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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Brooke, Jocelyn  Photocopy of Autograph Letter Signed; A Collection of Items  Various dates. A collection of items relating to the possible publication of a manuscript fragment by Jocelyn Brooke. Various dates from the 1930's to 1973. A photocopy of the typescript fragment by Jocelyn Brooke. Typed letter signed by Anthony Rota, Bertram Rota Ltd. Booksellers, London, to J. N Lloyd, another London bookseller, dated September 21, 1973. A photocopy of Rota's description of the letter with a photocopy of the four-page autograph letter signed by Brooke... Typed letter signed by Evelyn H. Urmston... postmarked October 3, 1973, to John Parke Custis, expressing willingness for Custis to publish the "Brooke fragment"... Etc.   English Author. English Literature. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 3701)  $150.00 Brooks, Charles S.  Journeys to Bagdad.  Yale University Press.  New Haven, Conn..  1915.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Lewis, Allen.  140 pages, woodcuts by Allen Lewis, cloth spine and corners, plain boards, two printed spine labels, gilt top edge, 9 x 6". Top edge bowed, else very good, with 2 page autograph letter signed from the author from Cleveland laid in. Slight chip to upper edge of one spine label. Essays on travel, the Worst Edition of Shakespeare, Maps and Rabbit-Holes, Hoopskirts, etc.   Literarure  (Book ID 6751)  $50.00 Brooks, Van Wyck  Autograph Letter Signed with Envelope.  1959.  Autograph signed letter, front and back, on Van Wyck Brooks stationary (4 1/2 x 7 inch) with envelope (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch) dated April 15, 1959. Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) was an American literary critic and biographer during the first half of the 20th century. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND, 1815-1865 (1936). The letter is a response to Robert Young Jr. (1927- ) in which Brooks declines to read a manuscript sent by Young as his policy is, reqretfully, is to read only his manuscripts as he has a great deal of reading to do for his work. Young's manuscript is a biography of theater critic William Winter (1836-1917). Fine clean copy with evidence of a fold in the letter, also included is the envelope with canceled stamp.   Condition: Fine.  Literature, Van Wyck Brooks. DK-12  (Book ID 9608)  $60.00 Brooks, Van Wyck  The Flowering of New England  The Limited Editions Club. Boston. 1941..  Decorative Cloth.  Illustrated by Holden, R. J..  Embossed green linen, gilt lettering on spine. Collotype illustrations. 7 x 10. 470 pages. Slip case, wear to edges, split in paper covering at spine top; spine label. Page sides and bottoms uncut. Book plate front end paper. Publication notice dated January, 1941, laid in. Contents include: The Boston of Gilbert Stuart; Harvard College in 1815; The Younger Generation of 1840; Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Brook Farm; The Boston Historians - Motley; Thoreau at Waldon; The Anti-Slavery Writers; Concord in the Fifties; The Romantic Exiles; etc.   American History. American Literature. Literary Works. Boston. Harvard College. Cambridge. American Authors.  (Book ID 43)  $75.00 Brophy, Brigid  Autograph Letter Signed  1975.  The author includes this note when sending a book to a friend.   English Literature. English Writings. Literary Works.  (Book ID 3703)  $25.00 Broughton, James  Musical Chairs; a songbook for anxious Children  The Centaur Press.  San Francisco.  1950.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrated by Mullican, Lee.  Signed by the author. 500 copies printed. Spine label. 83 pages. Illustrations. Page sides are uncut. Book of rhymes. Contents include: Nursery Problems -- The Little Reader's First Riddle, Lullaby News, Nightmare Rhyme, This Little Duck, etc.; Child's Play -- Gladys on the Jump Rope, Backyard Elegies, Little Boy's Nasty News, etc.; A Few Fables -- The Tigers Were Taking a Bath, Haunted Homework, The Good Rodeo Fairy, etc.; Older Girls & Boys -- The Landlubber's Child, Robin Hood's Other Nephew, A Lad from the Cold Country, etc.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poems. Rhymes. Verses. Poetry. Youngsters.  (Book ID 4294)  $37.50 Brown, George E.  A Book of R. L. S.; Works, Travels, Friends, and Commentators... with Eight Illustrations.  Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1919..  First American Edition.  Cloth.  Spine label. Illustrations. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Unopened pages. From the Preface: "The chief aim of this book is to provide a commentary on his works as far as possible from Stevenson's own standpoint by showing the circumstances in which they were written, their history in his hands, and his judgments of them". "The scheme of the volume also embraces references to members of his family, and to his more or less intimate friends as well as the places directly associated with his wandering life".   ENGLISH LITERATURE. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. WRITINGS. PERSONAL HISTORY.  (Book ID 418)  $17.50 Brown, James  The Life of a Scottish Probationer. Being a Memoir of Thomas Davidson, with His Poems and Extracts from His Letters.  James Maclehose.  Glasgow.  1878.  Second edition, revised and enlarged, with mounted photo frontispiece original to this edition. 335 pages, tan polished leather, gilt tooled spine, front cover stamped in gilt, marbled edges, 7.5 x 5". Nice copy, clean and tight, top 1/2 inch of covers sunned, bookplate removed. This edition, published after Davidson's death, contains two additional poems and four previously unpublished letters.   Literature; Literary Works; Photograph  (Book ID 5807)  $75.00 Browning, Robert  Aristophanes' Apology Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being The Last Adventure of Balaustion  Smith, Elder & Co. London. 1875.  First Edition.  Full-Leather.  Gilt trim on covers, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Gilt page tops. 366 pages.   English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse. Prose.  (Book ID 48)  $100.00 Browning, Robert  Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: A Poem.  Chapman & Hall. London. 1850.  First Edition.  Embossed Cloth.  Gilt lettering on spine. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. 142 pages. Ink notation front end paper.   English Poetry. English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poems. Verse.  (Book ID 171)  $60.00 Browning, Robert  Fifine at the Fair  Smith, Elder and Co. London. 1872..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering on spine. 171 pages. Slight chipping top and bottom of spine. Book plate front end paper.   English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 45)  $75.00 Browning, Robert  The Ring and The Book  Smith, Elder and Co. London. 1868.  Cloth. 1st edition, 4 volumes complete. Decorative trim covers and spine, gilt lettering on spine. Page sides uncut. From 235 to 251 pages each. 1893 book plate front end papers each volume. Some pages narrow damp stain outer edges, text unaffected. Volumes 2 & III damp stains front and rear end papers. Contents are: Vol. I, The Ring and the Book; Half-Rome, The Other Half-Rome; Vol. 2, Tertium Quid, Count Guido Franceschini, Giuseppe Caponsacchi; Vol. III, Pompilia, Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis, Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius; Vol. 4, The Pope, Guido, The Book and the Ring.   English Poetry. English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 44)  $350.00 Bruccoli, Matthew J.  F. Scott Fitzgerald: 24 Setpember 1896 to 21 December 1940. 24 September 1996 Centenary Celebration.  University of South Carolina.  1996.  First Edition.  Copy #662 of 750 copies printed for the Thomas Cooper Society. 43 pages within white stiff wrapper. Contains tributes by: Jeffrey Archer, Margaret Atwood, Paul Austeer; Richard Bausch; Robert Bausch; Thomas Berger; Sydney Blair; Vance Bourjaily; Frederick Busch; Nicholas Delbanco; Don DeLillo; James Dickey; Annie Dillard; Irvin Faust; Leslie A. Fieldler; George Garrett; George V. Higgins; John Iggulden; John Jakes; John Le Carre; Norman Mailer; William Maxwell; Budd Schulberg; Charles M. Schulz; Mary Lee Settle; Tony Tanner; Arnold Wesker.   Condition: Fine.  Fitzgerald, American Literature. DK-11  (Book ID 9572)  $47.50 Buck, Mitchell S.  The Life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798: A Supplement to the Memoirs  Nicholas L. Brown. New York. 1924.  Cloth backed boards in dust jacket (with some repairs). 1st edition. Book has spine label, uncut page tops and bottoms, book plate front end paper. Some unopened pages. From dust jacket front cover: "The Memoirs of Casanova end with 1774 when the Great Adventurer was fifty years of age. Of the last twenty-four years of his life he left no account. The present volume supplies this deficiency, giving an outline of Casanova's later life, up to the time of his death". 130 pages.   LITERATURE. EUROPEAN. BIOGRAPHY. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 80)  $25.00 Burdette, Robert J.  Autograph Letter Signed  1895.  Waco, Texas, Dec. 12, 1895. One-page letter on 6 x 9 1/2 letterhead stationery from the Pacific Hotel (Terms $2.50 and $3.00 Per Day), Waco. Small tear right edge, slight chipping bottom right corner. Burdette (1844-1914) was an American author and humorist. In this letter, which passes along his signature, he also comments on the pleasurable associations that the name "Carrie" has for him.   American Author. Humorist. Writer. Novels. American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Publications.  (Book ID 5067)  $20.00 Burgess, Gelett  Gelett Burgess & the Hyde Street Grip: Introduction By Joseph M. Backus  The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.  San Francisco.  1959.  Limp cloth backed stiff boards. 7 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches. Limited to 200 copies and printed by The Grabhorn Press for Joseph M. Brantsen for presentation to members of The Roxburghe Club. Consists of: Intro. by Backus, "Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip: A San Francisco Rhapsody", Sources and Acknowledgements and Colophon. 21 pages.   Condition: Fine.  San Francisco. Cable Cars. Poetry. Trolleys.  (Book ID 7573)  $60.00 Burnett, Frances Hodgson  Giovanni and the Other Children Who Have Made Stories  Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1892.  First American Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  Containing one story not in the London edition. BAL 2082. Decorated front cover, with gilt; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations. 193 pages plus publisher's advertising. The author writes stories about children in different settings around the world. Stories include: "Illustrissimo Signor Bebe"; A Pretty Roman Beggar; Eight Little Princes; The Little Faun; The Boy who became a Socialist; The Tinker's Tom; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Stories. Tales. Fiction. Writings.  (Book ID 58)  $50.00 Burnett, Frances Hodgson  Two Little Pilgrims' Progress; A Story of The City Beautiful  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New-York.  1895.  First Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  Illustrated by (Birch, Reginald B.).  BAL 2088. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover and spine. Full-page illustrations. 191 pages. Several pages of publisher's advertising. Offsetting to pages 58-59. Orphan twin brother and sister, Meg and Robin, live with their Aunt Matilda on her large Illinois farm. Aunt Matilda's home is cold and austere compared to the loving and cozy home they had shared with their parents. They talk and dream about life beyond the farm, in the City Beautiful.   Children's Books. Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Fiction. Fairy Tale. Children's Story.  (Book ID 3856)  $37.50 Burnham, Geo. P.  The History of the Hen Fever: A Humorous Record  James French and Company. Boston..  First Edition.  Embossed Cloth.  (1855). Gilt hen on front cover. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Sun fading to spine. Chipping to spine bottom. Ink notations front end paper. 326 pages plus publisher's advertising. In the Preface the author notes that he has "endeavored to avoid setting down 'aught in malice' in this 'History of the Hen Fever' in the United States". The first symptoms arrived at his home in Roxbury, Mass. early in the summer of 1849. Contents include: The First Fowl Show in Boston; Progress of the Malady; True History of "Fanny Fern"; "Policy, the Best Honesty"; A Genuine Humbug; Barnum's Innate Diffidence; The Essence of Humbug; Doing the Genteel Thing; Bursting of the Bubble; etc.   LITERATURE. HUMOR. PARODY. FOWL. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 60)  $37.50 Burton, Richard  A Midsummer Memory; An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson  Edmund D. Brooks.  Minneapolis.  1910.  First Edition.  Cloth Backed Boards.  500 copies printed. Uncut page edges. 41 pages. The Note page advises that Arthur Upson, whom the poem commemorates, drowned from his boat in 1908 at the age of 32. He had received recognition from distinguished critics for his poetry. The author herein pays tribute to Upson and quotes some of Upson's work.   American Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Poem. Writings. Tribute.  (Book ID 4409)  $37.50 Burton, Richard  Autograph Signed Letter  1900.  Dated October 14, 1900 this letter (6 x 9 1/2 inch) with the University of Minnesota letterhead was sent by Mr. Burton to his publisher inquiring about the safe arrival of his manuscript "Whittier" which was published in 1900. Also mentions royalties due him of $10.68. Richard Burton (1861-1940) was a poet, critic, and college professor. Several times he served as head of the English Deptartment for the University of Minnesota.   Condition: Fine.  University of Minnesota, Poetry  (Book ID 8926)  $25.00 Burton, Richard  Rahab: A Dream in Three Acts  Henry Holt and Company. New York. 1906.  Cloth, illustrated. 1st edition. Inscribed by author (the American playwright) on title page. Uncut page edges. Some characters in this drama are: Rahab, a woman of Jericho; Ammon, a lover of Rahab; Salmon, a prince of Israel, sent by Joshua as a spy; Horeb, a companion spy; etc. The whole action occurs in Jericho, capital city of the Canaanites, about 1500 B. C.   LITERATURE. DRAMA. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 61)  $25.00 Burton, Richard F., Translator  The Kasidah (Couplets) of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi; A Law of the Higher Law  The Book Club of California. 1919. San Francisco..  Vellum backed patterned boards. No. 226 of 500 copies printed by John Henry Nash. Inscription by former owner. Ink notation on front end paper. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Front corner bumped. From the Introduction: "The Kasidah is a philosophic poem, written in rhymed iambic couplets, to which Burton gives the name of Bahr Tawil (long verse). The first of its nine sections is descriptive, painting with living colors the desert and the waking caravan at dawn. The next four are reminiscent and expository, setting forth -- the emptiness of teaching from Moses to Hiraz and Longfellow; the brevity of man's life history; the inconsequence of religious creeds; etc.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. PHILOSOPHIC POEM. COUPLETS. PHILOSOPHY.  (Book ID 3384)  $100.00 Butler, Samuel  The Note-Books of Samuel Butler,Auhor of ":Erewhon":Selections Arranged and Edited By Henry Fielding Jones  A.C. Fifield.  London.  1912.  First Edition.  Three quarter leather binding, raised bands, gilt decorations on spine, marbeled boards. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A nice, and very attractive copy. CBEL page 1408.   British Literature  (Book ID 5229)  $50.00 Butler, Samuel  The Way of All Flesh  The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1936.  Full-Leather.  Illustrated by Johnson, Robert Ward.  Two volumes. Abundant gilt on spine. No 910 of 1500 copies printed. Full-page and partial-page illustrations. Signed by the illustrator. 262 and 330 pages. Volume I, damp stains; top outside corner, page xvii through 194; bottom outside corner through entire book. In the Introduction by Theodore Dreiser he describes this book as a novel: "...by reason of the care and charm with which Butler has pieced his own and his parents' lives together. On the other hand, it is really as much a book of philosophy as a novel or autobiography..."   ENGLISH LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. NOVEL.  (Book ID 63)  $50.00 Byrne, Donn  An Alley of Flashing Spears And Other Stories  D. Appleton-Century Company. New York. 1934.  First American Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  BAL 2325. Illustrated dust wrapper, slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. 250 pages. Inked stamp imprint front end paper. From the dust wrapper: "A keen psychological penetration, a high gift of pure romance, and an inimitable flair for the portrayal of life are characteristic of the writings of Donn Byrne". Among the stories included in this new collection are: "An Alley of Flashing Spears," the tale of an Irish labor leader, torn between love and public duty; "Treachery," the story of the dilemma in which a murderer's wife was placed... and other unusually entertaining stories..."   American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Short Stories. Fiction.  (Book ID 64)  $25.00 Byrne, Donn  Brother Saul  The Century Co..  New York & London.  First Edition.  (1927). Large paper edition, limited to 500 copies, signed by the author. Vellum backed boards. 487 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Irish American Literature. Signed and Inscribed Books. Limited Editions  (Book ID 7493)  $25.00 Byrne, Donn  Field of Honor  The Century Co. New York..  First Edition.  (1929). Vellum backed patterned boards, vellum tipped corners. Limited to 500 copies. 435 pages. Uncut page edges. A novel. War in Ireland. War in England. Lord Nelson. Lady Hamilton. Lord Castlereagh. Viscount Earl Nelson of Trafalgar and Merton.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Novel. Fiction.  (Book ID 65)  $20.00 Byrne, Donn  O'Malley of Shanganagh.  Century Co..  New York & London.  (Copyright, 1924, 1925). 1st edition. Orig. rust colored cloth, stamped in black, four plates. fine copy in very good dust wrapper. Printed card advertising a biography of the author inserted. BAL 2296.   Irish Literature  (Book ID 5592)  $25.00 Byron, Lord  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt. The Second Edition.  John Murray.  London, England.  1812.  2nd Edition.  Second Edition. xii, 300 pages; folding plate; full leather binding, raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. The preface, Elegies and notes are original to this edition. Former owner's bookplate 'Henry Layard' on the front poastedown Wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a noted English poet and a leading figure of Romanticism. 'Childe Harold', a narrative poem was the work that made him famous. He moved to Europe because of debts and sexual practices he became a hero in the Greek independence movement, but died early because of the medical practice of 'bleeding' which sapped his strength. A fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 12242)  $250.00 Byron, Lord  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, with Photographic Illustrations By Payne Jennings.  R. & A. Suttaby..  London, England.  720 pages; original photos; bound in flexable leather binding, gilt design on the cover and back with 'Byron's Poetical Works' on the spine. Pages with gilt edging. Wear and chipping to the spine and along the edges of the covers. Inscribed by William Winter to his wife " William Winter. To my dear Lizzie! because I know that she will dearly prize it. May 19, 1889" then signed by Elizabeth Campbell Winter. William Winter (1836-1917) a writer for the New York Tribune and a leading theatre critic of his day, his wife Elizabeth was also a well known novelist. 11 original photographs, with some offsetting to some of the facing pages.   Condition: Very Good.  English Poetry. 19th Century Photo Illustrated Books. Signed and Inscribed Books. Unique Copies.  (Book ID 10169)  $100.00 Byron, Lord  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron.  William P. Nimmo..  Edinburgh, Scotland.  xxii, 673 pages; frontportrait; bound in full leather binding with raised band on the spine. Elaborate border designs and patterns on front, back and spine with gilt lettering in brown and tan. Gilt edging to the pages. Contains a biography and Lord Byron's collected works. Clean inside and outside.   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature, Poetry. DK-48  (Book ID 10906)  $37.50 Cabell, James Branch  The Eagle's Shadow...Illustrated By Will Grefe...Decorated By Blanche Ostertag  Doubleday, Page & Company.  New York.  1904.  First edition, first issue (matching all bibliographic points in both Merle Johnson's AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS and Allen Ahearn's THE BOOK OF FIRST BOOKS). Red cloth. Decorated end papers. 256 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Author's First Books. Fantasy Fiction  (Book ID 7223)  $75.00 Cabell, James Branch  The Line of Love  Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1905.  Cloth.  Illustrated by Pyle, Howard.  1st edition, later state of binding. Color illustrations. Color illustration affixed to front cover. Decorations on front cover and spine. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Contents include: The Episode Called Adhelmar at Puysange; The Episode Called Love-Letters of Falstaff; The Episode Called In Ursula's Garden; etc.   American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Prose. Love Story.  (Book ID 69)  $75.00 Cabell, James Branch  The Way of Ecben, A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman  Robert M. McBride & Company.  New York.  1929.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrated by Pape, Frank C..  Illustrations. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Slip case, patterned cloth, full size cover label, slight wear to opening corners. From the slip case label: "Mr. Cabell has never written more beautiful prose, never written more penetratingly or pungently of the dilemma that torments the idealist in every man -- whether to smile on the shadow cast by his body or frown at the bright aura woven by his dream". "The book is rich and satisfying".   American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Prose.  (Book ID 4428)  $75.00 Cable, George W.  Strong Hearts.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1899.  First Edition.  214 pages, green cloth with title and acorn and oak leaf patterning stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 7 x 5", side and bottom edges untrimmed. Foot of spine lightly chipped, spine a little sunned. First edition, with Margaret Armstrong binding. Three stories: The Solitary, The Taxidermist, and The Entomologist.   Literature  (Book ID 6229)  $37.50 Caen, Herb  Sacramento High School Yearbook. "The Review, 1932"  Sacramento High School.  Sacramento, California.  1932.  First Edition.  230 pages; illustrations; bound in purple cloth with silver design on the cover. This was the senior yearbook for Herb Caen's graduating class. Caen went to fame as a 'three dot" columnist for both The San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. His graduation picture is on page 57 and description of his activities is on page 80 "Literary Courses - Review Staff, French Club (photo pp141), Baseball, Sacramento Union School Page, Double S (photo pp136), Chess and Checkers, News Editor - X-Ray (photo pp110)". On page 202 in 'Favorite Expressions' is a quote "Also known as 'Able' utters 'doggone the luck anyhow'" and on pages 204-205 in 'Prophecy' is a story of Caen in a New York jail for hitting his mother with a stove. Herb Caen (1916-1997) won a special 1996 Pullitzer Prize for his long contribution to San Francisco journalism Also of note in the yearbook is Thomas MacBride (photo page39) who became a member of the Calfiornia Legislature 1955-60 and a federal judge since 1961. He presided over the Lynette 'Squeeky' Fromme trial for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. Signed by many class members, but alas not Caen or MacBride.   Condition: Fine.  Herb Caen, Sacramento High School Yearbooks, Judge Thomas MacBride. DK-70  (Book ID 11390)  $100.00 Callender, L. [editor]  The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems & Pictures By Authors & Artists Whose Works are Published at the Sign of the Windmill.  William Heineman Ltd..  London, England.  1923.  Number 391 of 500 copies. ix, 226 pages; illustrations, 4 in color (complete); expertly rebound in quarter binding red leather with new cloth boards. Contains selections from Heineman publlications during the last thirty years (1890-1923) with illustrations. Authors included are Lloyd Osbourne; Margaret Benson; John Galsworthy; Edmund Gosse; Perceval Landon; Maurice Baring; Jack London; Thomas Moult; Stephen Crane; John Cournos; Christopher Morley; Hubert Crackanthorpe; Somerset Maugham; and Clemence Dane.   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature. DK-94  (Book ID 11997)  $75.00 Campbell, Thomas  The Poetical Works  Edward Moxon.  London.  1849.  A new edition. Full leather; gilt trim on covers and spine, and around edges of inside covers. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". 253 pages. Ink notation dated 1865 on front end paper. Contents include: Ye Mariners of England -- a Naval Ode; Glenara; Ode to the Memory of Burns; The Soldier's Dream; Stanzas to the Memory of the Spanish Patriots latest killed in resisting the Regency and the Duke of Angouleme; Ode to Winter; The Lover to his Mistress on her Birthday; Drinking Song of Munich; Song -- "To Love in my Heart"; etc.   LITERATURE. ENGLISH. POETRY.  (Book ID 73)  $25.00 Campbell, Thomas  The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition.  Published By Evert Duychinck.  New York, New York.  1825.  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF "THEODRIC". 239 pages; illustrations; bound in boards (3 1/2 x 6 inch). Label with title on the spine. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) was a Scottish poet of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs. He was involved in the founding of the Universtiy of London and was a Rector at the University of Glasgow from 1826 to 1829. This work contains the first American edition of 'Theodric', see - CBEL, vol.3, page 262. Evidence of a article being pasted on the inside of the front cover otherwise a clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  English Poetry, Theodric, Scottish. DK-86  (Book ID 11819)  $50.00 Camus, Albert  Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, December 10, 1957  Alfred A. Knopf. 1958. New York..  First American edition. Patterened wrappers. 14 pages, plus colophon. Attractively printed by Clark & Way, Inc. at The Thistle Press, with typographic design by Bert Clark. The speech was translated by Justin O'Brien, who had translated three of the English versions of Camus' books. Two corners very slightly bumped, otherwise fine.   French Literature. Literature in Translation.  (Book ID 2086)  $25.00 Canfield, Cass.  1817-1967. Reflections on Reaching the Age of 150.  Harper & Row, Publishers.  New York, New York..  1967.  Reprinted from 'The Easy Chair' which appeared in Harper's Magazine June 1967. 22 page pamphlet (5 x 7 1/2 inch) with blue wrapper and title in gilt on the cover. An account of the firm and its magazine publications of the century and a half.   Condition: Fine.  Publishers, Harper & Row, 'The Easy Chair', Magazines. DK-13  (Book ID 9638)  $17.50 Capote, Truman  Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories.  Random House.  New York, N.Y..  1958.  First Edition.  179 pages; bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering. A fine clean copy. Beside 'Breakfast at Tiffany's (1-112), it contains 'House of Flowers (113-136), 'A Diamond Guitar (137-156), and 'A Christmas Memory' (157-178). Not only Capote's most famous work 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', but also his most famous short story 'A Christmas Memory'.   Condition: Fine.  Ameircan Literature, Truman Capote. DK-67  (Book ID 11332)  $500.00 Capote, Truman  One Christmas  Random House.  New York.  First Edition.  (1983). Maroon cloth in publisher's slipcase. Both fine. 43 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Chrismas Stories. Southern Literature. Modern Fiction  (Book ID 7777)  $25.00 Carlyle, Thomas  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History. Six Lectures... [bound with:] Past and Present.  D. Appleton & Co..  New York.  1841.  Two volumes bound together, 283 and 161 pages, leather spine and corners, marbled boards, 7.5 x 5". A little shelf worn. "On Heroes" is the first American edition, "Past and Present", says second edition, 1843, and is printed in small type.   Literature; Literary Works; Mythology  (Book ID 5811)  $100.00 Carove, F. W.  The Story Without An End Translated from the German of F. W. Carove by Sarah Austin  Thomas B. Mosher. Portland, Maine. 1897.  Flexible boards in slip case. Limited edition of 425 copies   LITERATURE. GERMAN. MOSHER  (Book ID 76)  $25.00 Carruth, Hayden  Typed Letter Signed.  New York, New York.  1913.  Signed typed letter (5 1/2 x 7 inch) on 'Woman's Home Companion' letterhead, dated November 18, 1913. Addressed to a Mr. M.E. Main turning down a magazine story "Sara's Garden" and suggests that it may be better suited for FARM AND FIRESIDE.   Condition: Very Good.  American Literature. DK-25  (Book ID 10248)  $25.00 Caruth, Hayden  Typed Letter Signed  September 18, 1913. On stationary of the Woman's Home Companion. One pages. To M.E. Main of Westerley, R.I., turning down a submission of poetry and suggesting that the poem might be better suited to "Farm and Fireside." Carruth (1862-1932) was an editor of the Woman's Home Companion from 1905-32.   Condition: Fine.  American Literary Autographs and Manuscripts. Signed and Inscribed.  (Book ID 5385)  $25.00 Casanova, Giacomo (Translated By Arthur Machen)  The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt  Privately printed for The Casanova Society. London. 1922.  3rd edition of Machen's translation, with a new Preface by the translator. Goldstone & Sweetser 586. 12 volumes complete. Vellum backed boards. No. 497 of 1000 copies. One marginal library stamp on each volume. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 246-343 pages. Contents include: My family pedigree; My childhood; I become a preacher; I fall in love with the two sisters, and forget Angela; My grandmother's death, and its consequences; I am sent to a clerical seminary; I am expelled from it, and confined to a fortress; I enjoy revenge, and prove a clever alibi; My stay in Naples; I renounce the clerical profession and enter the military service; my return to Florence, and my departure with the Corticelli; My victory over the deputy-chief of police; Some adventures at Trieste; I am of service to the Venetian Government; etc.   LITERATURE, EUROPEAN, BIOGRAPHY, LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 78)  $275.00 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell  Autographed Letter Signed  1899.  Dated January 30th, 1899, this 3 page (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch) autograph letter is signed and addressed to "Dear Madame: -". In the letter Ms. Catherwood states that in her youth she often used so many 'non-de-plumes' that she cannot recall them all. Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) was a midwest writer of popular romantic novels.   Condition: Fine.  Romantic Novels  (Book ID 8924)  $37.50 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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