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Insect-Musicians and Other Stories & Sketches
by Lafcadio Hearn; Compiled with Jun Tanaka
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1930
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£68.71
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Paper wraps. Some wear to paper on head and tail of spine, but otherwise a nice copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
5 x 7.25 in Item Price
£68.71
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Sketches and Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn; Translation by Kanesada Hanazono
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1928
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£80.84
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Blue and yellow pictorial paper covered boards. Text in both English and Japanese. Wear to head of spine and to hinges with the front board beginning to detach at bottom (see image). Previous owner's name to front pastedown, but otherwise a clean copy with no further defacements. Scarce.
5.25 x 7.5 in Item Price
£80.84
![Oscar [Wilde]; Men of the Day No. 305 May 24th, 1884.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/431/402/1598402431.0.m.jpg)
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Oscar [Wilde]; Men of the Day No. 305 May 24th, 1884.
by [Oscar Wilde]; Ape [Carlo Pellegrini]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1884
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£485.04
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Scarce chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde published in Vanity Fair magazine on May 24th, 1884, accompanied with a page of text. The page measures 10.5 x 15 in (27 x 38 cm). Item Price
£485.04
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Clair de Lune, and Other Troubadour Romances
by Michael West; Music by Alfred Mereer
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1913
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£141.47
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Tan cloth with a pictorial pastedown to the front cover and gilt particulars. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. A total of eight full page colored plates. An attractive copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
7.5 x 9.75 in Item Price
£141.47
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A Last Memory of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Charlotte Eaton
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1916
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£97.01
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Brown/red cloth with gilt particulars to the front cover, along with the remnants of a scarce dustjacket wrapped in mylar. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
5.25 x 7.5 in Item Price
£97.01
![Cyrano de Bergerac [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/324/1594324659.0.m.jpg)
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Cyrano de Bergerac [Inscribed]
by Edmond Rostand; Adapted by Anthony Burgess
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1971
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£202.10
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Boldly incribed by Burgess to the title page. Bright red cloth with a nice dustjacket. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6.25 x 8.5 in Item Price
£202.10
![The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra by Charles Jarvis; Bound with The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/679/1590679874.0.m.jpg)
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The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra by Charles Jarvis; Bound with The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra [Two Volumes]
by Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra; Translated by Charles Jarvis [Jervas]
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1742
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£3,233.60
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First edition of the Jarvis translation. Complete two volume mottled calf with five raised bands on each with decorated compartments. Very nicely recassed with a supple calf. Gilt ruled inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Complete with a total of 69 copperplate engravings drawn by John Vanderbank and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht, including the two frontispieces to… Read more about this item Item Price
£3,233.60
![The Thanksgiving Visitor [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/977/1585977838.0.m.jpg)
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The Thanksgiving Visitor [Signed]
by Truman Capote
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£242.52
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Signed by Capote and limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 61. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Housed in a paper covered slipcase with a pictorial pastedown of Capote and Miss Faulk. Some fading to slipcase (see image), otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6.5 x 9.75 in Item Price
£242.52
![The Waste Land [aka Wasteland] in The Dial November 1922: Volume LXXIII; Number 5.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/479/158/1585158479.0.m.jpg)
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The Waste Land [aka Wasteland] in The Dial November 1922: Volume LXXIII; Number 5.
by T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Mina Loy, Arthur Schnitzler, Elie Faure, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Sebastian Cauliflower, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Cowley, Edward Sapir, Padraic Colum, Gilbert Seldes, Henry McBride, Paul Rosenfeld
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1922
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£1,616.80
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Brown paper wraps. Includes the first American publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Complete with Robert Delaunay's water-color frontispiece "St. Severin", which leaves a much less than usual offsetting to first page. Loss to bottom of front wrap (see image), but otherwise a nice clean complete issue with no previous owners' names or other markings.
6.5 x 9.5 in Item Price
£1,616.80
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
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- Used
- Edition
- 1609
- Published
- 1609
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£5,456.70
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First folio edition. Full ruled calf rebacked in supple calf with new endpapers. First stanza of each canto printed inside four-component woodcut. Numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initial letters.
Loss to title page, not affecting text or image. Archival tape repair at title page gutter and last page. Undecipherable scribbling to title page, as well as to pages 1, 2, 252… Read more about this item Item Price
£5,456.70
![Mythologia Aesopica, in qua, Aesopi Fabulae Graecolatinae CCXCVII. quarum CXXXVI. primum prodeunt. Accedunt Babriae Fabulae etiam auctiores [...]. Haec omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina [...] opera & studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/027/693/1582693027.0.m.jpg)
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Mythologia Aesopica, in qua, Aesopi Fabulae Graecolatinae CCXCVII. quarum CXXXVI. primum prodeunt. Accedunt Babriae Fabulae etiam auctiores [...]. Haec omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina [...] opera & studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti
by Aesop [Aesopus], Isaac Nicolaus Nevelet [Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1610
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£727.56
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Full gilt ruled & floriated diced calf; dimunitive Greek key to inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Two column Greek and facing Latin translation. A major source of La Fontaine. "A noteworthy Aesop edition.... It ranks in importance with the Accursio edition of 1479 and with the ... Estienne edition of 1546. ... This edition enlarges the corpus of ancient fable… Read more about this item Item Price
£727.56
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The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy
by Edgar Allan Poe
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£468.87
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Number 482 of only 500 copies signed by the illustrator to the limitation page. Quarter black cloth under brown linen boards with 16 colored lithographs throughout. Gilt title to spine. Housed in a matching brown slipcase with minor wear to corners and edges (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements.
11.25 x 15 in or 28.5 x 38 cm Item Price
£468.87
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Shakespeare's Ovid Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
by Ovid; Translated by Arthur Golding; Edited by W. H. D. Rouse
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1904
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£8,892.40
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Limited to only 12 copies on vellum, of which this is No. 6. Gilt title to spine. Engraved frontispiece featuring vignette of the King's Library with illuminated initials at each header, as well as a facsimile of the William Seres original 1567 title page. Graham Watson bookplate to front pastedown; otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names… Read more about this item Item Price
£8,892.40
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The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse; By Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures.
by Virgil, Vergil, John Dryden, Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, Pierre Lombart, Michael van der Gucht
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1697
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£5,254.60
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Full paneled mottled calf; triple gilt ruled morocco label to spine. Large paper copy with 101 engraved plates. Light occasional foxing & plate ghosting. Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet, near the Inner-Temple-Gate. Boards separating at hinge but chords remain strong.
9.75 x 14.75 inches; 24cm x 37.5 cm Item Price
£5,254.60
![Tales from Shakespeare [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/819/225/1575225819.0.m.jpg)
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Tales from Shakespeare [Signed]
by Charles and Mary Lamb; William Shakespeare
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- Used - Very Good
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- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1909
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£808.40
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Limited to 750 large paper copies, of which this is number 49, Signed by Rackham to the limitation page. White cloth covered boards with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. 13 tipped-in colored plate, including the frontispiece and the plate facing page 16 titled Puck, which appears only in this edition. No tissue guards except opposite title page. Toning… Read more about this item Item Price
£808.40
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Collection of 90 Notes from the Editors from the 100 Greatest Books of all Time Collection of Franklin Library
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1980
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£266.77
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A collection of 90 Notes from the Editors from the 100 Greatest Books of all Time collection. All housed in the publisher's accompanying slipcases, for a total of five cases meant for 20 booklets each. Stapled paper wraps of various colors.
The titles include: Adam's Education, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Analects of Confucius, Andersen's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, Aristophanes' Five Comedies, Aristotle's Politics,… Read more about this item Item Price
£266.77
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Stand Clear of Thunder
by Hagar Wilde
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£145.51
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Full black cloth with red title to front cover and spine. Previous bookstore stamp to front fly with the date stamped to rear fly. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings. Scarce.
5.25 x 7.75 in Item Price
£145.51
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A Token of Love
by [Edited by a Lady]
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1843
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£226.35
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Brown debossed cloth covered boards with gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription neatly upside down to verso. Two pages of ads to rear. Minor staining to edges and first few pages not affecting text. Scarce. Please note the size.
3 x 4.25 in Item Price
£226.35
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The Secret Sharer: An Episode from the Coast
by Joseph Conrad; Introduction by Ian Watt
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1985
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£84.88
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Limited to 1,500 copies, in which this is number 1,423. Signed by the illustrator in pencil to the limitation page. Full dark blue silk covered boards with a Morocco label affixed to the front cover. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case with Morocco label to spine. Contains 3 original etchings by Bruce Chandler, one of which is a fold-out,… Read more about this item Item Price
£84.88
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The Golden Hand
by Edith Simon
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1952
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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£161.68
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Red cloth covered boards with a dustjacket. Gilt title to spine and front cover. Wear to head of spine and dustjacket (see image). Some fading and moisture marks to spine. No previous owners' names or defacements.
6 x 8.5 in Item Price
£161.68
