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The Wisdom of Goethe.

Price: $250.00

Seller ID: blackie,johnstuart.250edinburghandlondon:william

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1883. First edition. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in gilt and black, all edges gilt. A presentation copy: "To my highly esteemed Christian friend, Mrs. Balfour, doubly dear. Dear from her own genial goodness. And, dear from the memory of her noble departed Lord, this (illegible) of the wisdom of the most lay and catholic thinker of these later times was presented by John Blackie (some Greek words) 1 July 1891." A Fine copy.
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?Carricta Meridionalis?,

By: Blaeu, Joan, publisher.

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: blaeu,joan,publisher.225amap(thesouthernpartofca

a Map (The Southern Part of Carrick, in Scotland). Taken from the Blaeu "Atlas Major" or "Cosmographia Blaviana", one of the largest and most splendid of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. Published in 1662-65, its 594 maps and 3,368 pages of texts collectively presented the state of geographic knowledge of the world in the mid-17th century. Volume VI of the work was devoted to maps of Scotland and Ireland, bringing forward the original mapping of Scotland from the work of Timothy Pont, first published in Blaeu?s "Atlas Novus" of 1654, into their final published form. The "Atlas Major" was ...
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?Cuninghamia?, (Scotland),

By: Blaeu, Joan, publisher.

Price: $325.00

Seller ID: blaeu,joan,publisher.325anoriginalhand-coloredat

an original hand-colored atlas map. Taken from the Blaeu Atlas Major or Cosmographia Blaviana, one of the largest and most splendid of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. Published in 1662-65, its 594 maps and 3,368 pages of texts collectively presented the state of geographic knowledge of the world in the mid-17th century. Volume VI of the work was devoted to maps of Scotland and Ireland, bringing forward the original mapping of Scotland from the work of Timothy Pont, first published in Blaeu?s Atlas Novus of 1654, into their final published form. The Atlas Major was the most expensive book...
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The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani. Together With Frequent References to the Prorege of Arcopia.

By: Blake, Henry B. Blake.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: blake,henryb.blake.100boston:j.g.cupples,(1890).

Boston: J.G. Cupples, (1890). First edition, second printing, the first with the author's true name on the title page. Original white half-leather, lettered and decorated in red and black, and batik boards in a love-bird pattern. This printing also noted in cloth and wrappers (Brick Row Book Shop, Catalogue 120, Pt. 1). A tall copy, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, likely a large paper, deluxe copy. Fuller's first book (BAL 6462). The first printing was reviewed enthusiastically by Charles Eliot Norton and James Russell Lowell. It was reprinted several times and a "new, revised" edition came out in 1...
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Autograph Letter, Signed.

By: Blaze de Bury, Yetta.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: blazedebury,yetta.75dated1879,toledirecteurofapu

Dated 1879, to "le directeur" of a publishing firm. Inquiring about the status of the proofs of his "Bourget", which he sent many weeks ago and fears, since he has heard nothing, may be lost. Also, giving him a heads up that "a new book is appearing, upon a new series of letters between Mme (George) Sand and (Alfred de) Musset....unknown to the public and confided by Musset's surviving sister to the editor of the book....and I think this new publication would afford an excellent occasion for portraiting (some of) the romantiques." Yetta Blaze de Bury (d. 1902) was a literary historian and a...
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Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.10cambridge:theuniversitypress,19

Cambridge: The University Press, 1933. First edition, English issue (Kirkpatrick, A49). Original blue cloth, gilt, 215 pp. Soiled, dust-soiled, some rubbing, bumps to both top edges. Slightly cocked. A Good copy, only.
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Constantia and Francis. An Autumn Evening.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.30(noplace):privatelyprintedforth

(No place): Privately Printed for the Friends of Elkin Mathews Ltd., 1931. First edition (Kirkpatrick, A41). Cover title, 3 pp. One of 200 numbered copies. A little soiled, Very Good.
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In Summer. The Rotunda of the Bishop of Derry.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.30london:privatelyprinted(fortere

London: Privately Printed (for Terence Fytton Armstrong, aka John Gawsworth), 1931. First edition (Kirkpatrick, A42). Grey paper boards, printed in green, glassine dust jacket, unprinted, unpaginated, about 4 pp. One of 290 copies numbered and signed, 250 for sale. The other seasons, done uniformly, were by other authors: In Spring by Edith Sitwell, In Autumn by Herbert Palmer, and In Winter by W.H. Davies. Top edge toned, a little wear, top fore-corner crushed, a Good copy, glassine in tatters, $20; another copy, top edge toned, a little wear, glassine in tatters, a Very Good copy.
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Leigh Hunt.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.15london:cobden-sanderson,1930.fi

London: Cobden-sanderson, 1930. First edition (Kirkpatrick, A32. original red cloth, gilt, top edge stained red, illustrated, 402 pp. A little dust soiling, fore-edge foxed. A Very Good copy.
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Thomas Hardy.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.20london:macmillan,1941.firstedit

London: Macmillan, 1941. First edition (Kirkpatrick, A71). Original red cloth, gilt, printed dust jacket, top edge stained red, others uncut. The "English Men of Letters" series, 2,280 were printed, an undetermined number of copies in sheets were sent to Macmillan in New York. Dedicated to Siegfried Sassoon. Fore edge, botttom edge, and prelims lightly foxed. Jacket with some edgewear and toning. A Very Good copy in a good jacket.
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To Nature. New Poems.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.50(westminster:thebeaumontpress,1

(Westminster: The Beaumont Press, 1923). First edition (Kirkpatrick, A14). Original quarter cloth, gilt, and printed paper boards, 50 pp. One of 310 numbered copies on hand made paper, there were also 80 copies on Japanese vellum. Slight wear and dust soiling, a Very Good copy.
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Votive Tablets.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.75london:cobden-sanderson,(1931).

London: Cobden-Sanderson, (1931). First edition (Kirkpatrick, A39b, one of sixty copies, numbered and signed, this number 7). The trade version, Kirkpatrick's A39a, was issued the same day. Original red cloth, gilt, edges uncut. Some rubbing and soil. Endpapers foxed. A Very Good copy.
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William Crowe.

By: Blunden, Edmund.

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: blunden,edmund.30beaminster,dorset:j.stevenscox,

Beaminster, Dorset: J. Stevens cox, 1963. First edition (Kirkpatrick, A158). Original green printed wrappers, 4 pp., illustrated. Only 100 copies were printed, at the Toucan Press. A little toned and bumped, but a Very Good copy.
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The Mitchell Kennerley Imprint. A Descriptive Bibliography.

By: Boice, Daniel.

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: boice,daniel.30(pittsburgh):universityofpittsbur

(Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press, (1996). First edition. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver, issued without a dust jacket. Illustrated, 222 pp. A Fine copy.
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The Book of the Dead.

By: Boker, George H. Henry.

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: boker,georgeh.henry.90philadelphia:j.b.lippincot

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1882. First edition (BAL 1228). Original green cloth, gilt-decorated. Here Boker defends his father's memory against charges that he had ruined the Girard Bank of Philadelphia. Along with Bayard Taylor, Richard Henry and Elizabeth Stoddard, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Boker had helped to keep Idealism alive in the materialistic years following the Civil War (Willard Thorp in The Literary History of the United States). A little rubbed, a Fine copy.
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English Poetry to 1700.

By: Bookseller's Catalogue

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: bookseller'scatalogue25therosenbachco.:philadelp

The Rosenbach Co.: Philadelphia and New York, 1941. Original printed wrappers, 182 pp., 832 items described. Rosenbach makes his case in the forward that "It is no exaggeration to claim that (this) is the most important collection of books and manuscripts of early English poets ever offered for sale by any bookseller." Annotations but no collations. Wrapper edges chipped, holograph title on spine. A Very Good copy.
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Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors.

By: Bookseller's Catalogue.

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: bookseller'scatalogue.60newyork:leonandbrother,1

New York: Leon and Brother, 1885. First edition. Original plain green wrappers, edge and spine chipped. Said to be the first catalogue devoted exclusively to American writers. A Very Good copy.
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The (Boston) Transcript's Fiftieth Birthday. A Long Look Backward.

By: Boston Newspaper, Whitcomb, John D., compiler.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: bostonnewspaper,whitcomb,johnd.,compiler.35nopla

No place, privately printed, 1880. First edition. Original wrappers, 51 pp. Inscribed by Whitcomb; he was the foreman of the composition department. With a poem by Epes Sargent, a former editor, and a facsimile of the first number. Some soiling, chipping to wrappers. A Very Good copy.
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A Journey from Boston to Albany in 1746" in "More Books",

By: Boston Public Library

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: bostonpubliclibrary12bulletinofthebplforapril-ju

Bulletin of the BPL for April-June, 1922. One issue, original wrappers. Four page facsimile of a manuscript of a trip undertaken by four commissioners from Massachusetts to a conference with the "Six Nations"; the English were "straining every nerve to secure the aid of the Indians in their warfare against the French." With commentary. Ex-lib., some soiling and creasing, Very Good.
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A XIIth Century Manuscript of St. Jerome" in "More Books",

By: Boston Public Library

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: bostonpubliclibrary7bulletinofthebplformarch,193

Bulletin of the BPL for March, 1939. Original wrappers, 12 pp., facsimile. Ex-lib., Fine.
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