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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. 1917 Price List of Houghton Mifflin Co.'s Riverside Literature Series. Prices in Effect Jan. 1, 1917.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston, Massachusetts.  1916.  "Riverside Literature Series". 24 pages; paper wrapper (3 1/4 x 6 inch) with title on the cover. Listing books from Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast', to Dickens, to Shelley, to Poe's 'Raven'. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Books, Book Catalogue, Houghton Mifflin Company. DK-89  (Book ID 11898)  $15.00 A Delicious Obsession: Collecting the Works of MFK Fisher. A Centenary Show of Books, Periodicals & Ephemera from the Collection Fo Randall Tarpey-Schwed. On Exhibition September 8 - October 27, 2008.  The Book Club of California.  San Francisco, California.  2008.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Curtan, Patricia.  Two parts in a folding case with cover title "MFK Fisher, A Delicious Obsession". First part is a large foldout printed on one side (23 x 19 inch) which folds to (5 3/4 x 9 1/2 inch) contains: extract from a publication of Fisher's; note by the collector; and a 76 title bibliography. Also a 2 page fold by Joan Reardon "Autobiography & Biography: Channeling MFK Fisher (8 x 10 inch). Printed by Patrick Reagh and John Sullivan.   Condition: Fine Bright Copy.  Fine Press, 'Keepsake', MFK Fisher, Culinary. DK-81  (Book ID 11701)  $25.00 A Prospectus of the THE SHAKESPEAE LIBRARY.  Duffield Company.  New York, New York.  Folded flyer (5 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch) for a new set of Shakespeare's works, in forty volumes.   Condition: Very Good.  Shakespeare Set of Works. DK-27  (Book ID 10300)  $10.00 Americana Esoterica; by Various American Authors  Privately Published by Macy-Masius Publishers. No City. 1927.  Cloth.  Illustrated by Kent, Rockwell.  No. 1274 of 3000 copies. Illustrated front cover label. Illustrated end papers. Gilt edged page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. 299 pages. Measures 7 x 10. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. From an introductory page: "The thesis of this book is that sophisticated writing, provided it is excellent writing, has a place in American literature. Each of the pieces in this collection is by an American author of dignity and reputation". "Nothing but pruriency has kept them previously esoteric". Contents include: Strange Waters by George Sterling; The Wife of Paul by John Russell; The Edge of Doom by Ethel M. Kelley; The Courtesan by Ralcy Husted Bell; Business by Nathan Asch; Distinguished Air by Robert McAlmon; etc.   American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Fiction. Short Stories. Poetry. Play.  (Book ID 473)  $50.00 Atlantic Classics. First and Second Series  The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc..  Boston.  3/4 Leather.  (1918). Two volumes; 277 and 308 pages. 3/4 leather with patterned boards. Gilt page tops. Gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Ribbon book marks affixed. Unopened pages. First volume, page sides and bottoms uncut. Slip case; split at top edge, label top edge, slight wear to edges. Authors: Robert Haven Schauffler, Dallas Lore Sharp, Edward Sanford Martin, Cornelia A. P. Comer, Owen Wister, Margaret Sherwood, Margaret Preston Montague, Meredith Nicholson, Agnes Repplier, Katherine Baker, Simson Strunsky, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Walter Prichard Eaton, Ralph Bergengren, Zephine Humphrey, Lucy Elliot Keeler, Henry Merwin, William Beebe, Jane Addams, Samuel McChord, Crothers, Robert M. Gay, Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, Edgar J. Goodspeed, William T. Foster, Lida F. Baldwin, Fannie Stearns Gifford, John Jay Chapman, Lucy Martin Donnelly, Sharlot M. Hall, Richard Bowland Kimball, Laura Spencer Portor, Anne C. E. Allinson, Elizabeth Taylor.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Essays. Fiction.  (Book ID 12)  $50.00 Ben Puttin-It-off, His Almanack and Book of Sines and Wundrs Reveeld. Lucky and Unlucky Daze for 1918. Dreems Inturpitd. Nineteen New Skeems for Getting Ritch. Publisht Just for Fun for Farm Life Foax.  circa 1917. 32 page almanac interspersed with phonetic advice and humor, printed wrapper, 8 x 5". "Nevr ask the hired man to cut wood or milk. He is hired to farm, and yoar wife is suppoazd to doo the choars."   Condition: Very Good.  humor; Almanac  (Book ID 5743)  $12.50 Burns' Souvenir with Best Wishes.  Published at "Ye Burns' Press" By William Reid & Co..  Mauchline, Ayrshire.  No date. (12) page booklet with 27 sketched views of Burns' cottage and the surrounding village, tributes to Burns by other writers, including Whittier, Halleck and Swinburne, pictorial wrapper, 6 x 4.5", front cover with small portrait, view of his cottage, two coats of arms and other decorations, view on back cover of his mausoleum. Very good, light wear and soil.   Literature; Scotland; Poetry  (Book ID 5879)  $20.00 Chez West, the California Detective.  Catherine and Richard West.  Oakland, Cal..  1980.  [8] pages pamphlet with blue wrapper, gilt title on the cover. 'The Principal Investigators': Edward Blakely, A.T.Brugger, Mike Heyman, Andy Horn, Gary Morrison, Stephen Salmon, David Saxon, Foster Sherwood, and Richard West met at the West home in Oakland October 1980. Included in the pamphlet is the menu of the meal along with a quiz for 'Investigation' about California detectives and the characters in Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald's novels. An unusual and interesting item for mystery/private detective fans.   Condition: Fine.  Mystery, Private Detectives, California. DK-13  (Book ID 9636)  $15.00 Christmastide; Containing Four Famous Poems By Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations.  James R. Osgood & Company.  Boston, Mass.  1878.  First Edition Thus.  Fine dark bown leather, publisher's bound book, with tooling to the front and back covers and raised bands to the spine with gilt title. Full gilt edging to pages [unnumbered]. Contains John Greenleaf Whittier's 'The River Path'; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Excelsior'; James Russell Lowell's 'The Rose'; and Thomas Bailey Aldrich's 'Baby Bell'. Illustrations by T.Moran, Wm. Hart, J.A. Brown, S. Colman, A.R. Waud, Jessie Curtis, C.S. Reihart, Mary Hallock Foote, H.V. Anthony, W. Homer, J. McEntee, Charles Kendrick, F.T.Merrill, A.V.S. Anthony, among others. A fine, tight, clean copy inside and out.   Condition: Fine.  Poetry, American Literature. DK-12  (Book ID 9584)  $75.00 Conciones et Orationes Ex Historicis Latinis Excerptae. Argumenta Singulis Praefixa Sunt, Quae Causam Cujusque & Summam Ex Rei Gestae Occasione Explicant.  Apud Danielem Elsevirium.  Amstelodami.  1672.  (10), 382, + 13 page index, extra engraved title page with date 1662, full leather, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4". Leather chipped and peeling on spine, board edges scuffed, clean and tight interior with some creased corners. Latin orations printed by Elsevir.   Latin; Speeches; Readers; Antiquarian Books; Elsevir  (Book ID 6316)  $200.00 Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Descriptive List of the Lewis M. Isaacs Collection of Robinsoniana...with an Introduction By Edith J.R. Isaacs (cover title)  The New York Public Library.  New York.  1948.  Wrappers. Approx. 7 by 10 inches. 25 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Book Collecting. American Poetry.  (Book ID 7234)  $15.00 Elegant Extracts; or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose  Printed By Luke Hansard. London. 1805.  Leather.  Anthology of poetry for children. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine creased. Gilt decorations on spine. 1,016 pages. Wear to corners and side edge front cover. Tear outside bottom corner title page. Small piece lower corner missing page 497. Browning to end papers. Poems are arranged by topic such as: Sacred and Moral (Hymn on Gratitude, Ode to Wisdom, Against Lying, Against Quarreling and Fighting, etc.); Didactic, Descriptive, Narrative, and Pathetic (Love Elegies, Ode to Sleep, On Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ode to Evening, etc.); Dramatic (Extracts from Shakespeare, True End of Royalty, Character of a Good King, Prudence, etc.); Sentimental, Lyrical, and Ludicrous (Sonnet to Hope, On the Recovery of a Lady of Quality from the Small Pox, On Instruments of Music, The Fable of Midas, etc.; and many others.   Children's Books. English Literature. Poems. Verses. Sonnets. Literary Works. Odes. Youths.  (Book ID 55)  $75.00 Essays in Criticism by Members of the Department of English, University of California  University of California Press. Berkeley. 1929 and 1934.  Wrappers.  Two volumes complete. Volume II inscribed to Sara Bard Field from editor W. H. Burham. Volume I has uncut page edges and unopened pages. From the Prefatory Note in Volume I: "This, the first volume of the University of California Publications in English, is a collection of essays all of which attack problems of literary criticism". Volume I contents include: Poetry and Morals, by T. K. Whipple; Biography, by Harold L. Bruce; Thackeray and the Victorian Compromise, by Chauncey W. Wells; etc. Volume II contents include: John Donne's Discovery of Himself, by George Reuben Potter; The Poetry of the Mind, by James M. Cline; Tragic Prodigality of Life, by Willard Farnham; etc.   LITERATURE. CRITICISM. LITERARY WORKS. CRITIQUES. POETRY. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 118)  $37.50 Half Hours with the Best Authors.  Charles Knight.  London, England.  1850.  Four parts in two volumes (complete). I: 312 pages; portraits / 312 pages; portraits. II: iv, 312 pages; portraits / iv, 316 pages; portraits; index. both bound in borads with 3/4 leather binding, raised bands on the spine with gilt lettering. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout."Each number consits of 24 pages - a half hour reading for everyday of the year". Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature, 19th Century. DK-97  (Book ID 12088)  $50.00 Hausgalerie Beruhmter Gemalde; Zweihundert Ausgewahlte Meisterwerke der Bedeutendsten Maler aller Zeiten in Farbengetreuer Weidergabe der Originale mit Kunsthistorischen Erlauterungen...Renaissance; Two Volumes  Hermann Klemm. Berlin..  Cloth.  Tipped in color plates. Two volumes. "House Gallery of Famous Paintings." Books are in German. Decorated front cover and spine. Ink notation front end papers dated 1931 and 1932 . Each volume 206 pages. Each measures 10 x 13.   LITERATURE, GERMAN, ART HISTORY  (Book ID 528)  $75.00 James Whitcomb Riley.  [12] pages; paper wrapper with portrait of Riley on cover, ads for his books in the back. Stamped on the back 'Auditorium, Topeka. Monday, Dec. 7 Tickets at Stansfields'. Some spliting along the spine. With a post card of Riley's photo and a quote from him (5 x 3 icnh). Pamphlet of tributes covering 20 years about James Riley career.   Condition: Very Good.  Lecture Programme, American Writer. DK-24  (Book ID 10192)  $15.00 Johnson, Boswell, and Mrs Piozzi. A Suppressed Passage Restored.  Oxford University Press.  London, England.  1929.  Bookplate of "The Fales Collection, New York University". [12] pages; facsimlie of letter; in marbled stiff paper wrapper, label glued on the cover. Unopened copy, tied spine has missing chips and beginning to split. Correcting a suppressed passage.   Condition: Very Good.  Johnson & Boswell. DK-24  (Book ID 10197)  $25.00 Letters of Abelard and Heloise with a Particular Account of Their Lives and Misfortunes to Which are Added Poems By Pope, Madan, Cawthorne, Etc. Etc.  Dean & Munday.  London.  1818.  Original (and rare) original publisher's pre-binding of plain boards with black lettering. Front panel with decorative border. Back panel of advertising of "fine editions of Select British Novels. Slight browning to binding with some rubbing. Overall a very nice copy of a binding that was not meant to survive beyond the trip of the original buyer to his bookbinder. "New edition" as it says on the front cover. Expanded from the first edition of 187 pages to the present 246 plus six unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements at end.   Condition: Very Good.  Alexander Pope. Middle Ages.  (Book ID 6905)  $150.00 Libertine Lyrics by Authors Mostly of the XVII and XVIII Centuries  Peter Pauper Press. Mount Vernon. Undated..  Cloth in Slip Case.  Illustrated by Amour, Anthony.  1750 copies printed by the Walpole Printing Office. Collected and published by the Peter Pauper Press. Book has front cover and spine labels. Illustrations. A collection of "Libertine Lyrics".   Literature. Risque Rhymes. Poetry. Poems. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 247)  $37.50 Life of Jack London.  Haldeman-Julius Company..  Girard, Kansas.  1923.  "Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 183" Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. 60 pages; publishers advertising in back; gray wrapper with title on the cover (3 1/4 x 5 inch). Brief biography of Jack London (1876-1916) and accounts of his books and adventures. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  American Writers - Biographies. DK-27  (Book ID 10296)  $10.00 London Commemorations; Winter of 1908-9; Remarks By the American Ambassador at The Poe Centenary, Authors' Club, March 1st (for Jan. 19th), 1909; The Bacon Tercentenary, Gray's Inn, Oct. 17th, 1908; The Milton Tercentenary, Mansion House, (continued)  Harrison and Sons, Printers.  London.  1909.  Wrappers.  Title continued: "...Dec. 9, 1908; The Washington Anniversary, London Section, U.S. Navy League, Feb. 22nd, 1909". 35-page booklet. Chipping spine top, bottom edges, top outside corner. Uncut page edges. Card laid in: "With Mr. W. Reid's Compliments."   Commentaries. Dedications. Honors. Respects. Regards. Accolades. Tributes.  (Book ID 4908)  $25.00 Mr. Dooley In Peace and in War.  Small, Maynard & Company. Boston. 1898..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering front cover and spine. In the Preface F. P. D. writes: "There was a time when Archey Road was purely Irish". (Martin Dooley, doctor of philosophy, lives there.) "In this community you can hear all the various accents of Ireland, from the awkward brogue of the 'far-downer' to the mild and aisy Elizabethan English of the southern Irishman..." "Here also you can see the wakes and christenings, the marriages and funerals, and the other fetes of the ol' counthry somewhat modified and darkened by American usage".   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. FICTION. IRISH.  (Book ID 174)  $47.50 Mr. Dooley's Opinions  R. H. Russell, Publisher.  New York.  1901.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Cloth, gilt lettering and decoration front cover, gilt lettering spine and back cover. Gilt page tops. Ink notation front end paper and page 107. Contents include: Christian Science; The Supreme Court's Decisions; An Editor's Duties; On the Poet's Fate; The Yacht Races; On Lying; Discusses Party Politics; Mr. Carnegie's Gift; The Crusade Against Vice; The New York Custom House; Some Political Observations; The Booker Washington Incident; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. FICTION. SHORT STORIES.  (Book ID 109)  $47.50 Original Photograph; Seven Falls and South Cheyenne Canon  Circa 1890. Seven Falls Photo and Curio Co., Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photograph measures 4 1/2" x 7 3/4" on a cardboard frame measuring 6 7/8" x 10". The back of the frame provides a description of Seven Falls and South Cheyenne Canon. It also states that Helen Hunt Jackson, one of America's famous novelists and poets, died in 1885. At her request her body was laid to rest just above Seven Falls beneath the wind blown pines on the beautiful sun-kissed slopes of Cheyenne Mountain in South Cheyenne Canon.   American West. Scenic Waterfalls. American Novelist. Author. Fiction. Poet. Verse. Rhyme.  (Book ID 3688)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. " Birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-on Avon, England."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 3009 (354). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the so called 'birthplace' of William Shakespeare owned by the Shakespeare Society. Photograph of a two-story house of Elizabethan style with a child in front of the dwelling. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon, England. DK-8  (Book ID 9421)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "An Indian Maiden and Two Braves, Minnesota."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 11942 (168). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside quoting Longfellow's ' Hiawatha' with information on the native costumes. A staged photo of two men in native dress with a young woman in front of a wigwam in the woods. Quite silly. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Native Americans, Longfellow. DK-9  (Book ID 9482)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "An Indian Mother and Her Child, Michigan."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 11941 (158). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside quoting Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' and commenting on the future life of the little child, slightly racist. View of a woman in native dress with her child in a native craddle under a pine tree. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Indian Cradle, Native Americans, Longfellow. DK-9  (Book ID 9481)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, England."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 3012 (355). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about Anne Hathaway and her family's farm house, an early 'tourist trap' owned by the government of England that is reputed to be the home of Shakespeare's wife.. Image of the thatch covered cottage with some children posing in front of it. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare, England. DK-8  (Book ID 9420)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Beautiful Royal Mount, Wordsworth's Home (1817-1850) Until His Death."  Underwood & Underwood.  New York, N.Y..  1903.  Unumbered stereograph on gray card (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with nice clean image of Wordsworth's home and garden.   Condition: Very Good.  William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, England. DK-3. British Poets and Poetry  (Book ID 9100)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Dryburgh Abbey. Sir Walter Scott's Tomb."  W.W..  No. 152. Stereograph on light tan board (6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch) with paper label glued on the backside. View of the tomb behind iron gates. Nice clean copy with square corners ca.1870s.   Condition: Very Good.  Scotland, Deyburgh Abbey. DK-4  (Book ID 9181)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine, Scotland."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 2607 (369). Stereogarph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about Loch Katrine, home of Sir Walter Scott's 'Lady aof the Lake". Evocative photo of the lake with Ellen's Isle floating on the surface like in a dream. Clean copy with no marks.   Condition: Fine.  Loch Katrine, Scotland, Sir Walter Scott. DK-8  (Book ID 9425)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Longfellow's Home, Cambridge, Mass."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 11686 (9). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside commenting on the life of Longfellow and his living in the house from 1836 to 1882 during which he wrote many of his favorite poems: "Palm of Life", "The Village Blacksmith", among others.View of the two story white house on Brattle Steet in Cambridge with a well groomed front lawn with a gentleman walking up it. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Longfellow, Literature. DK-9  (Book ID 9536)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Cemetary at Sleepy Hollow, N.Y."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 6299 (36). Stereogarph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commenatary on the backside about the 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and its famous cemetary where Washington Irving is also buried not far from the famous covered bridge and the infamous ride. Long quote from Washington Irving about the cemetary. View looking down on the cemetary with the church in the background. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Sleepy Hollow, New York, Washington Irving. DK-7  (Book ID 9514)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Evangeline Country, Nova Scotia."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13895 (262). Stereograph on gray board 97 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the French in Nova Scotia and the forced removal by the British after conquest. It also quotes from 'Evangeline' by Henry W. Longfellow. Nice view of the countryside in Nova Scotia with a wide valley below and a women in period clothing looking down.   Condition: Fine.  Evangeline, Henry WadsworthLongfellow, Nova Scotia. DK-5  (Book ID 9261)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Way Hiawatha Took Minnehaha Home, Minnesota."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 11943 (169). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside with quotes from Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' along with the old fashioned remarks about native americans. Staged photo of Hiawatha taking Minnehaha home in his canoe with a wigwam in the background of the lake. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Longfellow, Minnesota, Canoes. DK-9  (Book ID 9484)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Wordsworth's Home, Rydal Mount, England."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13123 (362). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside discussing Wordsworth's home (for 40 years) and his love for nature. Nice view of the home framed with trees and folage. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  William Wordsworth, Poetry, England. DK-5  (Book ID 9191)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph; Robert Burn's Cottage -- Room Where the Poet Was Born, Ayr, Scotland  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  Undated. Photograph title: "Burn's Cottage -- Room where the Poet was Born, Ayr, Scotland". The scene shows a room with a stone floor and a small fireplace on one wall; the adjoining wall holds a plate and cup rack. The corner of these two walls holds a radiator and a small stool. A description on the back of the photograph describes this corner as the chimney corner and is referred to as a "wee bit ingle" in Burns's poem "The Cotter's Saturday Night". The "Cotter" was Burns's father.   Birthplace. Family Home. Poet. Poetry. Scottish Literature.  (Book ID 3620)  $10.00 Paul Horgan, Frank Waters. Memorial Exhibition.  University of Arizona Library.  Tucson, Arizona.  1995.  'Special Collections'. [12] pages; pale blue paper wrapper (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch) stapled with title on the cover. Signed by Lawrence Powell and Theresa Salazar in ink. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Southwest, Literature, Lawrence C. Powell. DK-77  (Book ID 11593)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Abbotsford, Home of Sir Walter Scott"  1891.  Mounted photograph (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) on a board (14 x 11 inch).. Image in b/w of Abbotsford overlooking the formal gardens. Note on the back says a date of 1891. Very good clear photograph.   Condition: Very Good.  Scottish Poets, Abbotsford. DK-48  (Book ID 10936)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Banqueting Hall, Kentlworth Castle  Mounted photograph (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) on a board (11 x 8 1/2 inch).View of the ruins of the Castle covered in ivy. This was the site of several novels by Sir Walter Scott. Circa.1880s. Very good clear copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Churches. DK-48  (Book ID 10939)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Gray's Burial Site."  Mounted photograh (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch) on a board (14 x 10 inch). View of the 'Stoke Pogis Church' and its cemetary. This is where the poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771) is buried in the country Churchyard made famous by his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751). Crica 1890   Condition: Very Good.  Thomas Gray, English Poets. DK-48  (Book ID 10938)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Kenilworth Castle from Outer Court."  mounted phototgraph (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inch) on a board (13 x 10 inch). Image of the Kenilworth Castle from the outer court looking up the hill. A water streak (3 inch) in the upper left hand corner. circa.1880s   Condition: Very Good.  Kenilworth Castle, Sir Walter Scott. DK-48  (Book ID 10940)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Shakespeare's House"  1891.  Mounted photograph (11 x 7 1/2 inch) on board (12 x 10 inch). Image in b/w of Shakespeare's house in timber post style/Tudor three stories high with a gate around it. Circa 1890's.   Condition: Very Good.  Shakespeare, Residence. DK-48  (Book ID 10937)  $25.00 Photograph Mounted. "Sir Walter Scott's Library"  Mounted photograph (8 x 5 1/2 inch) on a largeboard (12 1/2 x 11 inch). Image in b/w of Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford in Scotland. Looking toward a fireplace in the two story library with desk to the left. Circa.1880s.   Condition: Very Good.  Sir Walter Scott, Scotland. DK-48  (Book ID 10934)  $25.00 Photographs Mounted (5) "Shakespeare"  Mounted photographs (4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch), five of them on board (14 x 11). Photographs are numbered #275 - Shakespears House, #276 - Room Shakespeare was born in, #266 - Holy Trinity Church, #269 - another view of the church, and #282 - portrait of Shakespeare. In very good condition. Circa 1890's.   Condition: Very Good.  Shakespeare, Holy Trinity Church. DK-48  (Book ID 10943)  $25.00 Photogravure. "James Whitcomb Riley"  circa.1890. Photogravure rectangle portrait (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch) on paper (6 x 9 inch) of his upper body with signature below. James W. Riley (1849-1916) was an Indiana writer and poet best known for his poem 'Little Orphant Annie'. He was a newspaper man and in 1883 his collection of poems 'The Old Swimmin Hole' allowed him to write full time and gain fame. Good clean portrait.   Condition: Very Good.  American Poets, Poet Portraits. DK-55  (Book ID 11108)  $15.00 Portals of Fantasy: A Student Anthology. C.K. McClatchy Senior High School.  The Nugget Press.  Sacramento, California.  1940.  First Edition.  Number 41 of 110 copies. xii, 84 pages; illustrations (block prints); green cloth with lettering on the cover and spine with design. Set up, printed, and bound by students of pirnting at C.K. McClatchy Senior High School. A collection of writtings from students at McClatchy Senior High School - among the authors Ralph Weston, Barbara Maloney, Arthur Waugh, Cecily McRae, Jean Harelson, Fran Cartier, Bob Harris, among many others. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  C.K. McClatchy Senior High School, Fine Press, Literature. DK-109  (Book ID 12253)  $47.50 Princess Mary's Gift Book.  Hodder & Stoughton.  London, England.  140 pages; illustrations, color plates; publisher's white binding with black lettering on the cover and spine. Former owner's bookplate on the inside cover. Series of short stories, among them: 'A Holiday in Bed' J.M. Barrie; 'Canada's Word' Ralph Conner; 'Bimbashi Joyce' A.Conan Doyle; 'Magepa the Buck' H. Rider Haggard; 'Big Steamers' Rudjard Kipling; 'Out of the Jaws of Death: A Pimpernel Story' Baroness Orezy; 'Fleur-de-lis' Kate Douglas Wiggin; among others. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  British Royality, English Literature. DK-42  (Book ID 10793)  $37.50 Romanae Historiae Anthologia Recognita & Aucta. An English Exposition of the Roman Antiquities: Wherein Many Roman and English Offices are Parallel'd, and Divers Obscure Phrases Explain'd.  Printed for R. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard.  London.  1689.  (vi), 270 pages + 20 page index, full leather. Tight, boards bowed, top edge of first few leaves worm damaged, affecting just a few letters, ink notes on front free end paper, end leaves at rear torn out, some light staining, but generally the paper is quite fresh and flexible. Comments on Roman customs at marriages and funerals, games, magistrates, punishments, clothing, law.   Early Printed Books; Leather Bindings; Literature  (Book ID 5808)  $150.00 Steel Engraved Portait " Edgar Allan Poe"  Circa.1860s. Steel engraved portrait (3 x 3 1/2 inch) of Poe, head and shoulder image with no moustache, on a paper sheet (5 1/2 x 8 inch). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was America's first great writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Inventor of detective fiction and advocate of the short story. Portrait of Poe in his early 30s.   Condition: Very Good.  American Literature,  (Book ID 11003)  $15.00 Go to page: 1 2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23

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