[Rarebooks] FS: Two interesting 19th Century titles including poetry, cats, ballooning, and snake eating

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $100   Now  $75:

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. IN MEMORIAM AS WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 
MDCCCXLIX. London: Bankside Press, (1900). Gilt-stamped white cloth. 
Copy #104 of 500 printed in orange and black with rubricated intials 
from designs by Blanche McManus. Given in honor of a young man who died 
at the age of 24 in 1900 as noted on the half-title page. Some soiling. 
Very Good copy of this nicely printed edition. (#012434)        $75.00
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Price reduced:    Was $125   Now  $75:

CLARK, Willis Gaylord (CLARK, Lewis Gaylord; editor). THE LITERARY 
REMAINS OF THE LATE WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK. INCLUDING THE OLLAPODIANA 
PAPERS, THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, AND A SELECTION FROM THE VARIOUS PROSE AND 
POETICAL WRITINGS. New York: Burgess, Stringer, & Co., 1844. First 
Edition. BAL 3282. The clothbound issue rebound in contemporary half 
black morocco. Edited by the Philadelphia journalist Clark's twin 
brother and co-editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine, Lewis, predating 
Lewis's first book by eight years. Includes articles on cats, snake 
eating, ballooning, and observations of life in general: "It is 
astonishing how many stupid people you meet in society; fellows with 
brains in their purses, who will talk you an infinite deal of nothing, 
and thus beget a reputation of being remarkably fluent and agreeable 
persons.... A great many young men imagine that any thing can be said to 
a woman in the way of nonsense, and relished to boot." This a sampling 
from just one of the 480 pages. Gordon-Nash 1895 library bookplate, 
pocket, and blindstamps. Some foxing. Very Good. (#004000)        $75.00

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