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S.P.Q.V. A Survay of the Signorie of Venice, of Her admired policy, and Method of Government, &c....
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S.P.Q.V. A Survay of the Signorie of Venice, of Her admired policy, and Method of Government, &c. With a Cohortation to all Christian Princes to resent her dangerous Condition at present

by HOWELL, James (1594?-1666)

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London: printed for Richard Lowndes at the VVhite Lion in S. Pauls Churchyard, neer the west end, 1651. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Scarce first edition of Howell's appeal (in the guise of a plea to aid Venice) to the Rump parliament. Crown folio (270mm x 180mm): [8],55,[3],57-165,168-184,183-198,175-210,[8]pp, with two engraved full-page plates (an allegory and a portrait of the Doge), both by Robert Vaughan. "Of the princes, and dukes of Venice" has separate divisional title page; paginated erratically, but text continuous and complete. Full contemporary calf, covers paneled in blind, spine rebacked to style in six compartments preserving original end papers, red leather lettering piece gilt, title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette of lion of St. Mark. Engraved armorial book plate of Sir Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), railway magnate and Member of Parliament, to front paste-down; more recent book plate (Christopher Rowe, collector of antiquarian books and specialist on… Read More
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[Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen
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[Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen

by DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970)

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Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine-. First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab wrappers printed in black. Trivial creasing to lower rear corner, covers very lightly marked, but a fresh copy, tightly bound. Potter 10. Parts of chapters vi-viii appeared originally in New Masses (August, 1926) as "The Pit and the Pendulum." The highly controversial conviction of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder became a rallying cry for American radicals in the early twentieth century. The two immigrants were accused in 1920 of killing a paymaster in a holdup. Although the evidence against them was flimsy, and despite international protests, they were executed on August 23, 1927. Dos Passos became deeply involved in the case, concluding that it was "barely possible" that… Read More
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[Sailing Club] [Thimble Islands] Sachem's Head Yacht Club. Organized 1896. Station Chimney Corner
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[Sailing Club] [Thimble Islands] Sachem's Head Yacht Club. Organized 1896. Station Chimney Corner

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Sachem's Head, Connecticut: published by the secretary, 1910. Scarce copy (not in Worldcat Discovery or Literary Hub Discovery) of this early publication of this sailing club on the Connecticut shore in Guilford, near the Thimble Islands. Foolscap 8vo (148 x 107mm): 57,[1]pp, with halftone frontispiece of club house, full-page color plates of club flags and signal flags, and additional halftone plate of club fleet. Original pictorial canvas, front cover with club's burgee and title stamped in navy blue and red. With officers and committees, list of members and yachts, signal code, constitution, racing rules, and more. Laid in is a two-age typed letter from vice-commodore Charles F. Wood, dated July 13, 1912, to club founder William E. Peck in New York City, apparently written from Hawaii and noting that business has delayed him in the Pacific, but that he hopes to see Peck at Sachem Head later that August. Reference is made to the purchase of land which will become part of the yacht club's property.… Read More
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Sam the Sudden

Sam the Sudden

by WODEHOUSE, P. G. (1881-1975)

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London: Methuen, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Impression ('First Published in 1925'), without the dust jacket. Small 8vo: viii,248,[8, publisher's catalog]. Original textured red cloth, spine and upper cover stamoed in black. Near Fine with front end papers skillfully renewed, light spotting to fore-edge and ffirst few pages, otherwise a sharp, attractive copy. McIlvaine A35a. Jasen 36. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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The Same Door: Short Stories [Review Copy]
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The Same Door: Short Stories [Review Copy]

by UPDIKE, John (1932-2009)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first collection of stories—sixteen in number—published one year after his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair. 8vo: [10],242,[4]. Publisher's turquoise quarter-bound cloth, chestnut-brown paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover stamped in silver, top edge stained lime-green; first issue dust jacket, priced $3.75, with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. Laid in is Knopf's date-of-publication notice. An exemplary example, virtually pristine, square, tight and unread, silver lettering and top stain undiminished, pages fresh and bright. These stories appeared originally in the New Yorker in the order in which they appear here. "Ace in the Hole" prefigures Rabbit, Run in having an ex-high school basketball star now married with a child. "Snowing in Greenwich Village" is the first story to feature the Maples, Joan and Richard, whose stories were later collected in Too Far to… Read More
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[Sammelband of five plays, comprising] Xerxes. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in...
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London. Early Reprints. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine+. Collection of five plays by Cibber, of various editions, dates, and imprints, each with copper-engraved frontispiece and title page printed in red and black (except Perolla and Izadora). 12mo: 72; 71[1]; 70,[2]; xxxvi,[2],58; 83,[1]pp. Xerxes: printed for W. Feales, at Rowe's-Head, over-against St. Clement's Church in the Strand, M.DCC.XXXVI [1736]. ESTC Citation No. T26029. Nicoll I, p. 397. Richard III: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, and J. Watts, M.DCC.LIII [1753]. ESTC Citation No. T143656. Nicoll II, p. 307. Perolla and Izadora: printed for Henry Lintot; and sold by W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand, M.DCC.XXXVI [1736]. ESTC Citation No. T26030. Nicoll II, p. 310. Ximena (an adaptation of Corneille's "Le Cid"): printed for J. Tonson, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot, and J. Watts; and sold by W. Feales, MDCCXXXV [1735]. ESTC Citation No.T52848. Rothschild 631. Nicoll II, p. 311. Cæsar in Ægypt (an adaptation… Read More
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Sand and Satin
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Sand and Satin

by ROHMER, Sax (1883-1959)

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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1955. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First UK Edition (released only as a paperback, entitled Return of Sumuru, in the U.S.). Publisher's red cloth, spine and lower cover stamped in black; price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Just about Fine, square, tight and unmarked (front hinge seamlessly repaired), but end papers stained from binder's glue and title page inscribed; in a Fine, bright jacket, only very lightly rubbed. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 899. Scarce. "Nowadays the credit (or more often the blame) for the 'Yellow Peril' school of mystery thriller is placed squarely upon the shoulders of Sax Rhomer. Rhomer had the talent and good fortune to create a near-mythic figure [who first appeared in "The Zayat Kiss," published in the October 1912 issue of The Story-Teller magazine] who embodied all the fancied villainy of the East combined with all the science of the West: . . . Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate . . . [With his late]… Read More
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[Scandinavian Photography] [Street Photography] Poste Restante
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[Scandinavian Photography] [Street Photography] Poste Restante

by STRöMHOLM, Christer (1918-2002)

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Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt and Söners Verlag, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Strohmholm's important second book, "his photographic autobiography or manifesto," and a "one of the most significant European photobooks of the 1960s." (Parr & Badger) Text in Swedish, by Tor-Ivan Odulf. Small quarto, unpaginated. [20]pp of text on heavy grey wove paper, mostly extended captions to the 62 full-bleed black and white photographic images that follow. Publisher's steel grey cloth, silver titles to spine and upper cover; original white dust jacket printed in black, reproducing on front cover one of Strohmholm's photographs. Truly superlative: apparently unread and virtually pristine without a flaw we can detect. Parr & Badger I, p.251. Roth (Open Book), pp. 232-33. Auer, p.466. As the title suggests, Poste Restante derives from Strohmholm's wide-ranging travels—in Europe, Asia,. and Africa—with its existential images of blighted cityscapes and urban decay, cemeteries, still lifes, posters,… Read More
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The Schwerdt Collection. Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Prints &...
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The Schwerdt Collection. Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Prints & Drawings relating to Hunting, Hawking and Shooting formed by the late C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, Esq

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London: Sotheby & Co. [through 1946], 1939. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Complete in six portions continuously paginated. Royal 8vo (242 x 180mm): [2],86; [6],93-187,[1]; [4],193-244; [4],249-308; 311-358; [2],363-396pp, with 90 full-page plates (some folding). Sage-green stiff wrappers, upper covers decorated and printed in black; sage-green ribbed cloth-covered slip case by Fitterer, paper label printed in black to spine. Portions 1-4 published on coated stock in 1939, with detailed entries akin to those in the original four-volume catalogue, published in 1928 and 1936; portions 5-6 appeared in 1946, after the war, and are slimmer with shorter entries. An extraordinarily well-preserved set, tightly bound and clean throughout. The Schwerdt collection, compiled by Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939), was one of the finest sporting libraries ever assembled, comprising books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings relating to hunting, hawking, and shooting from the Middle Ages to modern times.… Read More
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Scloppetaria: or Considerations of the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to...
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Scloppetaria: or Considerations of the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to Their Forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country

by [BEAUFOY, Captain Henry, attributed to]

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London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Near Whitehall, 1812. Morocco. Fine. Second Edition of the first book in English on target rifle shooting (the Latinized title means The Militiaman) and attempts to increase the accuracy of long-barreled firearms. Tall 8vo: xxiv,251,[7]pp, including errata sheet, with nine numbered engraved plates, three target plates showing the accuracy of various rifle bores, and two tables; fourth folding target illustration, in manuscript, bound in. Recently quarter-bound in blue straight-grained morocco and marbled paper, spine in six compartments, title stamped gilt to second, edges untrimmed. Finely preserved example, all but pristine. Quite scarce; World Cat lists only two copies, both in the British Library. Riling 350. Originally published in 1808, with chapters on projectiles, the theory of spiral motion, qualities of the rifle, history of the rifle, construction and perfection of the rifle, appendages (gun powder,… Read More
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[Scotland] Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on...
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[Scotland] Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the high-lands of Scotland

by GILPIN, William (1724-1804)

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London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. Second Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Second Edition (first published in 1789) of this title from Gilpin's series applying his principles of picturesque beauty to the exploration of various British landscapes, in this case to the scenery of the Scottish highlands. Complete in two octavo volumes. viii,xii,221,[1]; [2],xvi,195,[1]pp, with 40 plates, of which 35 are hand-colored aquatints (including five plans) and five are soft-ground etchings. (In vol. II, "An Account of the Prints" and "Translation of Latin Passages," sometimes bound at the end, are here placed after the title page.) Early full calf, covers framed in blind with triple rules and roll tools; later flat spines, elaborately gilt in six compartments; maroon and green lettering pieces gilt; edges speckled brown, end papers renewed. A well-preserved set, bindings tight and square; occasional light scattered foxing; dark, richly detailed impressions of the plates, offset with some browning to… Read More
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[Scottish Topography] [Grangerised] [Hand-Colored] Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in...
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[Scottish Topography] [Grangerised] [Hand-Colored] Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland During the Years 1799 and 1800

by STODDART, John (1773-1856)

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London: William Miller, Old Bond Street, 1801. First Edition. Half-Morocco. Fine-. An extra-illustrated copy of this uncommon treatise on the manners, customs, and scenery of Scotland. Complete in two royal octavo volumes: xxiv,310; viii,341,[3]pp, with engraved title-page vignettes by W. Poole, double-page map of Scotland colored in outline, 32 hand-colored aquatints of castles, cathedrals, and landmarks by Merigot after various artists; extra-illustrated with 12 full-page copperplate engravings, mounted and inserted at appropriate places in the text. Slightly later half green morocco over marbled boards, spines in five compartments divided by wide gilt-decorated raised bands, titled direct in gilt, marbled end papers and edges. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout (finger smudges to some plate margins and very occasional light spotting to pages of volume one). Abbey (Scenery) 483. In the autumn of 1800, on his return from Scotland, Stoddart lodged in the… Read More
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[Scottish Satire] Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the...
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[Scottish Satire] Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and A Special Jury. By the Author of The "Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M." [Hand-Colored]

by [FLEMING, James]

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London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, 1825. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. First edition of this anonymous tract, complete with both hand-colored aquatint caricatures (one the frontispiece). Demy 8vo (212 x 120mm): 8,111,[1],24pp, with aquatints attributed to Isaac and Robert Cruikshank. Recent cloth-backed marbled boards, upper board with grey paper label titled in ink manuscript, tan end papers (renewed), page edges marbled. In verse. Title page offset from frontispiece, final few leaves toned, both plates cut to top edge of image (other margins ample), but a crisp, clean copy, firmly bound. Widener Collection (Isaac, George, and Robert Cruikshank), p. 228. Abbey (Life) 296. Ascribed sometimes to John Galt, one of the jurors, probably erroneously. Satire about the infamous and scandalous trial of the Scottish Presbyterian Rev. Alexander Fletcher, for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. A prior trial, in the court of King's bench, in 1824, was dismissed without a verdict. This… Read More
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[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise durch einen Theil der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den...
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[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise durch einen Theil der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den Jahren 1844 bis 1846 [A trip through a part of the United States in the years 1844 to 1846]

by KOCH, Albrecht C. (1804-1867)

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Dresden und Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1847. Quarter-Morocco. Near Fine. Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of the Gulf Coast, and advertisement leaf not mentioned in bibliographies. Recent quarter tan morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, end papers renewed. Toning to first and final few pages, scattered dust-soiling (especially to deckled edges), but a very presentable copy in fine binding. Howes K234, Sabin 38198. Buck 391, Flake 4676. Streeter 850. In 1844, Koch, an obscure paleontologist who had emigrated to the United States in 1826 from Saxony, began the remarkable journey recounted in this day-by-day record. Koch operated an archeology museum in St. Louis, in the 1830s and 1840s, while also excavating fossil skeletons throughout North America. In 1840, he discovered the skeleton… Read More
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A Search for the King
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A Search for the King

by VIDAL, Gore (1925-2012)

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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 255,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, in an illustrated dust jacket priced $3.00. Fine (former owner's name to corner of front paste-down) and unread, in a Fine jacket with briefest of wear to spine panel crown. Vidal's fifth novel, the story of the troubadour Blondel's search for Richard the Lionheart, kidnapped and held for ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade. From castle to castle, across the face of Europe, Blondel journeys, encountering giants and dragons and enchanted forests, as he follows the trail of his king. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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A Second Tale of a Tub: or, The History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man [Hugh Selbourne's copy]
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A Second Tale of a Tub: or, The History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man [Hugh Selbourne's copy]

by [BURNET, Sir Thomas, 1694-1753]

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London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1715. First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine+. First Edition of this wicked satire on statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (political power-broker and patron of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Defoe), taking its title from Swift's celebrated Tale of a Tub (but not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of spurious sequels to Swift's work). 8vo: [2],219,[5]pp, with frontispiece and imprimatur leaf. Variant with price 3s/6d on title page. Period calf ruled in blind, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. From the library of bibliophile Hugh Selbourne, M.D. (1906-1973), with his discreet ownership stamp on two pages. (In an appreciation of Shelbourne's diaries, Hilary Mantle noted in The Guardian: "His passion is for antiquarian books, and he owns them by the yard; we are not talking about first editions of Dickens, but first editions of Erasmus, 'printed Basle, 1517'. His regular beat… Read More
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The Secret Agent [First Issue]
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The Secret Agent [First Issue]

by CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924)

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London: Methuen, 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies), First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of a double agent." (Barzun & Taylor) Crown 8vo: [6],442,[2],40pp. Publisher's ruby-red bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; bookplate of A. Beresford Ryley to front paste-down. Foxing to front blank, small gutter stain (not affecting text) to pp. 212-17, faint rubbing to spine edges, else an excellent example and scarce such. Keating 73-74. Wise 17. Connolly 15 ("Conrad's greatest heroine.").Cagle A12a(1). Barzun & Taylor 903. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Ehrsam, p. 304. Smith 13. Modern Library 100, 46. A tale of anarchists in late nineteenth-century London, which originally appeared serially in Ridgeway's Weekly. "The plot centres… Read More
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, [bound with] Yorick's sentimental...
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, [bound with] Yorick's sentimental journey, continued; [and with] A political romance

by [STERNE, Laurence, 1713-1768]

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London: [n.p.], 1769. Quarter-bound Leather. Very Good +. Three titles bound in one, all issued (no printer or publisher given) in 1769, complete in five volumes, continuously paginated in Arabic and Roman numerals. 12mo: 150,[3],cliv-clxvi,[1],168-306pp. "Yorick's sentimental journey, continued . . . By Eugenius" (i.e., John Hall-Stevenson) comprises vols. III (which also includes "Some account of the life and writings of Mr. Sterne by Eugenius") and IV; vol. V is "A political romance, addressed to - - Esq. of York, Sterne's satire on ecclesiastical disputes at York, originally published in 1759 but suppressed. Each volume with separate title page. Nicely rebound in quarter calf, spine in six compartments stamped in blind and numbered in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. Contents lightly foxed and browned, some light page-creasing throughout. ESTC Citation No. T14751. For first edition, see: Rothschild 1971. Tinker Library 1978. Cross… Read More
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Septimius Felton or The Elixir of Life [First State]
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Septimius Felton or The Elixir of Life [First State]

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only 3000 copies printed. 8vo (172 x 108mm): [4],229,[3,blank, ad leaf]pp. Publisher's decorated blue bold-ribbed moired T cloth (copies were also bound in terra-cotta and green sand-grained C cloth and green and terra-cotta smooth V cloth), front cover and spine decorated in black and lettered in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. Trivial edge wear, slight spine lean, dusty top edge, else an exemplary example. BAL 7638. Grolier Hawthorne 38. Clark A29.2.a. Browne, p. 68. Wright II, 1139. Bleiler (Checklist), p. 96. Bleiler (Guide to Supernatural Fiction) 779. Originally published posthumously in the Atlantic Monthly, taken from an unfinished manuscript discovered by Hawthorne's wife; then in London,… Read More
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[Sette of Odd Volumes] A Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic Philosopher...
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[Sette of Odd Volumes] A Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic Philosopher [Unopened]

by TODHUNTER, John (1839-1916)

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London: Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, 1898. Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened. Faint creasing to rear wrapper, but a spectacular survival, securely bound and clean throughout. Read at a meeting of the Sette at Limmer's Hotel on Friday, January 14, 1898, and presented to the Sette by Todhunter, Irish poet and playwright. Ye Sette of Odd Volumes was a London bibliophilic club, founded in 1878 by bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Members included a wide-ranging cross-section of notable men, including literary figures, artists, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and eccentrics. The original Sette disbanded on the eve of the Second World War, in 1939, but rebanded in 1950 with a new group of members. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified),… Read More
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