Travels in the Year 1806, from Italy to England, through the Tyrol, Styria, Bohemia, Gallicia, Poland, and Livonia
De Salvo, Marquis 1/2 leather over marbled paper over boards. 12 mo., engraved frontispiece. 1st American edition. Journal of the author's travels, including the liberation of Mrs. Spencer Smith from the French Police. 236 pages. Marbled endpapers. Good condition with moderate shelf wear, foxing and time toned paper.- $200
- $200
Knightsbridge and Belgravia Their History, Topography, and Famous Inhabitants
Chancellor, E. Beresford Large 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettered. First edition. "Presentation Copy" perforation stamp on title page. Illustrated. A few pages with light foxing. Very good condition with light edge wear, short split at top of spine.- $150
- $150
Love in the Eighteenth Century
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de Finely bound copy of this study on love in the eighteenth century. Full leather binding by Riviere & Son. Five raised spine bands, gilt decoration on spine and covers. Internally near fine with previous owner's signature on ffep. Light wear to front corners. Very attractive book. No dust jacket. French on one page, with English on each facing page.- $500
- $500
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane 12 mo, original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, top edge gilt. One volume from the Novels of Jane Austen. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Very good condition with very light shelf wear, and fading to spine cloth and edges of covers, as usual with this binding. Pencil gift inscription on ffep.- $150
- $150
Smugglers and Smuggling
Verrill, A. Hyatt Very good in original decorated green cloth with sailing boat on front cover. First American edition. Very light edge wear. 8vo. In good dust jacket with large chip of 2 inches by one inch at bottom of spine, and one inch chip at top of spine, also closed tear at rear panel where it meets the flap. Scarce in any jacket.- $150
- $150
Te Fiery Dawn
Coleridge, M. E. First edition, original blue cloth, gilt lettered. The copy of Kate Douglas Riggs (Wiggins) inscribed by her on the ffep as " Kate Douglas Riggs from Paula Schuster May 1909 London." 32 page publisher's catalog at the rear dated October, 1901. Light shelf wear. No dust jacket.- $75
- $75
The Young Princess Fairy Book
Coates, Castell First edition, 8vo, original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Illustrated "from designs by the author." Very good with light shelf wear. Inscribed by the author as "With the author's love" but no signature otherwise. No dust jacket. Very scarce title, with only one copy on Worldcat.- $450
- $450
Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State
Seward, Frederick W. First Edition. 8vo, original olive green cloth lettered and decorated with gilt. Engraved frontispiece of William Seward. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. This book covers William Seward's life from 1846 to 1861. There was an earlier volume covering his early life, and eventually a 3rd volume covering the rest of his life. Scarce inscribed. No dust jacket.- $200
- $200
Passages from Finnegans Wake
Joyce, James First edition . A free adaptation for the theater by Mary Manning. Tall 8vo, in original cloth and dust jacket. One of only 100 copies signed by Mary Manning for the Poets' Theatre Series. Near fine in near fine dust jacket which has slightly darkened on the rear panel.- $750
- $750
The Infants’ Delight
Children's book. 8vo, original illustrated paper covered boards, tape reinforced spine. Some loss to paper on front cover. Christmas inscription on front pastedown dated 1873. 12 monthly issues bound as 1 volume. Many color plates and also black and white plates. Very scarce title. Somewhat loose within the binding, but still holding. Presumed first edition.- $100
- $100
Typhoon
CONRAD, Joseph New York. First American Edition, preceding the first English edition by one year. Very Good, slightly cocked, The Tabard Inn Library copy with their bookplate on the front pastedown and review of the book on the rear pastedown. Large triangle pice cut from bottom of front are endpaper.- $125
- $125
The Story of Mont Blanc
SMITH, Albert Octavo, original orange blind stamped cloth, with gilt lettered and decorated spine. Black and white illustrations in the text, and a color frontispiece. Very Good condition with some wear to spine ends and front corners, a few spots on the front and rear covers, hinges starting but strong.- $700
- $700
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
HEADLAND, Isaac Taylor (Translator) First Edition. Profusely illustrated. Large octavo, yellow cloth spine over illustrated boards, is the very scarce dust jacket (not in Tanselle). Very Good with very light shelf wear in Very Good dustjacket, with a few small chips and a few closed tears, one being 4 inches in length.- $1,250
- $1,250
Darwinism in Morals, and Other Essays. Reprinted from the Theological and Fortnightly Reviews, Fraser’s and Macmillan’s Magazines, and the Manchester Friend.
COBBE, Frances Power Early or first American edition. The author was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisectionist, and leading women's suffrage campaigner. Octavo, original publisher's blind stamped green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Floral endpapers. Very Good to near fine with a small short split at top of spine cloth. Very scarce title.- $250
- $250
And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street
SEUSS, Dr. First Edition, first issue with the boy in white shorts on the dust jacket and front cover. Quarto, illustrated boards. Author's very scarce first book. Very Good with light shelf wear in Very Good dustjacket with a few chips and edge wear (see photographs).- $10,000
- $10,000
as found in the Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors, and Students of Amherst Academy
DICKINSON, Emily [ William Austin; Edward; Lavinia ] Three separate issues of the Amherst Academy Catalogue for the years 1841, 1842 and 1843, bound together without wrappers (but with title pages) and also including the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Amherst College for the academical years 1841-1842 and 1842-1843, plus Catalogus Collegii Amherstiensis, 1842. Six catalogues altogether. Octavo. A wonderful group of Dickinsoniana, with Emily Dickinson listed four times under various departments at Amherst Academy, including 'Female Department Classical Course' and 'English'. Her sister Lavinia is found three times, her brother Austin three times, and her father Edward four times including his role as treasurer for Amherst College. Also found twice is Emily's school friend Abby Wood and listed once friend Jane Humphrey. Dickinson ultimately spent seven years at the Academy. A rare record of Emily's education. Very Good, disbound from boards (which are present), catalogues for 1841 and 1842 foxed.- $2,250
- $2,250
Essays
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo First Edition, binding state D (no priority). Original brown ribbed cloth, gilt lettering at spine. On Grolier list of one hundred most influential books, includes his most famous essay, Self-Reliance. Author George Van Santvoord's copy with his bookplate and 1842 ownership signature at front endpaper. Van Santvoord wrote law books including 'Sketches of the Lives and Judical Services of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court (1856). A Good copy, foxing to endpapers, spine end cloth chipped with some loss along spine edges and book corners, modest wave to pages at fore-edge.- $5,000
- $5,000
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Aes Triplex [W. W. Denslow Copy]
STEVENSON, Robert Louis [ W. W. DENSLOW ] First American Edition. This copy with W. W. Denslow (of Wizard of Oz fame) autograph, date of April 9th, 1901 and drawing of sea horse at top of title page. A Good, generally worn copy, mild staining to top and lower page edges.- $500
- $500