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Verses (Presentation copy)

Verses (Presentation copy) by Rossetti, Christina G.

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Verses (Presentation copy)
Author
Rossetti, Christina G.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: G. Polidori's, 1847. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy, inscribed on front blank "E.H. Polidori / from Christina Rossetti / July 1847." Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 159 x 98 mm.). [iv], 66, [2, blank] pp. Page 55-56 are in the corrected state: dated 1847 at the end; stanza 5, line 1 reads "And now that thou art gone"; stanza 5, line 3 reads "And see the clouds"; stanza 6, line 1 reads '"Yes, oftentimes I sit beneath it now"; stanza 8, lines 1-2 have quotation marks; stanza 8, line 1 ends with a semi-colon. A superb exhibition binding by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900. Full green morocco, covers with an elaborate floral decoration in gilt with red morocco inlays. Spine with five raised bands elaborately gilt with red morocco floral inlays and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, tan morocco liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Joints expertly and invisibly repaired. Publishers blue patterned cloth wrappers bound in. With the engraved bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson on verso of front endpaper and the armorial bookplate of Dr. Samuel L. Sieger on first blank leaf. Housed in a full dark green morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. A spectacular rare first edition in a beautiful 'Exhibition' binding of Christina Rossetti's first book. Printed by her grandfather Gaetano Polidori's private press in Park Village East near Regent's Park when the author was just sixteen years old, the delicate book contains 42 poems, two of which are in Italian. It includes the first poem Rossetti ever wrote-a birthday present for her mother-as well as the poems The Dead City and The Water Spirit's Song, and several centered around the rose, the author's personal emblem (Marsh, Hayward). A highly important and delightful example of a young poet's talent foreshadowing her creative career to come. This volume was presented to Eliza Harriet Polidori (1809-1893), Christina Rossetti's maternal aunt, a brave woman who worked as one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War and "managed the stores at the Barrack Hospital at Scutari" where injured soldiers were brought from battle to be treated (Bostridge). Christina wished to serve alongside her aunt at the barrack Hospital, but was rejected due to her young age. Dante Gabriel Rossetti took a less favorable view of Polidori, calling her his "maniac aunt" in a letter to William Bell Scott in 1854 (Fredeman). Following Polidori's death by cancer, Christina would inherit her aunt's fortune. Fredeman 44.2; Hayward 267; Ashley IV, p. 99; Tinker 1784; CBEL III, 497; CBEL (3) IV, 659; Marsh pp. 32-41, 72-76. Fine.
Feats on the Fjord

Feats on the Fjord by [Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Feats on the Fjord
Author
[Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited/E.P. Dutton & Company, 1914. Second edition. Publisher's original blue cloth pictorially and ornamentally stamped in gilt, gilt lettered and ornamented spine with "Dent London" at foot. Onlaid color plate to upper board and blue cloth label with "With Many Coloured Illustrations" pasted over small rectangular panel. Original pictorial dust jacket (with "J.M. Dent & Sons" at foot printed in green at foot). Neat gift signature to front paste-down. With all the plates in color, in an unrecorded binding variant. Octavo (7 x 5 in; 178 x 127 mm). 128 pages. Eight color plates, including frontispiece (all dated 1899). A Fine copy in the very scarce dust jacket (jacket slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine). Both Latimore & Haskell and Riall note binding in red or green cloth but not blue, as here. The half-title reads: Tales for Children from Many Lands Edited by F.C. Tilney. "I have seen a copy that causes a confusion as to which is the 1st edition. The cover has a label pasted over With Coloured Illustrations by Arthur Rackham to change the title to With coloured illustrations , and on the title page there is no mention of Coloured by W. Cubitt Cooke. There may have been a mistake of ommitting the the colouring had been done by another on the title page so the pasted plate was added to the cover until the 2nd. issue" (Riall). Just to complicate matters further - our copy has the label on the front cover AND Coloured by W. Cubitt Cooke on the title-page. In the first edition of 1899 [The Temple Classics for Young People], the twelve plates, with the exception of the frontispiece, are in black and white, and the title page thus lacks the credit to W. Cubitt Cooke. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Riall 122.
Descriptive Catalogue Frost & Adams Importers of Artist Material, Draughting Papers, Tracing Cloth and Mathematical Instruments

Descriptive Catalogue Frost & Adams Importers of Artist Material, Draughting Papers, Tracing Cloth and Mathematical Instruments

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$175.00
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Seller: De Wolfe and Wood
Title
Descriptive Catalogue Frost & Adams Importers of Artist Material, Draughting Papers, Tracing Cloth and Mathematical Instruments
Seller
De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Framingham, MA: Lakeview Press, 1882. Pocket Edition. Paper wraps. 148pp. Covers with with a few holes. Foxing.
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Retro Blakesberg. Volume One: The Film Archives by Blakesberg, Jay; Coyne, Wayne (foreword); Franti, Michael (intro)

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$75.00
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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper
Title
Retro Blakesberg. Volume One: The Film Archives
Author
Blakesberg, Jay; Coyne, Wayne (foreword); Franti, Michael (intro)
Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN
9780965369503
Condition
Like New
Description
Rock Out books, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Blakesberg, Jay. Hardcover with pictorial boards, 12" x 9.75", 312 pp., photographic endpapers, full color photography throughout. Signed by Blakesberg on title page. This is not the limited edition. Photos of rock performers & fans from Blakesberg's long career. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
Tambay Gold

Tambay Gold by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
Tambay Gold
Author
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
NY: Dell, 1943. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Spine rolled, wraps darkened and rubbed, else a very good, tightly bound example.

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