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

Sassoon, Siegfried. SATIRICAL POEMS. London: William Heinemann, 1933. Second edition, with five new poems added. Original dark blue cloth, gilt, dust jacket. Very fine fresh copy in near fine jacket with a hint of aging and dust. The edition was just 875 copies. Keynes A26.c.

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Woolson Spice Co. [makers of Lion Coffee] SHADOW PICTURE OF MARK TWAIN. Toledo, Ohio: Woolson Spice Co., 1895. Advertising trade card consisting of a floral decorated card with instructions and pattern on back. When cut out, it creates a silhouette of Mark Twain. This card is uncut and in fine condition; these cards are often found cut out or removed from Victorian scrapbooks, and encrusted with glue residue. This series of shadow cards issued by Lion Coffee included at least twenty famous people of the nineteenth century including Bismarck, the Prince of Wales, Buffalo Bill,… Read More

Whittier, John Greenleaf. SNOW-BOUND, A WINTER IDYL. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First edition, first issue with page 52 numbered. Original green cloth, gilt, with a card autographed by Whittier in his usual purple ink tipped in. Faint dampmark along top edge of front cover, else a lovely copy with few signs of rubbing, the text tight and clean. The genuine first issue of this book is so rare that it attracted forgers as early as the 1920s; the second issue is fairly common. The later editions (marked with "thousand" statements) are frequently misrepresented as first editions. This nostalgic… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Underhill, Irving. SOCRATES GOLDENROD SLEE. [Buffalo, New York: Irving Underhill, ca. 1925] Facsimile of a "Cat Card" used by Susan Crane when giving away cats after one of Twain's summer stays at Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York. The Clemens always brought cats from Hartford when they summered with their in-laws, Susan and Theodore Crane, at Elmira. Twain would name them after philosophers and Jean, who didn't like those names, gave them last names based upon wildflowers; they were then given a third name taken from a family or neighbor. John Slee was a Langdon family business associate and… Read More

Miller, Joaquin. SONGS OF THE SOUL. San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Co., 1896. First edition, deluxe edition, in variant binding. Original padded morocco, gilt, t.e.g., uncut. Presentation copy inscribed by Miller on the front fly: "With love to you/ yours/ Joaquin Miller/S. F. Cal./ June 2, 96." BAL notes the trade edition in grey cloth and the deluxe edition in white cloth, but notes only a single copy of the deluxe edition in this padded leather binding (also inscribed by Miller "with love"). Books merely signed by Miller turn up, but books with inscriptions, places, and dates are quite… Read More

[LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH] STEREOVIEW PHOTOGRAPH OF CRAIGIE HOUSE. Boston: Centennial Views, 1875. Earlier type stereo (flat on pale yellow card) showing the front entrance to Craigie-Longfellow House from an angle between some large bushes in the yard. Most views of the home were taken from the street. Fine.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. A STEVENSON MEDLEY. London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. First edition, one of 300 copies, signed by the publisher. Original half-morocco & blue cloth, gilt. With thirteen excellent facsimiles of his early toy books and pamphlets tipped in at back. Very good copy. Beinecke 661.

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Harper Brothers. STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA DESCRIBED BY MARK TWAIN IN HARPER'S MARCH. [New York: Harper, 1898] Color lithograph poster, 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, printed in yellow, terra cotta, brown, and black. Contains Twain's portrait, the title, and large lettering at bottom "IN HARPER'S MARCH." Designed by Edward Penfield (per DAS FUHE PLAKAT 388). An unusually attractive poster; of the four Harper posters that advertise Twain's works, this is the only one to feature his portrait. Professionally framed using museum mat board (thin nick to one edge of frame). `Stirring Times in Austria' appeared in… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Harper Brothers. STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA DESCRIBED BY MARK TWAIN IN HARPER'S MARCH. [New York: Harper, 1898] Promotional leaflet for the magazine, reproducing the poster by Edward Penfield on the first page, and listing the contents within, including Twain's `Stirring Times in Austria,' which appeared in `Harper's Magazine' in March, 1898. With the imprint of news vendor Charles Pratt, New York on last page. Cf. Das Fruhe Plakat 388. Cf. Kiehl 208.

Trollope, Anthony. THE STRUGGLES OF BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON, BY ONE OF THE FIRM. London: Smith, Elder, 1870. First English edition. Original tan cloth, covers printed in black and stamped in gilt, uncut. Recased with repairs to ends of spine, wear to covers, but a good copy of a very scarce title that is seldom seen in original cloth. The four illustrations in this edition did not appear in the very rare first American edition of 1862. Sadleir 15a.