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Powell, Lawrence Clark Land of Fiction: Thirty-Two Novels and Stories About Southern California from Romona to the Loved One. A Bibliographical Essay.
The Historical Society of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 1991. Limited to 350 copies, 100 copies autographed and bound in maroon cloth, 250 copies in red cloth. First published in Dawson's Book Shop's Early California Travels Series as volume six (1952). xiv, [56] pages; bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. This copy is signed by Powell on the front flyleaf in ink, his full signature. Bibliography of 32 novels and stories with the title broken into History & Romances, Society & Satires, Movies, Murders, and Personal Testaments. Condition: Fine. Books About Los Angeles, Fiction, Lawrence C. Powell. DK-72 (Book ID 11442) $47.50

Powell, Lawrence Clark Mysterious Transformation: Or, When Does History Become Literature and Other Uncollected Essays and Addresses on Landscape, Literature, History and Morality.
Books West Southwest. Tucson, Arizona. 1993. First Edition. One of 50 signed specially bound copies by Mark Sanders, boxed and signed by the author, designer and binder. 246 pages; bound in cloth boards with leather spine and gilt lettering, boxed. Collection of Powell's short writings on - Mostly Arizona, eight items; Mostly New Mexico-Texas, five essays; These for California, four essays; One Librarian's Morality, thirteen essays. Handsome clean copy in the clean box. Condition: Fine. Fine Press, Lawrence C. Powell Writings. DK-71 (Book ID 11400) $150.00

Powell, Lawrence Clark Southwest Classics: The Creative Literature of the Arid Lands. Essays on the Books and Their Writers.
The Ward Ritchie Press. Los Angeles, California. 1974. First Edition. viii, 370 pages; illustrations; index; bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket with title on the cover and spine under mylar. Bookplate of John Haskell Kemble, noted California author and historian, on the inside cover. Bibliography of twenty-six writers on the Southwest in which Powell tries to do for the Southwest what his 'California Classics' did for California. Among the authors are Josiah Gregg, Lewis H. Garrard, Charles Lummis, Mabel Luhan, D.H. Lawrence, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Eugene M. Rhodes, Stewart White, Zane Grey, and so on. As usual his comments are more literary than bibliographical. Wonderful association copy in fine, clean condition. Condition: Fine. Bibliographies, Southwestern Literature, Lawrence C. Powell. DK-71 (Book ID 11405) $47.50

Rabelais, Francois The Works of Francois Rabelais. Trnaslated By Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with the Notes of Duchat, Ozell, and Others; Introduction and Revision of Alfred Wallis.
Gibbings and Company Limited. London, England. 1901. Five volumes handsomely bound in three-quarter blue leather., with gilt decorations and raised bands Gilt edging to the top of the pages. I: "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel. Heretofore composed by M. Alcofribas, Abstractor of the Quintessence"; xxi, 329 pages; illustrations. II: "Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes. With his Heroic Acts and Prowesses. Composed by the Late M. Alcofribas"; xi, 232 pages; illustrations. III: "The Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes. Composed by M. Fran. Rabelais, Doctor in Medicine"; viii, 332 pages; illustrations. IV: "The Fourth Book of The Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel, His Voyages and Wonders. Composed by M. Fran. Rabelais, Doctor in Medicine"; xi, 296 pages; illustrations. V: "The Fifth and Last Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel, His Visit to the Oracle. Composed by M. Fran. Rabelais, Doctor of Medicine"; viii, 261 pages; illustrations. Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553) was a French humorist and satirist of the first rank. He became a monk, studied medicine, and traveled widely in France and Italy. Is most famous for his two novels, published under his pseudonym Alcofrias Nasier (an anagram) PANTAGRUEL (1533) and GARGANTUA (1535), both noted for their broad and racy humor and grotesque invention. The introduction to the set by Alfred Wallis in volume one covers the translations of Rabelais' works, especially Sir Thomas Urquhart, and his influence on English writers during the 17th and 18th centuries. The illustrations are reproductions in photogravure of those engraved for the Amsterdam edition of 1741. Condition: Fine. French Literature. DK-38 (Book ID 10654) $150.00

Reade, Charles Peg Woffington
George Allen. London. 1899. Illustrated Cloth. Illustrated by Thomson, Hugh. Introduction and illustrations original to this edition. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Front cover and spine illustrated. 298 pages. From the Introduction: "From a biographical point of view, Mrs. Woffington's fate has been curious. She has been made (as one of her critics has said) the heroine of a romance which is more than half a memoir -- she has been made the heroine of a memoir which is more than half a romance". "To the volume which is avowedly fiction, and which is by Charles Reade, the following pages are intended as an introduction, whose modest function -- in addition to supplementing certain portions of Margaret Woffington's career only partially treated by the novelist -- is to recapitulate the leading incidents of that career as they have been ascertained by her more recent biographers". Illustrated Books. Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Novel. Drama. Theatre. (Book ID 4498) $25.00

Repplier, Agnes In Our Covent Days
Houghton Mifflin and Company. Boston and New York. 1905. First Edition. Publisher's slate green cloth with gilt lettering. Autograph quotation signed by author on dedication page: "Angles Repplier. Philadelphia. Dec. 1905. 'In the dark ages when we went to school, no one had yet discovered that play is more instructive than work.'" Non-authorial inscription on front end paper: "Florence Bascom from Helen J. Robbins. December 25, 1905." Charming essays on the author's early years, with much on her Catholic school years. Some rubbins, tip and bottom of spine. 257 pages. Condition: Very Good. Signed and Inscribed Books. Literary Essays. Catholic Education (Book ID 8416) $50.00

Richards, Laura E. Captain January; Being the Centennial Edition or the Hundredth Thousand
Estes and Lauriat.. Boston. 1898. Edition De Luxe. Cloth Backed Boards. Illustrated by Bicknell, W. H. W.. Front cover label; spine label with some damage. Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after drawings by Frank T. Merrill. No 578 of 1000 copies printed; signed by the author. Gilt edged page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Film producer Cecil B. DeMille's copy with his attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and signed by him on the front end paper. Contents include: Star Bright; The Story; Introducing Imogen and Bob; The Visit; Captain January's Star; The Signal. Childrens Literature. Literature. Story. Fiction. (Book ID 4487) $100.00

Riley, James Whitcomb Memorial Edition. James Whitcomb Riley's Complete Works. Including Poems and Prose Sketches, Many of Which Have Not Hertofore Been Published; an Authentic Biography, an Elaborate Index and Numerous Illustrations in Color from Paintings By (cont) ...
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis, Indiana. 1916. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and Ethel Franklin Betts. (title cont) ". . . Howard Chandler Christy and Ethel Franklin Betts." Ten volumes bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; gilt edging to the top of the pages. I: 284 pages; frontportrait. II: pages 285-571, plates. III: pages 573-856, plates. IV: pages 857-1139, plates. V: pages 1141-1422, plates. VI: pages 1423-1704, plates. VII: pages 1705-1965, plates. VIII: pages 1967-2238, plates. IX: pages 2239-2616, plates. X: pages 2517-2801, plates, indexes. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was a noted Indiana author and poet. He wrote over a thousand poems, over half in the Indiana dialect and was awarded in 1912 the National Institute of Arts and Letters, its first Gold Medal of Poetry. He is most famous for his poem 'Little Orphant Annie'. This Memorial Edition ccontains all his writings. Blanck - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, VII: # 16716 "Reprint save for 'Youth and Age' in vol.5; 'St. Lirriper' in vol. 7; and, 'Something', 'A Christmas-Time Jingle', 'When Baby Played', When Baby Slept', and 'When Baby Woke' in vol. 9". Fine clean set. Condition: Fine. American Literature, Poetry, Indiana Authors. DK-86 (Book ID 11821) $150.00

Riley, James Whitcomb Out to Old Aunt Mary's
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy (and) Margaret Armstrong. (1904). "Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. First separate published edition, BAL16667, mixed state. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and white decorations around an oval portrait of Aunt Mary on front cover. Decorated endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Christy and light orange decorations by Armstrong. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches Former owner's signature on front pastedown.. Unpaginated, but 96 pages. Condition: Very Good. Indiana Authors. American Poetry. Margaret Armstrong Bindings (Book ID 8513) $37.50

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