Literature

Item #100121 Fairy Tales and Legends. Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen, Hans Christian

Item 100121Fairy Tales and Legends

"New Edition" of 1959, first published in this format in 1935. A beautiful collection of forty-eight of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, including "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Constant Tin-Soldier," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Little Mermaid." Inscribed on the front pastedown by illustrator Rex Whistler's younger brother Laurence Whistler.....

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Item #100181 Poetical Works. Matthew Arnold

Arnold, Matthew

Item 100181Poetical Works

A beautiful edition of Matthew Arnold's poetry, with frontispiece portrait, featuring "Shakespeare," "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Rugby Chapel": "And there are some, whom a thirst / Ardent, unquenchable, fires, / Not with the crowd to be spent, / Not without aim to go round / In an eddy of.....

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Item #100147 About The & House. W. H Auden

Auden, W.H.

Item 100147About The & House

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Item #100112 Emma. Jane Austen

Austen, Jane

Item 100112Emma

Oxford World's Classics 129. Introduction by E.V. Lucas, dust jacket design by Lynton Lamb. "It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her." A delightful reading copy of.....

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Item #10080 Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen

Austen, Jane

Item 10080Pride and Prejudice

Lovely nineteenth-century printing of Austen's most influential novel, featuring the equally matched Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, whose rocky courtship sets the tone for the next two centuries of romantic comedy. "After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your.....

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Item #100206 The Life of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell

Boswell, James

Item 100206The Life of Samuel Johnson

Single-volume edition of one of the greatest English biographies, printed in two columns. Boswell follows Dr. Johnson through the arduous production of his major works, including his massive Dictionary of the English Language and his critical editions of Shakespeare and the English poets, and documents his friendships with Joshua Reynolds.....

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Item #100161 Collected Stories. Paul Bowles

Bowles, Paul

Item 100161Collected Stories

Signed limited edition, with an introduction by Gore Vidal, number 111 of 300 copies signed and numbered by American writer and composer Bowles, an expatriate legend in Tangier for half a century. This collection brings together the spare, unsettling stories first published in The Delicate Prey (1950), The Time of.....

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Item #100162 The Spider's House. Paul Bowles

Bowles, Paul

Item 100162The Spider's House

Signed limited edition of this novel of unrest in the ancient Moroccan city of Fez, number 217 of 350 copies signed and numbered by Bowles, with a preface by the author. "The only way the French could preserve even the illusion of privacy was simply to pretend the natives did.....

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Item #10067 The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne...

Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Anne

Item 10067The Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte

Illustrated six-volume edition of the works of the Bronte sisters, with full-page color plates by Edmund Dulac in each volume. The set includes Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette (1853).....

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Item #100134 The Gentleman From San Francisco and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by...

Bunin, I.A.; Lawrence, D.H. (translator); Woolf, Leonard (translator); Koteliansky, S.S. (translator)

Item 100134The Gentleman From San Francisco and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

Early English translation of four of Russian Nobel laureate Bunin's short stories: "The Gentleman From San Francisco," "Gentle Breathing," "Kasimir Stanislavovitch," and "Son." One of approximately one thousand copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. "What were the feelings, what were the thoughts of the Gentleman from San Francisco on.....

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Item #100178 The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works. Samuel Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel

Item 100178The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works

A beautiful edition of the Romantic poet's works, with frontispiece portrait, edited by James Dykes Campbell. The collection includes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," and "Kubla Khan": "I would build that dome in air, / That sunny dome! those caves of ice! / And all who heard should.....

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Item #10084 The Woman in White. Wilkie Collins

Collins, Wilkie

Item 10084The Woman in White

Early one-volume edition of the hugely popular novel of suspense, "the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve," best remembered for the flamboyant villain Count Fosco, a brilliant, obese figure crawling with pet mice. A very good copy of a Victorian classic.....

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Item #10007 Color. Countee Cullen

Cullen, Countee

Item 10007Color

First edition, first printing, with correct publisher's code H-Z and the date in Roman numerals on the title page. The first collection of lyrics by a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance, including "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage": "What is last year's snow to me? / Last year's.....

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Item #10087 The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand 5). Lydia Davis

Davis, Lydia

Item 10087The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (Living Hand 5)

First edition of the first collection by Davis, number 158 of 500 copies. In these unsettling short stories, Davis introduces the deadpan voice and formal ingenuity that would become her trademark in the decades to follow: "A man in our town is both a dog and its master." This copy.....

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Item #100122 The Tale of Despereaux. Kate DiCamillo

DiCamillo, Kate

Item 100122The Tale of Despereaux

First edition of DiCamillo's fantastic tale of a mouse in love with a princess, winner of the Newbery Medal for 2004. "Happily ever after. Despereaux was certain that he had read exactly those words time and time again." Fine condition.

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Item #10085 The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens

Dickens, Charles

Item 10085The Pickwick Papers

"Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in vich case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant." A fine copy of the work whose runaway success made Dickens Dickens, in a splendid prize binding by Bickers, accompanied by the original.....

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Item #10058 The White Album. Joan Didion

Didion, Joan

Item 10058The White Album

First edition of Didion's classic collection of essays on the American 1970s, reflections on Jim Morrison, the Black Panthers, the women's movement, Nancy Reagan, Charles Manson, college activism, and the new role of the shopping center in American life. "I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew.....

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Item #10082 Poetical Works. John Dryden

Dryden, John

Item 10082Poetical Works

A beautiful copy of the works of the most influential Restoration poet, presented as a prize for high examination marks, Christmas 1902, by the Sarum Choristers' School. This edition contains selections from Dryden's plays and translations, and all his English poems, including "Absalom and Achitophel," "Religio Laici," "Under Milton's Picture,".....

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Item #100110 Middlemarch. George Eliot

Eliot, George

Item 100110Middlemarch

Oxford World's Classics 497. Introduction by R.M. Hewitt, dust jacket design by Robin Jacques. "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on.....

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Item #100113 The Mill on the Floss. George Eliot

Eliot, George

Item 100113The Mill on the Floss

Collins Pocket Classic 13. "Prejudices come as the natural food of tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which we call truth." Attractive mid-century reading copy of Eliot's second novel, in very good condition.

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Item #100108 The George Eliot Letters. George Eliot, Gordon Haight, Graham Greene

Eliot, George; Haight, Gordon (editor); [Greene, Graham]

Item 100108The George Eliot Letters

Graham Greene's annotated copy of the first American edition of George Eliot's collected letters, in seven volumes, with his signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. Greene clearly read this comprehensive collection with care, neatly marking the text throughout, and drawing up a handwritten index to key passages.....

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Item #100140 The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot, Walker Evans

Eliot, T.S.; [Evans, Walker]

Item 100140The Waste Land

First edition, second impression, one of 1000 numbered copies of Eliot's most influential work, an echo chamber of ancient and modern voices overheard in London between the wars: "I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening.....

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Item #10077 The Works of H. Fielding. Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry

Item 10077The Works of H. Fielding

Charming nineteenth-century set of Fielding's works, illustrated by Herbert Railton and E.J. Wheeler, bound with an unusual bird motif on the spines. This collection includes Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild, Amelia, and Fielding's most influential novel, Tom Jones: "Man is the highest subject (unless on very extraordinary occasions indeed) which presents.....

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Item #100120 The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame

Grahame, Kenneth

Item 100120The Wind in the Willows

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." A beautiful reading copy of a childhood classic, with the iconic Ernest Shepard illustrations.

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Item #10095 Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Thomas Hardy

Hardy, Thomas

Item 10095Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

First edition of Thomas Hardy's last book, a collection of lyrics, published after his death: "They know the wilings of the world, / The latest flippancy; / They know each jest at hazard hurled, / But know not me." Uncut and unopened, with original Macmillan promotional postcard laid in. A......

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