ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, London: 1711-1712

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #325 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Gordon Ross. Fine in an about Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 003863

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored, Essays, Limited Editions Club, Gordon Ross, Fine Press, Joseph Addison, Color Plate Books, Literature: English, 18th Century Literature Gordon Ross Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-Colored Plate

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, London: 1711-1712

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #1076 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Gordon Ross. Fine in the glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip .

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Book number: 017927

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored, Essays, Limited Editions Club, Gordon Ross, Fine Press, Joseph Addison, Color Plate Books, Literature: English, 18th Century Literature Gordon Ross Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-Colored Plate

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, London: 1711-1712

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #355 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Gordon Ross. Bookplate on the front pastedown; spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 018550

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored, Essays, Limited Editions Club, Gordon Ross, Fine Press, Joseph Addison, Color Plate Books, Literature: English, 18th Century Literature Gordon Ross Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-Colored Plate

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, London: 1711-1712

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Gordon Ross. Spine slightly darkened with a small scratch to the leather label. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase .

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Book number: 018829

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored, Essays, Limited Editions Club, Gordon Ross, Fine Press, Joseph Addison, Color Plate Books, Literature: English, 18th Century Literature Gordon Ross Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-Colored Plate

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace

The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator, London: 1711-1712

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Gordon Ross. Spine darkened. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 021194

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored, Essays, Limited Editions Club, Gordon Ross, Fine Press, Joseph Addison, Color Plate Books, Literature: English, 18th Century Literature Gordon Ross Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-Colored Plate

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; et. al

The Spectator

London, Limited Editions Club, 1970. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #33 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Lynton Lamb. Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 000023

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Color Plate Books, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, Essays, Joseph Addison, Fine Press, 18th Century Literature Lynton Lamb Signed Illustrated Books Literature: English Hand-Colored Plates

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; et. al

The Spectator

London, Limited Editions Club, 1970. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Lynton Lamb. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 018771

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Color Plate Books, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, Essays, Joseph Addison, Fine Press, 18th Century Literature Lynton Lamb Signed Illustrated Books Literature: English Hand-Colored Plates

[ADDISON, Joseph]

The Spectator, Numb. LX

(London), (Sam. Buckley), 9 May 1711. First Edition. Wraps. Single sheet (7-1/2" x 12") printed on both sides. An original issue of this daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021442

Catalogue: 18th Century Literature

Keywords: Essays, Joseph Addison, 18th Century Literature, Early Newspapers, Periodicals Early Newspapers 18th Century Literature Literature: English Periodicals

ADE, George

Autograph Letter Signed (Als) on the Charm of Tennessee

Brook, Indiana, 26 May n.y. Letter. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on 8-1/2" x 11" Hazelden Farm stationery to an unknown recipient trying to recall something he had previously said. In full: "I don't believe I can do it all over again. I think I said something about like the following: I never saw the South as I had imagined it until I visited Tennessee. For the first time I found in the flavor of daily life a combination of the modern spirit with the old-time regard for polite ceremonials. The old houses spaciously set apart and each sheltering a hospitality as bountiful as it was unaffected seemed more like real American homes than any I had seen. I knew I couldn't do it. Creases from folding, otherwise Near Fine .

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Book number: 021368

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Tennessee, Modern Firsts, George Ade, Modern First Editions, The South Signed Modern First Editions Tennessee Literature: American

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Tall quarto (10" x 13") bound in a brown natural finish cloth, backed in crimson cowhide leather. Includes Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Furies. Designed by Adrian Wilson and printed by A. Colish. Translated from the Greek by E. D. A. Morshead with an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated with plates after oil paintings by Michael Ayrton. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Michael Ayrton. Some wear to the spine tips and along the spine edges. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 018207

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Aeschylus, Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Theater, Greek Classics, Theater Michael Ayrton Signed Greek Literature Illustrated Books Plays

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Tall quarto (10" x 13") bound in a brown natural finish cloth, backed in crimson cowhide leather. Includes Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Furies. Designed by Adrian Wilson and printed by A. Colish. Translated from the Greek by E. D. A. Morshead with an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated with plates after oil paintings by Michael Ayrton. Copy #1165 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Michael Ayrton. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some rubbing and sunning .

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Book number: 021040

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Aeschylus, Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Theater, Greek Classics, Theater Michael Ayrton Signed Greek Literature Illustrated Books Plays

[AGEE, James] LEWIS, Sinclair

Elmer Gantry [James Agee's Copy at Phillips Exeter Academy Dated March 1927]

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). Hardcover. A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, of a book made into a film starring Burt Lancaster that won three Academy Awards. An undistinguished copy BUT for the fact that it belonged to James Agee with his SIGNATURE "J R Agee" dated March 1927 on the front free endpaper. This copy later belonged to Henry Darcy Curwen, of the Exeter English faculty, who signed his name below Agee's. In March 1927, Agee, at age 17, was in his "upper-middle" year (junior) at Exeter, an admirer of Sinclair Lewis and already committed to a literary career, submitting poems and stories to the Phillips Exeter Monthly. In one of his early letters to Father Flye (LETTERS OF JAMES AGEE TO FATHER FLYE, pages 27-28) dated Exeter 17 March 1927, Agee writes: "I've bought and read Elmer Gantry, the Lewis satire on religion. It's very disappointing, although excellent in spots. He's turning rancid." Reflecting his own psychological unease at the time, Agee soon expands this somewhat in one of his earliest published critical articles, a review of ELMER GANTRY in the Phillips Exeter Monthly 31 (May 1927): "It is one gigantic crescendo of walloping filthiness, and I have the feeling that it carried Mr. Lewis before it, and left him stranded where not even himself can work his salvation." Early signed Agee material is uncommon, and the important resonance of this copy with his beginning literary efforts can hardly be exaggerated. Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. An Agee rarity .

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Book number: 013597

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Sinclair Lewis, Association Copy, Nobel Prize, Modern Firsts, Academy Award Modern First Editions James Agee Movie Fiction Literature: American

[AGEE, James]

The Pean 1928

(Exeter, NH), (News-Letter Press), 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. The 1928 yearbook for The Phillips Exeter Academy, James Agee's senior year, with 13 references to him including his senior photo with description, and 7 other photographs including him. In addition to belonging to the drama club and swim team, Agee won several prizes including the Merrill Prize for his composition "Catched." Uncommon survival and a glimpse of the young writer's life. Bookplate of a senior class member on the front pastedown. Light foxing to a few pages at beginning and end, no writing inside; light rubbing to covers. Very Good .

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Book number: 020583

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, James Agee, Yearbooks, Phillips Exeter Academy Modern First Editions James Agee Yearbooks Literature: American

AGRICOLA, Georgius

De Re Metallica. Libri XII. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, Ac Omnia Denique Ad Metallicam Spectantia...

Basil, Ludovici Regis, 1621. Third Latin Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 270 woodcuts, many full and half page, some signed with the monogram "RMD," and generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (fl.1525-1572) or, less commonly, Blasius Weffring. Previously published in 1556 and 1561, this edition seems scarcer than either of the previous. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 79: "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." Herbert Hoover, who first translated this book into English, described this title in his autobiography as "the first important attempt to assemble systematically in print the world-knowledge on mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. It was the great textbook of those industries for two centuries and had dominated thought and practice all that time. In many mining regions and camps, including the Spanish South America, it was chained to the church altar and translated by the priest to the miners between religious services." The book combines a profound technical and financial knowledge of mining with an underlying interest in the health and daily routine of mine workers. The woodcut impressions are strong and dark. Complete but for the two fold-out diagrams lacking. As customary with this title, there is browning throughout, occasionally heavy. Small piece of title page repaired with no loss of text or illustration; ink names of David Stuart dated 1771 and Joseph Robertson dated 1830 on title page. Library bookplate on front pastedown and small ink number on the title page illustration; no other library markings except for numbers on the spine. An important and richly illustrated title. Very Good in a serviceable binding .

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Book number: 014924

Catalogue: Early Printed Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Early Printed Books, Metallurgy, Science, Woodcuts, Mining, 17th Century Illustrated Books, PMM, Printing and the Mind of Man Early Printed Books Metallurgy Science 17th Century Illustrated Books

AIKEN, Conrad

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

25 June 1917. Letter. An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY, to the writing of Charles Baudelaire. In part: "I was delighted to get your letter.. As to that echo of Robinson, perhaps I should have been more just if I had said similarity instead of echo: though even so I did not mean to put too much emphasis on the idea. In two or three of your things I felt something of Robinson's trick of veiled reference, inuendo, coupled with terseness of rhythm: certainly, nothing to worry about! I quite agree with you in your feeling about him. I admire rather than like him. I imagine that if I were drunk I should call him a Missing Puritan. You are the third person to link Forslin with Baudelaire. I don't know whether to be provoked or not, because all I know of Baudelaire is hearsay. I’ve never read him-- not a solitary thing. So he is what I imagine him to be,-- a decadent for decadence’s sake,-- there, I am provoked! Because I don't think I belong in that class. The decadent stream in FORSLIN is put there merely as one part of a rather complex pattern, on the assumption (certainty?) that it is an important element in the unrealistic life of homo sapiens.-- I've got three books, some antedating FORSLIN, some contemporaneous with it, some subsequent, which I expect to get out during the next two years, in the hope of destroying any idea that I am a seeker for the merely phosphorescent. I am glad to know that you may come east. If you do, and get to Boston or anywhere near it, for heaven's sake let me know. Intelligent people are rare now in Boston. Lightly creased and toned. About Fine .

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Book number: 020952

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Conrad Aiken Signed Modern First Editions Autograph Letters Literature: American