Third Sansovino edition. An important, early critical edition of the Divine Comedy, edited by Francesco Sansovino (1521–1583) who brought together in this volume the commentary of Christopher Landino, first published in Florence, 1481, with that of Alessandro Vellutello, published by Francesco Marcolini in Venice, 1544. The illustrations, which first appeared...
First edition, second issue of London’s powerful sea-tale, centering on the conflict between the ruthless, individualistic ship captain, Wolf Larsen, and Humphrey Van Weyden, an over-civilized literary critic Larsen rescues from a shipwreck. This is the earliest obtainable issue, with the cancel title-leaf, the only copy of the first issue...
First American edition of Melville’s third book. His first two books, Typee and Omoo, were a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by his experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Mardi, on the other hand, marks Melville’s first wholesale excursion into fiction, following the protagonist, Taji, as he...
Large paper edition, signed by Milne and Shepard, limited to 250 copies, this copy being number 222. CONDITION: A very good copy with many uncut pages, lacking the original glassine, but retaining the original box; with recent repairs to the box including the replacement of the side panel of...
First edition of Reed’s first book. One of 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the flyleaf: “To darling Alice with the profoundest respect of the unworthy Author John Reed Jan. 12, 1916.” CONDITION: Very good, old pencil inscription on terminal endpaper.
The Halliwell Shakespeare, in a handsome binding, with the binder’s ticket of the nineteeth-century Portland Maine bookbinder F. W. Bailey affixed to the front paste-down of two volumes. CONDITION: Good, minor wear at extremities, upper edges of hinges on Comedies volume split, but all volumes tight, bright, and very presentable...
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The first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (1792-1886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850’s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of woman’s rights by demonstrating what a woman might accomplish. However...
Handsomely bound edition of selected letters from Stevenson’s Student Days at Edinburgh, Life in Bournemouth, Winter in the Adirondacks, Pacific Voyages, Life in Samoa, etc. Edited by Stevenson’s friend, literary critic and print curator Sidney Colvin. CONDITION: Very good, some leaves slightly toned at edges, vol. 1 lacking tissue...
First edition of what was to be Chapter 48 of Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. One of 250 copies, this copy number 208. The publisher, Osgood & Co. of Boston, concluded that Twain’s views on “southern political slavery” might offend the southern book buyer, and the chapter was expunged...
First edition of the first book published by Random House, designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One of 1470 copies printed on French rag paper with hand set type, signed by Kent in the colophon. Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, publishers of the Modern Library series, chose Voltaire’s...
Editon limited to twenty-six lettered copies signed in pencil by the printer and the photographer, this copy letter B. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, with his label affixed to the lower left corner of the rear paste-down. Consider the Lobster, a favorite essay among Wallace devotees, first...