DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)

The Uncommercial Traveller [Original Cloth, Cheap Edition]

London, Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly [from 1860], 1866. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. New Edition of this collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): viii,204pp, with frontispiece by G. J. Pinwell. Original green cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind with publisher's medallion: "The Works of Charles Dickens. Cheap Editions;" spine richly gilt, pale yellow end papers. Terrific bookseller's ticket to corner of rear paste-down. Perhaps a later issue, with the final sketch correctly numbered xxviii (according to Eckel, the final sketch was at first incorrectly numbered xviii). Virtually pristine, soundly bound and clean throughout, gilt bright. Smith II, 11 (see especially note 9). Eckel, pp. 132-34. Jarndyce 560. Flake & Draper 2829a.5. The first seventeen sketches collected here appeared originally in 1860, in All the Year Round and were first published in book form the following year; this is the first appearance of the final eleven sketches. Included among them is reportage (such as an investigation into a shipload of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ready to emigrate in "Bound for the Great Salt Lake"), embroidered descriptions of everyday London life ("The City of the Absent," "City of London Churches," and "Shy Neighbourhoods"), and character sketches ("Tramps") as well as Dickens' characteristic concern for the conditions of the poor ("Wapping Workhouse," "A Small Star in the East," and "Titbull's Alms-Houses"). Beginning in 1847, with the Pickwick Papers, the Cheap Editions were the first systematic reissuing of Dickens's works, each with a new preface by the author. They were issued both in weekly and monthly formats, as well as in single volumes, as here, printed in double columns and illustrated solely with a frontispiece. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

DRAKE, Maurice (1875-1923)

A History of English Glass-Painting. With Some Remarks Upon the Swiss Glass Miniatures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

New York, McBride, Nast & Company, 1913. Quarter-Vellum. Royal 8vo (341 x 215mm): x,226,[2]pp, with color frontispiece and 35 color and monochrome plates from Wilfred Drake's original drawings, all with descriptive tissue guards. Publisher's quarter parchment over drab paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine toned and lightly rubbed, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. First published the previous year in London. Includes bibliographies of stained-glass and catalogues of Swiss glass collections. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Glass painting and staining — England. — History. Glass painting and staining — Switzerland. — History. Glass painting and staining — Bibliography.

DRINKWATER, John (1762-1844)

A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and Account of That Garrison, from the Earliest Periods. By John Drinkwater, Captain in the Late Seventy-Second Regiment, or Royal Manchester Volunteers, and an Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester [Untrimmed Subscribers Copy]

London, Printed by T. Spilsbury, Snowhill; and sold by J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard; T. and J. Egerton, Charing-Cross; and J. Edwards, No 102, Pall-Mall, 1786. Half-Calf. Third Edition of this fascinating eyewitness account of the longest siege ever endured by British forces. 4to: xxiv,356pp, with 10 folding engravings (charts of the Bay of Gibraltar and the coasts of Barbary, Spain, and Portugal; plans of the sortie and the grand attack, and plates of various views of Gibraltar), title-page vignette, and list of subscribers. Contemporary half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in compartments (title direct in gilt to second), each with center gilt medallion, divided by gilt-ruled raised bands. A superior, completely untrimmed, wide-margined copy, with deep, rich impressions of the huge folding plates (some with old skillful repairs, without loss, on versos). Aside from grubby deckle edges, virtually pristine. ESTC Citation No. T151999. Palau 76214. Lowndes II 674 (referencing first and Dublin editions). Not in Adams & Waters. The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France, during the American War of Independence, to capture British territory on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, won from Spain, in 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession. This was the largest action fought during the war in terms of numbers, particularly the Grand Assault of 18 September 1782. The siege, by both land and naval forces, put the garrison under great pressure, as food and fuel became scarce. Two successful naval expeditions, in 1780 and 1781, evaded the blockade to bring provisions and extra troops, and to evacuate civilians. The siege was lifted, and Gibraltar remained a key British naval base in the Mediterranean. At age fifteen, Drinkwater joined the Royal Manchester Volunteers, which were besieged at Gibraltar June 1779 and February 1783. Using his careful notes, Drinkwater later compiled this history, which went through four editions in four years. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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[DUNNE, Charles, writing as:] PERSIUS, Charles`

[Gambling] Rouge Et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the Clubs of St. James's

London, Lawlor and Quick, 9, Old Broad Street, and Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street, 1823. First Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Expurgated edition of this controversial contemporary indictment of gambling clubs in Regency London, which named some of the more profligate nobility. Not including pages 311 to 438, which in most copies were redacted. 12mo (192 x 105mm): [4],viii,9-310,439-456pp (p. 264 misnumbered "252"), with hand-colored engraved frontispiece of "La Roulette." Contemporary brown linen-backed darker brown boards, original printed paper label to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, some leaves unopened. "Stouthall" [underlined] noted on front paste-down (possibly referring to Stouthall mansion on the the Gower Peninsula, part of Swansea, in Wales. Spine label chipped at edges but completely legible, front hinge repaired, else a spectacular, unsophisticated wide-margined copy, virtually free of foxing and stains. Jessel 459. Not in Halkett & Laing. Toole Stott (English Conjuring) 557. According to Jessel, unexpurgated copies are "of the greatest rarity," although Toole Stott says "I have come across more copies of the unexpurgated edition than of the expurgated." Following publication, the book "was immediately called in on account of the libellous [sic] matter in the eighth chapter—of 'Evil-disposed Personages,' pp. 311-438." Rouge et Noir ( also called *Trente et Quarante") is a 17th-century game of French origin played with cards on a special table, whose name derives from the colors (red and black) marked on the table layout, or tapis. The New Pocket Hoyle (London, 1810) still described the game in detail. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Gambling. Quacks and quackery.

ELLIOT, W. J.; William Curry Holden

[Western Americana] the Spurs; [Offered with] the Espuela Land and Cattle Company : A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas

Spur, Texas / Austin, The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turquoise stock, three further plates, map, and vignettes in text. Publisher's lime-green cloth, beige end papers, title page printed in green and black; issued without dust jacket. A virtually pristine, apparently unread copy. The second work, originally published in 1934, is offered in the revised and augmented edition of 1970, with five new chapters on the geography and history of the Spur country prior to founding of the ranch, as well as revisions and additions to the original work, which is devoted to aspects of life on the ranch from its founding in the early 1880's. Demy 8vo (228 x 143mm): xv,[7],268pp, with 12 inserted plates from photographs and full-page map. Publisher's sand linen printed in black, map end papers, double-page photo-illustrated title page; pictorial dust jacket, priced $9.00. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Adams (Rampaging Herd) 757 ("A history of this famous ranch by one connected with it.") and 1051. Howes E100 and H583. Reese (Six Score) 37. According to Reese, "While this book [The Spurs] is rather crudely printed and written, it gives more of the flavor of the Spur Ranch than any other book. The author worked for the Spur outfit, and there are many tales of his own personal experiences and those of his comrades." (Reese addresses Holden's near-contemporaneous account in his note to Elliot's work.) Set on more than half a million acres east of the Southern High Plains, in Garza, Kent, Dickens, and Crosby counties, Texas, some ninety miles north of Colorado City, the Spur Ranch was established in 1883 by the Esquela [Spur] Land and Cattle Company of Forth Worth. In all, the company acquired sixty-one herds and their brands. Two years later the Spur was sold to an English syndicate (English and Scottish capitalists were then investing millions of pounds sterling in the acquisition of American cattle and range privileges), which operated the ranch until 1907, when it was sold again. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); HECKMAN, Albert (Illustrates)

This Earth

New York, Equinox, 1932. First Edition. Wrappers. Only Printing of this poem, illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 131mm): [8]pp Publisher's string-tied tan paper wrappers printed in brown; wanting original unlettered white mailing envelope. A superlative copy, virtually pristine. Petersen A14.1 and C16. Man Working 754. Revised version of the poem "My Epitaph," which appeared in Contempo #1. An even earlier version, dated October 1924 and titled "Mississippi Hill," exists only in manuscript and typescript. First of four pamphlets published by Equinox for the 1932 Christmas trade. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FELLOWES, W. D. (William Dorset, 1769 - 1852)

[Hand-Colored] a Visit to the Monastery of la Trappe in 1817: With Notes Taken on a Tour Through le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois and Environs of Paris

London, Thomas M'Lean [McLean], 1820. Early Reprint. Morocco. Third Edition of this classic travelogue, the plates by J. Clark after Fellowes's romantic views of the French countryside. Crown 8vo (210 x 127mm): xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colored etching (which in previous editions was uncolored). Early full straight-grain green morocco, covers with wide decorative border in gilt and blind, spine very richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands with title stamped to second, all edges gilt. An excellent example: spine slightly sunned, pages marginally toned with occasional spotting, plates with very good color. Abbey (Travel) 86. Tooley 212. Prideux, p. 335. Hardie, p.313. Franklin, p. 95 ("a work of the greatest charm . [later] edition copies seem clear and attractive as the first"). Fellowes was the second surviving son of Dr. William Fellowes of Clevedon, Somerset, a military surgeon and later Physician Extraordinary to the Prince Regent. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[FLEMING, James]

[Scottish Satire] Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and a Special Jury. By the Author of the "Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A.M. " [Hand-Colored]

London, Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, 1825. Quarter-Calf. First edition of this anonymous tract, complete with both hand-colored aquatint caricatures (one the frontispiece). Demy 8vo (212 x 120mm): 8,111,[1],24pp, with aquatints attributed to Isaac and Robert Cruikshank. Recent cloth-backed marbled boards, upper board with grey paper label titled in ink manuscript, tan end papers (renewed), page edges marbled. In verse. Title page offset from frontispiece, final few leaves toned, both plates cut to top edge of image (other margins ample), but a crisp, clean copy, firmly bound. Widener Collection (Isaac, George, and Robert Cruikshank), p. 228. Abbey (Life) 296. Ascribed sometimes to John Galt, one of the jurors, probably erroneously. Satire about the infamous and scandalous trial of the Scottish Presbyterian Rev. Alexander Fletcher, for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. A prior trial, in the court of King's bench, in 1824, was dismissed without a verdict. This second trial was held by an ecclesiastical court, the United Associate Presbytery of London, and by decision of that court Fletcher was suspended from exercise of his office and from church fellowship. The "special jury" consisted of twelve illustrious Scots, including Sir Walter Scott, who was elected foreman. (DNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Breach of promise -- England -- London. Breach of promise.

FORSTER, E[dward] M[organ]., 1879-1970 [Roger Fry, designs]

[Bloomsbury] the Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of Forster's first collection of stories, designed by Roger Fry, one of only 1000 copies published, and the first of Bloomsbury's literary works to include Bloomsbury art. Crown 8vo (184 x 131mm) [8],164,[4]pp. Publisher's pale brown cloth, front cover richly blocked in gold overall ornamental design, spine lettered in gold, top edge gilded, pale grey illustrated end papers, text printed in dark grey. (No dust jacket seems to have been issued.) Very slight knocking to corners, else a superlative example, square, tight, and clean throughout. Kirkpatrick A5a. Six stories on themes of fantasy and the supernatural, previously published in literary periodicals: "The Story of a Panic," "The Other Side of the Hedge," "The Celestial Omnibus," "Other Kingdom," "The Curate's Friend," and "The Road from Colonus." A fascinating example of Fry's early experiments in book design: Fry designed the binding and end papers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FOSBROKE, T. D. (Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842); [William Gilpin, 1724-1804]

The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on the Wye, with Picturesque Additions, from Wheatley, Price, &C. And Archaeological Illustrations

London, Printed by and for W. Farror, sold by Messrs. Nichols, 25 Parliament Street and Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1826. Half-Calf. Beautifully bound Third Edition (first published 1818) of this popularization of Gilpin's first picturesque tour, introducing the picturesque to a whole new readership. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 99mm): vi,199,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece (view of Symond's Yat, on the Wye). Contemporary green half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges and end papers. Later book label of P. R. Glazebrook, presumably the author of Blackstone's Statutes On Criminal Law and other books. Dedicated to the engraver John Britton, who has "exhibited our richest remains of Antiquity in a superb style." An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. In June of 1770, William Gilpin embarked on his first picturesque tour, creating an entirely new class of travel. "Sailing down the Wye proved a very different trip from [Gilpin's earlier] tame journey down the Thames: the ruined castles and mountains of Wales were indeed exciting after the flat countryside of eastern and south-eastern England. here was landscape that called for description, that matched his conceptions of beauty and grandeur." (Barbier) Gilpin's Wye Tour disappeared from print after the fifth edition of 1800. It no longer met the needs of a new century, even after Gilpin experimented with an unillustrated pocket edition. Fosbroke abbreviated Gilpin's descriptions for a contemporary audience, and his book remained in print for twenty-three years. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FRIEDLANDER, Lee (b. 1934)

[Photobook] the American Monument

New York, Eakins Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 2000 unnumbered copies, of this "encylopaedic lesson in how to put a picture together." (Parr and Badger) Oblong 8vo (293 x 418mm): unpaginated; [2]ff (title page and Walt Whitman quote), [77]ff (photographs), [6]ff (afterword), with 213 meticulous gravure plates of statues, plinths, columns, obelisks, tablets, and carved rocks from halftone negatives. Original triple-screw, post-bound, gilt-embossed aqua cloth, black lettering to spine and front cover. A very fine copy, virtually as new. Parr and Badger II, p. 28. Roth 101, pp. 236-237. Roth (Open Book), pp. 310-11. From Fair to Fine, p. 35. Auer, p. 600. The American Monument is "also a lesson in how to put a photobook together. Large-format and designed to look and feel like a photo album. The printing by the Meriden Gravure Company, on heavy stock paper, is sumptuous, and Freidlander's editing is brilliant." (Parr and Badger) Typically, the monument is off in the "distance or somewhere off to the side, obscured by a road sign, a trash can, a telephone pole or foliage. Maybe Friedlander deflects attention from the monuments so that we can see the larger picture: the continuity of present and past, the pointlessness of memoraslizing history without ever understanding or absorbing it." (Roth 101) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FROTHINGHAM, Richard (1812-1880)

[American Revolution] the Centennial: Battle of Bunker Hill ; with a View of Charlestown in 1775, Page's Plan of the Action, Romane's Exact View of the Battle, and Other Illustrations

Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. First Edition. Original Wraps. Scarce printing of Frothingham's final publication. ABPC lists no copies at auction, Rare Book Hub lists 14, most recently in 1915. Small 8vo (176 x 118 mm): [8],136pp. with half-title, 15 panel-map (and 2-panel overlay) frontispiece, six-panel view of Charlestown in 1775 ("An Exact View of The Late Battle at Charlestown"), full-page plan, and diagram of a redoubt. Publisher's original blue-threaded drab wrappers printed in black. Firmly bound example of this fragile item, clean and fresh throughout. Map and view properly folded and free of tears. Not in Sabin, Howes, or Church. Frothingham, for many years managing editor of the Boston Post, dedicated untold hours to the study of history, centered especially on the American revolution as it unfolded in and around his birthplace of Charleston, Mass. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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FULTON, Robert (1765-1815)

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation; Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals. And Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide, Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen. With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating Conveyance by Water Through the Most Mountainous Countries, Independent of Locks and Aqueducts: Including Observations on the Great Importance of Water Communications, with Thoughts on, and Designs for, Aqueducts and Bridges of Iron and Wood. Illustrated with Seventeen Plates [Uncut]

London, published by I. and J. Taylor, At the Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1796. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Printing, early issue (with verso of p. 143 blank; later issues carry the "Addition" on canals in mountainous areas) of Fulton's ambitious scheme to create a network of inland waterways in the newly independent United States. Demy 4to (281 x 219mm): xvi,143,[3]pp, with seventeen plates (showing the narrow canal boat, inclined planes, and iron and wooden bridges), in addition to which Sabin mentions a portrait, but we have not been able to locate a copy bound with one. Original slate blue paper-covered boards neatly respined with buff paper, original paper title label printed in black laid down. Sabin 26201. Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica I, 8181. Skempton 517. Honeyman Coll. 1383. Ottley 174. Singer IV, p. 570 and figs. 313-315. Binding somewhat stained and slightly bumped, hinges neatly reinforced, pages occasionally spotted, but a tall, wide-margined copy, uncut and in the original boards. As early as 1794, Fulton had patented (no. 1988) a machine to convey boats from one canal level to another, but this treatise, emphasizing the social advantages of waterway transport, first fully detailed his grand plan for a network of small canals and inclined planes (rather than locks) for raising and lowering small boats to accomodate changes in elevation. President George Washington was sent a copy and acknowledged its receipt in a letter to Fulton dated December 14, 1796. Fulton replied to Washington, on February 4, 1797, stressing the advantages of his proposed network of small waterways, rather than turnpike roads or river navigation, to "penetrate the Interior Country And bind the whole In the Bonds of social Intercourse." Fulton's ingenious inventions, including the world's first commercially successful steamboat (the Clermont), knit the new nation's disparate regions together. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Canals -- Early works to 1800.

BLANCA-GIL, María; María-Eugenia [Illustrates]

[Shape Book] [Children's/Juvenile] Los Viajes de Julita

Barcelona, Editorial Colón, 1960. Card Covers. Die-cut shape book (247 x 180mm): 12pp, fully illustrated in color. A beautifully preserved example copy of this fragile juvenile. A charming children's book, in Spanish, featuring a beautiful blonde girl who travels with her family around Spain. One of nine titles from the publisher's Julita series N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

Keywords: MODERN FIRSTS

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997)

Photographs [Signed, with Doodle]

Altadena, Calif, Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Hardcover. Limited Edition of the poet's first and only book of pictures, featuring Ginsberg and others of the beat generation "in their flaming youth." (Roth) One of 5,000 unnumbered copies. Royal 8vo (354 x 275mm): unpaginated, with 91 captioned full-page plates from halftones. Publisher's finely woven steel-grey cloth lettered in blind, black end papers, with publisher's reply card laid in; black dust jacket lettered in white (unpriced, as issued). Signed (without inscription) on title page and dated 6/12/94 by Ginsberg with his signature doodle of a seven-petal flower. An exceptional copy, virtually pristine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roth (101 Books), pp. 266-67. The bold graphic design and sheet-fed gravure printing of Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press "gives Ginsberg's 'snapshots' a richness and warmth the originals aren't likely to possess . The best photos provide a double punch of intimacy and history: legends at leisure." (Roth) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

Keywords: MODERN FIRSTS