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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Gray, Thomas  The Poems of Mr. Gray. With Notes By Gilbert Wakefield, B.A.  Printed for G. Kearsley.  London.  1786.  xxvii, 207 pages, leather with some gilt detailing, 8.5 x 5". Very good, bookplate at front and at rear, interior quite clean and fresh. Ode on Spring, On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode to Adversity, his well known Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, and others.   Literature; Poetry; Early Printed Books  (Book ID 5825)  $150.00 Gray, Thomas  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. Edited, with a Life By Rev. John Mitford.  Little, Brown and Company..  Boston, Massachusetts.  1863.  cxviii, 223 pages; portrait; publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Corners slightly bumped, small stain on the front cover (1/2 inch spuare). Contents: Memoir of Gray; poems; posthumous poems and fragments; extracts; poemata; extracts. Fine clean copy   Condition: Fine.  English Poetry. DK-94  (Book ID 11996)  $25.00 Gray, Thomas and Dr. J. L. Williams  Gray's Elegy and Its Author: Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard with an Introduction and Illustrations from Orignal Photographys.  Nims and Knight.  Troy, New York.  1891.  Illustrated by Dr. J.L. Williams..  Gray's 18th century 'classic' accompanied by printed photos and a brief introduction to the "elegy" covering Gray's life and family.Oblong 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Bound in publishers green cloth and gilt edging. Light extremity wear. Internally clean and nice. Tissue papers overlaying the photogravuers. 41 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, Elegy, Eton College, Stoke Pogis  (Book ID 8791)  $37.50 Greene, Joseph and Elizabeth Abell, Editors  Stories of Sudden Truth.  Ballantine Books.  New York.  First Edition.  (1953). 255 pages, black and grey boards, dust jacket, 7.5 x 5". Fine copy but for darkened paper. Twenty short stories by John Hersey, William Saroyan, Eudora Welty, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote, and others.   Modern First editions; Short Stories  (Book ID 6100)  $37.50 Greenslet, Ferris  James Russell Lowell, His Life and Work  Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1905..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrations. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Sun fading spine and top edge front cover. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 309 pages. Ink notation front cover. Contents include: The Youth of a Poet; Poet and Abolitionist; Professor and Editor; Public Man and Critic; Diplomatist; Last Years; Lowell's Poetry; and Lowell's Prose.   American Literature. Biography. Poet. Prose. Professor. Teacher. Abolitionist. Diplomat.  (Book ID 267)  $15.00 Grey, Zane  The Call of the Canyon  Harper and Brothers, Publishers.  New York and Boston.  First Edition.  Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering and decorations. Slight hand soiling back cover, otherwise a very nice copy. Four black and white illustrations by Henry Russell Ballinger. 291 pages, plus one leaf of advertising for other books offered by the publisher.   Condition: Very Good.  Western Fiction. California Authors  (Book ID 8721)  $17.50 Grey, Zane  The Young Pitcher.  Musson Book Co., Limited.  Toronto.  (March, 1911, first Canadian edition). v, 249 pages, 4 plates, pictorial tan cloth, cover illustration stamped in black and white, spine stamped in black and gilt, 7.5 x 5". Very good or better, two small brown spots on back cover, a gift inscription on free end paper. A story of college baseball players.   Baseball; Sports; Literature  (Book ID 5946)  $175.00 Gronovius, Joannes Fredericus  Lectiones Plautinae, quibus non tantum fabulae Plautinae (et) Terentianae verum etiam Caesar, Cicero, Livius, Virgilius, Ovidius  Apud J. Haffman.  Amstelaedami.  1740.  Vellum.  In Latin. 398 pages. Spine label. Small card with hand written note dated 7-12-1930 affixed to front end paper. Contents include: Praefatio Clariss, Auctoris; Lectiones Plautinae; Asinaria; Curculio; Cistellaria; Epidicus; Mostellaria; Poenulus; Persa; Truculentus; etc.   Literature. Literary Works. Classics. Ancient Writings. Latin. Italian.  (Book ID 3945)  $125.00 Grubb, David  Beneath the Visiting Moon: An English Childhood.  Anthony Mott Limited.  London, England.  1983.  First Edition.  186 pages; bound in dark green boards, gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket under mylar. Signed and dated on the title page and inscribed on the front end paper by the author: "This copy for Bob. 'The voice from winter intones' England. 1986.". Included is a one page autograph letter signed from the author to 'Bob' The letter, dated 1-1-86, concerns Grubbs writing career. As new in a as new dust jacket.   Condition: As New.  English Poets, 20th Century. DK-98  (Book ID 12101)  $47.50 Gruber, Frank  The Honest Dealer  Rinehard & Company.  New York.  1947.  First Edition.  Publisher's dark gray cloth with orange lettering. A nice, clean copy but without dust wrapper. Rinehart insigna on copyright page. Baird & Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction number 982: "Slueths Johnn Fletcher and Sam Cragg track down crime on the fambling scene. Death Valley and Las Vegas." 188 pages   Condition: Very Good.  Detective Fiction. Mystery Fiction. Novels Set in California and Nevada. Gambling Fiction  (Book ID 8457)  $25.00 Guedalla, Philip  Bonnet and Shawl; An Album  Crosby Gaige. New York. 1928..  First Edition.  Cloth backed patterned boards. No. 454 of 571 copies printed by Wm. Edwin Rudge. Signed by the author. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Book plate front end paper. Contents include: Real -- Jane Welsh Carlyle, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Arnold, Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily Tennyson and Emily Palmerston; Ideal -- Lady Muriel James, Sophia Swinburne and Julie De Goncourt.   LITERATURE. ENGLISH. PROSE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 163)  $22.50 Habberton, John  Autograph Letter Signed  1899.  New Rochelle, New York, June 10, 1899. Handwritten letter on one page, 4 1/2 x 7, five lines. Habberton (1841-1921) was an American editor, author, and drama critic. In this short letter he declines to give out his pen name.   American Editor. Author. Drama Critic. Writer. Publications. Pen Name. Opinions. Theatre. Stage. Theatrical Productions.  (Book ID 5076)  $25.00 Habington, William; Edward Arber, Editor  Castara  None.  London.  1870.  Illustrated Paper Boards.  The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier ones of 1634, 1635. English Reprints. Large Paper Edition. Uncut page edges. Unopened pages. Chipping to front edges and spine. Contents include: Bibliography, with First Lines, etc., of the three first editions. showing the growth of the work; Castara, The first part, A Character, A Mistress, Fifty-seven Poems, chiefly on Love and Courtship; Castara, the Second Part, A Character, A Wife, Fifty Poems, chiefly on Wedded Happiness, Eight Elegies, the Funerals of the Honourable my best friend and Kinsman, George Talbot, Esquire; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Bibliography. Poems. Poetry. Elegies.  (Book ID 4441)  $37.50 Hagedorn, Herman  This Darkness and This Light: Harvard Poems, 1907-1937  Privately Printed for the Class of 1907.  Cambridge, Massachusetts.  1938.  First Edition.  One of 750 copies printed. Signed by the author. Hagedorn was a member of the Harvard class of 1907. This collection consists of his poems done for the class reunions. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. 41 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Harvard University. American Poetry  (Book ID 8116)  $25.00 Haggard, H. Rider  King Solomon's Mines (Cover Title)  F. M. Lupton.  New York.  1893.  Illustrated Wrappers.  "The Arm Chair Library"; each number contains a complete novel by a popular author. A series of paperback books published weekly. This book is No. 4 in the series, dated January 28, 1893, with illustrated wrappers. .   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Paperback Books. Novels.  (Book ID 3518)  $20.00 Hale, Edward Everett  James Russell Lowell and His Friends  Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1899..  First Edition.  Cloth.  With portraits, facsimiles, and other illustrations. Gilt lettering and trim front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Crease in back cover. Contents include: His Boyhood and Early Life; Harvard College; The Brothers and Sisters; Lowell as a Public Speaker; Lowell's Experience as an Editor; Politics and the War; Twenty Years of Harvard; Minister to England; etc.   American Literature. Biography. Teacher. Editor. Public Speaker. Public Service.  (Book ID 266)  $25.00 Hall, Radclyffe  The Master of the House.  Jonathan Cape.  London, Toronto and New York.  1932.  490 pages, beige cloth with vellum spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled end leaves, #107 of 172 copies, signed by the author. Lightly soiled, still a very nice copy, tight, fine interior.   Modern First Editions. Literature  (Book ID 6410)  $250.00 Hammond, Chas. F.  Poems of Portland, Oregon. And the Great North West.  Portland, Oregon.  1926.  [33] pages; brown paper wrapper with leather strap binding (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) with title on the cover in red. According to library database worldcat published in 1926, Portland, Oregon by the Associated General Contractors of America. A series of poems: Portland the City of Roses; The Boosters Outburst; The Tale of the Oregon Trail; For You a Rose, in Portland Grows; The Great North West; and The Wooing of the Rose. Printed on one side only of the pages. Large oily stain on the front cover (4 1/2 x 2 inch), some wear and evidence of folding along the edges, clean text.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, Pacific Northwest, Oregon. DK-76  (Book ID 11573)  $25.00 Hamsun, Knut  Konerne Ved Vandposten  1920.  First Edition.  Gyldendalski Boghandel. Nordisk Forlag. Kristiania og Kobenhavn. Two volumes in one. Attractive quarter leather binding. On copyright page: "1-12 Tusind" (or first through 12th thousand). Former owner's name on front pastedown. Very good. 559 pages. Hamsun was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, the year this novel was published. In English, the title of this book is "The Woman at the Pump."   Nobel Prize. Norway. Farming Fiction.  (Book ID 5391)  $200.00 Hansen, Harry  Herman Wouk; A Biographical Sketch  No Publisher. (1962). No City..  Illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. This pamphlet provides a biographical sketch of Herman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny"; "Marjorie Morningstar"; "Youngblood Hawke" and other novels. He was born in 1915 to Russian Jewish parents who had emigra ted from Minsk. He attended public schools in the Bronx and later was graduated from Columbia University in Manhattan. From 1936 to 1941 he and a partner wrote for Fred Allen. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Wouk joined the Navy a nd was assigned to a destroyer-mine-sweeper in the Pacific for the next three years. After his 1946 release from military duty he plunged into the world of writing novels.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. NOVELS. WRITINGS. PUBLICATIONS. AUTHOR.  (Book ID 3138)  $10.00 Harding, Edward J.  Cothurnus and Lyre  The Authors' Publishing Company. 1878. New York..  First Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  Signed by the author: "Edw. J. Harding, March 12, 1878". Manuscript corrections in author's hand on pages 104, 112 and 117. Gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Front cover has slight discoloration at leading edge; back cover has slightly more discoloration at leading edge. Chipping top and bottom of spine. Last several pages in the book are advertisements for "New Books" from The Authors' Publishing Company. From the Introduction: "The contents of this little volume are the work of a young English book-keeper at present residing in New York, and were composed in the scanty leisure of his evenings and early mornings". A play in five acts. "The scene is laid at a seaside village in the west of England, and the action passes in the present Victorian age. " Also eighteen odes: To Iole; Ad Urbem et Orbem; At Random; To Fortune; To Leuconoe; To Sleep; To Phoebus Apollo; To O. B. Frothingham; To Aulus Julius Rufus; etc.   A PLAY. LITERATURE. LITERARY WORK. WRITINGS. ODES.  (Book ID 2961)  $37.50 Harland, Henry  My Friend Prospero  S. S. McClure Co. 1903. No City..  BAL 7089. Paper backed boards. Front cover label. Illustrations. Bound up from the magazine. Advance copy for private distribution only. With the compliments of McClure, Phillips & Co. "My Friend Prospero" was originally published in six parts, all of which are included in this volume.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. PUBLICATIONS. SHORT STORIES.  (Book ID 2706)  $75.00 Harland, Marion  Sunnybank.  Sheldon and Company.  New York.  1866.  First Edition.  415 pages, brown cloth with gilt spine title, 7.5 x 5". Worn, extremities chipped, two signatures started, paper darkened. Story set in Virginia during the Civil War.   American Literature. Civil War. Women Authors  (Book ID 6676)  $50.00 Harper, Henry H.  The Genius of Henry Fielding (with Selections from His Works)  Printed Exclusively for The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1919..  Paper Backed Boards.  Frontispiece. Gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Page sides and bottoms uncut.   LITERATURE, ENGLISH,  (Book ID 130)  $37.50 Harper, Henry Howard  Byron's Malach Hamoves (Revised Edition) A Commentary on Leigh Hunt's Work Entitled "Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries"  Privately Printed. Boston. 1933..  Boards in Slip Case.  Book and slip case each have spine label. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Illustration on title page. Page 5 footnote: "In the old Hebraic language 'Malach Hamoves' means Angel of Death -- in other words a sort of diabolical enemy that attacks the spirit after the body is entombed". From page 6: "Byron lived in an age prolific of literary genius -- likewise an age prolific of literary critics. Both he and Shelly -- foremost among the poetic geniuses of their generation -- were actually driven into exile by the criticism and obloquy heaped upon them by persons who were as incapable of interpreting their true natures as they were of appreciating their works."   English Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Poems. Writings. Verse. Poetry Critics.  (Book ID 198)  $37.50 Harriman, Alice  Wilt Thou Not Sing? A Book of Verses  The Alice Harriman Company.  New York.  First Edition.  (1912). Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Inscribed by the author: "Dear Mrs. Weir: Nothing of common street has worth when I can sing from stars distil. Alice Harriman" Light foxing on front end paper. Introduction by Alexander Harvey. Poems include: In the Hop Fields; The Timber Cruiser; An Alaska Widow; Totem Poles; A Letter From Alaska; Seattle; Tacoma; Alaska; The Alaskan's Dream; California Poppies; etc. 94 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry. Northwest Literature. Washington State Writers  (Book ID 8033)  $50.00 Harris, Frank  Elder Conklin and Other Stories.  Frank Harris.  New York.  1920.  277 pages, green cloth with gilt title, undersized dust wrapper. Nice copy, jacket with a little edge wear, tear in page 119, no loss. Collection of stories of the Middle West written in 1891-93.   Literature; Essays; Midwest  (Book ID 6049)  $37.50 Harris, George W.  Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun By a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool. Warped and Wove for Public Wear.  Dick & Fitzgerald.  New York.  (1867). Wright, Fiction II no. 1104. Plates, orig. cloth. Humorous yarns in Southern dialect. "Snake-bit Irishman", "Eaves-dropping a lodge of Free-Masons", "Sut at a Negro Night-Meeting", "Trapping a Sheriff", and more.   Condition: Very Good.  American Dialect Humor. Southern Fiction. 19th Century American Fiction.  (Book ID 5575)  $47.50 Harris, Joel Chandler  The Story of Aaron (so named) the Son of Ben Ali, Told By His Friends and Acquaintances.  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston & New York.  1896.  First Edition, First Issue.  Illustrated by Herford, Oliver.  198 pages, 25 plates by Oliver Herford, decorated beige cloth showing two children riding a black stallion, 8.5 x 6.5". Nice copy, spine with some small lighter spots. First edition, first issue, BAL 7135. Stories of Gristle, the Gray Pony, Rambler, the Track Dog, Grunter, the White Pig, the Black Stallion, etc.   Literature; Childrens and Illustrated Books; Horses  (Book ID 6066)  $100.00 Harris, William Welton  Autograph Letter Signed  One page. January 29, 1906. Written to cartoonist Bert Cobb, asking him to send along some pencil sketches and some other finished work. (Cobb went on to draw the comic stirp "Stumble-Toe Joe" in 1907. He had a subsequent career as and etcher who specialized in show dogs). On "The Evening Telegram" stationery. New York. Some splitting along the original folds of the letter. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.   Condition: Very Good.  Autographs and Manuscripts. Newspapers. Cartooning  (Book ID 8086)  $25.00 Harrison, W. H.  The Humourist, A Companion for the Christmas Fireside  R. Ackermann.  London.  1831.  Full-Leather.  Fifty engravings, "From Designs by the late T. Rowlandson" (exclusive of numerous vignettes). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. All page edges are gilt. 280 pages. In the Preface the author describes this book: "To promote the hilarity of the winter's hearth by the application of humour to a variety of subject -- occasionally to launch the shaft of satire at the vices and follies of the day -- and, generally, to subserve the cause of virtue -- are the objects of this work; and it is sent forth into the world in the honest confidence that if, unhappily for its design, it should fail to create a smile, it will, in no instance, afford occasion for a blush". Contents include: The Living Legacy, or the Doctors Puzzled; The Bull and the Botanists; A Chapter of Accidents; Love in a Box; A Taste of Matrimony; The Cow Doctor; The Steeple Chase; The Modern Ulysses; The Antiquary; My First Love; Hydrophobia; The Dumb Monitors, or the Sot Reclaimed; etc.   Condition: Fine.  English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Publications. Fiction. Humour. Satire.  (Book ID 3944)  $150.00 Hart, Walter Morris  High Comedy in the Odyssey (cover title)  University of California Press.  Berkeley and Los Angeles.  1943.  Illustrated Wrappers.  16-page booklet. University of California Publications in Classical Philology, Volume 12, No. 14, pp. 263-278. From the first page (page 263), the author notes: "The Odyssey is romance, but it is rich in comedy; its comic scenes are developed by Homer with especial and loving elaboration". The author goes on to describe the humor in the Odyssey. Ink notation front cover.   Literature. The Classics. Homer. Epic Novels. Literary Works. Humorous Writings.  (Book ID 4171)  $10.00 Harte, Bret  By Shore and Sedge  Houghton Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1885..  First Edition, First State.  Embossed Cloth.  BAL 7330. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. 260 pages. Contents include: An Apostle of the Tules; Sarah Walker, and A Ship of '49.   American Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. Tales. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 165)  $25.00 Harte, Bret  Flip and Found at Blazing Star  Houghton Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1882..  First American Edition, First State.  Embossed Cloth.  BAL 7321. Binding A. Gilt lettering front cover and spine; chipping top and bottom spine. 192 pages. 192 pages. Contents include: Flip -- A California Romance; and Found at Blazing Star.   American Literature. Short Stories. Tales. Fiction. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 166)  $27.50 Harte, Bret  Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories.  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston, Mass.  1899.  First Edition.  FIRST EDITION. 289 pages; brown cloth binding with black lettering on the cover, gilt lettering on the spine (5 x 7 1/4 inch). Contains 'Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation', 'The Man at the Semaphore', 'An Esmeralda of Rocky Canon', 'Dick Spindler's Family Christmas', 'When the Waters were up at 'Jules',' 'The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion',' 'The Secret of Sobriente's Well, and 'Liberty Jones's Discovery'. Blanck BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE #7392-S   Condition: Fine.  Bret Harte, American Literature. DK-79  (Book ID 11648)  $37.50 Harte, Bret  Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands, and Other Sketches  James R. Osgood and Company.  Boston.  1873.  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 7266. Slight chipping top and bottom of spine. 352 pages. Contents include: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; The Princess Bob and her Friends; The Romance of Madrono Hollow; Urban Sketches include -- A Venerable Imposter; Sidewalkings; A Boy's Dog; Neighborhoods I Have Moved From, etc.; Legends and Tales -- The Adventure of Padre Vicentio; The Devil and the Broker; The Ogress of Silver Land; The Ruins of San Francisco; etc.   American Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. Tales. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 168)  $37.50 Hasbrouck, Hylah  Autograph Manuscript. "History of Fortnightly Club of Warwick" Among Others.  A collection of nine manuscripts by Hylah Hasbrouck (1882-1979) dealing with various subjects which were presented to 'The Fortnightly Club' based in Warwick, New York which was based along the lines of a Choutougua Club model. The club was formed around some forty local citizens who meet to give and hear educational presentations, discuss issues and socialize. Ms Hasbrouck was a long time member of the club and over the years gave presentations and wrote articles on Warwick history. Among the manuscripts is a 15 page "History ofthe Fortnightly Club of Warwick, New York" written in 1921 while she was secretary of the club. It goes into the founding members, intial committees, along with many of the topics covered and voted on. Among them were Suffrage, Prohibition, annexing the Philippine Islands, joining the League of Nations, travels, and history. Along with the club history are eight other presentations that Ms Hasbrouck made to the Club over the years (1908-1931). They are: The Evolution of Lighting, 1915 - 28 pages (12 pages on street lights coming to Warwick); Desdomona, 1908 - 10 pages; Charles Dickens, 1912 - 21 pages; Russia, 1913 -27 pages; The World's Food Problem, 1917 - 10 pages; Constantinople, 1923 - 15 pages; I.Q.s, 1928 -12 pages; The Effects of Russia's 5 Year Plan, 1931- 16 pages; along with two related items for the club, one a manuscript and the other typed. Altogether an interesting group of papers by a very bright mind. All unpublished.   Condition: Very Good.  Suffrage, Prohibition, Self Education, Warwick, New York, Electric Lighting. DK-13  (Book ID 9657)  $175.00 Hayward, Richard  "Rathlin Island" from 'In Praise of Ulster'.  1938.  Typed manuscript (10 pages) by Richard Hayward (1892-1964) from his IN PRAISE OF ULSTER (1938) published by A. Barker of London. This section deals with 'Rathlin Island' in the North Channel Islands of the Irish Sea relating to travel and folklore. The manuscript came from the papers of Saxe Commins, an editor at Random House.   Condition: Fine.  Travel Literature, Foldklore, Irish Literature. DK-17  (Book ID 9839)  $50.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Complete Lectures On Poets  The Hokuseido Press.  Tokyo.  1934.  First Edition.  Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Some creasing to tissue guard of title page, otherwise fine and unworn. In publisher's very uncommon slipcase which has some soiling and wear. Edited by Kyuji Tanabe, Teisaburo Ochiai and ichiro nishizaki. Bibliography of American Literature number 8029. Based on lectures by Hearn given to his Japanese students and from notes taken by them. Contents include: Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, Mr. and Mrs. Browning, George Meredith, William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, Edward Fitzgerald, Herrick, Crabbe, Cowper, William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Thomas Campbell, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, Rossetti, Robert Bridges, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Walt Whitman. 841 pages, plus 10 page index and tipped in publisher's colophon.   Condition: Fine.  American and British Poetry.  (Book ID 8574)  $150.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Editorials.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston & New York.  1926.  First trade edition. BAL 7994. 356 pages, dark olive cloth with gilt spine title. Title portion of spine rubbed, very good. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. Editorials written by Hearn during his New Orleans days for the 'Item' and the 'Times-Democrat'. Wide variety of topics.   Literature; Essays  (Book ID 6050)  $25.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Exotica; Noveller Och Studier Fran Japan; Bemyndigad Ofversattning Af Karin Hirn; Med Nagra Notiser Om Forfattaren Af Yrjo Hirn; Fjarde Upplagan  Wahlstrom & Widstrand.  Stockholm.  1/4 Leather With Cloth.  (1907). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Slight chipping to top of spine. Damp stains to back cover.   Swedish Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Writings. Publication.  (Book ID 3858)  $37.50 Hearn, Lafcadio  The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories  Houghton Mifflin and Company.  Boston & New York.  1905.  First Edition.  209 pages, chapter headings in red, also a Japanese style ornament in red on every page, charcoal and yellow cloth, 7.5 x 5". Very good. These stories were collected after Hearn's death on September 26, 1904 in Japan. First edition, BAL 7943.   Literature; Literary Works; Essays  (Book ID 6068)  $125.00 Heliodorus  The Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia, Romance, Being the Rise, Progress, Tryals, and Happy Success of the Heroic Lives of Those Two Illustrious Persons. Wherein the Following Histories are Intermixed I. The Treacherous Slave; or Cruel (cont.)  W. Taylor, ....  London, England.  1717.  (title cont.) " ... Step-mother. II. The Wandering Prelate. III. The Fighting Priest. IV. The Royal Adultress. With several other curious Events. Written Orignally in Greek ... In Two volumes." 2 volumes, separate paging. I: xxxx, 1-261 pages. II: [12] pages, 1-257, [3] pages. Bound together. Lacks half title, and front and back endpapers and one page of advertisement at end. Text complete. Top of the title page has been removed down a 1/2 inch, not effecting the title. Full leather binding, worn corners to covers and top and bottom of the spine, raised bands on spine. A fourth century 'Romance' set in the Mediterranean containing dramatic scenes of dispair and final joy. Has much adventure during their travels - pirates, criminals & mistaken identities. Intended for the young and female audience. Seems to be a first printing of a new translation of Heliodorus's work.   Condition: Very Good.  Romance, 4th Century, Greek Literature. DK-96  (Book ID 12039)  $375.00 Henderson, Archibald  Is Bernard Shaw a Dramatist? A Scientific, but Imaginary Symposium in the Neo-Socratic Manner; Conducted by Bernard Shaw's Biographer  Mitchell Kennerley. New York. 1929..  First Edition.  Cloth in Slip Case.  No. 568 of 1000 copies. Frontispiece. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Spine label on book and slip case. 33 pages. Damp stain bottom edge of slip case. From an introductory page: "This playlet was delivered as a lecture before the New York Theatre Guild, New York City, December 12th, 1928; and before the League for Political Education, the Town Hall, New York City December 17, 1928".   English Literature. Drama. Stage Production. Theatre.  (Book ID 393)  $25.00 Henry, James  Notes of a Twelve Years Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of Eneis  Meinhold and Sons.  Dresden.  1853.  First Edition.  Attractive three quarter leather with cloth boards (slightly sunned at top). Each part of this book separately paginated: xvi, 172, 130, 54, 98, 62, 70, (2) p.   Vergil, Aeneas, Aenied, Trojan War, Ancient Roman Literature  (Book ID 5168)  $100.00 Henry, O.  Sixes and Sevens  Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. 1911..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16298. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. 283 pages. Small piece missing bottom page 127. Offsetting pages 192-193. Contents include: The Last of the Troubadours; The Sleuths; Witches' Loaves; The Duplicity of Hargraves; Let Me Feel Your Pulse; The Church with an Overshot Wheel; New York by Campfire Light; The Caliph and the Cad; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN . WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 346)  $37.50 Henry, O.  Strictly Business; More Stories of the Four Million  Doubleday, Page & Company. New York. 1910..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16294. 310 pages. Small top margin stain pages 234-237. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Slight chipping bottom spine. Contents include: The Gold that Glittered; The Poet and the Peasant; The Girl and the Graft; The Thing's the Play; Psyche and the Pskyscraper; The Girl and the Habit; Past One at Rooney's; "What You Want"; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 345)  $25.00 Henry, O.  Whirligigs  Doubleday, Page & Co. New York. 1910..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16295. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. 314 pages. Contents include: The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Whirligig of Life; The Roads We Take; The Song and the Sergeant; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. LITERARY WORKS. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 347)  $25.00 Henty, G.A.  Both Sides the border, a Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1898.  First American Edition.  Illustrated by Peacock, Ralph.  378 pages, plus 32 page list of books for young readers, 12 plates by Ralph Peacock, navy cloth with decorated spine and front cover, 7.5 x 5.5". Some wear and soil. Adventure story set in 15th century England.   Literature; England  (Book ID 6046)  $37.50 Henty, G.A.  Through Russian Snows, a Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1895.  First American Edition.  Illustrated by Overend, W.H..  339 pages, 8 plates by W.H. Overend and 3 battle plans, decorated cloth, 7.5 x 5.5". Good reading copy, edge worn, a little loose, some spotting to pages 29-35.   Literature; Historical Fiction  (Book ID 6076)  $50.00 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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