UPDATED:
February 12, 2010
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most recent catalogue which was issued in early December.
 
The Iron King and
the Strangled Queen. By Maurice Druon. Published by Rupert
Hart-Davis, London, 1956. The Iron King is a 1st edition,
2nd printing and the Strangled Queen is a 1st edition, 1st
printing. These are the first two books in the Accursed Kings series. There
is a "Foyles" bookseller sticker on the inside front board of each
book but no other markings in the book. 269 pages and 213 pages. The
dust jackets have few markings on them but are otherwise in good condition
with the price, "15s net", unclipped on both jackets.

Oeuvres
Completes de Colette de l'Academie Goncourt. Paris, Le Fleruon,
1948-1950. In 15 volumes complete. Each volume
has a glassine cover over the soft paper cover. Some of the glassine
covers have pieces missing, but none of the covers themselves are chipped or
missing. The pages in each volume are mostly uncut. Limited first
collected edition of the works of Colette, number 2074 of 5500 copies. We
esitame the cost of mailing to Europe to be approximately $105 by International
Priority Mail.

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquee aux arts, principalement à
l'agriculture et à l'economie rurale et domestique. Par une societe de
naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirees des trois regnes de la
nature; Paris, 1803; 24 volumes. complete. Bookplate of The Duchesse de
Courland,
also known as the Duchess de Dino. The Duchess de Dino was the wife of
Talleyrand's
nephew and she was also Talleyrand's Mistress. $1,750.00.

The Collected Works of George Moore; New York, Boni and Liveright, 1922;
the Carra Edition. 20 volumes complete. This edition consists of
1000 numbered sets. The first volume is numbered and signed by the
author. This set is numbered 475 of the 1000. There are 20 volumes
and the last volume states that, although originally planned as a 21 volume set,
volume 20 is the final volume. Cloth boards with dust jackets.
$1,000.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Macmillan, 1903. Copyright page states
"First Edition Sixpenny Series published 1898. Reprinted, 1899
(twice), 1900, 1902, 1903." Full leather, prize binding with insignia
of Kimbolton School in gilt. Contains 42 illustrations by John
Tenniel. $150.00.

Ah, Wilderness! New York, Random House, 1933. Edition limited
to 325 copies (this is copy No. 5) on all-rag paper and signed by Eugene
O'Neill. Full blue leather with two lettering pieces on spine.
$200.00.

The Complete Works of Tolstoy; Boston, Dana Estes, 1904; The
Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Volumes I through XXIV are translated from the
Original Russian and Edited by Leo Weiner and are consecutively numbered.. The
final four unnumbered volumes are Tolstoy’s posthumous works with three edited
by Hagberg Wright (The Light that Shines in the Darkness; Father Sergius; The
Forged Coupon) and Hadji Mura translated by Aylmer Maude. Blue cloth with gilt
design and spines and gily signature on front board; TEG. $1,250.00
 
SALESMAN'S SAMPLE of Billy Sunday: The Man and His
Times. Includes a complete copy of the book as well as the
salesman's version. $175 for both.
    
SALESMAN'S COPY OF FIVE BOOKS;
The Little One' 'Christmas Primer; Bible Stories for Children; The Little Folks'
Speaker; The Home library of Useful Knowledge and Handy Business Manual; perfect
health and Beauty for Parents and Children. All five bound in one
black cloth holder. $250.00.

ANDY BLAKE'S COMET COASTER; by Leo Edwards; Grosset
& Dunlap; 1928. With dust jacket. Inside of dust jacket lists only Andy
Blake and Andy Blake's Comet Coaster in this series. Red cloth boards clean with
clean gilt lettering. Inscription dated "Merry Xmas 1928." $175.00

RARE. Eighty-five non-consecutive issues of
The Observator, a periodical written by Roger L'Estrange, bound in 19 th Century
calf, the dates span Dec. 3, 1681 to July 4, 1685. The Observator was issued as
a single, folio-size leaf, printed on both sides, and published from 1681-1687.
Fifty-four of the issues (Dec. 1681- Jan. 1684) were published by Joanna Brome.
L'Estrange was an outspoken Royalist, prominent journalist, translator of some
Greek and Latin classics, and at certain periods exerted considerable control,
via censorship, over the English press.
Dec. 3, 1681 #77 trimmed to edge of text; Feb. 4, 1681 #96; Mar. 10, 1681
#109; Mar. 25, 1681 #115; Apr. 19, 1682 #124; July 12, 1682 #169; July 13, 1682
#170; Dec. 23, 1682 #263; Dec. 27, 1682 #264; Dec. 30, 1682 #265; Jan. 3, 1682
#267; Jan. 6, 1682 #268; Jan. 10, 1682 #269; Jan. 15, 1682 #277; Feb. 24, 1682
#294; Feb. 28, 1682 #296; Mar. 21, 1682 #306; Feb. 16, 1683 #16 two holes, 1-2
cm.; Feb. 17, 1683 #18; Apr. 14, 1683 #319; Apr. 26, 1683 #327; Apr. 30, 1683
#330; May 2, 1683 #331; May 3, 1683 #332; July 14, 1683 #374; July 21, 1683
#378; July 23, 1683 #379; Aug. 11, 1683 #385; Aug. 23, 1683 #391; Aug. 24, 1683
#392; Aug. 27, 1683 #393; Aug. 29, 1683 #394; Sept. 5, 1683 #398; Sept. 6, 1683
#399; Sept. 8, 1683 #400;Sept. 10, 1683 #401; Oct. 20, 1683 #423; Oct. 22, 1683
#424; Oct. 25, 1683 #426; Nov. 1, 1683 #430; Nov. 3, 1683 #431; Nov. 5, 1683
#432; Nov. 8, 1683 #434; Nov. 28, 1683 #445; June 2, 1683 #349;Dec. 6, 1683
#451; Dec. 10, 1683 #453; Dec. 12, 1683 #454; Dec. 15, 1683 #456; Dec. 27, 1683
#463; Dec. 29, 1683 #464; Dec. 31, 1683 #465; Jan. 2, 1684 #466; Jan. 3, 1684
#467; May 21, 1684; #65; June 9, 1684 #77; July 10, 1684 #95; July 12, 1684 #96;
July 21, 1684 #101; Aug. 7, 1684 #111; Aug. 9, 1684 #112; Aug. 16, 1684 #116;
Sept. 8, 1684 #129; Sept. 27, 1684 #140; Oct. 20, 1684 #153; Oct. 29, 1684 #158;
Oct. 30, 1684 #159; Nov. 1, 1684 #160; Nov. 8, 1684; #164Nov. 12, 1684 #166;
Dec. 3, 1684 #177; Dec. 20, 1684 #187; Dec. 22, 1684 #188; Dec. 29, 1684 #191;
Dec. 31, 1684 #192; Jan. 12, 1684/5 #199 ; Jan. 19, 1684/5 #203; Mar. 26, 1685
#21; Mar. 30, 1685 #23; Apr. 29, 1685 #35; May 2, 1685 #36May 4, 1685 #37June
29, 1685 #52June 1, 1685 #53 July 4, 1685 #54. $900.00
Rare
1st edition of 12 graceful
etchings by Renee Sintenis illustrate works of the Greek poetess, Sappho, in
this 1921 limited edition. It
contains twenty-two poems or fragments, elegantly etched in Greek by her
husband, E. R. Weiss. Signed by
both Sintenis and Weiss, it is #178 of 185 copies printed on hand-made Dutch
Butten paper. Printed by Alfred
Ruckenbrod,
Berlin
. In worn and torn dust-jacket .
$500.
Dibdin's
Library Companion; 2nd edition; 1825; London, Hardiing, Triphook et al.
Full contemporary leather. With manuscript letter inserted from Lord
Spencer (John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer 1792-1845), the founder of the Althorpe
Library where Dibdin spent many hours researching. $550
Rare 1st edition of A History
of the New York Stage From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by
T. Allston Brown; Dodd, Mead and Company; 1903; Limited to 358 copies this
copy being No. 82. (see photograph). Three volumes, Vol. 1523 pp.;
Vol. 2652 pp.; Vol. 3 671 pp. including index; top edges gilt (see
photograph).Paper labels on spine (see photograph); some spotting to front and
rear boards (see photographs); pages clean (see photograph); sines tight.
Each volume contains an inscription
from Louise Arzula Sully, who was married to Daniel Sully, the main clown in the
Humpty Dumpty Circus, and noted in the index to these volumes.
We could find no 1st editions on
line for sale and only two copies of the 1964 repri nt.
$500
Lures - The Guide to Sport Fishing; Keith S, Schuyler; The
Stackpole Co, PA., 1955. Three-quarter leather; raised bands. $50.00
  
The Fly-Fishers Entomology
- Trout and Grayling
Fishing; Alfred Ronalds; London, Longmans, Green; 1877; eighth
edition; with 20 color plates (all present). $375.00 SOLD
 
A Handbook of the Order Lepidoptera; Lloyd's natural History; W.F.
Kirby, F.L.S.; London, Edward Lloyd, Ltd. 1896; 5 volumes with 158 color plates
(all present); spines sunned. $595.00
Heinrich Schliemann; TIRYNS; TROY AND ITS REMAINS; TROJA; ILIOS; MYCENAE.
Arno Press, NY, reprinted in 1976. All 5 volumes in matching orange-brown
cloth covers with black & gilt print on spines. All 5 volumes $200.00.
We hate to sell this one - it will be hard to replace!
P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster In The Great Sermon Handicap
in 91 languages in 6 volumes. Heineman, Inc., NY, 1993; illustrated
by William Hewison. All 6 volumes with dust jackets and al in near perfect
condition. All 6 volumes for $100.00. This is an unusual set too -
for the Jeeves fan who thinks he already has seen it all! SOLD
FIRST
EDITION OF JOHN BROWN'S BODY - NO. 66 OF 201; SIGNED BY STEPHEN
VINCENT BENET; Doubleday Doran, 1928, with slip case. $1,000.00
 
Souvenirs
Entomologiques; J.-H. Fabre; "Edition Illustre" 10 volumes
complete; three-quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers; Paris,
Delagrave, 1925. Does not include the Supplemental volume on the Life of
Fabre. $1,000.00.
The History of
Don Quixote de la Mancha; Cervantes; translated by Thomas Shelton.
Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey
Darton. Limited edition printed by the Navarre Society, 1923. Two
volumes; illustrated with two portraits and 20 plates; all plates present with
tissue guards, top edges gilt. $200.00.
The Writings of George Washington; edited by Jared Sparkes, Little,
Brown & Co., 1858. 12 volumes, 3/4 leather with marbled boards,
endpapers and edges. A lovely and unusual set. $500.00. SOLD
 
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge;
New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. Green cloth. Inscribed
by Calvin Coolidge: "To the Grandson of Mrs. Al. C. Blodget
With Best Wishes Calvin Coolidge." $1,000.00
In Darkest Africa
or the Quest,
Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. Stanley.
New York, Scribner's and Toronto, Presbyterian News Co., 1890. Printed and
bound by James Murray and Co., Toronto. Three-quarter calf with marbled
boards, endpapers and edges. Two volumes with all three color maps present
in pockets in the rear of each volume. $375.00
Platonis Dialogi [Plato]; Reimer,
Oxford or Berlin, 1816-1823; Edited by Bekker; 10 volumes in Latin and Greek;
consisting of 8 volumes of Plato's Work and 2 volumes of commentaries.
Half leather, spine gilt, with red and black lettering pieces, marbled boards,
newly rebacked preserving original backstrips. $750.00.
  
Aelian; Variae Historiae Libri XIII; Johannes
Tornaesium, Frankfort, 1604; Greek and Latin. Newly recovered in
half-calf with paper boards, raised bands, 2 lettering pieces, gilt spine.
$500.00.
 
SYRIAC BIBLE -
New Testament in Syrian
(1663) plus Syriac Lexicon (1667). Hamburg, 1663, 1667. Vellum with
all edges gilt. $1,000.00.
 
EUSEBIUS; Ecclesiastical History and The
Life of Constantine in 6 Books; Henry Valesius. Greek and Latin.
Folio, Mainz, 1672. 18th Century tree-calf; gilt emblem of the City of Delft on
both front and rear boards; 6 raised bands. $500.00.
 
LUCRETIUS - The nature of Things; edited by
John Mason Good. London, Longman, et al., 1804. Two volumes, large
Quarto, half-leather, marbled boards and endpapers. $450.00.
JOSEPHUS- Opera Omnia. Edited by
Havercamp. Schwickert, 1782, 1783, 1784. Three volumes, half calf,
blue lettering pieces. In Greek and Latin. $400.00.
The Works of Tobias Smollett,
8 volumes, London, Law, Johnson, and Dilly, et al., 1797. Zaehnsdorf
binding, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Two boards re-attached.
Beautiful binding. $750.00
Baron Jomini's Life of Napoleon; D. Van
Nostrand, N. Y., 1864. Hard Bound. First American Edition. 10" x
6.75". Five volumes: Translation & notes by H. W. Halleck. Scarce
with Atlas; from the Library of The Commandery of the State of Illinois; Inscribed
by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General. $1,250.00
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10 volume set of the Complete Works of John Locke;
London, Tegg et al., 1823. Library binding with usual markings.
Hard to find. $950.00
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Euripides
Fabulae; Sophoclis Fabulae; 3 volumes uniformly bound in half-leather with
marbled endpapers; Clarendon Press, Oxford, ca. 1950. Two volumes
of Euripides, by Gilbert Murray; one volume of Sophoclis by A.C. Pearson;
top edges gilt. Text in Greek with Latin notes. All 3 volumes
$175.00
 An
Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages - Containing an
Examination of M. Raynouard's Theory on the Relation of the Italian, Spanish,
Provencal, and French to Latin; Sir George Cornewall Lewis; 2nd edition;
1862, Parker and on, London. Beautiful prize binding, marbled endpapers,
all edges gilt. $150.00
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A Rare and Remarkable Complete Set of "The
Bibelot"
Published
between 1895 and 1914 by Thomas Mosher in 21 volumes. The
Bibelot was a yearly literary anthology. It is in perfect
condition with dust jackets and book boxes. $750.00
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