Songs From Books

by Kipling, Rudyard

Description: Fine in Very Good + jacket. A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good +, with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their ... Read More

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Description: First issue. Brown publishers cloth with bright gilt to spine and blind decorations to boards. Yellow endpapers. Near Fine, with some sunning to spine and rubbing to front board and extremities. Minor scuffing to front pastedown and small closed tear to the title along the lower gutter not affecting text; but otherwise contents are bright. As soon as Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, first in installments in The National Era from 1851-1852, and then in boards in 1852 after its astounding sales ... Read More

The History of English Poetry From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century

by Warton, Thomas (Richard Price, Editor)

Description: Four octavo volumes in the publisher's blue-grey paper-covered boards with cloth spines and paper spine labels. Complete with the engraved frontis of Thomas Warton. Staining along spine edge indicates some type of repair to the spine, but no cloth added, not rebacked, recased or otherwise muddled by restoration. Paper worn from board edges and spine cloth chipped at extremities, but internal contents are generally attractive. Warton's work on English Poetry, originally published 1774-1781, was ... Read More

Tom Moody's Tales

by [Lemon, Mark, Editor] [Hablot Knight Browne, Illustrator]

Description: Handsomely bound, ca. 1920s, by Rivière & Sons (stamp-signed to upper turn-in) in emerald green crushed morocco with original cloth bound in. French fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands, six elaborately gilt decorated compartments. Wide, gilt turn-ins. Double ruled edges. All edges gilt. [8], 173, [1, blank], [2, adverts] pages. Thirteen black and white plates including frontispiece. A few small stains to upper cover, light spots of foxing to two leaves, otherwise a fine and most handsomely ... Read More

La Tempete [the Tempest]

by Shakespeare, William [Edmund Dulac (Illustrator)]

Description: First edition in French under this title, a translation of Shakespeare's play. Publisher's original wrappers with sea nymph vignette, in original glassine dust jacket. Aside from a few small nicks to the glassine jacket, this is a Near Fine copy. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in; 303 x 236 mm). 108, [2] pp with decorative wave borders. Forty mounted color plates with line borders, and captioned tissue guards. Title-page with Dulac-designed borders and galleon vignette. Five section headpieces, ... Read More

Stories From the Arabian Nights

by Housman, Laurence. Edmund Dulac (Illustrator)

Description: Publisher's Russet cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt and blue, plain gray end-papers. Preliminary leaves a little foxed, edges of spine a little rubbed. Fifty color plates, including frontispiece mounted on gray stock with captioned tissue guards. A Very Good copy. "Stories from the Arabian Nights is Dulac's most important book…The first printing in England of The Arabian Nights in October was so sought after that a second printing had to be run in November to provide ... Read More

Some British Ballads

by Rackham, Arthur

Description: Later issue. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered, top edge blue, gray pictorial endpapers. The mildest of wear to spine foot, otherwise a fine copy in very good possibly later dust jacket (with Heinemann imprint at foot of spine and with the last book listed on the rear panel as Some British Ballads). Quarto (10 x 7 3/8 in; 257 x 187 mm). Collating 170, [2]. Sixteen full color plates mounted on gray paper with tissue guards, twenty-four black and white drawings. Loosely inserted between two ... Read More

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written By Himself. Edited and Translated By John Aldington Symonds With a Biographical Sketch of Cellini By the Same Hand Together With an Introduction to This Edition Upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist and Writer, By Royal...

by Cellini, Benvenuto. John Aldington Symonds (Translator)

Description: Two octavo volumes (234 x 149 mm.). Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers. Neat ink inscription on front free end-papers. Decorated title-pages and forty photogravure plates. A fine and very attractive set. The memoir of the Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier and musician. Brought into English by John Aldington Symonds, it ... Read More

Some British Ballads

by Rackham, Arthur (Illustrator)

Description: Near Fine. A Near Fine copy retaining all 16 color plates on grey paper and no tissue guards. Elegantly bound by Bicker's Son, London in brown morocco with gilt Tudor rose and vine stamped decoration on the front board, back board with gilt rose and gilt framing, spine with six-compartments, raised bands, and gilt roses. Interior with gilt rose and vine dentelles and marbled green and red endpapers. Top edge of text block gilt. Sunning to spine, interior text pages bright and clean. The ... Read More

In the Grip of the Nyika. Further Adventures in British East Africa

by Patterson, J[Ohn] H[Enry], Lieutenant-Colonel

Description: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with a gilt camel and tribesman within a double circular frame, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Front inner hinge cracked but still a near fine copy with the just the mildest of rubbing to cloth extremities. xvi, 389, [1, blank], [1, Map], [1, imprint], [2, advertisements]. With 104 photogravure illustrations (some full-page) 8 maps and General Map of British East Africa at end. "In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a plain ... Read More

Orley Farm

by Trollope, Anthony

Description: Near Fine. Bound in green half morocco over pebbled cloth. With half titles, but bound without the ads. Collation: viii, 320; viii, 320. An early issue with stab holes visible throughout both volumes; volume I conforming to all issue points for Sadleir's second issue and volume II a first issue with a third issue title page. An attractive contemporary binding in Near Fine condition, internal contents very clean. A contemporary owner's name E. L. Dutton written on the front end paper of each ... Read More

A Song of the English

by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (Illustrator)

Description: Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black. An excellent ... Read More

Twenty Years at Hull-House (Inscribed By the Author)

by Addams, Jane

Description: Near Fine. Inscribed by Jane Addams on the front free endpaper: "Affection of the author / Jane Addams / Hull-House / Chicago." Publisher's brick red cloth titled in gilt with onlaid color illustration of Hull House. xvii, 462, [2], [4, ads] pp., complete with twelve plates (including frontisportrait of Addams). Slight lean to lower board. Minor toning to a couple leaves and small open tear to fore-edge of preliminary blank. Small ink notation to lower pastedown. Still a Near Fine copy, clean ... Read More

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Near Fine. First edition in book form, first issue following all points in Smith. This copy with the vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. According to Smith "An earlier 13-line errata leaf exists with the same data that is found on the 14-line leaf; the setting was changed to 14-lines for a better balance." Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 220 x 139 mm). xiv, [errata with 14 lines, verso blank], 624 pp. Forty etched plates ... Read More

Some British Ballads (Signed Limited Edition)

by Rackham, Arthur (Illustrator)

Description: Near Fine. Number 347 of 575 copies signed and numbered by Rackham on the limitation page. A nearly Fine copy retaining all 16 color plates on white paper boards with lettered tissue guards. Elegantly rebound in brown morocco with gilt vine dentelles, spine with raised bands and gilt title, new brown endpapers. Interior bright and clean. The delightful copy contains a collection of historic British poems, with charming medievalizing illustrations by Rackham. "Few of Mr Rackham's work have been ... Read More

An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes

by Magill, Edward

Description: Near Fine. Original printed wraps, with stitching holding well. Small stamp of Andover Newton to top corner of front wrapper. Mild offsetting and toning to exterior, with top rear corner bent. 14 pages. Internally complete, clean and unmarked. The present argument for coeducation in the U.S. has become quite scarce, with no appearances in the modern auction record and no other copies on the market. Composed and presented by the President of Swarthmore College a decade after its foundation, the ... Read More

Sex and Education

by Howe, Julia Ward (Editor)

Description: Very Good + Original brick publisher's cloth binding stamped in blind with gilt to spine. Shelfwear to crown and foot of spine with some loss to cloth; gentle rubbing to boards and corners. Joints cracked but still holding well. Coated brown endpapers. Previous ownership signature of Frank X. Henke on front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp and blue ink stain to inner margin of title page. Internally a clean and complete copy of this rare feminist work, which is the only copy on the market and and ... Read More

Making a Business Woman

by Monroe, Anne Shannon

Description: Near Fine. Original red publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt and a bit of sunning to the spine. Lacking the scarce jacket. Internally clean and unmarked with the exception of an early ownership signature to front pastedown. Retaining the two page publisher's adverts at rear featuring "New Books Primarily for Women." First appearance in book form, following the four-part serial in The Saturday Evening Post (The Bittner Stories). Scarce on the market, Monroe's semi-autobiographical novel ... Read More

Good-Night (Buenas Noches)

by [Rackham, Arthur] Gates, Eleanor

Description: First edition in book form. Twelvemo (7 3/8 x 4 7/16 inches; 187 x 113 mm.). Collating 53, [3, blank]. Original gray cloth. Front cover and spine lettered in white and pictorially stamped in green, white and slate. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine ends. With five color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece). An excellent copy of this very scarce little book. Good-Night (Buenas Noches) is the delightful story of Padre Alonzo and his cheeky Mexican parrot, Loretta, and yellow ... Read More

Dombey and Son (Extra-Illustrated)

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Near Fine. Finely bound by Morrell in three-quarter green morocco, all edges gilt, spines with intricate details and raised bands, marbled end papers. An excellent copy overall, with four additional portrait plates bound in, depicting characters from the novel. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career—concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds ... Read More

The Woman Movement in America

by Squire, Belle

Description: Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black to spine and front board. A just nearly Fine copy on account of some wear to the cloth near the foot of spine. Internally an exceptionally bright, fresh copy. Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper reads: "With love for Annie Blitz from Frances J. P. Xmas-1911." A beautiful example and the only first edition on the market of this scarce history the women's movement, written by Ida B. Well's collaborator and fellow co ... Read More

Uncle Remus

by Harris, Joel Chandler. Harry Rowntree (Illustrator) And Rene Bull (Illustrator)

Description: First edition with illustrations by Harry Rowntree and René Bull. Thin large quarto (12 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 308 x 243 mm.). Original gray linen over boards, front cover lettered in orange and brown. A Fine copy. Original textured tan paper dust-jacket, front panel lettered in black and with an illustration from the book Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox (facing page 20) pasted-on. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise near fine. Collating 110, [1], [1 blank] with twelve magnificent full color ... Read More

Memorial Pictures of War and Peace

by Brainard, Mary

Description: Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Spine lightly sunned and corners bumped, front hinge a bith tender but a pleasing copy overall. Pencil ownership inscription to front pastedown: "From Ma Pronty, 1883." With the exception of a small stain affecting the lower outer margin of The Homestead and faint offsetting on page 32-33, internally a neat copy. The work appears to have been self-published; and it was likely designed for distribution among select family and ... Read More

Fables De La Fontaine

by La Fontaine, Jean De. J.J. Grandville (Illustrator)

Description: Large octavo (10 1/2 x 7 inches; 266 x 178 mm.). Publisher's quarter green morocco over green pebbled cloth over boards. Covers ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, watered silk paper end-leaves, all edges gilt. Collating [4], xxiv, 598, [1, epitaph], [3, blank]. Inserted engraved frontispiece and 240 engraved illustrations of the fables as well as numerous engraved head and tail pieces. A Near Fine copy. "In these designs, the ... Read More

Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South

by Mayo, Rev. A. D.

Description: Very Good + Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern Women in Education." Two early ownership stamps to front wrapper and title page read "Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH" and "Compliments of Vincent A. Taylor, MC." Internally ... Read More