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London: Lackington, Allen, and Co, 1805. A good copy in dampstained and heavily worn contemporary paper covered boards backed in an amateur repaired modern cloth, some penciling and mild foxing throughout.. Second Edition. Notable for containing a lengthy biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by the feminist biographer Mary Hays (1759-1843). 8vo. v, [3], 653pp., [11, index, errata, ad]. Scarce with less than a dozen copies held worldwide per Worldcat in May 2021.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First trade edition. Wear to the edges and dampstaining to the bottom portion of the spine and covers, with contemporary ownership inscription. Very Good, lacking the extremely scarce dustwrapper.. Signed and inscribed by Frost on the flyleaf. One of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize.

London: William Tweedie, 1857. Very good in publisher's blind stamped, gilt title at spine, clean and unmarked text, with minor rubbing to the boards, a bit of wear at the spine-bottom, and a bit of soiling to the endpapers.. First edition. An expose on the underworld of Victorian London. "It will certainly astonish the reader to find what innumerable sins are committed daily and nightly [in London]." The Observer, Sunday, May 30, 1869. However, as later scholarship notes, "annals of the slums . . . were social reportage that was meant to supply unpleasant facts to those unlikely to obtain them for themselves. . . [and were] often a thin camouflage for other things, like the accelerating alarm felt at the approach of dangers such as spiritual and moral destitution." Dyos, The Slums of Victorian London, Victorian Studies Vol. 11, No. 1 (Sep. 1967), pgs. 13-14. 8vo. [4], 236pp., iv.

London: Whittingham and Arliss, 1814. Later edition. Very good with some foxing in much later rebind with bumping and wear. Bookplate and signature in ink of prior owner, a renowned Irish rugby player.. 8vo. lxvi, [1], 353pp. Three copies located on Worldcat at cataloging.

New York: Viking Press, 1986. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good with some soiling and dampstaining to wraps.. Saul Bellow's copy of the the uncorrected proof with editor's Gerry Howard's T.L.S. to Bellow, following up on their correspondence on Swados.

London: Sampson Low, Son Co, 1862. First edition. Very good in publisher's red cloth stamped in blind, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, light to moderate rubbing to extremities, fraying to spine tips, minor dust soiling, front hinge strengthened in vol. I, occasional foxing and smudging, abrasions to front pastedowns with some paper loss to vol. III, few small nicks to front flyleaves.. Triple decker first edition in book form in the original cloth. "No Name is [] an unsettling drama centered on a powerful woman . . . in which [Collins] challenges Victorian legal and cultural injustices, almost always from a strongly feminist viewpoint - although he firmly resisted being labeled a feminist." Gottlieb, Near-Death Experiences and Others (2018). 8vo. 3 vols. ix, [i], 339pp., [1]; [iv], 363pp., [1]; [ii], 408pp. Half-titles in volumes I and II, as called for. Sadleir, Excursions 141. Parrish 45-46.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. Very good in publisher's mottled-grey printed wrappers with some browning to wrappers and chafing to upper corner (where it appears some penciling was erased).. First edition. Lytton Strachey's copy, with his faded penciled ownership signature to the head of the upper wrapper and with his Dora Carrington-designed bookplate to the verso. Shortly before theirs deaths in 1932, Carrington wrote in her journal, "As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And suddenly a premonition of a day when these labels will no longer (be) in this library came over me. I longed to ask Lytton not to stick in any more." Anne Chisholm, ed. Carrington's Letters Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships. 8vo. [2], 2-24pp. Wise 63 (noting 2,000 copies were printed and… Read More