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8637
Drury, L[uke].-
A Report of the Examination of Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, Charged with the Murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. N.P. [Providence, RI.] L. Drury. 1833. 64 pp. 8vo. Printed paper wraps. Stab sewn.
Ref.:McDade 43. Mysteries of Crime, Ch. X.
First Edition. This trial was held in Providence from May 6 to June 2, 1833. Sarah Connell was found hanging from a hay frame, an apparent suicide, in Tiverton, R.I.. She was 5 months pregnant and had left a note at home urging people to inquire of Rev. Avery in case she was missing. She had been a woman of ill-repute and had been repeatedly run out of town on charges of illicit consorting in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Avery was acquitted after a long trial with 196 witnesses. This report on the examination of Avery includes exerpts from significant other testimony. It also includes an Appendix. This issue corresponds with that described in the note to McDade 43, with additional material added to the text and the appendix beginning on p. 62. Owner's signature on cover: Wm. F. Mercer / Baltimore / Md. Lacks rear wrap. Else, Very Good
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11030
[Broadside]. [Jacob Bigelow].-
Harvard University.- Harvard College Order of Exercises for Commencement, August 27, 1806. Cambridge, MA. Wiliam Hilliard, Printer. 1806. First Edition. 1 p. 11-1/2” W x 18-1/4” H. As issued. DAB (for Bigelow). The program for Harvard University commencement, August, 1806. The order of exercises lists 13 orations by candidates (1–4 each) for the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 2 by candidates (1 each) for the degree of Master of Arts. There was to have been another degree candidate to have delivered an essay on “Originality”, but it is recorded on this program that “the melancholy event of his death prevented“ [”the discussion]. Penciled comments by the auditor express his approbation for 4 of the speakers. Among the latter is Jacob Bigelow, candidate for Bachelor of Arts, who delivered an English poem on “The Passions”, which the auditor criticized as being “a good poem too formally delivered-”. Bigelow (1787–1879) went on to become the distinguished Boston physician and botanist, who collected and systematically organized the flora of New England thoroughly. He authored “Florula Bostoniensis” in 1814, the standard manual for New England flora for over 30 years, “American Medical Botany“ (1817–20), the first “American Pharmacopoeia” (1820) and “Treatise on the Materia Medica” (1822). He was Professor of Materia Medica at Harvard from 1815 to 1855. Bigelow argued against excessive use of drugs and blood letting and lectured brilliantly on “Discourse on Self-Limited Diseases” (1835), much praised by Oliver Wendell Holmes. He also lectured on technology, served many public and professional roles, helped to found the Mount Auburn Cemetery and translated Mother Goose into Latin, which he published privately as “Chenodia”. His son, Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow, himself a distinguished surgeon, reported in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal on the first general surgical procedure under ether anesthesia, the surgery carried out by Dr. John Collins Warren under anesthesia administered by William T. G. Morton. A tear along the left margin resulted in a small loss of the printed border and encroachment of a closed tear on two lines of the text. Two small spots of foxing. Penciled contemporary notations, as noted above. Else Very Good.
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11028
Anonymous [? Gabriel Alexander.-
The First Step to Crime: or, The Bottle. Complete. Illustrated by [George] Cruikshank. New York. Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1848. Eight full page wood engravings, including frontispiece + engraved cover, by George Cruikshank. A few signed “E. Lloyd, London”. First American Edition. 84 pp. Publisher’s ads on reverse of cover.. 8vo. Green prnted and illustrated paper wraps. Stab-sewn. Double column text with full page plates. R. Patten, “George Cruikshank’s Life, Times and Art”, Vol II, pp.229–62. Not in Cohn. Probably a piracy, a short novel, illustrated after Cruikshank’s Hogarthian Temperance series, “the Bottle”, published in 1847, and its sequels. The narrative here is a history of a seemingly upstanding man, who, under the influence of friends takes to the bottle, and because of that enters a course of degeneracy, leading to loss of job, social standing, possessions, etc. ultimately to the death of his family members and to crime. It ends with his execution. The illustrations appear to be by E. Lloyd (not listed in Groce and Wallace), after Cruikshank’s on the same subject, as shown in Patten, Vol. II, pp. 239–42. Publication of “The Bottle” in 1847 led to a form of Bottle-mania with much imitation, transfer of the plate images to table-ware, tea sets lantern-slides, waxworks, cotton cloth and silk. “Gabriel Alexander turned “The Bottle’ pictures into a penny parts-issue novel” (Patten, II, p. 250), similar to this item. Whether this item is identical to Alexander’s cannot be confirmed. The text here is clearly English rather than American. Lloyd may have been the same person, who published a parody of Dickens’s “Pickwick Papers” as “Posthumous Papers of the Cadgers’ Club” in 1837 (see, James Cook, “Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens with Many Curious.and Interesting Particulars Relating to His Work”, 1879, p. 82). Cruikshank’s preoccupation with temperance and “The Bottle’ contributed to the rupture of his friendship with Charles Dickens, whose views on temperance were moderate. Lacks rear cover and head of spine. Front cover repaired with archival tape on verso. Chips lost from edges of front cover without loss of text or image. Toning of text, worse at rear. Else, Good+.
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11025
Krogh, August.-
The Anatomy and Physiology of the Capillaries. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press. 1922. First Edition. xvii, 276 pp. 8vo. Original black publsher’s cloth. Titled in gilt on spine. G-M 793. Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1901–1921, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1967 (for Krogh).David G. Cogan, Trans. Am. Ophthalmol. Soc. 1987; 85, 13–15.(for Trygve Gunderson). August Krogh’s (1874–1949) major published work. A very distingushed physiologist, he studied gas exchange in living organisms, the effect of carbon dioxide on oxyhemoglobin dissociation in the blood, the quantitation of blood flow, the exchange of gases in the tissues and the structure and function of the capillaries. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1920. many consider his major work to be on the physiology of the capillaries. To allhis aras of investigation he contributed major ideas, experimental skill and technological innovation.This copy belonged to Dr. Trygve Gunderson, a noted Harvard ophthalmologist (ca. 1900–87) Slight wear at ends of spine. Owner’s stamp at head and tail of text block and on front free end paper. Front hinge starting internally. Rear hinge slightly loose. Toning of endpapers and edges of text block. Else, Very Good.
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11023
Dickens, Charles.-
Little Dorrit. With Fifty-Eight Illustrations by J. Mahoney. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1873. First Edition of Harper’s Miscellaneous Popular Novels. 354 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s ads. 4to. Green illustrated publisher's paper wraps. Double column format. Podeschi D68 and D66(English issue). Wilkins, pp.46–7 (American issue). Jarndyce CXIII. Dickens’s great novel in the rare wraps issue, derived from The Household Edition, which was issued in 22 volumes (with Forster's "Life"), published in the period 1871–1879; it was the first edition after Dickens' death and had new illustrations by Barnard and others. In America, this edition was published by Harper & Brothers (in 1872–1877) in a new typesetting and, a bit earlier, as a local issue of the English (Chapman & Hall) edition, by D. Appleton. Harpers did not use all the illustrations of the English edition, substituting in some volumes illustrations by American artists Here the illustrations are by Mahoney, an English artist of the mid-19th century. Mahoney was “an uneducated London waif [who] was accepted in the world of illustration for a time because of his gift as a draftsman, but his objectionable habits kept him always on the edge of disaster. The very somberness of his life made logical the Dalziels’ choice of Mahoney as their illustrator in the Household Edition for those novels in which the darker side of London life was Dickens’s primary concern…He is in far closer harmony with Dickens’s text than is Phiz in [”Little Dorrit”]” (Gordon N. Ray, ”The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914” Dover, p. 137). Rare in wraps. Owner’s names at head of front cover. Wear at head, tail and edges of spine and at corners. Mild soiling of covers. Front cover detached, with a few small chips not encroaching on text or images. Else, Very Good .
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11022
Goddard, William G[iles].-
An Address to the People of Rhode-Island, Delivered in Newport, on Wednesday, May 3, 1843, in Presence of the General Assembly, on the Occasion of the Change in the Civil Government of Rhode-Island, by Adoption of the Constitution, Which Superseded the Charter of 1663. Providence, RI. Knowles and Vose. 1843. First Edition. 80 pp. 8vo. Brown printed paper wraps. Sabin 27647. Am Imp 43-2120. Gettleman, 45n, 117n. DiSimone & Schofield, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion, 183. DAB (for Gardiner)
A defense of the Constitutional Convention and the new “Freemen’s” constitution of Rhode Island against the People’s Convention (the Dorr Rebellion) by a professor of moral philosophy at Brown University (also a legislator and journalist). He bases his argument on a respect for the rule of law. Goddard elsewhere ridiculed the People’s Convention and Constitution in Providence Journal articles under the pseudonym “Town Born”. Goddard, along with President (of Brown) Francis Wayland, was a vigorous anti-Dorrite. This copy bears the notation: ”R. H. Gardiner, Esq. / With the Author’s respects”. Robert Hallowell Gardiner (1782–1864), was a distinguished resident of Maine, after whom the town of Gardiner, ME is named. He inherited a large estate on the Kennebec River from a maternal uncle, whose surname he adopted. A graduate of Harvard (1801), Gardiner became a scientific farmer and animal husbandman, founding a Lyceum to study and teach these skills, a precursor for A & M technical schools to come later. His maternal family was prominent in Aquidneck, Rhode Island, deeply involved in its public affairs. Gardiner, a trustee of Bowdoin College, was also president of the Maine Historical Society, from which this item was withdrawn. An error on p.77 is corrected in the author’s hand. Ex libris with withdrawal stamp. Spine reinforced with linen library tape. Mild soilingElse, Withdrawal stamp and two library numbers. Very Good.
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11020
[Broadside Verse].-
Bob-Tailed Nag. [Philadelphia, PA] T. M. Scroggy. N.D. [1852–57] First Edition. 1 p. 5-1/8” W x 9-7/16”H. Broadside. Foster’s Plantation Melodies (Baltimore, F. D. Benteen; New Orleans, W. T. Mayo, 1850). Whittlesee & Sonneck, p. 100. Wolf, Lib. Company, American Song Sheets, 239b. A comic song in Afro-American Dialect, written in 1850 by Stephen Foster (1826–64). Its official title was “Gwine to Run All Night”. The text is enclosed in a decorative border. The “Camptown” of Foster’s experience was a ramshackle tent city for migrant workmen in Pennsylvania. The Camptown Races were a popular form of entertainment in the Camp. The song soon worked its way into popular culture. Scroggy was a Philadelphia publisher of broadside song sheets, similar to, but rarer than the prolific H. De Marsan of New York. Scroggy was listed at the address on the broadside in the period 1852–57 (AAS on-line catalogue). Right lower corner chipped off, far from text. Mild browning of edges. Else, Very Good.
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11007
[Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).-
Rememb’ring. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Do Re Mi” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even lived to appear on TV. Very Good.
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11004
[Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).-
Do Re Mi. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Rememb’ring” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even appeared on TV. Edges lightly chipped, with minor loss, not involving text or image. Few closed tears at edges. Else, Very Good.
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11003
[Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).-
I Never Had a Mammy. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Rememb’ring” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even appeared on TV. Lower right corner chipped, with minor loss, not involving text or image. Hinge separating. Else, Very Good.
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10998
Gemelli Careri, [Giovanni Francesco].- Voyage du Tour du Monde, Traduit de l’Italien de Gemelli Careri, par L. M. N. Enrichi d’un Grand Nombre de Figures, Tome Sixieme [only]. De la Nouvelle Espagne. Paris. Etienne Ganeau 1719. Illustrated. Wood engravings of various plants, including avocado, vanilla, cacao, etc. and a folding map of the environs of Mexico City and Teotihuacan. First Edition in French. A translation of the 1699 Italian edition (First Edition). 512 pp. 12mo. Full contemporary calf binding on 5 bands. Elaborate gilt decoration in each compartment. Titling on spine in gilt. French marbled end papers (see on-line copy from Ashmolean Library for similar marbling). All edges marbled. Sabin 26850–51. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik/Gemelli_Careri. Giovanni Francesco Gamelli Careri (1651–1725) was a 17th century Italian adventurer and traveler.A lawyer and judge he was among the first Europeans to tour the world using a form of public transportation. A globe-trotting “Ulysses of the XVII Century” (Angela Amuso Maccarone, Gangemi, 2000), in 1685–87, he toured Europe and was wounded by the Turks in their siege of Buda. Not of aristocratic origin and as a consequence frustrated in his profession, he undertook a five year tour of the world 1693–98. He visited, seriatim, Egypt, Constantinople and the Holy Land, Persia, Armenia, India, China, where he was thought to be a spy for the Pope. Accordingly he was given royal treatment in Beijing. From Macao, he went to the Phillipines before taking a six-month horrendous journey to Acapulco, New Spain. The entire five year journey was described in his 6 volume “Giro Intorno al Mondo” (1699), of which this is the sixth volume of its 1719 French translation. Gemelli was a celebrity. He carefully studied much of contemporary Mexico, including the flora, silver mines and the archaeological site of Teotihuacan. He comments on Peru, Jamaica, etc . The author found his way to Vera Cruz and then to Havana, from there returning to Spain and ultimately to Italy via a treasure fleet. His treatise was originally thought by some to be a fabrication, but the authenticity of these volumes has been confirmed. This sixth volume on Mexico, a “rediscovery” of the country and so entertaining and informative to Europeans, was considered the best volume on that country until Humboldt’s 19th century scientific report (Ernest J. Burris, S.J.). Humboldt, himself, emphasized the authenticity of this volume. (An English translation appears in Churchill’s “Compendium of Authentic Voyages”, 1756). Mild wear at edges and ends of spine, edges and corners of boards. (? Worm-) hole near head of spine. Else, Very Good.
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10997
Morison, Samuel Eliot.-
Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus. Maps by Erwin Raisz. Drawings by Bertram Green. Boston, MA. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Little, Brown and Co. 1942. Frontispiece portrait of Columbus. Maps, charts and illustrations Reprint Edition, First Printing. One Volume Edition 680 pp. 8vo. Reddish publisher’s cloth, titled on spine. Image of a compass rose on front cover. Top edge stained blue. End papers a map of the Carribean Sea area, with lands discovered by Columbus heavily outlined. Title page printed in red and black. No D.J. The first printing of the Atlantic Monthly book club edition of this great historical examination and recreation of Columbus’s voyages to the Caribbean and Americas. Identical to the original two-volume edition, except for the omission of the notes and heavily navigational data and an abrigement of the chapters on Ships and Sailing and the origin and spread of syphilis, As noted in the Preface, otherwise the two issues are identical. Complete with Book Club notes tucked in. Spine slightly sunned. Minimal bumping of corners. Else, Very Good +.
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10991
Sanders, Andrew.-
The Companion to A Tsle of Two Cities. London. Unwin Hyman 1988. First Edition. 176 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth. Titled in gilt on spine, illustrated in gilt on front cover.. D.J. One of the on-going series of volumes annotating the major works of Charles Dickens. Each volume is dedicated to a single novel, this one to "A Tale of Two Cities" The notes are principally factual, rather than critical. They tell much about Victorian culture, Dickens in his times, his associations and the cultural context of the novels. Near Fine in Near Fine D.J.
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10992
Mill, John Stuart.-
A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive. Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. London. Longmans, Green and Co. 1930. New Impression of a Later Edition. 622 pp., Double column format. Small 8vo. Blue-black publisher’s cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and in the blind on front cover. Mill explains his approach to inductive reasoning and reveals his major forms of analysis of these methodoligies. He further explains several common logical fallacies. While skeptical of a perfect system, he finds enough practical consistency to justify historical analysis and moral relevance. He finds justification of laws of social behavior as a form of scientific inference. Mild wear at edges and ends of spine and at corners. Owner’s signature on front free endpaper. Notations of page numbers on rear free endpaper. Else, Very Good.
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10985
Author of The American Chesterfield (pseudonym).-
The American Jest Book, Being a Chaste Collection of Anecdotes, Bon Mots, and Epigrams, Original and Selected, for the Amusement of the Young and Old of Both Sexes: by the Author of The American Chesterfield. Philadelphia. Stereotyped by J[edidiah] Howe (1791–1834), who also held the copyright. 1832. Later edition. 216 pp. Small 12mo., in 6’s. Brown publisher’s cloth AmImp 10910. For earlier issues, see Shipton and Mooney, Short Title Evans, #29970, 47699 and others. Originally published in 1789 (see catalogue of AAS) in Philadelphia by M. Carey and W. Spotswood and in 1796, in Boston, by W. Spotswood, alone. A popular collection of jests, epigrams, etc., this book was issued several times from late 18th century until 1833. A second part, entitled the Merry Fellow’s Companion, has also been published intermittently in that period. Owner’s signature on front pastedown: “Hiram Q. S[?L]evarr”. A classic in early American humor. Quite uncommon. Covers detached. Lacks front free end paper. Spine chipped with loss of upper 1 3/4“
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10981
[Theatrical Broadside]. Stowe, Harriet Beecher and William Cowell.-
Boston Museum. Dred!. Triumphant Success. Third Week of the New American Drama. Founded on the Celebrated Novel by Mrs H. B. Stowe. Dramatised Expressly for the Boston Museum, by William Cowell, Esq. This Afternoon at 2 1/2 O’clock, Will be Presented the New American Drama in 5 Parts (Interspersed with Tableaux, Songs, Choruses, Dances, &c.) Called Dred! Or The Dismal Swamp. Boston. Boston Museum. Hooton’s Press, –No. 4 Howard Street. [1856]. First Edition. 1 p. 18” H x 6 1/8“ W. Broadside sheet. A wonderful theatrical broadside for an adaptation of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s second anti-slavery novel,” Dred! Or The Dismal Swamp”. Contains a list of characters and the actors who portray them. There follows a detailed “programme of scenery and incidents, summarizing the action for each of the five parts, ending with “Contentment! Liberty! Happiness! Finale!” At foot is an ad by the publisher of the novel, Philips, Sampson & Co. for the novel in 2 volumes, with nearly one hundred thousand c opies sold. Small stain in topmost margin with minor creasing. Else, Very Good.
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10980
[Sheet Music]. Billings, Jonas Mrs. Billing’s [sic!].-
Baby. Dedicated to Mrs. Billings. Comic Song with Chorus. Got up by Jonas Billings, Esq. New York. J. L. Peters. 1869. First Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Disbound. Decorated and illustrated cover. In Lester Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins. Not in BAL, Dichter Handbook, Dichter & Shapiro. A comic song about a baby, probably newborn, to the composer, dedicated to his wife. The relationship, if any, of Jonas Billings to Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–85, American Humorist) is uncertain, but stylistically there seems to be a similarity. Disbound edge slightly ragged. Foxing. Stain on front cover on background of image. Small closed tears at lower margin of p.3. Else, Very Good.
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10971
Dickens, Charles.-
A Christmas Carol. Facsimile Edition. New York. Columbia University Press. 1956. Colored and black and white illustrations by John Leech. Facsimile Edition. 166 pp. + 2 pp.publisher’s ads + bibliographc note at rear. Small 12mo. Brown cloth spine and paper covered boards. Titling and decorations in gilt on spine and front cover. Half title in blue; title page in blue and red. Original slip case covered in decorative paper with red label on front cover. Podeschi B146. Facsimile of the First Edition of 1843 including Illustrations of John Leech; Introduction and Bibliographic Note by Edgar Johnson. Slip case toned at edges and on spine, with wear at edges and opening. Book Fine in Good+ original slip case.
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10970
[Alcott, William Andrus] (Pseudonym: An Old Physician ).-
The Physiology of Marriage. Boston. John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. First Edition. Tenth Thousand. 259 pp. 12mo. Brown publsher’s cloth, with gilt titling on spine. Decorated and titled in the blind on both covers. Yellow end papers. An attempt to bring logic and reason to the issues of man’s sociability and notions of kinship and marriage. Despite some typical 19th century misconceptions about issues like masturbation, the author presents a reasoned view about many issues surrounding marriage, such as the appropriate age for the experience (he arrives at the same notions as Plato), the frequency of intercourse, the centrality of menstruation in regulating female sexual propensity and, thus, the frequency of sexual intercourse. The author regularly resorts to the emotions and behavioral issues in his analysis of the physiology of marriage, appearing, thus, very modern. This volume is by William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), cousin of A. Bronson Alcott and of Louisa May Alcott. He studied medicine at Yale, advocated preventive medicine and moral education, and wrote often, completing about 100 works, mostly on education, hygiene and dietary matters. An active vegetarian and homeopath, he was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and in 1837 he founded The American Physiological Society, still active as the world’s oldest physiological society. Wear at ends of spine, corners and edges of boards. Mildly shaken. Minimal foxing. Else, Very Good.
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10683
Davis, A[ndrew] J[ackson].-
Lectures on Clairmativeness, or Human Magnetism. By A. J. Davis, The Poughkeepsie Seer, or Clairvoyant. With an Appendix. by Rev. Gibson Smith. New York. Printed by Searing & Prall. Wilson & Co., Publishers. 1848. ? Second Edition (first copyright 1845 by Gibson Smith). 40 pp. 8vo. Illustrated and printed tan paper wraps, with previous owner’s notations on cover illustration. Publisher’s ads (Wilson and Company) on rear cover. AmImp 45-5982. Slater Brown, The Heyday of Spiritualism. Arthur Conan Doyle, History of Spiritualism. On copyright page, it claims, “All the Mysteries of Human Magnetism and Clairvoyance explained by the celebrated [Andrew] Jackson Davis [1826–1910] of Poughkeepsie.” This is a series of four lectures delivered by an allegedly clairvoyant, though unschooled (shoemaker by trade), 18 year old from Poughkeepsie, [Andrew] Jackson Davis, and recorded word for word by the Rev Gibson Smith. Davis was an important American Spiritualist and professional clairvoyant, much influenced by Swedenborg and the Shakers and a prolific author, known to A. Conan Doyle and Slater Brown. Smith confesses himself to have been a believer in mesmerism, but a skeptic toward clairvoyance. In the introduction, To the Reader, Smith claims that Davis had been engaged in Mesmerism and Clairvoyance over a period of 18 months and subjected to careful scrutiny and experimentation on his powers over that period, witnessed by the Reverend himself. In his lectures, which Smith assures us were recorded precisely as delivered, the young man revealed important new facts on Astronomy helpful to the experts and a new explanation of the laws of motion, particularly, the motion of the heavenly bodies. Errors in Smith’s recordings of the lectures, the manuscripts of which had been locked in his study, were detected at a distance by the Clairvoyant and ordered corrected. Lecture I begins to deal with Human Magnetism, or Mesmerism. The Clairvoyant claims that Mesmerism is not the result of Satanic interventions, but is based on “physiological truths” and is recommended to Physicians for their use and study by scientific methodologies.. The lecture continues with a consideration of the brain, the nervous innervation of tissues, tissue repair, the senses and their relation to the brain, the notion of the mind as reflecting the effects of the senses on the brain, and with it experience and learning as formative of the mind. The duality of the mind, with the cerebellum controlling motion under the Will imposed by the cerebrum and its associated Mind, which is responsible for thought, contemplation, investigation, comparison and arrangement. He reveals that the activity of Mind functions in sleep, as evidenced by dreaming. In Lecture II, the Clairvoyant develops the notion of lack of recall by the Mind in sleep and in mesmeric state, evidence that the mind is active even without consciousness. In an analogy with the rotation of the heavenly bodies, which are controlled by the force of gravitation, human behavior, as in mesmerism, can be controlled by electric and magnetic fluids, a Galvanic force. For involuntary actions and sensation, the force is Animal Heat (Magnetism); for voluntary actions it is Electric. Mesmerism consists of the extraction of the magnetic force from the object. In Lecture III, it is explained how planets orbit the sun, maintaining a balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces derived from the heat, electricity and magnetism emitted by the sun. The path of comets is similarly explained. Lecture IV explains Animal Magnetism, Clairmativeness and Clairvoyance. Animal electricity, postulated to be the intermediary force between the mind and volition in motion, is proven by the function of the electric eel, which turns electricity into motion. Magnetic fluid transmits autonomic and sensory influences beyond the person, leading to higher orders of knowledge. The higher state leads to clairmativeness, a state of being “clearly reversed”. In mesmerism the Subject is, as asleep, under the complete control of the Operator. In the highest state of mesmerism, perfect vision returns to the Subject, no longer under the control of the Operator and the Subject enters the transic, or Clairvoyant state, the Mind expands to fill the universe becoming a Great Positive Mind that “knows” all, rather than “sees” all. This state will bring blessings to all mankind. In the Appendix, Smith details how he tested Davis as a Clairvoyant and describes his success, further attested to by witnesses from Maine and elsewhere. An extraordinary pamphlet, very rare and central to 19th century notions of mesmerism, Spiritualism, clairvoyance and physiology. Mild tanning of pages. Folded front cover. Two small damp stains on cover. Else, Very Good.
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10083
[Marryat, Captain Frederick] By the Author of "Jacob Faithful," "Peter Simple," &c.-
Diary of a Blasé. Philadelphia. E. L. Carey and A. Hart. 1836 First American Edition (The first edition in book form), First Issue (Sept., 1836). 197 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue(dated September 1, 1836) and half-title in front. 12mo. Later black cloth spine and original tan paper covered boards. Modern printed paper label on spine. (Extra printed paper spine label tucked in). T.e.g. Foredges untrimmed. Sadleir I, 1577 (this issue). Wolff II, 4516. Brussel, Anglo-Am. First Ed, East to West, p.117. AmImp 38739. Marryat (1792–1848), a onetime friend of Charles Dickens, was famous for his nautical stories and novels. He also, like Dickens, was a critical visitor to America. According to Sadleir, this is the first book issue of material published in the Metropolitan Magazine to July 1836. It was not issued in book form in England until 1840 ("Olla Podrida"). Spine replaced with later cloth. Rear cover had been detached. Rear pastedown mostly gone. Boards soiled. Edges of boards and corners slightly worn. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good.
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9999
Marryat, Capt. [Frederick].-
Capt. Marryat's New Novel. Percival Keene; A Tale of the Sea. In a Complete Edition of "Brother Jonathan," Extra. No. X. September 21, 1842. New York. Wilson Company. 1842. First American Edition. 63 pp 4to (12 " x 9") Yellow printed decorative paper wraps. Double column format. Groce & Wallace, p. 539–40. Hamilton. Not in Sadleir, nor in Wolff. A nice copy of an extremely fragile item, the first American edition of a novel by Capt. Marryat (1792–1848), Percival Keene. It was here first published in "Brother Jonathan," a magazine famous for its piracies of work by Charles Dickens and others. This, too, is likely a piracy. The text was taken from the first London edition in 3 volumes. The illustration was engraved on wood by Robert Roberts (1821–?), who, born in Wales, was active in New York from 1841 to 1850. As Sadleir notes: "Nowadays several of Marryat's 'firsts' are almost indiscoverable in any state" (Sadleir,I, p. 230). Covers detached and frayed at the edges. Transverse closed tear in middle of front cover.Page edges browned at corners and flaking. Else, Very Good.
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9849
Marryat, Captain Frederick.-
Marryatt's (sic!) Novels. Two Volumes, Bound Together.
N.P. [? Philadelphia]. N.Pu. [? Carey & Hart]. N.D. [? 1841]. Frontispiece, "Hard A Lee," painted by J. P. Ellis, engraved by H. Dawe. 767 pp. , 644 pp. 8vo. Modern red buckram with gilt titling on spine. Modern end papers with taping of hinges internally. All edges marbled (old; ? original). CBEL, III, 385–6. Sadleir I, 230–246. (both for first, separate editions). NUC, NM #0241539 (?). Marryat (1792–1848), a onetime friend of Charles Dickens, was famous for his nautical stories and novels. He also, like Dickens, was a critical visitor to America. Here are collected 13 of his works in a single double-columned volume (actually two volumes bound together) with continuous pagination. These are his complete novels up through 1839. Included are the following novels: "Peter Simple " (1834) , Jacob Faithful (1834), "The Pirate" (1836), "The Three Cutters" (1836), "Moonshine" (1836), "Japhet, in Search of a Father" (1836), "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836), "The Phantom Ship" (1839), "Frank Mildmay, or The Naval Officer" (1829), "The King's Own" (1830), "Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service" (1832), "The Pacha of Many Tales" (1835), "Snarleyvow; or, The Dog Fiend" (1837). Marryat wrote much more up to his death in 1848. Inscription in ink in a very early 19th Century hand on front free flyleaf: "Presented to Ralph by his brother Morris on his 21st Birthday / M Moss." The title pages are missing from the rebound volume. The striking frontispiece with glassine protector is preserved. From the table of contents of Volume II (bound before Volume I, and identified by the footnotes for the signatures), this edition appears to be the first American edition of the Works of Captain Marryat, published in 1841 by Carey & Hart of Philadelphia. NUC identifies only 2 copies. NUC does not give enough information on the 1843 Exeter (NH) edition by J. & B. Williams (NM #0241540) to distinguish it. In 1857, R. Marsh of New York published the Complete Works of Captain F. Marryatt (NM #0241544) in a double column edition with the same running title, "Marryatt's Novels," but the table of contents is different from this volume. Discreet owner's stamp on rear free end paper. Lacks all title pages, including volume title page. Frontispiece and front free end paper reinforced with old transparent tape. Else, Very Good +.
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8608
Seymour, Robert.-
Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-Six Caricature Etchings Illustrated in Prose and Verse by Alfred Crowquill. With a Descriptive List of the Plates and a Biographical Notice of Robert Seymour, including an Account of His Connexion with The Pickwick Papers by Henry G. Bohn. London. T. Miles and Co. N.D. [1866] 86 engravings from the original steel plates by Henry Wallis done from lithographs by Seymour. Third Edition. 173 pp. 4to. Red publisher's cloth illustrated in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Seymour, a popular artist-humorist of the early 19th century, was the initiator of the project which became "The Pickwick Papers" and which was so instrumental in launching the career of Charles Dickens as a novelist. Seymour published many series of sporting prints, the "Humorous Sketches", of which this volume is composed, being among his most popular when they were first issued as detached lithographic prints about 1834–1836 by Carlisle, the publisher of Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason." The stones were sold in 1836 to Henry Wallis, a noted engraver and picture dealer. Wallis transferred the drawings to steel with great skill and published them in 1838 with an associated text in prose and verse by Alfred Crowquill, himself a noted humorist and artist. A second edition of this was published in 1842 by Henry G. Bohn, who added a descriptive list of the plates. Because of the demand, this third edition, identical to the second and with illustrations from the original steel plates, was published in 1866. Bohn's introduction recounts the story of the origin of "The Pickwick Papers" from the point of view of both Seymour's wife (Seymour having famously committed suicide in 1836 before even the second of "Pickwick's" 20 parts was issued) and Dickens. Mrs. Seymour was angry at Dickens, blaming him for her husband's suicide and for her economic decline. It is generally held that Dickens, while ambitious and opinionated about the proposed publication, was innocent of Mrs. Seymour's charges. This volume displays Seymour's great talents well and is clearly a forerunner of Seymour's conception of what the adventures of the Nimrod (to be Pickwick) Club were to be like. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid down. New end papers. Else, Very Good.
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8158
Cather, Willa.-
Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York. Alfred A Knopf. 1927. First Trade Edition, First Issue. 303 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover. A First Trade Edition of Cather’s masterpiece of the Southwest. Perhaps her most famous novel and her best. First Issue, with error on l.16 of p 20, “happned”. No Dust Jacket. Wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Spine label mildly abraded at top. Small stain near foot of front cover. Hinges cracked internally. Foxing, very mild at front edge of text block, which is otherwise Good +.
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7891
Edgeworth, Maria.-
The Parent's Assistant; or, Stories for Children. Philadelphia. J. W. Bradley. 1859. Illustrated with wood engravings by W. Croom. New Illustrated Edition, Complete. 535 pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth, embossed in the blind on the covers with publisher’s logo. Titled in gilt on spine. Spine of old homemade D.J. tucked in at rear. Camb. Bibliog. Eng. Lit., Vol. III, 366-8. Sadleir 779. Duane H. Hurd, History of Bristol County, Massachussetts, pp. 505–6 (for A. N. Medbery). Groce & Wallace, p. 155 Moralistic tales, with the principles and precepts of each tale laid out in the Preface. The tales seem hardly for children. Bookplate of Andrew N. Medbery, Private Library. Seekonk, Mass. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), an English social novelist, was much admired in America where her tales were reissued widely from about 1802, on. "The Parent's Assistant" was first published (England) anonymously in 1795, but no copies of this issue survive. It was reissued in 1796 and frequently thereafter in various formats. According to Sadleir, it is the rarest of Edgeworth's works in early editions. There is an 1800 illustrated edition in Sadleir's collection. A son of Viall Medbery, a founder and selectman of Seekonk, MA, active in the early Baptist church , Andrew N. Medbery (1824–? 1906) was a schoolteacher, merchant and selectman as well as Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature. William Croome (1790–1860) was a noted Boston and Philadelphia illustrator and engraver. Spine and corners worn. Some staining and foxing. Pastedowns abraded
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7225
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.-
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Boston. Phillips, Sampson and Company. 1856. First Edition, First Issue: Volume I, p. 88, line 3, the ascender of the “d” in “dictatorial” is almost directly below the vertical stroke in the final “r” of “rather” just above it. Volume II, p.370, 9th line from bottom reads” “the Dicksons are fewer, and have…”. Battered type in last 3 lines of p. 209, Vol. I, as in only some copies of First State. Also has the Preface by Stowe, present in English copies, but rare in American issues. 329, 370 pp. 6 pp. publisher’s ads at rear of Vol. I. 12mo. Brown-black publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Covers embossed in the blind with frame of branches and holly leaves and 20 dots. Binding A. Plain unprinted yellow end papers. Wright II, 2391. BAL 19389. Has 2 pp. Preface in Volume I and Appendices. Owner’s signature on front free end paper of both volumes (”Fanny H. Stratton”). Inscribed on front free end paper of Vol. II (”The christian secret of a happy life, H. W. S.”). This is the second anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, told from the perspective of Black life in a time of slavery with reflections on the lives of the White characters. Inspired in part by Nat Turner’s rebellion, ”Dred” sold over 100,000 copies in less than a month. Mild wear at ends of spine and minimal at corners. Scant abrasion of covers. Mild scattered toning and tidal mark. Else, Very Good +.
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7105
Sartre, Jean-Paul.-
L’Imaginaire. Psychologie Phénoménologique de l’Imagination. Paris. NRF. Librairie Gallimard. 1948. First Edition in this format. 246 pp. 8vo. Paper wraps printed in black and reddish brown. Pages uncut. Originally copyright in 1940, this 1948 edition is Sartre’s important contribution to this series of volumes on then contemporary English and Continental philosophy. Here, Sartre argues for the independence of morality and aesthetics: they cannot be confounded, especially in the face of the absurdity of reality and of existence. The aesthetic exists in the imagination, rather than in reality. Pages browned. Few small closed tears. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Front hinge starting at both ends. Else, Very Good.
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7066
Reade, Charles.-
“Love Me Little, Love Me Long” New York. Harper & Brothers. 1859. First American Edition 435 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s ads. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Yellow end papers. Parrish, p.203. (Sadleir 2010 and Wolff 5710 for First English Edition). http://www.george-orwell.org/Charles_Reade/0.html Charles Reade (1814–84) was a noted 19th Century novelist, but it was as a dramatist that he wanted to be known. His most famous novel was “The Cloister and the Hearth”, an historical novel about the adventures of the father of Erasmus. Well-educated (Oxford), financially comfortable, Reade became a lawyer, a fellow and later Vice President at Oxford. He adopted social causes in his novels, much like Charles Dickens, but less successfully. George Orwell summed up Reade as “…a man of what one might call penny-encyclopedic learning. He possessed vast stocks of disconnected information which a lively narrative gift allowed him to cram into books which would at any rate pass as novels. If you have the sort of mind that takes pleasure in dates, lists, catalogues, concrete details, description of processes, junk-shop windows…, the sort of mind that likes knowing exactly how a medieval catapult worked or just what objects a prison cell of the eighteen-forties contained, then you can hardly help enjoying Reade “(op cit). While Orwell saw Reade as possessing the ”charm of useless knowledge”, Reade did tend to use factual stories as a basis of his work; he did his own research on prisons for his effective early novel, “It Is Never Too Late to Mend”. He was never popular with the critics, but his public was large. He did have a somewhat loose concept of permissible borrowing from other authors and was accused of plagiarism. Owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Signed on front free end paper by earlier owner: “K A./May.6th./’[18]59”. Wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Hinges starting. Small. chip from covers. Very tight and clean text. mild foxing at rear. Else, Very Good -.
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7025
[Curtis, Willaim Fuller] Parley Peter (pseudonym for S. G. Goodrich). (Editor).-
The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends, over Various Countries in Europe. Illustrated by Engravings from Original Designs. New York Derby and Jackson 1860 Illustrated with engravings by Elias James Whitney and Albert H. Jocelyn. ? Second Edition 312 pp. 12mo, in 6’s. Original publisher’s cloth elaborately embossed in the blind. Gilt decoration, illustration and titling on spine. Yellow end papers Pflieger, Pat, A Visit to Merry’s Museum; or, Social Values in a 19th Century Periodical for Children, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Minn. 1987. Groce & Wallace, pp. 351, 683 and Hamilton, pp. 209–20, 496–97 (for Whitney & Jocelyn) Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793–1860), alias Peter Parley, the son of a minister, a bookseller and publisher, became the author of or contributor to many works, often for the young, books of history, science geography biography and fictional stories. His annual , The Token, published Hawthorne, Longfellow, Child et al from 1828 to 1842. He edited Merry’s Museum from 1841 to 1854. A Massachusetts Legislator in 1836–37, he became American Consul in Paris 1851–3., returning to America in 1855. This volume, originally published in 1856, is a series of geography and history lessons, published serially first in Merry’s Museum, describing the travels over the world in a balloon and the dialogue of a group of children with Robert Merry. Writing as Robert Merry, Goodrich often addressed his readers - collectively and individually - and thus quickly established a bond between them and the imaginary editor (Pflieger, op cit). The illustrations, here complete, are grand engravings by the firm of Whitney and Jocelyn. Signed in pencil on front free end paper by William Fuller Curtis, likely the noted pyrographic artist (1873–1938) of the Arts & Crafts Movement in America. Mild wear at ends of spine. Gilt fading. Very mild foxing
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6904
James, Henry.-
The Letters of Henry James. 2 Volumes. Selected and Edited by Percy Lubbock, (Editor), New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1920. First Edition. 434, 511 pp. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, lettered in orange on spine. front edges untrimmed Text of Introduction and Prefaces by Lubbock. Mild wear to ends of spine. fading of lettering on spine. Mild wear to corners of Vol. I and to cover of Vol. II. Else, Very Good.
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6858
Lawrence, D. H.-
Sea and Sardinia. New York. Thomas Seltzer. 1921. Illustrated with eight color plates (with tissue guards) by Jan Juta and a full-page map. First Edition. 355 pp. 8vo. Green paper covered boards with yellow cloth spine. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed Pages uncut. Printed paper label on spine. Travel memoirs by Lawrence in the First Edition, First Issue (line 3 on p. 127 printed upside down). Jan Juta (1895–1990) was a painter and muralist, close to D. H. Lawrence. Besides illustrating this book, Juta painted a portrait of Lawrence now in the National Portrait Gallery. Water stain, not encroaching on images. Pages lightly wrinkled. Hinges cracked internally. Corners bumped. Else, Good.
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6784
Huxley, Aldous.-
Those Barren Leaves. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. First American Edition. Doran device on title and copyright pages. 400 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth with printed paper label on spine. T.e. stained red. The third novel by Aldous Huxley. Spotting of covers. End papers browning a bit. Minor bumping of ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good.
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6687
Hardy, Thomas.-
Human Shows Far Phantasies. Songs and Trifles. London.. Macmillan and Co. 1925. First Edition. 280 pp. + 3 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling and decorations on cover and spine. D.J. T.e.g. Purdy, pp. 234–48. The later poems of Thomas Hardy in their first edition. His last work published in his lifetime. Uncut pages. Minor wear at edges and corner of D.J. Else, Near Fine.
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6664
Graves, Robert.-
Lawrence and the Arabs. London. Jonathan Cape. 1937. Reprinting of Concise Edition. 288 pp. + Publisher's Ads. Small 8vo. Grey Linen with Decorative D.J. Graves' book on Lawrence was originally published in 1927 and reissued in this Concise Edition in 1934. For this edition, Graves had permission from Lawrence (then known as T. E. Shaw) to use copyright material not available to him for the earlier editions. Ex Libris. Modest library stamp and unobtrusive owner's blind stamp. Else, Very Good in Very Good D.J. with only minor chipping at edges of D.J. spine.
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6639
Garland, Hugh A.-
The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke. Two Volumes. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 1851. Portrait Frontispiece in Each Volume. ? First Edition. 311 pp., 375 pp. + publisher’s ads in each volume, at rear. 12mo. Purple Publisher's Cloth. The Biography of an Important Virginia Planter, a Relative of Thomas Jefferson. Randolph Freed His Slaves by His Will in 1823-33. Covers & spines faded. Spine ends slightly worn. Penciled number notations on one blank endpaper. of Vol. II. Mild foxing at end of Vol. II. Otherwise, Very Good.
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6578
Evans, Marian (pseudonym: George Eliot).- The Spanish Gypsy. A Poem. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1868. First American Edition. Author's Edition, from Advance Sheets. 287 pp. 12mo. Red Publisher's Cloth.Gilt titling on spine and front cover. Beveled boards. Brown coated end papers. NCBEL III 903. Baker & Ross A9.3a-g. A long epic poem, originally written in 1864-65, but revised in 1867 by Eliot after her visit to Spain. Published in same year in Britain and in US. One gathering slightly loose. Picture of exotic Middle Eastern Dancer with Tambourine (? from old Valentine) laid down on front free end paper. Slight wear to ends and edges of spine. Corners mildly bumped. Else, Very Good.
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6507
Darwin, Charles.-
The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects. New York D. Appleton and Company 1877 Illlustrated with 38 woodcuts by G. Sowerby. Second American Edition, Revised 300 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Small 8vo. Terra-cotta cloth with black decoration on covers and gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Tan end papers. Freeman 802. One of Darwin’s less commonly encountered titles, especially in this condition. There was no issue of the First Edition in America. Owner’s label laid down on front pastedown. Slight wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Else, Very Good.
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6491
D’Israeli, B[enjamin].-
Coningsby; or the New Generation. Paris. A. and W. Galignani and Co, 1844. First French Edition in English. 347 pp. 8vo. Half brown calf sewn on 5 bands. Marbled boards. Marbled edges (all). Gilt tooled spine with gilt titling on black calf label. Marbled end papers. Sadleir 709. Wolff 1833. (both for First British Edition, 1844) One of the morality novels of Disraeli, the onetime British Prime Minister. Published after he entered Parliament, it was his first wholly political novel. A rare first edition, published the same year as the First British Edition. The character of Sidonia may be a stand-in for Disraeli himself. Moderate wear at head and foot of spine and at corners. Marbled boards scuffed. Hinges starting internally. Else, Very Good -.
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6476
Cross , J[ames] W[alter] (Editor).-
George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Three Volumes. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1885. Illustrated. First American Edition. 348, 324 + errata slip, 340 + errata slip, + 4 pp. publisher’s ads. 12mo. Green pebbled publisher's cloth with gilt decorations. Titled in gilt on spine. Facsimile signature of Eliot on front covers. Chocolate coated end papers. T.e.g. Baker & Ross D38.3.a The first biography of George Eliot. Written by her husband. Though they had been married only six months at her death, this well researched biography is the standard reference. Owner's signature on front free fly leaf: "Alice I.[?] Ordway./ June 4th '85./ Newton Center." Engraved business card tucked into Volume III. Slight wear at ends and edges of spine. Else, Very Good.
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6410
Chaucer, Geoffrey.-
Troilus and Cressida. A Love Poem in Five Books. New York. Literary Guild. 1932. Illustrated. First Edition as Such 309 pp. Large 8vo. White paper spine (in imitation of vellum) with gilt titling. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt decoration on front cover. Blue end papers. Front edge untrimmed. New translation by George Philip Krapp. Illustrated by Eric Gill (wood engravings) after the Golden Cockerel Press Edition.. Blue cloth fading with wear at corners. Mild wear at ends and edge of spine. Else, Very Good.
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