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By: N/A
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1523
Condition: Fine
8vo (5¼” x 8½”). pp. 374. IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE. Unsigned binding design on periwinkle cloth by Margaret Armstrong. t.e.g. A young girl is unlucky in love and loses her boyfriend to another girl. She isolates herself at home and finds the perfect lover in her dreams. The book was made into a silent film of the same name in 1918. A fine copy. The very good - dust jacket that has large chips at the top corner of the rear panel, at the head of the spine panel, and at the bottom of the spine panel. The very good - slipcase with splits to the seams of ... View more info
By: AMAR Y BOURBÓN, JOSEFA (translation); LlAMPILLAS, FRANCISCO JAVIER; TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO.
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Zaragoza (Spain), Blas Miedes, Impresor de la Real Sociedad: 1783
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2515
Condition: Very Good
First Edition. 8vo (6 1/8” x 8 1/8”). pp. 288. Unsigned contemporary morocco; hand-gauffered edges; detached ribbon marker; marbled eps and decorated turn-ins; a.e.g. Part one, first section of the first published work of Spanish translator, writer and early feminist, Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833). The Historical-apologetic Essay of Spanish Literature Against the Concerned Opinions of Some Italian Modern Writers was translated by Amar y Borbón from Italian to Spanish, and was heavily annotated by her. It was released in seven parts over the course of four years (1782-1786)... View more info
By: FITZGERALD, EDWARD; VEDDER, ELIHU (binding design, endpaper design and illustrations)
Price: $800.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1894
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2546
Condition: Very good +
First Thus. 8vo (6 1/2” x 8 1/2”). Holiday Edition; Third printing. 58 unpaginated French fold illustrated leaves + 61 pp. text. IN EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Signed binding by Elihu Vedder; t.e.g. Includes black and brown illustrated endpapers and 59 full page illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The original paper dust jacket repeats the cover and spine designs in black on brown paper. Vedder's masterwork and the first fully illustrated version of the Rubaiyat incorporating both Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist sensibilities. A very good + copy w... View more info
By: HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (Sr.); ZABRISKIE, GEORGE ALBERT (binding finisher).
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1893
Edition: First.
Inscription: Yes
Seller ID: 2607
Condition: Fine
8vo (5 x 7 5/8”). pp. 131. Second State ('clashed' on p. 50 line 8). WITH TIPPED IN CARD INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Signed binding by George Zabriskie in decorated red morocco. Foliated dentelles over brown grey and red marbled eps. Includes decorations, frontis. and 61 illustrations in black and white by Howard Pyle. Card signed and inscribed by Oliver Wendell Holmes tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: "A few can touch the magic string | And noisy fame is proud to win them - | Alas for those who never sing, | But die with all their music in them! | ... View more info
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1892
Edition: First
Seller ID: 2189
Condition: VeryGood+
8vo (6¼” x 8¾”). 7 volumes. Limited Edition. Set number 543 of 750 sets. IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS. Unsigned Sarah Wyman Whitman binding design in gold on a three piece parchment and grey silk binding; half-title and title page printed in red and black; maroon eps; t.e.g. Vol. I: p. 435; Vol II: p. 347; Vol. III: p. 376; Vol. IV: p. 429; Vol. V: p. 436; Vol. VI: p. 437; Vol. VII: p. 402. Printed on English handmade paper and Illustrated with engraved frontis. portraits as well as engravings, photogravures and etchings on India paper from drawings by Howard Pyle, Fre... View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2002
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 1200
Condition: Near fine
Folio (12" x 16¾"). pp. iv; 552; [3] pp. No. 532 of 1010 copies. Full cream Nigerian goatskin blocked in gold with the original design by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, redrawn by David Eccles. Blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Two blue ribbon markers; t.e.g. An extraordinary facsimile of the Kelmscott Press' masterpiece, and what many consider the most beautiful of all printed books.As noted in the colophon: "The facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer has been printed for the Folio Society, London by Cambridge University Press and completed on the 20th day of February, 2002. ... View more info
By: [Thomson, Hugh. (Illustrator)]; Goldsmith, Oliver; Dobson, Austin (preface)
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1890
Edition: First thus
Seller ID: 203
Condition: Very good
C8 (5 ¼ x 7 ¼). p. xxxv; 305. +6pp.advts. Green half-calf ruled in gold over black, tan and white marbled boards in the feather pattern.Spine has filigree rules in gold with two red morocco labels with titles in gold. t.e.g; marbled eps. Frontispiece and 181 vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and includes a suppressed plate seen only in this edition on p. 95 that features a maid reading a hand-bill while seated on the back of man bending over. Original binding mounted and bound in rear. VG. Light shelf wear to edges and light rubbing to front joint; bookplate of Georgiana Erdmann and p... View more info
