Gilbert, W. S.

The "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense

Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, ND. Hardcover. (c1898). Second edition; octavo; pp. 222; frontispiece plus additional illustrations by the author; original publishers decorated green beveled cloth binding, gilt, all edges gilt; Very good with some edgewear. With previous owner's armorial bookplate. Very Good .

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Book number: 12351

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

The Works of Goethe Illustrated by the Best German Artists

Philadelphia, George Barrie, 1885. three-quarter leather. (1885). Quarto (8.25" x 11.75"), three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, gilt. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. 5 Volumes: 282; 358; 345; 386; 376pp. Each volume indexed, and with a list of three types of plates: wood engravings in the text; full page wood engravings; and steel engraved portraits of Goethe, his family, and the characters in his works. Volume I is the life of Goethe by Boyesen, and Gothe's poetry with index of first lines. Volume II is the dramas, Volume III continues drama and begins the prose. Volume IV and V continue prose. The text and illustrations are bright and clean, and the engravings are remarkably fine and precise. Minor edgewear and scuffing. The Works are published in English. Please note that the set will require shipping for approximately 40 lbs. Very good .

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Book number: 19428

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature, German Literature; Goethe; Faust; Steel Engravings; Fine Binding, Leather Binding Illustrated Fine Binding

Goldsmith, Oliver

Poems, Plays and Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. With a Critical Dissertation on His Poetry by John Aiken, M.D.

New York, T. Y. Crowell, no date. Hardcover. (Circa 1870). Duodecimo ( 5" x 7"), terra cotta cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. 530pp. Some edgewear, otherwise very good. Tucked in is a folded advertisement from the publisher regarding their new one-volume works of Shakespeare and the British poets, along with testimonials for "Mr. Crowell's Shakespeare" Lovely publisher's binding. Very good .

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Book number: 13505

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; English Literature; Poetry; Oliver Goldsmith; British Poets

Grant, Robert

The Convictions of a Grandfather

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, red cloth, gilt. Light soil and scuffing. Uncut edges; a few leaves roughly opened, one page with a half-inch tear. The author expresses his views on education, culture, movement of the young to suburban surroundings, women's sufferage, divorce, taxes, charity, workmen's compensation, among other topics, in a conversational manner. Very good. Light soil and scuffing. Uncut edges; a few leaves roughly opened, one page with a half-inch tear.

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Book number: 5432

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature, Sociology, Divorce, Women's Sufferage.

Greene, Graham

The Tenth Man

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 157;  black cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Set in the waning days of WWII in Occupied France, a man buys his life in a German Gestapo Prison.. then life gets more complicated. Greene was a master of narrative & dialogue, whether in his novels or his "entertainments" as he called them. very good in a good or better dust jacket.

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Book number: 16987

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Fiction

Hale, Edward Everett

Mrs. Merriam's Scholars: A Story of the "Original Ten. " (Ten Times One Series); Ten Times One Series

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; (9), 10-269, (i), (ii), ads; terra-cotta cloth, gilt, brown coated endpapers; Very good, a clean bright copy. An American school life novel concentrating on character. Roberts Brothers was a great house and their imprints are collected. Very good .

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Book number: 13998

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Roberts Brothers;

Hone, William

The Table Book, of Daily Recreation and Information;; Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year

London, William Tegg And Co, 1878. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (x), 870 with an index to the engravings; One hundred sixteen engravings by Cruikshank and others; Three quarter navy blue morocco and blue boards, with spine labels letterd in gilt and all edges marbled; Moderate wear to the spine, some foxiing to the end papers but the book block is very good or better. This is the 1878 reprint of the 1827 first edition; Filled with whimsey and humerous illustration by Cruikshank. Very good .

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Book number: 12846

Catalogue: Literature

Hopper, Nora

Under Quicken Boughs

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.25"), green deorated cloth with gilt spine title. 151, (15)pp. with publisher's catalogue. Some edgewear and rubbing. Former owner's attractive period bookplate and signature. Celtic influenced poetry from this contemporary of William Butler Yeats. Nora Chesson (1871-1906) was a member of the Irish literary movement of the 1890s. Good + .

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Book number: 14520

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Celtic Literature; Irish Literatre; Irish Literary Movement

Howells, W. D.

A Counterfeit Presentment. Comedy

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. 24mo, pp; 155; green gilt-stamped cloth decorated in blind, all edges stained red; title page in red and black, black coated endpapers; Very good, slight shelf wear, a nice copy. BAL 9577. Very good .

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Book number: 13789

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: William Dean Howells; New England;

Kipling, Rudyard

Songs for Youth from Collected Verse with Illustrations by Leo Bates

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 243; color frontispiece and seven additional tipped on color plates by Leo Bates; red cloth lettered in black. "Gunga Din", "Law Of The Jungle", "A Smuggler's Song" & more!. Spine a bit faded, edge wear, school prize bookplate on front free endpaper dated 1926, else very good .

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Book number: 18354

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Poetry Illustrated

Lamb, Charles and Mary Lamb

Mrs Leicester's School; Introduction by Richard Chase

London, Harvill Press Ltd, 1948. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xiii, (i), 131; beige cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. A nice printing. Very good/chipped on spine else a good or better jacket.

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Book number: 18799

Catalogue: Literature

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Golden Legend

Boston, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Second printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp. iv, (1-3), 301; four page Publisher's catalogue inserted and dated January, 1852; blind stamped brown cloth, gilt; yellow end papers. BAL #12102. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan. This copy does have all thirteen of the second-printing issue points enumerated by Blanck. Very good .

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Book number: 15981

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Americana Literature; Poetry

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Poems

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1856. A New Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete; Duodecimo, pp. I; xv, (i), 475, notes; II; vi, 452, notes plus a 12pp. Publisher's catalogue inserted and dated January, 1856; blind stamped brown cloth, gilt; yellow end papers. A beautiful set. Very good .

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Book number: 15982

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Americana Literature; Poetry

Maugham, W. Somerset

A Writer's Notebook

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1949. First American edition, Limited Edition, 1/1000 signed copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 367; frontispiece portrait; terra-cotta cloth with a black spine label lettered in gilt, in a slipcase, untrimmed edges; Very good, spine sunned, some edgewear to slipcase, overall a very nice copy. Very good .

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Book number: 13647

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Limited Editions; Signed Books; American Literature

McPhee, John

Giving Good Weight

New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), (2), 3-261; yellow cloth lettered in burgundy in a dust jacket. Five McPhee essays from the New Yorker Magazine collected here. From green grocer markets to nuclear power to pinball, McPhee never disappoints. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14338

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; New York;