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New York: (Harcourt Brace), 1928. Apparent First Edition . Printed Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Contains 19 pp., frontispiece of Lytton Strachey from "Observations" by Max Beerbohm, 2 additional b&w photos of Clive Bell and Virginia Woolf. Designed by Robert S. Josephy and Printed by L. F. White Company of New York City. This is an advertising piece for Harcourt Brace & Co. from c. 1928. Reputedly only a handful of copies (c. 100) were printed. A very nice copy.
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The Bloomsbury Group : Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey
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The Burning Wheel and The Defeat of Youth
by Huxley, Aldous
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Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. First Editions . Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Combined for sale together - Aldous Huxley's first two published works. The Burning Wheel was published in 1916 and is bound in beige wraps with paper labels on the front cover and the spine; small chip at base of spine, minor soiling to covers, a few small marginal tears to the rear cover (which exceeds the dimensions of the text pages). This is Number 7 of the "Adventurers All" series. The Defeat of Youth is bound in decorative green floral wraps with paper labels on the front cover and the spine. Spine slightly askew, joints rubbed, edges of covers have minor chipping and rubbing and have some darkening. Engraved bookplate on front pastedown.
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Helvetic Liberty or, The Lass of the Lakes. An Opera in Three Acts Dedicated to all the Archers of Great Britain by a Kentish Bowman
by A Kentish Bowman
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London: L. Wayland, 1792. First Edition . 8vo, bound in ¾ brown leather with tan cloth, pp. (4), 64, (4); front joint cracked, about 6 internal leaves have old faint waterstains, an early owner has written the words "William Tell" on the title page. rear end page has label from John Howell / Importer / San Francisco. This play about William Tell, was written to show the advantage of encouraging peasant archery. Reference: New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature #1563.
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Holograph Letter Signed By Joaquin Miller
by Miller, Joaquin
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Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8.25. Holograph letter, dated 4-18-11, on Miller's green stationery with the upper left imprinted "From / Joaquin Miller, / The Heights / Dimond, Cal." The letter, written on one side only, is difficult to read but relates to his admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It reads in part, "...Hawthorne (was) great, very great but to my mind the greatest thing about him was his heart as shown in his English notes and Travels published by his son soon after his death. A shy, silent man...(signed) Joaquin Miller.
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Laughing Anne
by Conrad, Joseph
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London: The Bookman's Journal, 1923. First Edition . Full Vellum. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Number 84 from an edition limited to 200 signed copies, full vellum and pastedowns are slightly rippled (typical of this title); The colophon reads, "This is the fourth of the Vine Books issued to subscribers from "The Bookman's Journal" Office, London. Set by hand and printed in two colours on Kelmscott hand-made paper at The Morland Press, and bound in full vellum September 1923." This is a nice, bright, clean copy.
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Three Songs for St. Cecilia's Day
by Auden, W. H.
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Privately Printed, 1941. Blue Printed Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. From an edition of 250 copies printed as a Christmas keepsake by Caroline Newton, daughter of A. Edward Newton. Slight sunning of spine, from the Holliday Bookshop in New York with their label on rear, inside cover and a piece of stationery from the Holliday Bookshop is inserted on which is pencilled a description of who St. Cecilia was. The Holliday Bookshop was instrumental in launching Auden's career.
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Tom Thumb; A Burletta Altered from Henry Fielding By Kane O'Hara with Designs By George Cruikshank
by Fielding, Henry & Kane O'Hara and George Cruikshank
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London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. First Edition . Full Red Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First issue owith the mis-numbered pages (corrected fairly quickly by the binder), original beige covers bound in, vignette of Tom Thumb standing on a bull's head on front cover and repeated on title page, frontispiece plus four full-page illustrations and tailpiece by Cruikshank, bound in gilt-ruled red morocco with fleurons in corners, top edge gilt, joints rubbed and starting to split at top and bottom, spine rubbed and somewhat chipped, marbled endpapers, one page ad for Bombastes Furioso with designs by Cruikshank, no other ads present. Cohn 615.
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Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Grangerized)
by Scott, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)
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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. Second Edition . 3/4 Calf/Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second Edition of the first of The Waverley Novels published five weeks after the first edition with minor revisions and one new paragraph (volume II, p. 294), three volumes, calf spine and tips with marbled boards, engraved bookplates on front pastedowns of all three volumes, half-titles present in all three volumes; volume 3 has 1.5 inch split on front joint. This is an extra-illustrated (Grangerized) edition containing 17 engravings of portraits and views, minor wear. Tipped-in volume I is a facsimile of a holograph letter from Sir Walter Scott to bookseller Charles Tilt thanking him for his present of illustrations for Waverley. The original of this letter identified Scott as the author of Waverley, which was published anonymously.
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