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Inscribed to James Thurber.SPENDER, STEPHEN. The Making of a Poem. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt letters on spine, in dust wrapper. Hamish Hamilton, London (1955). First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Spender to James Thurber. "In all Humility, to my severest critic (See p. 12) from Stephen Spender, Aug. 6, 1955." Spender has marked with a red line the last paragraph of the introduction (on page 12), which focuses on Thurber's review of Spender's essay, "The Situation of the American Writer." Some toning to the spine and some light edge-wear, o/w Fine.

ROYCROFT PRESS, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with hand colored initials and insignia at rear. 8vo. In a Roycroft binding of ½-brown leather over French marbled boards; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and design; marbled endpapers. The Roycroft Press, East Aurora 1905. Limited to 100 copies printed on Japan vellum, signed by Hubbard. This copy #52. Previous owners signature to the front endpaper, light soil to the lower outside corners of the first and last pages, o/w bright and clean

8vo. Original buff paper boards, paper rebacked. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. And Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First Edition. 3 volumes. Mandeville was the author's fourth, and arguably most Gothic novel. It provoked an anonymously published spurious fourth volume, and was also one of several influences of Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Set in 17th-century England, it follows the trials and social tribulations of Charles Mandeville, an orphan with Anglo-Irish connections, who loses his honor, his sister and finally suffers facial disfigurement through involvement with his most popular Winchester School colleague, Lionel Clifford. With half titles to Vols., I and II. Some light wear to extremities, rubbing to boards and occasional soiling. Early signature on title pages of three volumes. Uncut.

With United Provinces state emblem vignette on title. 8vo. 10 leaves, stitched. The Hague. August 2, 1652. Addressed to Europe's public opinion, this declaration by the States-General of the United Provinces argues that the blame for the failure of its negotiations with England lies entirely with the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell. An important historical document concerning the conflict that is known in Dutch history as the First English War. Fine.

8vo. 19th- century ½-vellum. Venice: (Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola) 16 Nov. 1493. (ISTC No.: ig00602500; H 8207; GW 11804). Guido de Monte Rochen's Manipulus curatorum is considered the most important of the medieval pastoral manuals. (It was not made obsolete until the Council of Trent in 1566.) It is especially important as a key example of the intersection of religious doctrine and practice. The author attempts to make centuries of theology and canon law comprehensible for the priest of little learning and, in turn, for his parishioners. No other work did this as successfully. Binding slightly bent; title page a bit dusty; a few leaves misnumbered in manuscript; o/w a fine copy with large margins of this rare incunable. No known copies in the United States.

BRADBURY, RAY. Masks. Edited by Donn Albright. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper, enclosed in publisher's box. Gauntlet Press 2008. First Edition. Limited to 52 copies, this being letter OO, signed
by Bradbury on a special limitation page.
The Masks was to be Bradbury's second novel (he considers The Martian Chronicles to be his first). In the late-forties Bradbury applied for a Guggenheim grant and submitted an early version of The Masks. While he didn't get the grant, he continued to tinker with it until 1952 or 1953. Editor Donn Albright has assembled the fragments into a cohesive story so the reader can compare Bradbury's first draft with later thoughts on the proposed novel. This lettered edition also includes six never-before-published stories written during this period: "The Face of Natalie," "They Never Got Mad," "The Drothldo," "In the Eye of the Beholder," "Gallagher the Great" and "The Doll." Also included are an alternate version of "Walker in the Night" and the previously… Read More

Limited Signed First Edition,8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine and front cover, enclosed in incomplete glassine and damaged publisher's slipcase. Henry Holt and Company, New York (1947). First Edition. Limited to 751 numbered copies signed by Frost. This copy #554.Slipcase with 5-inch crack on top rear spine, 3-inch crack on top front spine, heal cracked; book is fine.

First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stein on the front endpaper, dated Oct 20, 1933, shortly before she returned to America after a thirty-year absence.Small 8vo. Original printed orange wrappers in scarce publisher's slipcase, Paris: Plain Edition (1932).Wrappers and slipcase lightly soiled, o/w fine.

(DEFOE, DANIEL (attributed to)). Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli, At The Hague. Giving a particular Account of his Birth, Education, Slavery, Monastick State, Imprisonment in the Inquisition at Rome, and the different Figures he has since made, as well in Italy, as in France and Holland. The whole being a Series of the most diverting History, and surprizing Events, ever yet made Publick. . . Frontispiece. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates. 8vo. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked; all edges red. London: John Morphew, 1709. First Edition.An illustrated, swashbuckling tale of an escaped slave-turned-Catholic clergyman, who converts to Judaism, and eventually ends up in the hands of the Neapolitan Inquisition before fleeing to Protestant lands. The generally anti-ecclesiastical tone of Rozelli's adventures served to make it a popular read in Enlightenment Europe, especially during this period of declining influence of the Inquisition on civilian affairs. The original is found… Read More

SIGNED BY BERNHARDTMemories of My Life. Being My Personal, Professional and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth. D. Appleton and Company, New York 1907. Deluxe Edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Bernhardt. This copy is #156. Very light wear to covers; gift inscription taped onto the front endpaper; o/w a fine copy of this scarce autobiography.

Translated by Wilhelm Xylander; Edited by Thomas Munckerus. Illustrated with additional engraved title page by C. Decker; woodcut initials. 12mo. Greek and Latin texts on facing pages. Contemporary semi-limp vellum; gilt borders with acorn corner tools and Upsilon centerpiece to each board; title inked on spine. Amstelodami (Amsterdam): apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1676. (Willems 1894; Hoffmann I 193; Spoelder 527 (Delft I)). Known as The Metamorphoses, Liberalis' only surviving work is a collection of 41 brief tales of mythical transformation. Written in conversational prose rather than the usual verse, its modern translator Francis Celoria notes that its koine Greek is entirely acceptable while also being "grimly simple." Wilhelm Xylander first printed the text in 1568; since then some leaves of the single surviving manuscript (late 9th century) have disappeared, making the editio princeps a necessary textual authority. The Upsilon character in the center of each board could depict a Y, U, or V… Read More

8vo. Original printed wrappers, spine taped, back cover detached. New York 1892. First Edition. Formed in 1880 as the result of a merger between Telephone Company of New York and American Bell Telephone, the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Co. served the greater New York City area until 1896 when it consolidated with various other companies under the name of the New York Telephone Company. Directories were published annually from 1880 to 1896, with several gaps. This historically significant directory lists the names, phone numbers, occupations, and addresses for numerous residents and businesses in New York City and the surrounding area, including New Jersey and Greenwich, Connecticut. Cover worn, edges chipped and taped; spine taped; back cover detached; scattered chipping with some tape repairs to first few leaves; o/w interior clean and sound. A fascinating look into the early days of the telephone.

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield. 4to. Bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in cloth, original paper labels on spines, with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third volume; in slipcases.London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. 1796. 2 volumes. Together with the third volume, London, Printed for John Murray . . . 1815. First Edition. Frontispiece in volume I and III. Rare errata leaf in volume II. Untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges. Comprising the first appearance in print of Gibbon's "Memoirs," one of the earliest and finest of literary autobiographies; plus the first published collection of Gibbon's correspondence. Also included is the "Essay on the Study of Literature" in English and in its French original; plus copious and entertaining notes on Buffon and Walpole,… Read More

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield. 4to. Bound in original publisher's boards, rebacked in cloth, original paper labels on spines, with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third volume; in slipcases. London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies . . . 1796. 2 volumes. Together with the third volume, London, Printed for John Murray . . . 1815. First Edition. Frontispiece in volume I and III. Rare errata leaf in volume II. Untrimmed throughout, with deckle edges. Comprising the first appearance in print of Gibbon's "Memoirs," one of the earliest and finest of literary autobiographies; plus the first published collection of Gibbon's correspondence. Also included is the "Essay on the Study of Literature" in English and in its French original; plus copious and entertaining notes on Buffon and Walpole, among… Read More

Soft cover. Very Good. Illustrated with several woodcuts. 8vo. Original plain wrappers. A Paris, Firmin-Didot . . . 1804. First Edition. A series of four essays, the first being a historical notice of various experiments on heat, and a sort of scientific autobiography describing his own experiments. The paper is remarkable for its lively description of Rumfords relationships with such contemporaries as Davy, Leslie, Biot, Bertholet, Laplace, Playfair, and De Saussure . . . The second essay is the translation of his Enquiry Concerning the Nature of Heat; while the third, Mémoire sur la Chaleur, is a summary of his research on heat read before the Institut National 25 June 1804. The last, Observations sur les Puits is a translation of a paper presented to the Royal Society in November of 1803, and describes the holes which form in the glaciers at Chamonix during the summer. It is related to his studies on the propagation of heat in fluids from which he concluded that water is not a conductor of… Read More

Illustrated with 15 large folding plates. 4to. Modern ½-leather-backed boards. Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1788. First Edition. In 1785 the French surgeon Jacque René Tenon was required by royal command to make a scientific study of European hospitals. He traveled for 18 months in France, England and Germany, after which he prepared and published his report, which revealed the appalling conditions prevailing in Parisian hospitals. This was particularly true of the Hotel-Dieu. With great foresight, he proposed a series of reforms. He believed particularly that "there must be rooms in which to prepare for operations, for the operations themselves, and for those who have undergone operations; these rooms must be removed from noise and from infection." Tenon's work had a prodigious effect and profoundly influenced the King and the public. His proposed reforms were upset by the French Revolution, but nevertheless served during the 19th century as the conceptual guide for the majority of European hospitals. A… Read More

The Lantern Press, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Cloth-backed blue paper boards, with pictorial label on front cover; enclosed in publisher's paper-covered slipcase. San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925. First Edition. Deluxe Issue. Limited to 50 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by the author. This copy #33. Spine slightly faded; with vintage bookstore label on rear pastedown; signatures uncut. Slipcase lightly rubbed, with occasional board exposure and a few starting splits to joints. Very Nice.

MILLER, HENRY. Mother, China, and the World Beyond. Small 8vo. Original orange decorated cloth. Capra Press, Santa Barbara 1977. First Edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Miller. This is copy No. 72. Mint.

Illustrated with 15 wood-engravings by Helen Siegl. Folio. Loose sheets inserted in folding title page and pictorial blue paper wrappers. The Janus Press, Newark, Vermont 1972. First Edition. One of 10 numbered copies, signed by Siegl, with an extra suite of wood engravings printed on Okawara paper, each signed by Siegl. This is copy # IX. Broadsides and extra suite enclosed in blue buckram clamshell box, spine label. Fine.

The Tariffs that led to the Nullification Crisis!Mr. Clay's Speech upon the Tariff; or the "American System," so called; on the Anglican System, in Fact, . . . Mr. Gile's Speech upon the Resolutions of Inquiry in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Reply to Mr. Clay's Speech; Also, His Speech in Reply to Gen. Taylor's . . . 8vo. Modern gray wrappers, paper label on cover. Richmond, Thomas W. White . . . 1827. First Edition.William B. Giles, a prominent State Rights Jeffersonian, opposed the Clay-Whig program of protective tariffs and federal funding of internal improvements as an unconstitutional usurpation of power. He states: "Disguise it as you may – conceal it if you can – the essence of the tariff is disunion – disunion in sectional interests – in individual occupations – A war of all the discordant elements, of the different occupations in society, urged on, by individual cupidity, and grounded upon incessant efforts of reciprocal plunder – cunning, being substituted for… Read More