Issue Devoted to Howells. THE BOOK NEWS MONTHLY, June 1908
Philadelphia: John Wanamaker. Photos. Original wraps. Includes a number of photos of Howells as well as a poem by him.
Philadelphia: John Wanamaker. Photos. Original wraps. Includes a number of photos of Howells as well as a poem by him.
Boston: 30 November 1884. Letter. One-page brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "W. D. Howells" to Mr. Cary submitting an "Open Letter" (not present) and asking to see a proof.
[New York]: 25 March 1912. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "W. D. Howells" to Mr. Barton, concerning his brother working at the Government Printing Office and forwarding his "best photograph." The silver print photograph is of Howells seated at a desk with pen in hand and measures 6-3/8" x 8-1/8".....
n.p. 1919. Manuscript. A handwritten poem on a 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" sheet of paper SIGNED "W. D. Howells" at the conclusion with the dates 1895 and 1919. The eight-line poem was first published in the book STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS in 1895. Before Him weltered like a shoreless sea The.....
Tarrytown: 31 December 1836. Letter. Interesting three-page letter by the creator of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on a 16" x 10" sheet of paper folded in half and SIGNED at the conclusion "Washington Irving" to his nephew the Rev. Pierre Irving, author of THE LIFE.....
New York: Heritage Press, (1939). hardcover. An original publication by the press. Illustrated with watercolors by Gordon Ross.
New York: Putnam's, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. The second printing with the frontispiece and vignette title inserted, in the primary cloth binding. Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece. BAL 10188. Chapters on Bermuda, France, various Native American tribes, Malta, the Mississippi Bubble scheme, etc.
New York: I. Riley and Co, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Three octavo volumes in contemporary calf leather with black leather spine labels. "Translated by an American Gentleman," who happens to be Washington Irving, and this happens to be his first book. His translation was in collaboration with his brother, Peter.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Gustave Nebel. Hardcover. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Gustave Nebel. Hardcover. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Gustave Nebel. Hardcover. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Colleen Browning. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound in buckram-backed marbled boards. Printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press, Baltimore. Introduction by R. W. Stallman. Copy #887 of 1500 with pastel illustrations by Colleen Browning and SIGNED by the illustrator on the.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Colleen Browning. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound in buckram-backed marbled boards. Printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press, Baltimore. Introduction by R. W. Stallman. Copy #894 of 1500 with pastel illustrations by Colleen Browning and SIGNED by the illustrator on the.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Lawrence Beall Smith. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in imported black hand-boarded natural-grain morocco stamped in gold leaf with sides covered with striated smokey-beige satin; 242 pages. Copy #877 of 1500 copies illustrated with 10 full-page and 10 part-page drawings by Lawrence.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Lawrence Beall Smith. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in imported black hand-boarded natural-grain morocco stamped in gold leaf with sides covered with striated smokey-beige satin; 242 pages. One of 1500 copies, this out-of-series and not numbered, illustrated with 10 full-page and 10.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Alice Barber Stephens. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. BAL 10667. Among the other authors who contribute a chapter to this most curious book are W. D. Howells (BAL 9790), Mary W. Freeman (BAL 6389), and John Kendrick Bangs (BAL 779). Illustrations by.....
London: Brimley Johnson & Ince, Ltd., 1906. Hardcover. First published in 1905. Henry James's copy, SIGNED and dated 1906 by him on the front free endpaper:. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was a British author, historian, and political activist. E. M. Forster, his literary executor, was criticized for refraining from publishing details.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with an attractive color cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black-and-white plates. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Henry James on the front blank: "To Rosamond Gregor/her affectionate old friend,/Henry James/New Years Day/1911."
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Small bookplate of Arthur Sherwell on pastedown. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown and mustard boards. Uncommon early book on Whitman.
Menasha, WI: Limited Editions Club, 1942. John Steuart Curry. hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in full butternut muslin with a gold-stamped reddish brown leather spine label, 320 pages. Introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren; designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by John Steuart Curry. Of.....
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1889/1891. Hardcover. Eleven octavo (5" x 7-7/8") volumes, illustrated with frontispieces and bound in 1/2 brown polished calf leather and marbled boards with matching corners and endpapers and elegantly gilt-decorated and lettered spines. Consists of six volumes of the POETICAL WORKS, two volumes of.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. First British Edition. Hardcover. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth with black stamping. State 1. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand.....
Cambridge: 29 November 1864. Letter. Interesting 1-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 7-3/4" x 6" sheet of paper, folded once, to Miss Smith. In full: "I return with many thanks the documents you were kind enough to send me - a charming poem and two very clever.....
Cambridge: 7 November 1869. Letter. A 3-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Mrs. Lawrence" on his stay in Florence. In part: "Friday is certainly an unlucky day; for on Friday I called at your hotel and was so unfortunate.....