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Your search for Literature has returned 1106 results. Douglas Norman  Nerinda (1901)  G. Orioli.  Florence.  1929.  First Edition.  Orange paper boards, slightly faded at spine. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown Woolf, Norman Douglas Bibliography number A28: "...Orioli's first publishing venture." Limited edition: No, 96 of 475 copies printed and signed by Douglas. 140 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Travel. Diaries.  (Book ID 7352)  $100.00 Douglas Norman  Norman Douglas: A Selection from His Works with an Introduction By D.M. Low  Chatto & Windus, Secker and Warburg.  First Edition Thus.  (1955). Tape on copyright page that has bled unto title page. Former owner's bookplate front pastedown. 394 pages.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 7379)  $25.00 Douglas Norman  Paneros: Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like  Robert M. McBride & Company.  New York.  1932.  First American Edition.  Illustrated by Robert Rotter.  No. 326 of 780 copies printed. Vellum paper boards, chipped and cracked at center of spine. Slipcase repaired with black tape. Woollf, Norman Douglas Bibliography A34c. 121 pages.   Sex. Medicine. Folk Cures.  (Book ID 7381)  $37.50 Douglas Norman  Some Antiquarian Notes  R. Tipografia Francesco Fiannini & Figli.  Napoli.  1907.  First Edition.  Red wrappers, most of spine chipped away. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Small chip outer margin of title page. 250 copies printed. A variety of archeological subjects discussed by Douglas. Woolf, Norman Douglas Bibliography A12. 56 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  British Literature. Rome. Italy  (Book ID 7393)  $125.00 Douglas Norman  South Wind  (Limited Editions Club).  (1932). No. 581 of 1500 copies. Introduction by Carl Van Doren original to this edition. Illustrated and signed by Carlotta Petrina. Designed by Elmer Adler. Printer by the Pynson Printers, New York. Former owner's bookplate front pastedown. Lacking publisher's slipcase. 11 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches. Loose woven cloth, leather title label. 208 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Illustrated Books. Fine Press and Limited Editions  (Book ID 7383)  $37.50 Douglas Norman  Together  Robert M. McBride & Company.  New York.  1923.  First American Edition.  Woolf, Norman Douglas Bibliography 122d: "1000 copies printed." Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 255 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  British Literature  (Book ID 7369)  $20.00 Douglas, Norman  Nerinda.  John Day Company.  New York.  (1929, first American edition). 79 pages, black cloth spine with title stamped in orange, with orange patterned boards, 9.5 x 6.5". Nice copy, top edge a bit soiled. Fiction written in Pompei, with "author's note" of explanation at end.   Literature  (Book ID 6521)  $25.00 Dowden, Edward (John Morley, editor)  Shakspere.  American Book Company.  New York, Cincinnati, Chicago.  No date, but advertisements dated 1892. Part of the "Literature Primers" series, edited by Jhn Richard Green. Very good tight copy in the publishers' brown cloth binding with title on front cover and spine. No fading to the cover, though some light rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Internaly clean with no marks. 167 pages with ads in the back.   Condition: Very Good.  William Shakespeare. British Literature.  (Book ID 8804)  $17.50 Dreiser, Theodore  Sister Carrie. A Novel By Theodore Dreiser. With a New Introduction By Burton Rascoe. Illustrated from Crayon Drawings.  Limited Editions Club.  New York, New York.  1939.  Illustrated by Reginald Marsh.  Number 45 of 1500 copies printed by The Spiral Press and signed by the illustrator on the colophon page. xiv, 387 pages; illustrations; brown boards with cloth spine, leather label on spine, boxed with paper label. Fine clean copy. Some sunning to slipcase   Condition: Fine.  Limited Editions Club, Fine Press, Theodore Dreiser. DK-107  (Book ID 12235)  $75.00 Dreiser, Theodore  The Symbolic Drawings of Hubert Davis for an American Tragedy  Horace Liveright, Publisher..  No City.  Cloth Backed Boards.  Illustrated by Davis, Hubert.  (1930). No. 127 of 525 copies. Signed by Theodore Dreiser and Hubert Davis. Slip case that is slightly split on two edges; with cover title label. Measures 11 1/2 x 14 3/4. Uncut page edges. Illustrations and commentaries on Clyde Griffith and his family's life cycle from "...the emotional imaginings of Clyde as they relate to Sondra (Plate 7), or the drabness and lack of understanding and futility of the Griffiths group as pictured by him in Scene 1..."   American Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Family. Somber. Hopeless.  (Book ID 557)  $200.00 Drinkwater, John  Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933  Sidwick & Jackson, Ltd..  London.  1933.  "Second Impression" published November 1933 (the same month as the first). Inscribed by the author on the front end paper: "Dorothy from John Drinkwater, March 1936." 174 pages, including index of first lines.   Condition: Very Good.  British Poetry. Signed and Inscribed Books  (Book ID 8259)  $37.50 Drury, Aubrey  Autograph Letter Signed.  San Francisco, California.  1938.  Size of a postcard (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch) written on both sides in ink thanking a Miss Lawlor for reading her book and sending a bookplate along as gift. Aubrey Drury (1891-1959) was a California Writer.   Condition: Very Good.  California Writer. DK-25  (Book ID 10239)  $20.00 Dryden, John  Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer; with Original Poems  Jacob Tonson.  London.  1721.  Rebound.  Rebacked, using new label. . Margin illustrations. Book has 345 pages plus a two page index titled The Table, and 16 pages of "Books Printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1728".   English Literature. Ancient Literature. The Classics. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 3941)  $100.00 Dryden, John  The Beauties of Dryden, Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works. By Alfred Howard.  T. Davison.  London, England.  212 pages; front portrait; bound in contemporary full green leather with gilt design and lettering on the spine, border on the covers. John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright who dominated Restoration England. He was one of a few writters to support himself at the time from his writtings. He translated the Roman classics, especially Virgil (1697). . Very good clean and handsome copy.   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature, John Dryden. DK-96  (Book ID 12028)  $47.50 Du Maurier, Daphne  The Glass-Blowers.  Victor Gollancz Ltd..  London, England.  1963.  First Edition.  320 pages; bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket under mylar. It is a novel about the Bussons, the author's forbers, before and during the French Revolution. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Literature, Fiction, Glass-Blower. DK-96  (Book ID 12020)  $17.50 Dumas, Alexandre  The Three Musketeers  Carlton House.  New York.  No date, but circa 1935 (?). Full green leather binding with gilt decorations and lettering. Marbeled end papers. Top edge gilt. In very slightly worn publisher's slipcase. Largely unopened. 596 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Leather Binding. Classic Literature  (Book ID 7967)  $37.50 Duncan, Norman  Christmas Eve at Swamp's End.  Fleming H. Revell Company.  (Copyright, 1911-1915). 32 pages, frontispiece, title page illustration and 8 other sketches, patterned boards, 7 1/4 x 5". Very good. Christmas stories from the Northwest.   Literature; Illustrated Books  (Book ID 6084)  $17.50 Duncan, Professor  Penny Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse, of Most Interesting and Instructive Subjects, Scientific, Historical, Witty, and Humorous, Adapted for Eveing Parties Adn Various Social Gatherings. First Series.  William Nicholson and Sons.  Wakefield.  330 pages + ads; color frontis; index; bound in publishers red cloth with black title and design on the cove and gilt title, black design on the spine. Clean copy inside and out, some wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Spine is loose due to use. Collection of stories, poetry and essays to be read out loud for entertainment. First in a series of books in a like manner.   Condition: Very Good.  Literature, Family Entertainment. DK-45  (Book ID 10860)  $37.50 Dunne, Finley Peter  Dissertationbs By Mr. Dooley  Harper & Brothers.  New York and London.  1906.  First Edition.  Publisher's green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Former owner's name: "Frank H. Briggs, Over Brook", on front end paper. Nice, bright clean copy. 312 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Irish American Humor. Political Humor. Chicago Politicss  (Book ID 8549)  $25.00 Dupuy, Jacques, Compiler  Clavis Historiae Thuanae. Id Est, Nomenclatura Nominum Propriorum, Quae in Illustris Viri Jacobi Augusti Thuani Operibus Historicis Usurpantur.  1696.  Editio Altera. Ratisponae, Sumtibus JO. Zachariae Seidel II, excusa apud John. Georg. Hofmannum, anno [1696]. Unpaginated, (600) pages, bound in vellum, 9 x 6.5". Good, vellum soiled and somewhat worn, interior loosening, paper still flexible. Originally compiled by Dupuy and published in Geneva in 1634. This is a revised edition and the first published with the title "Clavis..." Title translates to: Nomenclature of Proper Names in the Historical Work of Jacques Auguste de Thou.   Dictionaries; Early Printed Books  (Book ID 5965)  $250.00 Earle, John; Edward Arber, Editor  Micro-Cosmographie; Editio Princeps, 1628; With Additional Characters From the Fifth Edition of 1629; and the Sixth Edition of 1633  London.  1869.  Illustrated Paper Boards.  English Reprints. Large paper edition. Unopened pages. Chipped spine. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Contents include: Chronicle of the Life, Works, and Times of J. Earle; Bibliography; Micro-Cosmographie, Etc., 1628; Additional Characters; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Bibliography.  (Book ID 4438)  $37.50 Eberhart, Richard  Autograph Note Signed  1968.  Richard Eberhart. American poet. Hand written note on 3 1/4" x 5 1/2" postal card dated 8/2/68, thanking the recipient for copies of "your good looking magazine". He calls attention to a typo error in one of his books.   American Poet. Verse. Lyric. Literature. Literary Works.  (Book ID 3741)  $20.00 Eberhart, Richard  Holograph Poem Signed  1970.  Richard Eberhart. Holograph poem on 3" x 5" card signed and dated 6/9/70, from "Collected Poems", 1960, p. 58.   Poet. Poetry. Verse. Lyric. Literature. Literary Works. Publications.  (Book ID 3740)  $25.00 Editorial Souvenir  Autograph Letter Signed and Autograph Manuscript Initialed  Both dated June 13, 1895. Both 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches. The letter is written to a Miss Savage and is flirtatious in nature. In part: "Would it not be fitting that the two poets our Sunday Evening Circle can boast of should each posess an edition of de luxe of the works of the other?" The letter is one page and is from Ithaca, NY. The manuscript is titled "Tune: Live L'amour, in key pitched by Miss Colegrove." It consists of eight couplets, concerning eight professors at the University of Pennsylvania. Edmonds was a Philadelphia author, teacher, professor and lawyer. He was elected to the Philadelphia Board of Public Education (1906-11) and to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1921-25).   Condition: Fine.  Autographs and Manuscripts  (Book ID 8107)  $47.50 Eggleston, George Cary  Autograph Letter Signed  March 15, 1903. New York City. Two pages. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. To a Mrs. Hiffle. Eggleston writes that he has never used a pseudonym, alothough at times he has adopted a pen name for newspaper work. Eggleston (1939-1911) was an American journalist and novelist.   Condition: Fine.  American Literary Authographs and Manuscripts  (Book ID 8108)  $37.50 Eliot, T.S.  Marina with Drawing By E. McKnight Kauffer  Faber and Faber Ltd..  London.  1950.  Large Paper Edition: No. 361 of 400 copies signed by Eliot. Original blue boards, with some spotting on front and back covers and chipping along spine. Internally fine. No. 29 of the Ariel Poems series. Printed at the Curwen Press.   British Literature, Signed Limited Edition  (Book ID 5167)  $375.00 Eliot, T.S.  T.S. Eliot  The University of Tulsa..  Tulsa, Oklahoma.  1978.  'Keepsake Number 1'. [4] pages pamphlet (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inch) in brown cover with cut opening showing the title. Brief note by David Farmer on the 'corrected' letter from T.S. Eliot. 2500 copies issued for the Special Collections of the McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.   Condition: Fine.  English Literature, McFarlin Library. DK-13  (Book ID 9624)  $17.50 Elkin, Stanley  The Dick Gibson Show  Random House.  New York.  First Edition.  (1971). Publisher's cloth backed boards. Called by some the best novel ever written about the radio business. 337 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Modern Fiction. Show Business Novels  (Book ID 8637)  $37.50 Enslin, Theodore  Two Typed Letters Signed from the Poet  Temple, Maine.  1970.  Two letters to J. Duane Upton in Santa Ana, California who had "requested a poem of mine in longhand, for 'a museum collection.'" The first letter states that he sent the holograph and never received any acknowledgement. Both letters tell Upton that poets should be compensated for their work. The second states "if you were to try to buy manuscripts of mine on the open market you might be in for a few more shocks." NYU is buying his manuscripts and letters and "They don't find it against their principles to pay, and decently, guided by an appraiser from The House of El Dieff."   Poetry. Literature.  (Book ID 6371)  $35.00 Eshleman, Clayton  The Physical Traveler  Black Sparrow Press.  Los Angeles.  Broadside.  No date. Poetry broadside. Broadside/Flyer No. 5. Single sheet advertisement for "Coils", a new book of poems by Clayton Eshleman. His poem, "The Physical Traveler", printed on this 9" x 13 1/4" broadside, 72 lines. Inscribed "Clayton Eshleman 33".   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poem. Verse.  (Book ID 4376)  $20.00 Everett, Alexander H.  An Address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Bowdoin College, on the Present State of Polite Learning in England and America, Delivered at Brusnswick, Me., September 3, 1834.  Charles Bowen.  Boston, Mass..  1834.  Disbound pamphlet with some foxing throughout. No markings and still tight. 55 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Bowdoin College,  (Book ID 8807)  $25.00 Everson, William  San Joaquin  The Ward Ritchie Press.  Los Angeles.  1939.  First Edition.  Author's rare second book. Published in an edition of 100 copies. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Cloth backed boards. Small chip from back cover and slightly rubbed at top of spine, but a nice clean copy. This copy belonged to Cas Duchow, the artist in residence at The Ward Ritchie Press and has his small, tasteful book "Caspar and Mary Duchow" on the front pastedown. 38 pages, plus colophon.   Condition: Very Good.  California Poetry. Fine Press and Printing. Association Copies. Dk-73  (Book ID 11496)  $1,000.00 Everson, William, and Lawrence Clark Powell.  Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writes and Writing, 1938-1946. Edited By William R. Eshelman.  The Scarecrow Press, Inc..  Metuchen, New Jersey.  1994.  First Edition.  xxix, 603 pages; index; bound in white cloth wtih blue lettering. Signed by Powell on the title page in ink. Correspondence between Lawrence Powell and Willima Everson during the years 1938-1946 in which they discuss life and their intellectual growth. Limited editorial support to the letters by the editor. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 11485)  $60.00 Ewing, Juliana Horatia  Jackanapes; Daddy Darwin's Dovecot; The Story of a Short Life; With a Sketch of Her Life By Her Sister, Horatia K. F. Gatty  Hovendon Company.  New York.  Cloth.  Circa 1900. Illustrations. Spine has silver lettering and decoration. Part I contains a dedication to the memory of Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841 -- 1885). The sketch by the author's sister, Horatia K. F. Gatty, describes the author, beginning in her childhood. "Many of the stories she told us in childhood were inspired by some fine woodcuts in a German 'A B C book', that we could none of us read..." "It was her energy that established a lending library in 1859, which still remains a flourishing institution..." She goes on to describe the author's writings, from short stories to hymns.   Children's Books. English Literature. Literary Works. Short Stories. Hymns. Writings.  (Book ID 3850)  $25.00 Fairless, Michael  The Gathering of Brother Hilarius  E. P. Dutton & Co..  New York.  1901.  First Edition, American Issue.  Decorative Cloth.  First edition, American issue, printed in London. Author's first book. Fairless is pseud. of Margaret Fairless Barber. Front cover and spine have gilt lettering. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Yapped edges. Chapters include: Blind Eyes in the Forest; The Love of Prior Stephen; The City That Hilarius Saw; A Sending From the Lord; The Coming of Hunger and Love; How Long, O Lord, How Long!; The Passing of Prior Stephen; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Novel. Fiction.  (Book ID 3685)  $47.50 Fairless, Michael  The Roadmender  Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society. London. (1920)..  Cloth backed boards, gilt lettering front cover and spine. Dust wrapper, chipping top of spine and slightly to top corners. Limited edition of 1000 copies printed by Chiswick Press. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Contents include: The Roadmender; Out of the Shadow; and, At the White Gate.   LITERATURE. AMERICAN. RICCARDI PRESS. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 121)  $27.50 Falconer, William  The Shipwreck  John Sharpe.  London, England.  1822.  Illustrated by Richard Westall.  167 pages; illustrations; full contemporary leather binding with gilt design on the covers, raised bands and gilt lettering to the spine. William Falconer (1732-1769) was a Scottish poet who wrote THE SHIPWRECK , his most famous work in 1762) . Very good clean copy with illustrations by Richard Westall.   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature, Scottish Poet. DK-100  (Book ID 12132)  $75.00 Farnol, Jeffery  Over the Hills.  Little, Brown & Co..  Boston, Massachusetts.  1930.  First American Edition.  vii, 318 pages; bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket under 'mylar' with some lears amd spome minor chipping along the edges. Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952) was an English romantic writer, one of the founders of the Regency romantic genre. In all he wrote some forty novels. A very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  American Romantic Novels. DK-55  (Book ID 11101)  $37.50 Fedorova, Nina  Original Scrapbook Concerning Her Life and Writing Career  The scrapbook consists of 28 pages and includes two letters from Fedorova, 11 original photographs, five pieces of ephemera and numerous newspaper clippings. Nina Fedorova (1895-1980) was the pen name of Antonina (Mrs. V,A.) Kiasanovsky. She won the 1940 Atlantic Prize Novel Award for her much admired novel "The Family." Fedorova, with her husband and two sons were Russian immigrants to the United States in 1938, settling in Eugene, OR. The family had earlier fled both Russia, because of the revolution and China, because of the Japanese invasion. Fedorova's novel is drawn from her personal experiences during these times. The scrapbook, which appears to have been kept by Mrs. G.H. Good, a freind of Fedorova's, focuses on events surrounding Fedorova winning the prize novel award. In 1942, Fedorova, had a second novel published ("The Children") but afterwards had no further work published. In the early 1950's she and her family moved to San Francisco. Little is known of her later life.   Condition: Fine.  Oregon. Russian. Prize Novels.  (Book ID 7012)  $250.00 Fenelon, Francois De Lalignac De La Mothe-  Les Adventures De Telemaque, Suivies Des Adventures d'Aristonous, Par Fenelon, Novuelle Edition. Accompagnee De Notes Philologiques et Litteraires Ornee De Nombreuses Gravures, et Precedee De L'eloge De Fenelon Par La Harpe.  Garneir Freres, Libaires-Editeurs..  Paris, France.  1880.  Bound in 1/4 tan leather with raised bands on spine. Gilt tooling and lettering with fields of green for title and red for author. 519 pages; illustrations; with marbled edges. Fenelon (1651-1715) was a French prelate and writer, appointed by Louis XIV as tutor to his grandson. Active in church politics, he fell into disgrace at the court after the publication of 'Telemaque' which was construed as satirizing the king and his policies. Solid clean copy of his most famous work.   Condition: Fine.  Literature, French. DK-15  (Book ID 9749)  $25.00 Ferber, Edna  Cheerful By Request  Doubleday Page & Co..  Garden City, New York.  1918.  Publisher's dark red cloth with orange lettering. First edition of the book (see Merle Johnson, American First Editions (1942) page 173); third printing of the dust jacket.   Condition: Fine.  Short Stories  (Book ID 8631)  $37.50 Field, Edward Salisbury  A Six-Cylinder Courtship.  The John McBride Company.  New York, New York.  1907.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Underwood, Clarence F..  130 pages; 7 plates (complete); bound in green cloth with white lettering and a portrait on the cover. A romantic tale of a courtship involving a young couple and the man's car. A good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Cars, Literature, Romance Stories. DK-89  (Book ID 11908)  $17.50 Field, Eugene  Penn-Yan Bill's Wooing  Pivately Printed for The Bibliophile Society. No City. 1904..  Boards.  From the title page: "Poem by Eugene Field (never before having appeared in type)". Gilt lettering front cover. Uncut page sides. Small stains to corners of front and rear end papers. Small tear to spine. Eugene Field wrote this poem to his friend William C. Buskett who was on his way to Kentucky to visit a young lady in whom he was interested. The poem begins: "In gallus old Kentucky where the grass is very blue, Where the liquor is the smoothest and the girls are fair and true..."   AMERICAN LITERATURE. POETRY. RHYME. RHYTHM. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 122)  $37.50 Field, Eugene  Second Book of Tales  Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1896..  First Trade Edition.  Cloth.  Bleiler, pg. 72, for the story "The Werewolf." Gilt decoration and lettering front cover. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. Contents include: Humin Natur' on the Han'Bul 'nd St. Jo.; Death and the Soldier; The 'Jinin' Farms; The Two Wives; The Wooing of Miss Woppit; The Werewolf; Baked Beans and Culture; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. STORIES.  (Book ID 125)  $37.50 Field, Eugene  The House: An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of his Wife Alice  Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1896..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering and decoration front cover, gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Small damp stain lower outside corner starting at p. 24, intermittant to last page. Same on top of page starting at page 108. Stain to front edges starting at page 168 to end. Contents include: We Buy a Home; We Negotiate a Mortgage; The Vandals Begin Their Work; I Make a Stand for My Rights; The Question of Insurance; I State My Views on Taxation; Other People's Dogs; At Last We Enter Our House; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 123)  $25.00 Field, Eugene  The Writings in Prose and Verse  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1911.  Twelve volumes, complete. Consists of: 1. A Little Book of Western Verse. 2. A Little Book of Profitable Tales. 3. Second Book of Verse. 4. Poems of Childhood. 5. The Holy Cross and Other Tales. 6. Echoes from the Sabine Farm. 7. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. 8. The House. 9. Songs and Other Verse. 10. Second Book of Tales. 11 and 12. Sharps and Flats. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering and author initials in a wreath on front cover. A handsome, seemingly unread set.   Condition: Fine.  Collected Works of Eugene Field. Literary Sets  (Book ID 7973)  $100.00 Field, Eugene  The Yankee Abroad  Privately Published for The Bibliophile Society..  Cloth.  (1917). BAL 5882. From an introductory page: "This poem by Eugene Field was written at the time of his visit to London in February, 1890, and is indorsed in Field's handwriting, 'Never published'. So closely has the manuscript been guarded since the author's death that up to the present time very few persons are aware of its existence". The original manuscript is herein reproduced in facsimile, precisely the same size as originally written. The poem appears twice, first in typeset format, then in facsimile. The poem is about patriotism.   American Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Poem. Verse. Patriotism.  (Book ID 124)  $37.50 Fielding, Henry  The Adventures of Joseph Andrews  Printed for Members of The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1931..  Cloth.  Illustrated by Jones, Haydon.  Two slip cases, outer slip case has spine label. 2 volumes complete. Ex-library (no external markings). Limited to 438 copies. Illustrations. Gilt page tops. Page sides and bottoms uncut. Book plate front end paper both volumes. Denver Public Library slip affixed to front end papers both volumes. 329 and 270 pages. Introduction and Notes by Henry H. Harper. From Harper's introduction: "Although Joseph Andrews holds the title role, the misadventures, the homely philosophy and the native simplicity of his companion Parson Adams are the features that have most endeared the book to the successive generations of readers. Under Fielding's magic touch Parson Adams became one of the best known characters in all literature -- always getting into embarrassing scrapes, and always managing somehow, by the timely intervention of destiny, philosophy, good luck, or Fielding's ingenuity, to get out of them."   ENGLISH LITERATURE. BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. FICTION. RISQUE TALES. HUMOR. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 128)  $50.00 Fielding, Henry  The Novels of Henry Fielding; Large Paper Edition... Joseph Andrews; Jonathan Wild; Tom Jones; and Amelia  Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. 1926..  Cloth Backed Boards.  No. 272 of 525 copies printed by the Shakespeare Head Press. 10 volumes, complete. Illustrations. Spine of one volume slightly discolored. Uncut page edges. Some unopened pages. Contents include: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, Written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes Author of Don Quixote, Volumes I and II; The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild The Great, Volume III; The History of Tom Jones a Foundling, Volumes IV through VII; Amelia, Volumes VIII through X.   English Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Stories. Novels. Writings.  (Book ID 129)  $375.00 Fielding, Thomas, Pseud. Of John Wade  Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments. To Which is Added, a Summary of Ancient Pastimes, Holidays, and Customs; with an Analysis of the Wisdom of the Ancients, and of the Fathers of the Church. To Whole Arranged on a New Plan  Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green..  London, England.  1824.  First Edition.  xxiv, 216 pages; full leather, re-backed professionally with new end papers (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inch). A selection of Proverbs from the various nations of the world. Taken from English, Scottish, Gaelic, French, Italian, Spanish sources among others. Nice, clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Religion, Christianity. DK-91  (Book ID 11961)  $75.00 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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