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Lacon, Illinois, 1894. Handmade baby book on watercolor paper stitched at spine measuring 200 x 160mm and slipped into a folded sheet measuring 250 x 170mm. External wrap with a lovely original watercolor floral with the name Geraldine; tender, with splitting along foldline. Baby book comprised of 16 leaves of manuscript and original pen drawings to rectos only. Additional 4 pieces loosely inserted include: a handwritten card from Carrie Bartlett with The Baby poem pinned to footer, two child hand-tracings at various ages, and a description of Geraldine's sixth birthday party and gifts on State of Illinois Senate Chamber letterhead. A beautiful testament to the bond between a 19th century mother and her first daughter, as well as to her own artistic care and creativity. Jennie Richmond's excitement over each of the early moments of her first daughter's life is lovingly documented in this unique manuscript. Detailed and lovely half and full title pages open the piece, with Jennie using red ink to… Leer más

New York: Cosmopolitan, 1931. First edition. One of 250 signed copies. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Half morocco with gilt on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. In all, a lovely copy of this important post-WWI novel. A prolific novelist and short story writer, Hurst's work was highly popular in the years after World War I. "Back Street is one of her two best remembered novels. The story of a woman who devoted her life to being the mistress of a married man, it was twice adapted into film, first in 1941 and then again in 1961" (St. Claire-Jackson). Ideas about the social expectations placed on women in a modern world -- and how women's race and religion affected their social standing -- shaped all of Hurst's works. "She wrote of immigrants and shop girls, love, drama, and trauma" (Kroeger).

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Very Good. One of 800 copies on handmade Van Gelder paper. A Very Good copy of the book. Spine toned, cloth with some soiling and a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down. Minor offsetting to the end papers, otherwise in nice shape internally. Wilde's later work, based on his two years hard labor at Reading Gaol for "gross indecency." Published under the pseudonym "C. 3. 3." for his cell block because the publisher feared having his name on the work would adversely affect sales. The poem is based on a fellow inmate convicted of murdering his wife and generated one of the great lines from Wilde, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." Wilde continued to revise his plays until his death in 1900, but said that he had lost the joy of writing and would write no other new works. Very Good.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Fine. Vignette title in the fourth state (Smith II.8). Small 8vo: [viii], 175, [1], [2]; complete. Tipped onto the advertisement leaf is a smaller leaf advertising "Monsieur Vlieland's Works," not described in Smith. A lovely, Fine copy with some contemporary ownership markings at the front end papers, otherwise an excellent copy both inside and out. Dickens' fourth Christmas book and one of the lesser known books from the series. The Battle of Life centers on two sisters, Grace and Marion, who must contend with shared romantic attachments. After Marion disappears with a presumed libertine, Michael Warden, the family struggles to make sense of her sudden departure. But in standard Dickensian fashion, the plot twists get resolved and happiness prevails for everyone. Fine.

St. Louis: A. R. Fleming & Co, 1893. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. A square, tight copy with just a bit of rubbing to extremities and light shelfwear to bottom edges of boards. Internally clean and unmarked, collating viii, 9-220: complete including frontis. The first book published by a policewoman in America, it is difficult to acquire in collectible condition. Despite assumptions to the contrary, "women have served in organized law enforcement in the U.S. almost from the beginning. The first police departments in America were established in the 19th century, and in 1845 women began working as matrons in New York City jails" (Smith). The practice rapidly spread across the country, where police forces needed assistance in supervising female prisoners and dealing with the specific challenges faced by this population. Women's clubs -- particularly the American Female Moral Reform Society and the Women's… Leer más

London: Printed for A. Moore, 1728. First edition. Stitched at spine, measuring 205 x 125mm and collating complete in 32 pages. Some chipping and wear along the fore-edge with small archival reinforcements to the lower corner of title and lower edge of leaf D2; minor staining to the upper corners near the gutters of pages 16-25 and to the final leaf with all text remaining legible. Else internally clean. An exceptionally scarce satire about London's widespread sex trade, it bears the "false and misleading imprint" of A. Moore, identified in Treadwell as being used to protect the printers of licentious materials. ESTC reports only 5 surviving copies, its only appearances in the modern auction record occurred in 1937 and 1941. The present is the only example on the market. A satire on London's rampant and diverse sex trade, the present work is dedicated to Count John James Heidegger (1659-1749), who served as Master of the Revels to George II in addition to running the Royal Opera House in the… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine first issue book with Scribner's A and seal to copyright page, in a Near Fine jacket retaining $2.50 price to inner flap. Crease to front endpaper and contemporary ownership stamp of "Carlota Frahm, literary agent." Rubbing to jacket along joints of spine and some chipping and loss to spine ends and corners. A pleasing copy overall. The fifth of Heinlein's juvenile series of novels, Between Planets follows the adventures of a young man leaving college who is quickly tangled up into an interplanetary rebellion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton at the September Press, 1988. First Thus. Fine. Limited to 600 copies, this being one of 480 unnumbered examples. Full black buckram by The Fine Bindery Limited. Spine with tan morocco label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher's, felt-lined cream buckram slipcase. Folio (13 x 9 1/4 inches; 330 x 235 mm.) collating [1, blank], [1, imprint], 268, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank],[xiv], [1, colophon], [1, limitation], with sixty-four wood-engraved initial letters and illustrations by Eric Gill (counting the initial "N" on p. 8 and the lettering which goes with it as one illustration, although they are actually from two separate blocks). Printed on St Cuthbert's Mould-made, 140g, half rag paper. In a six-page note at the end of the volume Christopher Skelton writes: "This book is a reproduction version of The Four Gospels published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1931. I call it a reproduction version rather than a facsimile because… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of the book. Just about Fine, with a few spots to the lower edge of the closed text block and a touch of sunning to the top-stain. In a Near Fine jacket with only trivial wear and discoloration to the jacket. "In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore in him a sense of balance" (Saroyan). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

[Columbus, Ohio]: [Richard Nevins], 1861. First edition. Bifolium slip bill printing measuring 330 x195mm and complete in 3 pages. Lower blank portion of conjugate leaf trimmed; some splitting along fold lines. Early pencil annotations throughout. Slip bills such as this, with widely spaced, numbered lines, were designed for in-session discussion, debate and annotation; and they were printed exclusively for the use of delegates. Therefore few survive. Unrecorded in OCLC with no other known copies noted, the present is perhaps the only extant recording of the proposals that would be refined into the final version of the law later that year. Ten years earlier, during the height of her work for abolition, Jane Elizabeth Jones spoke before the Ohio Women's Convention in Salem to connect that movement with the fight for women's rights: "We should demand our recognition as equal members of the human family...as human beings; and when this point is established, the term 'woman's rights' will become… Leer más

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition. Near Fine. Complete with all 40 plates which include the frontispiece, title-page and the 10 "dark plates." Has all three typographical errors associated with the first edition, first issue: P.19, line 6: "elgble"; P.209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair"; and P.275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full green crushed morocco with a gilt portrait of Dickens on the front board and gilt signature on the rear. Marbled end papers all edges gilt. Front outer joint a little tender. Extremely clean internally, with much less foxing than is typically seen. A very handsome copy overall. One of Dickens' finest novels, the action in Bleak House revolves around a never-ending set of related Chancery Court cases to resolve the inheritance of a considerable estate. Dickens turns his pen to a biting condemnation of the system and the need for reform (which shouldn't surprise the Dickens scholar). A complex novel and filled… Leer más

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1798. First edition. Contemporary sheep with morocco label to spine. Measuring 170 x 103mm and complete in 252 pages. Binding generally rubbed with minor chipping to spine label. Inner front hinge starting but holding well; a bit of worming to the rear pastedown and lower corner of rear endpaper. Contemporary ownership signature of Hannah Weed to front endpaper and bookplate of collector Bruce Lisman to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout, else an unmarked copy. The second work by the first native-born American woman novelist, it has become quite scarce. Currently the only first edition on the market, this title has appeared only four times at auction since 1983. The rare second novel by best-selling Massachusetts author Hannah Webster Foster. Only one year before, the release of her epistolary novel The Coquette made Foster a literary sensation. "Not only was it the first novel written by a native-born American woman, in its depiction of an… Leer más

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. Seventh Edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by Sotheran in full crushed red morocco with inlaid morocco illustrations on the spine (in four compartments) and both boards. Green silk end-papers, all edges gilt. Original cloth for the front board and the spine bound in at the rear. Binding in Near Fine condition with front joint just starting near the crown. A striking example, finely bound. A collection of parodied ballads and poems from a variety of languages and cultures, pulled together in a beautiful fine binding. First printed in 1845, it was a project compiled by Scottish writers William Edmounstone Aytoun and Theodore Martin. In the fashion of Rabelais, the pair operated under a pen name to conduct light literary take-downs of such famed authors as Tennyson and Browning, who were known for emphasis on romantic, chivalric, and flowery topics. Irreverent poetry at its best. Near Fine.

London: Richard Tottelli, 1572. Early edition. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with five raised bands. Measuring and 140 x 90mm collating complete: [16], 159 leaves. Boards somewhat cracked and dry, with bumps to corners; some soiling to both pastedowns. Heavily annotated in a contemporary secretary hand throughout, as well as later additions from a nineteeth century owner; these are most noticeable to the title page, contents, and final leaf with some text affected. Small hole to second leaf affecting two words of text; ink stains obscuring some words on leaf 80; marginal holes not affecting text on leaves 91-92 and 159. Originally published in 1548, with most early editions scarce in ESTC. The present edition is held at 5 institutions. A lawyer, pediatrician and author, Thomas Phayer is best known as the creator of The Boke of Chyldren (1545), the first book on pediatrics written in English. The present work was his influential register of legal precedents, here updated to reflect changes in… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First editions. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely, Near Fine or better set of McCarthy's Border Trilogy. All books appearing unread, with just trivial wear, in bright, clean dust jackets. Considered a trilogy, although written and published over a span of six years. Detailing the rough, cowboy lifestyle of protagonists living near the US-Mexico border. Winner of the "National Book Award" and the basis for multiple film adaptations, McCarthy at his best. "[McCarthy] is the great pessimist of American literature, using his dervish sentences to illuminate a world in which almost everything (including punctuation) has already come to dust" (The Guardian). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. The book has clearly been protected by it's jacket from day one with the spine bright and boards clean. Just trivial foxing to the closed page block. Dust jacket also Fine with only a slight toning to the spine panel, otherwise bright and very fresh. A few spots of foxing to the jacket as well, mostly visible from the verso. A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" (DNB). Fine in Fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1958. First edition. Fine/Fine. An exceptionally bright copy. The book is Fine, appearing unread, with sharp corners, clear titles on spine and no ownership markings. Blue top-stain a bit faded. Dust jacket about Fine, without any of the ubiquitous spine toning, but a touch of wear at the spine ends and rubbing on the rear panel. An American classic in literature, it was also the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Audrey Hepburn in the iconic role of Holly Golightly. Capote's admitted favorite literary creation. Long before Hepburn graced the screen as Holly Golightly, Capote was observing the New York socialites around him and gathering inspiration for the character who would help define his career. "Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions. She took her dreams of society from Truman's own mother, her existential anxieties from Capote himself, but her personality, which seemed so intimately hers, would come from the tight-knit… Leer más

London: Henry Sotheran, 1895. First edition. First trade edition. Folio (15 1/8 x 11 5/8 in; 384 x 296 mm). x, 236 pp.Bound c. 1949 in half crimson morocco over pale red cloth ruled in gilt. Spine with six raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpaperes, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engravings exhibit light spotting to margins. A very small rub spot to lower board. Otherwise a fine copy. Thirteen uncolored electro-engravings with tissue guards, including frontispiece, twelve full-page black and white plates, 125 black and white text illustrations. Housed in a cloth slipcase. John Guille Millais (1865-1931) was an English artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialized in wildlife and flower portraiture. He traveled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. His was clearly a wanderlust based on a desire to see, record and paint the natural world. To this end he traveled widely in… Leer más

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with a contemporary owner's name on the front free end paper along with a notation that the book won the Newberry in 1977. Otherwise an excellent copy overall. Jacket retains original $7.95 price, with a few short tears or creases, but overall bright and unrestored. Printed in an inital printing of 7,000 copies, first printings are relatively scarce on the market. When Jesse befriends the class outcast Leslie, the two join forces to create a rich imaginary world called Terabithia. Together in their wooded kingdom, the two children face ogres and encounter magical creatures that help them sort through the difficulties they confront in their real lives. And then, an unexpected tragedy brings adulthood all too soon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First American edition. Fine/Fine. A just about Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Correct first issue with no Table of Contents in the book and with the silver dust jacket (price intact), later switched to a dark blue. The first printing was recalled due to numerous errors with few copies surviving, particularly in this condition. There was also a bookclub edition that was similar to the first state, but for a paragraph on p. 34 and the price and ISBN # on the jacket. Our copy conforms to all correct issue points. Top edge of the boards very faintly sunned and the jacket with a few gentle bends, but no rips or tears. Stephen Hawking is widely regarded as the most important theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein. In this work he presents a succinct history of the most important theories and developments of our universe and then discusses current research and still unanswered questions. A Brief History of Time presents millennia of research about the… Leer más