Bar 6 Roundup of Best Western Strories
New York: Permabooks, 1957. First printing. M-3116. Very good with minor toning to pages and soiling to covers.
Literature
The Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde Complete in One Volume
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1927. 8vo, 620 pp, yellow cloth with original dust jacket. Six volumes in one including Dorian Gray, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Salome, and The Happy Prince. Book in excellent condition with pencil annotations to pages, couple of tiny areas of discoloration to text block.....
C. CRISPI SALLUSTII BELLI CATILINARII ET JUGURTHINI HISTORIAE, Notis Brevissimis, Criticis, Historicis, Geographicis, &c. Editio Secunda.
New York: J. Eastburn, 1817. 8vo, [4], 196 pp, contemporary leather. Latin edition of Sallust printed in New York and edited by Peter Wilson. Upper portion of title page, first ten leaves and last 20 leves damp stained, joints split, spine ends chipped, pages foxed and toned.
The Casket A Christmas and New Year's Present For Children and Young Persons
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829. 12mo, 268 pp, contemporary red morocco binding with gilt spine lettering and decoration, frontispiece engraving, engraved title page, and five portrait plates within text. Early American gift book produced for children. Rubbing and wear to binding, which remains bright and presentable, foxing and toning to.....
The Chandos Classics Poems and Essays of Charles Lamb.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1880s. 8vo, xvi, 639 pp, in a fine prize binding of tree calf with the gilt seal of the Oxford Local Examination Colwyn Bay Centre to front cover, with prize examination bookplate to front pastedown, spine in six compartments with gilt decoration and gilt and.....
The Choice Works of Thomas Hood
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. 8vos, quarter morocco with marbled boards. Complete in Four Volumes. Each volume bears the inscription to front endpaper "N.D. Elwood Esq. Presented 25th Dec 1853 by G.D.A. Parker." A Christmas gift from Parker, a Judge in Joliet Illinois, to Elwood, Mayor of Joliet. Toning to.....
A Collection of Eighteen Rare and Curious Historical Tracts and Pamphlets
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1884-86. 8vo, each pamphlet with its own pagination, bound in quarter green cloth with marbled boards, deckled edges. Limited to 200 small paper copies. Facsimile reprints of historic British pamphlets. A good copy with binding worn, cloth cracking along spine, small area spine cloth worn off, spine.....
Conference Poetry
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, 1943. 8vo, 22, [2] pp, stiff paper wrappers. Printed by the Prairie Press in Muscatine Iowa for the Fourth Annual Writers' Conference at Northwestern. Near fine with a hint of toning.
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, from the Text of Johnson and Steevens.
Philadelphia: Thomas and Wardle, 1836. 8vo, full calf with gilt and morocco spine label, 1062 pp. Front joint cracked, lacking endpapers, leather worn, crumbling, and chipped in a couple of places, good.
The Galaxy an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Entertaining Reading. Vol. III
New York: W.C. & F.P. Church, 1867. Volume III, January 1, 1867 to April 15, 1867. 8vo, quarter black morocco with brown cloth, 912 pp. With the binder's ticket of Augusta, Georgia printer E.H. Pugh to front pastedown. In good condition with wear/cracking along spine, wear to covers, foxing and.....
A Genuine Account of the Life and Transactions of Howell ap David Price, Gentleman of Wales. Exhibiting a Series of Most Remarkable Occurrences during Seven Years Travels Abroad; Five of Which Were Spent with a Lady he Had Released from Slavery
London: T. Osborne, 1752. 6.75 x 4.25", disbound text block, [3], iv-viii, 302, [2] pp. Chipping to endpapers, mild toning and foxing to pages, upper portion of text damp stained with some pages partially sticking together, lower portion of pages 297 to 298 chipped with loss to text. A rare.....
Harper's New Edition of Dickens' Complete Works in Thirty Volumes
New York: Harper and Brothers, Circa 1890s. 12mo, 16pp. Book prospectus. Rubbing and toning to covers, slight chipping to corners.
HATES AND LOVES; OR, THE LESSON OF FOUR LIVES
New York: Beadle and Company, 1863. 19th Century plain blue wrappers (not original), portrait frontispiece, 112pp. Upper margin trimmed with no loss to text. Very Good. Romance dime novel.
The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, In Three Parts
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1687. Large 8vo, [6], 145, [1] pp, half 20th century library binding preserving the original marbled boards, new endpapers. "Second Edition" stated to title page. This copy inscribed by Alexander R. Stephens of Augusta, Georgia on the last page; once in a 19th century hand.....
A History of The American People by Woodrow Wilson A New Edition in Five Volumes
New York: Harper and Brothers, [1901]. 8vo, 16pp, stapled booklet. Prospectus for the book. Creased, soiling and damp stain to covers.
The Literary Life and Poetical Works of Victor Hugo
New York: Hurst & Co, 1883. 8vo, elaborately decorated olive cloth, 318 pp. Collected and edited by Henry Llewelyn Williams. An attractive copy with toning to pages, bit of wear and soiling to covers.
Love Poems by Catullus, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Jonson Campion, Whitman, etc
New York, New York: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. soft cover. 12mo small softcover with accordian style folding pages, illustrations from Lithographs by Henri Matisse, Eakins Pocket Album 6, In near fine condition with slight toning.
The Oxford History of English Literature [11 Volumes]
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1976. Eleven of fifteen volumes of The Oxford History of English Literature. Generally 1976 editions in orange and cream dust jackets; volume viii is a different edition in a different jacket. Includes: English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages, The English Drama 1485-1585, Chaucer.....
The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations from the Plates in Boydell's Edition [13 of 15 Volumes]
London: A.J. Valpy, 1832. 13 of 15 volumes, lacking volumes 3 and 13, full bound in red morocco with spine in six compartments, gilt spine lettering, upper text block edges gilt. Ex-Mead Hall libray, Aiken, South Carolina with stamps to front endpapers and lower text block edges, library pockets to.....
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume
New York: P.F. Collier, Circa 1880. Quarto (10.5 x 7.5"), purple cloth with elaborate gilt decoration, text block edges gilt, v, [3], 820 pp, tissue guarded illustration plates. Lovely antique decorative edition of the complete works of Byron. Bit of wear to corners and spine tips, bit of sunning to.....
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, Circa 1900. Hardcover, 6.5 x 4.5", blue gilt decorated cloth with central pictorial onlay, 193 pp plus publisher's catalog. A charming vintage decorative copy of this classic. Fading to spine, wear to corners and spine tips, mild soiling to covers.
Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac
New York: George H. Doran Company, N.D. Quarto, orange boards with red cloth spine, gilt lettering, 208 pp. Circa 1920s edition printing the first, second, and fifth editions of Fitzgerald's translation, together with 20 color plates. Covers worn, spine cloth heavily chipped with loss, hinges cracked, mild toning to pages.....
Sketches By Boz: Illustrative of Every-life and Every-day People.
London: John Macrone, 1837. 8vos, 307 and 302pp, gilt ruled morocco binding with marbled endpapers and gilt text block edges, rebacked preservsing most of original spines, with 16 etched plates by Cruikshank. Good. Original spines chipped, rubbed and flaking, bindings rubbed and worn along edges, toning to pages, foxing and.....
Two Books in The Augustan Books of English Poetry Series
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1920s. Two staple booklets, 8vos, each 31 pp. Includes Second Series Number Four, W.B. Yeats and Second Series Number Eleven, Poems From The Irish. In good condition with foxing and toning, splitting along spine.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume Poems,Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notes Special Biographical Introduction
New York: P.F. Collier & Sons, 1927. 8vo, 1296 pp, green cloth with gilt, together with original mailing box stamped "E.A. Poe-OKY Dark Green Fabrikoid." An attractive copy with light toning to pages, minor rubbing to spine gilt.