STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Brick cloth. BAL 7390: an early copy.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Brick cloth. BAL 7390: an early copy.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheill, Baital, Pachisi, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. Blue-green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gilt. BAL 7912. First issue of author's first book, preceded by a translation. Housed in a half.....
New York: Heritage Press, (1943). Hugo Steiner-Prag. Decorated cloth.
London & Edinburgh: John Murray and William Blackwood, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9-1/8") bound in later 3/4 burgundy morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Complete with half-title page. Dedicated, in verse, to Lord Byron. Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist. William Wordsworth's 1835 "Extempore.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 8757: State A, Binding A of original glazed boards: 2500 copies.
6 February 1892. Manuscript. On a small (4-1/8" x 2-7/8") piece of paper Holmes has written the third stanza of "Song. For A Temperance Dinner" and dated and SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" below. Alas for the loved one, too spotless and fair The joys of his banquet to.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 8781: Printing 2, Binding C of original brown cloth, no rings. The sheets measure 7-1/2 x 4-3/4, which falls between the paper size of the regular issue and the large paper issue. One of the Grolier 100 Influential American Books.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. With engraved title and eight plates. BAL 8781: Binding A, brown cloth with all first issue points. A Grolier American 100 book. Former owner inscription in pencil "Compliments of G. Y.(?) J." dated "Boston Nov. 14--1858." The earliest dated.....
New York: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870. Gustav Dore. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tall folio (12" x 16") in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Complete with 9 full-page steel engravings by Gustav Dore.
Photograph. A fairly large image (7-1/4" x 9-1/4") mounted on 10" x 13" stiff board with the photographer's stamp at the bottom center "Alman & Co./436 Fifth Ave., N.Y./and Newport, R.I." depicting an elderly Howe holding a baby and surrounded by three family members including her two daughters who wrote.....
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.
London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Five quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in publisher's green cloth with printed paper spine labels. According to the title page, "with illustrations from designs by De Neuville, Bayard, Morin, Valnay, and other eminent French artists." Text.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. First American Edition. Hardcover. White cloth and green decorated boards. Translated from the Norwegian by Henrietta Frances Lord. Includes a biography of Ibsen.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. First British Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-lettered vellum. Translated from the Norwegian by William Archer. Copy #8 of only 115 SIGNED by the publisher. Lesbian actress/writer Eva La Gallienne's copy with her bookplate on the front pastedown which incorporates on the border two lines of dialogue from.....
Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Per Krough. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. Copy #844 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with.....
Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Per Krough. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4 x 10-1/2") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer with a long introduction by William Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. Copy.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Leslie Saalburg. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Leslie Saalburg. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Leslie Saalburg. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in.....
New York: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra-cotta (described by Edel as rust-brown) cloth with the spine imprint of J.R. Osgood & Co. BAL 10530: "1578 copies printed April 21, 1875. Copies were being bound as late as 1882. Copies of the frist printing were.....
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.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1966. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Large octavo (6- 1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red cowhide leather and black linen with a gold embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction and notes by Aileen Ward and designed by.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1966. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Large octavo (6- 1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red cowhide leather and black linen with a gold embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction and notes by Aileen Ward and designed by.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1966. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Large octavo (6- 1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red cowhide leather and black linen with a gold embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction and notes by Aileen Ward and designed by.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1966. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Large octavo (6- 1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red cowhide leather and black linen with a gold embossed portait of the poet in the center of the front cover. Selected with an introduction and notes by Aileen Ward and designed by.....