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Scarce second edition of The First Spelling Primer; or an Easy Introduction to the Art of Reading Adorned with Emblematic Pictures
The First Spelling Primer; or an Easy Introduction to the Art of Reading Adorned with Emblematic Pictures.
London-Derry: Published by G. Douglas, 1795.
Second edition of this scarce 18th century spelling primer. 16mo, original limp paper boards, illustrated with twenty-six small text woodcuts illustrating the Prince's Alphabet, followed by an ABC poem, The Alphabet in Rhime, syllables of two and three letters, easy words, easy reading lessons, the Lord's Prayer, and a publisher's advertisement leaf aimed at children mentioning four other titles: The Ladder to Learning; Manson's Spelling Primer; Manson's Spelling Book; and The Universal Spelling Book. In good condition. Ownership name to the front panel. Housed in a custom folding case. Exceptionally rare with no other copies traced in auction records, nor…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 135238
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"Dearest Robin Red-breast, sweet partner of my heart": First edition of The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin
The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin; with the Lamentation of Jenny Wren.
Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner, 1821.
First edition under this title of the classic English nursery rhyme. 12mo, original stiff wrappers, illustrated with 8 full-page wood engravings. American Imprints 5013. Rosenbach 616. In very good condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and folding chemise case. A rare title in early American children's literature.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133026
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First edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Our Charley, and What to Do With Him
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Our Charley, and What to Do With Him.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1858.
First edition of this classic novella by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. 12mo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142502
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"Each generation in our history needs to be taught what the Constitution is, and what the framers of it understood it to be, at its formation": Rare first edition of George S. Williams' The Constitution of The United States For the Use of Schools and Academies
WILLIAMS, George S.
The Constitution of The United States. For the Use of Schools and Academies.
Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1861.
First edition of Williams' Civil War era printing of the United States Constitution, intended for use in both public schools and private academies. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, gilt American flag and eagle vignette to the front panel. In near fine condition with rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Includes The Constitution of the United States, Washington's Farewell Address, The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 124073
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First Edition of Mary Mapes Dodge's Classic Work Hans Brinker; Inscribed by Her
DODGE, Mary Mapes.
Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.
New York: James O'Kane, 1866.
First edition of the author's second and best known work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Presented to Robert Dale Owen by the author January, 1866." The recipient Robert Dale Owen was responsible for introducing the legislation to establish the Smithsonian. He represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–47). As a member of Congress, Owen successfully pushed through the bill that established Smithsonian Institution and served on the Institution's first Board of Regents. Owen also served as a delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850 and was appointed as U.S.…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 76002
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco by Whitman Bennett
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1867.
Finely bound early printing of Carroll's beloved children's classic. Octavo, bound in full 20th century scarlet crushed levant morocco by William Bennet, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, central gilt ornament of Alice holding a rabbit to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by John Tenniel, many with hand-coloring and including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Bookplate and neat ownership name.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 137243
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"The house seemed swarming with boys, who were beguiling the rainy twilight with all sorts of amusements": First edition, first state of Louisa May Alcott's Little Men
ALCOTT, Louisa May.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871.
First edition, first issue of the second book it Alcott's Little Women trilogy. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated with plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. A desirable example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111024
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Finely bound Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.
Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early printing. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is an early printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A very nice set.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 130848
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't": First Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found
CARROLL, Lewis. [Dodgson.
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard present. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 130522
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; inscribed by him
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1879.
Early edition with sixty-second thousand stated on the title page of this classic work, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Edith Mary Alice Berkeley from the Author, May 15/80." Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, publisher's cloth s, all edges gilt, housed in a modern scarlet morocco slipcase and chemise. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18 x 12 cm); 192 pp., [2] pp. ads, half-title; electrotyped frontispiece, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. In near fine condition. From the library of actor William E. Self, with his book…
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 142979
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First edition of Joel Chandler Harris' Nights with Uncle Remus; In exceptional condition
HARRIS, Joel Chandler.
Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
First edition of the second book of Uncle Remus stories. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise slipcase. A brilliant example.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133125
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FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Kemble. Contains all of the agreed upon first issue points for the clothbound book: page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was,” instead of “with the saw”. Other points of bibliographical interest included in this copy are the frontispiece portrait with the cloth table cover under the bust, bearing the Heliotype Printing Co. imprint; copyright page dated…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 117039
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First Edition, first issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
STEVENSON, Robert Louis .
A Child’s Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123972
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"How doth the little crocodile improve its shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale": First Edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground
CARROL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First edition of the original manuscript which was later expanded and published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original scarlet cloth, elaborate gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt vignette to the rear panel, triple gilt ruled, all edges gilt, text printed in the author's handwriting including thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile, advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 145905
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"Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it": The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; inscribed by Mark Twain
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1886.
Early printing of Twain's masterpiece, inscribed by Mark Twain. Octavo, bound in half buckram by Roycroft with paper labels to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece photogravure plate of Gerhardt's bust of Clemens, one hundred and seventy-four illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Mr. Garth W. Cate: Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. Truly Yours, Mark Twain, Nov. 25/06." With a lengthy letter of provenance dated October 14, 1964 and signed by the recipient which reads in part, "Dear Mr. Jacobs, If I had been younger…
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 123083
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First Edition of The Game of Logic; Inscribed by Lewis Carroll to His Nephew
CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
The Game of Logic.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1887.
First trade edition of Lewis Carroll’s game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, "Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author's love Mar. 87." The volume contains the original envelope containing the playing board, with six of the nine rare counters. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 26048
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“Once upon a time there lived a little boy named jack”: Jack the Giant Killer; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DOYLE, Richard.
Jack the Giant Killer.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888.
First manuscript facsimile edition, reproduced from Richard Doyle’s original text. Slim quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips and tears. Any dust jacket from the 1880's are rare; this is the only example we have seen or heard of. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 59056
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First edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's Betty Leicester; signed by her
JEWETT, Sarah Orne.
Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
First edition of the author's classic story for girls. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Sarah O. Jewett 1899." In near fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 138148
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123068
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition
HENTY, G. A.
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In near fine condition. A superior example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 122778