Poems Upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations by Milton, John - Thomas Warton - 1791

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

New.

London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson. 1791. Octavo. Lacks the front board and the backstrip: the full leather rear board is detached but still present. Title page, xlvi, Poems title page, pp 608, rear endpaper. Pages browned. A poor copy of a very early edition. The text is complete. Custom binding is available from the bookshop. 2nd Edition.

Hardback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 6x1x9.

for James Dodsley, London, 1785. [title continued]: epigrammatum liber, sylvarum liber. With notes critical and explanatory, and other illustrations, by Thomas Warton, Fellow of Trinity College and Late Professor of Poetry at Oxford.First edition thus. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 620-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, spine with wide ornamental gilt rules with gilt ornaments within, burgundy letterig piece. Joints cracked but holding well, corners rubbed. Contemporary signature on front free endpaper. Internally very clean.

London: James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of John MIlton's poems edited by the literary historian Thomas Warton. The first Thomas Warton edition.ESTC citation number T134607.Page 164 is misnumbered 146.A collection of the poems of John Milton, the noted English poet and civil servant during the Commonwealth of English.This edition contains Milton's original poems, as well as his noted translations. Contents include 'At a Solemn Music', 'Epitaph on Shakespeare', 'Lycidas', 'Horace to Pyrrha', 'Naturam non Pati Senium', and more. Milton is best known for his 1667 blank verse epic poem 'Paradise Lost', a poem which is generally considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever.Warton was a literary historian, and Poet Laureate.Bookplate of Richard Luckett to the front paste down. Ink notes to the front paste down, verso of the front endpaper, and to a rear blank. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards restored.… Read More

London: James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. A collection of John Milton's poetry. Containing poems in Latin and Italian, with English translations. Edited by Thomas Warton, with extensive critical notes. First thus, the first edition of this anthology edited by Warton. Comprising of hundreds of poems including odes, sonnets. Also containing his 'Comus' which was commissioned for masques for noble patrons. The editor, Thomas Warton, was a popular literary historian and critic. He was also Poet Laureate of England for five years. With the bookplate of James Franch Bright to the recto of front endpaper. Bright was a British historian and a Master of University College, Oxford. He wrote several works including English History for the Use of Public Schools and The Growth of Democracy. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love… Read More

New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.

Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).