WANDERER" [D'AVIGDOR, Elim H.]

Across Country

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound by Bayntun for Brentano's in 3/4 red morocco leather with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 22 color plates and a number of black-and-white text illustrations by G. Bowers. Ill.: G. Bowers. Occasional light foxing. Fine in an attractive, Fine binding .

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Book number: 018443

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, Fox Hunting, Horses G. Bowers Fox Hunting Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Horses

AYTON, Richard

A Voyage Round Great Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and Commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall... With a Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 8 folio (10-1/4" x 14-1/4") volumes handsomely bound in 6 volumes in later 19th century deep-green morocco leather with gilt rules, heavily gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 308 lovely hand-colored aquatint plates by and after William Daniell on heavy stock and an uncolored aquatint dedication plate in the first volume; without the additional uncolored stipple-engraving of "Kemaes Head, Pembrokshire" and map found in some copies. From the introduction: "While the inland counties of England had been so hackneyed by travellers .. the coast has hitherto been most unaccountably neglected, and, if we except a few fashionable watering-places, is entirely unknown to the public .. It is the design, therefore, of the following voyage, minutely to describe the whole coast round Great Britain." A monumental work with stunning views unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting. Ill.: William Daniell. Contents with occasional light foxing (primarily to text leaves facing plates but slightly affecting a few plates) and some offsetting from plates, else clean. All bindings quite solid and attractive, some light rubbing or scuffing to some hinges and edges or corners, one volume with small tear at base of spine, a few small scuffs and similar minor blemishes. A clean and handsome set in nicely preserved bindings, Near Fine Abbey, SCENERY 16; Prideaux page 326: "Such a succession of beautiful plates is scarcely to be found elsewhere and they are unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting"; Tooley 177: "FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY.

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Book number: 019235

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Sets, 19th Century, Fine Bindings, Hand-Colored Plates, Illustrated Books, Travel, England, Great Britain, William Daniell William Daniell Hand-Colored Plates England Travel Illustrated Books

BACHELLER, Irving

Works

New York, Various publishers. First Edition and reprints. Hardcover. A collection of 9 books by Bacheller, some signed and some first editions, all uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Includes: DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES [Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company (1903)], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; EBEN HOLDEN [New York: Harper & Brothers (1900) Reprint, part of the Pine Tree Edition of his Works] with a full-page SIGNED INSCRIPTION in 1918 to Edmund L. Dow "my friend and benefactor" on the front blank. In part: "I send this my first child and other members of my library family. You can rely upon them to sit quietly in a corner and speak only when they are spoken to. They will not talk loudly or dirty"; THE TURNING OF GRIGGSBY. BEING A STORY OF KEEPING UP WITH DAN'L WEBSTER [New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1913], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; THE HAND-MADE GENTLEMAN. A TALE OF THE BATTLES OF PEACE [New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1909], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE [New York & London: Harper & Brothers (1911)], Early Printing, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank "This Lizzie business/began, I fear, in the/Garden of Eden"; "CHARGE IT" OR KEEPING UP WITH HARRY [New York & London: Harper & Brothers (1912)], Early Printing, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank to Dow; VERGILIUS. A TALE OF THE COMING OF CHRIST [New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1904], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; THE MARRYERS. A HISTORY GATHERED FROM A BRIEF OF THE HONORABLE SOCRATES POTTER [New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1914], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; and D'RI AND I [New York & London: Harper & Brothers (1901)], Early Printing, SIGNED by the author on the front blank. Two or three volumes with pages roughly opened resulting in a few tears. A bit of light wear and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a Near Fine, bright set in an attractive binding .

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Book number: 018972

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: Signed, Fine Bindings Signed Sets Fine Bindings Literature: American

BACON, Francis

The Essayes [Essays] or Counsels CIVILL & Morall of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Viscount Saint Alban

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box .

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Book number: 003970

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Bruce Rogers, Philosophy, Limited Editions Club, Christopher Morley, A.S.W. Rosenbach, 17th Century, LEC, Fine Press Signed Bruce Rogers Limited Editions Club Philosophy

[BACON, Fryer]

The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon. Containing the Wonderfull Things That He Did in His Life. Also the Manner of His Death. With the Lives and Deaths of the Two Conjurers Bungye and Vandermast. Very Pleasant and Delightfull to Be Read

[Edinburgh], (Otto Schulze & Co.), n.d. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") in cloth-backed boards. The third in the series of Early English Prose Romances, attractively illustrated by Harold Nelson. One of only 500 copies. Some soiling to spine and edges; internally clean. Very Good .

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Book number: 007260

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Magic, Medieval Literature., Early Printing Magic Illustrated Books Limited Prose Romance

[BACON, Roger]

Frier Bacon His Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature, and Magick Faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own Copy, by T. M

London, Simon Miller, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of Roger Bacon's letter to William of Paris that first appeared in Dee's BACON'S EPISTOLAE, published in Hamburg in 1618. Bacon begins this long essay denying the existence of magic, but concludes showing how to create a "Philosophers Egg." He writes about optics, gunpowder (Bacon is believed to have introduced gunpowder--a Chinese invention--to the West), and petroleum in warfare. Bacon makes some bold futurist statements such as “admirable Artificial Instruments” of locomotion (“It's possible to make a Chariot move with an inestimable swiftnesse and this motion to be without the help of any living creature”), of flight (“It's possible to make Engines for flying, a man sitting in the midst whereof, by turning onely about an Instrument, which moves artificiall Wings made to beat the Aire”), and diving (“A man may make an Engine, whereby without any corporal danger, he may walk in the bottome of the Sea, or other water”). Bookplate of Lord Northwick on front pastedown. Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce .

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Book number: 021560

Catalogue: Early Printed Books

Keywords: Magic, Early Printing, Early Printed Books, Science, Aviation, 17th Century, Warfare, Military Aviation Early Printed Books Science Magic

BAKER, Nicholson

The Mezzanine

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 004500

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, First Book, Humor, First Books, Nicholson Baker, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Humor First Book Literature: American

BAKER, Nicholson

The Mezzanine

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 005063

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Humor, Nicholson Baker Modern First Editions Humor First Book Literature: American

BAKER, Nicholson

Room Temperature

New York, Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 003094

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Humor, Childcare, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Modern Firsts Childcare Literature: American

BAKER, Nicholson

Vox

New York, Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve .

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Book number: 006949

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Advance Review Copy Modern First Editions Fiction Advance Review Copy Phone Sex

BALABAN, John

After Our War

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. Balaban is best known now for his translations into English of Vietnamese poetry. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 000613

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, First Book, First Books, Vietnam War Literature Vietnam War Literature Literature: American Modern First Editions First Book

BALDWIN, James

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library, 1979. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full brown decorated leather. The First SIGNED Limited edition of Baldwin's first book with a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Illustrated by Burt Silverman. Ill.: Burt Silverman. Fine .

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Book number: 021268

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, First Book, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts, James Baldwin, Fine Bindings Burt Silverman Signed Modern First Editions Literature: American African-American Literature

BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]

The Day of Creation

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in light blue wraps by the author of CRASH. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019120

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, J. G. Ballard Modern First Editions Science Fiction Uncorrected Proof Literature: English

BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]

Hello America

London, Jonathan Cape, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps decorated with the publisher's logo of an early science fiction title by the author of CRASH. Fine .

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Book number: 019086

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, J. G. Ballard Modern First Editions Science Fiction Uncorrected Proof Literature: English

BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]

Running Wild

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in printed yellow wraps. Fine .

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Book number: 019073

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, J. G. Ballard, Uncorrected Proof, Modern First Editions Modern First Editions Suspense Uncorrected Proof Literature: English