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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Stone Irving...edited By Jean Stone  The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin  Doubleday & Company, Inc.  Garden City, New York.  1980.  First Edition.  Dust wrapper with the tinest of chips at the top of spine. Inscribed by author: "To Ruth: Have a great adventure with Darwin. We did! My best, Irving Stone, Nov. 23, 1980. 743 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Signed and Inscribed Books.  (Book ID 7435)  $25.00 Storm, Theodor  Immense: An Idyl Translated form the German of Theodor Storm.  Thomas B. Mosher. Portland, Maine. 1912..  Flexible boards in slip case. Limited to 425 copies.   LITERATURE, GERMAN, MOSHER  (Book ID 436)  $25.00 Stratton-Porter, Gene  The Keeper of the Bees.  Doubleday, Page & Company.  Garden City, New York.  1925.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Grant, Gordon.  Decorations by Lee Thayer. Illustrated light blue cloth cover with solid spine. Fiction. 515 pages.   Condition: Good.  (Book ID 8794)  $25.00 Strauss, Harold  On the Delights of Japanese Novels  (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.). (1957). (No City)..  Wrappers. Illustrations. Library stamp on cover. Written by the editor-in-chief at Alfred A. Knopf, book publishers. This pamphlet is an advertisement for Japanese novels they have published.   JAPANESE LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. PUBLICATIONS.  (Book ID 2101)  $10.00 Stuart, Ruth McEnery  Sonny, a Christmas Guest.  Century Co..  New York.  1911.  Later Edition.  135 pages, frontispiece, decorated cloth, gilt spine, gilt top edge, 7 x 5", inscription written on front end leaf by the author, consisting of a quote from the book,"---life is so short, an' ef we did n't have lovin' ways to lengthen out our days, why, I don't think I'd keer to bother with it." and signed by the author. Fine copy.   Literature  (Book ID 6070)  $50.00 Styron, William  The Confessions of Nat Turner.  Random House.  New York.  First Edition.  (First printing, 1967). xvi, 428 pages, black cloth stamped in silver, gilt and orange, dust wrapper, 8.5 x 6". Fine, spine of jacket lightly faded, not price clipped, protected by mylar.   Modern literature; Modern First Editions  (Book ID 6123)  $37.50 Suckling , Sir John  Love Poems of Suckling  John Lane.  London & New York.  1902.  Beautifully bound in full vellum with gilt decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. 5 by 3 inches. Part of the publisher's "The Lover's Library" series, edited by frederic Chapman. 130 pages, plus two pages of advertisements.   Condition: Fine.  Finely Bound Books. Classic English Poetry. Fine Bindings.  (Book ID 7147)  $47.50 Summers, Florence Elizabeth  Dere Bill: Mable's Love Letters to Her Rookie... with 43 Illustrations in Black-and_white by Natalie Stokes.  Frederick A. Stokes Company. New York. 1919..  Boards in dust jacket. 1st edition.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN  (Book ID 437)  $25.00 Surtees, Robert Smith  Jorrocks on 'unting and 'osses.  Hodder & Stoughton.  London, England.  circa.1890s. [10] pages; illustrations, one color frontis; paper wrapper (3 1/4 x 6 1/8 inch) with color illustration pasted on the cover. silk string tied binding. With gift slip 'With Hearty Greetings and all Good Wishes, from - ' not signed. Humourus account of fox hunting in England by a very fat man, the sporting cockney grocer known as Jorrocks, well liked for his vulgarity and good natured artfulness. Seems to be taken from Robert Surtees writings.   Condition: Very Good.  Humour, Fox Hungting, England. DK-95  (Book ID 12016)  $15.00 Sutherland, Howard V.  Idylls of Greece (Second Series)  Desmond FitzGerald, Inc..  New York.  First Edition.  (1910). Publisher's cloth backed boardswith gilt lettering and impressed ancient grecian building on front cover. Wear at corners of boards, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. Ful;l page inscription by the author consisting of: Eight line holograph poem titled "The Poet" and inscribed "with every good wish to dear Miss Burns. Signed in full by Sutherland, at Alameda, Calif. and dated April 7th, 1915. 199 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  California Poets and Poetry. Signed and Inscribed Books  (Book ID 8394)  $50.00 Swanberg, W.A.  Collection of 25 Typed Letters Signed.  Typed letters signed by W. A. Swanberg to Robert Young, Jr, (25 letters with envelopes) and 28 carbon copies of letters sent by Young to Swanberg constituting an ongoing correspondence between them from 1976 to 1988. W.A. Swanberg (1907-1992) was an American biographer of note, writing biographies of William Hearst, Theodore Drieser, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Luce, and Norman Thomas. The biography of Henry Luce (1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and his work on Norman Thomas (1976) won the National Book Award. Robert Young, Jr. (1926- ) is also a biographer and man of letters who has authored books on Henry Miller and Fatty Arbuckle and written widely on literary subjects. Swanberg's letters were written during the latter part of his professional career and into his years of relative retirement. He writes about reviews that he is receiving on his history of the Whitney family, telling Young that since his biography on Luce, he has been unable to get good reviews or manuscripts accepted by publishers controlled by the "Luce Empire". Swanberg agonizes over finding another subect for a biography, mentions E.H. Harriman, saying that his health no longer allows him to travel as much to do the research required for major figures. He mentions the publishing industry emphasis on sensationalism and S-E-X, pointing out that if the subject didn't have any scandals involved in their life no one is interested. Swanberg during this period keeps active writing book reviews and short articles. In the correspondence he encourages Young to carry on with the life of William Winter (1836-1917), noted American drama critic and ancestor of Young. Included also is a two page analysis of how Young might revise the early chapters of his manuscript, emphasizing "lean writing" to get the reader off to a good start. Swanberg and Young also share stories about facing the infirmities brought on by the aging process and downsizing of homes to condos.   Condition: Fine.  Biography, Literauture, William R. Hearst, W.A. Swanberg. DK-14  (Book ID 9675)  $600.00 Swinburne, Algernon Charles  Unpublished Verses  1866.  Folded sheet containing the unpublished verse (5 x 7 3/4 inch). Several small stains to the lower level and fold.   Condition: Good.  Poetry. DK-27  (Book ID 10299)  $37.50 Taggard, Genevieve  Long View  None.  No City.  1947.  Broadside.  Poetry broadside. 1 of 750. Single sheet (11" x 14 1/2") laid on a firm backing, plastic covered. Two folds. Inscribed by the author "for Ted & Kermit", but not signed.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 4378)  $35.00 Taggard, Genevieve, Editor  Circumference; Varieties of Metaphysical Verse, 1456-1928  Covici Friede Publishers. New York. 1929..  Vellum Backed Boards.  Limited edition, No. 315 of 1050 copies. Signed by Taggard. Slight chipping to bottom and side edge of spine. Uncut page edges. Some unopened pages. From page 4: "Metaphysical poetry", says Grierson..."in the full sense of the term is a poetry which, like that of the Divina Commedia, the De Natura Rerum and perhaps Goethe's Faust, has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the role assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence".   English Literature. Poetry. Rhymes. Verse. Literary Works.  (Book ID 440)  $35.00 Tagore  Six Short Poems From "Fireflies"  None.  No City.  Paper Boards.  (1970). From the title page: "Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) is universally recognized as the major classic writer of Bengal. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913". Handmade paper. Short poem on each page. Comes in envelope of same paper with Tagore's name; some tears on one edge.   Poetry. Literature. East Indian. Literary Works. Writings. Verse.  (Book ID 4932)  $25.00 Tagore, Sir Rabindranath  Fruit-Gathering  The Macmillan Company. New York. 1916..  First American Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Book of poetry.   Indian Literature. Asian Influence. Poetry. Verse. Literary Works.  (Book ID 441)  $37.50 Tarkington, Booth  Monsieur Beaucaire  The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1961..  Cloth in Two Slip Cases.  Illustrated by Cleland, T. M..  No. 690 of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Book's cover is embroidered fabric, with spine label. Inside slip case has spine label. Outer slip case. Full-page color illustrations. This is the tale of a gallant young Frenchman's daring. The book "...takes you back, romantically -- and sentimentally, if you like -- into one of the most rational periods in the world's history, the eighteenth century in England..."   English Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Novel. Gallantry. 18th Century. Swordsman.  (Book ID 442)  $75.00 Tarkington, Booth  Some Old Portraits; A Book About Art and Human Beings  Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. New York. 1939..  Illustrated Cloth.  No. 76 of 247 copies signed by the author. Front cover illustration framed in gilt; gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. 249 pages. Full-page illustrations, many in color. The author discusses the art of portrait painting and several old portraits such as: Essex on an Old Panel; King James in Faded Paint; A Portrait of Isaac Newton by John Riley; Kneller's Sarah Jennings, First Duchess of Marlborough; Gainsborough's Blackstone; A Loyalist Lady by John Singleton Copley; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Oil Paintings. Old Masters. Critiques.  (Book ID 443)  $75.00 Tasso, Torquato  La Gerusalemme Liberata, Poema Di Torquata Tasso, Ridotta a Miglior Lezione; Aggiuntovi Confronto Delle Varianti Tratto Dalle piu Celebri edizioni, Con Note Critiche Sopra Le Medesime.  Presso Giuseppe Molini.  Firenze.  1824.  Two volumes, engraved portrait of Tasso, lxxv, 417, 458 pages, errata in each volume, leather spines and corners, gilt tooling on spines, page edges untrimmed. Nice set, minor snagging to top edge of boards of volume 2. Both volumes begin with half title page, not blank free ends leaves, with a church's blindstamp. Some text blocks are darkened, but overall the untrimmed pages are fresh and clean, upper corner of title page and next leaf in volume 1 torn away, without loss of text. Volume 1 contains a eulogy on the author by Monsignor Fabroni..   Literature; Poetry; Leather Bindings  (Book ID 5856)  $250.00 Taylor, Benjamin F.  Theophilus Trent: Old Times in the Oak Openings.  S.C. Griggs and Company.  Chicago, Illinois.  1887.  First Edition.  viii, 250 pages; bound in green cloth, gilt lettering on the spine, black lettering and design on the front cover. Wright III - AMERICAN FICTION #5375 "A Michigan settlement". Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  American Fiction, Benjamin F. Taylor. DK-87  (Book ID 11839)  $25.00 Taylor, Edward Robeson  Selected Poems  A. M. Robertson. San Francisco. 1907..  First Edition Thus.  Boards.  Limited to 650 copies. Author was mayor of San Francisco. Spine label. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Uncut page edges. Unopened pages. 159 pages. From the Prefatory Note by the author dated 1907: "The justification for the publication of this volume (exclusive of that which goes to the seeming present indifference to the work of the poet) lies in the fact that the unsold copies of the author's two books, 'Visions and other Verse' and 'Into the Light and other Verse', were destroyed in the great fire". "Hence the present volume, there having been added to the selections several pieces written since the fire". Selections include: The Shepherdess; The Unfinished Portrait; Mother's Love; Edelweiss; To Goethe; Pope; Oscar Wilde; To Milton; My Sonnet Prison; Adversity; etc.   American Literature. Poetry. Verse. Rhyme. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 445)  $37.50 Taylor, Hobart Chatfield  With Edge Tools.  A. C. McClurg & Co..  Chicago.  1891.  First Edition.  315 pages, blue cloth with navy stamping, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". Very good or better, minor spotting of rear cover, owner inscription on end leaf. First edition of the author's first book. Wright, American Fiction III 999.   (Book ID 6739)  $50.00 Tennyson, Alfred  Enoch Arden, &c.  Ticknor & Fields.  Boston.  1864.  First American Edition.  Publisher brown cloth. A fine copy, unworn, with a few faint spots on front cover. 204 pages plus publisher's 24 page catalog of other titles, dated July, 1864.   19h Century British Literature. Poetry  (Book ID 7780)  $37.50 Tennyson, Alfred  Idyls of the King.  Ticknor and Fields.  Boston, Massachusetts.  1859.  First American Edition.  227 pages; 16 pages of book ads in the back; bound in publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Missing chips to the top and bottom of the spine, corners bumped on covers. Contents - Enid, Vivien, Elaine, Guinevere. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  English Poetry, Alfred Tennyson. DK-94  (Book ID 11995)  $37.50 Tennyson, Alfred  The Miller's Daughter  J. B. Lippincott Company.  Philadelphia.  1890.  Illustrated Cloth.  Elaborate silver decorations front cover and spine. Gilt edged pages. Some bubbling under rear cover cloth. Slight wear to cover edges and slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Numerous illustrations, full-page and partial-page. Illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce; Edmund H. Garrett; Harry Fenn; J. Appleton Brown; J. D. Woodward; engravings by The John Andrew and Son Co. Ink notation front end paper.   Illustrated Books. English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Prose. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 4406)  $37.50 Tennyson, Alfred  The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Cambridge Edition  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston and New York.  (1898). Three quarter leather with raised bands and gilt decoration on spine. Engraved title page and frontispiece portrait of Tennyson. Edited by Horace E. Scudder. Biographical sketch of Tennyson by W.,J. Rolfe. A beautiful book.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Bindings, 19th Century British Literature  (Book ID 5149)  $50.00 Thackeray, William Makepeace  A Collection of Letters of Thackeray, 1847-1855 with Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Drawings  Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1887..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Chipping spine top and bottom. Uncut page edges. 189 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Ink notation front end paper. Most of the letters printed herein were written by Mr.Thackeray to the Rev'd W. H. Brookfield and reveal Mr. Thackeray's talents for writing and sketching.   English Literature. Correspondence. Missives. Literary Works. Sketches. Drawings.  (Book ID 446)  $17.50 Thackeray, William Makepeace  Thackerayana; Notes and Anecdotes  Scribner, Welford, & Armstrong.  New York.  1875.  First Edition.  3/4 Leather, Marbled Boards.  Color and black and white illustrations. From the title page: "Illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray, Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading." Chipping to spine top; slight wear to spine edges. 494 pages. Small stains upper right front end paper to page ix of Introduction and on occasional page top to end. Contents include: School Days; Sketches in School Books; Thackeray's Predilections for Art; Thackeray as a Lecturer; Thackeray as an Illustrator; Sketches and Scribblings in Guide Books; Withdrawal from the arduous post of Editor; Circumstances of the Author's last Illness; etc.   English Literature. Illustrator. Drawings. Sketches. Caricatures.  (Book ID 4476)  $75.00 Thackrey, Don (and) Henry Miller  Henry Miller: A Big Sur Interview  Roger Jackson, Publisher.  Ann Arbor, Michigan.  First Edition.  Publisher's printer wrapper in printed envelope. Thackrey was a United Press reporter who interviewed Miller in 1956. Introductory material by Thackrey about the interview and his professional background (pages seven through 19) and interview with Miller (pages 21 though 38). Limited edition: Number 38 of 50 copies signed by Thackrey.   Condition: Fine.  California Authors and Literature.  (Book ID 8762)  $50.00 Thanet, Octave  The Missionary Sheriff, Being Incidents in the Life of a Plain Man Who Tried to Do His Duty.  Harper & Brothers.  New York.  1897.  Illustrated by Frost, A.B..  248 pages, illustrated with 15 plates by A.B. Frost and Clifford Carleton, blue cloth stamped in ivory and gilt, 7.5 x 5". Nice copy. Other stories are: The Cabinet Organ, His Duty, The Hypnotist, The Next Room, and The Defeat of Amos Wickliff (the sheriff).   Literature; Illustrated Books  (Book ID 6047)  $37.50 The Casino [Shurbert Theaters].  Program for Paula Edwardes in 'Princess Beggar'.  New York, New York.  1907.  [36] pages; attractive color cover. Contains the coloums 'What a Woman Will Wear', 'What the Man Will Wear', 'The Hostess', 'Music and Musicians','Beauty Hints', 'For Book Lovers', 'For the Automobilist', 'Art and Artists', along with 'An Original Story. The Triumph' by Nellie L. Howes. In the back is a floor plan of the theater showing the balconey & orchestra seating with exits and stairs. Advertising includes Between the Acts Little Cigars, Murad Cigarettes, the Shubert Theatres in New York: Hippodrome, Majestic, Lyric, Hearld Square, Princess, and Lincoln. Smith Brothers Cough Drops, J.B. Brewster & Co. carriage and auto repair shop, 1907 Cadillac for $950, Samson tires, The Smart Set, Brand's A1 Sauce, Cafes Des Ambassadeurs, Cavanagh's, Chinatown among others. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Broadway, Comedy, Threater, Plays. DK-19  (Book ID 9938)  $20.00 Theocritus  A Love Poem  Greenwood Press.  San Francisco, California.  1950.  Rounce & Coffin Club publication. 55 copies; printed on one side (7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inch). Translation of the Greek poem into english. Unknown translator.   Condition: Very Good.  Rounce & Coffin Club, Fine Press. DK-41  (Book ID 10758)  $25.00 Thistle, Donald  Appleseed Johnny (A Poetic Drama of Pioneer Days); A Dramatization of the Life-story of Jonathan Chapman, the Johnny Appleseed of Pioneer Traditions  The Fox River Woodcraft Council. 1927. (St. Charles, Illinois)..  First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. From the "Synopsis of Drama": "A group of neighbors, gathered at the home of Mrs. Murray, in Pittsburg, in the year 1800, are discussing people generally. Into their conversation comes one, Jonatha n Chapman, a nurseryman who sells his stock at the edge of their little village, to the pioneers who are hitting the Western trail. He is strange enough, anyway, not reckoning his wealth as do most of his neighbors, but rather, counting his wealth i n children's happy faces, in fun around a fireplace of a winter evening, in the glory of the apple blossom time, and in the pleasures which the good fruit brought in the fall".   AMERICAN LITERATURE. FICTION. SETTLERS. APPLE SEEDS.  (Book ID 2976)  $25.00 Thompson, Eben Francis (and) Khayyam, Omar  The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, Founded on the Persian By Eben Francis Thomas  Privately Printed.  1910.  First Edition Thus.  Original brown cloth with title label on front cover and lettering in red. Slight chipping at top and bottom of spine. Inscribed by Thompson: "To Doctor E. Everett Holden with best wishes of Eben Francis Thompson, Worcester, -----, 3 Janaury, 1921." Title page printed in red and black. Printed by The Commonwealth Press, Worcester, Mass. 27 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Signed and Inscribed Books.  (Book ID 8712)  $60.00 Thomson, James  The Seasons, and the Castle of Indolence with a Life of the Author By the Rev. Patrick Murdock,,,and Notes By Nichols  William Tegg and Co., Cheapside.  London.  1849.  Full leather binding, raised bands with much gilt decorations on spine and front and back covers Binding fine. All edges gilt. Former owner name on front end paper. Frontispiece portrait has small stain on inside bottom gutter, not affecting image or text. Text clean and unmarked. 296 pages. 6 1/4 by 4 inches. Five steel engravings, complete. The notes by James Nichols are original to this edition.   Classic British Literature and Poetry. Fine Leather Bindings  (Book ID 5289)  $75.00 Thomson, James  The Seasons, By James Thomson. To Which is Prefixed , a Life of the Author, By Samuel Johnson.  T. Bedlington, John Roberts, Bela Marsh and Thomas Wells.  Boston.  1822.  196 pages, with 4 plates of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, bound in full tree calf with red morocco spine label mounted upside down. Clean and tight, light foxing, a nice copy. These highly popular poems were first published 1726-30 in England.   Classic British Literature; Poetry; Early American Imprints  (Book ID 5832)  $47.50 Thomson, James  The Seasons.  Printed for John Sharpe.  London: England.  1824.  xii, 215 pages; illustrations; full leather binding by "Hering S. Newman St." (4 x 6 1/2 inch) with gilt design and lettering. Gilt edging to the pages. A most handsome copy. Thomson (1700-1748), Scottish poet, published blank-verse poems between 1726 and 1730 which are gathered in this collection of four poems covering the seasons. He paved the way for Romantic poets with these poems. Was also known as a dramatist, and his most famous work was THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE (1748) in Spenserian stanzas.   Condition: Very Good.  Leather Binding By Hering, Poetry. DK-40  (Book ID 10714)  $100.00 Throckmorton, Jeanette Franc (also Known as Jeanette Dean-Throckmorton)  "Criticisms and Readings of Eminent Authors"  Iowa Wesleyan University.  Mount Pleasant, Iowa.  1909.  Jeanette Throckmorton (b. 1883, d. 1963) had a multi-faceted life, both professionally and personally. She was a medical doctor, practicing with her pioneer physician father. She gave lectures for the Iowa Department of Health on the subject of veneral disease, delivering 460 talks to audiences totaling 66,540 women and girls. She was the Librarian of the Iowa State Medical Society. She was an accomplished violinist, quilter and gardener. She collected antiques. This Master's thesis was done by Dr. Throckmorton after becoming a physician. Multiple paging; bound in half leather with gilt lettering and raised bands to the spine (8 1/2 x 12 inch). Mimeographed. Some rubbing to cornersand slightly split top right spine, but a very handsome copy. Submitted towards a Master's of Arts Degree at Iowa Wesleyan University in 1909. A study of the following eminent authors along with criticism of their works and critics. ALFRED TENNYSON - Criticism: Edmund C. Stedman 'Victorian Poets', Stopford A. Brooke 'Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life', Henry Van Dyke 'The Poetry of Tennyson'. Biography: Hallam Tennyson 'Life and Letters of Alfred Tennyson'. Readings: 'Idylls of the King', 'in Memoriam'. ROBERT BROWNING - Criticism: Stopford A. Brooke 'The Poetry of Robert Browning', Edmund C. Stedman 'Victorian Poets', Edward Dowden 'Studies in Literature', Mrs. Sutherland Orr 'Handbook to Robert Browning's Works'. Biography: G.K. Chesterton 'Robert Browning'. Readings: Drama, Dramtic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramatis Personae, The Ring and the Book. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - Criticism: Richard G. Moulton 'Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist' & 'The Moral System of Shakespeare', Hamilton W. Mabie 'Wm. Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist and Man', William H. Fleming 'Shakespeare's Plots', Elisabeth Woodbridge 'The Drama, Its Law and Technique', Freytag 'Technique of the Drama' (translated by Elias J. MacEwan). Plays: 'Julius Caesar', 'Macbeth', 'Merchant of Venice', 'As You Like It', 'Hamlet', 'The Tempest', 'King Lear', and 'Othello'. THE NOVEL - Criticism: Walter Raleigh 'The English Novel'. Readings: Daniel Defoe (Life - William Minto) 'Robinson Crusoe'; Samuel Richardson (Life - Austin Dobson) 'Clarissa Harlowe'; Henry Fielding (Life - Austin Dobson) 'Tom Jones'; Tobias Smollett (Life - Sir Walter Scott 'Lives of Novelists') 'Humphrey Clinker'; Samuel Johnson (Life - James Boswell) 'Passelas'; Oliver Goldsmith (Life - Austin Dobson) 'Vicar of Wakefield'; Charlotte Bronte (Life - Mrs Gaskell) 'Jane Eyre'; Jane Austin (Life - Goldwin Smith) ' Pride and Prejudice'; Sir Walter Scott (Life - J.G. Lockhart) "Quentin Durward', 'The Fair Maid of Perth', 'St. Ronan's Well', 'The Antiquary'; Charles Dickens (Life - John Forster) 'Bleak House', 'The Tale of Two Cities', 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'Martin Chuzzlewit', 'Our Mutual Friend', 'Little Dorritt', 'David Copperfield'. William Thackery (Life - Anthony Trollope) 'The Newcomes', 'Henry Esmond', 'Vanity Fair'. George Eliot (Life - J.W. Cross) 'Middlemarch', 'Silas Marner', 'The Mill on the Floss', 'Adam Bede', 'Romola'. Sidney Lanier 'The English Novel. A Study in the Development of Personality'. Jeanette Throckmorton 'The Development of Personality, From the Anatomical Standpoint' (Graduate Thesis).   Condition: Very Good.  Master Degree, Literature Criticism. DK-41  (Book ID 10775)  $250.00 Thucydides  The History of the Peloponnesian War in the Richard Crawley Translation, Revised By R.C. Feetham, Introduced By Peter Pouncey.  The Limited Editions Club.  Avon, Connecticut.  1974.  Illustrated by Woodcuts By A. Tassos..  No. 1193 of 2000 copies signed by the artist, A Tassos. 2 volumes, boxed. I: xiii, 248 pages; illustrations; cloth binding. II: pages 253-461; illustrations, maps. Both boxed in a light brown colored box (7 1/4 x 11 inch). Handsome publication of the the Richard Crawley translation of Thucydides account of the Peloponnesian War. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Greek History, Greek-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War. DK-96  (Book ID 12072)  $75.00 Thurber, James  The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures.  Harper & Brothers.  New York, New York.  1939.  First Edition.  7 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches. Pages unnumbered; bound in light orange cloth with black and white lettering and design on the covers and spine, dust jacket under 'mylar'. Clean copy in fine condition with very minor rubbing to the upper right corner and a couple of short tears to the dust jacket, but in fine condition with no chipping. Among the author's most famous books.   Condition: Fine.  . Modern Literature  (Book ID 10828)  $100.00 Thurber, James  The Years with Ross...with Drawings By the Author  Little, Brown & Company: An Atlantic Monthly Press Books.  Boston and Toronto.  First Edition.  (1959). Nice dust wrapper with a few short tears. Biography of New Yorker magazine founding editor Harold Ross by James Thurber, the long time writer for the magazine. 310 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Publishing History. American Humor. Magazines  (Book ID 7474)  $25.00 Ticknor, George  Life of William Hickling Prescott  Ticknor and Fields. Boston. 1864..  First Edition.  3/4 Leather, Patterned Boards.  Gilt trim on covers, gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Gilt page tops. BAL Vol. 7, pg. 181. Illustrations. 491 pages. Ink notation on front end paper to Horace Davis from his friend Joseph Tilden. Contents include: Birth and Parentage; College Life; Phi Beta Kappa Society; Graduated; Severe Inflammation of the Eye; Publishes the History of Ferdinand and Isabella; Published Conquest of Mexico; Domestic Relations; State of His Sight Bad; Visits Europe; First two Volumes of Philip the Second; etc.   American Literature. Biography. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 363)  $100.00 Tocqueville, Alexes De  Oeuvres Completes d'Alexis De Tocqueville Publiees Par Madame De Tocqueville.  Michel Levy Freres, Librarires Editeurs.  Paris, France.  1864.  First Edition Thus.  First collected edition of the author's complete works, edited by H.G. de Bearument under the direction of Tocqueville's widow Mary Mottley de Tocqueville. Published from 1864 to 1866 in Paris in nine volumes. Bound in attractive three-quarter leather binding contemporary with the publication of the set. Former owners' bookplate in first volume only. Volumes I-III: De la Democratie en Amerique, Quatorzieme Edition. Volume IV: L'Ancien Regime et La Revolution, Septieme Edition. Volume V: Correspondeance et Oeuvres Posthumes, Publiees pour la premiere fois en 1860. Volume VI: Correspondence d'Alexis de Tocqueville, Publiee en 1860. Volume VII: Nouvelle Correspondance Entierement Inedite de Alexis de Tocqueville. Volume VIII: Melanges Fragments Historiques et Notes sur L'Ancien Regime, La Revolution et l'Empire. Voyages - Pensees, Entierement Inedits par Alexis de Tocqueville. Volume IX: Etudes Economiques Politiques et Litteraires, par Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville's health was never very strong and in 1859 he died at Cannes. "He had published some minor pieces during his lifetime, and his complete works, including much unpublished correspondence, were produced after his death in uniform shape by H.G. de Beaumont" THE ENCLYCLOPAEDIA BRITIANNICA, Eleventh Edition. An attractive set of Tocqueville's writings gathered and edited by his life-long friend Gustave de Beaumont. Both 'Democracy in America' and 'Ancient Regime' have become classics in the study of political science in both the United States and France.   Condition: Fine.  Tocqueville, Alexes De, Democracy, Government, French Travels. DK-17  (Book ID 9842)  $3,750.00 Todd, Rev. Henry John  A Vindication of Our Authorized Translation and Translators of the Biblie; and the Preceding English Versions Authoritatively Commended to the Notice of Those Translators: Occasioned By Certain Objections Made By Mr. John Bellamy in His Late ... (cont.)  Printed for F.C. & J. Rivington.  London, England.  1819.  (cont.) ... Translation of the Book of Genesis, and by Sir James Bland Burges, in his Reasons in Favour of a New Translation of the Holy Scriptures. 110 [22, 12] pages; appdenix, index; half-binding leather with library boards (Battersea Public Library, London). Repaired binding along the inside spine with library stamps on the backside of the title page. A gathering of commentary by various translators of the Holy Scripture into English.   Condition: Very Good.  The Biblie, Translations, Holy Scripture. DK-19  (Book ID 9981)  $100.00 Tolstoy, Count Leo (Translated By Frank D. Millet)  Sebastopol  Harper & Brothers. New York. 1887..  First American Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 9628 (for W. D. Howells' contribution). Frontispiece. Translated from the French. The Introduction by W. D. Howells provides a brief sketch of Tolstoy's background and that upon completion of military service he arrived at his conviction "that Jesus Christ came into the world to teach men how to live in it, and that He meant literally what He said when He forbade us luxury, war, litigation, unchastity, and hyprocrisy". Howells goes on to state: "It is a sorrowful comment on our Christianity that this frank acceptance of Christ's message seems eccentric and even mad to the world". Publisher's advertising rear end papers.   Russian Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Author. Belief System.  (Book ID 455)  $75.00 Tomlinson H.M.  H.M. Tomlinson Writes a Foreword to the Sea and the Junge for the 1930 Edition  The Blackwood Press.  Placerville.  1987.  Introduction by Dr. Edmund E. Simpson, a collector of Tomlinson's books, and the printer of this pamphlet. Although an amateur printer, Dr. Simpson did elegant work. Unpaginated. Wrappers. "About 110 copies printed."   Condition: As New.  Fine Press and Printing. English Literature. Modern Fiction  (Book ID 7820)  $25.00 Tomlinson H.M.  Norman Douglas  Chatto & Windus.  London.  1931.  First Edition.  Dust wrapper sunned at spine, otherwise fine. Part of "The Dolphin Books" series. 63 pages, plus unpaginated publisher's catalog at end.   Condition: Fine.  Literary Studies. British Literature.  (Book ID 7382)  $25.00 Tomlinson, H. M.  Between the Lines  Harvard University Press. Cambridge. 1930..  Cloth Backed Patterned Boards.  Limited to 160 copies. Gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Patterned front and rear end papers. Decorated title page. Unopened pages. The printed address about art and poetry was delivered at several universities including Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, etc.   Literature. European. American. Poetry. Verse. Literary Works. Fiction. Stories.  (Book ID 474)  $37.50 Tomlinson, H. M.  Cote d'Or  Faber & Faber.  London.  First Edition.  Illustrated Wrappers.  Circa 1928. Inscribed by the author: "To Roger H. Hutchinson, H. M. Tomlinson". Some unopened pages. The author writes about visiting Cote d'Or..."geographically, a Dorset on a bolder plan; the hillsides which give us the best wine there is..." While there he ponders many things including who shall write history, the nature of war, poets, etc.   French Literature. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 3540)  $25.00 Tomlinson, H. M.  Selections from the Writings of H.M. Tomlinson.  Blackwood Press.  Placerville, Calif..  1985.  (15) pages, stitched in printed wrapper, 9 x 6 1/4", one of about 150 copies. Nice copy, presentation from the printer. Nuggets of wisdom from Henry Major Tomlinson, the author of books about the sea. "There is a different world for each of us; we use the same names for things, and yet rarely know what the other fellow is talking about."   Literature  (Book ID 6401)  $20.00 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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