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Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923. FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full colour, with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout. 4to, publisher’s original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. 24pp + plates. A very fine copy, near as pristine. SCARCE, LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose in circa 1360 by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition was in Venice at the early date of 1472. By 1499, no fewer then eight…
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London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, and in the dustjacket. vii, 140 pp. A very good copy indeed, the interior and binding in very pleasing condition and with very little evidence of age or wear, the dustjacket with slight mellowing to the spine panel and some light wear to the crown of the panel. HANDSOME FIRST EDITION COPY OF THORNTON WILDER'S MOST FAMOUS 1928 PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL. Considered one of the towering novels of American fiction, this work continues to offer timeless insights into what it means to be human.
The last lines of Thornton Wilder's book THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), which won him his first Pulitzer Prize, have touched readers around the world since the first printing almost one hundred years ago. The story has been adapted into film and theatre all over the United States.
On September 20th, 2001, British Prime Minister Tony Blair recited these lines in a memorial address in New York nine days after the attack on the World Trade Centre. These words of the author continue to move people by their power, grace and general importance to all.
"A witness to the deaths, wanting to make sense of them and explain the ways of God to his fellow human beings, examined the lives of the people who died, and these words were said by someone who knew the victims, and who had been through the many emotions, and the many stages, of bereavement and loss.
"But soon we will die, and all memories of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning"
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The last lines of Thornton Wilder's book THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), which won him his first Pulitzer Prize, have touched readers around the world since the first printing almost one hundred years ago. The story has been adapted into film and theatre all over the United States.
On September 20th, 2001, British Prime Minister Tony Blair recited these lines in a memorial address in New York nine days after the attack on the World Trade Centre. These words of the author continue to move people by their power, grace and general importance to all.
"A witness to the deaths, wanting to make sense of them and explain the ways of God to his fellow human beings, examined the lives of the people who died, and these words were said by someone who knew the victims, and who had been through the many emotions, and the many stages, of bereavement and loss.
"But soon we will die, and all memories of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning"
This English issue preceded the American published edition.
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London: George Routledge and Sons, [1872]. Very Rare First Edition. With all first issue points that are verifiable. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, gilt lettered in two compartments. 150 pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved, clean and fresh and the binding tight and strong. Endleaves replaced during the rebinding process. RARE FIRST EDITION. A very elusive book. The first printing is identifiable by several points: it must have the Bradbury, Evans imprint on the verso of the title-page and on the final page of text, blank endleaves and a final blank leaf all without ads. There must be no statement by Twain on the title page relative to the authorization of Routledge as London publisher, the publisher's name must not be followed by "Limited", and the publisher's address must be "The Broadway, Ludgate" and not "The Broadway, Ludgate Hill". The book was originally issued as a…
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London and Paris: By Hand, 1970. 4 individual letters, three in quarto and one in octavo , the four letters total eight pages of written correspondence and include the envelopes for each of the letters. All of the letters are in fine condition and very well preserved. A FINE COLLECTION OF FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE POET, NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST STEPHEN SPENDER. Written to Thomas Dotton, Mr. Spender's correspondence has to do with the renting of Mr. Dotton's home in Switzerland and with occasional literary matters including Spender's reading of Rilke as well as other activities during the time period. Spender was discovered by T.S. Eliot, an editor at Faber & Faber, in 1933. His early poetry, notably Poems (1933), was often inspired by social protest. Living in Vienna, he further expressed his convictions in Forward from Liberalism. At the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, which had published the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, historic figures made rare…
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition, First Issue, with the tipped in errattum slip as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. IN THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE DUSTJACKET, with the $2.50 price and with “Recent Fiction” on the back cover. 301pp. A fine copy, pristine and unused, the varnished black cloth shiny and fresh with only a tiny amount of marking that is common to the varnish and almost no wear whatsoever, the text clean and solid and fresh. The jacket, which is quite scarce, is still very bright and attractive. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are in quite excellent condition, bright, clean and complete, the spine panel shows a bit of evidence of shelving at the foot, and a bit of wear at the head, but this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of an important book. A FINE COPY IN SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET OF JOHN O’HARA’S FIRST BOOK. One of the Modern Library’s Top 100 books of the…
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Most probably Paris, Circa 1450. A leaf of two pages with 15 lines per page written in brown ink with opening initials of ten lines and other decorations in red and blue and beautifully burnished with bright gilt, one two line initial also heavily burnished in gilt. 125 x 90 mm approximate, now handsomely presented in a very large and attractive museum quality frame, the mounting designed so that both sides of the leaf may be viewed. The decoratively carved frame is of gilded red wood with ebony trim, glazed with archival quality glass, in all measuring 60 by 42 cm. A very beautiful example in fine condition, the vellum clean, the lettering dark and strong, the painted and gilt initials bright and finely done.
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[THE FEDERALIST] THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON; Comprising His Most Important Official Reports; an Improved Edition of THE FEDERALIST, On The New Constitution, Written in 1788; and PACIFICUS, On The Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793
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AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON K.C.M.G., Preface by F. Grenfell Baker, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., & C.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who witnesses the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
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