Search Results: Titles starting with I from Mac Donnell Rare Books

[Lowell, James Russell] IL PESCEBALLO. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1862. First edition, third setting, on laid paper, with signature marks reset. Contemporary full black morocco, raised bands, marbled end papers, red edges. Printed in parallel texts in English and Italian. Fine copy of this extremely rare pamphlet, exceeded in rarity only by the offprint issue of MASON AND SLIDELL (In 1901 William Harris Arnold's copies of MASON AND SLIDELL and IL PESCEBALLO were among the highlights of the sale). This farcical operetta was written by Lowell to raise money for the United States Sanitary… Read More

[HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL] Harvard University. ILLUSTRISSIMO LEVI LINCOLN. Cambridge: Metcalf for Harvard University, 1829. First edition. Quarto. Single sheet folded to 4pp., as issued. Mild foxing, and one fold, else fine. The commencement program for Holmes' graduating class, listing him as 9th on the program delivering a poem. Holmes' poem lasted just eight minutes out of the six hour program, and was very well-received, but never printed (the manuscript is at Harvard). See the entries for the Wakeman, Wilson, and Howe copies for more details of the ceremony and its reception. Not in BAL, etc.

McMurtry, Larry. IN A NARROW GRAVE. Austin: Encino Press, 1968. First trade edition, second printing with corrected reading at page 105.12, but in first printing dust jacket with the two errors on front flap. Original buff cloth, paper label, dust jacket. A pristine copy, entirely unread and untouched. This collection of essays is McMurtry's most readable book. Reprints are found with a B, C, or W on the copyright page.

[Howells, William Dean] IN AFTER DAYS. New York: Harper, 1910. First edition, primary binding. Original lavender linen, gilt, t.e.g., in original printed dust jacket. Copies are typically found in various later state bindings lettered in black (quarter red cloth, blue, green cloth, etc.). Fine fresh copy in a well-preserved jacket with only a little chipping at crown. An interesting collection of essays on the after-life by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, et al. BAL 10670, 9798, 8498, etc. Edel & Laurence B29.

[Howells, William Dean] IN AFTER DAYS. New York: Harper, 1910. First edition, primary binding. Original lavender linen, gilt, t.e.g. Even fading of spine, else a bright fine copy, signed by six of the nine contributors for John Pearsons: William Dean Howells, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Hanna Thomson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bigelow, and Guglielmo Ferrero. Not signed by Henry James, Julia Ward Howe, or Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (and it's probably too late to obtain their signatures). Three have signed on the front flyleaf with quotations from their essays, personal inscription, and dates. Howells,… Read More

Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] Collier, Robert J., ed. IN MEMORIAM PETER FENELON COLLIER. New York: Privately Printed, 1910. First edition, one of 985 copies, signed by the editor, Collier's son, Robert J. Collier. Gray boards, gilt, t.e.g., uncut. Mild rubbing, else a fine crisp copy of this fragile volume that is usually found in terrible shape. Contains the first printing of a Twain condolence letter at page 81. Also includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt, society friends, minor authors and editors, and informative obituaries from major magazines and newspapers. Robert J. Collier had taken control of his… Read More

[CARADOC PRESS] [BIBLE] IN PRAISE OF WISDOM. Chiswick: Caradoc Press, 1902. First edition, one of 350 copies printed. Original full brown pigskin, with trio of stylized lotus flowers on front cover, t.e.g., silk marker, uncut, printed in red and black, with edges colored yellow. Extracts from the canonical and uncanonical books of the Bible. Fine copy in a distinctive and appealing binding, signed by Bumpus. Tomkinson 8. Ransom, p. 225.

Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] THE INNOCENTS ABROAD. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869. First edition, third state. Original black cloth, gilt. A very good clean tight crisp copy but for an even line of fraying at spine ends. Twain's second book and first best-seller. BAL 3316.

Dickens, Charles. IS SHE HIS WIFE? Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First American edition, first state of binding with correct monogram. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. Mild rubbing at spine ends, a couple of stray marks but a very good bright copy of this scarce "comic burletta." In 1876 James T. Fields acquired the only known copy of the original 1837 edition and used it to produce this edition; his unique copy was destroyed when his library burned in December, 1879. A British reprint, itself rarely seen, appeared in 1883. This volume was part of Osgood's 102 volume vest-pocket series, which included… Read More

Howells, William Dean. ITALIAN JOURNEYS. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. First Continental edition. Original full white vegetable vellum, heavily gilt, and hand-painted in blue, in original red cloth dust jacket and box. Tauchnitz's English language editions of travel books by American authors were a popular item with American tourists in Europe, and were frequently put into eye-catching "vellum" bindings, often with inserted photographs. This volume carries a binder's ticket from Florence, Italy. The ads would indicate this volume was issued in 1885, making it an early example of a book in dust… Read More