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    • A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse By Willaim Morris. (Large Paper copy)
    • William Morris
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $429.37
    • Publisher: London: Reeves and Turner    Date Published: 1889
    • Description: first edition, Large Paper copy."One hundred of this Large Paper Edition have been printed, of which Eighty-nine were for sale"; large quarto (leaves 27 cm. tall), [vi], 199, [1] (Chiswick Press printer's imprint) pp., limitation slip tipped in between front endpapers; original cloth faded and rubbed with front joint split and back partially, the paper spine label dark and tip chipped, both free endpapers darkened, text untrimmed and unopened; Forman 107 "The quaint font of type used for this book was cut by one Howard some half century ago, and is but little known. The page was set with an eye to the ordinary copies; and the large paper copies, which are very handsome, have far more margin than the master-printer of the Kelmscott Press would have tolerated a year or two later.",. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, fine printing, HTM sam12   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 775650
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    • The Pilgrims of Hope. A Poem in XIII Books.
    • Morris, William.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $74.31
    • Publisher: Portland (Maine): Thomas B. Mosher,    Date Published: 1901
    • Description: limited to 400 copies printed on Van Gelder by Smith & Sale; small quarto, viii, 53, [1] pp., the original blue paper covered boards have a small nick at upper outside tip of front cover, the infrequently seen but simple (title and rules at top of spine, else plain) jacket present but darkened and with a few margin chips and a small hole near center of spine, still a very good copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, poetry, Mosher Press, HTM   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 777864
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    • The Sunbeam: A Weekly Political Journal, devoted to the discussion and development of the principles of Social Democracy. Volume I (issues, see below)
    • Gardner, Melzar, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $263.82
    • Publisher: Hartford    Date Published: 1841
    • Description: Volume 1, Numbers 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 through 13 only, all sewn together (number two after number four) with general title and index leaves, extraction roughness at spine, large but light damp stains, reading copies; Gardner was a pro-labor Democrat, journalist and social reformer; he was murdered in Virgina a few years later. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: Social Democracy, American political magazines   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 659582
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    • The Dream of Debs
    • London, Jack
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $38.00
    • Publisher: NY    Date Published: 1909
    • Description: published in The International Socialist Review, Vol. IX, nos. 7 & 8, pp. 481-489 & 561-570; vol. 9 bound as a whole in later red cloth, however lacking pp. 1-3 of the first number, now in need of rebinding; London piece is complete and textually very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: american literature socialism   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 377304
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    • Cromwell. An Historical Novel. By the Author of "The Brothers," &c. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
    • {Herbert, Henry William}.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $106.24
    • Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers    Date Published: 1838
    • Description: first edition of the author's second novel; 2 VOLUMES; 12mo, with portrait in first volume and correct ads in second, INSCRIBED! "Mrs. Paulding [/] With the author's regards.", original damasked green cloth with a floral design; library book plates and minor markings, bindings rubbed with printed spine labels chipped, age spotting throughout; BAL 8061,. Volumes Included: 2
    • Subject: American literature, fiction, wark   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 528991
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    • Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, once Mayor of Mudfog. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches, from Bently's Miscellany, and Library of Fiction.
    • Dickens, Charles, et al.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $283.98
    • Publisher: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard,    Date Published: 1837
    • Description: 12mo, 208 pp., original boards with cloth spine and paper spine label; binding rubbed and faded with label darkened and chipped, hinges cracked, front free endpaper clipped at tip, age spotting and staining, early owner's name on front pastedown; Edgar and Vail (New York Public Library) p. 17 ?All but the first essay by other hands. Second American edition?,. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British and American literature   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 279726
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    • The Writings of Bret Harte. With Introductions. Glossary, and Indexes. Illustrated by Photogravures. Autograph Edition.
    • Bret Harte
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $1,130.83
    • Publisher: Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company,    Date Published: 1896
    • Description: 20 volumes, number 39 of 350 sets signed and dated by Harte in the first volume; (the often missing last volume is limited to 525 copies), also bound into the first volume of this set is an autograph note by Harte, signed, from New York and dated April 19, 1876 declining an invitation to respond to a toast; 129 plates including the frontispieces, the two double page color maps, and the twenty pictorial titles, except for the maps these are all mounted India paper prints and an interesting feature of this edition is that some of the plates are signed by the artists in pencil, distributed so that there is at least one in each of the first nineteen volumes, artists represented thus are Otto H. Bacher, Ethel I. Brown, J. M. Burns, B. West Clinedinst, T. de Thulstrup, Frederick Dielman, J. M. Flagg, Thomas Fogarty, Mary Hallock Foote (2), Malcolm Fraser (2), Arthur I. Keller (2), Orson Lowell (2), Frederick McCormick, Frank T. Merrill, Eric Pape, Frederic Remington, Guy Rose, E. Boyd Smith (3), Alice Barber Stephens (2), Seymour M. Stone, and W. L. Taylor; bound in three quarter crimson red morocco by the Riverside Press with top edges gilt, binding slightly darkened at spines and very lightly rubbed, overall very good. Volumes Included: 20
    • Subject: american literature office   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 363568
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    • Poems. (including A Visit from Saint Nicholas)
    • Moore, Clement C.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $6,867.13
    • Publisher: NY: Bartlett & Welford,    Date Published: 1844
    • Description: first edition but includes previously published material; small octavo, [i] (half title)-[xiv], [15]-216 pp.; later half leather has top of spine covering broken off and lacks the front cover, general age toning to interior but paper not fragile, on an added leaf there are six lines of music in an unknown hand with the note "The above is the Melody with the harmony referred to on pages 49 & 50", the end of the poem A Trip to Saratoga; includes A Visit from Saint Nicholas on pages [124]-127 in its first appearance as a work formally recognized by the author as his own, it had previously appeared under his name in The New York Book of Poetry ... in 1837 but this was more of an attribution and there is a minority view that Henry Livingston was the real author; BAL 14348. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, poetry   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 530268
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    • Clay. A Literary Notsebook. No. 2.
    • Villa, Jose Garcia, ed.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $324.67
    • Publisher: Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico,    Date Published: 1931
    • Description: Number 2, Winter 1931-1932 only; first edition; large quarto, 52, [1] mimeographed leaves stapled into paper sides as issued; the last leaf (an advertisement for Anthogie) browned, else very good; contributions include short stories by Erskine Caldwell and William Carlos Williams and the poem Christ at the Seal Pool by the then little known William Saroyan. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, literary magazines   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 676416
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    • The Infidel; or The Fall of Mexico. A Romance. by the author of "Calavar."
    • Bird, Robert Montgomery.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $156.76
    • Publisher: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard,    Date Published: 1835
    • Description: first edition; 2 volumes, small, narrow octavo, [title leaf], [13]-254, [2], 34 (ads) pp. + [4] (ads), [title leaf], [13]-228, [36] (ads) pp. as issued; library book plates and markings, original purple muslin faded, spine labels present but dark, age staining to interior but entirely readable, sound, and overall good+; BAL 1154, Wright I 320. Volumes Included: 2
    • Subject: American literature, fiction   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 693489
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    • The Conquest of Canaan; A Poem, in Eleven Books.
    • Dwight, Timothy.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $170.78
    • Publisher: Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock    Date Published: 1785
    • Description: first edition, signature mark L present and the number of page 279 inverted, BAL 5040; 12mo (leaves slightly taller than 17 cm.), [viii] (beginning with title), 304 pp., this copy does not have an errata leaf at end, as sometimes found; contemporary full leather with red leather label and edges sprinkled in red; binding darkening and scuffed at spine, splitting at top front joint, label chipped near center, overall a good+ copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: epic poetry, American literature   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 730176
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    • Rip Van Winkle. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham.
    • Irving, Washington. Rackham, Arthur, illustrator.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $206.36
    • Publisher: London/NY: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co.,    Date Published: 1924
    • Description: late reprint of the 1905 edition; large quarto, viii, 57, [3] pp., 51 mounted color illustrations with printed guards including the frontispiece; original green cloth dulled with spine faded, two private book plates, light general age toning to text, sound and near very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, illustrators   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 803532
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    • Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
    • Irving, Washington. Rackham, Arthur, illustrator.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $263.68
    • Publisher: London/NY: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co.,    Date Published: 1908
    • Description: third Heinemann reprint of the 1905 edition; quarto, viii, 57, [3] pp., 51 mounted color illustrations with printed guards including the the frontispiece; green original cloth lettered and pictorially stamped in gold; binding rubbed at extremities and slightly faded at spine, private book plate, age spotting and speckling in margins of text pages, still overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, illustrators, MLL   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 803533
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    • The Culprit Fay and Other Poems. With a title page and vignettes by Edmund H. Garrett
    • Drake, Joseph Rodman.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $59.39
    • Publisher: Cleveland: The Rowfant Club    Date Published: 1893
    • Description: one of 100 copies on "Japanese vellum" from a total printing of 195; quarto, 96, [1], portrait frontispiece, small illustrations in text; white original cloth badly soiled with back cover stained with spots of penetration though endpapers and blanks, still slightly noticeable on last few text pages. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, LGN   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 821071
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    • The Rise of Silas Lapham by William D. Howells.
    • Howells, William Dean.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $113.06
    • Publisher: Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge,    Date Published: 1912
    • Description: later printing but inscribed "Remembrances of pleasant meetings over the book counters of Scribners, with Anna Faith Taylor. W. D. Howells. New York, May 3, 1919.", Taylor was a Scribner's employee; [vi], 515 pp.; very good in red publisher's cloth. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, WC1   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 841173
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    • The Spectator.
    • Addison, Joseph, & Richard Steele.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $395.18
    • Publisher: London: Printed for Jacob & Richard Tonson    Date Published: 1757
    • Description: complete in 8 volumes, octavo, title vignettes engraved by S. Ravenet and C. Grignion after F. Hayman; book plates of one previous owner and signatures of another, contemporarily full leather rubbed with some volumes chipped at extremities of spines, some joints split with one side detached, light age toning to text, good. Volumes Included: 8
    • Subject: British literature, English literary periodicals, HTM, Big Sets   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 705114
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    • The Spectator.
    • Addison, Joseph, & Richard Steele.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $393.45
    • Publisher: London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper,    Date Published: 1747
    • Description: complete in 8 volumes, octavo, contemporary full leather worn and dry with spine labels chipped or gone and the last volume lacks both sides, small library book labels, signature of a previous owner on tiles, general light age toning but text blocks still sound. Volumes Included: 8
    • Subject: British literature, English literary periodicals, HTM, Big Sets   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 705125
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    • Six Tracts about Women. (A Volume in the British Museum)
    • Stein, Harold.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $12.25
    • Publisher: London:    Date Published: 1934
    • Description: reprinted from Transcations of the Bibliographical Society, The Library; [14] pp., inscribed by author but signed with initials only; paper wrappers faded but overall very good; physical description and brief commentary on six sixteenth century English black-letter quartos. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: books about books, British popular literature, Women, HTM   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 744386
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    • The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum. With an introduction by Gelett Burgess.
    • Irwin, Wallace.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $7.99
    • Publisher: San Francisco: Elder and Shepard,    Date Published: 1902
    • Description: San Francisco: Elder and Shepard, 1902; square 12mo, [16] pp., self wrappers; the tan paper darkening, title chipped at one tip, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, poetry, light verse, HTM   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 786718
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    • Queen's Quarterly. vols. 50-89
    • Queen's University (publisher)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $638.12
    • Publisher: Queen's University    Date Published: 1944
    • Description: volumes 50-89; complete volume, partly bound, ex library, PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes Included: 40
    • Subject: PER literature history social science   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 393618
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