Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$10,518.25
Shipping:	$91.34
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$10,609.59
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $171.35 2 - 8 days

Standard Shipping $91.34 2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $10,609.59 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$10,518.25
Shipping:	$91.34
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$10,609.59
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE by (BINDINGS - ARTS & CRAFTS-STYLE). PATMORE, COVENTRY

2 to 7 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $14.00

Details

$5,720.00

( US$)

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
Author: (BINDINGS - ARTS & CRAFTS-STYLE). PATMORE, COVENTRY
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 165 x 106 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4"). 2 p.l., xii, 153, [1] pp. LOVELY COBALT BLUE MOROCCO, gilt in an Arts & Crafts design, covers with four decorative panels of four Tudor rose tools interspersed with radiating leaves enclosed and linked to one another by twining gilt rolls, the front cover titled in a central panel, similarly framed, raised bands, spine panels gilt with four leaves within interlocking lobe-shaped gilt frames studded with dots, wide turn-ins similarly decorated, endpapers marbled in pale blue and pink, all edges gilt. See Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women," in "Killing the Angel in the House: Seven Essays," p. 4. A VERY FINE COPY, the binding very lustrous and virtually unworn, and entirely clean and fresh internally. Victorian poet and essayist Coventry Patmore's best-remembered work--a romantic ode to married life--is offered here in a very attractive Arts & Crafts binding that is designed like, and finished as skillfully as, Doves Bindery volumes. Patmore (1823-96) was an associate of the older generation of Pre-Raphaelites, whose poems dealt with love, grief, and spirituality, particularly following his conversion to Roman Catholicism. He composed "The Angel in the House" as an idealized narrative of a courtship, which is said to have been based on his relationship with his first wife. The book was initially published as two separate works, "The Espousals" (1854) and "The Betrothal" (1856), which are sometimes combined with follow-up works, "Faithful for Ever" (1860) and "The Victories of Love" (1862-63). In DNB's words, "as Tennyson had recently made his mark by a connected series of poems on death and grief, Patmore determined to write the poetic series on that other Victorian obsession, married love." The work gained in popularity through the later Victorian and Edwardian periods, with the "Angel in the House" becoming synonymous with the ideal of domestic middle-class femininity. An indication of the poem's cultural impact is the degree to which the "Angel" became a symbol of women's oppression for early feminist writers. Virginia Woolf famously spoke of killing "the Angel in the House" being the only way to liberate herself as an author: "had I not killed her," Woolf wrote, "she would have killed me." Our copy of this influential work comes in a particularly pleasing binding. The influence of the Doves Bindery, in operation from 1893-1916, is clearly evident here, both in terms of design and titling. And the work is so skillfully done that even a studied look at the binder's execution would not assign a level of success measurably below Doves work..

Democracy in America. Part the First by de Tocqueville, Alexis

4 to 7 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $15.00

Details

$4,500.00

( US$)

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Democracy in America. Part the First
Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Saunders & Otley, 1836. Second edition in English. Two octavo volumes, collating xliv, 333, [2 ads]; vi [of viii], 462, [2 ads]: with the folding map to the front of volume 1; half-title in volume 1, lacking half-title in volume 2 and lacking the second leaf of the table of contents. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers, rebacked but retaining the original spines. Folding map, outlined in color, with a few cracks along the folds, some repaired on the verso, otherwise an excellent set internally. The second edition in English of Part I, which was originally released in French and English a year earlier in 1835. Part II of Democracy in America would not appear in first edition in the Paris or London imprints until 1840. De Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, visited America between 1831 and 1832, ostensibly to study the penal system, although his interest was considerably broader. It seems logical that France would look to America as a beacon of hope for a successful democracy. After France embraced the goals of equality and democracy in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, it found itself first in a dictatorship under Napoleon and then in one constitutional monarchy after another during the years following. De Tocqueville's astute observation of several aspects of American society and culture provides an invaluable lens of foreign perspective on our young nation's political growth. Democracy in America was an immediate and sustained success. Almost from the beginning it enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has maintained its place high within the pantheon of political writing. "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good" (The New York Times). Howes T-278, 279. Sabin 96062, 96063. Clark III:111. Cosentino (Washington 1989).

GRACELAND by Abani, Chris

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.50

Details

$90.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA

Title: GRACELAND
Author: Abani, Chris
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780374165895
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Abani on the title page. Dustjacket rear panel upper corner just touched; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Though the dj flap calls Graceland his debut, Abani had published two novels previously, The Masters of the Board and Sirocco. both of which caused him to be imprisoned. The images are of the book described and not stock photos.

Cripple Creek Bennet Avenue 1961 Original 35mm Film Slide

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $8.00

Details

$50.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC

Title: Cripple Creek Bennet Avenue 1961 Original 35mm Film Slide
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Colorado, 1961. Fine. This listing is for an original 35mm slide in a Kodachrome mount which shows Cripple Creek and is stamped June 1972. It's in fine condition.

Porches and Fonts by J. Charles Wall

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.00

Details

$50.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: Porches and Fonts
Author: J. Charles Wall
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd, 1912. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1912 1st edition. Solid and VG in its decorative blue cloth. Octavo, 348 pgs. Tasteful former owner bookplate at front pastedown.

Raised, Assembled, Constructed: Texas Artists & Ceramic Sculpture

3 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$30.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: Raised, Assembled, Constructed: Texas Artists & Ceramic Sculpture
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Arlington, TX: CRCA: The Gallery at UTA, 1998. First edition. Softcover. 24 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 24 through April 25, 1998. Introduction by Nicholas Wood. Includes illustrations and information about these artists: Tre Arenz, Richard Bonner, Michael Conroy, Nick de Vries, Janet Frankovic, Verne Funk, Marian Haigh, Janet Kastner, Paul McCoy, Steve Reynolds, James Tisdale, and Nicholas Wood. A fine copy in stapled wrappers.

William Blake Catalogue of the Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge by Bindman, David editor

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.35

Details

$25.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

Title: William Blake Catalogue of the Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Author: Bindman, David editor
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1970. Cambridge: Heffer, 1970. Oblong small folio, viii, 88 pp., color frontispiece and 74 illustrations. Original brown cloth, lacking dust-jacket. ß First edition (also issued in wrappers). Bentley, Blake Books, 703.

Shi nian ping zong 十年萍踪 by Zhao, Rong 赵蓉

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.50

Details

$22.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Title: Shi nian ping zong 十年萍踪
Author: Zhao, Rong 赵蓉
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9787800352171
Description: Beijing: Zhongguo guoji guangbo chubanshe 中国国际广播出版社, 1988. 289p., very good in wraps, inscribed in Chinese by author. OCLC lists the title but no holding institutions. Collection of Chinese-language essays written for broadcasting to overseas Chinese, on subjects including traditional art and culture, philately, and developments in Mainland China.

Extraits des Lettres de Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours a ses Enfants

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $12.99

Details

$20.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: Extraits des Lettres de Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours a ses Enfants
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG or better
Description: New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867. Softcover. VG or better. Tannish wraps. 28 pp. No ills. Text in French. Excerpts from du Pont de Nemours' correspondence.

The Music of Schubert by ABRAHAM, Gerald, ed

6 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$11.25

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Argosy Book Store

Title: The Music of Schubert
Author: ABRAHAM, Gerald, ed
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: New York: Norton, 1947. First. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Musical illustrations. 295 pages, 8vo, cloth; corners gently bumped; dust wrapper chipped. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, (1947). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.

Secure Checkout