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Buffalo, NY: Slow Loris Press, 1976.
First separate edition, reprinted from Rappaport 9: Volume 3, Number 3 (Spring 1976). A conversation with William Stafford, Edited by William Heyen. One of only twenty-five numbered copies signed by both poets (this is number 5). 44 pages. A fine copy in wrappers and scarce thus.

First edition of the classic 19th-century account of African exploration.
A signed presentation copy from Stanley to Dr William Garden Blaikie, author of the definitive biography of Dr. Livingstone: The Personal Life of David Livingstone (1880), with materials chiefly from Livingstone's unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the possession of his family, at whose request the book was undertaken.
Inscribed "To Professor Blaikie of Edinburgh reciprocating with many thanks his late courtesy, July 3rd, 1890, London".
A marvelous and historically important association copy.
Two volumes, 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, map endpapers in pale green. Frontispiece in each volume plus 36 plates, 3 folding maps (2 in color), and 150 woodcut illustrations. Lower half of spine to volume 1 damp-stained, extending into the rear board. A little foxing to preliminary pages, one page with a small piece missing but not affecting text. Rubbing to extremities and corners, boards shaken and hinges… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. About fine with some slight toning in a very good dust wrapper, toned at the spine with a few small edge chips and detached front flap (very well obscured by jacket protector).

One of two known copies, unpublished thus and potentially a pre-publication copy (see below). From the personal library of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, an avid book collector whose sizable library included many items by and about Henry James.
Sendak did not sign or affix his bookplate in most of his books. Provenance slip laid in from a Sendak auction on behalf of the Rosenbach Museum of Philadelphia. This book was originally included in Lot 159, accompanied by another copy of the pre-publication state (the other copy more nicely bound than this one).
Plain gray paper boards with spine label. Fine.
The text is a memorial essay by James on Ivan Turgenev, his friend and literary influence. First published in an 1888 collection, the essay appeared as the introduction to the multi-volume Scribner's edition of Turgenev's works (1903-1904.). The sheets in this copy are from the Scribner's printing, and the title-pages here appear to be mock-ups, being composed of printed slips laid onto a blank… Read More

Oxford (UK): Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. First edition. Prior owner's name, uneven tanning to front and rear endpapers otherwise a lovely copy, fine indeed. Dust wrapper has a diamond shape cut out of the spine (why?), one other chip, a tiny edge tear and very slight rubbing to the top spine. Otherwise near fine.

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. Second Edition. Rebound in half leather. Title page browned with some missing pieces not affecting text, last few pages also browned.