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(Helps, Sir Arthur) Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon. Book the First
London William Pickering 1847 1st Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
viii + 228 pp. Appears to be the first edition of this first book of the series. Frontis portrait. Beautifully bound in 3/4 brown leather, marbled boards, corners ruled in gold, spine has 4 raised bands and ornate gilt decoration. Little rubbing on the boards. Interior marbled end papers, old book plate of John Wilkinson Crake, numbers stamped on first blank, some foxing and rippling at frontis plate, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Lovely copy.
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(Mallock, William Hurrell) The New Republic; or Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House. In Two Volumes. Vol. I and II
London Chatto & Windus 1877 2nd Cloth Fair-Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
241 pp + 32 pp ads + 259 pp. Titles in black and red, dedicated to Violet Fane, ads dated March 1877. Original tan cloth, blocked in black, gilt, and blind, spines gilt-lettered, either a later printing of the 1st edition or a 2nd edition of the author's first novel, written while an undergraduate, 32-page publisher's catalogue at end of vol. 1, titles and dedication page printed in red and black. Sadleir 1527 (his copy in slate cloth): "A thinly-veiled roman à clef involving the leading intellectual leaders of the period in a satiric symposium. Arnold, Jowett, Tyndall, Huxley, Clifford, Pater, and Ruskin are the disguised characters. Ruskin appears as Mr. Herbert, Pater as Mr. Rose the Pre-Raphaelite [, and 'Violet Fane' as Mrs. Sinclair]." Spine tips are worn, covers generally aged, rubbed at the corners, interior has armorial bookplate of noted early 20th century collector Joan Emlyn, and an original sales receipt for $150 dated 1981 to Dr. Henry Janowitz, the noted Chief of Gastroenterology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NY. Bindings bit cocked, some small stains and foxing inside -- aged but still presentable. Quite scarce.
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(Raspe, Rudolph Erich) The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
New York James Miller 1868 Cloth Fair-Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Crowquill, Alfred
251 pp. Frontis plate and tissue guard at first title. Decorations at chapter head and tail, plus plates. Dark blue ribbed Victorian cloth with blindstamped decoration, gilt design of Munchhausen on spine, spine tips chipped, loss of 1/2" at top of spine, corners rubbed and bumped. Interior occasional foxing but unmarked, some quires proud and signatures showing, page 75 has a small edge chip. Charming small book.
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A Society of Gentlemen The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. Volume the Fifty-Fifth and Volume the Fifty-Sixth
London A. Hamilton 1783 Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
3 + 498 pp + 480 pp + (viii) Index. Two Volumes. Various articles including Dr. Burney's General History of Music; Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative; Letter to Governor Johnstone on India affairs; Retaining Gibraltar; Dr. Priestley's Sermon at Birmingham; Raley's Treatise on the Management of Potatoes; Remarks on various works of Dr. Johnson; The American Wanderer; Practical Thoughts on Amputation; Observations on Jail or Ship Fever; and much more. Leather spines with red labels are worn and cracking; boards are detached, along with first few pages. Pages are deckled with some general wear and tear to edges. Some owner notations to first fly leaves, old institutional library plate, an occasional bit of foxing or small thumbing, otherwise interiors clean and unmarked.
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175.00 USD
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Aeschines, Ed. Fridericus Franke. Andocides.Ed. Fredericus Blass Aeschinis Orationes BOUND WITH Andocidis Orationes
Lipsiae (Leipzig) In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1879 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Aeschinis Orationes: xxviii + 230 pps. Index. Preface in Latin, Text in Ancient Greek. Andocidis Orationes. Published 1880. xx + 124 pps. Index + Addenda. Preface in Latin, Text in Ancient Greek. Green marbled boards are rubbed, marbled paper coming away from board at small spot in rear, blue cloth spine with paper label is sunned and stained but sturdy. Interior end papers have some ghosting of old notes, text clean and unmarked, binding strong.
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75.00 USD
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Allen, Don Cameron Francis Meres's Treatise "Poetrie" A Critical Edition
Urbana University of Illinois 1933 1st Edition Soft Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Signed
158 pp. Signed in small ink letters at the top of the front cover "Best wishes, D.C.A." Original brown paper card covers are chipped and worn at all edges, spine covering mostly chipped away. Interior is clean and unmarked, paper a bit browned, first few pages have a short/small tear/bump to the fore-edge.
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48.00 USD
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Apolloniou Rodiou Argonaftikon A
Athena Akadimia Athinon 2004 960404057X / 9789604040575 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket
Ed. and Trans. Georgios Vasilaros. Text in Ancient and Modern Greek. Intro and notes in Modern Greek. xv + 390 pps. Bibliography. Olive green paper. Book in very good condition, very clean, no pen or pencil. Page 388 has a long stain near hinge. Exterior in good condition, faint red marks on front cover. No wear or tear on cover, spine or corners.
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Arthos, John The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1949 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
463 pp, index. Part of the Language and Literature series, XXIV, reprinted in the 1960s and 70s but here in the original hardcover edition. A seminal study of the words used in 18th century poetry to describe nature, with many references to the classical roots of such usage. The bulk of the book is made up of Appendices, "Certain Words Significant in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, with Illustrations from Earlier Poetry and Scientific Literature", "periphrases"; and "Epithets with the Suffix 'y in English Scientific Literature". The book tries to answer the questions: what does the poetic language consist of; what are its most characteristic terms and forms; what was it used to describe and name; and why did a century of poets value a stabilized diction? Black cloth and gilt hardcover is very clean and bright, one small bump at the rear top edge, interior clean and crisp. A nice copy.
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Asch, Sholom The God of Vengeance. Little Blue Book No. 416
Girard, KS Haldeman-Julius Company 1918 Soft Cover Poor-Fair No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
94 pages. Authorized translation from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg. Preface by Abraham Cahan. Original cover is gone, replaced by card covers with hand written title to front cover. Title page has owner stamp. Title page and half title have loss at fore-edge. Page 6 & 7 of the preface have deep scars/tears at the gutter, affecting text (apparently damaged when cover was being affixed), book is loose in its replacement covers, but otherwise unmarked. A scarce Little Blue Book edition of this important work.
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60.00 USD
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Barnaval, Louis, and De Kay, Charles The Love Poems of Louis Barnaval
New York D. Appleton & Co. 1883 1st Edition Cloth Fair-Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
xix + 215 pp. Edited, with an introduction by Charles de Kay. Victorian love poetry. Blue cloth covers are worn at extremities, spine is darkened, spine gilt just legible, spine tips chipped. Interior brown endpapers chipping and worn, last fly has light pencil notes, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is fragile but holding. Charming little book.
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Behn, Mrs. Aphra All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, Intire in Two Volumes
London Charles Gildon printed for T. Longman, et al 1751 9th Hard Cover Fair-Good No Jacket 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall
xii + 257 pp + 288 pp. Ninth edition, corrected. Containing: The Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Behn. The History of Oroonoko; Or the Royal Slave. The Fair Jilt; or the Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda. The Nun, Or, the Perjured Beauty. Vol. II.: Agnes de Castro, Or the Force of Generous Love. The Lover's Watch; Or the Art of Making Love, Being Rules for Courtship for Every Hour of the Day and Night. The Ladies Looking Glass to Dres Themselves by; Or the whole Art of Charming all Mankind. The Lucky Mistake. memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam. The Adventure of the Black Lady. Perhaps the first English novelist, almost certainly the first romance novelist! Quite scarce. Leather spines with 4 raised bands are quite worn, volume I most spine chipped away, tips gone on Vol. II. Marbled boards on both vols are rubbed, marbled paper starting to peel away at the fore-edge on Vol. II and all boards threatening to detach. There is some worming at the bottom edge of Vol. I, not affecting text, both volumes were trimmed quite close to the top edge. Text otherwise is clean and unmarked. Even with its faults, a not unattractive little set, extremely hard to find.
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Bellack, Hans Sonette
Leipzig Xenien-Verlag 1913 1st Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author
82 pp. Signed by the author, Hans Bellack, on the half-title. 1/4 vellum. Vellum spine, brown hard boards with gilt, very handsome, just a little wear. Interior front hinge just starting, pages are clean, last page has a "shadow" from a publisher's pamphlet, still enclosed. Original-Halbpergamentband. braune harte Bretter mit der Vergoldung, sehr stattlich, gerade wenig Abnutzung. Das vordere gerade beginnende Innenscharnier, Seiten sind saubere, letzte Seite hat einen Schatten von einem publisher' s-Flugschrift, noch eingeschlossen.
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Binion, Samuel A. Phyllanthography: A Method of Leaf and Flower Writing; and a Basket of Choice Roses
New York R.F.Fenno & Co. 1909 1st Edition Decorative Cloth Fair-Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author
x pages + 94 pages, frontis portrait of the author, color plate, one b&w plate of flower names, the alphabet in leaves and flowers, then each recto has a verse or paragraph with a fancy border print, verso is blank. Inscribed by Binion to his cousin Louis Hyman (the father-in-law of author Shirley Jackson). Binion himself was a busy translator of Polish fiction and scientific works, as well as a successful writer in his own right on the Kaballah and on Ancient Egypt. This is a very hard to find volume with 10 pages on how to write words using flowers and leaves, then the balance being collected poetry on roses. Very Victorian in feel, very pretty. Beautiful gilt decorated dark blue buckram is bumped at the edges, spine tips worn, binding shaken and signatures showing. A little fragile, pages are clean. A lovely book with an interesting provenance.
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75.00 USD
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Boyde, Patrick Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
Cambridge Cambridge Univ Pr 1993 0521370094 / 9780521370097 1st Edition Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
xiii + 348 pp. Bibliography, index of Latin terms; index longer quotations; general index. Glossy blue dj with medieval image of Dante perceiving the wolf. DJ has minor shelf wear, book itself has some light occasional neat pencil underlining, otherwise clean and sturdy. Includes: Coming to terms with Aristotle; The operations of the sensitive soul in man; The operations of the rational soul; Combined operations -- fear, anger, desire. In English with some Italian.
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Bradbury, Nancy M. Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England
Urbana and Chicago Univ of Illinois Pr 1998 0252024036 / 9780252024030 1st Edition Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
xi + 247 pp. Index, works cited, notes. In English with some Middle English. Marbled beige dust jacket with lavender medieval illuminated manuscript, dj has a few crinkles and edge bends, book itself is clean and unmarked. Includes: Introduction Orality, Literacy and Middle English Romance; The Tale of Gamelyn as a Greenwood Outlaw Talking; Havelok the Dane Telling into Writing; The Seege of Troye Telling and Retelling; Faire Ben Tales in Compaignye The Dual Art of Kyng Alisaunder; Chaucerian Minstrelsy Troilus and Criseyde.
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