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Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina by Hamilton, Elizabeth

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Title: Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina
Author: Hamilton, Elizabeth
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: Printed by R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson, 1804. First Edition. 3 vols., 8 vo (214 x 133mm), pp. [ii], xxxviii, 319, [1]; [ii], v, [i], 340; [ii], viii, 352. Original buff-white boards, uncut, neatly rebacked with matching paper, with the half titles. There's a mend to the upper corner of vol. 1, light soiling to the boards, rubbing to the extremities, internally clean and beautiful with only a few spots of foxing throughout. Not in Sadleir, Block or Wolff. Summers (p. 59) records only a later, 1811 edition in 2 volumes. An interesting transitional effort between biography and the emerging historical romance. CBEL, III, page 398. Not quite biography and not quite historical novel, the work straddles both: an advance on what came before it and a forerunner of what was to come. The historical novel was still in its infancy in 1804. The early and immature but invaluable attempts began with Leland's national novel Longsword (1762), Reeve's The Champion of Virtue (1782), Lee's The Recess (1785), and Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), but the formula had not yet been fully realized. By 1810, Jane Porter, likely inspired by Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl (1806), produced The Scottish Chiefs, and in 1814 Walter Scott published Waverley (PMM 273), which is commonly credited as the origin of the form. That credit is somewhat specious: because Scott established the historical romance as the dominant mode of long fiction in the first half of the nineteenth century, he received recognition as its originator rather than as the figure who popularized something that already existed. The line of descent from there is long and distinguished: Scott's own Ivanhoe (1820), Cooper's Last of the Mohicans (1826), Hugo's Notre Dame (1831), Dumas's Three Musketeers (1844), Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter (1850), Melville's Israel Potter (1855), Dickens's Tale of Two Cities (1859), Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869), Wallace's Ben-Hur (1880), Hardy's Trumpet-Major (1880), Stevenson's Kidnapped (1885), Crane's Red Badge of Courage (1895), and Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (1936), among many others. Tucked chronologically between Edgeworth and Morgan is this triple-decker, centered on Agrippina (13 B.C.–33 A.D.), granddaughter of Octavian Augustus and wife of Germanicus. Outwardly the book presents itself as an amplified biography, but the incidents, conversations, and inner thoughts for which there is no historical record, and which can be traced back no further than the pen of Elizabeth Hamilton, occur with such frequency as to constitute not the occasional embellishment of a biographical narrative but rather an almost fully realized historical novel. Something else here is equally significant. The text is preceded by a lengthy preface, replicating the function of Leland's preface ("advertisement") in Longsword, which contains an extended theoretical defense of what might now be called "faction" and the earliest systematic definition of the concept that I have been able to trace. It surely furthered, among readers of the period, the debate over the boundaries of fact and fiction, an omen of a tipping point in the emerging supremacy of the form.

ROBERT BURNS IN OTHER TONGUES by (BURNS, ROBERT). (BINDINGS - MACLEHOSE). JACKS, WILLIAM

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Title: ROBERT BURNS IN OTHER TONGUES
Author: (BURNS, ROBERT). (BINDINGS - MACLEHOSE). JACKS, WILLIAM
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1896. FIRST EDITION. 200 x 130 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 1/8"). xix, [1], 560 pp. Handsome contemporary dark teal morocco by MacLehose (stamped-signed on verso of front flyleaf), covers with lacy gilt filigree frame, raised bands, spine compartments similarly gilt, gilt titling, elegantly gilt inner dentelles, ivory watered silk endleaves, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt (invisible repair to front hinge). With frontispiece portrait of Burns and 14 photographic portraits of the translators. ◆Spine evenly sunned to dark green, plates a touch browned just at edges, occasional light offsetting, other trivial imperfections, but a nearly fine copy, the binding very attractive and the contents quite clean and fresh. This critical edition of Burns' poetry as rendered in 18 different languages is a wonderful example of works published and bound by the Glasgow firm of James MacLehose (1811-85), who began his career in 1838 as a bookseller, at first in partnership, and then on his own. In 1862 he added a bindery to the enterprise, and in 1881 he brought into the business his two sons, who continued it after his death. The MacLehose workshop produced high quality bindings, and catered in particular to book collectors. Our volume, with lovely gilt tooling and silk endleaves, was no doubt done for a discriminating client. It was a linguistic aptitude that brought our author, the iron merchant William Jacks (1841-1907), his success. He learned languages easily, and used this skill to great effect in international trade. As an MP for the Liberal party, he was an effective voice for both industry and commercial education. He continued to study languages throughout his life, and, according to the preface, prepared the present work to promote little-known translations of Scotland's favorite poet, "with a view to making a comparison of the power of the different languages in expressing those works." We find here poems in German, Swiss German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, Frisian, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, French, Italian, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, and Latin. DNB notes that Jacks was in many ways a typical product of Victorian Glasgow, where "[m]any businessmen who came from relatively humble backgrounds encompassed very successful business careers with active public involvement and scholarly pursuits.".

BLANKENSHIP by Styron, William

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Title: BLANKENSHIP
Author: Styron, William
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: (np): Press de la Ware, 1985. Limited to one hundred numbered and twenty-six lettered copies signed by Styron on the limitation page. Copy Z. Sewn card wraps in decorated paper dustjacket with printed label. Published Christmas, 1988, all copies were meant for friends on the author. Text is from a novel begun in 1953 while living in Italy then abandoned. Fine condition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

TRIPAS. POEMS by Som, Brandon

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Title: TRIPAS. POEMS
Author: Som, Brandon
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780820363509
Condition: Fine
Description: Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. No hardcover issued. Second state with "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" printed on front wrap. Unread copy in Fine condition. Pulitzer winner for Poetry 2024 and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry. Som's third published title.

OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1841 by Secretary of War

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Title: OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1841
Author: Secretary of War
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Good binding
Description: Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1841. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Some loss along the spine. Good binding.

MY SECRET LIFE by Anonymous

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Title: MY SECRET LIFE
Author: Anonymous
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: MY SECRET LIFE, Grove Press, 1966, first edition, eleven volumes in two, near fine in color pictorial dust-wrappers and somewhat worn slipcase. This once privately printed work from 1882 printed in an edition of six copies, is now printed more than 80 years later for many to read. It tells the story of a very non-prudean Victorian age.

The Weather Girls by Aki

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Title: The Weather Girls
Author: Aki
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781627796200
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Henry Holt, 2018. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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