London: Seeley & Co., 1884. First edition, first printing. viii, 100. Bound in publisher's plain stiff wraps in original pictorial Japon jacket. Very Good+ with heavy toning and light soiling to jacket, small chips to jacket corners, and offsetting from jacket folds to facing pages. Penciled bookseller inscriptions and elegantly..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1880. First edition, BAL's State B with date of April 15, 1880, title page stating #112, no mark on p. 65; curiously, though, this seems to be printed on laid paper rather than wove. 374, (6) pp. White linen stamped in black. A Good..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1880. First edition. Mixed state as per BAL with front pastedown dated March 31, 1880 like BAL's A (earliest), 112 on the title page, but lacks signature mark F on p. 65. White linen stamped in black. Very Good with lean to binding, soiling..... More
Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855. First edition, first printing. [ii], 182 pp., complete with 6 wood engraved plates including frontispiece. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, yellow endpapers. Very Good with sunned and moderately rubbed cloth and slightly bumped corners; overopened with stitches showing..... More
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London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition of the first full translation of Dante's Divine Comedy into English. Octavo. Three volumes bound in contemporary full calf with gilt stamping and raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to bindings, darkening to spines; shallow chip to head..... More
New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1894. First edition, first printing with 13 titles on p. 152 ending in picture and text by Henry James, no signature mark on p. 9, half-title present. A presentation copy signed in the year of publication by James Lane Allen on the title page..... More
[Jena, Germany]: [Frommann and Wesselhoft], 1805. A rare presentation copy of the first edition of "the earliest known novel that centers on an explicitly male-male love affair," written by the cross-dressing Duke August Emil Leopold von Sachsen-Gotha (1772-1822). The ruler of a miniscule German territory during the Napoleonic Era, he..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Second edition (the first was published in 1816). Bound in period-style full tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Near Fine with short tear repaired at base of title page, trivial foxing to contents throughout. A beautiful copy of the..... More
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt..... More
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Third edition. Two volumes, with half-titles present in both. Ex libris Supreme Court Justice and early supporter of Austen, Joseph Story (1779-1845), with his signature in several places, a handwritten marginal note in light pencil on page 70 (volume one) mentions a trip to..... More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1895. First Charles Brock illustrated edition, signed and dated in black ink by Charles E. Brock with an original drawing of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in cameo on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth with boards ornately patterned in blind, with..... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First edition, first issue. Complete in three volumes containing all eight issues of the renowned art and literature magazine. Bound in publisher's cobalt blue cloth with pictorial gilt stamping designed by Aubrey Beardsley, "Leonard Smithers 1896" at tail of each spine. Cover and title pages to..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original cloth patterned in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good with light rubbing through at extremities, rubbing and fading to cloth. Scattered pencil notations to yellow coated endsheets, contemporary owner..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition, first printing. xiv, [2], 389, [1]; viii, 268 pp. Additional 38 photolithographic plates reproducing Blake's engravings bound in at rear of second volume. Bound in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with decorative gilt stamping to front boards and lettering to spines. Complete in two..... More
London: John Murray, 1851. First edition, first printing in three volumes. xx, 360, 32; xi, 366; 32; xi, 426 pp; cancelled preface leaf. Bound in Carter's A binding, "very dark blue-green rubbed cloth, uncut, with labels." Good+ with lean to spines, mottling and sunning to cloth, spine lining exposed at..... More
Paris: Chez A. Sautelet et Cie, 1826. First edition, first issue, a presentation copy inscribed by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. The first issue, distinguished by the misprint in the printer's address for volume one (the "e" of "Bourse" printed horizontally), numbered 500 copies only.Inscribed on the title page of volume one..... More
San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 1994. Limited edition, Number 115 of a limited 200 copies signed by Wayne Thiebaud. Bound in publisher's gray-blue cloth stamped in blue and black. With full-page lithographs and reproduced drawings throughout by Wayne Thiebaud. Trivial soiling to top edge of textblock else Fine. In..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary half leather binding over marbled boards. Very Good with rubbing to binding, darkening to spine. Offsetting to preliminary and terminal pages from binder's glue, pernicious foxing throughout. Shallow chipping to fore edge of page 177/178. The second..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American Edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine decorated in gilt. Very Good with cloth lightly soiled and worn at corners and spine ends. Inexpert bookplate removal to front paste down. Small stain to top corner..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American Edition. Bound in publisher's ribbed brown cloth decorated in blind with titles in gilt on the spine. Very Good. Lean to spine. Cloth rubbed, worn through at extremities, and with a large but light ring-stain on front cover. Previous owner name to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American edition, with publisher's misattribution on the title page "by the Author of Jane Eyre." 288 p. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with decorative stamping in blind on boards and in gilt on spine. Near Fine with lean and sunning to spine, fading..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1841 - 1846. First edition of each of the original eight parts, bound in publisher's printed wraps. Parts IV, VI and VII signed by Robert Browning with his initials and warmly inscribed to his uncle Reuben with "affectionate regards." 16; 20; 16; 19; 16; 20; 24; 32..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition, first printing. [iv], 142, [1] pp., no advertisement pages at rear as issued. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth (Carter's Variant C) blind ruled with ornamental gilt titles and frame at upper board with plain spine. Very Good with lean to binding, rubbing..... More
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1910. One of 250 copies on paper. 202pp. Bound in publisher's full vellum with spine lettered in gilt, with Doves Bindery stamp to rear pastedown, contents printed in black and red, housed in a custom red cloth chemise slipcase with morocco spine label lettered and ruled..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First American edition. vi, 195, (36, ads); iv, 202 pp. Two Volumes. Original cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Good+ copies with chipped and well-worn labels (still legible), boards stained and edge-worn, moderate to heavy foxing throughout contents. Textblock of Vol. 1 split..... More