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1929. 4to (10 x 8 inches). Original typed manuscripts with extensive corrections and annotations by the author in pen. [3], 234 ll. with original stamped and addressed portion of the envelope sending the manuscript to E.P. Dutton, New York Original typescript of an unpublished fantasy novel by the British author and doctor Greville MacDonald. Inscribed on the title, "Property of Greville MacDonald M.D. Wildwood, Haslemere, Surrey, England." This copy of the manuscript was submitted to John Macrae, President of E.P. Dutton, New York, for publication. It was evidently rejected, with the title docketed "This ms. not to be used Y. 4/29/29."MacDonald (1856-1944), son of author George MacDonald, was an early reader of Alice in Wonderland in manuscript, his enthusiastic response convincing Dodgson to publish. He later became an ear, nose and throat doctor of some distinction, working with Joseph Lister. He retired from practice in 1904 and moved to Haslemere where he tended the flame of his father's…
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Saint George's Dragon.: A Romance of Present Days and Ancient Deeds Set Forth to Pleasure all Folk Still Young by the Magician Thanassy Pengellow and His Young Relatives Cordelia Castlemine and Barni Lejane with the Help of Their Friend Greville MacDonald Their Doings Limned by
by MACDONALD, Greville
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Sea Mosses [cover title]
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ca. 1900. 4to. 20 mounted seaweed specimens, most captioned with Latin name. Purple embossed cloth, stamped in gilt and black on the front cover; front hinge starting, occasional spotting or staining. Alphonse Crane, bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA (ink stamp on front pastedown)
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The Secretion of the Urine
by CUSHNY, Arthur R
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917. First edition. 8vo. Diagrams in text. xi, [1], 241, [1] pp. Publisher's maroon cloth; crude tape repair to joints, binding cracked, text toned, good only REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 1237
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Seymour's Humorous Sketches,: Comprising Eighty-Six Character Etchings. Illustrated in Prose and Verse, by Alfred Crowquill
by (SEYMOUR, Robert) CROWQUILL [FORRESTER, Alfred Henry]
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. Later edition. Robert Seymour. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. 86 etched plates by Robert Seymour. Full red straight-grained morocco gilt, a.e.g.
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The Silent Harp;: or, Fugitive Poems
by ALLEN, Elizabeth
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Burlington: Edward Smith, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 119, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth-backed pink boards, printed spine label; some wear to covers, contents foxed, rfep removed, a few annotations by a contemporary reader First edition of this collection of poems by the Vermont poet, stricken with deafness by a fever in her sixteenth year. The volume concludes with the antislavery poem "The African." The volume merited a second edition, published in 1835. Allen published her autobiography along with a collection of short stories in Sketches of Green Mountain Life, 1846. The author is not be confused with Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911).PROVENANCE: Thomas Leigh (presentation inscription dated Jan. 1861 on ffep); Dr. E.B. Hamilton (signature to front cover); Hallowell Social Library (circulating library label on front pastedown)
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The Snow Storm, a Christmas Story; New Year's Day, a Winter's Tale; The Inundation; or, Pardon and Peace. A Christmas Story [The Christmas Books]
by GORE, Mrs. [Catherine]
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London: Fisher, Son, & Co., nd [1845; 1846; 1847]. First editions. George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 12mo. 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank. [vi], 253, [1]; [vi], 203, [1], [8, ads]; [iv], 222, [16, ads] pp. Uniformly bound in full polished calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, publisher's gilt cloth covers bound-in at rear of each volume, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son; joints lightly rubbed, book-plates of Edward Chatterton Orpen and John Gribbel Complete first edition set of Mrs. Gore's Christmas books, illustrated by George Cruikshank.REFERENCE: Cohn 356, 357, 358; Sadleir 1034; 1020, 1008
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Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems
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Oxford: D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1789. First edition. 4to. vi, 62 pp., without blank 1. Later half cloth and marbled boards; light foxing to title-page, occasional faint dampstain to lower corner, small piece from lower corner of D3 First edition of the posthumous publication of Thomas Russell's sonnets, an important influence on the early Romantics. Southey called him "the best English sonnet writer." "In his short lifetime of twenty-six years, Russell established himself as one of the masters of the English sonnet-form" (Hayward). Russell was a friend of the poet Thomas Warton and studied under his older brother Joseph, to whom this work is dedicated by the editor.REFERENCE: ESTC T49513; Hayward 199
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Stock Selections No. 15 for the Building & Allied Trades [cover title]
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Southend-on-Sea: Young & Marten, Ltd, ca. 1924. Tall 8vo. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w, 2 tinted and 4 color wallpapers samples and 32 color paint sample swatches tipped in. 524 pp. on various paper stocks. Publisher's purple cloth, front cover titled and decorated in gilt, spine faded Attractive trade catalogue by this well known firm featuring a wide selection of home construction products including light fittings, fireplaces, bathroom fittings, leaded lights, door and window furniture, paint, wallpapers, etc.
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Sult [Hunger]
by HAMSUN, Knut
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København [Copenhagen]: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1890. First edition. 8vo. [4], 333, [1] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; binding rubbed, early ownership signature to title-page, toned First edition of this highly influential semi-autobiographical novel about a humiliated and impoverished writer in Oslo. A precursor to so much of the literature of alienation and consciousness of the 20th century. In his introduction to a 1967 edition of Hunger Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
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A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University
by JACKSON, James
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[Boston, 1816]. 8vo. 108 pp., with extensive interleaving as issued. Publisher's green roan-backed boards, boards pierced with remnant of ties; covers worn, occasional light staining, some wear to fore-edge from tie Interleaved with lecture notes by Harvard medical student Frederick Benjamin Page, covering 44 lectures in a dense but legible hand. The printed material presents the syllabus for an introductory course on medicine by James Jackson, who notes in his introduction will "be unintelligible to any, except those actually attending the lectures to which it refers. Page (1798-1857), himself a physician, was the son of Dr. Benjamin Page of Hallowell, Maine, a pioneer in the use of the smallpox vaccine in America.PROVENANCE: Frederick B. Page (ownership inscription, Boston Nov. 22, 1819 on the ffep and signed on front cover in block letters "F.B. Page")
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