![Item #294910 [LITERATURE] WISDOM, WIT AND PATHOS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF OUIDA. F. Sydney...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/294910.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642536157)
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1884]. Hard Cover. First Edtiion. 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding with beveled boards, titled in gilt with a red device in the center of the upper board; [iv], 472 pages; portrait frontispiece;.....
Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldiano, Impensis Jac. Fletcher Bibliopolae, 1745. Full Leather. Eighteenth century reprint of Famiano Strada’s Prolusiones Academicae. Textblock is notably bright and free of marks. Engraved vignette on the title page. Collates complete; [12], 325, [21] pp. Bookplate.....
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, [c. 1860]. Hard Cover. W. Th. Sehring’s The Stair-way of Life, Delineated in Twelve Pictures. Illustrated by Ferdinand Rothbart, and translated by Charles T. Brooks. With ten plates and an illustrated title page, engraved and hand.....
![Item #295071 [CHILDREN] THE RHYME OF A RUN, AND OTHER VERSE. Florence Harrison](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/295071.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645909339)
London, Glasgow, Dublin, Bombay, & New York; New York, Boston: Blackie & Son Ltd; H. M. Caldwell Company, [1907]. Hard Cover. First Edition. Oblong quarto in the publisher’s olive green cloth with decorations in olive, orange and gilt; pages are.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. Illustrated by: Angela. Hard Cover. First Edition. Previous owner’s name on the front free endpaper. Otherwise no marks.~The dust jacket has shelfwear, some chipping and has separated at the back edge of the.....
Richmond: The Dietz Printing Co., 1930. Octavo. Hard Cover. Will Porter, better known as O. Henry, eloped with Athol Estes Porter despite the reluctance of her parents. They had reason too- Porter’s father in law repeatedly bailed him out of.....
London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1896==============================. With numerous full-page color-plates after paintings in water-colors by Francis Brundage; and with decorative borders and other designs together with new stories and verses by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Pictorial paper-covered boards.....
A La Haye: Chez Adrien Motjens, 1705. 16mo. Full Leather. An early copy of the Avantures de Telemaque, Fils d’Ulysse, or the “Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses,” published six years after the First. Written by Francois Fenelon while he.....
London: Printed for C. Taylor, 1792. Quarto. Half Leather. A copy of Francis Fitzgerald’s translation of Salignac’s The Adventures of Telemachus. Collates complete, with a vignette on the engraved title page, and twenty-four plates. Scattered foxing, especially to the engraved.....
Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Co., 1923. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. This copy is signed with an inscription “with the compliments of the author” and dated in 1931. With pastedown and printed title label at the spine. The spine label.....
Augustae Vindelicorum: Matthaei Rieger, 1762. Full Leather. First Edition. First Edition of Mannhart’s Bibliotheca Domestica, with ten of twelve volumes only; lacking Vol. VI and XII. Folding plates of writing samples and a celestial map in Vol. IV. Folding plates.....
![Item #296383 [LITERATURE] [PRISON] MARTIN YORDI’S “BOOK”. Fred W. Jameson](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670198568)
[Fred Jameson], 1933. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 12mo; in the publisher’s black ribbed cloth with the printed title label to the upper board; 66 pages; reprinted from Allstory Weekly, in “An Edition of Twenty Copies Set up Printed and Bound.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Hard Cover. Illustrated with 9 full-page sepia monochrome drawings and a number of partial page illustrations as well. The boards slightly soiled and stained. There is some light and scattered foxing.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1877]. 24mo. Hard Cover. First Edition. A clean copy of a charming book. Contains numerous stories about a day in the life of various characters, aimed at a juvenile audience. Includes black and white.....
Boston: Dana Estes, 1902. Hard Cover. First Edition. The first appearance in book format of “Casey at the Bat”. Decorative binding in ivory cloth with rather elaborate gilt decorations with jester motif. The preliminary pages (only) have foxing and toning.....
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1835. Hard Cover. The American Edition of the Marryat’s novel, in which a foundling searches for his father. Complete, with two volumes bound as one; separate title leaves. In the publisher’s worn drab.....
New York: Holiday Publishing, 1908. Hard Cover. The adventures of a puppy whose motto was “Be Cheerful”, told in verse and humorously illustrated. The binding has a discreet japanese tissue patch to the spine and has been toned; the pastedown.....
Frankfurt am Mann: Andreischen Buchhandlung, 1796. Full Leather. Children’s reading book for use in “country schools”. 144 pps,, perhaps lacking a frontispiece and certainly lacking endleaves. With the signature of Solon P. C. Henkel, Shenanadoah Valley physician; a relation of.....
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [1890’s]. Hard Cover. Early Pirate Edition. An early pirated American edition of Henty’s By Right of Conquest. With frontispiece and five additional plates. Color, pictorial endpapers. Interior is bright and unmarked; with minimal shelfwear.....
![Item #289411 JACK ARCHER. [29 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF THE SAME WORK.]. G. A. Henty](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/289411.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591219283)
[Various Publishers]. Hard Cover. Various reprints and later editions of G. A. Henty’s Jack Archer, being 29 separate issues in total, none of which are the First Edition or First American Edition. Four editions by A. L. Burt of New.....
London: Gall and Inglis, [1911]. Hard Cover. Second Edition. Second Edition of Henty’s first work, and the first edition in one volume; Newbolt dates this as 1911. Color frontispiece. Toning to the text, discoloration and namesticker to the endpapers, and.....
![Item #296591 [POETRY] THE GRAVE OF ARTHUR. G. K. Chesterton | Celia Fiennss](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296591.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689011065)
[London]: [Faber & Faber], [1930]. Original Sewn Wrappers. Sewn brown wrappers, printed in black; with a lovely wood engraved image by Celia Fiennes; four unnumbered pages; with the bookplate of Jean Elizabeth Stone, wife of bibliophile Walter Stone; with just.....
London; New York: Ernest Benn; Charles Scribner’s, 1932. Elephant Folio. Hard Cover. FIrst Edition. No pencil or ink markings in text; hard cover cloth binding with very light edge wear to extremities; bottom corner of front board is bumped; shelf-wear.....
Madrid: En la Imprenta de Manuel Gonzalez, 1786. Full Leather. Works of Sallust and Cicero translated into Spanish. Includes Sallust’s On the Jugurthine War, and Cicero’s Cataline Orations. Portrait plate. Worming to the final leaves at the bottom edge, not.....
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1919. Hard Cover. First Edition. A clean copy by the American Science Fiction writer George England. The dustjacket is missing a piece about 1 1/2” from the bottom of the spine.