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Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets
London: Chapman & Hall, 1863. First edition. Original green pebbled cloth, gilt spine. Very good or better copy. (Item #461)
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English and American first and early editions of books generally printed between 1800 and 1930 with a special emphasize on high spots in literature, 1890's, children's authors and Pre-Raphaelite poets, critics and circle.
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Last Poems
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. 8vo. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. Covers with wear, rear hinge cracked. Scarce. (Item #311)
Christmas-Eve and Easter Day
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. First edition. 12mo. Green gilt cloth. Half-title present. Covers sl. worn, internally clean and bright. Variant binding not in Colbeck. (Item #230)
Byron, The Works
London: John Murray, 1819. First thus. Three volumes. Very attractive bound in contemporary black pebble grain morocco with swirling gilt foliage and ruling on both covers, spine elaborately gilt; both covers with ornate blindstamped central medallion and border design. Glazed endpapers with gilt leaf pattern, inner dentelles with gilt impressed..... (Item #1064)
Hours of Idleness, A Series of Poems, Original and Translated
Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First Edition, Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders, three-dot motif in corners, five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later..... (Item #937)
Werner, A Tragedy
London: 1823, John Murray. First edition. 8vo. 188pp, with 7p prospectus at end. Original drab brown wrappers. Appears to be first edition, 2nd issue with the words, "The End" appearing on p. 188. House in folders with attached slipcase/box. Very good bright copy. (Item #435)
Gilead Balm, Knight Errant
New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., n.d. [1911]. First American edition. Red fine wove cloth, white lettering cover and spine. Eight full-page plates by Cyrus Cuneo and others. White on lettering partially lost (owing to poor quality of ink), otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. (Item #869)
The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray and Beattie
New York: Turner and Hayden, 1844. First printing. 12mo. Original brown cloth with elaborate gilt designs both covers and spine. A.E.G. Bright copy of an early decorative cloth binding. (Item #142)
Home as Found
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1838. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes. Original beige cloth. Rubbing and soling to covers, foxing throughout as commonly found (paper for this book was poor quality). Still a nice presentable first edition of a scarce Cooper title. (Item #201)
Comic Dramas in Three Acts
London: R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary paper covered boards, half green calf. Covers sl. worn, internally very clean and tight. Scarce title. (Item #312)
The Beggar's Opera
London: Printed for John Watts, 1728. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Early edition without printed music. 58pp. Some repair to title page, else very good copy of a scarce edition of this classic. (Item #1125)
Gibbon's History of the the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Abridged in Two Volumes
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789. First edition of Abridged Editiion. Two Volumes. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, matching red morocco labels and gilt ruling to spines. An exemplary set, near fine internally, hinges expertly repaired. A nice example of Gibbon's enduring classic. In custom slipcase. (Item #1120)
Ruy Blas; Oeuvres Completes de Victor Hugo. Drame.
Paris & Leipzig: H. Delloye, Chez Brockhaus, 1838. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with ad on back for Les Rayons et Les Ombres. 250pp. Collated complete. Wrappers chipped, esp. on outer margin affecting cover and two prelim pages, but no loss of text, soiling, foxing and not wholly detracting..... (Item #434)
The Descent of Liberty, A Mask
London: Gale and Fenner, 1816. New Edition. 12mo. Three-quarter green morocco, blue cloth, sl. rubbed. Somewhat scarce, early Leith Hunt title. (Item #60)
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works
London: C. Bathurst, etc. 1781. Four Volumes. First Authorized and Separate Edition. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly recased. A near fine copy of this classic work by Johnson with occasional foxing, but overall a very clean, tight and attractive set. Portrait frontispiece of Johnson in Volume One is in the state..... (Item #1121)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
London: Jonathon Cape, 1935. First edition. First Trade edition. Thick quarto with original cream printed dust wrapper with bold lettering in black on cover and spine (no other notation. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A fine copy of the book, wrapper near fine with a...... (Item #1126)
![Mew, Egan-Presentation] A London Comedy and Other Vanities. Egan Mew](/pictures/thumb/455.jpg?v=1557340557)
[Mew, Egan-Presentation] A London Comedy and Other Vanities
London: George Redway, 1897. First edition. Beige cloth with gilt stylized clown on cover. Presentation copy to a friend, W.K. ("Willie") along with ALS signed (2pp). Presentation: "To W.K. you are, dear Willie, an amateur of the Nineties and so will, perhaps, forgive this untidy souvenir of the end of..... (Item #455)
![Moulton, Louise Chandler] My Third Book. A Collection of Tales. Louise Chandler Moulton](/pictures/thumb/182.jpg?v=1557340457)
[Moulton, Louise Chandler] My Third Book. A Collection of Tales
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First edition. 8vo. Original pebbled cloth. Presentation Copy to a famed violinist: "Will dear Mrs. Bull forgive the immaturity of these youthful pages for the sake of the author's love? Louise Chandler Moulton, March 16, 1881." Spine sl. chipped at extr., covers sl. faded..... (Item #182)
Three Plays by Brieux
London: A. C. Fifield, 1911. First edition. Original beige buckram with lettering on cover and spine in black. Photograveure frontispiece of Brieux, preface by Shaw. TEG. A very nice, tight copy with occasional shelf wear and soling. Near fine internally. Scarce. (Item #780)
The Works of Laurence Sterne in Six Volumes
London: Samuel Richards, 1823. First Thus. 12mo. Six volumes. Original drab boards, green cloth spines, printed paper labels on spine. Labels worn, else a very nice set in representative contemporary bindings. (Item #198)
The Princess and Other Poems
London: J. M. Dent, 1904. First edition thus. 8vo. Green cloth, blue illustration cover and spine. Full-page and embellishments throughout in line by PAUL WOODROFFE. Rubricated initials and designs. Very good. (Item #235)
Queen Mary; A Drama
London: Henry S. King, 1875. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, blind-stamped ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's Presentation Copy to the author's friend, Sir Frederick Pollock, which appears on label on front fee pastedown. Corners bumped, fr. inner hinge cracked, else very good. (Item #213)
Maud, and other Poems
London: Edward Moxon, 1861. First thus. 12mo. Maroon pebbled calf, raised bands. AEG. Slightly worn edges and corners. Internally near fine. (Item #166)
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[Presentation Copy] Black Mammy: A Song of the Sunny South and Other Poems
Cheyenne, Wyoming: Bristol and Knabe, 1886. Original dark brown cloth, beveled boards with exquisite gilt stamped cover, black stamped border designs, gilt spine. Stated "Second Illustrated Edition." INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN: "To Dr. J.S. Wintermute/ With the compliments of/ Will. L. Visscher/ August 3, 94/ Tacoma, Wash." A...... (Item #751)
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