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Barrie, J. M.
Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hatherell, William. 1896. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $130. A Very Good copy of the first American
edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown cloth with the
front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and with the front
board also decorted in green, such decoration having been designed by the
famed Margaret Armstrong (whose initials appear near the illustrations
bottom right corner. Within, the book presents a frontispiece and ten (10)
additional illustrations by British Painter and Illustrator William
Hatherell. The binding is somewhat askew and the spine ends and board
corners show some modest wear. A Very Good copy. Very good. Item #3433

Price: $30.00


Knox, William
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?

Boston; New York: Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham, 1877. Humphrey,
L. B. First Edition. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $350. A Very Good
or better copy of the first edition, first printing, bound in the
Publisher's original purple cloth and wears in a good example of the dust
jacket. The volume contains a noted Poem by William Knox which focuses on
Mortality and which is said to have been Abraham Lincoln's favorite Poem.
Of the Poem Lincoln once stated: "". Lincoln's own handwritten (by him)
copy of the Poem is held by the Western Heritage Museum at the University
of Oklahoma. So often did Lincoln recited the Poem from memory that many
hearing him thought that it was his own Poem. Of the Poem, Lincoln (in
1846) himself stated: "I would give all I am worth and go into debt to be
able to write so fine a piece as I think that is." Having been protected by
the QUITE SCARCE DUST JACKET, the volume's binding is in Very Good or
better condition, and, while showing some wear to the spine ends and
leading board corners, remains in a bright and clean condition. The dust
jacket itself shows wear and spotting and a gift note written in pencil to
the front panel. The front flap, although detached, remains loosely laid
in. Within, the front and rear end papers show moderate foxing. The tissue
guard to the decorative half title page is heavily foxed (and a small piece
from the tissue guard has been torn off) and such half-title page shows
less, foxing. The title page and the text itself shows only minor foxing.
The volume's spine is lettered and banded in gilt and the front board is
attractively decorated in gilt and black and, in that it retains its dust
jacket, it remains a REMARKABLE COPY. Very good + / good. Item #3407

Price: $75.00


[No Author Stated]
Greeters' Guide to Washington ["See America First" Begin with the Nation's
Capital]

Washington DC: Hotel Greeters of America, 1928. First Edition. Wrappers.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $95. A Near Fine copy of the (presumed) first
edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original staple-bound wrappers
lettered and decorated in blue (tiny tear the front wrapper's top edge
mended with a tiny piece of tape to that wrapper's verso, tiny push to the
rear wrapper which affects the adjoining map and the last few leaves of the
booklet -- diminishing as it goes). A fold-out street map of Washington DC
is affixed at the end of the booklet and, but for the aforementioned push,
is in Fine condition with no tears. Interestingly, the map bears a header
reading: "Reach every point of interest on this quickly, comfortably and
cheaply on the cars and buses of THE WASHINGTON RAILWAY & ELECTRIC CO." and
shows the route of the electric train and of the buses in green along the
streets. [The Washington Railway and Electric Co. An excellent example of
this ephemeral advertisement for America's Capital, most copies of which
likely were discarded after use. SCARCE. Near fine. Item #3359

Price: $20.00


Garland, Hamlin [Garland, Hannibal Hamlin; Garland, Constance [Illustrator]
Trail-Makers of the Middle Border

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Garland, Constance. First
Edition. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $175. A Fine copy of the first edition, first
printing, in a Fine dust jacket, of this notable work by American novelist,
poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher
Hamlin Garland. While this is the third of Garland's four-book series of
books depicting life in the American Midwest, it is the first
chronologically. The volume shows a bit of the scattered light spots common
to this title, and the dust jacket shows only a bit of wear and tear.
Jacketed copies of the first edition in a condition as nice as is this one
are rather uncommon to the market. Fine / fine. Item #3261

Price: $40.00
Ringletub, Jeremiah [Cunningham, J. W.; Cunningham, John William]
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, In a Series of Letters to My Brother
Jonathan, Who lives in the Country By Jeremiah Ringletub

London: 1815. Later Printing. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $80. An
about Very Good copy of this later later printing of this work bound in
full calf with each board decorated elegantly in gilt with the spine
lettered and decorated in gilt. The volume shows general wear, one section
of the early pages is sprung but is holding well, the marbled edges of the
closed page block are darkened, and the upper joint and hinge to each board
is cracked open. The front pastedown hosts a small bookseller label as well
as the remnants of a larger label earlier removed. The title page states:
"Printed by J. Dennett, Leather Lane, Holburn; / FOR WILLIAMS AND SON,
STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET: // BURTON AND BRIGGS, LEADENHALL STREET;
AND // T. HAMILTON, PATERNOSTER ROAD". John William Cunningham was an
evangelical clergyman of The Church of England, a writer, and was the
editor of the Christian Observer from 1850 to 1858. "The Velvet Cushion",
first published in 1814, was a fictional memoir about the Church of England
as told by a vicarage cushion and gave an account of the parties in the
church of England since the English Reformation from the evangelical point
of view. The book was so successful it was promptly reprinted, with the
tenth edition being printed in 1816. While the book states the author as
Jeremiah Ringletub, the work was written by John William Cunningham, an
evangelical clergyman of the Church of England. With some frequency, the
book is wrongly attributed to John Styles, whose name was written in pencil
on the title page by a former seller. However, Styles was an English
Congregational minister and animal rights writer who disliked Cunningham's
work and who, in response, in 1815 published his own satirical response
titled "A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion". A Very Good copy of this
work which is somewhat uncommon to the market. About Very Good. Item #3353

Price: $20.00


Scott, Sir Walter; Castellon, Federico [Illustrator]; Chubb, Thomas
Caldecot [Introduction]
The Talisman

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, No Date [Copyright 1976]. First
Thus. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $75. An Fine, tight, and unread copy of the Easton
Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's brown leather with the spine
and each board lettered and decorated in gilt. The leaves are printed on
archival paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is
moire fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the
volume contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's
Collector's Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, with a
frontispiece and also with and multiple additional illustrations by
Federico Castellon. The half title's recto hosts the standard Easton Press
bookplate with the prior owner's name obscured by white tape. A Fine, tight
and unread copy in an elegant binding set at the end of the third Crusade.
Fine. Item #3400

Price: $20.00


Shields, Carol
The Orange Fish [SIGNED]

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $75. A Fine copy of the first edition, first
printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS on the title page;
a collection of twelve stories by this American-born Canadian Novelist,
being her third collection of short stories, signed copies of which are
surprisingly uncommon to the market. Of this collection, Publisher's Weekly
stated: "Although a variety of well-realized voices animate the 12 stories
in Shields' fine collection, they are all plainspoken and direct--the
hallmarks of her sturdy prose. All stories except three are set in her
native Canada; most have as protagonists people locked into themselves,
suffused with nostalgia, regret, incommunicable longing--and sometimes
fulfilled by flashes of communication and tentative hope." A Fine, tight
and unread, copy, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS. Fine / fine. Item #3365

Price: $22.00


Stowe, Harriet Beecher [Stowe, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher]
The Dancing School

New York: The New York Evangelist, 1843. First Edition, First
Printing. [Newspapers].
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $155. Two Good + issues of The New-York
Evangelist, a newspaper then owned by W. H. Bidwell, being the Thursday
April 6, 1843 issue (VOL. XIV. No. 14---WHOLE No. 680) TOGETHER WITH the
Thursday April 13, 1843 issue (VOL. XIV. No. 14---WHOLE No. 681). Each
issue shows some toning, staining, and general wear, as well as fold lines.
Each issue contains one of the two installments of Harriet Beecher Stowe's
short story "The Dancing School", together bringing the reader the full
short story. These two issues together contain the first appearance of this
Harriet Beecher Stowe short story in in its entirety. Good +. Item #3378

Price: $35.00


Torrance, Ridgely
Granny Maumee; The Rider of Dreams, Simon the Cyrenian: Plays for a Negro
Theatre

New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917. First Edition. TEMPORARILY
REDUCED. WAS $425. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing
of this important book (quite modest wear and some notations to the rear
free endpaper's verso) with the leading edges of a number of leaf pairs
remaining unopened, showing that the volume has likely not been fully
read), in an about Very Good dust jacket (some small chips and edge tears
as well as a longer tear to each flap fold), containing three Plays written
by Wrigley Torrance, those being: "Granny Maumee", "The Rider of Dreams",
and "Simon the Cyrenian" bearing the subtitle "Plays for a Negro Theatre".
[By comparison to other copies we have seen, in relative terms, we are
tempted to rate the volume's condition "Near Fine" and the QUITE SCARCE
dust jacket as "Very Good +".] This collection of plays by the white
playwright Torrance was published the same month as their first production
on Broadway (with, perhaps, the first Black actors to appear in leading
roles on Broadway), a production which author and civil rights activist,
first African-American Secretary of the NAACP James Weldon Johnson ["God’s
Trombones" (1927) and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" (1912),
"Black Manhattan (1930) and more], called it "the most important single
event in the entire history of the Negro in the American theatre; for it
marks the beginning of a new era....The stereotyped traditions regarding
the Negro's histrionic limitations were smashed. It was the first time
anywhere in the United States for Negro actors in the dramatic theatre to
command the attention of the critics and of the general press and public."
Raoul Abdul, in his article "The Negro Playwright on Broadway", dates the
true beginning of African-American theatre to the date these one-act plays
premiered: "These plays by a white poet opened two great doors: the door to
the use of Negro life as material for serious theatre and the door to
acceptance of Negro actors as performers in non-musical theatre." Most
reviewers were enthusiastic about the Plays, particularly the performance
of the young Black actor, Opal Cooper, in "The Rider of Dreams." The critic
George Jean Nathan said Cooper's performance was "one of the 10 best
portrayals by an actor during the 1916-17 season." (Michael A. Morrison,
"Emperors Before Gilpin: Opal Cooper and Paul Robeson," in The Eugene
O'Neill Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2012), page 162.) "The high critical
acclaim the production won was the beginning of American interest in
African American life as artistically interpreted by African Americans
themselves." (I. Peter Ukpokodu, "African American Males in Dance, Theater,
and Film," in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, May 2000, page 80.) [Granny Maumee and The Rider of Dreams are
written in dialect. Simon the Cyrenian is not.] An IMPORTANT WORK AND
SCARCE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IN A CONDITION AS NICE AS IS THIS COPY. Very good /
very good +. Item #3314

Price: $95.00


Trollope, Anthony
The Last Chronicle of Barset

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First Edition, First Printing. Leather
bound. TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $85. Because it lacks three of the images,
this is an only Good copy of the first edition, first printing, bound in
three-quarters leather marbled boards with the spine panel lettered, lined,
and dated in gilt. Otherwise, it is a FINE AND QUITE ATTRACTIVE COPY with
the text being complete. This copy has the novel's two volumes bound in one
in recent brown half-leather with marbled boards, a very nice binding. The
Publisher's rights are]printed on the verso of the first volume's title
page, but the title page to the second volume is missing from this binding
and thus cannot be checked. [It was omitted from verso of title page in
vol. 2 for the book form edition]. The plate facing p. 297 of Volume two
has the semicolon present after "Hoggle-Stockians" as was the case in the
Parts issue (it was missing in the bound edition), and the plate facing p.
371 spells "Consent" with a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final
"D" of the running headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second
edition), and in Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which
was changed to "Toogood" in the second edition). This is a rather tight
binding and no stab holes can be seen. Nevertheless, the foregoing details
indicate that this copy was bound from the original Parts. The leaves have
been rebound in 3/4 brown leather with coordinated marbled boards and white
pastedowns and free endpapers. The closed page block's edges are in red.
Within, the leaf hosting page 261/262 has a small marginal tear with loss
but without affecting the text, and the tissue guard facing page 371 shows
a larger tear with loss, but the protected illustration has not been
affected. An attractive copy of this notable Trollope with the flaws cited
above.

This work is the last of the six (6) Trollope novels in his wonderful
Barsetshire series of novels, and of this final installment Trollope
stated: "I regard this as the best novel I have written." The novel is
centered around a devout Clergymen, Josiah Crawley, and an allegation made
against him that he had stolen a check. The tale also covers the death of
quite unpleasant Mrs. Proudie, the then-Bishop's wife, and the Bishop's
consequent release from her thralldom. Of Trollope, Henry James stated:
"His [Trollope's] great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation
of the usual. ... [H]e felt all daily and immediate things as well as saw
them; felt them in a simple, direct, salubrious way, with their sadness,
their gladness, their charm, their comicality, all their obvious and
measurable meanings. ... Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy,
though not one of the most eloquent, of the writers who have helped the
heart of man to know itself. ... A race is fortunate when it has a good
deal of the sort of imagination—of imaginative feeling—that had fallen to
the share of Anthony Trollope; and in this possession our English race is
not poor." A QUITE SCARCE COPY BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS in which the
tale was first issued to the public. Near fine. Item #3415

Price: $30.00


Veblen, Thorstein
The Theory of the Leisure Class

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1994. First Easton Press edition.
Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first
Easton Press Edition, first Printing, Collector's Edition, in the
Publisher's green leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and
the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well, with the page block's
leading edge showing some slight faults. The leaves are printed on archival
paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is moire
fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the volume
contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's
Collector's Edition. The front free endpaper's blank verso hosts the
standard Easton Press bookplate, but the bookplate has not been completed
and remains as issued. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy in an elegant
binding. Very Good +. Item #3403

Price: $22.00


Wister, Owen
Padre Ignacio or The Song of Temptation

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $120. A Fine and rather fresh copy of the first
edition, first printing, lacking the scarce glassine dust jacket, in the
Publisher's original blue cloth (light wear to the boards and front board
label with a presentation to the front free endpaper dated Christmas 1912;
Owen Wister's short novel about a Spanish missionary in California homesick
for his native Spain. Upon the arrival young aristocrat making his way to
the gold fields sets in motion, the Padre suffers a crisis of faith; a nice
and rather tight copy in an uncommonly nice condition. Fine. Item #3198

Price: $25.00


Stephen Johnson
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