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Poems after Verlaine, Maeterlinck, Leconte de Lisle and others.
by Drey, Agnes E.
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London: St. Catherine Press, 1911. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. 40pp. First edition. Glassine-type wrapper stamped in red with info on upper cover; crown and toe of gutter damaged. Signed by the author. An extremely uncommon book of verse by an English writer and painter. We do not know of another copy that is signed.
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Fear and Politics.
by Woolf, Leonard.
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1925. Soft cover. Fair. Octavo. 24pp. First edition. The Hogarth Essays (First Series), No. 7. Decorated printed wrappers, with a design by Vanessa Bell on the upper cover. Covers somewhat darkened. Woolmer 79. A very good copy.
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What We Saw in Russia.
by Bevan, Aneurin, E. J. Strachey, and George Strauss.
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. 29, [i]pp. First edition. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 4. Orange wrappers. Woolmer 246. A very good copy.
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Books and the People.
by Cole, Margaret.
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. Soft cover. Fair. Octavo. 48pp. First edition. Day to Day Pamphlets, No. 38. Green wrappers, with the heavy impression of the surrounding areas of a smaller book on the upper cover. Woolmer 429. Upper margin of upper cover and many following leaves vermin chewed; not affecting any text. At best, a fair copy.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sto partij. [In Russian]. {100 Games of Chess}
by Keres, Paul.
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Moskva: Izd. Fizkul'tura i Sport, 1966.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 381, [iii]pp. Cloth. With the stunning dustwrapper. Illustrated.
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The Library of David Borowitz of Chicago. Parts I-III. Complete with all three parts present.
by Borowitz, David.
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New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1977-1978.. Soft cover. Very Good. Square octavo. 3 volumes. No pagination. Part I: Fine English Literature, with a Supplement of Color-Plate Books, Incunables and Private Press Books (Sale 4056 - November 15, 1977); Part II: George Cruikshank and his Contemporaries: Drawings, Books, Engravings, Letters (Sale 4107 - April 11, 1978); Part III:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les caprices de l'amour et de l'amitie; anecdote angloise, suivie d'une petite anecdote allemande.
by La Roche, Frau Sophie Gutermann von.
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Zuric: chez Orell, Gessner, Fuesslin & Comp., 1772. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. 153, [i]pp. First edition. Paper boards.
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Edwy and Edilda: a tale. In five parts.
by Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick.
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London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1779.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [vi], 170pp. First edition. Contemporary sheep. ESTC N1240.
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Poetical meditations, being the improvement of some vacant hours; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.
by Wolcott, Roger.
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New London: Printed and Sold by L. Green, 1725.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [iv], lvi, I, 78, [iv - 1 of errata and 3 of advertisements]. Lacks half-title. First edition. Contemporary sheep. The first book of poetry printed in Connecticut and one of the earliest in North America. ESTC W28923; Evans 2722; Trumbull 1696; Johnson 207; Wegelin 465.
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The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Henry Goldsmith.
by Goldsmith, Oliver.
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London: Printed for J. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1765.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [4], iv, 22, [ii]pp. First edition. With half-title and final ad leaf present. Red morocco by Riviere & Son, repaired. Rothschild 1024; Courtney & Smith, p.113; ESTC T146158; Todd, "Quadruple Imposition," in Studies in Bibliography VII (1955), pp. 103ff. First edition of Goldsmith's first separately… Read more about this item Item Price
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Satiry i drugiia stikhotvorcheskiia sochineniia kniazia Antîokha Kantemira; s istoricheskimi primiechaniiami i s kratkim opisaniem ego zhizni.
by Kantemir, Antiokh D.
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V Sanktpeterburgie: Pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1762 Goda.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [2], 14, [16], 176pp. Contemporary mottled calf. Portrait of the author by E.G. Vinogradov, in excellent facsimile. From the library of V.N. Kovaldin, with his stamp on the title-page. Sopikov 10151; Bitovt 1418; Smirdin 8188; Kilgour collection 486; Svodnyi kat. russ. knigi grazhd. pechati XVIII v., 2788.… Read more about this item Item Price
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John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes.
by Masefield, John.
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Letchworth: Garden City Press Limited, 1916.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. First edition. Blue cloth.
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The Everlasting Mercy.
by Masefield, John.
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. First edition. Blue cloth.
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The Midnight Folk.
by Masefield, John.
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 269 pages. First American edition. Blue cloth. Dustwrapper. Piece of dustwrapper from spine missing.
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Amyntor and Theodora; or, The Hermit. A Poem. In Three Cantos.
by Mallet, David.
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London: Printed for Paul Vaillant, in the Strand, 1747.. Soft cover. Good. Quarto. [iv], viii, 92pp. []2, A4-M4, N2. First edition. With the half-title present. Disbound. Foxon M44; ESTC T21858; CBEL II, 557.
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The Bank Note, or, Lessons for Ladies, a Comedy, in Five Acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Partly an Alteration.
by Macready, William.
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London: Printed for T.N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1795.. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. [viii], 84pp. First edition. Disbound. ESTC N81 or ESTC T96400.
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The life and strange surprizing adventures of Mr. D---- de F--, of London, hosier, who has liv'd above fifty years by himself, in the Kingdoms of North and South Britain.
by Gildon, Charles. [ROBINSON CRUSOE PARODY - FIVE COPIES RECORDED] .
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London: printed by Elizabeth Sadleir in School-House-Lane; for Patrick Dugan, Bookseller on Cork-Hill, 1719.. Hardcover. Good. .. Octavo. 36pp. A8, B4-C4, D2. Third edition. Wrappers. ESTC T136523. A parody of Robinson Crusoe published the same year as that work, Gildon's pamphlet contains a vitriolic attack on Defoe and his book. No love… Read more about this item Item Price
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The biographical magazine; or, complete historical library. A work replete with instruction and entertainment, and accompanied with such embellishments as have not hitherto appeared in any publication of Europe. By a Society of Gentlemen ...
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London: printed for F. Newbery, 1776.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [iv], 812 [i.e. 808, [ii]pp.] A2-Z2, AA2-ZZ2, AAA2-ZZZ2, AAAA2-ZZZZ2, AAAAA2-ZZZZZ2, AAAAAA2-ZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAAA2-UUUUUUUUU2. With a final leaf of errata. Pages 453-456 omitted. Modern half calf over marbled boards. With portraits. Roscoe, A39; ESTC T98528. Even though a number of British libraries… Read more about this item Item Price
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Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes with some advice thereon extracted form [sic] the Yearly Meeting epistle of London for the present year also some remarks on the absolute necessity of self-denial, ...
by Benezet, Anthony. [PROBABLY ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS].
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Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759.. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo. 15, [i]pp. First edition. Disbound. Evans 8298; Sabin 4676; ESTC W1272. Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans. This first edition of Benezet's has not been seen in auction rooms for well over one hundred years.
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Figure Emblematique en trois langues et seulement en une visible de soy ou se peut voir une fleur de louanges du Roy trés-Chrestien, de la Royne, de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
by Clavière, Etienne de. [ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL EMBLEM BOOKS].
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Paris: Robert Fouet, 1607.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 54pp., [1]ff. A8-C8, D4. With the printer's device on the title-page. Modern half goatskin over marbled boards. BM Catalogue of French Books, 1601-1700, p. 103; Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese Books of Devices and Emblems 228; Praz, p. 306.
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