![Item #409836 Autograph note signed ("C. Bronte"), “Saturday,” to “N." [Ellen Nussey], [18...](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/409836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694112947)
One page, oblong, 80 x 95mm. Tipped at corners on the verso of the frontispiece in Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1872. Trimmed closely, visible horizontal fold near top, but generally fine. Apparently a lost letter from Charlotte Brontë to her close friend Ellen Nussey. Reading...
New York: McSpedon and Baker, 1852. 8vo. 88 pages. Superb folding frontispiece "View of the New-York Quarantine, Staten Island," lithographed by G. Hayward for David Valentine's 1851 Manual. Original cloth, gilt letterered on front cover. First edition. A wonderful association copy, inscribed by the author to Alfred E. Beach on.....
![Item #409883 Songs from Irving Berlin's Alexander Ragtime Band [cover title]. Irving BERLIN](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/409883.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683223925)
[New York]: [Irving Berlin, Inc.], 1938. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches; 29.7 x 23 cm). 180 pages. Publisher's flexible faux leather. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper: "To Irving Lesser(?) With best wishes and pleasant memories of "Alexander's Ragtime band" / Irving.....
London: E. and C. M'Lean, 1824. Oblong broadsheets (15 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches; 387 x 282 mm). Seven hand-colored aquatints by and after Henry Alken, one sheet letterpress text at end; on wove paper without visible watermarks. Sewn in original printed drab wrappers; red cloth folding portfolio. Provenance: Herbert.....
Cincinnati: Strobridge & Co., 1876. 68.5 x 664.5 cm (approximately 2.25 x 22 feet). Colored panorama joined and mounted on linen, lacquered, folding into original folio covers. Half calf. "A riot of color and detail." Second "Centennial" edition. A mammoth pictorial timeline of the history of the world, composed in.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873-74. Four volumes, folio (472 x 345 mm; 18.5 x 13.5 inches). 222 photographs on 96 plates, produced by the Autotype Mechanical Printing Process of Spencer, Sawyer, Bird and Co., London; with guards. Letterpress titles and descriptions. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated.....
London: Printed by E. Everingham at the Author's Expences, and sold by James Round, Joseph Archez, and by the Bookseller in St Tames's Street, 1709. 8vo. [2], iv, [2], 102 pages. Contemporary panelled calf. Provenance: ownership inscription of Edw. Chamberlayne. First and only edition, very rare, the only publication by.....
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. Two volumes, 8vo. xxiv, 323; iv, 377, 6 [ads]. Publisher's brown grained cloth, ruled in blind on sides, gilt-lettered on spine; in a somewhat worn folding case. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame bookplate; sale Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 184).....
Printed for Private Distribution [by The De Vinne Press], 1904. 8vo. x, 152, [1] pages. 19 plates, of which three in color of flies, the remaining gravures from photographs. Original half white parchment, grey-green boards. Provenance: Arthur C. Cooper (armorial bookplate). Number 29 of 100 copies of the second edition.....
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. 8vo (206 x 125 mm). viii, 236 pages, [4, advertisement and list of books]. Contemporary English speckled calf, red morocco lettering-piece on spine, spine compartments gilt-ruled. Provenance: unidentified early inkstamp and armorial bookplate; Everett D. Graff (1885-1964), Chicago Western.....
Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. 8vo. Brown half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 670 of 1000 copies signed by the author. "Mr. Lawrence has moments of greatness, of course, but hours of something very different" – Virginia Woolf ('The Common.....
London: [Oxford University Press for] Humphrey Milford, 1918. 8vo. [8], 124 pages. 2 portraits engravings under tissue by Emery Walker, 2 double–page facsimiles of autograph poems, and 2 in–text facsimiles of the author’s signature. Original holland-backed boards, printed paper spine label, untrimmed. First edition, limited to 750 copies, of Hopkins’.....
Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co., 1836. 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Later copy of Holley's frontispiece map inserted (tear along one fold). Original muslin, printed paper spine label. Provenance: William Bollaert (1807-1876), writer, chemist, geographer and ethnologist (signature on title, see below); Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry.....
London: J. Robinson, 1744. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Large engraved folding map "New Map of Part of North America" (some minor offsetting). 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry Library (bookplate, with Newberry removal label). First edition of this.....
Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1967. 4to (25.4 x 20.1 cm; 10 x 7 7/8 inches). [48] pages. 34 black-and-white photographic reproductions; the final image has a small flap attached to the right-hand page. Printed wrappers; original glassine wrapper. Wittenborn sticker on verso of title. First edition of the artist's fifth.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo (231 x 141 mm). 54 pages, plus a folding photographic frontispiece, being an original salt print of a Greenfield, Massachusetts trackway slab with dinosaur tracks, executed by George M. Silsbee, and with two additional engraved vignettes in the text. Original blue cloth blocked in.....
Written on the printed leaflet titled "Meet Judy Blume," 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, black-and-white photo of Judy Blume on cover, listing Blume's books on the back, issued by Bradbury Press and E. P. Dutton & Co., the inner pages printing Blume's reminiscences on writing that she included as.....
3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about.....
Milan: Giampaolo Prearo / Galleria Toselli, 1973. Portfolio 250 x 330mm (9 7/8 x 12 7/8in). Complete series of color offset prints in colors on coated paperstock, comprising the full series of 12 plates and with the addition of the scarce 13th plate showing four (rather than three) balls, with.....
A fine archive of three original drawings by the English “mouth artist” John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter’s Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 – 2 June 1850), an English.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]. 8vo. 456 pages. Portrait frontispiece of the author; one-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt. First American edition, an unusually fine copy of a scarce book commonly found in worn.....
New York: Something Else Press, 1964. Oblong 4to (22 x 27 cm). Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Jacket tanned with a small chip to the top of the front panel. Boards a bit bowed. Else near fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Johnson to friend and art critic Suzi Gablik with.....
Amsterdam: Printed for J. S. [John Starkey], 1687. 12mo (143 x 82 mm). 167 pages. Modern calf antique, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this treatise of persecution by Lactantius, often referred to as the "Christian Cicero." This is apparently also the first appearance of any of Lactantius' works.....
London: Thomas Davison for the proprietors of the collection, 1815. Large 4to (263 x 168 mm; 103/8 x 65/8 in.). Title printed in red and black. Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece by Barriman showing John Lydgate presenting his book to Henry V (described in item 412 of the catalogue), engraved title vignette.....
New York: Scholastic, 1992. 4to. [32] pages. Color illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Later printing of the paperback issue of the "Trumpet Special edition," only available for distribution through the school market. Inscribed by Steig on the inner front wrapper: "I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY BOOK / William Steig 1994."
