The history of the English novel.
New York: Barnes & Noble, [1950]. 10 volumes, 8vo, very good, sound set in the dust-jackets, spines of jackets a little faded. Reprint of the set originally published 1924-39. More
English Literature
Cat's meat and kings
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1931. Edition limited to 600 copies, 8vo, pp. [24], 158, [2]; blue publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge stained blue, text starting to tone, else very good, dust jacket fractured into five pieces and chipped, held together by a mylar protector..... More
Ebenezer walks with God
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First American edition, small 8vo, pp. [10], 349, [1]; brown cloth, black title with gold embelishments on upper cover and spine; bookseller's stamp on front paste down, else fine in a chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. More
The smuggler: a tale. By the author of "Tales by the O'Hara Family," etc.
London [et al.]: Richard Bentley [et al.], 1833. 12mo, pp.[iii]-vii, [1], 490; engraved frontispiece and title-p.; bound without the series title in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine. First published in 3 volumes in 1831 and here issued in Bentley's Standard Novels series, with a new..... More
Poems intended to promote piety and virtue in the minds of young people. Selected by Rachel Barclay. The second edition
London: James Phillips and Son, 1797. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xii, 170, [2] errata; contemporary full calf; marbled endpapers; spine quite rubbed and gilt worn away; diamond-pattern staining on covers; front board starting, rear joint cracked; headcaps missing; lightly foxed; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of Samuel Elam of Rhode Island..... More
A dictionary of the English and Italian languages ... to which is prefixed, and Italian and English grammar. A new edition. Corrected and improved by Peter Ricci Rota, master of languages.
London: for J.F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1790. First edition to come under outside editorship, 4to, 2 vols. in 1, pp. [3], vi-xxxiv, plus unpaginated lexicon; [4], xxxix, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon; possibly lacking a half-title; the English title bound before the Italian, the Italian before the English; occasional..... More
The Ingoldsby legends. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.
London: Extracted from Bentley's Miscellany, 1837-1848. 8vo, with a frontispiece of Ingoldsby (i.e. Barham), 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and R. Buss, a sample wrapper from Bentley's Miscellany is bound in at the back, and a separately printed title-p. presumably done on the occasion of rebinding inserted..... More
The Ingoldsby legends. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. Fifth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt decorated spines; a fine, bright set, with engraved title pages and 19 engraved plates after George Cruikshank and John Leech. See Cohn 50 for a description of the first edition of each series, issued in 1840, 1842..... More
Plates in two states
Greenwich Hospital, a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a man-of-war's man. By an old sailor. With illustrations by George Cruikshank
London: published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Lower Ormand Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition; 4to, pp. [4], 200; 12 engraved plates by Cruikshank, each in 2 states (hand-colored and plain), plus other vignette illustrations in the text; later three-quarter blue..... More
The new century handbook of English literature... with the assistance of William D. Halsey
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
The new century handbook of English literature... with the assistance of William D. Halsey
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
The entrancing life ... Address delivered on installation as Chancellor of Edinburgh University October 25, 1930
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 22; a very good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. More
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[Excerpt from:] Peter Pan
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992. 11" x 15" prose broadside excerpt from Peter Pan accompanied by a relief print, artist unknown. More
George Meredith 1909
London: Constable and Co., n.d., [1909]. First edition, 16mo (13.5 x 9 cm), pp. 15, [1]; full-page wood-engraved illustration; uncut and unopened; original cream cloth ruled in red and with gilt lettering on the upper cover; near perfect glassine wrapper printed in red. Fine throughout and unusual thus. Contained in..... More
George Meredith. A tribute.
[Portland, ME: printed for Thomas Bird Mosher, 1919]. 24mo, pp. [31]; frontis. port.; original light blue paper printed in red and grey over flexible boards, green slipcase; some light stains to the covers, dampstain and some splitting of the slipcase; overall a good copy. More
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Clown song book. Pullman's great London Humpty Dumpty [wrapper title]. Tom Berry's clown song book [drop title]
n.p., n.d. [London? ca. 1880s]. 18mo; pp. 18; front wrapper preserved, rear wrapper wanting; old tape repairs on spine, the whole loosening; a good copy of a scarce title. Not found in OCLC. More
A bibliography of the writings of William Somerset Maugham.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. First edition limited to 1000 copies, this one of 950 on antique laid paper, thin 8vo, pp. 78, [2]; original red cloth stamped in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt on spine, the boards very slightly bowed, the spine a little faded, and a few..... More
The olive field
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 477, [1]; mild staining from binding glue along hinges, previous owner's bookplate, else a very good copy in an unclipped, very good dust jacket (shallow chips at top of spine). This a presentation copy inscribed by..... More
George Cruikshank: the artist, the humourist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert. A critico-bibliographical essay ... Second edition, revised; and augmented by a copiously annotated bibliographical appendix, and additional plates on India paper
London: Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Row; Birmingham: Houghton and Hammond, Scotland Passage, 1879. 4to, pp. [4], 94, [2]; frontispiece portrait, 17 plates, other illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; top of spine chipped, light dampstaining along the fore-edge of the boards; still, in..... More
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature.
New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: University Press, 1941. First American edition, 4 vols., 8vo, dust-jackets slightly chipped at spine extremities, else very good. Outstanding compilation, indispensable, and including material left out of The New Cambridge Bibliography which was published in 1974. More
Rational praise and natural lamentation: Johnson, Lycidas, and principles of criticism
Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 282; original cloth in pale purple pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine faded, top edge a bit chipped and shelf-worn, else very good and sound. Author inscription to Gwin Kolb signed "Jim" on front free endpaper. More
Echoes of Robert Louis Stevenson
Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1920. Edition limited to 500 copies printed on ordinary paper of an edition limited to 515; 12mo, pp. 93, [1]; portrait frontispiece of Stevenson, 2 plates of facsimiles at the back, decorative title page and vignettes by Axel T. Bay; original tan cloth-backed blue boards, paper..... More
The Pickwick papers: some bibliographical remarks. An address delivered before the Caxton Club January sixteenth, 1937.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1938. Edition limited to 250 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. [4], 28, [4]; pictorial title-page, 4 plates; orig. red cloth, gilt-titled spine, t.e.g., negligible wear, generally a fine copy. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Roy J...... More
The comic spirit in George Meredith
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 230; rear free endpaper with a bizarre paper flaw, otherwise a very good, sound copy in original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. This copy with an inscription by the author on the front fre endpaper: "Greater love hath..... More
An introduction to the English historians
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 669; publisher's navy cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, else a very good copy. More
