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Shaw, George Bernard Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw.
Wm. H. Wise & Company.. New York, New York.. 30 volumes complete, limited to 1790 sets, this being # 233. Published between 1930 and 1932. I: Immaturity; xlviii, 438 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. II: The Irrational Knot; xxii, 352 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. III: Love Among the Artists; 353 pages; frontportrait [1930]. IV: Cashel Byron's Profession; xx, 244 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. V: An Unsocial Socialist; x, 270 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. VI: Short Stories, Scraps & Shavings; vii, 229 pages; frontportrait [1932]. VII: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, The First Volume Containing The Three Unpleasant Plays; xxvii, 253 pages; frontportrait [1930]. VIII: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, The Second Containing The Four Pleasant Plays; xxi, 305 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1931]. IX: Three Plays for Puritans, The Devel's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion; xl, 306 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. X: Man and Superman; xl, 228 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. XI: John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara; 350 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XII: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet; xi, 464 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIII: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play; ix, 335 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIV: Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion; x, 303 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XV: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playets of the War; viii, 304 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XVI: Back to Methuselah; xc, 262 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. XVII: Saint Joan, The Apple Cart; viii, 277 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XVIII: Translations and Tomfooleries; vii, 238 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIX: The Quintessence of Ibsenism, The Perfect Wagnerite, The Sanity of Art; viii, 346 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XX: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism; xliii, 563 pages; frontportrait; index [1931]. XXI: What I really Wrote About the War; xxi, 434 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXII: Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology, Sham Education; xiv, 387 pages; frontportrait [1932]. XXIII: Our Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review From January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume I; x, 302 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXIV: Our Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review from January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume II; 306 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXV: Out Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review from January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume III; 440 pages; frontportrait, illustration; index to 3 volumes [1931]. XXVI: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume I; 317 pages, frontportrait [1931]. XXVII: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week to Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume II; 342 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXVIII: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume III; 332 pages; frontportrait; index to 3 volumes [1931]. XXIX: Pen Portraits and Reviews; 321 pages; frontportrait; index [1932]. XXX: Essays in Fabian Socialism; ix, 340 pages; frontportrait; index. Uniformally bound in blue-gray boards with cloth spines, gilt top paging, gilt series title with volume number & contents on paper label on the spine. Mostly uncut pages, save several of the works and essays with introductions which have been opened. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was the leading playwrite of his time along with being a major critic of music and the theatre. Also an author of various tracts and books on socialism. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1925. The 30 volume set includes all his writings thru 1932. Also a wonderful series of portraits of Shaw over the decades. Postage at exact cost (Media Mail only) for U.S. shipment. Foreign postage prohibitive. Condition: Very Good. English Literature, Bernard Shaw Collected Works, Music Criticism, Theatre Criticism, Nobel Winner. DK-20 (Book ID 9990) $500.00

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley The Rivals: a Comedy ... With an Introduction By John Mason Brown and Illustrations By Rene Ben Sussan
Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at The Curwen Press. London. 1953. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt lettering. Publisher's slipcase with very light wear at opening and some light summing. No. 1352 of 1500 copies printed. From the colophon: "...the illustrations, having been engraved in copper by Rene ben Sussan and both the pulls from the copperplates and the hand-colouring having been done under the artist's supervision in Paris,." 12 engravings, complete. 149 pages, plus colophon. Condition: Fine. Fine Press and Printing. Artists Signed Books (Book ID 8679) $47.50

Sheridan, Thomas A General Dictionary of the English Language. One Main Object of Whch, is , to Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To Which is Prefixed a Thetorical Grammar,
Printed for J. Dodsley. London, England. 1780. First Edition. Two volumes; 3/4 leather modern binding. I: [16], unnumbered pages (A thru knuckled). II: unnumbered pages.(Lab thru zotomy). thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was a Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the 'elocution' movement. This dictionary, known as the 'Respelled Dictionary' was his major publication. Handsome two volume set. Condition: Very Good. Dictionaries, Thomas Sheridan, 'respelled dictionary'. DK-110 (Book ID 12294) $1,000.00

Sill, Edward Rowland Hermione and Other Poems
Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1899.. First Edition. Cloth. BAL 180245. "2002 copies printed". Gilt decoration and lettering front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. 109 pages. From the Note pages: The publisher comments on two previous collections of Sill's works and goes on to state "...the publishers present a third and final volume, in which they have endeavored to gather from print and manuscript such verses as may satisfy a demand created by reading an author who gave freely, but after all would have set light store upon many of his gifts. Thus the three volumes really contain a selection rather than a collection of Mr. Sill's poetical writings". American Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Verse. Rhyme. Rhythm. Writings. (Book ID 400) $25.00

Smith, Henry Justin Josslyn: The Story of an Incorrigible Dreamer
Covici-McGee Co.. Chicago. 1924. First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown and former owner's signature on front end paper. An unworn copy. Dust wrapper with very tiny chips at top and bottom of spine. From Burke & Howe, American Authors and Books: Smith, Henry Justin. (Jujne 19, 1875-Feb. 9, 1936). b . Chicago. Journalist, author. ...With the Chicago Daily News 1901-1936; managing editor, 1926-36. He helped develop such writers as Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Harry Hansen, Keith Preston and Howard Vincent O'Brien." 252 pages. Condition: Fine. Chicago Newspaper Fiction. (Book ID 8745) $47.50

Soto, Gary [editor] California Childhood: Recollections and Stories of the Golden State.
Creative Arts Book Company. Berkeley, California. 1988. First Edition. 255 pages; portraits; bound in white cloth, light green lettering on the spine, dust jacket with half-inch closed tear but otherwise complete and nice.. Signed on the front flyleaf by contri butors Floyd Salas, Richard Kodey, Frank Cross, and Gary Soto. Collections of short essays from the authors childhood in neighborhoods all around the state of California. Among the other authors (34) included are - Valerie Miner, James D. Houston, Louis Owens, William Saroyan, Art Cuelho, Gerald Haslam, William Rintoul, Lawrence Clark Powell, M.F.K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Leonard Nthan, and Richard Katrovas. Fine clean copy. Condition: Fine. California, Childhood, California Authors. DK-97 (Book ID 12075) $37.50

Spencer, Rev. Joseph Polymetis: An Enquiry Concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists. An Attempt to Illustrate Them Mutually from One Another. In Ten Books. The Second Edition, Corrected By the Author.
Printed for R. And J. Dodsley.. London, England. 1755. Second edition, corrected. vi, 361 pages; frontportrait, plates (41) complete; indexes; full leather binding (folio). Cracking and spliting to the spine with the front loose but holding. Back cover hinge glue strengthened. Joseph Spencer (1699-1768) was a historian and poet by trade and also Alexander Pope's friend and promoter. The work POLYMETIS was written in the form of a dialogue, being a treatise on classical mythology as illustrated by ancient works of art and Latin authors. It was Spencer's only considerable contribution to classical scholarship and one for which he earned 1,500 pounds from its publication. The first edition was written in 1747. Later in Spencer's life he became an expert of designing gardens for estates in the London area. He drowned in an ornimental pool in 1768. Condition: Fine. Classical Mythology, Joseph Spencer, Latin Mythology. DK-108 (Book ID 12241) $750.00

Sprague, Charles An Oration, Delivered on Monday, Fourth of July, 1825, in Cmmemoration of American Independence, Before the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth, and the City Council and Inhabitants of the City of Boston.
True and Greene - City Printers. Boston, Massachussetts. 1825. Disbound copy with title on the front page; 31 pages (5 x 8 3/8 inch). Signed in ink on the back of the tile page 'Simon Huntingtons'. Charles Sprague (1791-1875) was an American poet, known as the "Banker Poet of Boston". He worked for the Globe Bank in Boston for over forty years. He is noted for his 'Odes' and 'Orations' at public gatherings and recieved an Honorary "Master of Arts" from Harvard in 1829. His writings were gathered in THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES SPRAGUE (1841). Condition: Good. Independence Orations. DK-57 (Book ID 11153) $25.00

Stael, Mme. De (Anne Louise Germaine, nee Necker) Corinne Ou l'Italie. Nouvelle Edition. Revue Avec Soin et Prededee D'observation Par Mme Necker De Saussure et M. Sainte-Beuve.
Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs. Paris, France. 1880. bound in 1/4 tan leather with raised bands on the spine. Gilt pattern tooling and lettering on the spine with fields of red (author) and green (title). 504 pages with marbled edges to pages. Former owners signature in ink inside front leaf 'Otto R. Hansen'. Mme. de Stael (1766-1817) of French nobility wrote many works published between 1788 to 1821, 'Corinne ou l'Italie' was first published in 1807. She had to flee the French Revolution, was exiled by Napoleon and finaly returned to France after the fall of the Empire in 1815. Clean solid copy. Condition: Fine. French Literature, Woman Writer. DK-15 (Book ID 9750) $25.00

Stanford, Ann; William Stafford; Howard Baker; Clinton Williams; Myron Broomell; Harold witt; Alan Stephens; George Elliott; Leonard Nathan A Western Sampler; Nine Contemporary Poets
The Talisman Press. Georgetown, California. 1963. Cloth. Illustrated dust wrapper. Selected by the Editors of Talisman. From the dust wrapper: "Beyond the fact that all the poets in this anthology are all native or adopted westerners, the only standard governing the selection is the poetic excellence to be found in the wide variety of style and subject represented here..." "It is the poetry, not the technique, attitude, or name, that we are offering". Poets included are: Ann Stanford; William Stafford; Howard Baker; Clinton Williams; Myron Bromwell; Harold Witt; Alan Stephens; George Elliott; and Leonard Nathan". Condition: As New. Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Verse. Lyric. Rhyme. Writings. (Book ID 3761) $30.00

Stegner, Wallace Remembering Laughter.
Little, Brown & Co.. Boston, Massachusetts. 1937. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. 154 pages; rebound in brown full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. This was Wallace Stegner's regularly published first book for which he won the Little Brown Prize which included a $2,500 stipend. It was a literary and financial success and helped him get a position at Harvard. Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) taught at Stanford University where he created the creative writing program. In 1972 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for ANGLE OF REPOSE and the National Book Award for THE SPECTATOR BIRD in 1977. Condition: Fine. Literature, Western Fiction. DK-64 (Book ID 11283) $150.00

Stendhal (Beyle, Marie-Henri); (Translated By C. K. Scott-Moncrieff) The Red and The Black
Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Aldus Printers. New York. 1947.. Leather Backed Cloth. Illustrated by Busoni, Rafaello. Lacks slipcase. No. 437 of 1500 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Gilt decoration front cover; gilt lettering spine. Illustrations are black and white with red accent. Book plate front end paper. 450 pages. Measures 7 x 10 1/2. From the Introduction: "Marie-Henri Beyle, who used almost as many aliases during the earlier part of his career as a jewel-thief, did not settle upon the nom-de-plume of Stendhal until he was nearing forty". "...the many critical examinations to which The Red and the Black has been subjected, that it has so often been emphasized as a tale of egocentric conquest, and so little recognized as one of the great love stories of all time. Only Anna Karenina, in modern literature, compares with it". French Literature. Literary Works. Love Story. Intrigue. Humor. Fiction. Novel. Story. (Book ID 413) $47.50

Sterling, George Poems to Vera
Oxford University Press. New York. 1938.. First Edition. Cloth in Dust Wrapper. Printed D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press. Book has gilt decoration and lettering on spine; front cover embossed design. Illustrated dust wrapper; slight chipping spine top and rear top edge. Frontispiece of author. Uncut page sides and bottoms. From the dust wrapper: "Although a certain amount of George Sterling's writing still remains unpublished, it is extremely doubtful that anything will be found in the future to compare in excellence with this lovely sheaf of Poems to Vera". "In a world satiated with verses crying against political and moral injustice, these poems, whose only propaganda is love, are certain to be welcomed eagerly by a wide and discriminating public". Condition: Fine. American Literature. Romantic Poetry. Romance. Verse. Literary Works. Writings. (Book ID 411) $37.50

Stevenson, Robert Louis La Porte De Maletroit
The Book Club of California. 1952. (San Francisco).. Illustrated dust wrapper with cellophane over wrappers. Folding slip case and slip case. 300 copies printed by the Allen Press. Printed in France. Printed on a French handpress on hand-made paper from the medieval mill of Richard de Bas. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. A short story of happenstance. London in 1429. Denis de Beaulieu, returning from a pleasant visit at a friend's home on a dark and blustery night, takes a wrong turn and happens upon a house where an old gentleman, a stranger, sees him and says, "Pray step in, I have been expecting you all the evening". AMERICAN LITERATURE. AMERICAN AUTHOR. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. PUBLICATIONS. FICTION. STORY. (Book ID 3365) $250.00

Stevenson, Robert Louis The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York, New York. 1896. 22 volumes bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and design on the cover and spine. Gilt edging to the top of the pages. Some very minor fading to the spines, former owner's bookplate on the inside cover of each volume "Alexander F. Jenkins". Volume I: "New Arabian Nights" - 386 pages; frontis. Volume II: "Treasure Island" - xxii, 266 pages; frontis. Volume III: "More New Arabian Nights, The Dynamiter, The Story of a Lie" - 345, frontis. Volume IV: "Prince Otto, Island Night's Entertainments, Father Damien" - 432 pages; frontis [some spotting to the front cover]. Volume V: "Kidnapped" - 281 pages; frontis, folding map [cracking along the inside cover, spotting on the front cover]. Volume VI: "David Balfour: A Sequel to 'Kidnapped'." - 355 pages; frontis. Volume VII: "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - 372 pages; frontis. Volume VIII: "The Black Arrow, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, The Body-Snatcher" - 430 pages, frontis [hole in the spine, 1/8 inch, half way up]. Volume IX: "The Master of Ballantrae" - 291 pages; frontis. Volume X: "The Wrecker" - 497 pages; frontis [dividing along the inside flyleaf]. Volume XI: "The Wrong Box, The Ebb Tide" - 399 pages; frontis. Volume XII: "An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, Edinburgh" - ix, 358 pages; frontis. Volume XIII: "Virginibus Puerisque, memoiries and Portraits" - 358 pages; frontis. Volume XIV: "Familiar Studeis of Men and Books, Miscellaneous Papers" - 400 pages; frontis. Volume XV: "The Amateur Emigrant, Across the Plains, The Silverado Squatters" - 428 pages; frontis. Volume XVI: "A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods Ballads" - 359 pages; frontis. Volume XVII: "Vailima Letters (Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to Ocober 1894)" - xv, 322 pages; frontis. Volume XVIII: "Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, Records of A Family of Engineers" - viii, 366 pages; frontis. Volume XIX: "In the South Seas, A Foot-Note to History" - x, 591 pages; folding map. Volume XX: "Weir of Hemiston, The Plays, Fables" - viii, 508 pages; frontis. Volume XXI: "St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England" - viii, 485 pages; frontis [volume shaken]. Volume XXII: "Sketches, Criticisms, Etc." - vii, 669 pages; frontis; addenda, index to Thistle Edition. Complete at time of issue; the publisher (as they often do) added in a few more volumes of letters, etc. at a later date. Condition: Very Good. English Writers, Robert L. Stevenson. DK-43 (Book ID 10824) $250.00

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Henry H. Harper, Editor Robert Louis Stevenson; Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings
The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1921.. First Edition. 3/4 Vellum with Cloth. 450 copies printed. Gilt lettering on spine; gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Inner slip case. Outer slip case with spine label. Most illustrations are facsimiles of his hand written notes. 195 pages. Writings include: Lay Morals; The Master of Ballantrae; Draft of a Preface for 'Travels with a Donkey' -- 1879; Protest on Behalf of Boer Independence -- 1881; The Story of a Recluse (1885?); Tutuila -- 1891 (At Tutuila, a South Sea Island which became a portion of the territory of the United States, Stevenson spent some three weeks early in 1891, and his experiences among those distant Samoans were interestingly set forth in a manuscript which he entitled "Tutuila."; etc. English Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Story Ideas. Writings. Musings. (Book ID 420) $100.00

Stevenson, Robert Louis; William P. Trent, Editor Stevenson's Workshop; with Twenty-Nine MS. Facsimiles
The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1921. 450 copies printed. Gilt lettering on spine. Three quarter vellum paper with brown boards. In publisher's slipcase, which is slightly worn. Spine of bookslightly browned, but an unworn copy. Frontispiece contains two of Stevenson's pencil sketches. From the Foreword: "In selecting the pages of Stevenson's manuscript for reproduction in this volume the purpose has been to include only such specimens as will have a special interest for Stevensonians, either because the pages contain more or less fragmentary material never before printed, or for the reason that they show the initial drafts, with interesting variants, of pieces that afterwards became a part of the author's published works.". 63 pages of text plus the 23 fascimilies, which are not paginated. Condition: Very Good. English Literature. Robert Louis Stevenson. Literary Works. Writings. Fiction. Author's Notes. (Book ID 430) $50.00

Stewart, Anna Bird Collection of Books and Letters
Collection includes: Two books by Ms Stewart, YOUNG MISS BURNEY (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1946. 1st edition with dust jacket), inscribed "To Edna Leighton my friend --- and Cocky - too. With love from Anna Bird Stewart and the hope that they will have half as much fun reading this book as I had writing it. January, 1948"; ENTER DAVID GARRICK (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951. 1st edition with dust jacket), inscribed "Greetings! And every good wish to you from Anna Bird Stewert."; Five letters with envelopes (totaling 7 pages) during the period 1946-1951, from Anna Stewart to Mrs Frederick (Edna) Leighton of Sonora, Calif. Ms Stewart has written from various places while on book tours and lectures and writes about books that she has coming out along with comments about mutual friends; along with two ephemeral items used to promote Ms Stewart's books and her lecture tours. Anna Bird Stewart (b.1880) was an educator and author of books for young people. She was born in Cincinnati, graduated from the University of Cincinnati, taught at various colleges, and lived much of her life in New York City. Condition: Very Good. Juvenile Book Author. DK-26 (Book ID 10251) $200.00

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