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N Y, N Y: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1860. First US Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; vi, (7)-474, [6] pages; The text is followed by a 6-page publisher's catalog at rear, but interestingly, tippd onto the front of the catalog is the cancelled title page to Miss Pardoe's, "A Life Struggle", published in New York in 1860 by W. I. Pooley & Co. Bound in publisher's black blind-panelled & decorated cloth. Front flyleaf removed, Ink ownership on both free endpapers. Contents tight, light foxing throughtout. Endpapers up to page 36 dampstained at lower edge, fore-edge and gutter margins, up to page 222 at edge of fore-edge, at rear last pages and endpapers dampstained at gutter margin. Binding rubbed at extremities, pieces missing at spine ends, corners bumped and rubbed through. Laid in is a book dealer's catalog description. Third of five novels set in Ireland by Anthony Trollope. Castle Richmond was written… Read More

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers,. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1869]. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 20-399, 12, [4] pages; With bookplate, stamp on t. P. & table of contents, and spine label residue only markings. Ca. 1869 (publisher's ad date at rear). Believed 1st U. S. Edition. Dampstain at top edge within margin. Binding w/ corners rubbed through, spine sunned, spine ends trimmed, and a few sm ripples on front board. Contents complete with ads, generally clean and VG. Appearance VG. Light musty odor .

London: John Lane the Bodley Head,. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1925. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii, 257 pages; Elegant plates with impressed margins. Book VG+, clean. DJ rumpled at top back panel and shallow loss at bottom of spine.. .

Ny , NY: The Viking Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 499 pages; Sound copy in variousl darkened dustjacket. Provenance- early 20th Century writer and peaceful radical. Floyd Dell. Author and critic, Dell was born in 1887 died 1869. From his library but unsigned. .

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1940, 1957, 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; A complete set of the Snopes Trilogy in First Edition. Most strikingly attractive and clean. 3 Titles (the “Snopes” trilogy). ++ THE HAMLET. NY: Random House, 1940. 8vo. Black cloth stamped in red and silver, top edge stained red. Very good, eps lightly toned. In a very good DJ with shallow edgewear to head and foot of spine. 1st trade edition in 2nd state DJ (rear panel has “Excerpts from the First Reviews…”). Petersen A20b. ++ THE TOWN. Random House, (1957). 8vo. Wine red cloth stamped in gray and gold, gray threaded endpapers. Top edge’s blue-gray stain faded. Slight wear to a limited area along lower portion of outer edge of pp305-342. Otherwise near fine. DJ has a little wear near spine ends and corners, . “$3.95” DJ price, “5/57” prtd at lower corner of front flap. 1st edition, 1st state: On… Read More

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. [1888]. Presumed 1st. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349, [18] pages; Publisher's brown cloth. Contents toned. Earliest copy listed in WorldCat. .

Philadelphia: Prime Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. #270 OF 400 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY KELLER 8vo, 1/2 cloth, paper spine label; slipcase, slight wear at extremities; Signed by Author .

London: Printed for James Asperne. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. frontis; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; [x], 144 pages; MEMOIRS OF CHARLES MACKLIN COMEDIAN, with the dramatic characters, manners, anecdotes, &c. Of the age in which he lived: forming an history of the stage during almost the whole of the last century. And a chronological list of all the parts played by him . Engraved portrait frontispiece. Decorative binding with 3/4 black morocco leather over marbled boards with matching endpapers. Binding is sound and straight with brief rubbing to extremities, contetns generally VG with light aging. Arnott & Robinson 3268 .

London: J. Dodsley. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1768. Hardcover. POETRY; 18th Century; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; [4],119,[3]p. pages; Contemp. Speckled calf, maroon morocco spine label, scuffed joints & extremities rubbed. Free endpaper starting to detach. Browning at edges of front and back matter, close tear in leaf B2 - negligible paper loss. Scattered minor spotting. Rothschild 1071. Provenance- Bob E Liles [signed]; Sessler's Book Store, Mabel Zahn [laid in approval card]; Wasserman. ESTC T136298. This is the first London and not the new edition. Ist collected appearance of Elegy. .