THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL
New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., (1871). Thomas Nast. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.
19th Century American Literature
KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON
Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Owner inscription dated September 25, two days after the Library of Congress copy was deposited. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER.....
KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON
Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Walter Merriam Pratt on the front pastedown.
THE MOST REMARKABLE ECHO IN THE WORLD
[Hastings-on-Hudson, New York]: Privately Printed, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. The author's attempt to prove that Clemens was not only Mark Twain but also Lewis Carroll and others. Profusely illustrated.
TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1941. William Sharp. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in black cloth with silver lettering and decoration. Printed at the Garamond Press. Preface by Vincent Starrett. Copy #323 of 1500 illustrated with sixteen aquatints by William Sharp and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon.....
Limited Editions Club
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Alice Neel. Hardcover. Tall folio (11-1/2" x 15-1/2") bound in red goatskin and marbled boards. Illustrated with an etching and two lithographs by Alice Neel who died shortly before publication of the book. Copy #992 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by Raphael Soyer who.....
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XIX: June 1841 - December 1841
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with steel engravings and 6 color plates. First appearance in print of several Poe works: “A Few Words on Secret Writing” (not in the index); “A Chapter on Autography”; “The Colloquy of Monos.....
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXII: January 1843-June 1843
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners and a gilt-lettered red morocco label with the owner's name on the front cover. Illustrated with 19 steel engravings, 2 of which are hand-colored. Illustrations include fashion plates as well as a portrait of.....
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXIII: June 1843-January 1844
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners and a gilt-lettered red morocco label with the owner's name on the front cover. Illustrated with 20 steel engravings, 4 of which are hand-colored. Illustrations include fashion plates as well as a portrait of.....
"The Mask of the Red Death," "Life in Death," and four other pieces in GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vols. XX & XXI: Jan. 1842-Dec. 1842
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's gilt-lettered brown morocco leather and boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings and 7 color plates (5 fashion plates). First appearance in print of these six Poe works: “The Mask of The Red.....
"The Philosophy of Composition" and "Marginalia" in GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXVIII: January 1846-June 1846
Philadelphia: George R. Graham & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's black morocco-backed embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Two pieces by Poe, also with contributions by Ann S. Stephens and James Russell Lowell, as well as a review of Melville's first book. Illustrated with 10.....
THE PURLOINED LETTER in THE GIFT: A CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR, AND BIRTHDAY PRESENT 1845
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Original highly gilt-decorated polished calf, a lovely publisher's gift binding. BAL 4024 & 16143. The first appearance in print of this classic Poe piece collected the same year in his TALES. Other first appearances include Longfellow (BAL 12074) and Emerson (BAL 5202).....
WILLIAM WILSON in THE GIFT: A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT FOR 1840
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, (1839). First Edition. Hardcover. Original embossed black morocco with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated title page and 7 (of 8) steel engravings with tissue guards by various artists. BAL 992 and 16130. The first appearance in print of this important story by Poe.
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU 1524-1550
Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in full Mexican marbled sheepskin leather with matching red morocco spine labels stamped in gold. Illustrated with attractive color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson with the color applied in Mexico City. Copy #844 of.....
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU 1524-1550
Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in full Mexican marbled sheepskin leather with matching red morocco spine labels stamped in gold. Illustrated with attractive color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson with the color applied in Mexico City. Copy #120 of.....
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU 1524-1550
Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in full Mexican marbled sheepskin leather with matching red morocco spine labels stamped in gold. Illustrated with attractive color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson with the color applied in Mexico City. Copy #1175 of.....
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU 1524-1550
Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in full Mexican marbled sheepskin leather with matching red morocco spine labels stamped in gold. Illustrated with attractive color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson with the color applied in Mexico City. Copy #323 of.....
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU 1524-1550
Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Everett Gee Jackson. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in full Mexican marbled sheepskin leather with matching red morocco spine labels stamped in gold. Illustrated with attractive color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson with the color applied in Mexico City. Copy #39 of.....
THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lima de Freitas. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in full cowhide leather, dyed a light tan and worked over backbone hubs and heavy boards with the title stamped in gold leaf on red skiver labels and the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand and Isabella.....
THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lima de Freitas. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in full cowhide leather, dyed a light tan and worked over backbone hubs and heavy boards with the title stamped in gold leaf on red skiver labels and the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand and Isabella.....
THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lima de Freitas. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in full cowhide leather, dyed a light tan and worked over backbone hubs and heavy boards with the title stamped in gold leaf on red skiver labels and the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand and Isabella.....
THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Lima de Freitas. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in full cowhide leather, dyed a light tan and worked over backbone hubs and heavy boards with the title stamped in gold leaf on red skiver labels and the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand and Isabella.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Indianapolis: 8 April 1881. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with his initials on 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" Indianapolis THE JOURNAL stationery to Charles T. Scott. In full: "Your letter and contents is here--the letter before me, and the latter in my pocket, where, I'm sorry to say, it can't.....
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
Framed Photograph. Scarce 5-3/8" x 7-7/8" original photograph of Riley matted and framed some time ago to an overall size of 10-3/4" x 13-1/4". Fine portrait of the bespectacled Indiana state treasure SIGNED "Yours truly, James Whitcomb Riley" at the base of the photograph, the signature very slightly covered by.....
LIFE AND SAYINGS OF MRS. PARTINGTON AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY
New York/Boston: J. C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of.....