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London: Heath, Cranton & Ouseley, 1914. First edition. Coloured frontispiece, 60 photographs and 47 figures in text. 8vo, publisher’s original polished tan cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover. 497, 6 ads pp. A bright and handsome copy with clean photographs throughout. FIRST EDITION AND SCARCE.Anthropologist Tremearne spent much of his career studying the people of Africa. Here he discusses the magical spirit world of the Hausa people and the religious customs around demons and the resultant demon dancing. A fine copy of a scarce book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First Edition, the earliest pre-publication issue. 8vo, publisher's original red wrappers printed in black and white. 148 pp. A handsome copy with minor wear. STORIES FILLED WITH SCALE AND INTIMACY. "So rich in incident, history and resonance are the stories in this outstanding collection that each could furnish the material for a novel. the setting is Africa, but the themes are at once universal, timeless and thoroughly contemporary; we are all, says Nadine Gordimer, Livingstone's companions." - publisher

New York: Harper ‘s Magazine Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo, quarter brown cloth over boards in dust jacket. 85. A fine copy in slightly edge worn dust jacket. “‘A Closer Look at Ariel’ tells us much about Sylvia Plath that we would otherwise never know and that other sources only imply. For its intelligence, narrative pace and clear-eyed sympathy this memoir would be worth reading, even if it were about some anonymous college girl of the fifties rather than the best informed account we could have of crucial events in the life and art of this important poet.”-Publisher

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First Edition, First Issue, with ads dated March 1. 1850, no preface and all first edition points noted by Clark, including 'reduplicate for 'repudiate' on page 21. Title-page printed in red and black. 8vo, a rare survival in the publisher’s original Ticknor Style A brown textured cloth, the covers decorated in blind, the spine printed in gilt. Now protected and housed in a folding box of brown cloth covered boards lined with marbled paper, the back with brown leather label lettered and ruled in gilt. iv, 322 pp. A beautifully preserved copy, and a remarkably fine example of what is arguably the author's most important and most revered work, as well as a landmark of American literature. The text very clean and fresh, completely free of foxing or stains, looking to be near as pristine the binding sturdy and strong, the hinges fine and firm, the cloth rich and unfaded with bright gilt, trivial rubbing to the tips and edges. FIRST EDITION, FIRST… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. First edition, first printing and with the earliest state (January, 1852) of the publisher's ad catalogue. 8vo, publisher's original Ticknor ribbed brown cloth, style A with the covers stamped in blind, the spine lettered in gold and stamped in blind. yellow coated endpapers, the ad catalogue inserted in the front. 4 ads., 273 pp. A nice copy of a book rarely found so, the binding is firm and tight, the textblock solid. The brown cloth with a bit of spotting and a bit of wear at the extremities, the ads with a bit of spotting and marking. FIRST EDITION of this collection of tales and stories, some appearing here for the first time. After publishing his collection Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846, Hawthorne mostly turned away from the short tales that had marked the majority of his career up until that point. This collection marked a return to that format, just in time to be the final collection of writings to be published during his lifetime.… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. First Edition, one of 1000 copies of the September (4th) issue. 8vo, in the original Ticknor’s style A ribbed brown cloth, decorated in blind on both covers, the spine lettered in gilt with bands in blind, variant E, no priority assigned. vi, [3], 10 - 344 pp. A very attractive and well preserved copy, expertly restored at the spine but retaining nearly all of the original gilt decorated cloth, the text is very clean and fresh for the title, only a few incidents of foxing and with very little evidence of use. One of Hawthorne's most popular books and A central classics of nineteenth-century American literature, AND ARGUABLY THE QUINTESSENTIAL OF AMERICAN GOTHIC. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES is a pillar of American Renaissance literature, and was a major influence on later authors of both the horror and mystery genres, in fact it continues to be influential even today. Written during the most lucrative period of the author's career, the novel… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company [and] The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1900. 22 volumes. The Autograph Edition, Designed by Bruce Rogers and Limited to 500 Signed and Numbered Copies of which this is No. 42. The Edition is signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and the Clerk of the Houghton Mifflin Company. Illustrated throughout with plates by American artists. Each Frontispiece plate in two states, both coloured and uncoloured, and each signed by a different artist. Those signed include: Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, Jules Guerin, Howard Pyle, Jesse Willcox Smith, Eric Paper, F.T. Merrill and E.H. Garrett. Over 130 plates are included throughout the 22 volumes. Tall 8vo, very finely bound in especially handsome three-quarter rich dark-turquoise crushed levant morocco over marbled boards gilt, the spines very beautifully decorated with fine and elaborate panel designs gilt within the compartments between raised bands gilt stopped, lettered in gilt in two compartments, marbled… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 2 volumes. First Edition, with Vol. I being Clark's printing four with sixteen page catalogue in the rear dated March and Vol. II being printing five and with the ad catalogue dated October. 8vo., publisher's original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spines and decorated in blind on the covers in the style of Ticknor format A, and with white wove endpapers coated brown. xi, 283, 16 ads; 288, 16 add pp. A very good set, quite near to fine for American books of this period. The textblock is solid and for the most part very clean, a small droplet has left an unobtrusive faint mark to the upper margin of the first 8 leaves of Vol. I, otherwise the volumes are quite clean and fresh, Vol. II especially so. A VERY EARLY PRINTING AND IN VERY NICE CONDITION. Italy was the site of this, one of Hawthorne’s most popular books. Of it, the writer said, “No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there… Read More

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. 2 volumes bound into one. First Edition of each book, First Printing with “R. Craighead’s Power Press” and "T. B. Smith imprints on the verso of both title-pages, and all first issue points as called for by Clark. 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter scarlet morocco over red cloth-covered boards, gilt trimmed on the cornerpieces and backstrip, the spine with handsome ornately gilt decorated compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, gilt lettering in two gilt framed compartments and additional lettering at the tail, t.e.g., PUBLISHER'S RARE ORIGINAL DARK GREEN CLOTH preserved and bound in the rear rear of the volume. [i-vi], [1]-207; [i-vi], [1]-211 pp. A very clean and handsome copy, beautifully preserved, the text-block unusually clean and the binding bright, tight and strong. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EARLY AND QUITE SCARCE HAWTHORNE TITLE RARELY ENCOUNTERED IN FULL FIRST STATE FORMAT. Hawthorne spent three years in the… Read More

Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First Edition and a true Hawthorne rarity. 12mo, publisher's original basket-weave grained plum cloth, the upper cover with black paper pastedown label gilt decorated and lettered. vii, 140pp. An especially well preserved copy, the text is near to pristine, the hinges are strong and tight, the cloth with only the most minor evidence of age to the extremities, and as is always the case the gilt on the paper label is dulled. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRULY SCARCE ITEM IN THE HAWTHORNE OEUVRE. Also one of his earlier works, printed nine years prior to THE SCARLET LETTER and a decade prior to THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. In these early days Hawthorne wrote primarily for children, for whom he was a wonderfully descriptive teller of tales. GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR retells real stories from America's early days by following the history of a chair brought to America from England in 1630 aboard the good ship 'Arbella'. The chair makes it way through the Colonial and… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1876. First edition thus. 8vo, full blind-stamped green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine. 243. With some external rubbing, else a fine copy. Volume 22 of the Little Classics.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 2 volumes. A new edition, carefully revised by the Author. 8vo, in the publisher's original brown cloth, the boards ornately decorated in blind, the spines ruled in blind and gilt lettered. 286; 297 pp. A very clean and handsome set, the text very bright and well preserved, the cloth clean and bright and very well preserved but for some light chipping to the headcaps. AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF ONE OF HAWTHORNE'S BEST COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES.. Hawthorne spent three years in the Old Manse in Concord. The Old Manse is a historic manse famous for its American literary associations. It is now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations. In 1842, the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse for $100 a year. He moved in with his wife, transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Prior to their arrival at the Manse, Henry David Thoreau created a vegetable garden for the couple. The Hawthornes lived in the house for three… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. First American edition, first issue, binding A, earliest dated ads (April). 8vo, in the original Ticknor style A brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and with all-over decorative work in blind on the covers. 288, [4 ads. bound at the front] pp. An especially fresh and bright copy, the text-block very clean and fresh, the binding tight and strong, the gilt work unusually well preserved. A lovely copy. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE, and a very scarce Hawthorne title in such fine condition. An uncommonly bright and fresh copy. Hawthorne's "romance' was based on Brook Farm, a community farm near Boston. It examines what progress, if any, has been made to the human animal. Blithedale, like Brook Farm, was a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier, but in spite of the lofty ideals falls pray to the self-interested behavior of its members. Though this concept for a work of fiction may sound a bit… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 2 volumes. First edition, first issue with Clark's points as called for and with sixteen page catalogue in the rear of Volume I dated March. 8vo., publisher's original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spines and decorated in blind on the covers in the style of Ticknor format A, and with white wove endpapers coated brown. xi, 283, 16 pp. ads; 284 pp. An especially fine and bright set, unusually well preserved, the text-blocks clean with no spotting, the signatures firm, the bindings fresh and unfaded, the gilt still bright, uncommonly well preserved for Ticknor cloth. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE IN UNUSUALLY NICE CONDITION. Italy was the site of this, one of Hawthorne’s most popular books. Of it, the writer said, “No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition, first issue with the T&F ads printed on page 399 as called for by Clark, first binding state. 8vo., publisher’s original textured brown cloth, Ticknor style A, with blind stamp device on covers within blind borders, spine gilt lettered, white wove endpapers coated brown on one side. xi, 398, [399] ads. pp. A pleasing copy, the text-block is especially clean and fresh with no foxing but for a trivial few spots on the prelims only, the brown cloth is fresh and unfaded with the gilt still bright. There is a bit of wear to the cloth at the corners, spine tips, and board edges. FIRST EDITION AND PRINTING OF HAWTHORNE'S WRITINGS ON ENGLAND, A WORK WHICH INCLUDES SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S BEST NONFICTION WORK . The years which Hawthorne passed in England were outwardly the most successful, in worldly prosperity the most abundant, and in other respects among the happiest of his life; forming in the autumn of his career a sort of counterpoise to… Read More

London: Edward Churton, 1836. 2 volumes. First Edition. A copy with pleasing provenance, being Louis Herrman’s copy. Herrman edited the modern reprint and has signed the book in Vol. II. Illustrated with 4 stone lithographic plates including the only eye witness portrait of Chaka and a folding map of Port Natal. 8vo, handsomely bound at a later date in antique half black calf over marbled boards, the spines with morocco lettering labels gilt. xxii, 345; 402, [2 ads] pp. A very handsome set, the bindings especially well preserved, internally quite bright and clean, only some normal spotting to the prelims.. ELUSIVE FIRST EDITION AND THE MAJOR SOURCE FOR ALL STUDIES OF CHAKA AND THE ZULUS AT THIS PERIOD AND OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY. LOUIS HERRMAN’S COPY, SIGNED. “Nathaniel Isaacs’s account of Natal and Zululand is unique and, as the historian Theal remarks, “a very interesting book, indispensable to a student of early events in Natal”. For it is to Isaacs that we owe, not only… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. Volume II only. First American edition. 8vo., original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. 306. With wear to the head and tail and some red staining to the upper cover, though a fine copy. Volume II only.

Edinburgh [and] London: William Patterson, 1883-1885. Bound as 6 volumes. A nice uniform set from Patterson’s Library of New England Novels. Each title-page for the various sections has a small bust portrait of Hawthorne within an engraved oval frame. 8vo, presented in handsome contemporary bindings of three-quarter sea-blue morocco over marbled boards, the spines with simple raised bands ruled in blind, four of the compartments with small gilt floral tool in the centers, two with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. A very handsome set, well preserved, the contemporary morocco in very well preserved with only a bit of light mellowing to the extremities, the text-blocks clean and fresh, no foxing, all very sound and solid. A VERY PLEASING COLLECTION OF HAWTHORNE'S MOST IMPORTANT WRITINGS. This set of Hawthorne’s greatest works is composed of printings from Patterson’s uniform “Library” editions, all very nicely bound. The dates of these printings coincide with Houghton’s… Read More

Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. The First Issue of the True First Edition, very scarce and significantly important. With American Stationers Co.'s circular quill imprint on the title-page. 8vo, publisher's original textured brown/black cloth, with the spine lettered in gilt within a gilt frame. While there are known variations to the bindings no priority is given and all first edition copies are first printing, first issue. Now housed in a handsome light brown cloth-covered folding box with two dark brown morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt. 4 ads, 334, 16 catalogue pp. An unusually handsome and well preserved copy, very scarce as such, the text with far less than the typical foxing that is always present due to the paper stock used, otherwise extremely clean and fresh, the hinges solid and firm, the binding dark and unfaded with bright gilt, very minor wear or rubbing at the tips and extremities, the front blank free-fly with a small amount of loss to the bottom outside corner,… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. 2 volumes. First Edition thus. With 27 full-page photogravure plates in Vol. I and 24 in Vol. II. 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson calf over red cloth covered boards, the spines with raised bands separating the compartments which are ruled in gilt and decorated with central gilt ornaments bordered by tooling in gilt, two compartments with burgundy morocco lettering labels gilt, the endleaves of handsomely patterned paper, top edges gilt. ii, 266; 268-527 pp. A very handsome and pleasing set. The text blocks are clean and the bindings are tight and well preserved with only minor evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME ILLUISTRATED SET OF HAWTHORNE'S ROMANCE WRITTEN DURING HIS SOJOURN IN ITALY. Italy was the site of this, one of Hawthorne’s most popular books. Of it, the writer said, “No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no… Read More