Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $2,810.00
Shipping: $47.98
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $2,857.98
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 $2,857.98 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $2,810.00
Shipping: $47.98
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $2,857.98

You are about to purchase:

CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)

CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE) by WHITMAN, Walt

10 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.00
Details
$1,875.00
( US$)
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Title
CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)
Author
WHITMAN, Walt
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case
Description
Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate publication (outside of LEAVES OF GRASS) of Whitman's Calamus poems devoted to male romantic relationships. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 9 January 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES.
I Want to Take Picture

I Want to Take Picture by Burke, Bill

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $12.99
Details
$400.00
( US$)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Title
I Want to Take Picture
Author
Burke, Bill
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780932526168
Condition
Fine, very minor wear on boards
Description
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine, very minor wear on boards. Glossy pictoral covers. Richly illustrated throughout in both B&W and color. Unpaginated. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Combination travelogue and artist book featuring the artist's photographs of Southeast Asia in the wake of the Vietnam War and amidst the Pol Pot regime. Often cited as one of the most significant photo books of the 1980s.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Gives Thanks For A Poem And A Compliment

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Gives Thanks For A Poem And A Compliment by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

5 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $10.00
Details
$350.00
( US$)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
Title
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Gives Thanks For A Poem And A Compliment
Author
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Seller
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. (1809-1894). Holmes was a celebrated New England poet. His son was a Supreme Court Justice of the same name.ALS. 1pg. November 12, 1886. Boston. An autograph letter signed Oliver Wendell Holmes. My dear sir I am much obliged to you for the copy of the Harvard Advocate, containing your poem which I have read with much interest. I must thank you also for a very kind allusion to myself which I wish I deserved better but which I accept just as cheerfully as if it were my unquestioned due. With fond regards, Yours very truly, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes was a Harvard graduate. The letter is in fine condition and comes with the original mailing envelope.
Glory's Net

Glory's Net by Tilden, William T. 2nd

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.50
Details
$150.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper
Title
Glory's Net
Author
Tilden, William T. 2nd
Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with white lettering under illustrated dust jacket. White stain to edge of front board & larger triangle to rear board, else very good condition. Dust jacket has rubbing & green stain from cloth on reverse, but presents well. Tilden was one of the greatest tennis players of all time--largely forgotten now because he was jailed for having sex with boys. This is "a tennis romance with all the speed an thrill of his smashing cannon ball serve." Edition not stated, NAP.
The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea

The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea by MARSHALL, S. L. A.

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.50
Details
$20.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea
Author
MARSHALL, S. L. A.
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Field Sketches by Mark Lennox and the Author. 242pp. Near fine in a very good dust jacket touched up with black marker, and interior tape repairs.
The Knowledge Context

The Knowledge Context by Altbach, Philip G.

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.99
Details
$15.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
The Knowledge Context
Author
Altbach, Philip G.
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780887064456
Condition
Very Good
Description
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 200pp+ index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.