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ANGLO-AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS 1826-1900. East to West. Describing first editions of English Authors whose books were published in America before their publication in England. With an introduction by Graham Pollard

By: (Brussel, I. R)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: NY: Sol Lewis, 1981.: 1981.

Seller ID: 6815

Condition: Fine

NY: Sol Lewis, 1981.. 1981.. Fine. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt. xvi & 170 pp. 2 B&W frontispieces & 8 plates, 4 in color. Together with ANGLO-AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS Part Two: West to East. 1786-1930. Describing first editions of American Authors whose books were published in England before their publication in America. With an introduction by Lord Esher. Octavo, green cloth. Head of spine bumped; 3 tiny white stains to covers. xi, 131 & [1] pp. 2 B&W frontispieces & 14 plates, 8 in color. In slipcase. Near fine.

500 numbered copies were published, this copy being unnumbered. Orig...
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HAROLD, THE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS. The Author of "Lucretia," "Rienzi," "Zanoni," "Pelham," Etc. Etc

By: (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848.: 1848.

Seller ID: 12719

Condition: Good

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848.. 1848.. Good. - Octavo, original front wrap rebound into brown cloth with a gilt- lettered black paper label on the spine. The spine & extremities are faded. The covers are lightly bumped & spotted with a light stain to the bottom edge of the front cover. The left & right edges of the label are slightly chipped. vi & pages [7]-217, printed in 2 columns, plus a 22-page publisher's catalog. The title page is foxed & there is occasional light foxing throughout. Lacks the rear wrapper. Good.

First American edition. First Edition.
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ANTHONY BURGESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. With a foreword by Anthony Burgess

By: (Burgess, Anthony). Brewer, Jeutonne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.: 1980.

Seller ID: 6589

Condition: Good

Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.. 1980.. Good. - (Scarecrow Author Bibliographies No. 47). Octavo, blue cloth titled in white. xv & 175 pp. The top quarters of the pages are dampstained. A good working copy.

First edition. First Edition.
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ST. LOUIS BURNSIANS: Their Twentieth Anniversary and Some Other Burns Nights. The Bard from the Viewpoints of Andrew A. Bruce, Eugene Angert, R. B. Cooke and Edgar Lee Masters. The Burns Club of St. Louis, the Genesis and the Twenty Years' Activities by Walter B. Stevens.

By: (Burns, Robert). Bruce, Andrew A.; Angert, Eugene; Cooke, R. B.; Masters, Edgar Lee; Stevens, Walter B.; et al.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: St. Louis, MO: The Burns Club of St. Louis, 1924.: 1924.

Seller ID: 34416

Condition: Good

St. Louis, MO: The Burns Club of St. Louis, 1924.. 1924.. Good. - Octavo, marbled blue boards backed with brown cloth & titled in dark blue on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & the surface of the boards is rubbed away at the corners of the covers. The spine is heavily rubbed with its head & tail lightly chipped. 104 pages. Illustrated with 2 black-and-white plates with textured tissue guards, including a portrait frontispiece. There is scattered light foxing throughout. Good.

First edition.

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BURNS IN SCOTTISH SCENE & SONG

By: (Burns, Robert). Junior, Allan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dundee & London: Valentine & Sons, Ltd., circa [1925].: [1925].

Seller ID: 25772

Condition: Good

Dundee & London: Valentine & Sons, Ltd., circa [1925].. [1925].. Good. - sc Octavo, 9 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in gray wraps in a red & green plaid dust wrapper upon which is mounted a title label illustrated with a portrait of the poet Robert Burns. The dust jacket is heavily chipped with several tears and small pieces out from the edges. There are tears along the dust jacket's folds. 32 pages, illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece portrait and 30 photographic illustrations of Scottish scenes and scenery above stanzas from Burns' poems. Good. Dust jacket present.
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GULF COAST: (A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts). Volume V Number Two. Spring/Summer 1993

By: (Burroughs. William S.; McGee, David; et al). (Hempel, Amy; Ignatow, David; Howard, Richard; Beattie, Ann; Cortazar, Julio; et al). O'Connor, Mark; Watson, Randall; managing editors

Price: $10.00

Publisher: (Houston, TX: Creative Writing Program, University of Houston, 1993.: 1993.

Seller ID: 29453

Condition: Very good

(Houston, TX: Creative Writing Program, University of Houston, 1993.. 1993.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers with cover art by William S. Burroughs & with a text by Burroughs printed on the rear wrap. The binding is lightly bumped with a price-sticker on the bottom inner corner of the front wrap. 128 pages. Illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.

Among the contents of this issue are an interview with Amy Hempel, poetry by David Ignatow, fiction by Richard Howard, essays by Ann Beattie and Julio Cortazar, and art work by David McGee, Bert Samples and oth...
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL BUTLER (AUTHOR OF EREWHON) AND OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM. With some letters from Samuel Butler to the Rev. F. G. Fleay, now first published

By: (Butler, Samuel). Hoppe, A. J

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY: Burt Franklin, 1968.: 1968.

Seller ID: 6592

Condition: Fine

NY: Burt Franklin, 1968.. 1968.. Fine. - (Burt Franklin: Bibliography and Reference Series # 178). Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt. xv & 184 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece & 10 facsimiles. Near fine.

Reprint of the edition originally published London, 1925.

First American edition. First Edition.
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THREE WATERS

By: (Buyck, Edward P.). Woods, Thomas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Albany, NY: The Argus Press, 1933.: 1933.

Seller ID: 25641

Condition: Good

Albany, NY: The Argus Press, 1933.. 1933.. Good. - Octavo, tan paper covered boards backed with black cloth with a vignette in black & tan on the front cover. The binding is rubbed with light staining & soiling to the covers. 98 pages. The pastedowns are stained. There is light staining to the front endpaper & its bottom corner is lightly creased. Illustrated by Edward P. Buyck with black-and-white plates & vignettes. Good.

Limited edition of 375 copies. Dust jacket present.
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DONN BYRNE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

By: (Byrne, Donn). Wetherbee, Jr. Winthrop

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY: The New York Public Library, 1949.: 1949.

Seller ID: 6625

Condition: Fine

NY: The New York Public Library, 1949.. 1949.. Fine. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. Very slightly bumped & rubbed. x & 89 pp. Near fine.
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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: A comprehensive bibliography of secondary materials in English, 1807-1974. With a Critical Review of Research by Clement Tyson Goode, Jr

By: (Byron, George Gordon). Santucho, Oscar Jose

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1977.: 1977.

Seller ID: 6593

Condition: Very good

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1977.. 1977.. Very good. - (The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, #30). Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. Lightly soiled. xiii & 641 pages. Very good.

First edition. First Edition.
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Image for THE LADIES' LITERARY CABINET, Being a Repository of Miscellaneous Literary Productions, both Original and Selected, in Prose and Verse. New Series - Vol. IV. (Volume 4, issues nos. 1 through 26 bound in one volume).

THE LADIES' LITERARY CABINET, Being a Repository of Miscellaneous Literary Productions, both Original and Selected, in Prose and Verse. New Series - Vol. IV. (Volume 4, issues nos. 1 through 26 bound in one volume).

By: (Byron, Lord George Gordon; Moore, Thomas; and Porter, Ann Maria).

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York: Published by Nathaniel Smith, No. 15 Cedar-Street, 1821.: 1821.

Seller ID: 36673

Condition: Good

- Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Marbled boards backed with a black calf spine. The covers are heavily rubbed with sections of the marbled paper lacking from the boards. Large portions of the spine have perished. [2] leaves, pages 1 through 96, and [89] through 208 (pages 89 though 96 are repeated as issue number 12 for July 28, 1821 was bound in twice). The pages are darkened with scattered foxing and staining throughout and several tears, although without loss of text. Good. Of significance is a review of Lord Byron's "Marino Faliero" with lengthy quotations from the po...
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BYRON AND SHELLEY: A FRIENDSHIP RENEWED. Monday Evening Papers. Number 11. (Cover title)

By: (Byron, Lord George; Shelley, Percy Bysshe). Buxton, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: [Middletown, CT]: Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, (1967).: (1967).

Seller ID: 16480

Condition: Fine

[Middletown, CT]: Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, (1967).. (1967).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. 23 pages. Near fine.

One of a series of papers read at the Center's Monday evening sessions to Fellows of the Center and members of the Faculty. John Buxton, then English lecturer and Fellow of New College, Oxford, was a Fellow of the Center during the first semester of 1966-1967 and read this paper on December 12, 1966.
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NOTES ON JURGEN

By: (Cabell, James Branch). Cover, James P

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928.: 1928.

Seller ID: 31026

Condition: Very good

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928.. 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, decorative paper covered boards. The binding is lightly rubbed with the head & tail of the spine slightly chipped. The spine is darkened. x, [i] & 115 pages, unopened. There are tears to the front edges of pages ix & 13 where they have been partially opened. Very good.

Number 216 of a limited edition of 850 numbered copies.

"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice" [1919] was a fantastical account of its hero's mythological and amorous adventures by James Branch Cabell and was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case....
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CAIN: THE BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES M. CAIN

By: (Cain, James M.). Hoopes, Roy

Price: $17.50

Publisher: NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1982).: (1982).

Seller ID: 353

Condition: Very good

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1982).. (1982).. Very good. - Large 8vo, light tan cloth backed cream boards (bumped; 2 small stains to top edge of front cover) titled in brown, in dw. xv i & 684 pp. Near fine. Dust jacket present.
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ANIMALS IN EXILE: IMAGERY AND THEME IN CAPOTE'S "IN COLD BLOOD". Monday Evening Papers. Number 12. (Cover title)

By: (Capote, Truman). Creeger, George R

Price: $17.50

Publisher: [Middletown, CT]: Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, (1967).: (1967).

Seller ID: 16479

Condition: Fine

[Middletown, CT]: Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, (1967).. (1967).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. 28 pages. Near fine.

One of a series of papers read at the Center's Monday evening sessions to Fellows of the Center and members of the Faculty. George H. Creeger, then Chairman of the Wesleyan University English Department, read this paper on April 3, 1967.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS CARLYLE'S WRITINGS AND ANA

By: (Carlyle, Thomas). Dyer, Isaac Watson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY: Burt Franklin, 1968.: 1968.

Seller ID: 6600

Condition: Fine

NY: Burt Franklin, 1968.. 1968.. Fine. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt. xii & 587pp. Fine.

Reprint of the first edition published Maine: 1928. First Edition.
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THOMAS CARLYLE, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

By: (Carlyle, Thomas). Tarr, Rodger L

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.: 1989.

Seller ID: 6594

Condition: Fine

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.. 1989.. Fine. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt. xxi & 543 pp. Illustrated. Near fine.

First edition. First Edition.
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Image for AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by MARY PERRY KING with whom the poet Bliss Carman is said to have been involved in "something close to a menage a trois".

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by MARY PERRY KING with whom the poet Bliss Carman is said to have been involved in "something close to a menage a trois".

By: (Carman, Bliss). King, Mary Perry.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New Canaan, Connecticut, March 3, 1919.: 1919.

Seller ID: 96225

Condition: Fine

- Three pages penned on a sheet of folded 7-7/8 inch high by 5-5/8 inch wide "Sunshine House" stationery. Mary Perry King thanks the American lecture impressario James B. Pond of the Pond Bureau for the list of "attractions" which he sent her. She took friends to Mr. Nichols' recital which they " enjoyed very much indeed. Some things - he reads hauntingly." [i.e. WW1 poet Robert Nichols] She was, however, disappointed that Pond had not sent her tickets as she'd asked "I could have used six more tickets if they had been sent to New Canaan as I asked. I left town imme...
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SILKY: An Incredible Tale

By: (Carroll, John). Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, (1953).: (1953).

Seller ID: 7841

Condition: Good

New York: Pantheon Books, (1953).. (1953).. Good. - Small octavo, blue paper covered boards, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The spine & extremities are slightly faded & the boards are lightly bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with 2 small tears to the mid-section of the spine. The edges of the panels are darkened & there is light spotting & soiling to the rear panel. 143 & [2] pages. Full-page black-and-white illustrations by John Carroll. There is staining & spotting to the pastedowns & front endpaper. Good.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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THE RAVEN AND THE WRITING DESK

By: (Carroll, Lewis). Huxley, Francis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1976).: (1976).

Seller ID: 5489

ISBN: 0060121130

Condition: Very good

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1976).. (1976).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed with the bottom edges very slightly faded. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the head of its spine lightly chipped. 191 pages. There is a remainder dot on the top edge. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good.

First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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