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Bookseller: Michael Sharpe Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
Publication Date:1751
Publisher: Printed for R. Dodsley, and Sold by M. Cooper, London
Book Price: $22,500.00
Woodcut mourning rules on title-page and repeated as head-piece.Bound by Rivière in full black levant morocco. A very good, clean copy of one of the most famous poems in the English language and an important precursor of the Romantic movement. Gray had circulated his Elegy in manuscript among his friends, but had resisted publication until Horace Walpole inadvertently let the text fall into the hands of William Owen, who intended to print the poem, identifying Gray as the author, in his Magazine of Magazines.
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SOLD - The Romance of The League (Chapters One to Eight)
Mary M. Bagot Stack
Bookseller: Gary Walker
Publication Date:1935
Publisher: The Women's League of Health and Beauty
Book Price: $1,750.00 (SOLD)
Very Rare Black Card Cover book still in Very Good or better condition. Superb silver raised figure of a woman leaping on the front cover. Very art deco in design. Illustrated with photographs. One full page photograph of The Women's League's first march into Hyde Park, June 1930. Another of "Prunella's Production in the Albert Hall." On page Thirty-Eight near the rear of the book it states, "(Mrs. Bagot Stack was taken seriously ill shortly after this last chapter was written, and she died without completing "The Romance." Other than the staples being rusty this incredibly rare piece of history from the Women's Movement is still in fabulous condition. Pages are lovely and clean. |
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Kenneth Roberts
Bookseller: Town's End Books, ABAA/ILAB
Publication Date:1930
Publisher: Doubleday Doran, Garden City
Book Price: $1,980 (SOLD)
First Edition, signed and inscribed by Kenneth Roberts. Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with orange text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. Roberts complained so bitterly about this jacket that the publisher (Doubleday) had to remove the book from the market to have a new jacket designed and painted by N.C. Wyeth applied. Any collector of Roberts' books aspires to have a first edition copy of this title in the first state dust jacket; however, to have such a copy signed by Roberts is truly remarkable.
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Bookseller: Robert Dagg Rare Books, ABAA
Publication Date:1936
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London
Book Price: $2,500.00
First English Edition. Preliminary leaves significantly foxed with some scattered light foxing throughout text. Cloth a little faded at spine. Minor edgewear to cloth. A very good book otherwise in a superb, near fine dust jacket faintly creased at spine, but completely unfaded and unchipped. A very scarce book in jacket. This 1936 story of a young man drawn into labor disputes between migrants workers and apple orchard landowners |
Bookseller: G.F. Wilkinson Books
Publication Date:1896
Publisher: Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith
Book Price: $3,500.00
First Edition, one of 300 copies printed by William Morris. According to the notes section in Peterson, both poems were originally attributed to Chaucer. The first bound copy of the book arrived at Kelmscott House an hour or two before Morris' death.
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Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Publication Date:1963
Publisher: Coward-McCann, New York
Book Price: $8,625.00
First Edition, signed by author. Superb archive of material related to the first African American to serve as a policy-making aide in the White House. Includes a Review Copy of Morrow's book with Letters to the Author from Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Rockefeller, and Lindsay. |
Bookseller: Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks
Publication Date:1881
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company NY
Book Price: $1,000.00
First Edition. Brown pictorial cloth boards with Brer Rabbit stamped in bright gilt on front, bright gilt spine titles, pretty green butterfly and flower endpapers. Has "presumptive" bottom of page 9, advert for A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine on page 233.
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Bookseller: Daniel Baumgartner
Publication Date:1914
Publisher: Press of Review Publishing Co., Roseburg, Or.
Book Price: $2,000.00
1914 First Edition in wrappers.Jesse Applegate was the leader of the "Cow Column" of the Great Migration of 1843 on the Oregon Trail. He later surveyed the route that became known as the Applegate Trail. He was instrumental in the push for Oregon statehood, and was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention of 1857 as a representative of Umpqua County. |
Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1708
Publisher: Jean Crellius
Book Price: $7,500.00 (SOLD)
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The Second Edition. The First French Language edition after the First Edition in Latin (1708). This copy once belonging to the Earls of Port Arlington and bears their armorial bookplate to front pastedown; With motto, Vitae Via Virtus; Emo Park Library. Complete as issued.
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Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1963
Publisher: Harper & Row
Book Price: $750.00
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Elaborate multi-chromatic decorative borders to each page. Lavishly bound in sumptuous tri-gilt ruled full crimson calfskin. Gilt tooled fleurette motifs to corners of front and rear covers. Elaborate gilt ruled spine compartments with intensely ornate gilt tooled fleural vignettes. |
Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1953
Publisher: Ballentine Books, Inc.
Book Price: $2,500.00
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First Edition. 8vo. Bound in Publisher's redcloth with stylized yellow titles. Headpiece rubbed, tailpiece slightly so. Previous owners small, neat ink signature to front pastedown. Tiny bookstore sticker to bottom of front pastedown. A fine crisp copy in very good original, un-clipped dustwrapper.
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Bookseller: Bauman Rare Books
Publication Date:1963
Publisher: Harper & Row
Book Price: $35,000.00 (SOLD)
Scarce first edition in first-issue dust jacket inscribed by the acclaimed author-illustrator on the half title to fellow children’s author Natalie Babbitt and her family, “For the Babbitts—affectionately, Maurice Sendak, Oct. ’70,” with his large original sketch of one of his wild things shouting, “Boo!” Scattered light soiling to interior, inner hinges with expert repair. Dust jacket with expert restoration. An exceptionally rare, most desirable inscribed copy with a wonderful drawing and a fine children’s literature association. |
Bookseller: Treasure Island Books
Publication Date:1987
Publisher: Scandinavia
Book Price: $1,500.00
Elusive and beautifully illustrated inspirational book signed by author/illustator Birgitta Yavari-Ilan. Particularly collectible as she noted her inscription on our copy is the first of 200. Inspirational quotes from religious sources (both Western and Eastern religions) as well as poets, scientists, and philosophers.
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Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1848
Publisher: Green and Spencer
Book Price: $450.00
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Illustrated throughout with 175 hand-coloured and monochrome plates after engravings. Volumes 1,2, and 3 (of 4). Thick 8vo's bound in full calfskin. Gilt ruled spine compartments with raised bands. Black morocco labels with gilt tooled titles. Marbled endsheets. A superb, alebit, incomplete set of Strong's epic work.
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Bookseller: Grafton Books
Publication Date: 1941
Publisher: Collins Crime Club, London
Book Price: $825.75
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This is a fine work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie. Published in 1941 in Great Britain, this is a Collins Crime Club Edition and a first edition. The book comes with an eye catching dust jacket and Brodart cover but does have a piece of dust jacket missing on the lower spine.
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Bookseller: The Family Album, ABAA
Publication Date:1550
Publisher: Alexander und Samuel Weissenhorn
Book Price: $3,750.00
Two volumes in one. Title page in red and black; framed with an impressive woodcut ornamented pictorial renaissance border. Numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Handsome woodcut gothic initials. Some damp and age stain. Isolated page repairs. Thick quarto. 212 x 315 mm.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1924
Publisher: Thomas Tegg/r. Griffin and Co., Glasgow
Book Price: $950.00
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This 2 (two) volume set was published in 1924. Dark Brown straight grain Morocco Beautifully decorated in gild and blind stamping. 8 raised bands on gild stamped spine. |
Bookseller: Athena Rare Books, ABAA
Publisher: George H. Doran
Book Price: $28,500.00
Published by George H. Doran, this hardcover book is in good condition and does not have a dust jacket. Bound in green cloth with purple lettering, this book contains 16 beautifully illustrated tipped-in color plates.
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1984
George Orwell
Bookseller: Idler Fine Books, ABA, IOBA.
Publication Date: 1949
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Book Price: $8,500.00
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First printing of the First British Edition, original light green cloth, spine lettered in red, in red dust jacket, with the publisher's price listed on the inside front flap, 312pp. The book and dust jacket are in near fine with some tanning to spine of book and jacket; professional restoration along the edges and panels of jacket, highly collectible thus.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publisher: George H. Doran
Book Price: $200.00
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Published by George H. Doran, this hardcover book is in good condition and does not have a dust jacket. Bound in green cloth with purple lettering, this book contains 16 beautifully illustrated tipped-in color plates.
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SOLD - The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner, Margaret Armour (translator), Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
Bookseller: Grafton Books
Publication Date: 1910
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London
Book Price: $1403.15 (SOLD)
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Bound in cream vellum with gold gilt lettering and decs. Staining and general wear to front and back covers, and spine. Ribbon missing. Limited edition number 839 of 1150. 34 tipped-in colour plates with tissues intact.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1795
Publisher: W. Bulmer and Co, London
Book Price: $495.00
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A First (1st) Edition hardcover in Good condition. Full polished Calf boards ruled in gilt title and spine gilt over black gilt devices tooled in six compartments on spine, this includes beautifully marbled end papers.
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SOLD - Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1923
Publisher: Leon Pichon
Book Price: $3,000.00 (SOLD)
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This spectacular edition was limited to only 460 numbered copies of which this is number 38. Illustrated with 17 full page lithographs by Ethel Gabain. Folio (11" x 15"). Text in English. Spectacularly bound in full tri-gilt ruled, straight grain morocco. Tri-gilt ruled spine compartments. Gilt ruled raised bands. Gilt titles. Extremely elaborate gilt tooled turn-ins with brown moire insets. Marbled endsheets.
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SOLD - The Gallery of Byron Beauties; Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in Lord Byron's Poems.
Lord Byron
Bookseller: Heldfond Book Gallery, Ltd. ABAA , ILAB
Publication Date:1864
Publisher: David Bogue
Book Price: $1,250.00 (SOLD)
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Illustrated with 39 Superb tissue-guarded full page hand-coloured plates. 4to. 6.5" x 10". Lavishly bound in full blind and black embossed calfskin.Ornate fleural motifs to spine, front and rear covers. Raised bands. Gilt titles. All edges gilded. Covers moderately rubbed. |
SOLD - Theopile Gautier: Poesies Completes: Tome Premier & Deuxieme
Theopile Gautier
Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1876
Publisher: Charpentier et Cie, Paris France
Book Price: $75.00 (SOLD)
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This is a 2-volume set with marbled boards and leather spines, note that end endpapers are browning. This 2 volume edition of Gautier's "Poesies Completes" includes the long narrative poem "Albertus", "Poesies Diverses", "La Comedie de la Mort", the travel-inspired collection "Espana", and "Poesies Inedites - Poesies Posthumes". During his lifetime, Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) produced works of poetry, drama, fiction, journalism and literary criticism.
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