Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby... With Numerous Illustrations by Phiz

Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1839. First American edition. Half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, dark morocco spine label with gilt titles. [i-v], vi-viii, [13]- 404 pp. Illus. with 39 plates. 8vo. Double-column format. Illustrated by Phiz, re-engraved by J. Yeager. This copy does not appear bound with sheets from the parts issue, though unlike Gimbel's second copy, page iv is not a blank (containing the list of illustrations), none of the plates precedes the title page, nor is there a catalogue in the rear. Gimbel/ Podeschi A43. Amer. Imprints 55380. Boards rubbed, calf worn at edges and joints, spine a bit brittle, endpapers toned at edges, scattered foxing, 3 inch closed tear to plate at p. 110, tear to edge of one leaf, small chip to bottom margin of p. 109 and 404. Binding tight. About very good.

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Book number: 25727

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Illustrated Books, , Literature, English Literature, Illustrated Books, English Literature, 19th c., Fiction,

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie

No Thoroughfare... Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens for Christmas, 1867

London, Chapman & Hall, 1867. First edition. Stitched blue printed paper wrappers. 48 pp. Double columns. 8vo. A collaboration of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens wrote the Overture, portions of the First and Fourth Acts, and the entire Act III. Wilkie Collins wrote the remainder. Podeschi: E20. Eckel p. 168. A very good copy, wrappers lightly worn at fore corners, tiny tear at stitch hole on spine, rear wrapper with small soil spot,, contents lightly browned, a few marginal tears, affecting the bottom of the column divider on pp.10-11.

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Book number: 43721

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, Dickens Collins, Pamphlet

(Anacreon). Dole, Nathan Haskell

Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics and Other Selections from the Greek Anthology

Boston, Privately printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. First edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. 214 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures. Number 395 of 475 copies. Spine a bit darkened and boards lightly rubbed, otherwise a very good crisp copy.

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Book number: 20392

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Classical Studies, , Literature, Poetry, Classical Studies, Poetry, Anacreon, Book

Nunez y Dominguez, Jose de J.

Holocavstos Versos

[México], [Ediciones Literarias de Revista de Revistas], 1915. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. 110 pp. Sm. 4to. One of 50 copies. Not numbered. This was the first work of José de Jesús Núñez y Domínguez (1887-1959), Mexican romantic poet, secretary of the National Museum of Archeology & History, and ambassador to Brussels (1946-1949). OCLC shows five copies. Not in Palau. Staples loose, spine chipped and torn, fore edge of wrappers and leaves chipped and dampstained, rust marks along inner margin, still about good.

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Book number: 34338

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Latin America, Literature, Mexico, Poetry, Latin Americana, Mexico, Mexican Poetry, 20th c., Latin American Literature, Latin America

Drake, Joseph Rodman

The Culprit Fay

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, (Printed by the Knickerbocker Press.), n.d. Reprint. Cloth. 137 pp. Frontis from a painting by W. de Mora with printed tissue-guard. Sm. 8vo. Published as gift editions. Leaves printed one side only; text framed in gilt borders with pale blue decorations. A beautiful production. Minor wear to spine ends, owner's bookplate and contemporary signature; still a very good or better bright copy.

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Book number: 25236

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, American Literature, Poetry, American Literature, 19th c.,

Dreiser, Theodore

L'Amérique Tragique

Paris, Rieder, 1933. First French edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt title and decoration, marbled endpapers, original wrapper bound in, sewn-in silk bookmark. 411 pp. 8vo. Paul Nizan, trans. Text in French. A very good+ copy, clean, crisp, and unmarked with a little foxing on the original front wrapper.

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Book number: 33808

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, American Literature, American Literature, 20th c., Fine Bindings, Modern Literature, 2010NYCBKFR,

Duncan, Robert

The Five Songs

La Jolla, CA, Friends of the UCSD Library, 1981. First edition. Stitched rust-colored paper wrappers. [16 pp.]. 8vo. Keepsake for the Friends of the UCSD Library. Letter g of 26 copies lettered a-z signed, and lettered by the author from the trade run of 2000 copies of a total run of 2126. "Inspired by the works of the thirteenth-century poet Rumi (Jalal al-Din Rumi, 1207-1273), " (laid-in leaf: "The Five Songs" by Michael Davidson). Gift card "from Dorothy and Kenneth Hill" laid in. Bertholf A55 [note]. A fine copy.

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Book number: 40706

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, American Literature, Poetry, Book

Duran, Leo

Tokiyori No Shitsuren (Sacrifice D'Amour). Piece Historique Japonaise En 5 Tableaux

Paris, La Renaissance Artistique, 1925. First edition. Cloth. Frontis, 42 pp. 12mo. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Text in French. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. A very good+ copy with a few tiny soiled marks on boards.

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Book number: 32440

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Asia, Literature, Japan, Japanese Literature, Asia

Eberhart, Richard

Thirty One Sonnets

New York, Eakins Press, 1967. First edition. Brick red cloth with stamped title in matching cloth slipcase. 31 pp.; [4]. 16mo. Number 59 of 99 specially bound copies signed by Eberhart. Printed on Wookey Mould in Monotype Bembo italic by The Stinehour Press of Lundenburg, Vermont. A fine copy in mylar in a fine slipcase.

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Book number: 19300

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, American Literature, 20th c.,

Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von; Meyer, Oskar Erich, hrsg. 

Eichendorffs Werke in Drei Banden. [Three Volumes]

München-Pullach, Bayern-Druck, 1923. Later printing. Limp Cloth. 313 pp.; 319 pp.; 357 pp. Sm. 8vo. Joseph von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857) late romantic German poet. Berg set one of his poems to music in his Jungenlieder. 1.Bd. Gedichte. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts; 2.Bd. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. Die Entführung; 3.Bd. Erzahlungen. Der letzte Held von Marienburg. Die Freier. Erlebtes. Spines sunned, boards rubbed and a bit spotted, leaves crisp, clean, and unmarked; overall about very good.

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Book number: 26208

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: European Literature, , Literature, Poetry, European Literature, German Literature, 19th c., Poetry, Poets,

Eliot, George (pseud. Mary Ann Evans)

George Eliot's Works. [24 Volumes Complete]

Cambridge, Estes and Lauriat, 1893. Rosehill Limited Edition, #986 of 1000. (Large Paper Edition). Brown cloth with paper labels. Top edge gilt. Printed tissue guards. Illus. with etched plates and frontispieces from the works of Frederic Dielman, E, H. Garett, R. Swain Gifford, Frank Merrill, C. O. Murray, W. L. Taylor, and others. 8vo. In addition to the novels, essays, and poems by one of the greatest of the 19th century English novelists, whose "luminous intelligence" Leavis praised, the set also includes the three volume "George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, arranged and edited by her husband, J. W. Cross. Spine ends a bit flattened, small tears to the head of spine on two volumes, dampstain to the fore edge and top edge of one volume, to fore edge of another, and to the boards and end papers of a third volume. Chips to four labels all of which are a bit rubbed, but titles legible. Fourteen of the volumes unopened (untrimmed), interiors very tight and clean throughout. Overall about a very good set.

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Book number: 13245

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature-19th cent., Sets, George Eliot, Women Novelists,

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Poems

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Later printing. Half calf over marbled board. Gilt designs. All edges marbled. 315 pp. 8vo. Household Edition. Good+ with front hinge starting and tears to head of spine, leather spine titles gone, still a nice clean copy.

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Book number: 16968

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, American Literature, American Literature, Poetry, 19th c.,

Empson, William

Collected Poems

New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1956. First American trade edition. Paper wrappers. 119 pp. Trade format. Corrected edition, with additional notes, a translation of "Chinese Ballad" and a masque, "The Birth of Steel". Near fine.

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Book number: 14232

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, American Literature, Poetry, American Literature, 20th c. , Book

Engel, Phillip A.

An Elusive Trail

Hudson, N.Y. Johnny's Ideal Printing Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. 68 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A near fine copy.

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Book number: 25338

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: New York, , Literature, Poetry, New York, Poetry, Hudson, N. Y.,

Espiñeira, Antonio

Fuera de Su Centro. Comedia Original. Et Un Acto Y En Verso

Santiago de Chile, Impr. Cervantes, 1887. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 51 pp. 8vo. Publicada en la Revista de Artes y Letras. OCLC shows only one copy at BN Chile. Palau 82861. Very good, moderate soiling to wrappers, occasional soiling to contents, otherwise clean.

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Book number: 44830

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Chile, , Latin America, Literature, South America, Chile, Latin Americana, Chile, Chilean Literature, Chilean Theater, 19th c., Pamphlet Latin America