First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
No. 8 of 15 sets printed on vellum. A masterpiece of the Golden Cockerel Press, in its most desirable form. An extremely good set. Sold through Dawsons Book Shop in Los Angeles in 1937 with their cost code in pencil (not Dawson’s of Pall Mall whose code was CUMBERLAND). This.....
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.....
Popular reprint for use especially in schools during the 1960’s and ‘70’s, warmly inscribed by Salinger, as follows: “To Maria from two old friends, Matthew and J.D. Salinger June 14, 1973.” The family of the recipient, Maria Rondinone, owned a popular Italian restaurant in Claremont, New Hampshire, only a few.....
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 Thaxter’s fourth volume of poems, embellished by the author with twenty-two original watercolors of flowers and other subjects drawn from nature. Signed “Celia Thaxter” on an endpaper and dated 1887. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) spent her childhood on the nearby.....
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.....
Limited to forty numbered copies; this copy number 5. With thirty-two superb etchings, beautifully complimenting Woolf’s essay on the fragility of life. In a lovely binding and tray case by Claudia Cohen. From the colophon: “Lepidoptera is a collection of moths largely found in the Northwestern United States, though a......