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Prose Idyls.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: albee,john.35bostonandnewyork:houghton,mifflin,1

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. First edition. Original white cloth, lettered and decorated in green, top edge gilt, 172 pp. Cloth soiled and rubbed but a Good, sound copy.
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Madam Secretary.

By: Albright, Madeleine, with Bill Woodward.

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: albright,madeleine,withbillwoodward.40(newyork):

(New York): Miramax Books, (2003). First edition, second printing. Original quarter cloth and paper boards, in the jacket. Signed in full on the half-title: ?Madeleine Albright?. A Fine copy.
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The Birds of Nevada.

By: Alcorn, J.R.

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: alcorn,j.r.60fallon,nevada:fairviewwestpublishin

Fallon, Nevada: Fairview West Publishing, 1988. First edition. Original cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 418 pp. Alcorn worked for several decades for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, mostly in Fallon. A Fine copy in a fine jacket.
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New Connecticut.

By: Alcott, A. Amos Bronson.

Price: $250.00

Seller ID: alcott,a.amosbronson.250boston:robertsbrothers,1

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First published edition (BAL 132). Original yellow-brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, 247 pp. Inscribed and signed by the editor, Franklin Sanborn, to "Professor Shockford", dated July 14, 1887. Pages 106 to 246 are Sanborn's notes, mostly biographical. Spine ends rubbed, a Very Good copy.
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Sonnets and Canzonets.

By: Alcott, A. Amos Bronson.

Price: $165.00

Seller ID: alcott,a.amosbronson.165boston:robertsbrothers,1

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882. First edition (BAL 124). Original brick cloth, gilt, top edge plain, 151 pp. Small rubbed spot on spine, else Fine.
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The Transcendentalists.

By: Alcott, Amos Bronson, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Andrews Norton, George Ripley, et al.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: alcott,amosbronson,edwardeverett,nathaniellangdonf

New York: MJF Books, no date but after 1978. First printing of this edition. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket. Edited by Perry Miller, this anthology was first published in 1950. A Fine copy.
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Jane Austen.

By: Aldington, Richard.

Price: $22.50

Seller ID: aldington,richard.22.50pasadena,ca:ampersandpres

Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1948. First edition (NCBEL v.4 513). Original black cloth, printed paper label, frontis of Jane Austen (taken from Horne's "New Spirit of the Age", 1844), fore-edges deckled, others cut, 16 pp. Spine sunned, a little dust soiling. A Very Good copy.
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The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth.

By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: aldrich,thomasbailey150newyork:ruddandcarleton,1

New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858. First edition. First state (BAL 251). Presentation copy from Aldrich to George William Curtis dated June 8, 1858. Blanck's earliest inscribed copy was more than 4 months later, Oct. 22, 1858. Blanck did not describe this (presentation?) binding, 1/2 green leather, paper covered boards, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, all edges stained red, chocolate endpapers. The leather is worn and rubbed, some foxing to the flyleaves and 1/2 title. A Very good copy.
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Ponkapog Papers.

By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: aldrich,thomasbailey.10boston:houghton,mifflin,1

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904. A later printing, the first was 1903. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped, wove paper, t.e.g., 195 pp. Mild scuffing to corners, a Very Good copy.
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The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: aldrich,thomasbailey.150boston:ticknorandfields,

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition (BAL 262). Original blue cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, 240 pp. With an autograph poem, "A Turkish Legend", complete in six stanzas, signed, on the front flyleaf recto, dated 1865. This poem also occurs on p.122. Dedication in print "To Launt Thompson, Sculptor", and above that is a gift inscription, signed with initials, from Thompson to "Fred B. Savage", dated Nov. 18th, 1865. Thompson and Aldrich were close friends and regulars at "bohemian" gatherings in Pfaff's cellar in New York. Light wear, spine slightl...
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Annie Graham: Or, the Young Lawyers's Fee. And, The Uncle's Return.

By: Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: alger,horatio,jr.50boyntonbeach,fl:gilbertk.west

Boynton Beach, FL: Gilbert K. Westgard II, 1987. A miniature book (78 x 62mm), bound in green cloth, gilt lettered, 118 pp., two illustrations after Charles Dana Gibson. One of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the publisher, this no. 32. Two stories in one volume. A Fine copy.
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Dan the Newsboy.

By: Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: alger,horatio,jr.25newyork:a.l.burt,(1893).arepr

New York: A.L. Burt, (1893). A reprint. Original teal cloth, decorated in gilt, black, and red, two panels showing boy with a stick/bandana and three red flowers. There were numerous Burt reprints, this likely is about 1900-1910. Light rubbing and soiling, only, but cocked. A Very Good copy.
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A Tribute to the Memory and Services of the Rev. Theodore Parker. From a Discourse Pronounced in the Bulfinch-Street Church, Boston, June 3, 1860.

By: Alger, William R. Rounseville.

Price: $70.00

Seller ID: alger,williamr.rounseville.70boston:walkerandwis

Boston: Walker and Wise, 1860. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 32 pp. Alger, cousin of Horatio Alger, eulogizes his mentor and friend. A Fine copy.
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The Charities of Boston; Or, Twenty Years at the Warren-street Chapel.

By: Alger, William R. Rounseville.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: alger,williamr.rounseville.25boston:johnwilson,1

Boston: John Wilson, 1856. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 28 pp. Spine eroded, somewhat soiled. A Good copy.
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Public Morals: Or the True Glory of a State. A Discourse Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1862.

By: Alger, William Rounseville.

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: alger,williamrounseville.40boston:williamwhite,1

Boston: William White, 1862. Original printed wrappers, 55 pp. Alger was a clergyman who was sought after as a lecturer and wrote a variety of books, including "The Poetry of the Orient or Metrical Specimens of the Thought, Sentiment, and Fancy of the East," prefaced by an elaborate dissertation (1856) ; "A Critical History of the Doctrine of Future Life," with a bibliography by Ezra Abbot, containing 5,000 titles (1861) ; " The Genius of Solitude; or The Loneliness of Human Life (1861). Rear wrapper neatly separated from the spine but still present, else a Fine copy.
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The Genius and Posture of America. An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857.

By: Alger, William Rounseville.

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: alger,williamrounseville.125boston:thebostondail

Boston: The Boston Daily Bee, 1857. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 60 pp. A presentation copy: "Dr. Samuel Osgood with Compliments of the Author." This speech slammed the South and named any northerner a "flunkey" who would appease the pro-slavery states. In the appendix is printed the relevant minutes of two meetings in Boston, where it was voted not to print, at City expense as tradition demanded, this 4th of July speech: The Board of Aldermen, 1 Yea, 9 Nays, 2 Absent; The Common Council, 3 Yeas, 37 Nays, 7 Absent. Alger was a well known Unitarian minister, in great dema...
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The True Lessons of Grief. A Sermon, Preached to the New North Religious Society, In Boston...

By: Alger, William Rounseville.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: alger,williamrounseville.35boston:charlesh.crosb

Boston: Charles H. Crosby, printer, 1864. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 20pp. Like his cousin Horatio Alger, Jr., William Rounseville Alger was a Unitarian minister. He was an abolitionist, a writer on comparative religion, and a lecturer. A little soiled, else Fine.
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The Last Canto of the Paradiso of Dante Alighieri. Being a specimen of a translation of the Divine Comedy in triple rime by Melville B. Anderson.

By: Alighieri, Dante Melville Anderson, transl..

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: alighieri,dantemelvilleanderson,transl..50floren

Florence: Printed by the Typografia Giuntia, December, 1916. First edition. Self-wrapper. Small quarto (one sheet watermarked Old Stratford folded to make eight pages), string bound. Anderson was to publish his translation of The Divine Comedy in 1921. He also published The Florence of Dante in '29, and he printed "The Great Refusal: A War-Poem with a Florence imprint in 1916 (ESTC). The present volume not in ESTC, not in the on-line catalogue of the Stanford University Library but may be in the many feet of Anderson's papers in the library collection. Anderson taught at Stanford. No...
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The New Life.

By: Alighieri, Dante.

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: alighieri,dante.225london:keganpaul,trench,trubn

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1903. First edition of this translation by Luigi Ricci. Number one of sixty copies especially bound in vellum boards, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, and the text printed on japanese vellum. The original Italian and the English translation on facing pages. Boards bowed, a little soiling, a Very Good copy.
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Autograph Letter, Signed, to W.H. (William Hickling) Prescott.

By: Alison, A. Archibald.

Price: $115.00

Seller ID: alison,a.archibald.115datedpossilhouse,glasgow,a

Dated Possil House, Glasgow, Aug. 16th (no year, but 1850). Alison enthusiastically and with great courtesy invites Prescott to dinner and to stay the night, and gives directions. Alison and Prescott were both distinguished historians in their respective countries. Prescott was on a tour of England in 1850. His friend, George Ticknor, "described his visit with but slight exaggeration as 'the most brilliant visit ever made to England by an American citizen not clothed with the prestige of official station." (DAB, quoting Ticknor's "Life of...Prescott", 1864). Alison was so popular as an attorne...
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