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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Chambers, Henry T.  Young Man's Country.  Coronado Press.  Bristow, Oklahoma.  Author's presentation dated 1934. 24 page Chapbook of southwestern poetry, in tan wrapper with red stamping, 8" x 6". There are some extra verses and a sketch in the margins of three pages, probably by the author in a less formal style than his inscription "To Elaine Boylan from Henry T. Chambers, Bristow, Feb. 21, 1934".   Western Poetry; Literature;  (Book ID 5697)  $20.00 Chambers, Robert W.  In the Quarter.  F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher.  New York, New York.  1894.  First Edition.  Author's First Book. 314 pages; ads [8]; publishers' blue cloth binding with design and title on the cover and spine. Front and back joints reinforced and soiling to the binding, darkened spine. No marks to the interior.   Condition: Very Good.  American Literature, Fiction. DK-26  (Book ID 10269)  $37.50 Chambers, Robert W.  Iole  D. Appleton & Co..  New York.  1905.  First Edition.  Publisher's green patterened cloth with color illustration on front cover. Four full page color illustrations, two each by J.C. Leyendecker and Karl Anderson. Numerous textural illustrations by Arthur C. Becker. A very nice copy of a very handsome book. 142 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  American Fiction. Illustrated Books  (Book ID 7885)  $25.00 Chambers, Robert W.  The Common Law.  D. Appleton & Co..  New York & London.  1912.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Gibson, Charles Dana.  535ages, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, green cloth with white stamping, 7.5 x 5". Nice copy. All of Gibson's characters are elegantly attired.   Literature  (Book ID 6524)  $17.50 Chandler, Raymond and James M. Fox  Letters: Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox, Edited By James Pepper  Neville & Yellen.  Santa Barbara, California.  1978.  First Edition.  Publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering. Issued without dust wrapper. Number 112 of 350 numbered copies, signed by Fox. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom, The Castle Press. 66 pages, plus colophon.   Condition: Fine.  Signed and Inscribed Books. Fine Press and Printing. Literary Limited Editions. Detective Fiction. California Writers and Fiction  (Book ID 8752)  $50.00 Chandler, Robert J.  Joaquin Miller in 1863: The Sphinx Speaks! Being an Account Wherein No bitters-Bolstered Braggadocio Burns Within, But Instead Enter Exuberant Emotions of a Loving Husband, Who Dodges the Civil War, Flirts with Fleeing Society, Encounters the Charming  Patrick Reach Printers, Inc..  Sebastopol, California.  2000.  First Edition.  title - "'Menken', and courts a fickle muse more favoring his wife." Limited edition of 300 copies, 150 copies signed and number for members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, this copy unsigned and unnumbered. Erratum slip inclosed. [12] pages with photo in a red paper wrapper with title and script writing across the cover and backside. Deals with Miller's early life in Oregon and Northern California and a letter written 3 Sept. 1863 to his elder brother John.   Condition: Fine Bright Copy.  Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, Joaquin Miller, Literature, California. DK-13  (Book ID 9619)  $25.00 Charters, Samuel  As I Stand at This Window.  Graham Mackintosh.  1970.  [6] pages; tan colored paper wrappers (6 1/4 x 8 inch) with title on the cover. Inscribed by author: "(Something from last spring -) Sam 12/12/70" on front front flyleaf.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, Fine Press. DK-40  (Book ID 10715)  $15.00 Chatfield-Taylor, H.C., In Collaboration with Reginald De Koven  The Idle Born: A Comedy of Manners  Herbert S. Stone and Company.  Chicago.  1900.  First Edition.  An attractively printed and bound book. Publisher's brown cloth with silver and black lettering and decorations; title page printed in red and black. Wright III, no. 996. A few spots on a couple of leaves, otherwise a nice unworn and unfaded copy.   Condition: Very Good.  19th Century American Fiction.  (Book ID 7744)  $37.50 Chaucer, Geoffrey  Canterbury Tales, Rendered Into Modern English By J.U. Nicolson ... An Introduction By Gordon Hall Gerould.  Covici Friede Publishers.  New York, New York.  1934.  First Trade Edition.  Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.  xvi, 627 pages; illustrations; cloth with dust jacket under 'mylar'. Fine clean copy with former owner's bookplate on the inside cover "Marian Wickline, July, 1935". Modern translation by J.U. Nicolson with wonderful illustrations by Rockwell Kent from the 1930 limited edition along with some new illustrations by Kent. Except for the bookplate, a flawless copy.   Condition: Fine.  English Literature, Chaucer. DK-40  (Book ID 10704)  $125.00 Cheng Chi-Yu  New China in Verse  The Gillick Press. Berkeley. 1944.  Cloth backed boards. 1st edition. In the Preface the author comments on the importance of poetry in Chinese culture, dating back to 2357 B.C. He describes poetry written in the classical language and that written in the vernacular language (which began during the Chinese Renaissance in 1918). Contents include: A Solitary Wild Goose; China; The North Wind; Ode to a Bride; A Forlorn Woman; Famine; Moonlight Night Beside a Lake; The Cheng Feng Pagoda; Snow-Plum; On Board S. S. President Grant on the Pacific Ocean; An Epistle of Comfort to Chinese-American Soldiers; Confronting the Moon; etc.   Chinese Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Poems. Verse.  (Book ID 81)  $37.50 Chesterman, Evan R.  Things Mundane As Observed By The Idle Reporter  The Neale Publishing Company.  New York.  1912.  First Edition.  One corner bumped, but a nice copy. Humorous sketches by this Richmond, VA author. The contents of this book were originally published in The Richmond Dispatch and The Richmond Times-Dispatch.   Condition: Very Good.  Virginia Authors. Richmond. Neale Imprints. Southern Literature.  (Book ID 5264)  $37.50 Chesterton G.K.  Varied Types  Dodd, Mead and Company..  New York.  1903.  First American Edition.  Literary and historical essays. Frontispiece portrait of a youngish Chesterton. 269 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  British Literature. Essays.  (Book ID 7356)  $47.50 Chesterton, G. K.  All Things Considered  John Lane Company.  New York.  1909.  First Edition, American Issue.  Cloth.  Printed in England. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Book plate front end paper. Contents include: The Case for the Ephemeral; Cockneys and Their Jokes; On Running After One's Hat; Oxford from Without; Limericks and Counsels of Perfection; The Worship of the Wealthy; Phonetic Spelling; Demagogues and Mystagogues; The "Eatanswill Gazette"; Tom Jones and Morality; A Dead Poet; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Short Stories. Fiction. Humor.  (Book ID 4430)  $37.50 Chesterton, Gilbert K.  The Club of Queer Trades  Harper & Brothers.  New York and London.  1905.  First Edition.  Nice, bright unworn copy of Chesterton's first mystery book. 270 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Mystery and Detective Fiction. British Literature.  (Book ID 7138)  $75.00 Chestfield, Lord  The Letters, Sentences and Maxims with a Preatory Note by Charles Sayle and a Critical Essay by C. A. Sainte Beuve de L'Academie Francaise.  Printed for The Chesterfield Society. London..  Leather backed boards. Limited edition of 1000 copies.   LITERATURE. ENGLISH.  (Book ID 84)  $47.50 Childs, George William  Autograph Letter Signed  1870.  George William Childs (1829 -- 1894). Born at Baltimore, died at Philadelphia. Two-page autograph letter signed, dated June 8, 1870, on letterhead stationery from the Office of the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, George W. Childs, Proprietor. American publisher, author, philanthropist. Wrote Recollections by George W. Childs (1890); Recollections of General Grant (1885). In bookselling business, R. E. Peterson (1849 - 1854), Childs & Peterson (1854 - 1860), J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1860 - 1863). In 1863 he founded the "American Publishers' Circular" and "Literary Gazette". In 1864 he bought the Philadelphia Public Ledger, with Anthony J. and Francis A. Drexel, and made it a great newspaper. Letter declines an invitation.   Newspaperman. Publisher. Editor. Proprietor. Author. Philanthropist.  (Book ID 3775)  $25.00 Churchill, Winston  A Far Country.  Macmillan Co. Of Canada, Ltd..  Toronto.  1915.  Illustrated by Pfeifer, Herman.  509 pages, 8 black and white illustrations by Herman Pfeifer, maroon cloth with gilt stamping, dust wrapper, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2". First Canadian edition, stamped "Made in the U.S.A." Nice copy, jacket somewhat worn and chipped, protected by mylar. Printed ad from MacMillen listing 1915 novels laid in.   Literature  (Book ID 6200)  $37.50 Ciardi, John  From Time to Time  Twayne Publishers, Inc.  New York, New York.  1951.  First Edition.  ''The Twayne Library of Modern Poetry'. First Edition bound in publisher's gray cloth with dust jacket under mylar. 84 pages. Contains Ciardi's "The Lamb", "Elegy in a Cube", and "My General's Face". Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Poetry, Literature, American. DK-20  (Book ID 9988)  $25.00 Clark, Eleanor  Rome and a Villa  Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. 1952..  Illustrated by Berman, Eugene.  Advance review copy in wrappers. 315 pages. Contents include: The Campidoglio; Fountains; Salvatore Giuliano (The Education of a Bandit); Roman Journal; Hadrian's Villa; Mid-Century Jubilee; Roman Journal II; and G. G. Belli.   American Literature. Literary Works. Short Stories. Fiction. Writings.  (Book ID 85)  $37.50 Clark, James G.  Autograph Quotation Signed  6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Three lines from his poem "The Voice of the Mountain" signed in full. "Ashland Or, April 15, 1891"added in the authors hand below signature. Clark (1830-1897) was a singer, songwriter and poet. He was born in New York and lived his later years on the West Coast of the U.S. He is best known for his songs that he wrote which were popular during the Civil War. These include: "Beautiful Hills" (1862); "Children of the Battlelfield" (1864); "Let Me Die with My Face to the Foe" (1864). Clark was an abolitionist and active in radical causes of the day.   Condition: Fine.  Songwrters. Music. Poetry. Oregon Authors  (Book ID 8066)  $37.50 Clark, Kate Upson  Autograph Letter Signed  1891.  Brooklyn, N.Y. April 4,1891. Handwritten letter on three pages of four-page folded piece of stationery, 4 1/4 x 6 3/4. Small damp stains along fold line; residue from stamps affixed near signature; very small hole through all pages, text unaffected. Clark (1851-1935) was an author of juvenile fiction. In this letter to a Mr. Marshall she submits four stories for possible publication and asks if he can raise the rates that he pays her. At the time of the letter he is paying her $10 per l,000 words.   American Literature. American Author. Juvenile Fiction. Writings. Stories. Publications. Youth.  (Book ID 5105)  $37.50 Clark, Susie C.  Lorita, an Alaskan Maiden  Lee and Shepard Publishers.  Boston.  1892.  First Edition.  A few foxing type spots on end paper and title page, otherwise a very nice copy in publisher's pebble cloth with gilt lettering. A scarce, early Alaska novel by this Boston author, who had visited there in 1891. Ricks, Alaska Bibliography, page 65. Wright, American Fiction, III, number 1073. 171 pages of text, plus one page advertisement for "Raymond Vacation Excursions" touting trip to California, Mexico, Alaska and the Sandwich Islands.   Condition: Fine.  Early Alaska History  (Book ID 8111)  $75.00 Clemens, Samuel L [Mark Twain}  Mark Twain's [Date, 1601] Conversation As it Was By the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors.  Lyle Stuart.  New York, New York.  Illustrated by Meine, Franklin J..  80 pages; illustrations; bibliography; bound in light red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and '1601' dexign on the cover, boxed (6 1/2 x9 3/4 inch). Contains: introduction, the first pirnting reprint, The West Point Edition in facsmile, footnotes to frivolity, bibliography of 1601. Fine clean copy of Mark Twain's humurous story.   Condition: Fine.  Mark Twain, Fiction, Elizabethan England. DK-78  (Book ID 11627)  $17.50 Clemens, Samuel L. [Mark Twain]  The American Claimant  Chatto & Windus.  London, England.  1892.  First British Edition.  Illustrated by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst.  FIRST BRITISH EDITION. xi, 258 pages; 32 pages of listing of books by Chatto & Windus in back; illustrations; red cloth with illustrated cover and title in black, gilt title on the spine. Some fading to the spine and on the front cover. Blanck - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE #3434, notes. According to Clemens this was the first book written with the help of phonographic dictation.   Condition: Very Good.  American Literature, Mark Twain. DK-94  (Book ID 11978)  $50.00 Cobb, Elisabeth  My Wayward Parent. A Book About Irvin S. Cobb.  The Bobbs-Merrill Company.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  1945.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Strobel, F..  First edition. 255 pages; illustrations; publishers red cloth binding with title, author on the cover and spine in gilt, under dust jacket inclosed in mylar. Missing chips to the edges of the dust jacket (1 1/4 x 1/2 inch piece missing on the top). Inscribed on the dedication page "For Madrena and Margery - who need only look above to find themselves - with love and gratitude, your admiring, Buff Cobb. Xmas, 1945" in blue ink. (The author shared the nickname "Buff" with her actress daughter, Buff Cobb). Funny account of the life of Irvin Cobb as related by his daughter.   Condition: Fine.  Literary Biographies. DK-23  (Book ID 10165)  $50.00 Cobb, Irvin S.  "Here Comes the Bride - " And So Forth.  George H. Doran Company.  New York, New York.  1925.  First Edition.  First Edition, inscribed. 340 pages; bound in publishers blue cloth with title paper labels on the cover and spine (wear to the lables, no fading to cloth) under mylar wrapper. Inscribed in ink on dedication page "May 15, 1925. This, the first copy of the first edition of this book is sent - with the affectiante regards of the author - [printed dedication] by Irwin S. Cobb". T. Coleman du Pont, Esq. (1863-1930) was a business man involved in engineering and steel manufacturing, later a Republican Senator (1921-22; 1925-28) from Delaware.   Condition: Very Good.  . Dedication Copies. Signed and Inscribed Books. American Humor.  (Book ID 10166)  $100.00 Cobb, Irvin S.  A Plea for Old Cap Collier  George H. Doran Company.  New York.  First Edition.  Dust wrapper with a couple of very tiny chips at top and bottom of spine, but a nice copy. Publisher's paper over boards. Frontispiece by Tony Sarg. Merle Johnson, American First Editions, page 117. 56 pages.   Condition: Fine.  American Humor.  (Book ID 8221)  $25.00 Cobb, Irvin S.  Some United States: a Series of Stops in Various Parts of This Nation with on Excursion Across the Line  George H. Doran Company.  New York.  First Edition.  With attractive dust wrapper, illustrated with cartoon by John McCutcheon. Small chips at top and bottom of spine. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering and green and black illustration. Chapters on Maine, Kansas, California, Kentucky, New York, Wyoming, Texas, Wisconsin, Oregon (2), Virginia, New Jersey, Indiana, North Carolina, Arizona, Louisiana and Canada. 412 pages.   Condition: Fine.  American Humor. Travel. Road Trips  (Book ID 8222)  $47.50 Cobb, Sylvanus, Jr.  The Armorer of Tyre (Cover Title)  F. M. Lupton.  New York.  1893.  Illustrated Wrappers.  "The Arm Chair Library"; each number contains a complete novel by a popular author. A series of paperback books published weekly. This book is No. 19 in the series, dated May 13, 1893.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Paperback Books. Novels.  (Book ID 3520)  $20.00 Coblentz, Stanton A.  Two Typed Letters Signed  1938.  Typed letter with 'Wings, A Quarterly of Verse' letterhead (5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inch) signed by Coblentz turning down some poems for Wings by a Mr. Tomlinson and acknowledging to be the author of some stories in"Amazing Stories" though he didn't realize that he had given anyone nightmares. The second note (6 x 4 inch) also is turning down poems to Mr. Tomlinson and is signed by Coblentz.   Condition: Very Good.  California Poet. DK-25  (Book ID 10238)  $35.00 Coblentz, Stanton A.  Two Typed Notes Signed on Stationery of Wings, a Quarterly of Verse  New York.  1938.  Two notes, one about 5 3/4 x 8 1/2", other 6 x 4", both to a Mr. Tomlinson, in which he returns poems. "Their macabre note does not quite appeal to me for WINGS..." He also admits to contributing stories to "Amazing Stories" and "didn't realize I had given any one nightmares." Coblentz was a California poet as well as the editor of Wings.   Authors. Poetry  (Book ID 6550)  $35.00 Coffin, Robert P. Tristram  Golden Falcon  The Macmillan Company.  New York.  1929.  First Edition.  Early book by this Maine poet. The dust wrapper is slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine. Coffin was awarded to Pulitizer Prize for Poetry in 1936. 70 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Maine. New England. American Poetry  (Book ID 7917)  $37.50 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  Cheshire House. New York. 1931..  Illustrated Boards.  Illustrated by Tomlinson, H. Charles.  No. 921 of 1200 copies. Illustrations. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Book plate front end paper. Book measures 9 1/4 x 13. In the Introduction, Edmund Blunden notes: "The poem to which this volume is devoted has now been in existence for a hundred and thirty-four years..."   Illustrated Books. English Literature. Poetry. Poem. Verse. Prose. Literary Works.  (Book ID 529)  $37.50 Collins, Wilkie  Six Letters of Wilkie Collins from the Charlotte Ashley Felton Memorial Library at Stanford University with an Introduction By J. Terry Bender ...  Charles R. Wood & Associates.  San Francisco.  1957.  First Edition.  Publisher's red cloth with title panel on front coversurrounded by gilt decorations. An attractively printed book, done by The Black Vine Press of San Francisco in an edition of 350 copies for private distribution. Unpaginated, but six letters, each with a fascimile of the original, plus a printed version.   Condition: Fine.  Literary Letters. Fine Press and Printing  (Book ID 8648)  $25.00 Combs, Tram  Pilgrim's Terrace. Poems American West Indian.  Editorial La Nueva Salamanca.  San Germain, Puerto Rico.  1957.  First Edition.  86 pages; stiff paper binding with dust jacket under 'mylar'. Unopened copy with no markings inside and out. Contains forewords by William Carlos Williams & Kenneth Rexroth. Poetry centered on life among the West Indian Islands.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, West Indian Islands. DK-40  (Book ID 10701)  $17.50 Conlon, Ben  Typed Letter Signed  New York. No date, but circa 1930's. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. One pages. In this letter to his friend "Harry" (who lives in Paris) Coldon writes that he mas mail a package to Fresno as Harry has requested. Conlon also writes that he intends to retun to Paris soon. Conlon was a writer for pulp magazines such as Argosy and The Avenger in the 1930's and '40's.   Condition: Fine.  Pulp Fiction. Letters and Manuscripts. Signed and Uinscribed  (Book ID 5381)  $25.00 Connor, Ralph  The Gaspards of Pine Croft; A Romance of the Windermere  George H. Doran Company. (1923). New York..  First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrated dust wrapper. Front and back end papers are partially illustrated. From the dust wrapper: "In Paul Gaspard, Ralph Connor has created the finest character in any of his novels since the wonderful figure of Gwen in 'The Sky Pilot'. Courage, devotion, struggle against overwhelming temptation, and finally victory mark the course of Paul as he faces the consequences of his father's folly". "There is plenty of adventure and romance in this story. It is filled with vivid scenes of the beautiful Windermere Valley, of the Indians who come and go in its forests; and it is against this background that Paul makes his great stand against temptation -- and wins!"   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. FICTION. NOVEL.  (Book ID 2948)  $25.00 Conrad, Joseph  Youth. Typhoon. The End of the Tether.  Limited Editions Club.  Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press in Los Angeles.  1972.  xv, 251 pages, color plates by Robert Shore, Introduction by Leo Gurko. Navy leather spine stamped in red and gilt, blue linen boards, 11 1/4 x 7 3/4", #480 of 1500 copies, signed by Shore and Ritchie, slipcased. Fine copy, slipcase with light shelf wear. Nice printing of three of Conrad's dramatic tales of the sea, written in 1898, 1901 and 1902.   Literature  (Book ID 6292)  $75.00 Conroy, Frank  Body & Soul.  Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence..  Boston, Mass.  1993.  First Edition.  Limited edition: Number 12 of 250 copies signed by the author. 450 pages in publisher's cloth binding, unworn slipcased of red cloth.   Condition: Fine.  Jazz, Pianists, Modern Fiction. DK-12  (Book ID 9587)  $100.00 Cook, Spruill  J. Frank Dobie, Bibliogrpahy.  Printed By Texian Press.  Waco, Texas.  1968.  First Edition.  Number 206 of 500 copies printed and signed by Spruill Cook. x, 64 pages; title page facsimiles; index; bound in publisher's light green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt roadrunner design on the cover, with a dust jacket under mylar. The bibliography is broken into the followning sections - Separate publications; publications of the Texas Folklore Society; Prefaces, introductions and other contributions; contributions to magazines; and selected group of writings about J. Frank Dobie. Very good clean copy with the elusive dust jacket with Dobie's portrait on it.   Condition: Very Good.  BIBLIOGRAPHIES, TEXAS. J. Frank Dobie. DK-72  (Book ID 11422)  $37.50 Cooke, Noah  Wild Warblings:  "Shuttle" Office.  Kidderminster.  1876.  First Edition.  168 pages; bound in publishers green cloth with gilt title and autor on the cover and spine. Pattern design on the covers and spine. Very good clean copy with inscription inside front flyleaf " Andrea Ewing, A present from Mother. 17 - 8 - 85". Collection of poetry by the author with a personal introduction of his life, as a professional weaver.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, England. Working Class Poetry. DK-45  (Book ID 10859)  $50.00 Cooper, James Fenimore  The Red Rover, a Tale. In Three Volumes.  Henry Colburn.  London, England.  1828.  Second British Edition. 3 volumes. I: ix, 336 pages. II: 309 pages. III: 341 pages. Modern spines on all three volumes with marbled boards. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer most famous for his frontier novels (ie. Last of the Mohicans) and sea tales of which 'The Red Rover' is among the better ones. He wrote it in Paris while living in Europe to increase his income from his writings and to give his children a better education. "The Red Rover' is set at sea in which most of the story is related during the voyage. A very good clean copy of the second English edition nicely bound.   Condition: Very Good.  James Fenimore Cooper, American Literature. DK-80  (Book ID 11674)  $175.00 Coppard, A. E.  Collected Poems  Jonathan Cape. London. 1928..  Cloth in dust jacket. 1st collected edition.   LITERATURE, ENGLISH, POETRY  (Book ID 172)  $37.50 Costello, Louisa Stuart  The Rose Garden of Persia  T.N. Foulis, Publisher. London..  Circa 1925. Decorated boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Color illustrations. Page sides and bottoms uncut. Contents include writings from: The Sufis; Ferdusi; Khakani; Omar Khiam; Sadi; The Moolah of Rum; Hafiz, the Persian Anacreon; Jami; etc.   LITERATURE. POETRY. VERSE. ENGLISH. INDIAN. ASIATIC. ORIENTAL  (Book ID 94)  $47.50 Cover, James P.  Notes on Jurgen  Robert M. McBride & Company..  New York.  1928.  First edition. Vellum backed patterned boards, gilt lettering on spine. Slip case, split at bottom of spine. No. 681 of 850 copies printed. Uncut page edges. Bibliography. From the Foreword: "If, like John Charteris, Mr. Cabell is an Economist; he is also, like Jurgen, a pawnbroker. And, whatever economy he may show in parsimoniously using his characters in as many different books as their recorded ages and the credulity of his readers permit, and in charitably reintroducing those characters into not wholly unfamiliar plots;..." "For in his books are long-dead authors and unremembered heroes and old, out-moded gods, garnered from the dust heap of thrown-by years and here magically refurbished and given a new lease on immortality."   American Literature. Bibliography. Literary Works. Writings. Publications.  (Book ID 66)  $37.50 Cowper, William  Poems By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple.  J. Johnson and Company.  London, England.  1814.  viii, 480 pages; front illustrations with tissue paper between them; full contemporary leather binding with tooled border gilt cover and title and date on spine (2 3/4 x 5 inch), gilt edging. Collection of William Cowper's (1731-1800) poetry bound in one volume. Translated Homer, Latin and Italian poetry, along with editing Milton. Turned the story of John Gilpin into a famous ballad (1782) and wrote Trask (1783). Led the way of freeing English verse of the artificiality of Pope's classicism. Fought insanity most of his life.   Condition: Fine.  Poetry, English, Literature. DK-19  (Book ID 9936)  $50.00 Cowper, William  The Poetical Works of William Cowper; With Life, Critcal Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.  D. Appleton and Company. New York. 1856..  Full leather, decorative covers, gilt lettering front cover and spine, gilt page edges. Two volumes bound in one. 844 pages. Illustrations.   LITERATURE. ENGLISH. POETRY.  (Book ID 93)  $50.00 Crawford, F. Marion  Taquisara  The Macmillan Company.  New York.  1896.  First American Published Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 4198. Two volumes. Decoration on front cover and spine. As wealthy Italian princess Donna Veronica, young and unmarried, signed her will leaving her entire estate to her aunt, her late father's sister and her closest living relative, the princess braced herself for the cold and unfeeling words of gratitude expressed by the aunt. The princess didn't believe she needed a will because of her young age but finally relinquished to her aunt's daily demands for the will to be signed.   Literary Works. Literature. Writings. Fiction. Novel. Publication.  (Book ID 3573)  $37.50 Crawford, F. Marion  The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford in Thirty-two Volumes, Authorized Edition  P. F. Collier & Son.  New York.  Complete. Publisher's gray cloth with gilt lettering and orange decorations. A fine, unworn set, seemingly unread. No date, but circa 1910. Small card signed by Crawford tipped on to front pastedown of first volume. The 32 volumes are: Mr. Issacs; Doctor Claudius; To Leeward; A Roman Singer; An American Politician; Marizo's Crucifix and Zoroaster; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Paul Patoff; Lover in Idleness, A Tale of Bar Harbor and Marion Darche; Saracinesca; Sant' Ilario; Don Orsino; Corleone, A Sicilian Story; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; A Cigeratte Makers Romance and Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Taquisara; The Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Katherine Lauderdale; The Ralstons; Casa Braccio, Part 1; Casa Braccio, Part 2; Adam Johnstone' Son and A Rose of Yesterday; Via Crucis; In the Palace of the King; Marietta, A Maid of Venice; Ceclia, A Story of Modern Rome; Whomsoever Shall Offend. This set not noted by The Bibliography of American Literature.   Condition: Fine.  American Literature. Sets  (Book ID 7675)  $275.00 Creeley, Robert  A Calendar, 1984; Poems By Robert Creeley (cover title)  The Toothpaste Press.  West Branch, Iowa.  1983.  Illustrated Wrappers.  12-page calendar (plus front and back covers) measures 11" x 17", with spiral binding, suitable for hanging. Each month's page features a poem by Robert Creeley. Advance review copy with typed announcement from The Toothpaste Press laid in advertising this calendar. Cover illustration by Ann Mikolowski. 2,200 copies printed.   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse. Dates. Weeks. Months. Year. Time.  (Book ID 4359)  $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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