Barnsley [South Yorkshire, England]: 13th September, 1845. Large 8vo bifolium, ink stains along bottom edge, toning, faint creases from previous folds; very good. Holograph address in Elliott's hand to GSO Reid, Esq. of Glasgow, postmarked, and wax sealed on p. [4]. A 10-line "Corn Law" poem titled "Epigram," which begins... More
London: 8 August, 1838. Regarding a social engagement on Sunday at 7:30 at the hotel. 8vo, in French, integral leaf detached, 12 lines, approx. 50 words, small hole in top right margin. More
Washington: G.P.O. 1904. First edition, 8vo, 148pp., 6 facsimile plates; some light scuffing, else near fine in contemporary full red morocco gilt, the name of """"James Thompson McCleary"" in gilt on the upper cover. The correspondence came to LC through Peter Force and ""covers a very interesting period in the... More
1809 and 1828. Both documents tied together with silk ribbon at the bottom, to which is attached a ceramic Georgia state seal. The first is a survey of land, approx. 9½" x 7½" with a small manuscript plat map at the top showing a parcel of 202 acres of John... More
[Westminster]: Printed for the Camden Society, 1889. 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 305; original brick cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historial Society with usual markings, small tear approx. 1 inch from spine head, edges a bit worn; ownership inscription on ffep by James K. Hosmer... More
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1843. Folio broadside (approx. 12½" x 8½"), on thick, laid paper, with a vignette wood engraving at the top of a horse-driven carriage with a top-hatted, whip-wielding driver, the body of the document partly printed and accomplished in manuscript, one facilitator of the travel apparently being Giacomo Gargini, and the... More
New York: November 20, 1925. 4to, on American Academy of Arts and Letters stationery, signed by Mrs. William Vanamee, secretary to the president. A penned note by Garland at the bottom reads: "I accept, with appreciation of the honor and trust involved, and will do my best to advance the... More
[Mallorca? 1967.]. This article, on twelve 11" x 8.5" sheets, appeared in Family Circle magazine on September 24, 1967. An affectionate account of the early life of Robert Graves's mother, who, while still a young girl, became "not only lady-companion but cook, housekeeper, secretary and nurse to an old recluse"... More
[Washington, DC]: The Library of Congress, 1946. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 313; generally very good in original orange paper-covered boards lettered in black on spine and front cover, the spine faded and stained, the spine ends showing some wear, and the lower front joint beginning to crack. More
Gottingen: Bei Dieterich, 1844. Second (first complete) edition, 4to, pp. [4], 54, [2], 28; contemporary marbled boards, original brown cloth, rubbed, break in cloth on gilt-lettered spine; good or better. Text of "Graf Rudolph," a Middle High German romance, printed in black with missing text in red to proximate the... More
[Mt. Horeb]: 8 November, 1981. A typically manic letter, regarding Wulling's purchase of Hamady's Hand Paper-Making: 8vo, 25 lines, approx. 300 words; fine, on Perishable Press stationery. I would quote from the letter but the last time I quoted from a Hamady letter I received a call from Mr. Hamady... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 269, [1]; illustrated with more than eight hundred facsimiles and other reproductions; fine in original white cloth, good or better jacket with chips on the spine. More
London & New York: The Studio Ltd. 1937. First edition, 4to, pp. 48 plus 24 mounted color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text; some browning of the text but generally a very good copy in orig. dec. printed boards, dust-jacket with chips out at the extremities and a.... More
New York: the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1937. First edition, 4to, pp. [2]68, [1]; color frontispiece, b&w plates; fine in original cardboard printed wrappers, original cardboard mailer with the bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the inner flap. "Probably executed in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Louka in Moravia, at the instance... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. 4to, pp. xxii, 79, 78 plates (some mounted and in color), [1]; fine in orig. green cloth, red label stamped on spine, orig. glassine (split at folds and with short tears) and publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Bernard Berenson. More
Charlottesville: the University Press of Virginia, [1972]. First edition, 4to, pp. 545; illustrations; fine in original cloth, lightly rubbed jacket. The first transcription of Joyce's Ulysses notesheets in the British Museum in their entirety. Invaluable for Joyce research. More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. [1890]. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [5], 403; text in double column; engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 plates; slightly later full turquoise crushed morocco by MacDonald Bindery, NY, with single gilt rule on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, a.e.g.;... More
n.p., Wednesday, Jan. 11: n.y. Since you have been away, an alteration has been made by the faculty in this College & tickets are distributed so that every gentleman can go independently of his professor. At this I am very glad as I dare not venture out myself. I enclose... More
[New York] 130 West 57th St. January 19, n.d. [1909]. Both 12mo, The manuscript poem, 12 lines, is signed in full at the bottom and accompanys a 2-p. letter to a Mr. Russell. There appears to be no relationship between the poem (likely a World War I composition), and the... More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, [1968]. First compiled edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 90, [2], 13-32; frontispiece portrait and 8 plates; fine in original light gray cloth stamped in black on spine. Two important NYPL publications on Irving brought together; the bibliography first appeared separately in 1933, and the census... More
Circus, 30th Octr. 1816. I must inform you that by long neglect of the Arabic language I do not now consider myself competent to give you satisfactory information respecting the Romish Arabic Edition of the Bible compared with the Hebrew text, but I shall be very happy to give you... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. 316; frontispiece and 16 plates; hinges cracked else a very good copy in orig. cloth, More
n.p., n.d. [likely Chicago, late 1890s?]. Small octavo, single leaf folded forming 4 pages, the poem, on 3 in 3 stanzas of 12 lines each, signed in full at the end and with an appended note in her hand, "Copied by the author for Frederick M. Steele" - likely Frederick... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1935. First edition, 4to, unpaginated; 24 plates (5 folding), small bookplate on front pastedown, light edgewear and some fading to extremities, else fine in original red cloth with gilt-decorated upper cover and gilt-lettered spine. More
Budapest: Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1959. Slim 8vo, pp. 44; 16 plates; original yellow and white printed wrappers in white pictorial chemise; tear to top edge of chemise partially affecting illustration, else very good and sound. Publications of the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, no. 4. More
