[Rarebooks] FS: SOME GOOD OLD STUFF

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Tue Aug 30 17:37:23 EDT 2011


These are the original hardbound first editions, in very good or better condition unless, otherwise 
described:  Prices are $7.50 each except as noted. Former owners’ names not noted unless of interest:

[SHEPHERD, R.H.]  TENNYSONIANA. 2nd EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.  London, 1879. 

STEPHEN, LESLIE.   AN AGNOSTIC’S APOLOGY ...   London, 1893. 

TEAL,  ANGELINE.   JOHN THORN’S FOLKS, A STUDY OF WESTERN LIFE. Boston, 1884.  Wright III-5387.
Indiana author; first novel. 

ANON.  AN INQUIRY INTO THE TEACHING OF HOLY SCRIPTURE CONCERNING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MAN AND SPIRITS ... St. Louis: Chas. B. Cox, Office of The Truth, n.d., [187- ??]  Preface by Wm. R. Nicholson. Spiritualism.
Not in OCLC ?  $15.00

BINYON, LAURENCE.  THE NEW WORLD. POEMS.  London, 1918. Orig. wraps. (Guns at the Front, Oxford in Wartime, &c.)

HARE, AUGUSTUS A. C.   RECORDS OF A QUIET LIFE. REVISED FOR AMERICAN READERS BY WM. L. GAGE.  Boston, 
1873.  Printed sheet laid in, rules for Coomes’s [Lending] Library, London.  $5.00

[COMBE, WM.]  THE DANCE OF LIFE ... DR. SYNTAX. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS BY THOS. 
ROWLANDSON. A NEW EDITION.    N. Y., 1903.  

SANDERSON, JOHN.  THE AMERICAN IN PARIS. [2 VOLUMES IN ONE].  THIRD EDITION.  Phila., 1847.  Half calf.
Thomas Balch’s copy, (who was An American student in Paris.)

C. T. LOO & CO.  AN EXHIBITION OF CHINESE BRONZES.   N.Y., 1939.  Thin 4to. SIGNED inscription by Loo to
Florence Waterbury, N.Y.C.  Many plates.  Catalog by J. L. Davidson.  Slight wear.  $15.00

WELLS, H. G.  IMPERIALISM AND THE OPEN CONSPIRACY.  London, (1929). Orig wraps, some wear. $5.00

HARDY, THOS.  OLD MRS. CHUNDLE, A SHORT STORY.  N.Y., 1929.  1/750 copies. Purdy p.267. Not printed
in Hardy’s lifetime. $15.00

ASHBY-STERRY, J.  CUCUMBER CHRONICLES ...   London, 1887.  SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title.  Illus. of 
Hogarth’s house, &c. 

MUNRO, H.H., (“SAKI”).  THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON.  London, &c, 1912.  Collector’s bookplate.
Light spine wear. 

PAINE, GEO. T.  A DENIAL OF THE CHARGES OF FORGERY ... THE SACHEMS’ DEED TO ROGER WILLIAMS.
(Providence, 1896.)  Orig. wraps.  1/250 copies.  Foldout facsimiles. $15.00

ELIOT, SAMUEL A.  REPORT UPON CONDITIONS AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST.
Washington, 1915.  Orig. wraps.  $15.00

A LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE MARION PRESS ... 1896-1906.  1907.  1/750 copies. Orig. front wrap,                              some wear, rear wrapper gone.  

BARKER.  THE GREAT LEVIATHAN.  London: John Lane, 1920.  Spine faded. Scarce: only 2 copies in OCLC.

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