. In a Near Fine example of the publisher's acetate dust jacket with a small chip out of the lower corner and one or two short cracks. "This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel Sanctuary was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events of its prequel. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. And the book begins as the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. Told partly in prose and partly in dramatic form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present" (Random House). Adapted by Camus for the French stage, this novel contains one of Faulkner's most famous lines: "The past is never dead. It's not even… Read More
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Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and...
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Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood

by Singer, Samuel Weller

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London: Printed by T. Bensley & Son for Robert Triphook, 1816. First edition. Limited edition, one of 250 copies for subscribers. Full red crushed morocco with gilt to spine and boards. Five raised bands. Dentelles gilt. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Robert Hoe III (1839-1909) to front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Mary Macmillin Norton below. Collating complete including subscribers' list, eleven engraved and eight colored woodcuts and two additional colored plates: xvi, [2], 373, [3]. A beautiful copy with just a hint of rubbing to the corners. Occasional faint offsetting, but in all internally fresh and bright. With provenance from the library of American businessman and printing press equipment producer Robert Hoe III, whose library was a unique and valuable resource in the history of printing and typography. His collection went to auction in 1912, likely where it was acquired by Ms. Norton. Samuel Weller Singer was a noted scholar of Elizabethan literature and… Read More
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Revolutionary Road
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Revolutionary Road

by Yates, Richard

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, clean and appearing unread. In a Near Fine dust jacket that is a bit faded on the spine and with one tape repair to the verso of the jacket. Despite their youthful fantasies that they are different and more original than the other couples who surround them, Frank and April Wheeler succumb to the banalities of suburban middle class life. Climbing the corporate ladder, Frank becomes increasingly detached from his wife's domestic dissatisfaction; pay raises, praise at work, and tawdry affairs with secretaries numb his pain temporarily. Meanwhile, April despairs about being trapped at home as a wife and mother; she dreams of her more creative single life and her goals of living abroad. Pushed to the brink, she and Frank make a pact to abandon the normalcy expected of their generation and run away to Paris; but an unplanned pregnancy derails them and leads their marriage to a heartbreaking end. An astounding… Read More
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The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise Under the Fourteenth Article of the...
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The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise Under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution..

by [Women's Suffrage] Clephane, J. O.

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Washington DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1871. First edition. Disbound and complete in 16 pages. Measuring 215 x 140mm. A pleasing example, with a touch of staining to the title page and light foxing and soiling to the verso of the terminal leaf, else internally clean. Currently the only copy on the market, it has appeared only once at auction, in 1973. On January 11, 1871 two historic speeches occurred: one, through which Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to testify before a Congressional committee, and the present, through which Congressman A. G. Riddle of Ohio supported that work in an act of allyship to Victoria Woodhull herself and to the constituents represented by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. From his opening, Riddle asserts that he is only present because the law prohibits women's free public exercise of speech in front of the Judiciary Committee: "I have always thought that the questions involved in this movement could be more effectively presented by ladies; and I have never… Read More
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Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
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Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

by Paine, Thomas

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Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. First American edition. Very Good. An exceptional survivor in wrappers as issued. With both issue points present: stating "Second Edition" on the title page and containing the infamous "Jefferson extract." Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete: [1]-105, [1, blank]. With general toning and light soiling throughout. Contemporary ownership signature to title page, with loss to paper (but no text) where a prior owner's name has been defaced. Edges and upper right corner chipping and bumped; rear leaf present but detached, with loss including text from a portion of the upper left corner. The last true first London edition to sell at auction (one of just about 100 copies that were sold before the run was recalled hours after release) which was a 1st edition of part one and a 2nd edition of part two, sold for $250,000. Here we have the first American edition of part one. ESTC records copies at only 14 institutions, all within the U.S. We could… Read More
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The Ring of the Nibelungen
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The Ring of the Nibelungen

by Wagner, Richard

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London: Schott's, 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition (and 1st combined edition) in English (translated by Alfred Forman) of The Rhein-Gold, The Walkyrie, Siegfried, and Dusk of the Gods, preceded only by privately printed separate issues of the 4 individual parts (1873-1875) to secure copyright, which had a total of just 238 pages. This is the complete librettos, with 351 pages of snugly printed tiny type, containing all the dialogue and stage directions for all 4 parts. Half cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label. Near fine condition with the series half-title and title page, as well as all 4 half-titles. Ex-Edw. Schuberth & Co. (oval stamp to half-title).
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