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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA
Title
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author
Mark Twain
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. E.W. Kemble. A bright, very solid copy of the 1885 1st edition, 1st issue, with its 3 all-but-universally agreed upon issue points establishing it as such: the heading for Chapter 6 on the front Contents page (pg. 9) reads "Huck Decided to Leave" instead of "Huck Decides to Leave"; on pg. 13 (the Illustrations list) "Him and Another Man" is incorrectly listed at pg. 88; and on pg. 57, 11 lines from the bottom, the text reads "with the was", which in later states was corrected to "with the saw". The original printing of "Huck Finn" was deeply complicated (to cite one example, both the 1st and 2nd states were purportedly delivered to the book's printer ON THE SAME DAY and many feel that the sheets from the 2 states were physically mixed). Recent scholarship has also become more entrenched in the notion that only the presence of the 3 issue points cited above can forcefully demonstrate the 1st state. Beyond this, this copy is in the much scarcer deep-blue cloth. In fact, BAL asserts that the 1st printing of "Huck Finn" produced 9,500 copies in its more common green cloth and only 500 copies in the blue cloth. Fortunately, this copy has a pleasing brightness to it as well. The gilt-lettering along the front panel is crisp and almost completely unrubbed, and visually "pops", as sharp copies should. The gilt-compartment and gilt-titling along the spine are also impressively strong and bright as well. There's a bit of very light wear at the spine ends (with just a touch of almost microscopic loss) and very minor, light rubbing along the rear panel's hinge. A bit of minor offsetting and soiling to the pastedowns and endsheets (all original) and just a hint of light foxing at the preliminaries. The pages of text are clean and surprisingly bright-white, as are the 174 masterful illustrations by E.W. Kemble (1861-1933). A completely unrestored copy, attractive and very presentable in its wonderful rich-blue cloth.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND

AN IDEAL HUSBAND by [Wilde, Oscar]

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Seller: Sumner & Stillman
Title
AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Author
[Wilde, Oscar]
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1899. Shannon, Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, consisting of 1000 regular copies (so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper, plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum). This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (published in 1893), A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (1894) and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1899, five months earlier). "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 (the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day, only to keep them waiting for him to appear). It was an immediate success, but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry (father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas), for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde, and when he was arrested in April, his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour (1895-1897), upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy, of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull, and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France | 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France (1868-1951, married name Wright after 1906) was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College (Cambridge), then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 (which span includes the date this book was published), she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her, "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists.
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Dolgolikov. Poema (Long-face. A Poem) by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)

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Seller: ZH BOOKS
Title
Dolgolikov. Poema (Long-face. A Poem)
Author
Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Parizh (Paris): s. n., 1961. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-164; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to corners and tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries. Spending most of his life in France, he founded the Dadaist group "Palata poetov" and was known to take inspiration for his art from classical composers, particularly Tchaikovsky and Bach. His current work, first published in 1934, was part of a large project, defined by the author as a "solipsistic epic," and was described as autofiction, for it toed the line between biography and fiction.
El Arte En La Cocina Mexicana

El Arte En La Cocina Mexicana by O’Gorman, Alejandro von Waberer, and Mela de la Mora von Waberer,

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Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
Title
El Arte En La Cocina Mexicana
Author
O’Gorman, Alejandro von Waberer, and Mela de la Mora von Waberer,
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
# 831 of 1000 copies, segunda edicion, the first edition published in 1981, large quarto, 199, [16] pp., color plates, and line drawings illustrate the text, original cloth with dust jacket, some minor wear to wrapper, else very good. A Full range of Mexican recipes are presented.
The Cattle Killing

The Cattle Killing by WIDEMAN, John Edgar

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
The Cattle Killing
Author
WIDEMAN, John Edgar
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First edition. Softcover. Advanced reading copy of this novel. A fine unread copy in glossy printed wrappers.

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