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THE MELVILLE LOG: A DOCUMENTARY LIFE OF HERMAN MELVILLE, 1819-1891
[MELVILLE, Herman] LEYDA, Jay
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1951).
Price: $100.00
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THE HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD, (BERKSHIRE COUNTY,) MASSACHUSETTS, FROM THE YEAR 1800 TO THE YEAR 1876
[MELVILLE, Herman] SMITH, J. E. A. (compiler)
Springfield: C. W. Bryan & Co., 1876.
Price: $750.00
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JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO LONDON AND THE CONTINENT 1849 - 1850
MELVILLE, Herman
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.
Price: $25.00
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JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS
MELVILLE, Herman
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922.
Price: $50.00
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JOURNAL UP THE STRAITS OCTOBER 11, 1856 - MAY 5, 1857
MELVILLE, Herman
New York: The Colophon, 1935.
Price: $100.00
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MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER
MELVILLE, Herman
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.
Price: $1,500.00
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OMOO: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS; BEING A SEQUEL TO THE "RESIDENCE IN THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS"
MELVILLE, Herman
London: John Murray, 1847.
Price: $850.00
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NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE bound with THE STORY OF TOBY, A SEQUEL TO "TYPEE," BY THE AUTHOR OF THAT WORK
MELVILLE, Herman
London: John Murray, 1846.
Price: $1,200.00
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NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE
MELVILLE, Herman
London: John Murray, 1846.
Price: $1,500.00
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BILLY BUDD [and] BENITO CERENO
MELVILLE, Herman
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965.
Price: $50.00
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PUTNAM'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE: Volume III, January - June 1854 containing "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles"
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1854.
Price: $125.00
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HARPER'S MONTHLY: Volumes I - V, June 1850 - November 1852. Includes "The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in Volume III: June - November 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 1852.
Price: $500.00
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. No. XVII: October 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
Price: $300.00
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Original publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; 864 pages. Illustrated with engravings. The first publication of any part of MOBY DICK. The eight-page excerpt is noted as being "From 'THE WHALE." The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley." Uncommon in the publisher's binding.
"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
Price: $250.00
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
Price: $250.00
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
(MELVILLE, Herman)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
Price: $400.00
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THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. Volumes 1 - 15
(HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel; WHITMAN, Walt; WHITTIER, John Greenleaf; BRYANT, William Cullen; LOWELL, James Russell; LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth; THOREAU, Henry David; POE, Edgar Allan; et. al.)
Washington DC: Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1838 - 1844; 1848.
Price: $2,500.00
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TRANSFORMATION: OR, THE ROMANCE OF MOUNT BENI (THE MARBLE FAUN)
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860.
Price: $250.00
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THE TOKEN AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT
[HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel] GOODRICH, S. E. (editor)
Boston: American Stationers' Company, 1838.
Price: $450.00
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SEPTIMIUS FELTON; OR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872.
Price: $175.00
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TWICE-TOLD TALES
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.
Price: $150.00
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THE SCARLET LETTER, A ROMANCE
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
Price: $750.00
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Octavo (5" x 7-1/2") in original gilt-decorated green cloth. A Grolier American 100 book. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank: "Harold C. Ernst/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell Holmes./August 7th 1888." Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from the author to Dr. Ernst dated 28 February 1891 thanking him for a lecture he sent to Holmes and asking Ernst to keep him informed of the progress in the new department in which he is involved. In full: "I am much obliged to you for your interesting Lecture which I sat down and read as soon as I received it. Therefore you should continue to keep us all informed from time to time of the progress making in this wonderful new department of science to which you are directing yourself." Holmes may be referring to a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine on 16 October 1890 when Ernst spoke on the rabies virus and vaccination. (Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux developed the first rabies vaccine in1885.) Apparently a copy that was once owned by Holmes himself as his bookplate is on the front pastedown. Laid in is a 1980 receipt from a bookseller selling each of these items separately for one hundred and fifty dollars each.
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888.
Price: $1,500.00
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An oval albumen photograph mounted on a cabinet card (4-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a 99 Boylston Street imprint on the verso and SIGNED at the bottom margin below the image: "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Boston, June 16th 1880." Also INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso: "To F. Bennock/With the best regards of/O.W. Holmes."
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: Notman, [@1880].
Price: $1,500.00
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On a (6-7/8" x 9") piece of pape rthe author has written the following seven-line stanza from one of his best known poems "The Chambered Nautilus": "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,/As the swift seasons roll!/Leave thy low-vaulted past!/Let each new temple, nobler than the last,/Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,/Till thou at length art free,/Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!" Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Boston, March 10th 1888." On the verso of the paper (though not on the exact reverse side of the poem, so that one could cut the paper and have two separate autographed pieces), is a brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Holmes to a Miss Wright: "It gives one pleasure to comply with our slight request. Pelase turn this leaf. Very truly yours OW Holmes. Boston, March 10th 1888."
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED and AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: 7 March 1878.
Price: $1,000.00
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On a small piece of paper (6-7/8" x 3-1/8") the author has written the following four lines from one of his poems: "From my north window in the wintry weather,/My airy oriel on the river shore,--/I watch the sea fowl as they flock together/Where late the boatman flashed his dipping oar." Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Boston March 7th 1878."
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: 7 March 1878.
Price: $600.00
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Small quarto (6" x 8-7/8") in original purple cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover., all edges gilt, 50 pages. Illustrated with a color map. A memorial to the Chief Medical Officer of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War in the form of an account of his activities during that time. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by C. H. Dalton to Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D. In addition the book is SIGNED on the verso of the front free endpaper by the recipient: "OW Holmes/Boston."
MEMORIAL OF EDWARD B. DALTON, M. D
[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
New York: n.p., 1872.
Price: $500.00
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Small octavo (3-1/4" x 5-5/8") in original flexible blue cloth. A Grolier American 100 book, this would be a run-of-the-mill copy but for the remarkable holograph additions by Holmes within. On the recto of the ad page before the title page announcing other titles by Holmes the author has handwritten the last and best known stanza of his famous poem "The Last Leaf"--"And if I should live to be/The last leaf upon the tree/In the spring,/Let them smile, as I do now,/At the old forsaken bough/Where I cling"--and SIGNED with his initials and the dates 1831 and 1890 corresponding to the date of authorship and the date of the inscription. There is some light feathering to the ink on some of the words which is likely why the poem is lightly striked with an x in pencil and written out AGAIN by Holmes on the light yellow front endpaper, again in ink, and SIGNED as before. In addition, on the front blank between the two pages with the holograph manuscript, the author has INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book: Dr. W. E. Rust/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell Holmes."
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890.
Price: $2,000.00
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Apparent Second Printing, Second State, binding C in original gilt-decorated olive cloth. BAL 9027. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to a minor author: "Miss Lilian Goadby/With the kind and/grateful regards of/Oliver Wendell Holmes/Boston, Nov. 28th 1890."
OVER THE TEACUPS
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1891.
Price: $350.00
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MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JUNE 29, 1870. WITH NOTES AND AFTERTHOUGHTS Inscribed to a former Speaker of the House
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871.
Price: $1,000.00
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MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JUNE 29, 1870. WITH NOTES AND AFTERTHOUGHTS
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871.
Price: $35.00
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THEY WHISPER
BUTLER, Robert Olen
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill, (1994).
Price: $150.00
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A BLOODSMOOR ROMANCE
OATES, Joyce Carol
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1982).
Price: $15.00
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ANONYMOUS SINS & OTHER POEMS
OATES, Joyce Carol
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1969).
Price: $100.00
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AN UNFINISHED WOMAN. A MEMOIR
HELLMAN, Lillian
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969).
Price: $15.00
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FEVRE DREAM
MARTIN, George R. R
New York: Poseidon Press, (1982).
Price: $35.00
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PRINCE OF DARKNESS AND OTHER STORIES
POWERS, J. F
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.
Price: $100.00
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TO AN EARLY GRAVE
MARKFIELD, Wallace
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964.
Price: $35.00
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GEORGE SAINTSBURY
[SAINTSBURY, George] WEBSTER, A. Blyth
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, [1933].
Price: $35.00
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A HISTORY OF CRITICISM AND LITERARY TASTE IN EUROPE FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO THE PRESENT DAY
SAINTSBURY, George
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900/1902/1904.
Price: $50.00
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A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL (TO THE CLOSE OF THE 19TH CENTURY)
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.
Price: $35.00
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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE RHYTHM
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922.
Price: $25.00
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ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1780 - 1860. SECOND SERIES
SAINTSBURY, George
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1895.
Price: $25.00
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ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1780 - 1860
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Percival and Co., 1890.
Price: $25.00
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SCEPTICISM AND ANIMAL FAITH. INTRODUCTION TO A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY
SANTAYANA, George
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
Price: $25.00
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REALMS OF BEING. ONE-VOLUME EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
SANTAYANA, George
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
Price: $25.00
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Beautifully bound by Maurin in 3/4 blue morocco and blue cloth with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, three raised bands, top edge gilt; xxiii, 918 pages.
POETICAL WORKS
SHELLEY, Percy (HUTCHINSON, Thomas: editor)
London: Oxford University Press, (1952).
Price: $250.00
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ELIA and THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA.
LAMB, Charles
London/New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
Price: $250.00
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ARCHIVE OF LETTERS: 21 pages
McCOURT, Frank
1983 - 1990.
Price: $7,500.00
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