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THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING

THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING by (BINDINGS - SOTHERAN). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). FIELDING, HENRY

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THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING
Author
(BINDINGS - SOTHERAN). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). FIELDING, HENRY
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
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Paris: Didot, 1780. 224 x 140 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). Eight volumes.. BEAUTIFUL GREEN MOROCCO FOR SOTHERAN (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers framed with graceful twining roses, the flowers inlaid in red and white morocco, raised bands, spine gilt in six compartments, four with inlaid rosebuds, wide morocco turn-ins similarly decorated, leather hinges, scarlet silk moiré endleaves, all edges gilt. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 150 PLATES from various other editions of the book. Each volume with an added title page printed in red and black. Front pastedown of each volume with the morocco ex-libris of W. A. Foyle. The final volume with the paper wrapper for a booklet of engravings illustrating the story after Alfred Johannot (Paris: Furne, 1836) bound in. Cross III, 318; Day, "History of English Literature, 1660-1837," pp. 229-34. Spines sunned to a uniform tan (as nearly always with green morocco), lower board edges a little rubbed, text with some light foxing and occasional insignificant browning, a handful of plates rather foxed, here and there some offsetting from plates, but the text largely very clean. An extremely pretty set with considerable shelf appeal in excellent condition inside and out. This is a sumptuously bound extra-illustrated copy of Fielding's 18th century classic, from one of the most important libraries of the last century. Day tells us that this landmark publication, initially printed in 1749, was the first avowed novel in English (Fielding's precursor, Defoe, claimed his stories were true and Richardson said that his were akin to sermons), and a work that some still call the greatest novel in English because of its attention to characters set against the backdrop of society. The plot begins with the finding and raising of Tom by Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and then follows Tom's adventures, many amorous, after his banishment from the Allworthy house because of bad behavior. In the comic ending, mysteries are revealed and relationships set aright. Cross says that "no one before Fielding had ever written a novel comparable with his in its reliance upon contemporary facts of human nature, and this brilliant and innovative narrative met with such immediate commercial success that the first printing was sold out before its printing could be finished, and at least four more editions were published in the same year as the first." The text here is accompanied by illustrations from several other editions of the work by artists including George Cruikshank, Thomas Uwins, Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, and Alfred Johannot. Our handsome copy was bound for the long-established British bookseller Henry Sotheran & Co. Many renowned workshops produced bindings for Sotheran, especially Riviere, the firm's collaborator on their famed "Cosway" bindings. While this binding is unsigned, its tasteful Arts & Crafts style rose design and high-quality execution certainly support an attribution to the Riviere bindery. Also, our copy boasts a distinguished previous ownership: W. A. Foyle (1885-1963) was co-founder with his brother of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in Charing Cross Road. During his career, he built an impressive personal library at his home of Beeleigh Abbey. The three large Foyle sales at Christie's held in 2000 were a bibliophilic highlight of the new century, and the equivalent sum of $19 million for which William Foyle's library sold that July set a record for private European collections..
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Williams, Anna

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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
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Williams, Anna
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1766. London: T. Davies, 1766. 4to, [4], 184 pp. Title with woodcut fleuron; old waterstain to top forecorners of a few leaves at front. Handsome early or original half calf and marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt; slightly rubbed, a very good copy. § First edition of the only book by Anna Williams (1706-1783), the blind poet and companion of Samuel Johnson. After her death Johnson wrote of her "Her curiosity was universal, her knowledge was very extensive, and she sustained forty years of misery with steady fortitude. Thirty years and more she has been my companion, and her death has left me very desolate." Her Miscellanies in Prose and Verse was published in 1766, her 60th year; Johnson contributed a preface and several prose and verse pieces. "The work had been first advertised in 1750, and there were waspish claims from Anna's friends that Johnson had not exerted himself in its production, but the publication was moderately successful, and earned the author about £100" (Oxford DNB). Justin Croft noted of his copy: "Very uncommon, as one might expect from Mrs. Thrale's statement: 'I never saw it on any Table but my own.'" Fleeman, pp. 1139-42, Courteney & Nicholl Smith, p. 111.
Dawn: Xenogenesis [Signed]

Dawn: Xenogenesis [Signed] by Octavia Butler

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Dawn: Xenogenesis [Signed]
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Octavia Butler
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780446513630
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Light wear and soiling to edges of unclipped jacket. Touch of shelfwear to boards; binding sound; foxing to edges of text blocky. Signed, with a bit of a false start, by the author on title page; confirmed by consignor this was signed by Butler after quite a long wait in line. First volume in Butler's Xenogenesis series, retaining the publisher's infamously whitewashed dust jacket design which depicts the protagonist (a Black woman in the book) as a white woman reminiscent of Sigourney Weaver in Alien.
The Cold War Swap

The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas

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The Cold War Swap
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Ross Thomas
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth-backed textured boards in original blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 222pp. Dust jacket a bit faded along spine panel, upper panel wrinkled along top margin, corners bumped, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. The author's first novel, an espionage thriller which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1967.
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An Act to Incorporate Medical Societies for the Purpose of Regulating the Practice of Physic and Surgery ... Bye-Laws of the Medical Society by New York State - Laws

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An Act to Incorporate Medical Societies for the Purpose of Regulating the Practice of Physic and Surgery ... Bye-Laws of the Medical Society
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New York State - Laws
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Good copy; blind stamp on the title page; removed from binder with residual overstitching holes in gutter.
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New York: James Cheetham, 1806. First Edition.. Disbound.. Good copy; blind stamp on the title page; removed from binder with residual overstitching holes in gutter.. 8vo. The first state act regulating medical practice in the state of New York. Austin # 1413.
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On Addison's Disease Being the Croonian Lectures for 1875 by Greenhow, E H

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On Addison's Disease Being the Croonian Lectures for 1875
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Greenhow, E H
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Very good; modest wear to the covers; partly unopened.
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. First Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; modest wear to the covers; partly unopened.. 8vo, xiv, [2], [1] - 212, 16 [inserted advertisements dated Nov. 1874] pp. + 5 lithographic plates (3 partially colored). An important contemporary defense of Addison. After the publication in 1855 of his work on the disease now named for him, Addison was universally ridiculed. Greenhow collected many case studies and published a book in 1866 that defended Addison's new discovery. By 1875 the tide was turning and Greenhow, then giving the Croonian Lectures, added to his defense with a detailed analysis of the disease and additional case studies. See Medvei for an account of Greenhow.
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A Course of Fifteen Lectures on Medical Botany ... Delivered in Cincinnati Ohio .... by Robinson, S

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A Course of Fifteen Lectures on Medical Botany ... Delivered in Cincinnati Ohio ....
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Robinson, S
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Very good.
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Columbus: Jarvis Pike & Co., 1835. First Printing in Columbus.. Full contemporary leather.. Very good.. 12mo, 205, [1 - blank], [2 - contents & references] pp. Robinson was the leading proponent of the Thomsonian system in the mid-west. There is no evidence that Robinson actually practiced medicine. Between 1828 and 1831 he listed himself in the the Cincinnati Directory as a lecturer in philosophy and history. But in 1829 he announced a series of lectures on Thomson's botanic system of medicine. Atwater #2994; see Hall, The People's Doctors for numerous references.
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POT LUCK by Clark, Roland

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POT LUCK
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Clark, Roland
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West Hartford, VT: The Countryman Press, 1945. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Clark, Roland. 124 of 150 copies, signed by Clark, with signed frontispiece etching. Black quarter leather, red boards, fine condition. Owner blind-stamp ffe. Slipcase with pictorial pastedown with a little wear to corners and edges.
Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend. Enthaltend 30 colorirte Blätter auf cartonirt Papier mit Abbildungen verschiedenartiger Gegenstände

Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend. Enthaltend 30 colorirte Blätter auf cartonirt Papier mit Abbildungen verschiedenartiger Gegenstände by Schreiber, J. F.

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Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend. Enthaltend 30 colorirte Blätter auf cartonirt Papier mit Abbildungen verschiedenartiger Gegenstände
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Schreiber, J. F.
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 30 double-sheet chromolithographs, richly colored. 16 pp of text in rear, the signature of which is a tad loose. Pictorial printed cover, soiled, brown cloth spine. Internals better than usually seen.
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Holy Bible .. by BIBLE

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Holy Bible ..
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BIBLE
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1811. BIBLE. The Holy Bible.... Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1811. 12mo. Unpaginated. Contemporary sprinkled sheep with a stencilled central oval on the front and rear covers. Front hinge tender, rear cracking a bit, top and bottom of spine chipped, overall moderate foxing and browning. A good example of an early American stencilled binding. Hills 193; S&S 22355.
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Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston by BIGELOW, JACOB

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Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston
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BIGELOW, JACOB
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
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1824. BIGELOW, JACOB. Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and its Vicinity ... Second Edition Greatly Enlarged.... Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., 1824. 5, [3], 422, [2] p. Original boards, untrimmed; neatly rebacked. Some foxing, top blank margin of final leaf neatly repaired. In 1814 Bigelow published the first edition of Florula Bostoniensis--a modest volume dealing with the flora within a ten-mile radius of Boston. By 1824 he had explored the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, and this greatly enlarged second edition became the standard manual of New England botany until the appearance of Gray's work in 1848. Shoemaker 15401; Meisel III, p. 373.
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Collection of 21 Political Pamphlets. by Webster, Daniel, et al.

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Collection of 21 Political Pamphlets.
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Webster, Daniel, et al.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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8vo, leather spine and tips with marbled boards, some illustrations, gilt lines on spine. Light edge wear, some cracking to leather spine, remnant of small label on spine, manuscript index on front pastedown, ink number at the foot of second page, scattered light foxing, a couple of pages trimmed close with slight letter loss, occasional staining; otherwise very good. This is a fairly broad collection of 21 early 19th century American political pamphlets. The collection includes two speeches by Daniel Webster to the Senate in 1834, The Jubilee of the Constitution by John Quincy Adams (1839), Governor Samuel Young's Oration July 4th 1840, Hugh L. White Resignation Letter (1840), and an Address and Suppressed Report, New Jersey Case, 1840. Also included is a copy of The National Magazine and Republican Review (1839), Pictures of the Times (illustrated), Coleman's Monthly Miscellany July 1839 (illustrated), Sermon at Williams College by Edward D, Griffin (1827), and an Address of the Louisiana Native American Association (1839). An abbreviated manuscript list of the articles is included on the front pastedown.
Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, June 9, 1866. Vol. X. No, 493.

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, June 9, 1866. Vol. X. No, 493. by [Harper’s Weekly].

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Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, June 9, 1866. Vol. X. No, 493.
Author
[Harper’s Weekly].
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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Folio, newspaper, illustrated, 353-368 pp. Chips, tears and folds in margins, spine and edges, a couple of pieces missing from margins throughout, but not affecting text or images, some aging, finger soiling and browning to contents, despite its faults this issue is in basically good shape. This issue contains two Thomas Nast cartoons. One illustrates the loss in value of Confederate money. A full-page engraving shows the burning of the Academy of Music in NYC. Another full-page engraving presents an early military steam ship.
Autograph letter signed to E. & F. N. Spon

Autograph letter signed to E. & F. N. Spon by Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston

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Autograph letter signed to E. & F. N. Spon
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Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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1873. Very Good. Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston (1818-81). A.L.s. to Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon. New York, September 12, 1873. 1 page. 252 x 197 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. To the London publishers of Latimer Clark's Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement (1868), asking permission to quote from that work and from Clark and Sabine's Electrical Tables and Formulae (1871). Shaffner, a free-lance telegraph promoter, was in the process of revising his own Telegraph Manual (1859). Origins of Cyberspace 196. .
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The life and letters of George John Romanes. . . edited by his wife.; Romanes, E., ed by Romanes, George John

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The life and letters of George John Romanes. . . edited by his wife.; Romanes, E., ed
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Romanes, George John
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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London: Longmans..., 1896. New edition.
Engraved Portrait by Sharp after Beach

Engraved Portrait by Sharp after Beach by Cuming, Guilelmus

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Engraved Portrait by Sharp after Beach
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Cuming, Guilelmus
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Plate: 155x123 mm. Margin: 199x143 mm. Faint soiling, edges trimmed.
Advertisement For A Sutro Baths Swimming Race Featuring Australian Champion Charles Cavill

Advertisement For A Sutro Baths Swimming Race Featuring Australian Champion Charles Cavill by (SUTRO BATHS RACES)

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Advertisement For A Sutro Baths Swimming Race Featuring Australian Champion Charles Cavill
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(SUTRO BATHS RACES)
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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(SUTRO BATHS). Located in San Francisco, Sutro Baths was the largest indoor swimming venue in the world when it opened in March 1896. It was owned by San Francisco mayor Adolph Sutro (1830-1898). Sutro Baths burned to the ground in 1966.An advertisement for an August 30, 1896 swimming tournament at the newly-opened Sutro Baths in San Francisco. The headliner of the event was Charles Cavill (1870-1897), a member of the noted Australian Cavill family of champion swimmers. This was Cavills first American appearance; he would drown in California the following year. Prominent American swimmers were also featured. The poster is in good condition with several water stains and chipping to the margins.
Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey, as Well as Current Events, 1838

Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey, as Well as Current Events, 1838 by [Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion

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Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey, as Well as Current Events, 1838
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[Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion
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Auger Down Books (United States)
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Claremont, 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont, New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. Fine. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont, New Hampshire, defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837, which apparently had been the subject of previous correspondence between the two. She makes an interesting reference to “female rights,” which she says she does not support, perhaps also in reference to an earlier conversation. She writes, “Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city, and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this, undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We, as individuals, it is true, felt the change and with others echoed the cry, 'hard times', but still in comparison with many, suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise, we retrenched our expenses, adopting this plain sentiment, 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics, however, interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic, I confess, but being neither an advocate of female rights, and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence, I leave such like, to father and Congress. “ The next section contains a detailed defense of the yankee character:”And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you, Cousin, suppose us to be an antisocial class of people, & in order to lead you to a different conclusion, I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends, is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings, is perhaps equally so; but may not this, in the end, result to mutual benefit? if a friendship is longer in maturing, will it not stand a longer & severer test? and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater, than those based upon supposed merit, liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence? A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings, though concealed by a cold exterior, can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains', we have imbibed a free, independent spirit both in thought & action.” She also discusses the prospect of visiting Newark, and writes that it is perhaps more appealing in her imagination than in reality. Overall an interesting rumination on the culture of New England and a woman’s perception of life further south during the period. $300 Full transcription follows: My Dear Cousin, The receipt of your kind letter was to me a new and fertile source of gratification. Crowding thoughts that stranger hearts might yet be endeared in the sweet influences of friendship, that we though far separated might commune on themes of kindred interest and kindred feeling, that I occupied a place in the memory and affections of one under the fond appellation, Cousin, combined to excite deep and lively emotions and brighten the pleasing visions of the future. As long-tried friends, we cannot recall the thoughts and sports of our school-going days; the past is a blank in our acquaintance, which memory regrets, but for which the present, will most cheerfully make amends. Natural impulses of feeling prompt me to lay aside reserve and must excuse me, if I betray a spirit of egotism, or selfishness by placing ourselves first in importance and write of present plans and expectations. Your father speaks of the severe effects the course of the administration has had upon your city, and consequently upon the high-raised hopes of her citizens; this, undoubtedly is true in regard to all; all have been involved as it were in one general ruin and all have suffered. We, as individuals, it is true, felt the change and with others echoed the cry, 'hard times', but still in comparison with many, suffered little. Embarked in no dangerous enterprise, we retrenched our expenses, adopting this plain sentiment, 'to want no more than may suffice and make that little do'. Politics, however, interest me only as it affects my father's purse and deprives me of pleasure. Not very patriotic, I confess, but being neither an advocate of female rights, and having a proper sense of the small amount of my influence, I leave such like, to father and Congress. In regard to our long contemplated visit, I am allowed Hobson's choice, or in other words may stay at home and be content. A dear Aunt in the last stages of consumption has required the close attention of my mother for the last four weeks; this, with the advanced state of the season, the numerous calls in my father's profession will render a journey for the present altogether impracticable. Of the general character of the society of your more favored region I have ever entertained the highest opinion. Where superior natural advantages exist, we are accustomed to associate with them, ideas of a people of a truly open-hearted, warm and generous temperament & in so doing are seldom mistaken. Newark and its sister city has, in imagination, presented many attractions. The unrivalled beauty of the scenery of New York and its environs, the works of art as well as nature, a desire of novelty, have contributed to form a very agreeable picture & make me ardently wish to partake of the hospitality and luxuries of your land; but those I must forego and persuade myself that the pleasures of anticipation are greater than those of participation until circumstances are favorable or I can show a more adventurous spirit than at present. And now allow me to follow somewhat in your train of thought and speak a good word for the Yankees. With that characteristic trait of a 'thorough-going-Yankee-Down-Easter' I have guessed that you, Cousin, suppose us to be an antisocial class of people, & in order to lead you to a different conclusion, I will attempt a slight delineation of sectional character. That we are cautious in the choice of friends, is true; & that this caution may be carried so far as to give the impression that we are cold and retiring in our feelings, is perhaps equally so; but may not this, in the end, result to mutual benefit? if a friendship is longer in maturing, will it not stand a longer & severer test? and are not the pleasures arising from a friendship founded on a knowledge of character greater, than those based upon supposed merit, liable to be broken by any trivial occurrence? A cold climate has not exerted its influences over the generous sympathies of our hearts & the social feelings, though concealed by a cold exterior, can be aroused and glow with as much warmth as in a softer clime. 'Nestled among the mountains', we have imbibed a free, independent spirit both in thought & action. As to honesty, little can be said; the venders of wooden nutmegs and pumpkin seeds have in this point injured us much. Pumpkin seeds, reminds me of a partial promise of a "Pumpkin Pie'. Now I can pledge you, in return, not only a pie from one of the sweetest pumpkins of the valley of the Connecticut, but the many good things that accompany it, & which make it so grateful to the true Yankee. I would mention some of the peculiarities & delights of N.E., but my limits will not permit. Accept my warmest thanks for opening a correspondence, & be assured that I will cheerfully, very cheerfully contribute in my sober way as often as is agreeable to yo. Remember that a friendly letter from you will beguile the long evenings that are fast coming & receive the best wishes of us all. Affectionately Yours, Marion Richards [to] Sarah C. Richards. Claremont, Oct. 11th, 1838.
THE BOAT OF QUIET HOURS

THE BOAT OF QUIET HOURS by KENYON, Jane

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THE BOAT OF QUIET HOURS
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KENYON, Jane
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9780915308873
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Very Good+.
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St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1986. First Edition. Very Good+.. Signed first edition of the poet's third collection of verse - Kenyon's signature is increasingly uncommon. Wraps. 8vo. Very good plus in wraps. Shallow crease to rear cover, close inspection only. Small bump at spine. Two small faint stains to foredge. All unobtrusive. Else a bright and sound example. SIGNED by author Kenyon to title page.
LATE JULY

LATE JULY by JOHNSEN, Gretchen

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LATE JULY
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JOHNSEN, Gretchen
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ISBN
9780961909772
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Near fine.
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(Washington, D.C.): (Edge Books), 1996. First Edition. Near fine.. First printing collection of poems by Johnsen, from the publisher of AERIAL magazine. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine with light toning to top edge. Sharp, clean throughout. 14pp.
SEAMUS HEANEY (ca. late-1980s) Set of 2 portraits

SEAMUS HEANEY (ca. late-1980s) Set of 2 portraits by Bobbie Hanvey

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SEAMUS HEANEY (ca. late-1980s) Set of 2 portraits
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Bobbie Hanvey
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Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
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Near Fine
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Bobbie Hanvey. No binding. Near Fine. Np: Bobbie Hanvey, ca. late-1980s. Pair of vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photos, both with photographer credit affixed to verso. Near fine. Two portraits of the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013), who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". (Wikipedia)
ALONG LIFE'S WAY

ALONG LIFE'S WAY by BARTLETT, Anne Sinclair

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Title
ALONG LIFE'S WAY
Author
BARTLETT, Anne Sinclair
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Published by the Author, 1965. BARTLETT, Anne Sinclair. ALONG LIFE'S WAY. A Book Of Reminiscences And Travels. [Beamsville, Ontario, Canada: Published by the Author, 1965]. Small 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Bartlett on the front endpaper. Near fine (another non-authorial Christmas presentation on front endpaper, dated 1965); few small tears d/j. $175.00.
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Les enfants du Limon, roman by Queneau, Raymond

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Title
Les enfants du Limon, roman
Author
Queneau, Raymond
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Gallimard, 1938. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers, some separation at the front joint, but a very good copy. Service de presse copy, indicated on title page and back wrapper.
The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life

The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life by THACKERAY, William Makepeace; Miss M. T. WIGGLESORTH

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Title
The Orphan of Pimlico. A Moral Tale of Belgravian Life
Author
THACKERAY, William Makepeace; Miss M. T. WIGGLESORTH
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Text block partly cracked, rear joint split, other lighter wear at extremities
Description
London: Smith Elder, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Text block partly cracked, rear joint split, other lighter wear at extremities. Folio. Illustrated by the author. Original green quarter morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered, grey printed boards, top edges gilt. First edition.
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BARNES' WIRE CHECK ROWER. FIRST AND ONLY ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL WIRE CHECK ROWER EVER INVENTED. DIRECTIONS FOR USING. MANUFACTURED BY CHAMBERS, BERING, QUINLAN cO., DECATUR, ILLINOIS by Chambers, Bering, Quinlan Co.

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Title
BARNES' WIRE CHECK ROWER. FIRST AND ONLY ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL WIRE CHECK ROWER EVER INVENTED. DIRECTIONS FOR USING. MANUFACTURED BY CHAMBERS, BERING, QUINLAN cO., DECATUR, ILLINOIS
Author
Chambers, Bering, Quinlan Co.
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Decatur: Republican Job Rooms Print, 1883. 3.5" x 6". 15, [1] pp, illustrations. Wrapper title [as issued]. Original printed blue wrappers [light wear], stitched. Rear wrapper with illustration of a farmer using the check rower, with two horses. Light wear and age toning. Good+. Several text illustrations, instructions for usage, explanation of Company products. Chambers, Bering, Quinlan Company manufactured the Barnes' Wire Check Rower, Brown's Elliptical Hog Rings, The Champion Hog Ringer, and many more farming implements. The Decatur Daily Republican included a number of advertisements for the Company in the early 1880's. Not on OCLC, or in Winterthur, Romaine.
Book Collecting: a Comprehensive Guide - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Book Collecting: a Comprehensive Guide - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Ahearn, Allen and Patricia

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Title
Book Collecting: a Comprehensive Guide - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Ahearn, Allen and Patricia
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780399140495
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399140492 . A first Edition/First Printing, Fine in a like dust-jacket; This book is a comprehensive guide to collecting books. It covers everything from the basics of book collecting to more in-depth topics such as bookbinding and paper collecting. The book is packed with images and comprehensive listings of books and book dealers around the world.; 8vo; 480 pages; Price? ? ? .
The View from Highway 1: Essays on Television - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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The View from Highway 1: Essays on Television - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Arlen, Michael J.

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Title
The View from Highway 1: Essays on Television - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Arlen, Michael J.
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780374283711
Condition
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0374283710 . A Handsome first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition in a scuffed Near Fine dust-jacket; The View from Highway 1: Essays on Television is a book of essays about television. The essays cover a variety of topics, from the history of television to reviews of television shows.; 8vo; 293 pages .
The Care of Time
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The Care of Time by Ambler, Eric

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Title
The Care of Time
Author
Ambler, Eric
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780374118976
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in publisher's original quarter maroon cloth with blue paper boards and spine stamped in gilt. 6 x 9 inches. 277 pages.
The Guns at Last Light; The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

The Guns at Last Light; The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Atkinson, Rick

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Title
The Guns at Last Light; The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Author
Atkinson, Rick
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780805062908
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Henry Holt, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Volume III of the Liberation Trilogy.
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A Testament by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Title
A Testament
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Bramhall House. n.d. 254p., 210 b/w illus., quarto format, dj. An undated reprint of the 1957 edition.
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To Which are Added Two Brief Dissertations; 1 on Personal Identity. 2 on the Nature of Virtue

The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To Which are Added Two Brief Dissertations; 1 on Personal Identity. 2 on the Nature of Virtue by Butler, Joseph

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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To Which are Added Two Brief Dissertations; 1 on Personal Identity. 2 on the Nature of Virtue
Author
Butler, Joseph
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good Minus
Description
London: J.F. Dove, 1828. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. Includes an account of the character and writings of the author by Samuel Halifax. Very good minus in brown paper covered boards with brown cloth spine and paper title label to spine. This book has been amateurly rebacked with the repair visible along both joints. The bottom edges of both boards are dampstained; however, there is only water damage to the bottom edges of the first and last few pages. There is chipping to the spine, wear to the edges, and minor soiling to the boards. Occasional spots of foxing to the interior and offsetting from the frontis to the title page. Overall, the interior is clean. The binding is tight. Octavo. 287 pages. REL/121812.
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Small Arms. by Wilkinson, Frederick.

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Title
Small Arms.
Author
Wilkinson, Frederick.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Ward Lock Limited, [1970]. Signed and inscribed by author. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 256 pp. Illustrated. Fine, with a Near-Fine (price-clipped) dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Contents: Introduction; The Story of Small Arms; Techniques of the Gunsmith; Accessories and Extras; Collectors and Collecting; Fakes and Copies; Repairs and Restoration; Books and Collections; The Matchlock; The Wheellock; The Flintlock; The Percussion Lock; Index.
PURPLE CANE ROAD

PURPLE CANE ROAD by Burke, James Lee

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Title
PURPLE CANE ROAD
Author
Burke, James Lee
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780752825571
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Orion, 2000. First edition, first prnt. Precedes the US edition. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burke's eleventh Dave Robicheaux novel. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.
Dillinger (Original photograph from a re-release of the 1973 film)

Dillinger (Original photograph from a re-release of the 1973 film) by Warren Oates, Michelle Phillips (starring); John Milius (director, screenwriter); Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman (starring)

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Title
Dillinger (Original photograph from a re-release of the 1973 film)
Author
Warren Oates, Michelle Phillips (starring); John Milius (director, screenwriter); Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1979. Vintage studio still photograph from a 1979 re-release of the 1973 film, showing Warren Oates mid-holdup, with a nun looking on with judgment on the left. A dramatization of the crimes of folk hero, midwestern bank robber, and notorious mobster John Dillinger, best known for killing five FBI agents during a shootout in Kansas City. Hot on the heels of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), a film that reignited the US public's interest in 1930s gangster films. Set and shot on location throughout Arizona and Oklahoma. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly soiled on the bottom margin.
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AMERICA'S HISTORIC HOUSES by COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL

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Title
AMERICA'S HISTORIC HOUSES
Author
COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL. AMERICA'S HISTORIC HOUSES. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful, (1967.) Folio. Cloth. Very good.
I Thought of Daisy

I Thought of Daisy by Wilson, Edmund

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Title
I Thought of Daisy
Author
Wilson, Edmund
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, light soiling and age-toning to top of text block, offsetting (discoloration) to endpapers, modest bump to upper rear corner; vintage bookseller's label (Robert N. Matlack, Upper Darby, Pa.) on rear pastedown]. The first (and only) novel by this author, a somewhat Proustian tale set in Greenwich Village in the early 1920s, in which the narrator struggles with his conflicting feelings for two women, the poet Rita Cavanagh and the chorus girl Daisy Coleman. (The former was quite obviously based on Edna St. Vincent Millay; it was even remarked upon in some contemporary reviews of the book.) One reviewer commented that the author "seems at his best in getting on paper many common experiences which have heretofore been neglected by novelists -- the shrill and discordant noise of a ten-cent-store record on a chorus girl's phonograph, the terrible ordeal of sitting through a cheap comedy at a movie palace, the joys of an undisciplined evening at Coney Island." Wilson was (and is) much better known for his literary criticism and political writings, as well as for his notorious 1946 book of interconnected stories, "Memoirs of Hecate County." .
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Cagnes. Fortin Medieval. Son Histoire by ANDRE-BONNET, Leonard

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Title
Cagnes. Fortin Medieval. Son Histoire
Author
ANDRE-BONNET, Leonard
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(-)
Description
Gap: Ophyrs, 1957. paperback. very good(-). Illustrated, folded map. 129pp., thin 8vo, printed wrappers; wrappers dust soiled, worn, pages yellowed and unopened. Gap: Editions Ophyrs, 1957. A very good (-) copy.
Without You

Without You by Weeks, Sarah

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Title
Without You
Author
Weeks, Sarah
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780060278168
Condition
As New
Description
New York: Laura Geringer, 2003 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, CD in unopened envelope on rear endpaper. A young penguin and his father receive comfort from each other as they wait for the mother penguin to return from her diving. Lovely detailed color artwork throughout.. 3rd Printing. Pictorial Boards. As New/As New. Illus. by Suzanne Duranceau. Small Oblong 4to.

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