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Signed by SciFi Leg-end Ray BradburyAnd Also By the Printer, Andrew Hoyem

Abbott, Edwin Abbott [A. Square]. FLATLAND: A Romance of Many Dimensions [With the Introduction “Flatland Revisited” by Ray Bradbury] (San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980) LIMITED EDITION, one of only 275 numbered copies signed by Andrew Hoyem and Ray Bradbury. Printed on T.H. Saundrs hot-press finish, mould-made paper. Illustrated with fourteen line draw-ings and ten die-cuts by Andrew Hoyem, colours and gray back-grounds done by hand. Folio, accordion style with aluminum covers impressed with black lettering, in a hinged aluminum container with metal clasp, prospectus laid-in. Fifty-six folded

panels. A very fine copy, pristine and as mint, with just a bit of the completely inevitable evidence of movement where the aluminum covers slip into the aluminum case. NOW VERY SCARCE, A UNIQUELY DESIGNED AND PRINTED ENTRY FROM THE ARION PRESS. This was the seventh book produced by the press while under the direction of An-drew Hoyem. It was one of the press’ most commercially successful productions, and certainly one of its most aesthetically unusual. “The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.” - Isaac Asimov.

Edward Detmold’s Fables of AesopThe Large Paper First Edition, Signed and LimitedBeautifully Bound in Full White Polished Buckram Gilt

Aesop; [Detmold, Edward J., Illus.]. THE FABLES OF AESOP (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909) Limited first edition of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Illustrated with 25 beautiful plates in color by Edward J. Detmold, including two extra plates not found in the trade edition. Thick folio, publisher’s original full white polished buckram, the upper cover artfully decorated with the original gilt pictorial designs, the spine handsomely gilt lettered and decorated with gilt, housed and protected in the original slipcase. A fine copy with

Item Number: 1 Price: $3250.

Flatland - The Arion Press Limited Edition Item Number: 2 Price: $5500.

just very light age mellowing at the spine panel, essentially a near as pristine copy, the slipcase with some wear as would be expected. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED, SIGNED, NUMBERED AND SPECIALLY BOUND. This title represents, in our opinion, Det-mold’s very best work. The grace and sensitivity of the illustrations reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings, rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

Henry the VII - London - Folio In Contemporary CalfFrancis Bacon - 1622The First Edition of His Great History of Henry VII

and with a small repair to one compartment. A very pleasing and well preserved copy, the binding with some expected aging to the board edges. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY BACON concerning this important British monarch. The work was very well received in its day and very popular. The vellum used for the backing retains the writing of centuries earlier. An interesting aside to the book itself.

Item Number: 3 Price: $2250. [Bacon] Francis Lord [and] Godwyn, Francis. THE HISTORY OF THE REIGNS OF HENRY THE SEVENTH, HENRY THE EIGHTH, EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND QUEEN MARY. The First Written by Francis Lord Verulam... The Other Three Written by... Francis Godwyn (London: Printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barrett, 1622) The rare first edition of the this great work. With a handsome engraved portrait of Henry as frontispiece. Folio, in full contemporary calf, the covers ruled in blind, the back with raised bands, hinges sometime strengthened



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W.D.M Bell - Karamojo Safari - First Edition - 1949A Classic Work in Modern Africana

is the only animal which will try to help a wounded comrade from the scene of death. If an elephant is shot, and does not fall, other members of the herd will frequently get on either side of him to hold him up. Many an elephant has been killed who has lingered behind, trying to help a wounded elephant to his feet by lifting him with his tusks. When you know things like that, you begin to feel a great love for elephants,” - taken from the introduction. Bell was the first white man to hunt elephants in East Africa.



Curae Posteriores and the Latinite Mediae1681 and 1682 - In Antique Vellum - Scarce

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT EARLY PRINTING FROM JENA. Two works bound together on the study of Latin by one of the most learned philologists of the 17th century. Christopher Cellarius studied at several German universities, he taught moral philosophy and the Oriental languages at Weissenfel, and, finally, professor of eloquence and history at Halle, where he died in 1707. He is also noted for being the first person to divide Western history into the Ancient, Medieval and New periods, and in doing so is credited for creating the term “Middle Ages”.

Item Number: 8 Price: $595. Cellarius, Christophori. CURAE POSTERIORES DE BARBA-RISMIS ET IDIOTISMIS SERMONIS LATINI..., [Bound with] DE LATINITATE MEDIAE ET INFIMAE AETATIS LIBER, SIVE ANTIBARBARUS... (Ienae (Jena): Io. Bielckii, 1680 [and] 1682) Two books bound as one. Second edition of the Curae Posteriores and second edition of the Latinitate Mediae. With the engraved pictorial title dated 1680. 12mo, handsomely bound in contem-porary antique vellum with yap edges. A very fine and proper copy, unusually well preserved. Rare thus.

Michael Chabon’s “Magnum Opus” - Signed First EditionThe Amazing Ad-ventures of Kavalier & ClayWinner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Item Number: 9 Price: $295. Chabon, Michael. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVA-LIER & CLAY. A Novel (New York: Random House, 2000) First Edition, SIGNED by the author, Michael Chabon. 8vo, publisher’s original speckled white boards backed in speckled white cloth, the spine lettered in copper, in the original colorful dustjacket. A very fine copy, essentially pristine and as new. Michael Chabon has been called the most celebrated writer of his

Giovanni Boccaccio - Il Decamerone - Superbly Bound With the Very Fine Engravings ThroughoutThe Very Fine Pickering Printing of 1825

Boccaccio, Giovanni. DECAMERONE (London: Guglielmo Pickering, 1825) 3 volumes. First edition thus. Beautifully illustrated with very fine plates engraved by the celebrated Auguste Fox after the designs of Stothard and with an engraved frontispiece of Boccaccio. 8vo, very handsomely bound in superb period bindings of full brown crushed morocco, the spines with specially designed gilt tooled raised bands, the compartments elaborately decorated in gilt with multiple tools filling completely the compartments, lettered and numbered in gilt within two com-

partments, the covers with gilt rolled borders enclosing double gilt fillet rules enclosing elaborately gilt tooled inner borders featuring very pleasing engraved grain and floral devices. A very fine set with virtually no evidence of age or wear. A VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY APPEALING SET OF THE DECAMERON IN THREE VOLUMES. THE PICKERING PRINT-ING OF 1825 IS REVERED FOR ITS BEAUTY AND QUALITY. The plates are very finely reproduced and contribute greatly to the appeal of this lovely set.

Bell, W.D.M. KARAMOJO SAFARI: With an introduction by Negley Farson (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949) First edition. Illustrated with cartographic endpapers, pictorial portions of the original dustjacket used to attractively decorate the inside of the book. 8vo, original rust coloured cloth with maroon lettering on spine and decorations to the upper cover. A near fine copy with light mellowing to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC. “So far as I know, the elephant

generation. This epic novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. It is a stunning novel which follows the lives of two cousins in the golden age of comic books and in doing so reveals a great deal about what happened to America in the mid twentieth century. Bret Easton Ellis has called this novel “one of the three great books of my generation” and the New York Review of Books has dubbed it Chabon’s “Magnum Opus.”

Vanity Fair - Beautifully Presented with Colour PlatesFirst Edition with Baumer’s Illustra-tions


[Baumer, Illus.] Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR (London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]) First edition thus. Il-lustrated with twenty tipped-in color plates by Lewis Baumer, each with a captioned tissue-guard and with decorated endpapers and titlepage. 4to, publisher’s original olive-gray cloth, the spine calligraphically lettered in gilt, the cover featuring similar gilt let-tering and oval frame surrounding a color pastedown by Lewis Baumer. An especially fresh and bright copy of this very beautiful

book, near pristine with virtually no evidence of age or use, some light spotting to the edges as is typical with the paper. VERY HANDSOME AND PLEASING FIRST EDITION. An uncommonly nice copy of this edition of VANITY FAIR. Baumer’s illustrations are perfectly spirited to Thackeray’s story. The novel, first published in 1848 is an important work of 19th century literature. One would be hard pressed to find a more attractive rendering of it.

George Catlin - The North American Indians - Two VolumesOriginal Red Cloth Gilt and Pictorially DecoratedWith 320 Engraved and Coloured Il-lustrations

warriors, housed in cloth covered slipcase. A very handsome and well preserved set, the gilt and cloth, textblock and colour plates, all in very pleasing condition. VERY UNCOMMON IN SUCH NICE CONDITION, GRANT’S 1926 IMPRINT IS ONE OF THE FINEST PRODUCED SINCE THE 1841 ORIGINAL. Catlin visited forty-eight tribes in the Mis-sissippi and Missouri valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains during his eight years’ travel. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games, etc.

Item Number: 7 Price: $2650. Catlin, George. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Condi-tions... (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926) 2 volumes. First edition thus, first with the colour plates issued by Grant, in the 1903 imprint the illustrations were supplied only in black and white. With 320 illustrations in colour, carefully engraved from the author’s original paintings and including 3 colour maps, one of which is folding. Thick royal 8vos, publisher’s original red cloth lettered and elaborately and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on both the upper covers and the spines featuring Indian



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SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. Churchill begins his history of World War I by stating, “The causes of Armageddon lay deep in European history...Hatreds which had slumbered for centuries burst from their tombs, and nations which apparently had no concern in the main quarrel hastened eagerly to join one side or the other...Our tale therefore recounts the greatest of huma n catastrophes since the decline and fall of ancient Rome.” (foreword) This history was received with great critical acclaim.

Dante’s Vision - The Cary Translation into EnglishThe First ‘Modern’ TranslationIn a Handsome Contemporary Three-Quarter Binding

Item Number: 11 Price: $895. Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE VISION; or HELL, PURGA-TORY, AND PARADISE...With the Life of Dante... (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1860) A very early printing of the new corrected edition of the first modern translation of Dante into English. With an engraved frontispiece of Dante Alighieri. 8vo, in a very handsome contemporary binding of three quarter tan calf over green textured cloth, the spine with multi-ruled and dashed raised bands additionally ruled with a wave-like tool,

he Origin of Species - Charles Darwin Monumental WorkFrom the Important London Issue of 1872The First to Mention “Evolution” and the First with GlossaryA Handsome Early Printing in Original Cloth - A Fine Copy

evidence of age or shelving at the tips. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT BOOK, ARGUABLY THE GREAT-EST SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Darwin’s ORIGIN OF SPECIES is considered “the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century” and “the most important biological work ever written” (Horblit, Freeman). Darwin’s elaboration of the theory of natural selection laid the groundwork for the controversy over the evolution of man, and with only slight modification by such scientists as Stephen Jay Gould, Darwin’s ideas remain the umbra under which most current biological research is conducted.

Darwin, Charles. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle For Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873) An Early American issue from the sixth English edition, with addi-tions and corrections. Just after the English 1872 issue which is considered the most correct. With a folding diagram as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original sepia coloured cloth with designs stamped in black on both covers, the spine is lettered and ruled in gilt. xxi, 429, glossary, index pp. A fine, very fresh copy, un-usually so, internally pristine and probably unused, very light

Dickens - The Christmas Books - Handsomely BoundOne of William Faulkner’s Greatest Books

Item Number: 13 Price: $295. Dickens, Charles. CHRISTMAS BOOKS (London: Chapman & Hall, N.D., ca. 1870) Early edition, complete in one volume. Complete with the illustrations by the original illustrators, Sir Edwin Landseer, Maclise, Stanfield, F. Stone, Doyle, Leech, and Tenniel. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary dark green half morocco over grained cloth boards, with marbled edges and endpapers, the spine with raised bands lettered and

Lavishly Illustrated Throughout - Super Folio - 3 VolumesThe Rarely Encoun-tered First Edition - 1820-1825Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans L’Ancienne France

temporary three-quarter tan russia over marbled boards, the spines lettered in gilt. A well preserved copy internally with some of the inevitable foxing to which the volumes are prone, the bindings with some wear or rubbing and some cracking to the hinges. All in all, a very decent set of this important and extravagantly illustrated work. RARE FIRST EDITION OF WHAT IS STILL CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MOST LAVISHLY ILLUS-TRATED WORK ON NORMANDY AND ONE OF THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED FRENCH BOOKS OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

Item Number: 14 Price: $3500.[Didot Printer] Taylor J., Nodier, Charles, De Cailleux, A., [France; Normandy]. VOYAGES PITTORESQUES ET ROMANTIQUES DANS L’ANCIENNE FRANCE Par MM. Ch. Nodier, J. Taylor et Alph. De Cailleux [NORMANDIE] (Paris: P. Didot L’Ainé, chevalier de l ordre Royal de Saint Michel, imprimeur du Roi, 1820, 1825) Two volumes bound as three. First edition. A copy with fine provenance being the Baron Northwick copy. Volume I Illustrated with 16 fine engraved vignettes and 85 lithographs, with a number being in two states; Volume II with 21 engraved vignettes and 101 lithographs on 100 plates. Super Folio, in con-

one compartment with a salmon morocco label gilt. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved in every way, a lovely and appealing printing. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF DANTE INTO ENGLISH. Cary’s famous translation has long been considered the first modern rendering of Dante’s timeless epic into English.

lined in gilt. A fine copy, well preserved, the text-block clean, the binding in nice condition, tight and strong. EARLY SINGLE VOLUME EDITION OF THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. The text includes ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, ‘The Battle of Life’, and ‘The Haunted Man’.


Sir Winston Churchill - The Great WarA Fine Copy in the Original 26 Parts - Profusely Illustrated

Item Number: 10 Price: $1250. Churchill, Winston. THE GREAT WAR (London: George Newnes, 1933-34) As issued in 26 forthnightly parts. First edi-tion, being the first illustrated edition of “The World Crisis”, the scarce first appearance, issued in 26 fortnightly parts. With a great profusion of maps and illustrations throughout. 4to, each issue in the publisher’s original blue pictorial wrappers, the 26 volumes laid into a blue cloth foldover case decorated with a morocco lettering label gilt. An especially fine set with just very minor age evidence to some edges or backs of the wrappers.

Charles M. Doughty - Travels in Arabia DesertaTwo Volumes with All Illustrations and Folding MapsWith the Introduc-tion by T.E. Lawrence

CONDITION. ARABIA DESERTA is perhaps one of the best-known classics of exploration and travel. Few writers of any genre have worked such magic or mischief on the English language as Doughty. He disapproved of Victorian style, and mingled his own with Chauce-rian and Elizabethan English and Arabic. But whatever the style, the result is perhaps the finest book on Arabia ever written. We will let another Arabist, Lawrence, speak on Doughty’s behalf: “I have talked the book over with many travellers, and we are agreed that here you have all the desert, its hills and plains, the lava fields, the villages, the tents, the men and animals. They are told of to the life...”

Item Number: 15 Price: $495.Doughty, Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) 2 volumes. Scarce early issue of the 1936 “New and Definitive Edi-tion” with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence restored. Portrait frontispiece in first volume, maps, plans, and collotype plates including large fold-out maps at the inside of the rear covers of both volumes. 4to, publisher’s original brown cloth, the spines with bold gilt lettering. An especially fine, handsome and clean set indeed, rarely found so due to the war standards. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION, UNCOMMON IN SUCH FINE



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A Beautiful Colourplate From the Famed Aves Hawaiiensesfoliage. Newman West was the Imprinter. 325 x 260 mm, the lithograph is printed on heavy cream stock, accompanied by the text unbound. Beautifully preserved, the colours are bright and vivid, the paper clean and fresh. A SCARCE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPH FROM ONE OF THE TWO GREATEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS ON HAWAII. A beautiful publication, the plates for this work were produced over nearly a decade, containing magnificent hand-coloured lithographs of Hawaiian birds.

Item Number: 19 Price: $1250.One of the Rarest Birds of HawaiiAnd The Most Un-usual of All Hawaiian Finches

[Hawaiiana; Bird Plate]; Frowhawk, F. W. A Single Hand-Colored Plate, the PSEUDONESTOR XANTHOPHYS From AVES HA-WAIIENSES: The Birds of the Sandwich Islands (London: Taylor & Francis for R. H. Porter, Newman West Imprinter, 1896) From the first edition, the plate is accompanied by the original two pages of descriptive text. A beautifully produced hand coloured Lithograph by Frederick William Frowhawk of pair of Pseudon-estor Xanthophys, the Maui Parrotbill, the most unusual of all Hawaiian finches and a species currently listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered. They are displayed among native

In the Original Beau-tifully Decorated Cloth

Item Number: 20 Price: $225.Henty, G.A. THE TIGER OF MYSORE, The Story of the War with Tippoo Saib (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895) First American edition. Frontispiece and 11 black and white full-page illustrations by W.H. Magretson. With 1 map. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth with Edwardian style painted illustration on front cover and spine. Lettered in beige on front cover and gilt on spine. A fine copy.

The campaign against Tippoo Saib and the British battle for control of Southern India as told by possibly the most popular boy’s adventure writer of all time. While Henty’s stories span all ages and civiliza-tions, he captures the true spirit of the Victorian age of exploration.

The Tiger of Mysore - G.A. Henty - 1895

The First Modern Textbook in Physicsalileo’s Greatest WorkFirst Dozza Printing of 1655 - Bologna

Item Number: 18 Price: $5750.Galilei, Galileo. DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMAT-ICHE INTORNO À DUE NUOVE SCIENZE ATTENENTI ALLA MECANICA & I MOVIMENTI LOCALI...con une appendice del centro di gravità d’alcuni solidi. (Bologna: per gli HH. del Dozza, 1655) First edition printed by Dozza preceeded only by the first printing of 1638. With woodcut title device and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout. 4to, original sheets sewn and unboun. A very clean and very attractive copy,

beautifully preserved. FIRST DOZZA PRINTING. Considered to be Galileo’s great-est work, and the foundation of modern physics, the DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI. “It was upon his foundations that Huygens, Newton, and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynam-ics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies” (PMM).

Theodore Dreiser - Epitaph - First Edition - Signed Item Number: 16 Price: $350.Dreiser, Theodore. EPITAPH. A Poem (New York: Heron Press, [1929]) First and Limited edition, one of only 200 copies hand-numbered and signed by both the author and illustrator printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and bound in leather from a total printing of 1100 copies. This copy is number 19. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Robert Fawcett including a full page frontispiece woodcut signed by the artist. 4to, in the original and best binding of full black morocco lettered and decorated in

One of Only 200 Copies of the Deluxe IssueIllustrated with Woodcuts by Robert Fawcett

art deco style on the upper cover and spine in gilt and silver, in the original black paper-covered slipcase. A pristine copy, near as mint, the spine panel lightly mellowed. ONE OF THE FIRST 200 COPIES IN THE MOST DELUXE STATE OF THIS EDITION OF ONLY 1100 COPIES IN TOTAL SIGNED BY BOTH THEODORE DREISER AND ROBERT FAW-CETT. An impressive book of the Art Deco period finely printed by August Gauthier in Nicholas Cochin type.

A Horse Race From Start to Finish - Handsomely Bound

Item Number: 17 Price: $750.[Fore-edge Painting; Binding]; Steel, Rev. Robert. DOING GOOD, Or the Christian in Walks of Usefulness (London: T. Nel-son and Sons, 1864) Presumed first edition. With an engraved vignette titlepage and engraved head or tail pieces throughout. 8vo, in the publisher’s original deluxe binding of full maroon morocco over thick beveled boards, the covers with a deeply embossed elaborate arabesque panel in black and blind, the spine ruled and decorated with central tools in a grape cluster motif in black between ruled raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt. WITH A FINE SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING

OF A HORSE RACE, one direction depicting the start, the other direction depicting the finish. A copy in very pleasing condition, the binding handsome and very well preserved, the fore-edge painting is bright and vivid. The textblock is fine and shows only light mellowing or evidence of age. A VERY ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF THE SPLIT FORE-EDGE TECHNIQUE. The fore-edge features two reversed images of a horse race. That on the first half showing the start and that on the second showing the finish. Though undated we can presume from the style and technique that the painting is Edwardian.

With A Fine Split Fore-Edge Painting

Arguably the Most Famous Book of the Sci-Fi Genre

Item Number: 21 Price: $450.Herbert, Frank. DUNE (Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1965) The First Book Club Edition. 8vo, original red cloth let-tered on the spine in silver, in the pictorially decorated dustjacket, nearly identical to the first edition with the art work of John Schoenherr and with the map on the back cover. A fine copy indeed, very bright, the jacket with virtually no wear and only trivial signs of age.

FIRST BOOK IN HERBERT’S EPIC SERIES AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS OF ALL TIME. DUNE was winner of the 1965 Nebula and 1966 Hugo awards for best novel. The story of Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis would spawn five sequels, a movie, two mini-series and much more.

Frank Herbert’s Dune - A Fine Copy



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‘Captains Courageous’ - Kipling At His Very BestFirst Edition of His Moving Maritime Adventure - 1897

occasional of the normally encountered spotting. A PLEASING FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Kipling’s tale of a spoiled youth who becomes a man at sea is one of his best loved stories. Its themes are universal and timeless. It is also an excellent portrayal of life in the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massa-chusetts, written while the Kiplings were living in the United States. Though Kipling lived in Vermont for several years this is his only novel with entirely American settings, themes and major characters.

Item Number: 24 Price: $795.Kipling, Rudyard. ‘CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS’ (London: Macmillan, 1897) First edition. With 22 fine black & white illustrations on plates by I.W. Taber. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth elaborately lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on both the spine and the upper cover in a maritime motif. A very nice copy of this beloved story, the blue cloth bright and unfaded, the gilt on the front cover perfect, that on the spine only very slightly mellowed, the text block with very little and very

First Edition - Limited Issue - The Mint Item Number: 25 Price: $450.Lawrence, T. E. THE MINT: A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/C Ross (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955) First edition, lim-ited issue, one of 2000 copies only. Royal 8vo, original half publisher’s morocco and cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., in the printed slipcase. An extremely fine copy, bright and clean, as mint.

T.E. Lawrence’s Life with the R.A.F. - Bound in Morocco

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Lawrence made his way into the service on two occasions by using adopted names. In August 1927, writing from Karachi, he told Edward Garnett that he had arranged notes in sections and was copying them as a Christmas gift to Garnett.

A Very Fine Set Signed and Inscribed by the AuthorA Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary MasterpieceAbraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg

[Lincoln, Abraham]; Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1939) 4 volumes. First edition, and the first printing other then the limited issue of only 525 copies. VOLUME ONE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, CARL SANDBURG. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Large, thick 8vos, publisher’s original full blue buckram with Lincoln’s signature embossed in blind on upper covers, and with gilt lettered and ruled spines. In the original

Item Number: 26 Price: $1450.publisher’s box. An unusually well preserved and handsome set, as pristine. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, AND ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS CONCERNING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences..

John F. Kennedy - Profiles In Courage - 1956 EARLY ISSUANCE OF AN IMPORTANT PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK. The most famous and long-enduring of the President’s writings. This was Kennedy’s second book, written when he was a Senator from Massachusetts. It earned for him the Pulitzer Prize.

Item Number: 22 Price: $550.Kennedy, John F. PROFILES IN COURAGE (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956) First Edition, Early printing without the statement but with the 3.50 on the jacket flaps and the sequential numbers as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter black cloth and blue cloth over boards, in the original printed and pictorial dustjacket. A fine and bright copy in a clean and very pleasing dustjacket.

A Very Handsome Copy in Original Dustjacket

A Leaf from the “King James” BibleProverbs IX - XXIIFrom The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 Bible

Item Number: 23 Price: $550.[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From PROVERBS containing part of Chap. IX, all of Chapters X and XI and part of Chap. XII ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with three fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, a single leaf. A very fine and well preserved leaf with no staining or wear whatsoever.

A large leaf showing the original stab marks for sewing from the original time of binding. 17th century marginal note small and unobtrusive. A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION FROM THE BOOK OF PROVERBS FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES.

One of 25 Copies in a Beautiful Zahnsdorf BindingMountbatten: The Official BiographySigned by Philip Ziegler and by The Countess of Burma

[Lord Mountbatten; British Royalty; British History]; Ziegler, Philip. MOUNTBATTEN: The Official Biography (London: Collins, 1985) First edition, Special issue, one of 25 copies only, specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in London. A fine colour photo-graph of Mountbatten to the verso of the front cover and a fine, black and white photograph at the rear, numerous black & white photos throughout and folding plate of the Mountbatten family tree. Thick 8vo, beautifully bound in full blue crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London, the spine with gilt stopped raised bands, gilt ruled panels and central gilt tooled decoration within the compartments, two compartments lettered in gilt, one with red mo-rocco onlay, silk end-leaves and photographic pastedowns, a.e.g.,

Item Number: 27 Price: $1650.in a specially made blue protective slipcase. A mint copy. FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION, SPECIALLY BOUND AND ISSUED IN A LIMITATION OF 25 COPIES ONLY, SIGNED BY ZEIGLER AND ALSO BY MOUNTBATTEN’S DAUGHTER, The Countess Mountbatten of Burma. A wonderful biography of Mountbatten, following both his illustrious life and professional and patriotic career. The foreword, by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, is signed at its foot by her. For this “official” biography the author was given access to Mountbatten personal archives at Broadlands, the family home, and had the cooperation of many family members and close friends, but he was subject to no editorial limitations--the decision as to what was included was entirely his.



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First Edition of Herman Melville’s Collected Poems RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE POEMS. The first publica-tion of Melville’s collected poems and the first time that many appear in print. Appearing for the first time “Author’s note (on the use of expletives)” pg. 129, “Miscellaneous Poems” pp. 297-349, and “At the Hostelry” pp. 351-434.

Item Number: 31 Price: $950.Melville, Herman. POEMS (London: Constable & Co., 1924) Rare First Edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies only. Large 8vo, publishers original blue cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, t.e.g. A superior copy of this very scarce book, fine and bright and unusually well preserved, without wear or blemish.

Original Blue Cloth Gilt - A Superior Copy in Fine Condi-tion

John Milton - The Poetical Works - With Fine Scholarship Item Number: 32 Price: $295.Milton, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON (London: Macmillan, 1887) The Globe Edition. Small 8vo, hand-somely bound by Mudie in contemporary three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards, page edges and end papers mar-bled to match, the spine with elaborate gilt tooled panels within compartments divided by gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, a very attractive binding. A very attractive

In a Very Hand-some Binding Gilt by Mudie - 1887s

binding in excellent condition, the text fine and fresh. A HANDSOME ANTIQUE COPY of Milton’s great poetry, considered among the finest produced in the English Language. The addition of David Masson’s scholarly introductions make this volume as useful as it is attractive. It contains PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED, SAMSON AGONISTES and all the minor poems.

McCarthy, Cormac. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (New York: Al-fred A. Knopf, 1992) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth backed black boards, in the illustrated dustjacket with Publisher’s Weekly blurb and first letter on front flap in colour. A very fine copy in a very fine dustjacket, as pristine and mint. FIRST EDITION. Basis for the movie featuring Matt Damon,

Item Number: 29 Price: $550.All the Pretty Horses - First Edition - 1992

Henry Thomas, and Penélope Cruz. First volume in The Border Tril-ogy. Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Its romanticism, in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy’s earlier work, brought the writer much public attention. The novel tells of John Grady Cole, a sixteen year old cowboy who grew up on his grandfather’s ranch in San Angelo, Texas.

Cormac McCarthy’s Award Winning Novel

The Medium is the Message Original Cloth and DustjacketMarshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore - Rare First PrintingA Cutting Edge Look at Society to Come

unobtrusive wear to the tips and extremities, the jacket with just a hint of mellowing along the edges. AN IMPORTANT BOOK AND THE VERY SCARCE FIRST PRINTING IN FIRST EDITION. While the Bantam paperbound issue seems to be easily obtainable this first issue in cloth is quite rare. THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE is an unorthodox “look around to see what is happening and why” created by one of the major intellectual influences of the time.

Item Number: 30 Price: $350.McLuhan, Marshall and Fiore, Quentin. THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE. Co-ordinated by Jerome Agel (New York: Random House, 1967) First edition, stated first printing. Illustrated profusely throughout, on every page, in black and white from a great variety of sources. Small folio, in the original black and cream cloth decorated in an all over pattern and in the original dustjacket of matching design. A fine copy, internally near as new, very mild toning to the cream cloth and extremely light,

Henri Matisse - Catalogue Raisonne des Ouevre IllustresBeautifully Produced by Duthuit in Paris - Only 2000 Copies

in black, the spines lettered in black, in the original dustjacket. A very fine copy in a well preserved dustjacket showing just a bit of light toning and a short closed tear without loss to the rear lower corner. FIRST EDITION AND LIMITED PRINTING OF THIS FINELY PRODUCED CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. A beautiful copy of this monumental work, the reproductions are of exquisite quality.

Item Number: 28 Price: $495.[Matisse, Henri]; Duthuit, Claude. HENRI MATISSE. CATA-LOGUE RAISONNÉ DES OUEVRES ILLUSTRÉS ÉTABI AVEC LA COLLABORATION DE FRANÇOISE GARNAUD. Intro-duction de Jean Guichard-Meili (Paris: Claude Duthuit, 1988) 2 volumes. First Edition and Limited to 2000 copies. With 26 reproductions in colour and hundreds throughout in black and white. 4to, publisher’s original finely woven tan linen, the cover with a reproduction of one of Matisse’s works and with lettering

Faust - As Envisioned By Willy Pogany - 1908The First Edition With Colour Illustra-tions ThroughoutAn Excellent Copy - As Mint and Largely Unopened


[Pogany, illus.] Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. FAUST by Goethe, Translated by Abraham Hayward (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908) First edition, first issue. With 30 colored plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards, illustrated title-page and decorative letters throughout all by Willy Pogany. 8vo, pub-lisher’s fine red cloth, with a large decorative device on the upper cover in blue, green and gilt, and with gilt lettering additional, the spine lettered in gilt. A very fine copy, internally pristine and mint, partially unopened, the cloth with only the very minimal

signs of mellowing or age evidence. THE SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL TRUE FIRST EDITION. This beautiful edition of Goethe’s FAUST is illustrated lavishly with Willy Pogany’s compelling watercolors and black and white drawings. Considered the German poet’s crowning achievement, the play was said to have been a work in progress for thirty years. Pogany has aptly expressed its allegorical and supernatural qualities with memorable images of Faust, Margaret, and Mephistopheles.

Unique & Noteworthy Presentation Copy from the Author From David Rock-efeller to Buckminster FullerFirst Edition - Cre-ative Management In Banking - 1964


Rockefeller, David. CREATIVE MANAGEMENT IN BANKING (New York: McGraw Hill, 1964) FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH WARM PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR, DAVID ROCKEFELLER, TO R. BUCKMINSTER “BUCKY” FULLER. Signed and dated December 4th, 1964. 8vo, original brown cloth lettered in yellow on the upper cover and in yellow and black on the spine, in the original dustjacket. A very good copy, just a bit of

mellowing to the jacket, with Fuller’s shelf label affixed to the bottom of the spine of both book and jacket. Pencil notation, possibly Fuller’s, on the front of the jacket. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM ONE OF THE 20TH CEN-TURY’S MOST FAMOUS MEN OF FINANCE AND BUSINESS TO ONE OF THE CENTURY’S GREAT RENAISSANCE MEN, BUCKMINSTER FULLER.



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A Fine Three Volume Shakespeare - The Complete PlaysBeautifully Bound and Illustrated and PreservedOne of the Best 19th Century Editions

ers, marbled edges, endleaves of sympathetic papers. A very attractive set, clean and handsome and fine with only very minor evidence of age. A FINE 19TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT AND HANDSOMELY BOUND. This collection is considered one of the principle and most important collections for its time. The editors, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, are recognized as authorities on Shakespeare and had edited, critiqued and published Shakespeare for years.

Item Number: 36 Price: $1250.Shakespeare, William. CASSELL’S ILLUSTRATED SHAKE-SPEARE. THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE. Edited and anno-tated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Vol. I--Comedies, Vol. II--Historical Plays, Vol. III--Tragedies. (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d. [1864-68]) 3 volumes. First of the edi-tion. Illustrations by H.C. Selous; Jansen and Stratford bust portraits. 4to, 3/4 dark blue polished period calf over violet pebbled cloth boards, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, stippled and decorated, lettered in gilt in two compartments, one with red morocco lettering label, ruled in gilt on the cov-

he Rare Limited Edition of Only 100 Copies Item Number: 37 Price: $3650.[Shakespeare Head Press], Plutarch. THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES... (Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1928) 8 volumes. RARE LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES, printed on handmade paper, numbered and SIGNED by the illustra-tor Thomas Lowinsky Decorations throughout consisting of portraits within headpieces by Thomas Lowinsky. Large 8vo, very handsomely bound in the publisher’s best bindings of three quarter black levant morocco by Morley of Oxford, the

spines with wide bands with multiple gilt rules, handsomely gilt lettered in three compartments, t.e.g. A very fine set, very handsome indeed and in wonderful condition. RARE FIRST EDITION, BEST ISSUE OF THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PLUTARCH, LIMITED TO ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. This edition was printed from the first edition of 1579. Lowinsky’s portrait head-pieces are taken so far as possible from authentic originals. A handsomely printed set of North’s classic translation.

Specially Printed and Bound by The Shake-speare Head PressPlutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans- Superbly Illustrated

The Wind in the Willows - A Beloved Classic Illustrated and Signed by Ernest H. ShepardOne of the Great Illustrators of His Time

Item Number: 38 Price: $1250.[Shepard, Ernest H. illus.] Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (London: Methuen and Co, 1966) SIGNED BY ERNEST H. SHEPARD. With illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine, with decorated endpapers in green by Shepard, and in the original dustjacket also featuring artwork by Shepard. A very nice, very pleasing copy, SIGNED by the artist. There is some expected typical mellowing or evidence of

age, though the book remains handsome and attractive. SIGNED BY ONE OF THE GREAT MASTERS OF ILLUSTRA-TION FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. ERNEST H. SHEPARD, THE ILLUSTRATOR OF WINNIE THE POOH. ‘Shepard’s il-lustrations to such classics as WIND IN THE WILLOWS and the four primary WINNIE THE POOH books are without doubt one of the great achievements of children’s book illustration.

Rare First Edition in English of a World ClassicLeo Tolstoy - War and Peace - Six Volumes - 1886Original Cloth Gilt Decorated - A Very Pleasing Set

Item Number: 39 Price: $13,500.Tolstoi, Leo. WAR AND PEACE... (New York: William S. Gotts-berger, 1886) 6 volumes. First edition in English, First Issue of each volume with the proper dating and Gottsberger imprint to the verso of each title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, with black tooled borders and gilt pictorial decorations in all over designs to the covers. A very pleasing set of this rare survival. The original cloth remains in quite good condition, the hinges are strong and tight, some light edgewear to expected areas of the cloth, the tips and the spine ends just a bit rubbed primarily from shelving, two volumes with

a bit more wear to the tips of the spines than the others. Ads comport with those in the copy at Harvard University. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A COMPLETE SET OF FIRST ISSUE VOLUMES, ALL IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND IN A PLEASING STATE OF PRESERVATION. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in world literature; John Galsworthy described it as “the greatest novel ever written.” E. M. Forster, in his Aspects of the Novel , declared that “(N)o English novelist is as great as Tolstoy...”

South - A Core Work in Antarctic Literature Item Number: 35 Price: $2250.Shackleton, Ernest. SOUTH: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917 (New York: Macmillan Company, 1920) First American Edition. With a color frontispiece, 87 illustrations from photos and drawings, and a folding map at the rear. Tall 8vo, original ribbed green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and cover. An unusually bright and fine copy, the green cloth unfaded and fresh, the text fine indeed. ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE SOUTH POLAR

The Scarce First American IssueShackleton’s Expedi-tion of 1914-1917

OEUVRE. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EPICS IN THE HISTORY OF ANTARCTIC TRAVEL AND ONE OF THE MOST HARROWING TALES EVER PENNED OF RESCUE AND HUMAN TRIUMPH. SOUTH is the story of Shackleton’s failed attempt, after learning of Amundsen’s attainment of the South Pole, to be the first to cross the last continent from sea to sea. The first editions of this book have truly become quite scarce and are rarely found in as nice condition as seen here.

The Very Scarce First Edition in EnglishWith Illustrations Throughout By Fyo-dorovitch Lapshin

Item Number: 40 Price: $1150.Verne, Jules. FACING THE FLAG (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, n.d. [1897]) First American Edition and First Edition in English. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover and decorated with panel design in blind on the upper cover, ruled in blind on the spine. A very good and pleasing copy, a bit of expected aging to the tips, spine a bit mellowed, small discoloured mark.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. The publisher Neely copy righted this tale in December 1896, and then in January 1897 published it in several formats. Sampson Low’s British edition, titled FOR THE FLAG, was not published until October of the same year.’ See Sumner



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Virgil - A Beautifully Bound Set in EnglishThe Ecologues, The Georgics, The Aeneid

Item Number: 41 Price: $695.Virgil. VIRGIL, The Eclogues Translated by Wrangham, The Georgics by Sotheby, and The Aeneid by Dryden. (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830) 2 volumes. First edition thus. Volume I with an engraved bust of Virgil by Free-man as frontispiece. Small 8vo, very handsome bindings of three-quarter speckled calf over marbled boards. The spines with red and green morocco lettering labels gilt, elaborately decorated in gilt in a morning-glory motif in ruled compart-

ments between raised bands gilt decorated. A very fine and handsome set, just the most minor of rubbing to the extremities, internally near as perfect. A very fine set with extensive annotations and in very striking bindings. The first volume contains the Ecologues and Georgics, the first and second contain the Aeneid. Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, first published over one hundred and fifty years prior to this edition, won much acclaim.

First Edition of Vonnegut’s “Most Powerful Novel”Slaughterhouse Five - 1969 - Original Cloth in Dustjacket

Item Number: 42 Price: $2450.Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Or The Chil-dren’s Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death ([New York]: Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, [1969]) First edition, first print-ing. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered on the spine in gilt and red, on the upper cover in gilt, in the original publisher’s dustjacket. A lovely copy, the book quite fine and the jacket with just a bit of evidence of shelving or light rubbing at the extremities and with only a slight amount of the usual mellowing.

FIRST EDITION OF VONNEGUT’S “MOST POWERFUL NOVEL.” SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE is also recognized as his most influential and popular work. The novel was ranked by Modern Library as the eighteenth greatest English language novel of the 20th century. It also appeared in Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.

John Marshall’s Life of George Washington - First EditionIn the Original Period Calf Bindings - Replete with MapsPublished London - 1804-1807 - Five Volumes

Item Number: 43 Price: $8750.[Washington, George]; Marshall, John. THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON... (London: Richard Phillips, 1804-1807) 5 volumes. First edition, the English Issue published at the same time as the American issue. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington, folding view plates, a finely engraved vignette tailpiece, 12 large folding maps of the American colonies. Thick 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines with red and black contrast-ing morocco lettering labels and decorated in gilt with gilt bands and period central devices in gilt. A fine and handsome set in the original English calf binding. Some light age evidence to

the calf but surprisingly well preserved. An unusually well preserved item. RARE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY CALF of one of the great early works on George Washington. The books contain maps of important Revolutionary battles. There is also a fine portrait of Washington and finely engraved view plates. This biography, here offered in its original five volume, first edition presentation, is still re-garded as one of the most important ever penned, and perhaps the only one of real substance written by an extraordinary contemporary.

Oscar Wilde’s Last and Most Poignant WorkThe Ballad of Read-ing GaolOne of 800 Copies Only - The True First Edition - 1898

Item Number: 44 Price: $2950.[Wilde, Oscar]. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL BY C.3.3. (London: Leonard Smithers, 1898) First edition, one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter buff cloth over mustard coloured cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy, only a hint of mellowing to the buff cloth.

THE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON FINE, HANDMADE PAPER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde’s last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time, the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work.

With the Flag to Pretoria - Two Volumes - 1900-1901Fine First Edition of This Important Boer War History

Item Number: 45 Price: $795.Wilson, H. W. WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA. A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. (London: Harmsworth Brothers, Ltd., 1900, 1901) 2 volumes. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout, “from photographs and authentic sketches taken in South Africa”, and with two very large folding maps and a number of charts and plans. 4to, publisher’s original bright red cloth beautifully lettered and decorated in black and gilt on the spines and upper covers, decorated in black only on the lower covers. An unusually fine and bright set, the red cloth

extremely handsome with just the most minor evidence of age, internally near pristine. HANDSOME FIRST EDITION OF THE EXTREMELY WELL ILLUSTRATED AND COMPREHENSIVE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE BOAR WAR. The South African war was notable for many reasons, not the least of which was the fact that it was “the first great struggle fought out under new conditions which smokeless powder had introduced... ” In the early stages of the war, the British were met with resistance and defeat.

A Handsome Poems of William WordsworthIn a Rich Contem-porary Binding by Hayday

Item Number: 46 Price: $895.Wordsworth, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDS-WORTH. A New Edition (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) An early collected edition of Wordsworth’s poetry. With a handsome engraved portrait and engraved vignette titlepage [dated 1847] of Rydal Mount. Thick 8vo, finely bound in full contemporary pebbled maroon morocco by Hayday with rich and elaborate gilt panel decorations in the compartments of the spine between raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, both covers richly gilt paneled with a wide pattern with large corner-pieces and

multiple rules and elaborate roll tooling all in gilt, gilt decorated edges and turn-ins, a.e.g. xxiv, 704. A very fine copy, beautifully bound and extremely well preserved. SUPERBLY BOUND BY HAYDAY. A beautiful and very hand-some edition of Wordsworth’s great poetical works choicely bound by Hayday to exquisite taste. Printed double column and ruled, with appendixes, prefaces to earlier editions, notes and an index to first lines. A fitting publication and binding for the great master of English Romantic Poetry.

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