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Item #1230 Many Thoughts of Many Minds. Selections from the Writings of the Most Celebrated...

SOUTHGATE, Henry, editor.

Many Thoughts of Many Minds. Selections from the Writings of the Most Celebrated Authors from the Earliest to the Present Time, First Series, Thirty-fifth Edition

London: Charles Griffin and Company, No date [c. 1890]. 35th Edition. Full leather. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] [BINDING]. Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, printer. D. [David] Weinstein, binder. 8vo; 682pp; red pebbled leather blind-stamped boards, gilt-stamped title to 4 raised band spine; tri-color headbands; gilt edges; double vertical fore-edge painting; gilt-stamped dentelles; marbled endpapers;..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #146 An Attic Philosopher in Paris, or A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal...

SOUVESTRE, Emile

An Attic Philosopher in Paris, or A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal of a Happy Man

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. Half Bound Leather. 12mo; 144pp; half-bound in brown calf with green marbled boards, gilt title to spine; sprinkled edges; lovely double-comb marbled endpapers; a light shelf wear to cover, verso of free endpapers are dark stained from the marbling process with some offsetting..... More

Price: $65.00

Item #140 Persistent Faces. William STEIG

STEIG, William

Persistent Faces

No place listed [New York]: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1945. William STEIG. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; [184pp]; brown glazed buckram over board with printed in orange on front cover and spine; cartooning characters printed on recto only; unclipped dust jacket; light shelf wear to head and tail of..... More

Price: $55.00

Item #888 The Black Arrow, A Tale of the Two Roses. Robert Louis STEVENSON

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

The Black Arrow, A Tale of the Two Roses

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press by special arrangement with Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. N.C. WYETH. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; xii, 328pp; gilt stamped borders and title to black grained leather, color pictorial onlay to front; 3 raised band spine with gilt title and ornament; all..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #891 Kidnapped, Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751,...

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

Kidnapped, Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, Collector’s Edition

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. N.C. WYETH. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; xiv, 289pp; gilt-stamped green grained leather, color pictorial onlay to front board; gilt stamped 3 raised band spine; pale peach moiré linings; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; 14 color plates including frontispiece; 2..... More

Price: $125.00

Item #887 The Master of Ballantrae. Robert Louis STEVENSON

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

The Master of Ballantrae

Mt. Vernon, New York: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1965. Lynd WARD, illustrator. G.B. STERN, introduction. Limited Edition. Cloth. SIGNED Limited Edition: 773/1500. 4to; xix, 303 [1]; black watch tartan cloth with gilt bordered spine label; 16 full-page two-color lithographic plates; signed by the illustrator with colophon..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #889 Gulliver’s Travels, An Account of the Four Voyages into Several Remote Nations of the...

SWIFT, Jonathan

Gulliver’s Travels, An Account of the Four Voyages into Several Remote Nations of the World, Now Written Down, Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, Collector’s Edition

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. Fritz EICHENBERG. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; [xvi], 343pp; gilt stamped brown grained leather with 4 raised band spine; dark peach moiré linings; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; color illustrated author’s portrait frontispiece; b&w illustrations; small nick to gilt fore..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #188 My Life and Hard Times & Other Observations. James THURBER

THURBER, James

My Life and Hard Times & Other Observations

London: The Folio Society, 1980. James Thurber. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 253pp; cream cloth over board with stamped illustration to front and back covers and gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; colored endpapers; owner’s book plate to front pastedown; lime green slipcase; fine in very good slipcase. Classic humor..... More

Price: $40.00

Item #1668 The American Claimant. Mark TWAIN, Samuel CLEMENS

TWAIN, Mark [Samuel CLEMENS]

The American Claimant

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Daniel Carter BEARD. First Edition. Cloth. [LITERARY WORK]. TWAIN, Mark [Samuel CLEMENS]. The American Claimant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Dan BEARD, illustrator. Jenkins & McCowan, New York, printers. First edition. 8vo; xv, [i], 17-277, [1]pp + [8]pp publisher’s..... More

Price: $400.00

Item #1194 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) with FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS....

TWAIN, Mark [Samuel CLEMONS]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) with FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Martin Frost. First American Edition, 3rd State. Full leather. First American edition, third state. Octavo; 366pp; dark green grained calf, gilt border, 5 raised-bands and gilt-stamped spine with 4 ornaments; all edges gilt; double fore-edge paintings; marbled endpapers; original publisher's green cloth..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Item #1478 A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day, and Other...

TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Tramp Abroad, Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day, and Other Artists—with also Three or Four Pictures made by the Author of this Book Without Outside Help; in all Three Hundred and Fourteen Illustrations,

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1882. Cloth. [FICTION] [HUMOR]. First reprint by Chatto & Windus was after August 1880, this is a later reprint. 12mo; xxii, [iii],[1] 2-564pp; three-quarters bound in pebbled calf with marbled boards, gilt-ruled and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges; engraved frontispiece with..... More

Price: $195.00

Item #978 Michael Strogoff, A Courier of the Czar. Jules VERNE

VERNE, Jules

Michael Strogoff, A Courier of the Czar

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. First edition thus. 8vo; vi [ii], 397pp; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers titled “The Kremlin”; color pictorial plate for title page; 9 color illustrated plates; light shelf wear to boards;..... More

Price: $160.00

Item #1143 Deadeye Dick. Kurt VONNEGUT

VONNEGUT, Kurt

Deadeye Dick

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, first printing. 8vo; xiii [iii], 240pp; blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped facsimile signature to front, title to spine; unclipped dust jacket with a photographic illustration of Vonnegut on rear; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-440-01780-7... More

Price: $125.00

Item #1503 Glimpses of the Moon. Edith WHARTON

WHARTON, Edith

Glimpses of the Moon

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1922. First Edition. Cloth. [LITERARY WORK] [FICTION] First edition, first printing. Small octavo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"); 364pp + [4]pp publisher's advertisements; gilt-stamped border on front, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine, blue cloth over board; ownership in neat ink on ffep; light..... More

Price: $595.00

Item #1144 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Tennessee WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

New York: A New Directions Book, 1950. LUSTIG [Elaine Lustig Cohen]. First Edition. Cloth. [Elaine LUSTIG Cohen], dust jacket design. First edition. 8vo; 148pp; black cloth over board, yellow design to front, title on spine; unclipped color printed dust jacket; bumping to front bottom corner, light rubbing to corners, light..... More

Price: $50.00

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