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Observations on the Education of Children; and Hints to Young People on the Duties of Civil Life
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Observations on the Education of Children; and Hints to Young People on the Duties of Civil Life

by Mott, James

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New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1816. First edition. Disbound with remnants of the wrapper to the spine. Complete in 34 pages including title page, with some leaves repeated: [2], 3-18, 13-20, 19-28. Measuring 100 x 160mm. Irregularly trimmed, with some headers shaved close and some loss to the text of the bottom lines recto and verso of the final leaf. Somewhat foxed and toned. Contemporary ownership signature of Henry Mott to rear wrap. In all, a sound and pleasing copy of a fragile piece seeking to reform the nation's educational system. Scarce institutionally and in trade, OCLC reports 12 copies in libraries, with this the only one on the market. Born into an established family of Quakers, James Mott grew up in the Long Island Friends community. He was educated at Nine Partners, a Quaker boarding school, where he later became an assistant teacher and then teacher. There, he met Lucretia Coffin, another teacher, whom he soon married. Lucretia and James Mott were pioneering reformers, particularly… Read More
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights

by Fleming, Ian

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like, price-clipped dust jacket. Containing two of the final Bond stories. Octopussy traces Bond's work to apprehend a WWII hero involved in the theft of a cache of Nazi gold. Told largely from the perspective of Smythe, whose flashbacks track Bond's work to arrest him, the story poses a dilemma for 007, who wishes to spare the reputation of a man who has devolved from hero into alcoholic eccentric. Meanwhile, the second story The Living Daylights documents Bond's experiences aiding agents escaping from East to West Berlin while under pursuit from the KGB. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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The Odyssey of Homer (in 5 vols.)
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The Odyssey of Homer (in 5 vols.)

by Homer [Alexander Pope, translator]

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London: Bernard Linton, 1726. First edition. Full contemporary calf with gilt rules on the boards. Brown and green morocco spine labels, raised bands and compartments decorated in gilt. Plain end papers, text block speckled brown. Subscriber's quarto edition (leaves 267 x 210mm) collating complete including frontis portrait in volume 1, privilege leaves to all volumes, subscribers list, index and errata: [14], xxiv, 279, [1, blank]; [4], 335, [1, blank]; [4], 363, [1, blank]; [4], 319, [1, blank]; [4], 317, [11].  Joints cracked but holding (likely some careful repairs to stabilize) with some bumping and gentle shelfwear to corners and spine ends with minor loss to crown of volume I and foot of volume III. Chipping to spine labels of volumes I-II. Offsetting to pastedowns. Discreet ownership stamps to front endpapers. Long closed tear professionally repaired with no loss of text on pages 91-91 of volume IV. Internally a bright, fresh copy without reader's marks or foxing. A pleasing copy of Pope's… Read More
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Of Mice and Men
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Of Mice and Men

by Steinbeck, John

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New York: Covici Friede, 1937. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A true first printing with the textual points on p. 9 and 88 as well as the priced dust jacket (avoid any dust jacket that doesn't retain the original price, $2.00). Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine and front cover stamped in orange and black, top-edge stained blue. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Spine a bit rolled, a few faint spots of foxing to the closed text block, slight separation at the half title. Old bookseller's ticket to the rear paste-down. Dust jacket with the spine a bit toned and a small nick at the top of the rear panel. One of just 2500 copies and becoming scarce in this condition. Steinbeck's tragic novella portraying the life of two migrant farm-hands in California, unlikely friends cherishing the common dream of a better life. When George realizes that Lennie's childlike understanding of the world has led to irreparable violence, George ends Lennie's life as mercifully as he can before the arrival of a… Read More
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On the Road
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On the Road

by Kerouac, Jack

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New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy with a small spot to the closed foredge of the text block, internally clean and unmarked. In a Very Good+ unrestored first issue jacket. Spine a bit faded, small chips and tears at the spine ends and extremities, otherwise an attractive example. Housed in a blue clamshell case. "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's," Bob Dylan said of On The Road. Jack Kerouac's classic Roman A Clef, published in 1957, was the defining work of the beat generation. It follows the travels of Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac himself, and is based on a series of journeys Kerouac took from 1947 to 1950. The work was typed up on a continuous "scroll" of sheets that Kerouac had taped together. On The Road appears on both Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the century and on Time Magazine list of the 100 best English language novels from 1923-2005. "[I]ts publication is a historic occasion... the most… Read More
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Once Upon a Time!
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Once Upon a Time!

by Wain, Louis. Harry B. Neilson (illustrators)

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London: S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd, 1910. First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board, advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto (10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm.). Pictorial title-page printed in blue, 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book, in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title. The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following: How Pride Betrays. (three 0ne-third page, printed in brown) When the Cook's Away. (full-page, printed in blue) Tubbing the Kitties. (one-third page, printed in green) "You Naughty Kitties!" (full-page, printed in green).
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

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New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First English language edition. Fine/Fine. In a second state jacket without the exclamation point ending the first paragraph on the front flap. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Top-edge of the text block a bit dusty. Jacket with one small tear closed with tape on the verso, otherwise a very bright, fresh jacket. One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Marquez' greatest work, and is the book that made his international reputation. First published in 1967 - and in English in 1970 -- the wide spanning story of the Buendia family would achieve incredible popularity and, in fact, be responsible for lifting the future Nobel Prize winner out of poverty as it would go on to sell more than 30,000,000 copies. Considered the ultimate expression of his style of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude has won awards in numerous countries and was listed on Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the Century. "He has written a novel so filled with humor, rich… Read More
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One page Autograph Note Signed about the exchange of a book

One page Autograph Note Signed about the exchange of a book

by Greenaway, Kate

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Autograph Note on Card, Signed. 39 Frognal, Hampstead. N.W. 20 Dec, 1890. One page, 3 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (79 x 89 mm.). In full: "I am wondering if you are gone or not but anyhow / I sent the card as promised -- the name of / the Book is "Italians of today" by René Bazin -- I / went to see Mrs. Miller yesterday - she seemed wonderfully / well and in great spirits - she looks as if she / has gone through much - her face looked so / beautiful - she was so glad to see me I did / not stay long for Mrs. Miller told me if anyone / staid too long she got very exhausted afterwards / but I should say she is all right now / and I daresay will soon be well. / Let me know when you are back / that is if you are gone away or not. / K. Greenaway.
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Onesimus; or, the Run-Away Servant Converted. A True Story
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Onesimus; or, the Run-Away Servant Converted. A True Story

by [More, Hannah]

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London and Bath: J. Marshall, R. White and S. Hazard, 1796. First edition. Complete in 16 pages, with woodcut to front wrap. Disbound but holding well, with the front wrap a bit tender near the foot of spine. Small ink notation to upper front corner and pages with some mild toning, else unmarked. Of the three scarce variants listed on ESTC, the present has "price one penny" with no list of prices for larger quantities and is not recorded in Spinney. ESTC records only two examples of the present variant, making it the most rare (compared to 4 and 19 of the others); and it is the only one of any variant on the market. A narrative designed for "all those unhappy Persons, both Men and Women, who like Onesimus have left their Home and have got into a bad way of living," the present Cheap Repository tract aimed to provide guidance. Onesimus, a servant in the house of Philemon, initially disregards Christian teaching in favor of envy and sin; and he decides to rob his master, flee to Rome, and reinvent… Read More
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Opera
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Opera

by Boethius

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Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1492. First collected edition. First collected edition of Boethius's works, including the first printing of De Institutione Musica. Also included in these collected works is his most famous work, Deconsolatione philosophiae. Complete in two folio volumes in one. 352 leaves in total. [2], 1-122, 127-158, 135-222; [4], 160-162, 162-250; 1-12 leaves. With numerous mispagination as usual. With the first part of Porphyry's Isagoge (in Boethius's translation) bound at the end from the time of binding, as indicated by the table contents annotated with pagination in a contemporary hand. Present copy with same number of leaves as Morgan library copy. Text in two columns. Leaf A1r printed in red and black. Numerous intitials between 3-lines and 11-lines in red and blue, and with red capital strokes. With numerous woodcut musical and mathematical diagrams. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked to style at an early date. Boards stamped in blind.… Read More
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The Orange-Girl at Foote's to Sally Harris: or, The Town to the Country Pomona. An Heroic Epistle
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The Orange-Girl at Foote's to Sally Harris: or, The Town to the Country Pomona. An Heroic Epistle

by [Sex Work] Anonymous

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London: S. Bladon in Pater Noster Row, 1773. First edition. Second issue bearing "A New Edition," and a reprint from the standing type. Disbound, measuring 260 x 200mm and without the half title, else collating complete: [2], 11, [1, blank]. A Near Fine example, with a bit of foxing to title and final leaf; pinhole to center of title, marginal stab holes to first leaf and final leaf, and small paper flaw to header of pages 3-4 (none affecting text). A scarce satirical work about the scandalous affair between famed courtesan Sally Harris and Thomas Lyttelton, the libertine son of politician George, Lord Lyttelton, we have been unable to access ESTC for a more accurate sense of institutional holdings; but OCLC locates fewer than 20 copies of any edition, and Jisc Library Hub clarifies that all but 8 UK holdings are digital. The only copy on the market, it has only once appeared at auction (in 1933, in a large lot). Once a waitress at the inn at Hockerell (now Bishops Strotford), Sally Harris was… Read More
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The Origin, Tendencies, and Principles of Government: or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations..
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The Origin, Tendencies, and Principles of Government: or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations..

by Woodhull, Victoria C.

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New York: Woodhull, Claflin &Co, 1871. First edition. Very Good +. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. Spine gently rolled and front board slightly bowed; small scuffs to corners and front board but overall a pleasing copy. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; else internally clean and unmarked. Collating [6], 247, [1, blank]: rear endpaper excised else complete, including the rare frontis. A scarce and groundbreaking work, it only occasionally appears in trade; and of the three copies to appear at auction in the last 47 years, the most recent was over two decades ago. Among the most storied and controversial feminist figures of the 19th century, Victoria Claflin Woodhull is most often hailed as the first female presidential candidate of a recognized party and, along with her sister Tennessee Claflin, became the first woman to head a brokerage firm. Notably for Woodhull, making a… Read More
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Original Double Acrostics: Amusing and Instructive
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Original Double Acrostics: Amusing and Instructive

by [Bowman, Anne]

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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Original red publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Gentle wear to boards and bumps to corners; rear hinge starting but holding well. Original yellow endpapers, with early ownership signature of Bernard Stampe in pencil to front endpaper, alongside various early dealers' notations. Internally clean and complete, collating [ii], 183, [1], [4, catalogue]. The only copy on the market of this charming educational book, OCLC locates 11 copies at institutions worldwide. Resisting the philosophy of 'all work and no play,' Anne Bowman provides young readers with a delightful way of gaining new knowledge and developing memory. "We have ventured to introduce into our 'Double Acrostics' many allusions to history, geography, or general literature as a means of testing the memory and judgement of our young readers; thus, while endeavoring to make our book instructive, offering to their ingenuity a pastime which… Read More
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Original photograph (Signed)
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Original photograph (Signed)

by [Bukowski, Charles]; [Richard Robinson (photographer)]

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n.d.. Fine. Large original print on 8 x 10 kodak paper, signed by Bukowski. Assumed to be by Richard Robinson from his series of portraits of the author during the 1970s, although without artist signature or markings. Bukowski notoriously hated having his photograph taken. Fine.
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Orley Farm
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Orley Farm

by Trollope, Anthony

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Near Fine. Bound in green half morocco over pebbled cloth. With half titles, but bound without the ads. Collation: viii, 320; viii, 320. An early issue with stab holes visible throughout both volumes; volume I conforming to all issue points for Sadleir's second issue and volume II a first issue with a third issue title page. An attractive contemporary binding in Near Fine condition, internal contents very clean. A contemporary owner's name E. L. Dutton written on the front end paper of each volume. "While it is primarily a tragedy of misdirected maternal love, Orley Farm contains much of the best Trollopian humor and includes the portrait of his finest gentleman, Sir Peregrine Orme" (Trollope Society). Noted for its complex bibliography, resulting in part from the two volumes being printed and released ten months apart, the novel also presents a complex legal plot in which Sir Joseph Mason attempts to bequeath Orley Farm to his second son Lucius. In… Read More
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Our Village (Fine binding)
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Our Village (Fine binding)

by Mitford, Mary Russell; Hugh Thomson, illustrator

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London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in full brown crushed morocco. Gilt detailing to front board and spine. Top-edge gilt. Binding in excellent condition overall. A previous owner's inscription on the first blank (and a bookplate on the verso of front end paper). Slight foxing internally, mostly at the early and late leaves. A Near Fine copy overall, charmingly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. "Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford, was one of the first books written which show the poetry of everyday life in the country; and Miss Mitford may fairly be called the founder of the school of village literature. There is no connected story, but the book contains a series of charming sketches of country scenes and country people. The chronicler wanders through the lanes and meadows with her white greyhound Mayflower, gossips about the trees, the flowers, and the sunsets, and describes the beauty of English scenery. The chapters on The First Primrose, Violeting, The Copse,… Read More
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The Outsider [Stranger]
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The Outsider [Stranger]

by Camus, Albert

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First English language edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition, preceding the first American edition. A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with a bit of foxing, mostly to the closed text block and the spine cloth a trifle faded. Dust jacket with slight wear at the crown and a very small chip at the base of the spine. Spine a bit toned and a few spots of foxing to the rear panel, but generally a fresh, bright copy. Camus' groundbreaking debut, first published in France in 1942, positioned him as one of Europe's most influential existentialist thinkers (though Camus himself would resist that label). Written in the lead up to the Nazi invasion, The Outsider follows the protagonist Meursault, a French Algerian, as he learns of his mother's death, commits a murder the same day, and is ultimately sentenced to death. Throughout the experience, Meursault eschews all of the expected human emotions; he is detached from bourgeois feelings,… Read More
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