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THE REPOSITORY OF ARTS, LITERATURE, FASHIONS, MANUFACTURES ETC. [THIRD SERIES, VOL. 5] 1825, NO. XXVIII. Ackermann, R.
London: R. Ackermann, 1825. Octavo. Quarter Leather. issues April through June; 14 colored plates (appears to be missing 2 plates); those present are quite attractive; quarter leather binding with marbled... Item #226533. (more info)
Price: $395.00
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GAME ANIMALS: TEN ETCHINGS HAND-WATERCOLORED. Alan James Robinson.
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, [1982]. Disbound. Limited Edition, this is suite “C” of 26. A suite of ten hand-watercolored etchings in individual folders laid in a cloth chemise and in a... Item #250390. (more info)
Price: $2,250.00
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GAME FISHES: SEVEN ETCHINGS HAND-WATERCOLORED. Alan James Robinson.
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, [1983]. Disbound. Limited Edition, this is suite “C” of 26. A suite of seven hand-watercolored etchings in individual folders laid in a cloth chemise and in a... Item #250388. (more info)
Price: $2,250.00
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ENOCH ARDEN. Alfred Tennyson; Illustrated by Arthur Hughes.
Illustrated by Arthur Hughes. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866. Octavo. Embossed Cloth. First Illustrated Edition. A gorgeous copy of a book that is notorious for wearing heavily; bound in... Item #246269. (more info)
Price: $275.00
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A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS. Amy Clampitt.
The Sarabande Press, 1984. Folio. Soft Cover. Limited Edition, number “m” of 26 copies “press-lettered and specially bound”. Fabulously bound in hand-made stiff paper wrappers; a gorgeous copy housed in... Item #250317. (more info)
Price: $450.00
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Serie dell'edizioni aldine per ordine cronologico ed alfabetico Terza edizione con emendazioni e Giunte. Anonymou [BURGASSI, Antonino Cesare) .
Firenze [Florence]: Presso Giuseppe Molini, 1803. Hard Cover. With fold-out genealogical chart of the Aldus family; full vellum binding; a previous owner notes in Italian on front endpaper dated 1840 Item #220106. (more info)
Price: $750.00
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THE LITTLE PRINCE. Antione de Saint-Exupery; translated by Katherine Woods.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Hard Cover. Fifth Printing. Bound in publisher’s yellow/green cloth with a some foxing to the covers and some light nibbling to the bottom edge... Item #251276. (more info)
Price: $250.00
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Auli Gellii Luculentis Simi Scriptoris. Noctes Atticae. Aulus Gellius.
Lugduni [Lyon]: apud haered. Seb. Gryphii [Sebastian Gryphius], 1560. Small Octavo. Vellum Binding. Full bound in contemporary limp vellum with manuscript title on the spine, though spine is darkened and... Item #249360. (more info)
Price: $500.00
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AULD LICHT IDYLLS. Barrie, J. M.; Illustrated by Wm. Hole, R.S.A.
Illustrated by Wm. Hole, R.S.A. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. Hard Cover. Limited, Signed Edition. Limited Signed Edition bound in full maroon morocco by Root & Son. #77/550. Signed by... Item #225764. (more info)
Price: $950.00
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THE UNCOMMON READER (Signed, Limited Edition). Bennett, Alan.
London: London Review Bookshop, 2007. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. #77/100 copies. Signed by author at top of title page and dated at bottom. No pencil or ink markings in text... Item #249180. (more info)
Price: $250.00
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LIBRARY OF GREAT POETRY [POEMS] (25 VOLUMES, LEATHER BOUND). Blake, Bronte, Brownings (both), Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Eliot, Frost, Hopkins, Hughes, Keats, Longfellow, Milay, Plath, Poe, Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Wordsworth and Yeats.
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 16mo. Full Leather. Collector’s Edition. 25 volumes -- one volume per poet. A lovely leather bound set with all the frills Easton usually offers: full leather... Item #243916. (more info)
Price: $950.00
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THE LOVE LYRICS & SONGS OF PROTEUS BY WILFRID SCAWSEN BLUNT WITH THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS BY THE SAME AUTHOR NOW REPRINTED IN THEIR FULL TEXT WITH MANY SONNETS OMITTED FROM THE EARLIER EDITIONS. Blunt, Wilfred Scawen.
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. Small Quarto. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, one of 300 copies on paper. Very Good copy issued in stiff vellum binding titled in gold on the spine... Item #221005. (more info)
Price: $2,000.00
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BRAIN DROPPINGS. Carlin, George.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1997. Octavo. Full Leather. Signed First Edition, limited and numbered 7/1100. A very nice copy with almost no wear; certificate of authenticity is laid in; the... Item #221594. (more info)
Price: $250.00
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL, BEING A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS. Charles Dickens.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press // Ransohoffs, 1950. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition, one of 250 copies. A lovely Grabhorn production; cloth backed patterened paper covered boards; general shelfwear including... Item #250352. (more info)
Price: $400.00
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Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium Libri IIII. Incerto Auctoris. Ciceronis--Libri II: De inventione. Topica ad Trebatium. Oratoriae Partitiones; Libri III: De Oratore, Orator, De Claris Oratoribus . Cicero, Marcus Tulius. Paolo Manuzio, ed. .
Venezia: Aldus [Aldi et Andreae Soceri], 1554. Vellum Binding. Two books bound together: libri II dated 1554 collated complete against the printer's register; book concludes with the dated colophon and... Item #220414. (more info)
Price: $950.00
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De Philosophia volumen secundum De natura deorum, De divinatione, De fato, De legibus, De universitate, Arati versus in latinum conversi, Ciceronis de petitione Consulatus. Ciceronis, M.
Aldus [Pauli Manutii], 1555. Octavo. Vellum Binding. Full contemporary limp vellum; title in manuscript on the spine; relatively significant worming to preliminary and final leaves (as well as the covers);... Item #223918. (more info)
Price: $950.00
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EPITHETA COLLECTA A. P. IONANNE. NUNNESIO VALENTINO CUM PRIVILEGIO. Ciceronis, M. T. [Cicero].
Venitiis [Venice]: Aldus Iunio [Aldus. Manutius. Paulli, F. Aldi N.], 1570. Octavo. Vellum Binding. Full contemporary limp vellum binding with manuscript title on the spine and the bottom edge of... Item #223927. (more info)
Price: $1,500.00
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THE DIARY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A TENCH FISHER. D. R. Wakefield.
Devon: The Chevington Press, 1981. Tall folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 50 copies. 6 full page signed etchings along with 8 smaller etched head and tail pieces;... Item #250394. (more info)
Price: $2,500.00
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DREAM BOATS AND OTHER STORIES [INSCRIBED COPY]. Dugald Stewart Walker.
New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1924. Octavo. Hard Cover. Early Reprint. Boldly signed on the half title by Dugald Walker with great charm: “In the Springtime of 1930 in... Item #250057. (more info)
Price: $250.00
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THE RAVEN. Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Alan James Robinson.
Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. Octavo. Full Leather. Limited State Proof Edition, numbered 3 or 25 copies. State Proof Edition with an extra suite of 9... Item #250379. (more info)
Price: $3,500.00
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ATLANTIC SALMON. essays by Stephen Bodio and Ted Williams; Illustrated by Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore.
Illustrated by Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered “III” of 5 copies. Quarter bound in gray morocco... Item #250393. (more info)
Price: $4,500.00
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FRANK C. McCARTHY: THE OLD WEST, A Portrait in Paintings. Frank C. McCarthy; Elmer Kelton (narrative commentary); Louis L'Amour (foreword); Illustrated by Frank C. McCarthy.
Illustrated by Frank C. McCarthy. Trumbull, CT: Greenwich Press Ltd., 1981. Elephant Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition, numbered #628/1500. Housed in Very Good but lightly soiled clamshell box; print is... Item #248994. (more info)
Price: $375.00
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SO MUCH OF THE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY AS RELATES TO HER DOMESTIC HISTORY, & TO THE EVENTFUL PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST [and] SOME FURTHER PORTIONS OF THE DIARY... (2 Volumes, Complete; 1635-1648 and 1648-1663). Hannah Mary Rathbone] Lady Willoughby.
London: Printed by Charles Whittingham, at the Chiswick Press for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844, 1848. Octavo. Half Leather. First Edition. A lovely set, half bound in maroon morocco... Item #252342. (more info)
Price: $350.00
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DIE EROBERUNG MEXIKOS VON FERDINAND CORTES MIT 112 Federlithographien Von Max Slevogt, Ubersetzt Von Mario Spiro. Hernando Cortez ; Illustrated by Max Slevogt.
Illustrated by Max Slevogt. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Hard Cover. Limited edition of 250 copies. One of 250 copies. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in Fraktur... Item #218047. (more info)
Price: $1,200.00
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OEUVRES DE BALZAC. LA COMEDIE HUMAINE: VIE DE PROVINCE (5 Volumes, Complete); VIE PARISIENNE (8 Volumes, Complete); VIE PRIVEE (7 Volumes, Complete) (20 Volumes, Set). Honore De Balzac.
Paris, New York: Louis Conard; Brentano’s, 1912, 1913, 1914. Half Leather. 20 Volumes, comprising a partial set of the Oeuvres Completes de Balzac. Originally printed in yellow wrappers, these volumes... Item #249721. (more info)
Price: $425.00

 
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