201. A House Divided Against Itself. New York: Norman L. Munro. 1886.
First American Edition. Original illustrated wrappers. Part of the publisher's Munro's Library series. A lovely copy, minor loss at lower spine end and few corners. Item #10382
First American Edition. Original illustrated wrappers. Part of the publisher's Munro's Library series. A lovely copy, minor loss at lower spine end and few corners. Item #10382
First Edition. Octavo, original purple cloth, paper spine label. Being in continuation and completion of the fourth volume of the dramatic series. Firmly bound but edge worn volume. Item #17118
First Edition. Original blue cloth, color cover art, publisher's printed and illustrated dustjacket. Rare German adventure novel of Native American life and toils. Illustrated with four richly colored chromolithographs with Native American themes. This copy with extremely scarce illustrated 19th Century dustjacket. Very Good to Near Fine, very light foxing to endpapers, lower spine end soiled, mild wear, in Very Good modestly darkened dustjacket, spine ends chipped. Item #16704
First American Edition. Original rust red printed wrappers. Part of the publisher's Town and Country Library, no. 249. Scarce in original wrappers. Near Fine but for moderate cocking to spine. Item #11492
First American Edition. Original white printed wrappers. Hubin listed marginal mystery novel first published in England as a triple decker. Conan Doyle's Sign of Four would be first published in America in book form as another volume of this same series, Once a Week Library. Very Scarce. Very Good, fore-edge of front wrap and spine ends chipped. Item #12920
Original ink handwritten Manuscript translation, contained in a quarter leather bound notebook, gilt lettering at spine, raised spine bands, pebbled cloth over boards, approx. 200 pages. Signed by North Anthony Peat at title page and dedication page, dated 1848 at title and 1850 at dedication page. Scarce translation of The Village Doctor, by The Countess D'Arbouville, predating the published English translation in 1853 by Maunsell B. Field. The introduction for Peat's Gossip from Paris during the Second Empire tells us that Peat's letters were sent daily from Paris during the years 1864 to 1870, and that he died from the effects of an accident during the early days of the siege of Paris. The letters were addressed mainly to the readers of the Morning Star, a daily London paper, the organ of the Manchester school of politics, but several appeared elsewhere, notably in The Yorkshire Post. As Attache, Peat saw every morning the telegrams which passed through the Home Office, and thus was enabled to test the accuracy of current reports. The natural objection to a Government Attache being the correspondent of a foreign paper was waived shortly after the correspondence began and were sanctioned by His Excellency, the Marquis de Lavalette.The authorial introduction to the 1853 translation of D'Arbouville's tales states that "The Village Doctor has already been done into English in this country for an Eastern periodical, although he has never happened to see the book in question." This unknown translation was perhaps the present version provided by Peat. There were only fifty copies of the original French version. A Very Good volume, some minor cracking to leather spine spine ends. Item #16817
First Edition. Illustrated by the authors. Original illustrated cloth and dustjacket, gilt top page edge. Collection of travel sketches including bullfighting. Uncommon in 19th Century dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some loss along top rear panel. Item #37635
First Edition. Short typed letter signed by author tipped in at front free endpaper. Octavo, original violet boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, original floral endpapers. Collection of short, autobiographical stories written by a telegraph operator who invented the Phillips Code. Very Good with some yellowing to endpapers, spine faded, light wear to cloth at cover corners and spine ends. Item #18776
First Edition. Edited and Patronized by the Pi Tau. Duodecimo, paper-covered boards, with frontispiece. Written to commemorate a student riot in the dining hall of Harvard College in 1818 and now first published. Pages 4 and 5 bound following page 8; poem begins on page 11. Good, with front cover and first page signature detached, lacks spine material. Item #18697
First American Edition. Original printed wrappers. Very Good, closed tear at lower spine end. Item #16239
First Canadian Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Scarce Toronto published edition of the author's second work and an early mystery title. Illustrated. Very Good, modest spine end wear, shelf wear to edges. Item #16128
Tall Octavo, contemporary 3/4 leather, leather spine label reading in gilt 'Yankee and Miscellany', marbled boards, frontis portrait of Jeremy Bentham. Bound volume II, July to December, 1829, of John Neal's Yankee Magazine. Extremely uncommon first appearance of Poe in a literary journal. Neal's review of Poe's poem, Fairyland in the September issue provided Poe with his first public encouragement: "E. A. P. of Baltimore -- whose lines about 'Heaven,' though he professes to regard them as altogether superior to any thing in the whole range of American poetry, save two or three trifles referred to, are, though nonsense, rather exquisite nonsense — would but do himself justice, might make a beautiful and perhaps magnificent poem. There is a good deal to justify such a hope." An extract of Fairyland follows. The December issue includes lengthy excerpts from 'Al Aaraaf', 'Tamerlane', and 'To ——' and a very positive review of the yet unpublished work, Al Aaraaf, the result of which was the collections publication. Poe would dedicate that volume to Neal in a show of his appreciation. Later half of volume is bound in several political pamphlets, including William Penn's Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians; first published in the National Intelligencer. Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1829. 112 pp; Speech of Daniel Webster, in Reply to Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina... Relative to The Public Lands. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1830. 96 pp; Remarks of Mr. Webster in the Senate of the United States, May 9, 1828, on the Tariff Bill. Boston: Boston Daily Advertiser, 1828. 48 pp; Committee Review by Hon. Mr. Johnson of Kentucky, 1829. A textually Very Good volume, text block firmly bound, expected foxing, lower fore-edge corner mildly bumped, two front endpapers and frontis detached along with front cover, rear hinge starting, spine leather dry and chipped at ends. Item #17583
'Third Edition, Revised' stated at front wraps, but likely First Edition with no record of an earlier printing at the Nova Scotia Archives. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. Extremely scarce separately published poem by Rand, a protestant missionary among the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia. The author, who lived with the tribe in the mid-1800's, recorded substantial and important documentation concerning the Micmac Indian tribes and their language. Best known for his dictionary of the Micmac language and translations of bible stories into Micmac, this poem of a native hunter constitutes an extremely uncommon diversion from his religious duties. At attractive Very Good plus copy, tiny chip at lower front wrap. Item #12926
Presumed First Edition (despite 1880 copyright date). Miss L. B. Humphrey illustrations and dustjacket art. Square octavo, original green cloth, gilt and silver cover art, gilt page edges, and illustrated dustjacket. Read's world wandering poem, with lovely illustrations by Humphrey. Very uncommon in illustrated dustjacket. [Tanselle 80.4] Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and top flap corners, some light stains to lower panels. Item #29193
First Edition. Very Scarce Reade title with only two library holdings on World Cat: Harvard University and the University of Rochester. Octavo, original brown embossed cloth binding, gilt lettering to spin, mauve endpapers. Very Good,with shallow loss at spine ends, some fading and speckling to spine, several inch split to cloth at rear spine edges. Item #18582
First Edition, "Fifth Thousand" plug at title page. Octavo, original decorative cloth and matching dustjacket. "Two bright new stories forming a companion volume to Narcissa, Melody, etc. and sure of a warm welcome from the thousands of readers who have come to look forward with keen anticipation of pleasure for the appearance of any new volume from the same pen". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chipping at top spine end and top rear panel. Item #31086
First Edition, large paper issue, limited to 450 copies. Original Manuscript page tipped in. Volume one of two only. Nearly Very Good. Item #35002
First Edition. Part of the publisher's 16vo. sized Half-Hour Series, Original green cloth, lettering in red and black at front cover and spine. Ads list to #120 of the series with this title not listed. Scarce contemporary novel. Near Fine. Item #16008
First Edition. Part of the publisher's 16vo. sized Half-Hour Series, Original green cloth, lettering in red and black at front cover and spine. Ads list to #130 of the series with this title not listed. Scarce contemporary novel. Near Fine. Item #16006
First Edition. Part of the publisher's 12mo. sized Half-Hour Series, Original green cloth, lettering in red and black at front cover and spine. Ads list to #45 of the series with this title not listed. Scarce contemporary novel. Near Fine, spine ends showing light wear. Item #11497
First Edition. Part of the publisher's 16vo. sized Half-Hour Series, Original green cloth, lettering in red and black at front cover and spine. Ads list to #45 of the series with this title not listed. Scarce contemporary novel. Near Fine. Item #16004
First Edition. Part of the publisher's 16vo. sized Half-Hour Series, Original green cloth, lettering in red and black at front cover and spine. Ads list to #79 of the series with this title the last on the list. Scarce contemporary novel. Near Fine, modest shelf wear. Item #16007
Early American Edition, likely 1900. Original illustrated wrappers. A scarce and early American printing of this famous play by Rostand published in France in 1898. This copy with wrapper copyright date of July 15, 1898, but with advertisement at rear wrap that indicates this book was likely published in 1900. Very Good plus copy, some general darkening to white wrappers. Item #12927
Presumed First Edition. Octavo, original salmon cloth with illustration of two boys at a fence and maroon letters which read “Pilgrim Series for Boys Illustrated”, illustration at spine with maroon lettering and gilt lettering. Story by American juvenile writer who wrote a six-volume series called “The Springdale Stories.” Very Good with spine faded, cloth at spine ends and cover corners lightly worn, page ends darkened, light soiling to covers. Item #18437
First American Edition. Translated from the French by Fayette Robinson. Three volumes in one. Author is considered the first French woman writer to gain a major reputation. Sequel to “Consuelo, Sand’s masterpiece. Half leather, with brown pebbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Very Good, with title and first few pages with moderate water stain, leather well-worn, white stain to front cover. Item #19273