The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night; Rendered Into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mather

Np, Dorset Press, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes complete; octavo; pp; I; (xii), 644; II; vi, 592; III; vi, 569; IV; vii, (i), 537; blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. A very nice clean serviceable and readable edition. Very good .

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Book number: 18501

Catalogue: Literature

Auton, C. (Augustis Hoppin)

Recollections of Auton House

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, no date. Later printing. Hardcover. (1909). Square octavo, green pictorial cloth, gilt. 99pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Very good with light edgewear and soil. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1881. Augustus Hoppin (1828-1896), with humor, describes his life as one of eleven children in the Auton House. After passing the bar, he decided against the law and turned to illustration, cartooning and satire for publications like Harper's Weekly. He was also a book illustrator. Very good .

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Book number: 13510

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Humor; Nineteenth Century Home Life; American Book Illustrators; Augustus Hoppin

Bangs, John Kendrick

Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimmo (4.5" x 6.25"), green cloth decorated in white and gold. 202, (5)pp. with publisher's ads. Frontispiece. A little edgewear and a light stain at lower right. BAL 735. Good + .

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Book number: 15378

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Fiction; American Literature Fiction

Barrie, J. M.

A Window in Thrums

New York, Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (i)-7. 217; blue cloth with bevelled edges, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; a lovely copy; previous owner's name on a preliminary, a small stain on the spine. Cutler 16. A variant; Cutler calls for green cloth & green endpapers, this copy in blue cloth has blue coated endpapers. Also he makes no note of bevelled edges or top edge gilt and only indicates gilt lettering on the spine, this copy has the lettering on the spine and front board. Very good .

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Book number: 15246

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature;

Beecher, Henry Ward

Star Papers; or, Experiences of Art and Nature

New York, 1873. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.75"), brown cloth, gilt and decorated in black. 447, 7, (1) pp. with publisher's ads. Edges soiled and a few pages nicked at the fore-edge. Light edgewear. Former owner's names. Attractive bookplate. "Star Articles" from the New York Independent have been added to and become the "Star Papers"in book form. Good + .

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Book number: 17777

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; New England; Essays; Art; Nature New Englandiana

Cooper, James Fenimore

Lionel Lincoln, or, the Leaguer of Boston. By the Author of "the Spy

Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1832. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; Octavo; pp. I; 276; II; 273; three quarter brown leather and marbled boards, marbled end papers, bound for W. H. Foye, whose name appears at the foot of the spine. This is a period binging. Moderately rubbed bu sound. The novel follows Lionel Lincoln, a Boston-born American of British noble descent who goes to England and returns a British soldier, and is forced to deal with the split loyalties in his family and friends in the Colonies and the British homeland. At the end of the novel, he returns to England with his wife Cecil, another American born cousin. Very good .

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Book number: 12841

Catalogue: Literature

(Cowper and Thomson)

The Works of Cowper and Thomson, Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in This Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson. Complete in One Volume

Philadelphia, J Grigg, 1831. Stereotyped Edition. Hardcover. Stereotyped edition; octavo; pp. x, 404; xxvi, 133, (1); engraved frontispiece; full brown calf, black and gilt spine label, marbled end papers and edges, gilt decorated edges; very good, with some edge wear and light scuffing, a solid binding, foxing to preliminaries and frontispiece, sporadic light toning throughout. A nice American edition of English poetry. Very good .

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Book number: 12475

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Poetry

Crane, Stephen

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; Introduction by John Jenkins

Austin, The Pemberton Press, 1978. Gift Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; Unpaginated, (20); terra-cotta printed stiff paper wrappers; With matching terra-cotta gift bookmark from John & Maureen Jenkins. Crane considered this his finest short story. Introduction by the late Texas bookman John Jenkins. Near fine .

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Book number: 15047

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Stephen Crane; American Literature; Private Press

Daudet, Alphonse

Tartarin of Tarascon, Traveller, Turk and Lion-Hunter

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (13), 14-245 plus (10pp.) table of contents; Illustrated by Montegut, De Myrbach, Picard and Rossi; Color Vignette title ad leaf, half title, additional title, additional half title, woodcut illustrations throughout; three quarter patterned calf and green boards, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt, untrimmed; light edge wear, some minor bubbling to the cloth at fore edge rear board; a nice copy. Ill.: Montegut. Very good .

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Book number: 12594

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Montegut

De Bosschere, Jean

Marthe and the Madman; with Illustrations by the Author Translated from the French by Pierre Loving

New York, Covici, Friede Publishers, 1928. Limited Edition, 1/275 copies signed by the author. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 265 plus a colophon; Color frontispiece and black and white plates by the author; black cloth, gilt and decorated blue and red paper covered boards in a slipcase; Slipcase worn at edges; Very good, light edgewear. Autobiographical novel. Very good .

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Book number: 13582

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Limited Edition; Illustrated; French Literature;

Doren, Mark Van

Edwin Arlington Robinson

New York, The Literary Guild of America, 1927. Duodecimo. 3/4 black cloth, blue boards, gilt. Ill.: Illustrated. Frontispiece. Fair to good. Boards soiled. Indentation in spine. Light wear to top and bottom edges. Sporadic foxing. Corners lightly bumped. Pastedowns and free flys faded.

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Book number: 6737

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature, Literary Biography, Edwin Arlington Robinson. Illustrated. Frontispiece.

Dumas, Alexandre

Les Mohicans de Paris

New York, Charles Lassalle, Editeur, 1860. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes; Royal octavo; pp. I; 611, II; 476, 126; three quarter brown morocco and and brownish mottled boards, spines lettered in gilt, marbled end papers. The work is printed in double columns. Pages 467-476 is "Une Nuit Etrange" by Wilkie Collins. Another 126 pages of volume two is a printing of George Sand's Le Marquis De Villemer, with the same imprint but an 1861 publishing date. The header of both works is "Semaine Litteraire du Courrier des Etats-Unis". "The Weekly Literary Courier of the United States. Previous owner's ownership notes in French on the front free fly discuss his acquision of these books. A Curious compilation of French literature certainly pirated by this enterprising Franco-American publisher, who would do very well with Hugo's Les Miserables. Very good .

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Book number: 12840

Catalogue: Literature

Faulkner, William

The Sound and the Fury

Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 343; with line art illustrations by Allan Mardon. gilt decorated, full, blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine and gilt edges to the text block, the boards are decorated with gilt tool work, the end papers are silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. One of the volumes in the Franklin Library's collection of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. A lovely, tight, clean volume with no prior owner's book plates or markings of any kind. Near fine .

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Book number: 18551

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Fine Bindings

Fielding, Henry

The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams; Written in the Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes... Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones

New York, Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xxix, (i), 422; blue cloth with red title tiles lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, in a dust jacket. A nice edition. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18832

Catalogue: Literature

(Fitzgerald, Edward)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917. Pocket edition, English sheets by The Riverside Press Ltd. Edinburgh. Hardcover. 24mo; pp. (4), 5-94, (ii); illustrated with color frontispiece plus seven color tipped on plates by Willy Pogany; decorated gray cloth, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Laid in is the front panel of the dust jacket. A scarce edition. Very good .

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Book number: 14473

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Pogany; Rubaiyat