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New York: McClure, Phillips & CO, 1901. First edition, first impression. Author's first book. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 175 x 118 mm) [8], 224, [5, publisher's ads], [3, blank] pp. Publisher's original dark green cloth. Front board ruled in blind. Front board and spine, lettered in gilt. Some light rubbing to extremities. Endpapers with some very light foxing. Binding slightly skewed. Internally, very clean. Overall about fine. This is the first book by the acclaimed Wall Street journalist, turned novelist. This book is made up of eight short stories pertaining to the happenings on Wall Street. Many of Lefevre's stories were originally printed in McClure's Magazine during 1900. "Eight tales of the habits and customs of Wall Street. Some are thinly-veiled portraits of well-known Wall Street characters such as James R. Keene and Daniel Drew" (Hess Collection). Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress. HBS 67852. $1,850.

New York, 1868. New York: 1868]. (Measures 2 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches). Dated January 3, 1868. Filled out in another hand and signed by W.C. & F.P. Church (Publishers) made out to Whitman for [$100.00]. Endorsed on the reverse in black ink by Whitman. In very good condition with several vertical folds, cancellation cut to center, scattered light toning and soiling and a revenue stamp affixed to the front. This is Whitman's requested price for articles written by Whitman for Church. HBS 67044. $2,750.

Published by the Author, 1910. Published by the Author, [N.p., N.d., ca. 1910]. First and only edition. Small octavo. 88 pp. Full gray cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover with pink, green and blue pattern. Portrait of the author as frontispiece. A fine copy. A teenage account of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery when the South underwent a period of social, political and economic upheaval. HBS 66610. $600.

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. Full Description: MELVILLE, Herman. White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition, remainder issue (second issue). Consisting of the 1850 first edition sheets with the new cancel title-pages. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 9/16 inches; 194 x 116 mm). iv, [2, contents], 322; iv, 315, [1, blank] pp. Later half dark blue calf over marbled boards,. Spines elaborately tooled in blind and gilt. Red and green morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge red. Newer endpapers. Some occasional finger smudging. Otherwise a near fine copy. The manuscript was refused by Murray, Colbour, and Moxon, before Bentley offered two hundred pounds for the English rights to print 1000 copies. The American edition is subsequent to the English. Sometime in 1853 Bentley, in an effort to stimulate sales of Melville's books, ordered the remainder sheets of Redburn, The White Jacket and The Whale bound up in uniform red cloth bindings, with cancel… Read More

Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1996. WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David, [compiler]. The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1982-93. With an Introduction and Notes by John Randle. [Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1996]. First edition, edition deluxe (A). Limited to 28 copies, of which this is number 6. Small folio. Full green morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Top edge gilt. With a separate portfolio of ephemera comprising 44 items. Housed in publisher's green cloth clamshell. Fine. HBS 66697. $1,750.

London: Printed by T. Sabine, 1785. MAGIC AND CONJURING. Eighth edition, "with large Additions and Amendments." Twelvemo (5 3/4 x 3 7/16 inches; 147 x 87 mm). [3]-108 pp. With woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcuts illustrations in the text. We could only find one copy on OCLC at Brown University, and one copy at auction in 1979. The frontispiece is pasted down to front cover, as probably issued as the other copies seem to have it the same way. This edition is not listed on ESTC, two other copies which are both "Ninth" editions, rather than eighth, printed by T. Sabine are listed, both of which are dated [1790?]. Our present copy does have the same pagination and catchword on page 14 "pudding" as one of these listings (T138106). Contemporary drab brown cloth, with some minor rubbing. A bit of light toning and a few minor stains throughout. Previous owner's old ink signature on rear pastedown, dated 1793. Previous owner's initials "I. M. 1792" stamped on the cloth of the back board. Overall a… Read More

London: Printed for J. Bew, 1789. MAGIC AND CONJURING. Ninth edition "corrected, and improved with an entire new Set of Cuts." Twelvemo (5 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches; 150 x 86 mm). [3]-132 pp. With frontispiece woodcut and numerous other woodcuts throughout the text. The woodcuts in this edition are a bit cleaner and more refined than those of the T. Sabine eighth edition. We could only find two copies of this on OCLC, no copies on ABPC in the past 40 years and only one other copy on Rare Book Hub. ESTC does not list a J. Bew edition of 1789 but this conforms to that of the listing for the 1781 edition. Contemporary drab brown cloth. With remnants of original paper on spine with "Hocus Pocus" in manuscript. With some minor rubbing to cloth. Cloth is starting to split along front and back hinge. Inner hinges cracked but holding. A one-inch split to top outer hinge. A bit of light toning and a few minor stains throughout. Previous owner's old ink signature on front pastedown, and front free endpaper. Overall… Read More

London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, 1640. CHAPMAN, George. . The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman. [Bound with] Batrachomyomachia. London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, 1640. Full Description: HOMER. CHAPMAN, George, [translator]. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman. [Bound with] Batrachomyomachia. London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [n.d.c.a. 1616- 1640]. First collected edition of Chapman's celebrated translation of Homer. Second issue of Iliad with "HOMER'S" in recto headlines and zig-zag headpieces. But with first issue of Odysses with the uncancelled leaf Aa5 with the period after "Poet." and the Portrait of Chapman on the verso of the engraved general title-page. The first issue which was published in 1616 was a reissue of both the twenty-four books of the Iliad of ca. 1611, and the twenty-four books of the… Read More

London: W. T. Stead, 3 Whitefriars Street, 1905. Why I am a Free Trader". One of 26 Pamphlets comprising "Coming Men on Coming Questions" London: W. T. Stead, 3 Whitefriars Street, 1905. Full Description: CHURCHILL, Sir Winston S.. 'Why I am a Free Trader". One of 26 Pamphlets in Original Wrappers, Comprising "Coming Men on Coming Questions" London: W. T. Stead, 3 Whitefriars Street, 1905. First edition of Churchill's first writing on Free Trade after becoming a Liberal in 1904, and the first in the series of 26 political pamphlets. In original wrappers with a photographic of Churchill. (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 150 mm). 22, [2, ads] pp. Bound together with 25 additional pamphlets. Each pamphlet with original wrappers with photographic portrait of the author, with the exception of number 16 which is bound without wrappers. 476 pp total for all 26 pamphlets. An additional pamphlet entitled "Labour and Drink" bound at the end. Previous owner's manuscript table of contents bound at the front. All 26… Read More

London: Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902. First edition. Octavo. Quarter vellum over brown paper boards, lettered in black on spine. Pages unopened. Previous owner's bookplate. Some wear to spine, else very good. HBS 66408. $100.

London: Methuen & Co, 1931. SHEPARD, Ernest H.. . The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., 1931. Full Description: GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., [1931]. First edition illustrated by Shepard. (The first edition was published in 1908 with a frontispiece by Graham Robertson.) Limited to 200 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by both the author and illustrator. This being copy number 42. Small quarto (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 220 x 185 mm). [2, blank], [6], 312 pp. Text illustrations. Folding map at end. Original quarter green buckram over gray boards. Printed paper label on spine. All edges uncut. Additional printed paper spine label tipped in at end. A fine copy. Always a champion of The Wind in the Willows, A.A. Milne turned the novel into the play Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. Not surprisingly, Milne focused primarily on the animals, excising most of Grahame's romantic fantasy. When… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1893. CRANE, Walter. . HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With sixty designs by Walter Crane. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company] Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies on large paper, this being number 176. Quarto. x, 210 pp. With sixty designs by Walter Crane, including decorative head- and tail-pieces printed in colors and an added color title and nineteen color plates mounted on leaves of Japanese vellum ruled and captioned in gold. With tissue guards. Original embossed parchment over boards. Front cover and spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers in gold and white. Minimal foxing. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original green linen dust wrapper decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine and green linen slipcase. "In October, 1891, Walter Crane left with his family for a tour through the United States, which… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1893. CRANE, Walter. . HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With sixty designs by Walter Crane. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company] Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies on large paper, this being number 9. Quarto. x, 210 pp. With sixty designs by Walter Crane, including decorative head- and tail-pieces printed in colors and an added color title and nineteen color plates mounted on leaves of Japanese vellum ruled and captioned in gold. With tissue guards. Original embossed parchment over boards. Front cover and spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers in gold and white. Previous owner Stilwell's bookplate on front free endpaper. A fine copy. In the original green linen dust wrapper decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine and green linen slipcase. "In October, 1891, Walter Crane left with his family for a tour… Read More

Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co, 1900. With pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., [1900]. First edition, second state. With the following points: on p. [2], the publisher's advertisement has no box; on p. 14, line one begins "low wail of..."; p. 81, fourth line from bottom has "pieces"; p. [227], line 1 begins: "While The Woodman..."; and the colophon is reset in thirteen lines with no box; with broken type in the last line of p. 100 and p. 186. The verso of the title-page has a press-printed copyright notice, with the "R"'s having tails that are on a line with the rest of the printing. Second state of plate facing p. 34 without the two dark-blue blots on the moon and the second state of plate facing p. 92 without the pink shading at the horizon. Quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 165 mm). 259, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four inserted color plates (including title). Original light green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green (variant C with… Read More

Boston: Alexander Moore, 1872. Third edition. Octavo (10 5/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 262 x 172 mm). [iii]-xii, 13-98, [2, blank] pp. (Preliminaries are incorrectly numbered in all editions.) Complete with ten mounted albumen photographs by Soule of scenes in Yosemite, with tissue guards, and three wood-engraved text illustrations relating to Giant Sequoias, and two engraved maps. Text and photographs ruled in red. Original publisher's green pebble-grain cloth over bevelled boards with front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black and rear cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown, over older bookplate that has been partial removed. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's pencil drawings on front and back endpapers dated 1884. Pencil lines through the paper in a small area. A very clean and bright copy. "Kneeland [1821-1888], a professor of zoology and physiology and secretary of the Massachusetts Institute… Read More

London: [By [John Charlewood and] George Robinson] for Thomas Cadman, 1587. SIDNEY, Sir Philip; GOLDING, Arthur. GOLDING, Arthur, [translator]. SIDNEY, Sir Philip, [translator]. A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion Written in French. Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels. By Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessie Marlie. Begunne to be translated into English by Sir Philip Sidney Knight, and a his request finished by Arthur Golding. London: [By [John Charlewood and] George Robinson] for Thomas Cadman, 1587. First English edition. A translation of "De la verité de la religion chrestienne," and possibly Sir Philip Sydney's first published work, although there is some debate whether he contributed to this translation even though his name is noted on the title-page. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 187 x 140 mm). [28], 480, 491-641, [1, colophon] pp. Jumps in pagination, but collates complete and is the same as the British Library copy. Title within an… Read More

London: Impensis Geor[ge] Bishop, 1598. SPEGHT, Thomas. In this Impression you shall find these Additions: 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to every Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure Words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his never before printed. London: Impensis Geor[ge] Bishop, 1598. First edition edited by the Chaucerian scholar, Thomas Speght (sixth published edition). Folio (11 7/8 x 8 inches; 302 x 204 mm.). [27], 394, [14] leaves. With errata leaf bound at the end. Lacking the initial and final blank leaves. Black letter. Double columns. Engraved portrait of Chaucer on ¶7v after Hoccleve. Woodcut arms of Chaucer on A6v, and woodcut illustration for the "Knight's Tale" at head of B1r. Woodcut title border (McKerrow and Ferguson 148) and three divisional titles within repeated woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 75). Woodcut historiated and floral initials. Eighteenth-century paneled calf, rebacked… Read More

London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616. [Together with:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume...London: Printed for Richard Meighen, [1631]-1640[-1641]. First folio edition and first collected edition. Small-paper copy (which precedes the large paper). Three folio volumes, bound in two (Volume II divided into four parts, originally issued in two volumes). (10 3/4 x 7 inches; 272 x 177 mm.; [10], 1015, [1, blank]; [12], 88, [2], 93-170, 75, [1], 79, 70-122, 133-155, [1, blank], 292, 132 pp. Volume I with engraved allegorical title by William Hole (Pforzheimer state A). Volume I without the rare initial blank, same as Pforzheimer. Decorative woodcut head-and-tail pieces and initials. This set is complete with the exception to it being bound without the extremely rare initial blank in volume I. Volume I collates according to Pforzheimer, and while Volume II differs in parts order than Pforzheimer , all leaves are present. Volume I- In this copy, the section title to Every Man out of His… Read More

London: Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke & for Richard Meighen, 1640. Full Description: JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke & for Richard Meighen, 1640, 1631. First edition of the second volume (containing the first appearance of the first three plays; Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) and second edition of the first volume. Part I of the second volume was originally printed in 1631 as a continuation of the 1616 Workes. With Pforzheimer's issue "f" of the second volume in which all parts are without the general title, the first three plays are dated 1631 and Divell is an Asse with the 1641 imprint. The final page of Mortimer reads: "Left unfinished". It is also of note that William Shakespeare is listed as an actor in two plays of Volume I, Everyman in his humor and Seianus His Fall. Three folio volumes in two (10 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 277 x 181 mm. Second volume slightly larger). Volume I with engraved title-page by… Read More

New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1850. Early American Collected Edition [KNIGHT, Charles]. [CONOLLY, John]. The Working-Man's Companion: Containing the Results of Machinery, Cottage Evenings, and the Rights of Industry. New York: Leavitt & Allen, [n.d.c.a.1850]. Early collected American edition. Three works in one octavo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 167 x 115 mm). [1]-216; [2], [13]-215, [1, blank]; [1]-213, [1, blank] pp. With general title-page, and separate title-pages for" Results of Machinery" and "Rights of Industry." Half-titles for "Cottage Evenings" and "Rights of Industry." Title-page for Rights of industry reads: The Right of Industry: Addressed to the working -men of the United Kingdom by the Author of "The Results of Machinery." I. Capital and Labor. First American Edition. New York: Leavitt & Allen. "Cottage Evenings; or, Much Instruction from Little Reading" is a collection of 19 articles which is ascribed to John Conolly. Publisher's original brown cloth. Boards stamped in blind.… Read More