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Poems on Several Occasions
1727. BROOME, William. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. London: Bernard Lintot, 1727. Octavo. xiii(3)248pp. First edition. Fine frontispiece portrait engraved by George Vertue. Three pages of publisher's ads. Broome, a country clergyman, contributed the notes to Pope's Iliad (1715-20), and wrote eight of the 24 Books of "Pope's" translation of the Odyssey, published in 1725-6, as well as the Notes. He felt he received insufficient credit or payment for his work, and Samuel Johnson (in Lives of the Poets) said there was "more than coldness" between him and Pope. Facing the first page of text here is Broome's rather caustic "Advertisement:" "The Author has not inserted into this Collection any part of his translation of the Odyssey, published by Mr. Pope: he thought it an Imposition on the Public to swell this volume with Verses taken from a Work that is in the hands of almost every Reader." Johnson quoted a comic verse current at the time: "Pope came off clean with Homer, but they say/ Broome went before and kindly swept the way." Pope lampooned Broome in The Dunciad and Bathos. Johnson called Broome an "excellent versifyer, his lines smooth and sonorous, his diction select and elegant," but admitted that he was not a great poet. Tipped-in on the flyleaf is a description of another copy of this edition from a Sotheby's catalogue of 1870, copied out in longhand. Contemporary calf boards, skillfully rebacked with black morocco spine labels. Scarce. .
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
1940.ELIOT, T. S. OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS. London: Faber & Faber, [1940]. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo. 50pp. Color illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. Cream cloth boards stamped with colored design to front and lettered in red to spine. Bottom edge trimmed. Small stain to rear board. Very Good in lightly soiled and nicked dustjacket.(Gallup A34c.) Uncommon. .
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Culture's Garland
1887. FIELD, EUGENE. Culture's Garland, being Memoranda of the Gradual Rise of Literature, Art, Music and Society in Chicago, and other Western Ganglia. With an Introduction by Julian Hawthorne. Boston, Ticknor, 1887. Octavo. xvi, 325 (11) pp. First edition. A collection of amusing sketches and stories, with Field's own drawings. Number 16 of "Ticknor's Paper Series" for "leisure hour and railroad reading." In the original pale green wrappers printed in red. Closed tears along front joint. Some light toning here and there to cover, but on the whole a remarkable copy of a scarce and fragile book. (BAL 5733). .
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Weans of Rowallan
1937. FITZPATRICK, Kathleen. THE WEANS OF ROWALLAN. New York: Coward-McCann, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrated by Peggy Bacon. Light-brown cloth, lettered in blue to spine. Top edge lightly soiled. Dustjacket lightly soiled and chipped. Very Good. .
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Sangerliebe
1816. FOUQUE, Baron Friedrich de la Motte. SANGERLIEBE. Eine provenzalische Sage in drei Buchern. Stuttgart & Tubingen, Gotta'schen, 1816. Octavo. [ii]322pp. First edition. Original wraps minus covers. Internally fine. De la Motte Fouque wrote numerous romantic novels and stories, of which the best known today is "Undine." This one is a love story of about a Provencal minstrel, set in the Middle Ages. .
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Charles Dickens. A Critical Study
1898. GISSING, George. CHARLES DICKENS. A Critical Study. London: Blackie & Son, 1898. In addition, pasted to the endpaper is a holograph note from Gissing , presumably to the recipient of the book (E.L. Vrice), dated from Gissing's hotel in Rome on February 26, 1898 and suggesting a meeting over the next few days; the actual inscription is dated Rome, March 5 1898. Maroon cloth stamoed in black gilt , cream endpapers. Some wear to cloth, but a very good, sound copy in all. (Collie A.19a). .
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The Emancipated. A Novel. In Three Volumes
1890. A LOVELY TRIPLE-DECKER GISSING, George. THE EMANCIPATED. A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. First Edition. 3 Vols. 8vo. Brown patterned paper covered boards backed with brown cloth. Stamped in gilt to spines. Blue-grey patterned endpapers. Slight rubbing to spine and extremes. Vol. II has smal peeled area on front board. Interior clean and bright. One of an indeterminate number of copies of which , according to the publisher, only 492 were sold. The first of Gissing's "middle class" novels, it follows the lives of two emancipated women and contrasts their marriages. Overall a pleasing copy of this three-decker. (Collie A 8a. Freeman 19). .
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An Heiress on Condition
1923. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION" GISSING, George. AN HEIRESS ON CONDITION. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for the Pennell Club, 1923. First Edition. #25 of 48 numbered copies. 4to. 33pp. Blue-gray paper-covered boards backed with blue cloth. Lettered in gilt to spine. Vignette title page by Joseph Pennell. Minimal wear to cloth and boards. Bottom corner lightly bumped. " First and only edition of an early story by Gissing, written in 1880 and rejected by contemporary periodicals." Includes a later protective green cloth chemise with black leather title label to spine stamped in gilt not issued with the book.(Freeman 63). .
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A Life's Morning. In Three Volumes
1888. GISSING, George. A LIFE'S MORNING. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1888. First Edition . 8vo. 3 Vols. 315pp.; 303pp.; 333pp. One of 500 sets, of which 265 went to circulating libraries, and 126 were remaindered. Pebbled reddish-brown cloth, yellow-coated endpapers. Ruled in black and blindstamped on front and back to create an imitation three-quarter leather binding, and stamped in gilt to spine. One of Gissing's more popular novels, although he was displeased with having to change the ending to a happy one at the insistence of the publisher. Esher bookplate to paste down. Inner hinges starting . Vol. 1 mildly skewed and all vols. with some wear to spine ends and corners; but overall a most pleasing, fresh copy. (Freeman 17). .
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Workers in the Dawn. A Novel. In Three Volumes
1880. RARE FIRST EDITION IN A PUBLISHER'S REMAINDER BINDING GISSING, George. WORKERS IN THE DAWN. A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Remington and Co. 1880. First Edition the three volumes bound in one, in what is a publisher's remainder binding of blue cloth with green-coated endpapers. Blindstamped to front and back and stamped in gilt to spine (mostly faded).The first edition was issued without half titles; the advertisement leaf of Vol. 1 is included in this three-in-one binding. Gissing's first novel. Of the original printing of 277.."only forty-nine sets were sold, and the 'bulk of the edition' .. was subsequently remaindered in a one- volume issue, put up in blue cloth". However, Collie records only one other such copy, but bound in black cloth. Rear hinge just starting, extremes are worn. A very good tight copy. Contained in a contemporary blue drop-back box.(Colie A.1a, Freeman 1). .
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Good Dame Fortune
1894. HOYER, Maria A. GOOD DAME FORTUNE. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. 1894. 3 Vols. 8vo. 5"x 7 5/8". 292pp,292pp & 308pp.+ 8pp. ads undated. Blue cloth, stamped and lettered in black on front and stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine. Cloth is worn. Light foxing to edges and endpapers. Spines cocked. Corners lightly bumped. Cloth on puckered in a few spots on vol. 1. Ex-library with bookplates to front pastedowns. A Good copy of an uncommon 19th century three-decker. .
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Trial
1937. KAFKA, Franz. THE TRIAL. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1937. 8vo. First British Edition. Pale blue cloth. As is: This is a candidate for rebinding. Spine missing, cloth soiled. Pages toned but clean, aside from one stain on verso of title page. .
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Exultations of Ezra Pound
1909. .
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From Syria: The Worksheets, Proofs, and Text
1981. POUND, Ezra. FROM SYRIA: THE WORKSHEETS, PROOFS, AND TEXT. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1981. First Separate Edition. 8vo. 8pp. 28 fascsimiles on 14 plates. Black cloth with tan paper paper label printed in black to spine. Issued without dust jacket. Fine. (Gallup A106.). .
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Patria Mia: A Discussion of the Arts, Their Use and Future in America
1950. POUND, Ezra. PATRIA MIA: A DISCUSSION OF THE ARTS, THEIR USE AND FUTURE IN AMERICA. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1950). Inscribed First Edition. 8vo. 97pp. Light Brown cloth, lettered with dark brown background to front and spine and lettered in dark brown to back. Inscribed in ink by Pound on ffep. "Dr. Persion from E. Pound March 1955". Matthew Persion was Pound's dentist while he was in St Elizabeth's mental hospital, Washington D.C. where he was confined from 1945 to 1958 after he as found unfit to plead in his trial for treason. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with small nick on the top edge and an almost imperceptible two inch split at the top of the front fold . (Gallup A63a.). .
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