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New York: The Century Company, January 1893. First Edition. Wraps. Spine with short tears at tips; small chip at outer edge of front wrap. Near Fine. Original printed wraps. The first appearance of Twain's story. Also includes articles on John Greenleaf Whittier (with a portrait); Halbot Knight Browne "Phiz," with illustrations by him; the Great Wall of China; and the Kindergarten Movement. Illustrated with engravings.
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The 1,000,000 Pound Bank Note" in THE CENTURY, Vol. XLV, #3
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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ABAFT THE FUNNEL
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New York: B. W. Dodge & Co., 1909. First Edition. hardcover. Hinge cracked at the rear but very tight; covers bright and fresh. The dustwrapper is complete with only minor chipping at the spine tips and corners. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Livingston 328. Pirated Edition, preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold.
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First British Edition. Hardcover. Typical sunning to spine with mild fraying to head and neat cloth repair to heel. Minor spotting to covers. Near Fine. Decorated red cloth. Preceding the American edition by four months. With 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3414: Sequence B with the gatherings saddle-stitched with wire staples as opposed to sewn. BAL assigns no priority to the sequences. With the publisher's catalogue insert at rear dated October 1884, per BAL.
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
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Cleveland: World Syndicate, n.d. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in a bright and colorful Very Good dustwrapper with moderate edgewear. Dustwrapper art by Irwin Weltman, dated 1933.
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THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed.
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THE AMBASSADORS
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Very mild darkening to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Leslie Saalburg. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by Leslie Saalburg. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE AMBASSADORS
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown. Spotting to the spine. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a sunned spine and a small split at the bottom edge. Leslie Saalburg. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by Leslie Saalburg. Copy #1185 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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THE AMBASSADORS
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Slight darkening to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Leslie Saalburg. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by Leslie Saalburg. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY in two volumes
by (BYRON, Lord); (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor); [SOUTHEY, Robert - editor] et. al
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Bristol: Biggs and Co., 1799 & 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, handsomely bound. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15]. Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's "War Poem," but were canceled in all but two known copies as the poem was considered unpatriotic. A third volume was advertised but never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic poetry, here in unusually nice condition.
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ARCHIVE OF 2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)
by DE GONCOURT, Jules
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1853 & 1868. Letter. Creases from folding. Near Fine. Two one-page handwritten letters, both in French, dated 27 November 1853 and 29 February 1868, on 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" sheets of paper, each addressed to an unidentified publisher asking for the return of two manuscripts. Roughly, "After four unfruitful visits I finally secured an appointment and a promise of a reply. You did not keep the appointment. I believe it useless to prolong this game of hide and seek to which I am not accustomed and which it does not suit me to continue any further. Be so kind, Sir, as to put at my disposal the two manuscripts which I entrusted to you...." Jules de Goncourt published books together with his brother Edmond. Letters by Edmond are plentiful, but due to Jules's death at the age of 39 of a stroke brought on by syphilis, his letters are rather scarce on the market. The Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious prize in French language literature, is named for them.
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ASTRAEA: THE BALANCE OF ILLUSION. A POEM DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF YALE COLLEGE, AUGUST 14, 1850
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Rubbed and edgeworn. Contents partly soiled, foxed. Good+. BAL 8757: State A, Binding A of original glazed boards: 2500 copies.
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THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine frayed head and heel with frayed spots on spine edge as well. Corners open. Internally very clean. Very Good. First Printing. With engraved title and eight plates. BAL 8781: Binding A, brown cloth with all first issue points. A Grolier American 100 book. Former owner inscription in pencil "Compliments of G. Y.(?) J." dated "Boston Nov. 14--1858." The earliest dated copy, in the Medical History Library of Yale University, bears the flyleaf date of November 13.
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THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing, later owner name on front endpaper. Despite the two missing plates, a Near Fine copy. BAL 8781: Printing 2, Binding C of original brown cloth, no rings. The sheets measure 7-1/2 x 4-3/4, which falls between the paper size of the regular issue and the large paper issue. One of the Grolier 100 Influential American Books Printed Before 1900. This copy bound with only six (of eight) plates.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by SPOFFORD, Harriet Prescott
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Deer Island near Newburyport, MA, 9 August 1916. Letter. Normal folds from mailing. Near Fine. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. In full: "My Dear General: What a splendid letter that is about Greenland! Full of magnanimity, and nobility. I was delighted with it, and felt most proud and glad of you!" Spofford was a widely-published American author whose career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres. When Emily Dickinson was asked whether she had read Spofford's work CIRCUMSTANCE, Dickinson replied, I read Miss Prescott's CIRCUMSTANCE, but it followed me in the dark, so I avoided her" (ATLANTIC MONTHLY, October 1891).
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AMs) From THE WATER WITCH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
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[1828]. Manuscript. A few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very Good. Unsigned handwritten fragment of his working draft of this novel about the abduction of a woman by a pirate. Two pages in dark ink in his small hand, approximately 600 words, on both sides of an 8" x 3-1/4" sheet. With a separate card SIGNED by the author's daughter, also an author, Susan Fenimore Cooper, dated Aug. 1889 and stating: "From the 'Water-Witch,' written at the 'Casa Tasso,' Sorrento, in 1828." Cooper manuscript material is scarce in the trade.
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AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) with a CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH
by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
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6 February 1892. Manuscript. Photograph Fine; manuscript Very Good with a neatly repaired tear going through the quotation. On a small (4-1/8" x 2-7/8") piece of paper Holmes has written the third stanza of "Song. For A Temperance Dinner" and dated and SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" below. Alas for the loved one, too spotless and fair The joys of his banquet to chasten and share Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by HOWELLS, W[illiam] D[ean]
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Boston, 30 November 1884. Letter. Near Fine. One-page brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "W. D. Howells" to Mr. Cary submitting an "Open Letter" (not present) and asking to see a proof.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Charming Missive to a Young Boy Named Charlie
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
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Cambridge, 1867. Letter. Normal folds from mailing; ink a bit light. Near Fine. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you begin to think that I am not going to answer it at all. But you see, I am; and my letter will be longer than yours. It comes very naturally to me to begin with 'My Dear Charlie,' because I have a boy named Charlie. He was in the war; and was shot through the body; but has got well again, and is now in St. Petersburg; and whenever I write to him I begin my letters with 'My Dear Charlie,' just as I do this. I suppose you have a sled; and I wonder of what color it is, and what its name is. I used to have one named the 'Vanguard'; but that was a good while ago, and I do not know what has become of it. And what do you think of this great snow? You may live to be an old man without seeing the…
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
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Cambridge, 7 November 1869. Letter. Normal folds from mailing. Near Fine. A 3-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Mrs. Lawrence" on his stay in Florence. In part: "Friday is certainly an unlucky day; for on Friday I called at your hotel and was so unfortunate as not to find you.... I saw more than once the sunny Torrigiani gardens, and the empty house. I saw also many friends of yours, who regretted your absence, and spoke of you as you would like to be spoken of; and finally I shook hands with you in Powers' Studio, which was a kind of welcome and farewell to Florence." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow."
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by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
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Cambridge, 25 April 1880. Letter. Normal folds from mailing. Near Fine. A 2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two sides of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to an unidentified recipient inviting him to dine at his home and telling him which "horse-car" would be best to take from Boston. SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow."
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