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History of Tattooing and its Significance

History of Tattooing and its Significance

by HAMBLY W.D.

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1925. First Edition . HAMBLY, W.D. The History of Tattooing and its Significance. With Some Account of Other Forms of Corporal Marking. London: H.F. & WItherby, 1925. Octavo, original red cloth gilt. $3200.First edition, with eight plates of photographic illustrations, 16 in-text illustrations, and a folding map.The author of this early anthropological account of the practice of tattooing was trained at Oxford and worked as the assistant curator of African Ethnology of the Field Museum in Chicago. In addition to discussing the history, technique and geographic distribution of tattooing, he discusses it in relation to religious beliefs and practices, magic, and its ""social and anti-social purposes."" Text with a few instances of faint foxing, cloth with very minor wear, mild toning to spine.
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Complete Writings

Complete Writings

by REMINGTON Frederic LONGFELLOW Henry Wadsworth

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1904. Signed. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ten volumes. WITH: LONGFELLOW, Samuel (ed). Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Two volumes. Boston and New York / London: Houghton, Mifflin /Keegan Paul, Trench, 1904, 1886. Together, thirteen volumes. Octavo, modern full black morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $8500.“Edition de Luxe” of the writings of Longfellow, number 728 of only 750 copies, with original autograph letter signed tipped in, frontispieces portrait in each volume, and 76 illustrations (three by Frederic Remington).""The most popular American poet of the 19th century,"" Longfellow produced a number of poems that remain popular favorites, such as ""Evangeline,"" ""Hiawatha,"" and ""Paul Revere's Ride"" (Encyclopedia of Literature, 693). This deluxe set features… Read More
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by WHITMAN Walt

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1875. Signed. WHITMAN, Walt. Autograph letter signed ""Walt."" Camden (431 Stevens St.), May 2, (1875). Octavo, two pages on single sheet, to John Burroughs, with original envelope in Whitman's hand. $15,000.Fine autograph letter signed from Walt Whitman to naturalist John Burroughs, his close friend and protégé.The letter reads in full: ""Dear John Burroughs, I send you a letter that I rec'd from Dowden [the Irish literary critic], as you are alluded to. I have written to Dowden, to-day, & sent it off, & have given him your address— so I suppose he will send you the books alluded to. Mine have arived— Dowden advances, expands, or rather penetrates— the first two chapters of his Shakespeare, (which I have read thoroughly) are very fine— (I have underlined passages on every page)— the Victor Hugo I have not yet read— Nothing very different with me— I am pretty strong yet, & go out— but… Read More
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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

by WHITMAN Walt

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1882. Signed. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Camden, New Jersey: (Walt Whitman), 1882. Octavo, original green cloth gilt recased, top edge gilt, uncut. $9500.Author’s Edition, signed by Whitman on the title page, illustrated with two full-page engraved portraits of Whitman at different ages. One of probably fewer than 100 copies printed.In 1881 Boston publisher James Osgood asked Whitman to publish an expanded version of Leaves of Grass. Whitman responded that he would agree to such an edition on the condition that it include the ""sexuality odes"" which before had proved so controversial. The edition was published in Boston and had received promising reviews when on March 1 it was declared obscene by the district attorney. Osgood then asked Whitman to publish a version without the offending material. Whitman refused and asked that the plates to the Boston edition be delivered to him in Camden, New Jersey. He then promptly issued this Author's Edition from the Boston… Read More
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Complete Poems and Prose

Complete Poems and Prose

by WHITMAN Walt

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1888. First Edition . Signed. WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Poems and Prose. (Camden: no publisher [printed for the author in Philadelphia by Ferguson Brothers], 1888). Quarto, original three-quarter green cloth, original brown mottled paper boards, original paper spine label, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $14,500.First edition of the first collected edition of Whitman's works, one of only 600 copies signed by Whitman on the Leaves of Grass title page, in original cloth, presentation copy from Whitman's literary executor inscribed on the front free endpaper six months after Whitman's death, ""To G. Garson Freund, Philada. Oct. 11, 1892. through Horace Traubel.""Published only four years before the poet's death, this edition was referred to by Whitman as his ""big book… essentially the book, irrespective of expensive binding: it has portraits, notes, title page—all the guarantees of my personality: it is as clearly the book as anything could… Read More
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Faerie Queene

Faerie Queene

by SPENSER Edmund CRANE Walter

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1897. First Edition . (CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen (Chiswick Press), 1897. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt, brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut; original wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. $5200.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's ""most ambitious project of book illustration"" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester.""The noblest allegorical poem in our language—indeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world"" (James Montgomery). Originally published in the late 16th century (the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596, with the ""Mutabilitie Cantos"" added… Read More
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Happy Prince and Other Tales

Happy Prince and Other Tales

by WILDE Oscar CRANE Walter

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1888. First Edition . WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacob Hood. London: David Nutt, 1888. Quarto, original full Japan vellum over beveled boards, uncut. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $48,500.Large-paper limited first edition, number 21 of only 75 copies on handmade paper, signed by Oscar Wilde and the publisher David Nutt. Extraordinarily rare.""Wilde's reputation as an author dated from the publication of The Happy Prince and Other Tales… He presents the stories like sacraments of a lost faith… Their occasional social satire is subordinated to a sadness unusual in fairy tales"" (Ellmann, 299). Wilde wrote these tales for his own children. He told Richard La Gallienne that ""It is the duty of every father… to write fairy tales for his children."" His children later wrote of their father's ""never-ending supply"" of fairy tales and tales of adventure,… Read More
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Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle

by RACKHAM Arthur IRVING Washington

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1905. First Edition . Signed. (RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905. Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, renewed ribbon ties, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom slipcase. $12,000.Deluxe signed limited first edition, with 51 full-color mounted plates by Rackham, number 137 of only 250 copies signed by Rackham, one of the smallest limitations for a Rackham title and ""the first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition"" (Riall). One of the most scarce and desirable Rackham titles.""Rip Van Winkle of 1905 was a turning point in Rackham's career because of its 51 color plates. Known previously as a black-and-white artist, Rackham with this book achieved preeminence as an illustrator working in the three-color process… Rackham's Rip Van Winkle is among the most thoroughly illustrated of English books… His 50 illustrations, which are grouped at the end, come at a rate… Read More
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War Between the United States and Mexico

War Between the United States and Mexico

by NEBEL Carl KENDALL George Wilkins

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1851. First Edition . KENDALL, George W. and NEBEL, Carl. The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel… with a Description of Each Battle by Geo. Wilkins Kendall. New York and Philadelphia: D. Appleton; George S. Appleton, 1851. Large folio (19 by 23-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in morocco-gilt, original morocco-gilt front cover label. $27,500.First edition of one of the most important and impressive pictorial chronicles of the Mexican-American War, boasting 12 superb folio hand-finished full-color lithographic plates.Founder of the New Orleans Picayune and America's first war correspondent, George Kendall ""filed many reports… of combat during the Mexican-American War. Many newspapers reprinted Kendall's reports and Americans knew him to be [an] ardent annexationist and partisan supporter of the United States… After the war Kendall commissioned… Read More
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Short Account... BOUND WITH: 3 Works

Short Account... BOUND WITH: 3 Works

by BENEZET Anthony LAW William HARTLEY Thomas DELL Willaim

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1762. Signed. (BENEZET, Anthony). A Short Account of that Part of Africa, Inhabited by the Negroes… and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on… Second Edition, with large Additions and Amendments. Philadelphia: Printed by W. Dunlap. 1762; BOUND WITH: LAW, William. An Extract from a Treatise Called, The Spirit of Prayer. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1760; BOUND WITH: HARTLEY, Thomas. A Discourse on Mistakes concerning Religion, Enthusiasm, Experiences, &c. London Printed. Germantown reprinted: Christopher Sower, 1759 [i.e. 1760]; BOUND WITH: DELL, William. Christ's Spirit, A Christian's Strength. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown sheep, marbled boards, raised bands, black calf spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000.1762 greatly expanded and revised edition of the same year's first edition of Benezet's pioneering work—""the first practical manual for attacking the… Read More
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No Cross, No Crown

No Cross, No Crown

by PENN William

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1747. First Edition . PENN, William. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ. Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1747. Two volumes bound in one. 16mo, contemporary full American sheep, raised bands. $6500.First American edition of this scarce William Penn polemic, written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1669—an excellent copy in contemporary American sheep binding.""The most popular of all the religious pieces of William Penn"" (Lowndes, 1822). ""In 1669, while imprisoned in the Tower of London for publishing an unorthodox work, he composed the first draft of his famous No Cross, No Crown (1669), directed against luxury, frivolity, vicious amusements, and economic oppression"" (DNB). In this work he expounded the Quaker-Puritan morality with eloquence, learning, and flashes of humor, condemning the worldliness and luxury of Restoration England and extolling both Puritan conceptions of ascetic… Read More
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History of the Royal Residences

History of the Royal Residences

by PYNE William Henry

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1819. First Edition . PYNE, William Henry. The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore. London: A. Dry, 1819. Three volumes. Folio (11 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full straight-grain plum morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, all edges gilt. Each volume housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. $17,500.First edition of this beautifully illustrated work on the design and history of eight royal residences, with 100 hand-colored aquatint plates after the works of Charles Wild, James Stephanoff and others—a lovely copy in full straight-grain morocco-gilt.Artist and author William Pyne began his career as a watercolorist, but following several successful collaborations with well-known publisher Rudolph Ackermann, he ""became enamored of book production"" and undertook this ambitious, ""large and costly work entitled The History of the… Read More
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Picturesque Voyage to India

Picturesque Voyage to India

by DANIELL Thomas and William

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1810. First Edition . DANIELL, Thomas and William. A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, and William Daniell, by Thomas Davison, 1810. Folio (10-1/2 inches by 14 inches, with actual images measuring 7-1/2 inches by 5 inches), period-style full blue straight grain morocco with elaborately gilt decorated spine and boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $16,000.First edition of one of the finest and most popular hand-colored aquatint plate books of the 19th century, with 50 magnificent mounted hand-colored aquatints of views and inhabitants of China and India, with descriptive text.Originally issued in ten parts, “the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their publication between 1795 and 1810… A Picturesque Voyage consisted of 50 aquatints depicting the places visited by the artists on their various journeys to and from China and to India. Five views show their approach to… Read More
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Tempest; or the Enchanted Island

Tempest; or the Enchanted Island

by SHAKESPEARE DRYDEN John DAVENANT Sir William

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1690. (SHAKESPEARE) [DRYDEN, John and DAVENANT, William]. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island. A Comedy. As it is now Acted At Their Majesties Theatre in Dorset-Garden. London: Printed by J. M. for H[enry] Herringman, 1690. Small quarto, 20th-century full navy morocco, all edges gilt. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. $9500.Fifth edition of the Restoration version of The Tempest by William Davenant and John Dryden, handsomely bound in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.After the end of the Puritan interval under Cromwell, the restored London theatre depended upon Shakespeare as a source of dramatic materials; but Shakespeare's plays, as he originally wrote them, did not suit the tastes of the newer audiences. Standards of versification and behavior had changed, and to meet the needs of contemporary audiences playwrights refurbished Shakespeare in adaptations that often proved enduring. The motivating force behind this Restoration Tempest was Sir William Davenant, the poet… Read More
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Report of the Committee... Articles of Impeachment

Report of the Committee... Articles of Impeachment

by CONSTITUTION ADAMS John BLOUNT William

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1797. First Edition . (CONSTITUTION) (BLOUNT, William). Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Appointed to Prepare and Report Articles of Impeachment Against William Blount, A Senator of the United States, Impeached of High Crimes and Misdemeanors… To Discover the Whole Nature and Extent of the Offence, And Who Are the Parties and Associates Therein. (Philadelphia): John Fenno, (1797). Octavo, period-style full speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (2) (i), ii-vi, (1-3), 4-16, (i), ii-clx. $7800.First edition of the authoritative Report detailing the House of Representatives' assertion of ""High Crimes and Misdemeanors"" in its groundbreaking impeachment of Senator Blount—""setting precedent… concerning the nature of impeachment, conviction and expulsion""—inaugurating ""how the Founders generation… believed the removal of public officials should… Read More
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American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches...

American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches...

by BROWN William Wells

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1855. First Edition . BROWN, W[illia]m Wells. The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. With a Memoir of the Author. Boston / Cleveland / New York: John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington / Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855. Octavo, original blind-stamped gilt-lettered brown cloth. $5800.First edition of Brown's substantially revised and expanded Three Years in Europe (1853), newly titled as American Fugitive in Europe with 12 new chapters, issued within months of his return from years of exile, determined to continue his work as a soldier ""against the prison-house of slavery,"" a core work in Brown’s ""substantial legacy,"" with striking engraved frontispiece portrait, especially elusive in original cloth.Born into slavery, William Wells Brown ""remains an enduring figure in African American history and literature for his writing, his activism and his remarkable story of survival and… Read More
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Light in August

Light in August

by FAULKNER William

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1932. First Edition . FAULKNER, William. Light in August. (New York): Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (1932). Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. $8500.First edition, first issue of one of Faulkner's most powerful and ambitious novels, a splendid copy.Published a year after his controversial Sanctuary, Faulkner's tale of Joe Christmas and Lena Grove received almost universal acclaim. The New York Times called it ""an astonishing performance… Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulkner's place at the very front of American writers of fiction"" (Books of the Century, 100-01). ""A searing novel… For the first time in his writing, Faulkner directly confronts racial prejudice in the South… Light in August is perhaps best read as Faulkner's ironic Gospel"" (Parini, 178-83). First issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and ""Jefferson"" for… Read More
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Sartoris

Sartoris

by FAULKNER William

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1929. First Edition . FAULKNER, William. Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1929). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $15,000.First edition of Faulkner's rare third novel, one of only 1998 copies printed.The first of Faulkner's works to be set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, this novel ""concerns the Sartoris family, which revels in a mythical history of clan heroism and nobility that is belied by their current desperation and recklessness"" (Encyclopedia of Literature, 994). In addition to introducing characters who would figure prominently in later novels, such as the Snopes family, Faulkner also takes up a number of themes in Sartoris that he would develop at length in later works: racism, innate brutality, deep-seated sexual obsessions and the disparity between a romanticized Southern past and a paltry present. Petersen A5.1. Hamblin & Brodsky 50. Book about-fine with faintest rubbing to front board;… Read More
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English Liberties

English Liberties

by FRANKLIN Benjamin CARE Henry NELSON William

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1774. CARE, Henry. English Liberties, or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance: Containing Magna Charta, Charta De Foresta… Compiled first by Henry Care, and continued, with large Additiions, by William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq. Providence, Rhode-Island: Printed and Sold by John Carter, 1774. Small octavo (5 by 7-1/4 inches), contemporary full brown blindstamped sheep, raised bands; pp. viii, (1) 2-350, (6). Housed in a custom clamshell box. $13,500. 1774 American edition of Care's immensely influential English Liberties, preceded only by the 1721 Boston edition, issued not long after the Boston Tea Party and the same year as the First Continental Congress, with printings of the Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act (1769)—""a second Magna Charta""—and foundational texts on jury trials, ""principally designed for America,"" containing printing of the preface to the 1721 edition proclaiming ""when liberty is once gone, even… Read More
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Tour through Paris

Tour through Paris

by SAMS William

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1822. First Edition . (SAMS, William). A Tour through Paris. London: William Sams, [1825]. Tall folio (11 by 15 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands. $5800.Second edition of this vividly illustrated tour of the streets and inhabitants of early 19th-century Paris, with 21 finely hand-colored folio aquatint plates.The vibrant plates feature ""Street Characters""—scenes of everyday city life rather than stately monuments, such as jugglers, vendors, dancers, porters, stilt-walkers, itinerants, fishmongers, flower sellers, soldiers, water-carriers, and the wealthy on promenade. Plates watermarked ""J. Whatman/ Turkey Mill/ 1825."" First published in 1824 in an oblong format under the title A Tour of Paris, beginning in 1822 with four parts with a total of 16 plates; the fifth part with the remaining five plates was issued in 1824. The present edition was issued shortly thereafter, with a new title and letterpress text reset to conform with an upright… Read More
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