Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $17,680.00
Shipping: $50.74
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $17,730.74
2 - 7 days
5 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $17,730.74 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $17,680.00
Shipping: $50.74
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $17,730.74

You are about to purchase:

Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE

Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE by Barclay, Florence L.

5 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$12,500.00
( US$)
Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE
Author
Barclay, Florence L.
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
n.p.: n.p., 1910. Very good.. Original draft, entirely written out by hand, of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY. While Florence Barclay was working on this manuscript, she was in the midst of a life-changing experience: her romance novel THE ROSARY had just become one of the biggest blockbuster novels of the Edwardian era. It was not only a runaway bestseller for years on end, but also parodied by PUNCH, made into at least five films, and described by the Queen of England herself as her favorite book of the year. According to Rachel Anderson, it was "said to have been read and wept over by every housemaid in the British Isles." THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE was something of its sequel, featuring characters first introduced in THE ROSARY. THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE is an exquisite romance between a widow and the man who accidentally killed her husband: like THE ROSARY, it combines a moving arc of emotional development with an alluring charisma between the main characters. When Barclay arrived in the United States for a book tour of SHENSTONE, she was greeted as a celebrity much in the way that Charles Dickens had been on his first trip to the country. In addition to photographers and journalists, she was met right off the boat by a crush of fans holding welcome banners. This experience was so unlike what was expected for English authors in the period that her daughter makes special remark upon it in her biography of the author: "To English readers it may seem a surprising outburst, and very different to anything that can be imagined as taking place in England by way of reception accorded to a private individual" (220). In 1921 SHENSTONE also became the first of Barclay's books (before THE ROSARY) to be turned into a film. This manuscript offers a window into the writing process of a famous romance author at the height of her power. In addition to the entire base text in Barclay's hand, essentially every page is revised in the same hand, in some cases extensively. Common editorial markings include crossed out words and sentences (some replaced with new text), additions to punctuation, and rearranged phrases. It is illuminating to compare the manuscript itself with the details of Barclay's writing as described in her daughter's book, LIFE OF FLORENCE L. BARCLAY (1921). In seeking to champion her mother as an author for "ordinary readers," her daughter asserts that Barclay "had no eye to the literary connoisseur, the seeker after mere artistic effect" (242). Yet many of the revisions made by Barclay in this draft suggest that she cared much more about the art of her work than the biography claims. Altered words often reflect the author's stylistic refinements, seeking a more accurate or elevated word in place of the original (e.g., "empty" changed to "desolate"). Other changes show a focused eye for paring down. For instance, "she poured out the doctor's tea" and "passed it across the folding tea table between them" has been changed simply to "handed it to him." These decisions reflect more than a desire to "supply them [her readers] with that they wanted" (242): they show an author spending hours refining her craft. A manuscript offering the opportunity to research further into the working process of a major popular romance writer - a topic that has thus far been rarely recorded or studied. 9'' x 6.75''. 386 individual lines sheets, thread-bound by hand with pink ribbon, filled out in pencil on rectos only. Text begins with Chapter I, "On the terrace of Shenstone," and ends with the phrase sentence of the final chapter, "Mrs. Jim Airth," in larger script (an effect reproduced in the printed final). Editorial markings throughout. Housed in later waxed canvas wrapper with two printed labels ("The Mistress of Shenstone") and one handwritten annotation, "1st M S of Mistress of Shenstone." Provenance: by descent from author's family.
In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales

In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales by Quiller-Couth, Arthur; Kay Nielsen, illus

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.00
Details
$4,000.00
( US$)
Seller: Thorn Books
Title
In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales
Author
Quiller-Couth, Arthur; Kay Nielsen, illus
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. (2, limitation leaf), xii, (13)-163, (1) pp. Green vellum blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 26 mounted color plates on gray paper with tissue guards, plus black and white illustrations and decorations. Vellum rubbed at edges and hinges, with a bit of scuffing, not affecting the gilt; boards yawning slightly; ribbon ties perished; foxing to the preliminaries, else a very good copy. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Nielsen. This is number 219. With a notice of an exhibition of Nielsen's watercolors in 1913 laid-in. In protective cloth-covered slipcase. .
Ginger, You're Barmy (Inscribed)

Ginger, You're Barmy (Inscribed) by LODGE, David

7 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$750.00
( US$)
Seller: Harper's Books
Title
Ginger, You're Barmy (Inscribed)
Author
LODGE, David
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Brown cloth boards, near fine. In price-clipped, illustrated jacket with minor scuffing and some creasing to crown of spine, els
Description
New York: Doubelday & Company, 1965. Brown cloth boards, near fine. In price-clipped, illustrated jacket with minor scuffing and some creasing to crown of spine, else near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. Novel based on Lodge's military service from the 1950s; this copy INSCRIBED by Lodge to front endpaper: "To Mark Herzog Spilka / with best wishes + warm / memories of Providential days / David Lodge / June 1965." Lodge and Spilka appear to have known each other during Lodge's stay in Providence, during his Commonwealth Fellowship, when Spilka was teaching at Brown University.
[RELIGION] DATA FOR THE USE OF THE COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH

[RELIGION] DATA FOR THE USE OF THE COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH by [James Atkins]

5 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $10.50
Details
$100.00
( US$)
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc.
Title
[RELIGION] DATA FOR THE USE OF THE COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH
Author
[James Atkins]
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fair binding
Description
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Original Wrappers. Fair binding/no dust jacket. An uncommon Methodist Episcopal Church, South printing of materials used by the Commission on the Constitution of the church. The personal copy of James Atkins, minister, educator and bishop in the Methodist Church; in his hand on the front wrapper: “Personal Property of James Atkins. Not to be removed from his desk.” A couple of textual annotations in Bishop Atkins’ hand.. Covers worn and taped along spine. Front and rear covers missing pieces on lower edge. Fair binding / no dust jacket.
[LITERATURE] DRUMS

[LITERATURE] DRUMS by Boyd, James

5 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.25
Details
$75.00
( US$)
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc.
Title
[LITERATURE] DRUMS
Author
Boyd, James
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+ binding
Description
New York: Charles Scrbner's Sons, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; with titling on the upper board and spine in gilt; in scarce unclipped dust jacket; 490 pages; the dust jacket has some loss at head of spine and partially affecting the "D" and the "R" of Drums and small chip at top of front panel; dustjacket spine indicates 10th printing but no additional printing information on copyright page; previous owner name neatly stamped on front endpaper; a book sellers label on the rear paste down; DJ protected with Mylar Cover~. Very Good+ binding / near Very Good dust jacket.
Georges Braque: His Graphic Work

Georges Braque: His Graphic Work by Braque, Georges

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $7.00
Details
$90.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Title
Georges Braque: His Graphic Work
Author
Braque, Georges
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper
Description
New York: Abrams, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Braque, Georges. Approx. 120 pages. 31 x 27 cm. Introduction by Werner Hofmann. 174 reproductions, including nine in full-color. Bibliography. List of Reproductions. Catalogue of Braque's Graphic Work. FREITAG 1037.
No image available

PAINTING ON FOLK CERAMICS. by Vydra, J. & L. Kunz

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $6.00
Details
$75.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books
Title
PAINTING ON FOLK CERAMICS.
Author
Vydra, J. & L. Kunz
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London, ca 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 156 plates, many in color. Decorative cover. Biblio. Maiolica ware, factory styles, Moravian & Slovak pottery.
No image available

Gone Sailing. by ADAM, Helen.

5 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $2.50
Details
$40.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Title
Gone Sailing.
Author
ADAM, Helen.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
West Branch: Toothpaste Press,, 1980.. First trade edition.. [36 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. SIGNED by Adam.
GERMAN ART FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

GERMAN ART FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.50
Details
$30.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
GERMAN ART FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: THE OBERLAENDER TRUST - THE CARL SCHURZ MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 1936. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers.
Boeing B-17 B-29 & Lancaster

Boeing B-17 B-29 & Lancaster by Wilson, Stewart

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.99
Details
$20.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
Boeing B-17 B-29 & Lancaster
Author
Wilson, Stewart
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Fyshwick: Aerospace Publications, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 189pp. Very good in publisher's wraps.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.