Opuscula
Parma: Angelus Ugoletus, March 31, 1491. First Thus. A scarce Parma imprint of these opuscula ("smaller writings"), which include many of St. Augustine's most important doctrines; his Grammatica, Rhetorica and..... (Item #2614)
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Les Fleurs du Mal (Presentation...
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First edition. First issue with the running title misprint "Feurs" on p. 31 and 108, p.45 misnumbered 44, and the misprint "captieux" on p...... (Item #1829)
FLOWER, FIST AND BESTIAL WAIL...
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, [1960]. First edition. One of 200 copies of Bukowski's debut chapbook. This copy one of approximately five "author's edition" copies with an original illustration by the..... (Item #1041)
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Finely bound by Bayntun in half calf over cloth, with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of..... (Item #3087)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Second (first published) edition. The book that forever changed the face of children’s literature. In the original publisher's red, gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges, light blue..... (Item #2689)
The Novels and Stories of...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937, 1938, 1941. First edition. A Fine set. One of 950 copies (of which this No. 61) signed by the author at the front of volume one..... (Item #1918)
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Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London: printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm.)..... (Item #2022)
Complete set of Cook's Voyages...
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, 1777, 1785. Second edition, First edition, Second edition. Second edition of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition, complete with the "directions for placing the cuts"..... (Item #3329)
CORYATS CRUDITIES. Hastily gobled up...
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8..... (Item #897)
Trattato della pittura...
Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651. First Edition. First edition (not to be confused with the French edition which published later the same year, the Italian edition being much more rare)..... (Item #2178)
The Life and Adventures of...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Bound in the original publisher's deluxe full green morocco binding, gilt titles, stamped in gilt and blind, yellow end papers, all edges gilt..... (Item #2259)
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The Brothers Karamazov
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First American edition. One of the towering classics of Russian literature. First translated into English in the 20th century by Constance Garnett, as the..... (Item #1877)
The Writings of George Eliot...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First Thus. Large Paper Edition limited to 750 of which this is 183. Finely bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spines..... (Item #3141)
The Waste Land
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Flexible covers. A remarkably well preserved copy of T. S. Eliot's magnum opus. A true first state copy with flexible boards and..... (Item #464)
The Fine Art of Mixing...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author: "To my very good friend and associate, Ernst Lampe. Cordial-ly yours, Dave Embury." A lovely just about..... (Item #1031)
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The Palace of Minos at...
London: Macmillan, 1921-1935. First Edition. [with] Index to the Palace of Minos (Biblo and Tannen: New York, 1964). Four quarto volumes in six, and with the additional later printed index..... (Item #2415)
The Man With the Golden...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. A bright, Near Fine copy of the book, bumped near the crown of the spine,and light foxing to closed text-block else in exceptionally nice..... (Item #3276)
HOWARD's END (Auden Association Copy)...
London: Edward Arnold, 1936. Later printing. SIGNED by E.M. Forster on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by W.H. Auden on the front endpaper: "To Bill and Phil / with best..... (Item #661)
A Mirour for Magistrates: Being...
London: Felix Kyngston, 1610. First Collected Edition. Small quarto in eights (pages 190 x 133 mm), collates [20], 875, [1, blank]: complete. Leaf Oo4 is a cancel as usual. Leaf..... (Item #2388)
The Schoole of Skil: Containing...
London: Printed by T. Judson, for W. Jaggard, 1599. First edition. Two parts in one octavo volume (185 x 142 mm).Continuous pagination. [6], 267, [1, blank], [2, table of contents]..... (Item #3030)
Tales of a Traveller
Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1824. First edition. 4 volumes. Uncut in original printed paper wrappers. Housed in a custom brown cloth box, black morocco label. Spines of..... (Item #2502)
The First of the Bourbons...
London: Richard Bentley & Sons, 1890. First edition. Two volumes finely bound by Bayntun in full red crushed morocco stamped in gilt on spine and boards. Spine with five raised..... (Item #3128)
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Moby Dick (Inscribed by Kent)...
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition thus. One of 1000 copies of Kent's illustration masterwork. Signed by Kent on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Clifford B. Kimberly by Rockwell..... (Item #2825)
Typed Letter Signed on his...
Rocky Mount, NC: Sunday [1952]. One page Typed Letter Signed "Jack" in pencil with an additional 4 lines added in his hand. On 8.5 x 11" onionskin paper, with original..... (Item #2951)
Typed Letter Signed while in...
Mexico City: June [1952]. One page Typed Letter Signed "Jack" in pencil. On 8.5 x 11" onionskin paper and accompanied by the transmittal envelope with William S. Burroughs' home address..... (Item #2950)