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1.     Bell, Quenten. Bloomsbury Recalled. New York:  Columbia University Press, (1995).  4th printing of this edition.  Octavo, softbound, [xviii], 234, [1] pp.  Plates.  Near-Fine.    $7.00

2.    Bell, Quenten.  Virginia Woolf, A Biography.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1972).  Octavo, gray cloth, xiii, [v], 556 pp.  Good, a clean copy with a bit of a spine crease and dust jacket panels taped to endpapers.      $10.00

3.    Caws, Mary Ann.  Virginia Woolf.  Woodstock:  The Overlook Press, (2002).  1st edition.  Octavo, black boards, [viii], 136 pp.  Photos, color illus.  Fine in dust jacket.    $10.00

4.    De-La-Noy, Michael.  Eddy:  The Life of Edward Sackville-West.  London:  The Bodley Head, (1988).  1st edition.  Octavo, tan boards, [xiv], 341 pp.  Photos.  Fine in dust jacket.                $10.00

5.    Green, Henry [pseud. of Henry Vincent Yorke.].  Back, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1946.  1st edition.  Small octavo, gray cloth, 208 pp.  Near-Fine, a remarkably handsome copy with a touch of toning along hinges, in a Fine dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and mylar protector.    $275.00

6.    Green, Henry.  Back.  New York:  Viking, 1950.  1st American edition.  Octavo, green cloth with red lettering, [vi], 247 pp.  Fine in original red dust jacket with mylar protector.      $30.00

7.    Green, Henry.  Blindness.  London:  J. M. Dent & Sons, 1926.  1st edition.  Author’s first book.  Octavo, blue cloth, vii, [1], 254, [1], [1 blank], [8 ads, dated Autumn 1926] pp.  Very Good, clean and tight, with spine dull, front cover of original color-illustrated dust jacket pasted inside rear cover, bookplate of John Pym.    $975.00

8.    Green, Henry.  Blindness.  New York:  E. P. Dutton, (1926).  1st American edition.  Octavo, gray cloth with black lettering, vii, [1 blank], [1]-286 pp.  Near-Fine, in a Very ood dust jacket with mylar protector.    $500.00

9.    Green, Henry.  Caught, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1943.  1st edition.  Octavo, red cloth, [vi], 5-196 pp.  Fine, with a small former-owner signature, in the Leonard Rosoman jacket with a few small chips, in a mylar protector.    $175.00

10.    Green, Henry.  Caught, A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1952.  From the British sheets.  Octavo, two-toned cloth, [vi], 5-196 pp.  Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with some minor chips, in a mylar protector.    $40.00

11.    Green, Henry.  Concluding, A Novel.  London;  The Hogarth Press, 1948.  1st edition.  Octavo, blue cloth, [iv], 5-254 pp.  Very Good in a Fine Mona Moore dust jacket with mylar protector.    $50.00

12.    Green, Henry.  Concluding, A Novel.   New York:  Viking, 1950.  1st American edition.  Octavo, tywo-toned cloth, [iv], 5-254 pp.  Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.    $75.00

13.    Green, Henry.  Doting.  New York;  Viking, 1952.  1st American edition.  Octavo, tan boards with brown lettering, [iv], 248 pp.  Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.    $40.00    

14.    Green, Henry.  Living.  New York:  E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929.  1st American edition, from the British sheets.  Octavo, gray cloth, [vi], 269 pp.  Author’s second book.  Very Good.    
        $150.00

15.    Green, Henry.  Living, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1953.  3rd printing.  Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, [vi], 269, [1] pp.  Near-Fine, with former-owner signature, in a Fine dust jacket.    $100.00

16.    Green, Henry.  Loving, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1945.  1st edition.  Octavo, blue cloth, [iv], 5-229 pp.  Very Good, wartime paper has some toning, in the John Piper jacket that lacks much of its spine, in a mylar protector.    $50.00

17.    Green, Henry.  Loving, A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1949.  1st American edition.  Octavo, yellow cloth, [iv], 248 pp.  Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with 1-inch tape stains front and rear panels, in a mylar protector.    $40.00

18.    Green, Henry.  Loving, A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1949.  3rd printing.  Octavo, yellow cloth, [iv], 248 pp.  Near-Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with several small chips, in a mylar protector.    $25.00

19.    Green, Henry.  Loving, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1950.  4th impression.  Octavo, tan cloth, [iv], 5-229 pp.  Near-Fine, with a former-owner signature, in the John Piper jacket with several small chips, in a mylar protector.    $40.00

20.    Green, Henry.  Nothing, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1950.  1st edition.  Octavo, red cloth, [iv], 246 pp.  Fine in a price-clipped Lynton Lamb dust jacket with a one-inch chip at head of its spine, and in a mylar protector.    $200.00

21.    Green, Henry.  Nothing.  New York:  Viking, (1950).  1st American edition.  Octavo, gray cloth with red lettering, [iv], 250 pp.  Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.    $35.00

22.    Green, Henry.  Nothing, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, (1950).  2nd impression.  Octavo, pink cloth, [iv], 247 pp.  Near-Fine, with a former-owner signature, in a Very Good dust jacket designed by Lynton Lamb with a few small chips, in a mylar protected cover.    $35.00

23.    Green, Henry.  Pack My Bag, A Self-Portrait.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1940.  1st edition.  One of 1,500 copies.  Octavo, blue cloth, 246 pp.  Near-Fine, with slight toning to endpapers and a former-owner signature, in a first issue dust jacket with its spine somewhat darkened, with a mylar protector.    $975.00

24.    Green, Henry.  Pack My Bag, A Self-Portrait.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1940.  1st edition.  One of 1,500 copies.  Octavo, blue cloth, 246 pp.  Very Good, spine slightly darkened, light shelf wear.    $100.00

25.    Green, Henry.  Pack My Bag, A Self-Portrait.  Introduced by Sebastian Yorke [the son of the author].  New York:  New Directions, (1992).  Octavo, red cloth, xiii, 242 pp.  Fine in dust jacket.        $25.00

26.    Green, Henry.  Party Going, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1939.  1st edition.  Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 255 pp.  A Fine copy, bearing a neat former-owner signature, in very nice, fully in tact dust jacket designed by John Banting that has its spine somewhat toned, in a mylar protector.      $1,000.00

27.    Green, Henry.  Party Going, A Novel.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1939.  2nd Impression.  Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 255 pp.  Very Good, a touch  of foxing to front endpaper.              $100.00

28.    Green, Henry.  Party Going, A Novel.  New York:  Viking, 1951.  2nd printing.  Octavo, two-toned cloth, 255 pp.  Near-Fine in a dust jacket that has a badly sunned spine, and with  similar strip along the lower edge and fore edge of the front cover.    $25.00    

28.    Green, Henry.  Surviving:  The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green.  Edited by Matthew Yorke.  London:  Chatto & Windus, (1992).  1st edition.  Octavo, two-toned brown & black boards, xvii, 302 pp.  Fine in dust jacket.    $40.00

“Henry Green (1905-1973) was once described by W. H. Auden as ‘the finest living English novelist.’  Although his work was unjustly neglected for a number of years, he is now established as one of the most significant writers of his time, ‘a liberatingly ingenuous voice’ (in the words of John Updike) whose novels are recognized as works of genius.

“This book, which gat6hers together a selection of his uncollected writings, is therefore a literary event of considerable importance, and a cause for celebration.  Including a number of stories never before published, written during the 20s and 30s ..., it also features a highly entertaining account of Henry Green’s service in the London Fire Brigade during WWII; a shorty play written in the 1950s; and a selection of his journalism, including a group of revealing articles about the craft of writing, a marvelous evocation of Venice, a description of falling in love, reviews which illuminate Henry Green’s literary enthusiasms and the entertaining interview with Terry Southern for Paris Review…

“Surviving has an introduction by John Updike, long an admirer of Green, and is edited by Green’s grandson, the novelist Matthew Yorke.  Henry Green’s son, Sebastian Yorke, has written a biographical memoir which forms an afterword, and provides an unforgettable picture of this elusive and remarkable man.”  - Front panel of the book’s dust jacket.    

29.    Hussey, Mark.  Virginia Woolf A to Z:  A Comprehensive Referencew for Students, Teachers and Common Readers to Her Life, Work and Critical Reception.  New York:  Oxford University Press, (1995).  1st softbound printing.  Octavo, softbound, [x], 452 pp.  Photos, illus.  Fine.    $10.00

30.    Reid, Panthea.  Art and Affection:  A Life of Virginia Woolf.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1996.  1st edition.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xxii, [1]-570 pp.  Frontis., photos, plates.  Fine, with a former-owner signature,  in dust jacket.    $12.00    

31.    Russell, John.  Henry Green:  Nine Novels and an Unpacked Bag.  New Brunswick:  Rutgers, (1960).  1st edition.  Octavo, cream cloth, viii, [2], 251 pp.  Near-Fine in a dust jacket with a few small chips.  Literature, literary criticism.    $20.00

32.    Sackville-West, V[irginia].  Seducers in Ecuador.  London:  Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1924.  1st edition.  One of 1,500 copies.  Small octavo. Red patterned cloth, paper spine label, uncut, [74] pp.  Near-Fine, bearing the bookplate of Louise Seaman Bechtel.  Bechtel was hired by Macmillan Company, in the early 1920s to become the first editor of a separate department devoted to the publication of children’s books.  Because of her success, other publishers added departments, and children’s publishing became a visible and profitable industry.    $200.00  

      33.    Saltmarshe, Christopher, John Davenport & Basil Wright, eds.  Cambridge Poetry 1929.  London:  Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929.  Hogarth Living Poets No. 8.  Inscribed and signed by Basil Wright, an editor.  Duodecimo, illustrated boards, uncut, [4], 5-75, [1] pp.  23 contributors, including:  Julian Bell, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, and Michael Redgrave.  Near-Fine, spine slightly darkened, very light foxing to first four leaves.        $125.00

34.    Saltmarshe, Christopher, John Davenport & Basil Wright, eds.  Cambridge Poetry 1929.  London:  Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929.  Hogarth Living Poets No. 8.  Duodecimo, illustrated boards, uncut, [4], 5-75, [1] pp.  23 contributors, including:  Julian Bell, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, and Michael Redgrave.  Very Good, spine darkened.      $100.00

35.    Treglown, Jeremy.  Romancing:  The Life and Work of Henry Green.  New York:  Random House, (2000).  1st American edition.  Octavo, two-toned gray boards, xii, [1 Contents], 331 pp.  Photos.  Fine in dust jacket.      $15.00

36.    Woolf, Leonard.  Sowing:  A Autyobiography of the Years 1880-1904.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1961.  2nd printing.  Octavo, blue cloth, [x], 11-206 pp.  Frontis., photos.  Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket, with just a touch of fading to spine,    $20.00

37.    Woolf, Leonard.  Growing:  An Autobiogrpahy of the Years 1904-1911.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1961.  1st edition.  Octavo, blue cloth, [x], 11-256 pp.  Frontis., photos.  Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, with a touch of fading a small chips at the head and foot of its spine.                $30.00

38.    Woolf, Leonard and James Strachey, eds.  Virginia Woolf & Leonard Strachey:  Letters.   London:  The Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, (1956).  1st edition, Kirkpatrick A32.  Octavo, pale tan cloth, 118, [1] pp.  Fine, in a Fine dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, with a mylar  protector.    $100.00

39.    Woolf, Leonard and James Strachey, eds.  Virginia Woolf & Leonard Strachey:  Letters.   New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1956).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A32b. Octavo, cloth & boards, vii, [3], 166 pp.  Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with small chips at its head and foot, in a mylar  protector.    $25.00

40.    Woolf, Virginia.  Between the Acts.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1941.  2nd impression, Kirkpatrick A26.  Octavo, blue cloth, 256 pp.  Near-Fine, with a bit of shelf wear to lower edge, in a Very Good third impression dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell, with small chips to head and foot of spine, with mylar protector.    $150.00

42.    Woolf, Virginia.  Between the Acts.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1941).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A26b.  Octavo, blue cloth, [vi], 3-219 pp.  Fine, with endpapers a bit toned (as often), in a Fine dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, and mylar protector.    
        $250.00

43.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays.  London:  Hogarth Press, 1950.  1st UK edition, A30b.  Octavo, cedar brown cloth, [iv], 5-[224] pp.  Near-Fine with a bit of toning along hinges, in a dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell with the spine just a bit darkened, in a mylar protector.    $50.00

44.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Common Reader:  First and Second Series Combined in One Volume.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company,  (1948).  1st American combined edition, Kirkpatrick A18c.  Octavo, blue cloth, [x], 11-332, [4], 3-295 pp.  Fine, with a brief gift inscription, in a Very Good dust jacket with a somewhat darkened spine, a small dark stain at lower panel, and several small splits and chips.    $70.00    

45.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1942.  2nd impression of Kirkpatrick A27.  Octavo, blue cloth, 157 pp.  Very Good, with a bit of fading to cover around perimeter (as usual), in a Very Good Vanessa Bell dust jacket, with a few small chips, in a mylar protector.    $50.00

46.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Companby, (1942).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A27b.  Octavo, dark green cloth, viii, [1]-248 pp.  Bearing a curious, small, penciled inscription, “Alice H. Mumford / from Miss Lamontes Bookshop.”  Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket, with a bit of darkening to spine and a few very minor chips, with mylar protector.    $175.00

47.    Woolf, Virginia.  Flush, A Biography.  London:  Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933.  1st edition, Kirkpatrick A19.  Large Paper Edition, with four original drawings by Vanessa Bell, and six other illustrations.  Octavo, tan cloth, 163 pp.  Plates, illus.  Good, covers show toning, text block shows foxing, as does an otherwise nice dust jacket with mylar protector.    $100.00

48.    Woolf, Virginia.  Granite and Rainbow, Essays.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1958.  1st edition, Kirkpatrick A34a.  Octavo. Blue cloth, [240] pp.  Fine, in Fine Vanessa Bell dust jacket, with mylar protector.    $200.00

49.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Haunted House and Other Short Stories.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1943.  1st edition, Kirkpatrick A28.  Octavo, red cloth, 124 pp.  Near-Fine, with somewhat toned wartime paper, in a Very Good Vanessa Bell dust jacket, with slight toning to the spine and a few small chips, with a mylar protector.    $200.00

50.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Haunted House and Other Short Stories.  San Diego:  Harcourt, Inc.  [ca. 1990.]  A Harvest Book.  Octavo, softbound, vii, 148,[1] pp.  Very Good.    $5.00

51.    Woolf, Virginia.  Jacob’s Room.  London:  The Hogarth Press, (1935).  2nd printing of the Uniform Edition, Kirkpatrick A6c.  Octavo, jade green cloth, [4], 7-290 pp.  Photos.  Near-Fine with some light foxing to text block and as former-owner signature, in a whole dust jacket with spine fading, in a mylar protector.    $150.00

52.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume I:  1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen).  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A44b.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xxi, [iii], 531 pp.  Photos.  Fine, square copy, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine and a mylar protector.    $25.00

53.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912-1922.  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A47b.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xxiv, [iv], 627 pp.  Fine, square copy, in a Fine, but price-clipped, dust jacket with mylar protector.    $25.00

54.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III:  1923-1928.  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A51b.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xiv, 600 pp.  Photos.  Fine, square copy, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with a mylar protector.    $25.00

55.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume IV:  1929-1931).  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A53b.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xii, 442 pp.  Photos.  Fine, square copy, bearing the bookplate of author Trudy J. Hanmer on the front flyleaf, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine and a mylar protector.    $25.00

56.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume V:  1932-1935.  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A54b.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xx, 476 pp.  Frontis.  Fine, square copy, in a Fine, bearing the bookplate of author Trudy J. Hanmer on the front flyleaf, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with a somewhat darkened spine and a mylar protector.    $25.00

57.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume VI:  1936-1941.  Editor:  Nigel Nicolson.  Assistant Editor:  Joanne Trautmann.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980).  1st American edition.  Octavo, cloth & boards, xviii, 556 pp.  Frontis.  Near-Fine, the bookplate of author Trudy J. Hanmer on front flyleaf, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with a slightly tanned spine, in a mylar protector.    $25.00

58.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Moment and Other Essays.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1948).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A29b.  Octavo, burgundy cloth, viii, 140 pp.  Fine, in Fine Vanessa Bell dust jacket, with mylar protector.    $275.00

59.    Woolf, Virginia.  Mrs. Dalloway.  London;  Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933.  1st printing of the Uniform Edition, Kirkpatrick A9d.  Octavo, bright jade green cloth, [1 half-title], [2 list of books in Uniform Edition], [3 title], [4 printing information], [5-291 numbered 7-293 text], p. 291 is numbered 293, and has printer’s imprint.  Near-Fine, with some foxing to edge of text block, in a dust jacket that id whole, but has toning to spine, in a mylar protector.    $150.00

60.    Woolf, Virginia.  Mrs. Dalloway.  Foreword by Maureen Howard.  New York:  Harcourt, Inc., (1981).  A Harvest Book.  3rd printing of this late edition.  Octavo, two-toned boards, xiv, [1]-197 pp.  Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.    $12.00

61.    Woolf, Virginia.  Night and Day.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1971.  “Ninth Impression” of Kirkpatrick A4.  Woolf’s second novel.  Octavo, green cloth, [iv], 538 pp.  Other than a large bookplate on the front fly, this is a Fine copy, in a Fine Vanessa Bell dust jacket with mylar protector.    $25.00

62.    Woolf, Virginia.  Orlando, A Biography.  London:  Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928.  1st British edition, Kirkpatrick A11b.  Octavo, orange cloth with gilt lettering, 299 pp.  Frontis. and 7 plates.  Fine, with the slightest of fading to the spine, and no dust jacket.    $500.00

63.    Woolf, Virginia.  Orlando, A Biography.  London:  Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928.  3rd  impression of the 1st British edition, Kirkpatrick A11b.  Octavo, orange cloth with gilt lettering, 299 pp.   Frontis. and 7 plates.  A Fine, remarkably bright copy, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with a few small chips, protected in a mylar jacket.    $750.00

64.    Woolf, Virginia.  Orlando, A Biography.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1948).  1st American edition, 8th impression, of Kirkpatrick A11c.  Octavo, dark green cloth, ix, [v], 13-333 pp.  Frontis. and 7 plates.  Very Good, spine faded, former-owner signature.    $25.00

65.    Woolf, Virginia.  Orlando, A Biography.  Introduction by Jeanette Winterson.  London:  The Folio Society, 2013.  1st printing of this edition.  Octavo, gilt-decorated maroon cloth, xviii, 222 pp.  Fine in slip case.    $40.00

66.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Room of One’s Own.  Forewords by Mary Gordon.  San Diego:  Harcourt Brace & Company, (1981).  A Harvest Book.  Late printing of this edition.  Octavo, softbound, xiv, [1]-114, [1] pp.  Very Good.    $5.00

67.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Room of One’s Own and Other Essays.  Selected and Introduced by Hermione Lee.  London:  Folio Society, 2000.  1st printing of this edition.  Octavo, cloth & color-illustrated boards, 416 pp.  13 color plates.  Fine in slip case.    $35.00

68.    Woolf, Virginia.  To the Lighthouse.  London:  Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932. 2nd printing of the Uniform Edition, Kirkpatrick A10c.  Octavo, bright jade green cloth, [vii], [1 blank], [9]-[320] pp.  Near-Fine, with some foxing to edges of text block and a former-owner signature, in a spine-faded dust jacket with one or two small chips to head and foot of spine, in a mylar protector.    $200.00

69.    Woolf, Virginia.  To the Lighthouse.  With an Introduction by Terence Holliday.  New York:  Modern Library, (1937).  Duodecimo, blue cloth, xiii, [v], 9-310 pp.  Near-Fine, with slightest toning to text, Very Good dust jacket with a chip at the foot of its spine.      $25.00

70.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Writer’s Diary; Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf.  Edited byt Leonard Woolf.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1953.  1st edition, Kirkpatrick A31.  Octavo, orange cloth, x, 372 pp.  Near-Fine, spine slightly faded.    $35.00

71.    Woolf, Virginia.  A Writer’s Diary; Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf.  Edited byt Leonard Woolf.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1954).  1st American edition, Kirkpatrick A31b.  Octavo, orange cloth, x, [ii], 356 pp.  This copy bears a curious, seemingly third person inscription:  “Property of / Marguerite Young / author of / Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.”  Fine in its Fine, bright  Vanessa Bell dust jacket with mylar protector.    $150.00

72.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Voyage Out.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1929.  1st printing of the first volume in the Uniform Edition, Kirkpatrick A1e.  Octavo, jade green cloth, [1 half title], [2 list of books in the Uniform Edition], [3 title], [4 printing information], [1]- 458 text, with printer’s imprint at the foot of 458.  Although the volumes in the Uniform Edition are described as a “new Edition” they are offset reprints of the first edition.  This copy bears the ownership signature of the artist-illustrator, Alma Elliott-Bayley, with the date in her hand, “April, 1930.”  Very Good, with a slight slant, and a Very Good dust jacket with fading to spine and small chips to its head and foot, with mylar protector.    $200.00

73.    Woolf, Virginia.  The Years.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1937).  12st American edition, Kirkpatrick A22b.  Octavo, blue cloth, brown label, [vi], 3-435 pp.  Near-Fine, bearing the bookplate of collector and musician Henry E. Gerstley, in a Very Good dust jacket, with a faded spine, some rubbing and several chips, in a mylar protector.    $65.00

Gerald Duckworth, founder of the publishing company that bears his name, was born in 1870.  His father died before his birth, and when he was eight, his mother married the author Leslie Stephen.  Four other children were born to the couple, including the author publisher Virginia (later Woolf), and the artist Vanessa (later Bell).  Virginia published her first two novels with her brother’s help before forming The Hogarth Press.
 

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The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book:  A Book of Old Favorites with New Illustrations.  London:  George G. Harrap & Co., (1933).  Of an edition of 460 copies, this is No. 293.  It is signed by the artist.  Octavo, gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, uncut, ribbon-marker, [1]-[287] pp.  8 color plates, 60 black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p.69.  Fine, in original slip case that lacks its back strip. $2,000.00

Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures.  With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.  London:  William Heinemann, (1913).  One of 1030 copies by the artist.  Quarto, gilt-stamped white cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, [vi], 7-43 pp. + 44 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue-guards, and ten black & white drawings.  Near-Fine, with a bit of foxing to endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 41.  $1,500.00

Barrie, J. M.  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, From The Little White Bird by. J. M. Barrie.  A New Edition Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  Hodder & Stoughton, (1912).  A reprint of the 1906 edition with the addition of a new color frontispiece, seven full-page drawings, and for the first time with the plates interspersed appropriately throughout the text.  Quarto, gilt-stamped green cloth, [x], 126 pp.  50 full page color plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 40.  Very Good; spine quite faded, former owner signature and date. $1,000.00

Barrie, J. M.  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.  With Drawings by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.  Octavo, green cloth with color illustration pasted on front cover, [x], 126 pp.  16 color plates, map.  Good; spine faded, some shelf wear, light stain near foot of fore-edge, former-owner signature. $45.00

Barrie, J. M.  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.  With Drawings by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.  Octavo, green cloth with color illustration pasted on front cover, [x], 126 pp.  16 color plates, map.  Good; spine faded, some shelf wear, slightly shaken. $45.00

Brown, Abbie Farwell.  The Lonesomest Doll.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Co., (1928).  1st edition with Rackham illustrations.  Published only in the U.S.  Octavo, illustrated tan cloth with black & orange stamping, [viii], [81] pp.  Title page and three color plates in rose and greenish blue, 26 black & whiote illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 63.  Very Good, light shelf wear. $500.00

Browning, Robert.  The Pied Piper of Hamelin.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  George G. Harrap & Co., (1934).  Of an edition of 410 copies, this is No. 192.  It is signed by the artist.  Octavo, gilt-stamped limp vellum, top edge gilt, uncut, [1]-[46 pp.  4 full page color plates, 14 black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 71.  A Fine copy, in ¾ of its original glassine jacket and slip case. $1,750.00

Carroll, Lewis.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  With a Proem by Austin Dobson.  London:  William Heinemann, n.d. [1907]  1st trade edition.  Octavo, gilt-stamped pale green cloth with black lettering, xi, [1], [162], [1] pp.  Color frontispiece and 12 additional color plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, many black & white illustrations throughout the text, illustrated endpapers.  Good; minor cover speckling, slight spine slant, and with a 1940 receipt from Argus Books. $200.00

Carroll, Lewis.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  With a Proem by Austin Dobson.  London:  William Heinemann, (1933).  “Cheaper Edition.” Octavo, pale green cloth with black illustrations and lettering, ix, [iii], 161, [1] pp.  8 color plates, many black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 29.  Near-Fine in a badly chipped dust jacket. $250.00

De la Motte Fouqué, [Friedrich].  Undine.  Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  William Heinemann, 1909.  1st edition.  Of an edition of 1,000 copies, this is No. 107.  It is signed by the artist.  Quarto, full gilt-stamped vellum, silk ties, title printed in black & green, top edge gilt, uncut, viii, [2], 3-136 pp.  Color frontispiece and 14 full color plates mounted on brown cardstock with captioned tissue guards, 30 in-text designs and illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 34.  Very Good, bearing the armorial bookplate of Alan F. Maclure; both ties present, but rear ribbon detached, spine somewhat darkened, toning to pages opposite brown sheets as usual.  $1,000.00

Dickens, Charles.  A Christmas Carol.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London & Philadelphia:  William Heinemann & J. B. Lippincott, (1915).  1st American edition.  Octavo, red cloth with black lettering and illustrations, uncut, [xi], [1]-147 pp.  12 color plates with captioned tissue-guards, 20 black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 45.  Good, some shelf wear with head and foot of spine a bit frayed, front hinge shows signs of repair. $125.00

Evans, C. S.  The Sleeping Beauty.  Told by C. S. Evans and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott, (1920).  1st American edition, from the English sheets.  Of the Edition de Luxe of 625 copies printed on handmade paper, and with an additional color plate, this is No. 553.  It is signed by the artist.  Tall octavo, vellum-backed gilt-stamped cream boards, top edge gilt, uncut, 110 pp.  Tipped-in color plate, 19 full-page silhouettes, some in color, and 41 black & white silhouette illustrations.   Latimore & Haskell, pp. 51-52.  Good; spine faded and with some discoloration, light shelf wear. $950.00

Ford, Julia Ellsworth.  Snickerty Nick.  Rhymes by Witter Bynner  Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919.  1st edition.  Octavo, light blue cloth, with black lettering, viii, 9-78, [2 blank] pp.  3 full-p[age color plates, and 10 full-page black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 50.  Near-Fine, with spine very lightly faded. $250.00    

Goldsmith, Oliver.  The Vicar of Wakefield.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  George G. Harrap & Company, (1929).  1st edition thus, an out of series variant issue of the Deluxe issue, without the limitation, signed leaf.  Quarto, gilt-stamped full vellum, top edge gilt, uncut, [iv], 5-232 pp.  Illustrated with color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and numerous black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 65.  Very Good; spine a bit faded, some light soiling to vellum. $800.00

Goldsmith, Oliver.  The Vicar of Wakefield.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  George G. Harrap & Company, (1929).  1st trade edition.  Tall octavo, gilt-stamped blue cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, [iv], 5-232 pp.  12 color plates, 22 black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 65.  Near-Fine, spine slightly dull, minor shelf wear.    $450.00

Grahame, Kenneth.  The Wind in the Willows.  With an Introduction by A. A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  The Limited Editions Club, 1940.  Of an edition of 2020 copies designed and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers, this is No. 763.  It is signed by Rogers.  Quarto, cream cloth with gilt lettering & patterned boards top edge gilt, uncut, [2], 244, [2] pp.  16 tipped in color plates.  Published posthumously, this work contains Rackham’s final (and perhaps best) illustrations.  Near-Fine, with some light soiling at front hinge and otherwise clean and tight, in its original green Very Good slip case, and with the original publisher’s pamphlet laid-in. $1,500.00
    
Grimm, Brothers [Jakob and Wilhelm].  Hansel and Grethel and Other Tales.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Garden City:  Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.  Quarto, gilt-stamped red cloth, uncut, x, [1] blank, [1] illustration, 1-[160] pp.  20 tipped-in color plates, 28 black & white illustrations.  Good, all color plates present but one is loose, spine a bit dull.  $125.00

Grimm, Brothers [Jakob and Wilhelm].  Snowdrop and Other Tales.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Gardern City:  Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.  Quarto, gilt-stamped red cloth, uncut, xii, 165 pp.  20 tipped-n color plates, 29 black & white illustrations.  Very Good, light shelf wear.    $300.00    
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  A Wonder Book.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Garden City:  Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.  1st Junior Library Edition.  Quarto, orange cloth with red lettering, [vi], vii-xi, [1] blank, [1]-[207] pp.  10 (of 15) tipped-in color plates, black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Fair; lacks five color plates, head of spine pulled, spine dull. $20.00

Ibsen, Henrik.  Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott, (1936).  1st American trade edition.  Quarto, gilt-stamped orange cloth, 256, [1] blank, [1] colophon pp.  12 color plates with captioned tissue guards, many black & white illustrations throughout.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 74.  Near-Fine, with some soiling to gutters as is often the case, in a Very Good dust jacket with light chipping to perimeter. $300.00

Ingoldsby, Thomas.  Ingoldsby Legends, Or Mirth & Marvels.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  William Heinemann, 1913.  2nd (enlarged) edition, 4th printing.  Quarto, gilt-stamped blue cloth, uncut, xix, 549 pp.  24 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 duotone plates, and 66 black & white illustrations.  Very Good, spine very slightly faded, front hinge beginning.    $200.00

Irving, Washington.  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  David McKay Company, (1928).  1st American edition.  Octavo, brown cloth with color illustration mounted on front cover, gilt lettering, [vi], 102 pp.  8 color plates with captioned tissue guards, 30 black & white illustration, color illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 64.  Fine. $350.00
    
Irving, Washington.  Rip Van Winkle.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  William Heinemann, 1910.  Quarto, gilt-decorated green cloth, xii, 61, [1] pp,  50 mounted color plates at rear with captioned tissue guards.  Good, spine somewhat dull, light shelf wear, front hinge just beginning, bookplate.    $150.00

Lamb, Charles and Mary.  Tales from Shakespeare.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  J. M. Dent & Co., 1909.  1st trade edition, 1st issue with top edge gilt.  Octavo, gilt-decorated red cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, xii, [1]-304 pp.  12 color plates, many black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 34.  Good, spine a bit fade and with a small gouge near center, hinges beginning.    $150.00
    
Moore, Clement C.  The Night before Christmas.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott, (1931).  1st American edition.  Octavo, green cloth with pictorial panel mounted on front cover, uncut, [10], 11-35, [1], [1] pp.  4 color plates, numerous black & white illustrations, color endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 66.  Good; spine somewhat faded, minor shelf wear. $150.00

Morley, Christopher.  Where the Blue Begins.  With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott Company, (1922).  [Actually 1925.]  1st trade edition.  Octavo, light blue cloth, x, [2], 227 pp.  4 color plates, 16 black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 60.  Near-Fine with a former-owner signature and in a chipped dust jacket. $200.00

Mother Goose.  The Old Nursery Rhymes.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  Century, 1913.  1st American edition.  Octavo, black cloth with color illustration mounted on front cover, gilt lettering, , xxiii, [1] blank, [1]-262 pp.  12 color plates and a color title page of a sampler that is not in the English edition, 85 black & whited illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 41.  Very Good, spine a bit dull, a touch of shelf wear.  $350.00

Princess Mary’s Gift Book.  All profits from sale are given to The Queen’s “Work for Women” Fund, which is acting in conjunction with The National Relief Fund.  London:  Hodder & Stoughton, (1914).  1st edition.  Octavo, white cloth with dark green lettering, uncut, [viii], 140 pp.  Includes one tipped-in color plate and five black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham, illustrating “The Land of Let’s Pretend,” by Lady Sybil Grant.  The volume includes the work of a number of other artists and writers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 43.  Fair, head of spine pulled, covers lightly soiled, hinges broken. $15.00

Ruskin, John.  King of the Golden River.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott, (1932).  1st American edition.  Octavo, red cloth with color panel mounted on front cover, [48] pp.  4 color plates, 15 black & white illustrations, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 68.  Fine, in a slightly chipped dust jacket. $250.00

Shakespeare, William.  A Midsummer-Night’s Dream.  With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  London:  William Heinemann, (1929).  Reprint of the 1908 English edition.  Quarto, gilt-stamped blue cloth, uncut, [vi], 134 pp.  40 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards, 30 black & white illustrations.  Very Good, light fading to spine and rear cover, lower front corner bumped. $200.00

Shakespeare, William.  The Tempest.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  London:  William Heinemann, (1926).  Of the Edition de Luxe of 520 copies printed on handmade paper and with an additional color plate, this is No. 101.  It is signed by the artist.  Quarto, gilt-stamped vellum-backed boards, top edge gilt, uncut, xiv, 185, [1] pp.  21 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards, 25 black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 61.  Fine.  $3,000.00

Stephens, James.  Irish Fairy Tales.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  New York:  Macmillan Company, 1920.  1st American trade edition.  Octavo, gilt-stamped green cloth, [x], [1-4], 5-318 pp.  16 color plates with captioned tissue guards, 21 black & white illustrations.  Near-Fine, with a touch of shelf wear, and a Christmas gift inscription dated 1922. $400.00

Swift, Jonathan.  Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.  Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London & New York:  J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909.  1st trade edition.  Octavo, gilt-stamped dark blue cloth, xv, [1] blank, [1]-291 pp.  Color frontispiece and 11 color plates, black & white illustrations, chapter headings and tail-pieces, illustrated endpapers.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 33.  Very Good, spine dull, some toning to endpapers. $250.00    

Wagner, Richard.  The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie.  With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  Translated by Margaret Armour.  London:  William Heinemann, 1910.  [With:]  Wagner, Richard.  Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods.  With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  Translated by Margaret Armour.  London:  William Heinemann, 1911.  Set of two volumes.  Of an edition of 1150 copies printed on handmade paper, this is set No. 366.  Each volume is signed by the artist.  Quarto, full gilt-stamped vellum, top edges gilt, uncut.  The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie includes a color frontispiece and 33 additional tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards.  Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods includes a color frontispiece with 29 tipped-in color plates with captioned guards.  Latimore & Haskell, pp. 37-38.  A Very Good set; Volume I lacks silk-ties, spine somewhat faded and with a half-inch tear at foot of front joint, light foxing to endpapers; Volume II retains its silk ties, but they are detached, its spine is a bit dull. Together, 2 volumes:  $2,200.00

Wagner, Richard.  The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie.  With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.  Translated by Margaret Armour.  London:  William Heinemann, 1910.  1st trade edition.  Quarto, gilt-stamped brown cloth, ix, 160 pp.  34 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards, 14 black & white illustrations.  Latimore & Haskell, p. 37.  Ex-library copy with bookplate and minimal stamps, no spine numeral, light shelf wear. $150.00

 

WHAT'S NEW @ LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS: No. 1 -- The Old Man and the Sea

Welcome to our new series -- What's New @ Lighthouse Books. We'll share some of the exciting volumes that have arrived at the books store. This time we're featuring a beautiful copy of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952). It's a first edition and it comes in a slipcover.

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We want art lovers to come visit us on Saturday, April 20 for Dade City Art Walk

We’re delighted to have Zephyrhills artist Diane Keske Talmadge as our guest during the Dade City Art Walk on Saturday, April 20, 2024.

 In this short conversation with her, Michael Slicker learns a bit about Diane’s formative years, her inspiration, and the range of artwork she produces. Dade City Art Walk was created by the Dade City Center for the Arts in 2022. 

We’re enthralled with Diane’s artwork, including portraits, still lifes and miniatures. Our 2024 Dade City Art Walk runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. We’re planning to have light refreshments available. 

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Some other participating locations may start earlier. Please check with Dade City Center for the Arts for details.

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RARE BOOK MOMENT 2.0 – No. 3: Don't overlook the newspapers for your collection

 

Often overlooked by collectors, newspapers and other contemporary periodicals offer a unique insight into the current thinking and concerns of the day for most any period since newspapers began. 

Michael Slicker offers thoughts using two examples from newspapers he has acquired. Each example offers a perspective on the public thinking about the United States’ involvement in World War I, with changing ideas triggered by current events. 

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RARE BOOK MOMENT 2.0 – No. 2: The value of amateur book collectors

 

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1.  Romeyn Hough.  American Woods. Romeyn Hough's Monumental Work, The American Woods 

Hough, Romeyn (1857-1924).  The American Woods, Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text.  Lowville, N.Y.:  Published and Sections Prepared by the Author, 1894-1928.  14 volumes.  Octavo, green cloth, viii, 79; viii, 45; viii, 47; viii, 46 ; viii, 54; viii, 58; viii, 60; viii, 66; viii, 56; viii, 61; viii, 54; viii, 64, [4]; vi, 49; vi, 38 pp.  The 14 volumes were issued with 350 unbound plates of mounted sections of wood (totaling 1,050 samples); an accompanying text for each volume is in original printed wrappers; each volume of plates and text is housed in original green blind-stamped chemise and slip case with clasp.  Of the 350 specimens, this set is lacking just 28 (Nos. 252, 258, 263, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 272, 274, 275, 277, 278, 281, 291, 298, 322, 226, 327, 329, 331, 332, 333, 336, 339, 343, 346, and 350).  The missing plates are from Volumes XI-XIV, and have been supplied in color facsimile.  Each specimen is about 2 x 5 inches in size, and sufficiently thin to admit examination in transmitted light.  These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with each bearing in gold-bronze the technical name of the species in English, German, French, and Spanish.  The pages themselves are separable and are accompanied by a text giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, as well as distributions, habits of growth, botanical characteristics, habitants, medicinal properties, etc.  The samples show the usual occasional splitting; and the majority of the bindings show some mottling.  $12,000.00 

This unusual work was the lifetime achievement of medical doctor and botanist, Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees.  In his Introduction, Hough explains that this work is designed “primarily and principally to show, in as compact and perfect manner as possible, authentic specimens of our American woods, both native and introduced.  For that end three sections, respectively traverse, radial and tangential to the grain, are made of each timber, sufficiently thin to allow in a measure the transmission of light and securely mounted in well made frames.”  Each of the specimens was personally selected by the author and, in fact, prepared by a process he perfected.  Originally planned as a fifteen volume series arranged geographically, only thirteen volumes of the work were completed before Hough’s death.  The fourteenth and final volume was completed by his daughter, Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death, in 1924.
 
Because of the long period of time over which the set was produced, and because many buyers purchased volumes for one or two regions, very few complete sets were ever assembled.  This work represents Hough’s greatest achievement.  The range of trees included makes it an invaluable resource for natural historians, ecologists, woodworkers, antique dealers, and anyone else interested in the natural history of American trees.
 

 2.  Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Brewster, David.  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, Conducted by David Brewster, L.L.D., F.R.S.  

With the assistance of Gentlemen Eminent in Science and Literature.  The First American Edition, Corrected and improved by addition of numerous articles relative to the Institutions of the American Continent...  Philadelphia:  Published by Joseph and Edward Parker, 1832.  20 volumes in 21, complete.  Quarto, half polished calf & marbled boards, calf labels, marbled edges.  Engraved title, portraits, maps, plates.  Very Good; some foxing.  A previous owner of this set took apart the two volumes of plates, divided them in such a way as to be more handy and to more or less coincide with each third of the text.  He then had Bayntun rebind the two volumes into three, replicating the original half calf and marbled boards.  $5,000.00                   

Edited by the scientist Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), the project was begun in 1808 and was originally intended to be published in 12 volumes.  The text was eventually extended to 18 volumes (plus the plates) and was not completed until 1830.  Including over one hundred and fifty contributors this was a major bibliographic undertaking.  Brewster blamed some of the delay in publication on 'the indolence, the ill health, and the deaths of Contributors'.

Arranged alphabetically and wide ranging in subject the work is illustrated with over 500 copper plates. The Encyclopedia is notable for its many scientific articles by leading authors of the day. Brewster wrote many of the articles himself; other notable contributors include: Charles Babbage (1791-1871) on Notation and Porism; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on Nelson, Mungo Park and William Pitt; Robert Grant (1793-1874) on Zoophytes and Zoophytology; William Leach (1791-1836) contributed an article on Entomology which included the first bibliography on the topic; Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) on the Bell Rock Light House, Edystone Rock, Light Houses, Railway and Roads; Thomas Telford (1757 – 1834) on Architecture, Bridge, Civil Architecture and Inland Navigation; James Watt (1736-1819) on the Steam Drying Machine

 

 

3.  Priestley, Joseph.  Lectures on History, and General Policy; To Which Is Prefixed, An essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life.  And an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States.  The Whole Corrected, Improved, and Enlarged; with a Chart of History and a Chart of Biography.  

Philadelphia:  Printed for P. Byrne, 1803.  2 volumes.  1st American edition.  Octavo, full contemporary mottled calf, morocco labels, xvi, 388, [4 ads] pp. + vii, [1 blank], 475 pp. The lecture on the United States Constitution is not previously published.  "The great excellence of this constitution consists in the simplicity of its object, which is the security of each individual in the enjoyment of his natural rights, without aiming at much positive advantage; by which means every person, knowing that he will be effectually protected from violence and injustice, both against the evil-minded of his fellow citizens, and the enemies of his nation, will be at full liberty to employ all his faculties for his own advantage; and this he will better understand, and provide for, than the state could do for him."  Although these lectures focus on history, Priestley is better known for his scientific endeavors.  He is credited with numerous discoveries, including the first to isolate oxygen, and is known for the discovery of nine other gases, including carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, and ammonia.  He is also credited with the invention of carbonated water and the rubber eraser.  During Benjamin Franklin's visit to England, he met Priestley, the two became life-long friends, and later co-founded the American Philosophical Society.  Priestley strongly believed in the free and open exchange of ideas.  His support for toleration and equal rights for religious dissenters led him to help found Unitarianism in England (and later in America).  These ideas, coupled with his outspoken support of the American and French Revolutions, eventually forced him to flee England - after a mob burned his home and church - to the backcountry of Pennsylvania, where he spent the last ten years of his life.  The volumes have some shelf wear, foxing, original owner's signature. $450.00

 

 

 

4.  Forsyth, William.  A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training Is Fully Described.  Together with Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in All Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees; As Also, an Account of a Particular Method of Cure, Made Public by Order of the British Government... To Which Is Added, An Introduction and Notes, Adapting the Rules of this Treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the United States of America  By William Cobbett. 

 

Albany:  Printed and Sold by D. & S. Whiting, 1803.  Octavo, mottled calf, calf label, xii, [13]-280 pp.  13 engraved plates, 11 of which are folding.  First published in Philadelphia the year before, this is the first book devoted wholly to fruits to be published in America.  Forsyth was "Gardener to His Majesty at Kensington and St. James."  The plates depict methods of pruning, grafting, and training, with the tools used to do so.  Very Good; very clean and tight; plates have some foxing.  $400.00

5.  Sinclair, Sir John.  The Code of Agriculture; Including Observations on Gardens, Orchards, Woods, and Plantations.  

 

Hartford:  Printed for Hudson and co. and Cooke and Hale, 1818.  1st American edition.  Octavo, mottled calf, calf label, viii, [3]-424 pp. Frontis and 6 plates.  Very Good.   $150.00

 

6.  Bennett, Charles H. and Robert B. Brough.  Shadow and Substance.  

 

London:  W. Kent & co., 1860.  1st edition.  Octavo, blind- and gilt-decorated rose cloth, rebacked preserving the original spine, all edges gilt, [viii], [1]-232 pp.  Frontis and 29 hand-colored lithographs.  A longtime contributor to Punch, this book introduces Bennett's eidolograph, a sort of magic lantern of which Charles Bennett is named as the "sole inventor and original patentee."  Once the subject is seated in front of the eidolograph and turned on, the shadow cast by the machine indicates the true character and personality of the sitter.  Very Good, bearing the bookplate of Stuyvesant Peabody, housed in a Very Good solander case.  $400.00

 

 
7.  Church of England.  The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England... 

 

Oxford:  Printed at the University Press, n.d.  [ca. 1880]  [With:]  Church of England.  Hymns Ancient and Modern for Use in the Services of the Church.  Complete Edition.  London:  William Clowes and Sons, n.d.  [ca. 1880.]  Together, 2 volumes.  24mo, bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crimson morocco, blind-stamped with matching geometric designs & miniature busts, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.  Book of Common Prayer printed in red and black.  Both volumes on india paper.  Near-Fine.  Set of two volumes:  $150.00

 

 

8.  Chaucer, Geoffrey.  The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.  Edited by Richard Morris... With Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.   

 

London:  George Bell & Sons, 1912.  6 volumes.  Octavo, bound by Blackwell in 3/4 tan morocco & marbled boards, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.  Very Good; a bit of shelf wear, bearing the bookplates of Carl Breer, an engineer and member of the Automotive Hall of Fame.  $150.00

 

9.  Grant, Robert. The Bachelor's Christmas and Other Stories.  Illustrated by C. D. Gibson, I. R. Wiles, A. B. Wenzell, and C. Carleton.   

 

New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.  1st edition.  This copy has inserted a transcript of a paragraph from page 46 of the book:  "'I wish to offer a toast' he said, 'a toast for the old bachelors to drink.  Wish you Merry Christmas and - and here's to her'!"  Signed by the author and dated December 1897."  Also inserted is a three-page autograph letter from the author, on his letterhead, dated "Dec 12, 1897," addressed to "My dear Miss Laughlin."  Clara E. Laughlin (1873-1941) was the author of more than 35 books, headed a Travel Service with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, and published a monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 80,000.  In this case, Grant (a popular novelist of his day) writes to the young Laughlin with "the congratulations of a philosopher on your entertaining article the 'Martyrdom of Fame' in the current Scribner.  I have read it with much enjoyment & have heard others praise it."  Later in the note he admonishes himself for not asking Laughlin to lunch when she was in Boston, thinking that perhaps she "preferred to wish lunch alone."  He continues, "There is certainly nothing more attractive in modern civilization than the independent modern woman of the finest type - She is so unconscious of her own attraction, and so suggestive of the escape of her sex from the thrall of fiddle faddle.  No one has really written about her adequately, and I doubt I can.  But you came to my mind the other day as a sitter for the portrait."  He continues for a bit and closes, "Yours sincerely," with his signature.  Octavo, bound by Sicles in 3/4 olive levant & marbled boards, with the gilt-stamped monogram of Charles Edward Ballard, hotelier and circus owner, on the upper front panel, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, ix, 309 pp.  Plates.  Near-Fine; spine slightly faded.  $250.00

 
10.  [Virgil]  L'Eneida in Toscano del Generoso et Illustre Giovine il Signor Cavalier [Aldobrando] Cerretani.  Al Inuittissimo, & glorioso Cosimo de Medici, Serenissimo Principe di Toscana suo Signore.   

 

Fiorenza:  Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, Impressor Ducale, 1560.  Small quarto, limp vellum, [viii], 259, [i], [ii] pp.  The book seems to have been a school book used by children in the de Medici sphere.  Cover is worn and rubbed, with the end sheets bearing the youthful signatures of several members of the Galeotti [artisan] family, along with a 20th century bookplate.  $1,200.00

 

11.  Barrows, Mary Eleanor.  John Henry Barrows. 

 

Chicago:  Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904.  1st edition.  Presentation copy, inscribed:  "To Clara E. Laughlin, to whom / the 'Light of Asia's' heart went out / from the first time he met her / till the end of his life; with / the admiring love of // Mary Eleanor Barrows / Christmas, 1904."  Clara E. Laughlin (1873-1941) was the author of more than 35 books, headed a Travel Service with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, and published a monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 80,000.  The subject of the biography, John Henry Barrows, was the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, at the time of the Exposition of 1893.  Because of his proximity to the organizers of the Fair, he was asked to organize and chair a concurrent religious event.  In preparation for what became known as the World Parliament of Religions, Barrows and his committee sent out some ten thousand personal letters (not to mention forty thousand documents) to the far corners of the world.  "We affectionately invite the representatives of all faiths," the letter said, "to aid us in presenting to the world, at the Exposition of 1893, the religious harmonies and unities of humanity, and also in showing forth the moral and spiritual agencies which are the root of human progress."  Beginning September 11th, 1893, and for the following seventeen days, more than 4,000 representatives of the world's religions - Protestantism, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, Greek and Russian Orthodoxy, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Ethical Culture, and others - met to "bring forth the truths the various religions teach in common," and to "promote the brotherhood among religious men of diverse faith."  The Parliament was a landmark event bringing, for the first time in history, so diverse an audience.  Octavo, bound by Sickles in purple levant & marbled boards, with the gilt-stamped monogram of Charles Edward Ballard (hotelier and circus owner) on the upper panel of the front cover, gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt, uncut, [x], [11]-480 pp.  Frontis portrait.  Near-Fine; spine somewhat faded, mostly unopened.  $150.00

12.  Baden-Powell, Major B[aden Fletcher Smyth].  Practical Aerodynamics and the Theory of the Aeroplane.  A Résumé of the Principles Evolved by Past Experiments.

  

London:  Aeronautics Office, (1909).  1st edition.  Octavo, flexible burgundy cloth, [x], 57, [1 ad] pp.  Frontis photo, illus.  Good; some cover fading, light wear, bookplate.  $150.00

13.  Fielding, Henry.  The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.  In Six Volumes.  

 

London:  Printed for A. Millar, 1749.  6 volumes.  2nd edition (sometimes designated as 1st edition, 2nd issue), without Errata, with corrections made, and with the catch word "who" at foot of page 21 in Volume I.  Duodecimo, bound by Birdsall in full brown levant, all edge gilt.  Fine.  $900.00

 

 

14. Elton, Charles I.  An Account of Shelley's Visits to France, Switzerland, and Savoy, in the Years 1814 and 1816; With Extracts from "The History of a Six Weeks' Tour" and "Letters descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni," first published in the Year 1817.   

 

London:  Bliss, Sands, & Foster, 1894.  Of an edition of 50 copies, this is No. 13.  It is signed, "Bliss, Sands & Foster."  Octavo, full vellum with a printed portrait of Shelley on front cover, in a gilt-decorated frame and gilt-stamped title, gilt-stamped spine, uncut, viii, 200 pp.  Frontis portrait and 12 plates on japan vellum.  Very Good; covers flared as usual.  $250.00

15.  Cotton, Charles.  Lyrical Poems.  Including the Poems of Izaak Walton.  Edited, with Notes, Etc., by J. R. Tutin.  

 

Cottingham near Hull:  Published by the Editor, 1903.  Of an edition of 200 copies, this is No. 117.  It is  signed by the publisher/editor.  Octavo, bound by La Belle Sauvage in full brown levant, French fillets with elaborate corner loops, gilt-decorated spine, dentelles, top edge gilt, uncut, xvii, [3], 179, [1] pp.  Includes subscriber list and notes.  Very Good; light shelf wear.  $150.00

16.  Catton, Bruce.  The Centennial History of the Civil War.  E. B. Long, Director of Research.  

 

Garden City:  Doubleday & Company, 1961-1965.  3 volumes, including:  The Coming Fury; Terrible Swift Sword; and Never Call Retreat.  Each volume is a 1st edition; Volumes II and III are signed by both E. B. Long and Bruce Catton.  Octavo, two-toned cloth, [x], 565 pp. + [xiv], 559 pp. + [xvi], 555 pp.  Maps, map endpapers.  Fine in dust jackets.  $1,500.00

17.  Wisner, Benjamin B.  Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass... Third Edition, with an Introductory Essay, and an Original Poem, by James Montgomery.   

 

Boston:  Published by Crocker and Brewster, 1829.  Octavo, mottled calf, calf label, xxxi, [1 blank], 328 pp.  Included with her well-written memoir are five of Susan Huntington's poems.  Very Good; clean and tight with very light shelf wear, bearing the original owner's signature and a 19th century academy bookplate.  $150.00

 

18.  Ramsay, David.  Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay, Who Died in Charleston, S. C. on the 10th of June, 181, in the 52nd Year of Her Age.  With an Appendix, Containing Extracts from Her Diary, Letters, and Other Private Papers.  And Also from Letters Written to Her, by Her Father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776.  

 

Boston:  Printed by Samuel Armstrong, 1814.  16mo, calf, calf label, viii, 218, [1 ad] pp.  Good; nice repair along front joint.  $125.00

 

19.  [Raynal, François & Rigobert Bonne.]  Atlas du Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dressé pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans Deux Indes.

 

[Geneva:  J. L. Pellet, ca. 1780.]  Quarto, original sheep, 22 pp., 49 double-page maps, 1 fold-out, 23 tables.  Cover is quite worn, spine repaired with cloth tape.  Maps and charts are generally in Good to Very Good condition, with some perimeter toning.  Map No. 46 includes Florida and the Southeast.  $1,750.00

20.  Lavoisne, M.  A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas; Being a General Guide to Ancient and Modern History:   An Accurate Account of the Origin, Descent, and Marriages of the Principal Royal Families from the Earliest Authentic Records; Together with the Various Possessions, Wars, Celebrated Battles, and Remarkable Events, to the Year 1821... Enlarged by the Addition of Several New Maps of American History and Geography, Extended to the beginning of the Year 1821.  Third American Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected.  

 

 Philadelphia:  Published by M. Carey and Sons, 1821.  Folio, original half calf & boards, gilt-decorated spine.  28 double-page, handcolored copper-engraved maps and 40 double-page handcolored charts.  Among the maps are four that relate particularly to America:  #1, "Geographical Map of the World;" #67, "North America - South America;" #68, "United States of America,":compiled by John Melish; and #71, "Map of South America," by E. Paguenaud.  The important Melish map of the United States is engraved on a full double-page sheet and is free of stains or repairs.  Most other maps have surrounding text.  Front cover and first two leaves have an old damp-stain along the fore-edge, the rear cover is nearly detached. $1,500.00

21.  Barks, Carl.  Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck.  Written and Drawn by Carl Barks.  Edited by Edward Summer.  Recolored by Peter Ledger.  

 

Milbrae, Calif.:  Celestial Arts, 1981.  1st edition.  Of an edition of 5,000 copies, this is Number 1876.  It includes the signed lithograph by Carl Barks, entitled "Wanderers of Wonderlands."  Folio, full leather, with full-color paper illustration on upper cover, gilt letters & decorations, ribbon marker.  Near-Fine, with slight foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges.  $450.00

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