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Author Name: Carroll, Lewis and Illustrated by Marie Laurencin

Title: Alice In Wonderland [Illustrated by Marie Laurencin]

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Fine/No jacket as issued.

Edition: Limited

Publisher: Paris The Black Sun Press 1930

Illustrator: Marie Laurencin

Seller ID: INTERLOC006426

Quarto, 114pp., Original paper wrappers. Illustrated with six colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. This is copy

#182 of 300 copies of the European edition printed on Rives Paper. This book comes in a slipcase which is a little

bit worn. The pink chemise that covers the book is a little darkened on the spine, and shows some splitting at the

ends of the joints. Extremely rare edition of Alice in Wonderland. About as nice a copy of the book that can be

found, despite the slight wear to the chemise.

Menihan Copy Childrens Books, Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Illustrated Books Children's

Price = 2500.00 USD

Author Name: Poe, Edgar Allan

Title: The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe [Complete Collected Writings] Ten Volume Set

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good Set

Publisher: New York Harper and Brothers ca. 1920's

Illustrator: Illustrated

Seller ID: INTERLOC025131

Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated spines with ravens and bells. Just a few minor signs of age and wear. A clean

and solid set. Handsome set of this classic American author includes: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven,

The Bells, Lenore, Eldorado, The Devil in the Belfry, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Black

Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe's literary criticisms and much more. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January

19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American

Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American

practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited

with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to

earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. In January 1845 Poe published

his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. Sadly, on October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of

his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease,

rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. Poe was found delirious in the streets and was never coherent long

enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own.

Price = 325.00 USD

Author Name: Flaubert, Gustave; Edited by Robert Arnot and Illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins

Title: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert [Ten Volume Set] Editor Signed Limited Edition 1/750

Sets

Binding: Leather

Book Condition: Near Fine Set

Edition: Limited

Publisher: New York M. Walter Dunne 1904

Illustrator: Illustrated

Seller ID: INTERLOC025126

Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edge is gilt. Deckled outside edges. Marbled endpapers.

Limited edition set 519/750 signed by Arnot. Signed by Robert Arnot on a beautiful limitations page, in the Art

Nouveau style. Bound in black leather with intricate gilt decorations to front covers & spines; gilt lettering to spines.

Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest

Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857),and for his

scrupulous devotion to his art and style. His first finished work was November, a novella, which was completed in

1842. In September 1849, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

Madame Bovary, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856. The government

brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the

following year, but both were acquitted. When Madame Bovary appeared in book form, it met with a warm

reception. He spent the remainder of his life toiling on the unfinished Bouvard et Pécuchet, which was posthumously

printed in 1881. It was a grand satire on the futility of human knowledge and the ubiquity of mediocrity. He believed

the work to be his masterpiece, though the posthumous version received lukewarm reviews. Flaubert was a prolific

letter writer, and his letters have been collected in several publications.

Price = 750.00 USD

Author Name: Bronte, Charlotte, Bronte, Emily, and Bronte, Anne Editor: Scott, Temple

Title: The Novels of the Sisters Bronte: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of

Wildfell Hall...[12 Volume Set]

Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good Set Publisher: Edinburgh John Grant 1911

Seller ID: INTERLOC025133

Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edges are gilt. Charlotte (April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855),

Emily (July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849), were English writers of the

1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted

into the canon of great English literature. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and

were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The

book attracted little attention, selling only two copies. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each in the

following year. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were released in 1847

after their long search to secure publishers. The novels attracted great critical attention and steadily became best-

sellers, but the sisters' careers were shortened by ill-health. Emily died the following year before she could complete

another novel, and Anne published her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in 1848, a year before her death.

Upon publication Jane Eyre received the most critical and commercial success of all the Bronte works, continuing to

this day. Charlotte's Shirley appeared in 1849 and was followed by Villette in 1853. Her first novel, The Professor,

was published posthumously in 1857. The first biography of Charlotte was written by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell

and published in 1857. A most handsome set.

Price = 1250.00 USD

Author Name: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine and Published by

Gabriel Wells

Title: The Writings of Mark Twain [35 Volume Set] The Definitive Edition of His Complete Collected

Works

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good Condition

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: New York Gabriel Wells 1922

Seller ID: INTERLOC025134

Octavo, Paper covered boards with blue cloth spines. Printed paper spine labels. Some of the volumes have chipped

edges. Some of the spine labels show wear and fading. Three volumes have discolored areas at the base of the spine.

Some mild foxing on the preliminary pages of a few volumes. The fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in

anticipation of the publication of this edition which did not appear until after his death. It is double-signed as Mark

Twain/Samuel Clemens and is additionally by Mark Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Twain was born

during a visit by Halley's Comet which appears every 75 years, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as

well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the " greatest American humorist of

his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." The Definitive Edition, limited to

1,0 2 4 numbered sets, each signed "S L Clemens / Mark Twain". Clemens planned a definitive and complete edition

of his works before his death and, to that end, in 1906 signed 1,024 sheets with both forms of his name to be inserted

in the first volume of the planned edition. The set was delayed for many years.

Price = 5000.00 USD

Author Name: Fielding, Henry

Title: The Complete Works of Henry Fielding [12 Volume Set] History of Tom Jones; Amelia; Adventures

of Joseph Andrews; Misc....

Binding: Leather Book Condition: Very Good Set Publisher: New York F. Collier and Son 1903

Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated spines. Marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers. Top edges are

gilt. Minor chips on a few spine ends. Includes: History of Tom Jones; Amelia; Adventures of Joseph Andrews; Life

of Late Mr. Jonathan Wild; and Miscellaneous Writings. Henry Fielding ( Sharpham, 22 April 1707 - near Lisbon, 8

October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as

the author of the novel Tom Jones. Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of

law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London' s first police force,

the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate. Fielding never stopped writing political satire and

satires of current arts and letters. Fielding took to writing novels in 1741 and his first major success was Shamela, an

anonymous parody of Richardson's melodramatic novel. It is a satire that follows the model of the famous Tory

satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and John Gay, in particular). He followed this up with Joseph

Andrews (1742), an original work supposedly dealing with Pamela's brother, Joseph.[3] Although begun as a

parody, this work developed into an accomplished novel in its own right and is considered to mark Fielding's debut

as a serious novelist.

Price = 850.00 USD

Author Name: Ibsen, Henrik

Title: The Works of Henrik Ibsen [13 volume set]

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good/No Jacket

Publisher: New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1911

Illustrator: Illustrated

Seller ID: INTERLOC019870

Octavo, Light wear to covers. Old Bookplate.Some spine ends torn and some spines stained. Gilt lettered spines.

Includes: Lady Inger of Ostrat/The Feast at Solhoug/ Love's Comedy; The Vikings at Helgeland/The Pretenders;

Brand; Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem; Emperor and Galilean: A World-Historic Drama; The League of Youth Pillars

of Society; A Doll's House Ghosts; An Enemy of the People/The wild Duck; Rosmersholm/The Lady From the Sea;

Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder; Little Eyolf/John Gabriel Borkman/When We Dead Awaken; From Ibsen's

Workshop: Notes, Scenarios, and Drafts of the Modern Plays; Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse: With Essays on

Ibsen by Edward Dowden and James Huneker.

Sets

Price = 125.00 USD

Author Name: Baum, L Frank, Illustrated by Barry Moser

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Illustrated by Barry Moser]

Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Fine/Fine clamshell case Publisher: Pennyroyal Press 1985

268pp., Nice clean crisp book. Just one of 350 in the limited edition signed by Barry Moser. Illustrated with 62

wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in 5 colors by Harold McGrath. Calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge. Bound

in beige cloth boards gilt lettered. House in cloth clamshell tray case. One of 350 copies signed by the illustrator,

this being #243. Fabulous woodcuts, including Nancy Reagan as the Wicked Witch, make this edition a classic.

Includes an appreciation by Justin G. Schiller.

Price = 2500.00 USD

Author Name: Ruzicka, Rudolph

Title: Sketches of Vassar College, 1915

Book Condition: Very Good Set Edition: First Edition Illustrator: Illustrated Woodcuts

Folio, 12pp., Original case is split along the spine. Contains 12 colored woodcuts by Rudolph Ruzicka. Amongs his

earliest work Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator,

typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel

Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype

Company for fifty years. He designed a number of seals and medals, including the American Institute of Graphic

Arts (AIGA) and the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association. Ruzicka emigrated to the United States

from Bohemia at age ten, living first in Chicago where he took drawing lessons at the Hull House School before

becoming an apprentice wood engraver. From 1900 to 1902 he attended further classes at the Chicago Art Institute.

In 1903, he moved to New York to work as an engraver at the American Bank Note Company. In subsequent years

he attended classes at both the Art Students League of New York and the New York School of Art. In 1910, Ruzicka

received his first major art commission from System magazine. Many exhibitions followed,including such venues as

the Societe de la Gravure, Paris, the Grolier Club, and the Century Association, New York. In 1935 Ruzicka was

awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in that same year began work with the

Typographic Development staff at Mergenthaler Linotype Company, for which he was to produce typeface families.

He moved to Massachusetts in 1948 and eventually settled in Vermont. Vassar holds a major collection of his work

and ephemera

Price = 3500.00 USD