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Your search for Literature has returned 1065 results. Fraenkel, Michael  The Day Face and the Night Face  Irving Stettner.  New Yorik.  First Edition.  (1947). Wrappers over flexible boards. 1000 copies printed. Former owner's inscription on front pastedown. 70 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 7500)  $25.00 France, Anatole [Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault]  The Authorized English Translations of the Novels and Short Stories of Antatole France.  Parke, Austin & Lipscomb, Inc.  New York, New York.  Complete 19 volume set issued in the Coignard Edition. Bound in publishers purple cloth with paper label on the spine with author, volume, and contents printed, with gilt edging to the top of the pages. Some folding and wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Water stain spotting on the paper labels. Volume VII some fading to the spine. Number 467 to an edition of 600 copies. I: At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque - x, 272 pages; illustrations. II: The Opinions of Jerome Coignard - vi, 218 pages; illustrations. III: The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche - viii, 230 pages; illustrations, IV: The White Stone - 239 pages; illustrations. V: The Well of Saint Clare - vi, 302 pages; illustrations. VI: The Garden of Epicurus - 240 pages; illustrations. VII: Mother of Pearl - 291 pages; illustrations. VIII: Balthasar - 225 pages; illustrations. IX: My Fiend's Book - 296 pages; illustrations. X: Jocasta and The Famished Cat - xi, 248 pages; illustrations. XI: Penquin Island - xx, 345 pages; frontis. XII: The Aspirations of Jean Servien - 234 pages; illustrations. XIII: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard - ix, 310 pages; illustrations. XIV: The Red Lily - 325 pages; illustrations. XV: Thais - 234 pages; illustrations. XVI: The Gods are Athirst - 285 pages; illustrations. XVII: The Elm-Tree on the Mall: A Chronicle of Our Own Times - 237 pages; illustrations. XVIII: The Wicker-Work Woman - 274 pages; illustrations. XIX: The Revolt of the Angels - 348 pages; illustrations. Jacques Thibault (1844-1924) was a French novelist, ciritic, poet, and playwright. Was regarded as an eminent satirist and humorist, and a master of literary style. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.   Condition: Very Good.  Collected and Translated Writings of Anatole France. DK-29  (Book ID 10367)  $250.00 France, Anatole; (Translated By Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson)  At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque  The Limited Editions Club. Chicago. 1933..  Cloth in Slip Case.  Illustrated by Sauvage, Sylvain.  No 143 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator. Decorated cloth both covers and spine, gilt lettering front cover and spine. Slip case has spine label, damp stains top and bottom edges, book unaffected. Page tops gilt edged. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Colored illustrations are water color reproductions, full page and partial page. Measures 9 1/4 x 11 1/2. In the Introduction, Ernest Boyd notes that the author was an "outstanding French man of letters". "...this became the most widely popular of all his novels and was the first work of his to be translated into English".   Illustrated Books. French Literature. Literary Works. Novel. Fiction. Writings. Irony.  (Book ID 555)  $75.00 Fraser, Kathleen  [Broadside] These Labdanum Hours.  Kelsey St. Press.  1987.  Broadside (13 x 20 inch) printed on rag paper with color illustration and thirty lines of the poem. Printed for members of Small Press Traffic. Image by Kate Delos.   Condition: Fine.  Poetry, Fine Press. DK-54  (Book ID 11079)  $37.50 Freemantle, Elizabeth, Pseud. Of Elizabeth Covey Rockford  The One and I.  George W. Jacobs & Co..  Philadelphia, Penn.  1908.  1st American Edition. originaly published in Canada, 1907, under the title "Comrades Two". A fictionalized account of family life in the Qu'appelle Valley to the west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Clean, bright copy in the publisher's illustrated blue cloth cover. A few pages carelessly opened. 319 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Canadian Plains, Qu'appelle Valley  (Book ID 8792)  $25.00 Fryer, Donald S.  Songs and Sonnets, Atlantean.  Arkham House: Publishers.  Sauk City, Wisconsin.  1971.  First Edition.  Author's first book, inscribed. 2000 copies printed by the Collegiate Press. xxx, 134 pages; bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, dust jacket under mylar. Introduction and notes by Dr. Ibid M. Andor. Inscribed by the author "For Helene H. Bouffier, Dear friend and lovely lady, with affection and admiration, Donald Sidney-Fryer, San Francisco, 3 July 1974". Contains for the first time in English an extensive selection of poems translated from the Atlantean, through the French of Michel de Labretagne in LA JOUVENCE BRETAGNEWQUE. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Atlantis, Poetry, Atlantean Poems. DK-73  (Book ID 11466)  $25.00 Fuhrman, Karl  More Little Tales Retold and Some Deep Stuff. Done and Printed for My Dear Friends of the Bohemian Club.  Karl FUHRMAN.  1926.  20 pages; cartoon; illustrated paper wrapper (5 x 6 1/4 inch). Several short stories collected in this small pamphlet. One of a series that Fuhrman wrote for the annual get-together. Karl Fuhrman (b.1870) was a librarian and poet. Notes in pencil on the back page relating to track and field events.   Condition: Very Good.  BOHEMIAN CLUB, Karl Fuhrman. DK-66  (Book ID 11316)  $25.00 Fuller, John Frederick Charles  Two Autograph Letters Signed  Fuller (1878-1966) was a British soldier, military analyst and author. The two letters, one dated March 7, 1936 (three pages, 7 x 8 1/2 inches), the other dated August 7, 1936 (one and one-quarter pages, 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches) are written to fellow author and fried Frederick Britten Austin. Austin (1885-1941) was the author of many historical novels. In the first letter, Fuller thanks Austin for sending him the manuscript of "Forty Centuries Look Down" (pub. 1936) and in the second letter he fowards a blurb for Austin to use when the book is published.   Condition: Fine.  (Book ID 8082)  $60.00 Gallant Mavis  The Other Paris  Houghton Mifflin and Company: The Riverside Press.  Boston.  1956.  First Edition.  Dust wrapper is lightly sunned, but without wear or chipping. Author's first book, which is a collection of short stories originally published in the New Yorker magazine. . Gallant was born in Canada (1922), but has lived in France since 1950.   Condition: Fine.  Modern Literature.  (Book ID 7466)  $75.00 Galsworthy, John  A Mistaken Rhapsody; America and Animals  Privately Printed for Earle J. Bernheimer.  Kansas City, Missouri.  1943.  First Edition.  Boards.  One of 30 copies. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Damp stain top corner of spine, inside pages unaffected. Contents include facsimile of the author's handwitten short story "A Mistaken Rhapsody" (a story about war) showing corrections, followed by typeset version of same story. A second story is also included, "America and Animals" (about the practice of caging wild birds and animals), includes a facsimile of Galsworthy's handwritten short story followed by the typeset version.   English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Short Stories.  (Book ID 4439)  $50.00 Galsworthy, John  Compact Edition (Works in Six volumes)  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1929.  Handsomely bound in green fabrikoid (a leather looking material). Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and decorations. The set consists of: Volume 1, The Forsyte Saga, 870 pages; 2, A Divine Comedy, 798 pages; 3, Caravan, 760 pages; 4, Three Novels of Society, 743 pages; 5, Three Novels of Love, 739 pages 6, Plays,698 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Sets. British Literature  (Book ID 8220)  $75.00 Galsworthy, John  Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs And A Letter  Privately Printed for Earle J. Bernheimer.  Kansas City, Missouri.  1940.  First Edition.  Boards.  One of 30 copies. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Damp stain top portion of spine, inside unaffected. Facsimiles of the author's handwritten speeches, showing corrections, followed by the typeset version of each speech. The speeches were to the P.E.N. Club and the letter concerned his views on Ibsen.   English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Speeches. Correspondence. Novelist.  (Book ID 4440)  $50.00 Galsworthy, John  Flowering Wilderness  William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1932.  Vellum backed boards. Limited to 400 signed copies. Gilt decoration front cover, gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Cloth book mark, affixed. 280 pages. A novel.   English Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Novel. Writings.  (Book ID 144)  $50.00 Gans, Lydia  Ada Lovelace  Tabula Rasa Press.  Morro Bay, California.  1982.  100 pages. No. 25 of 300 copies. Biography of the daughter of Lord Byron. 2 3/8 by 1` 7/8 inches.   Condition: As New.  Lord Byron. English Literature.  (Book ID 7002)  $37.50 Garnett, David  A Man in the Zoo  Chatto & Windus. London. 1924..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrated by Garnett, R. A..  `No. 79 of 110 copies signed by author and illustrator. "In this Special Edition of A Man in the Zoo the illustrations have been printed from the original wood-blocks in a separate printing from the text". Gilt page edges. Damp stain bottom spine and bottom corner of front cover. Ink notation front end paper. Split at spine page 1. A man places himself in a cage at the zoo for all to see.   English Literature. Literary Works. Story. Fiction. Caged Man. Wild Animal.  (Book ID 145)  $75.00 Garnett, Richard, Translator  Dante, Petrarch, Camoens; CXXIV Sonnets  John Lane. London. 1896..  Cloth.  1st edition of this translation. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover, gilt lettering spine. Uncut page edges. Front and rear end papers split at spine. 147 pages and publisher's advertising. Table of first lines. From the Prefatory Note: "The order of Dante's sonnets in this volume is that of the originals in the edition of Fraticelli, and the Arabic numerals in parenthesis correspond to his numeration. The Arabic numeration of Petrarch's sonnets agrees with that of the editions of Marsand and Leopardi; and that of Camoens with the edition of 'Juromenha'."   European Literature. Literary Works. Poems. Poetry. Verses. Rhymes. Writings.  (Book ID 147)  $37.50 Gautier, Theophile  Mademoiselle de Maupin ... with the Preface by the Author an Introduction for the Modern Reader by Jacques Barzun and Hand-Colored Illustrations by Andre Dugo.  The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1943..  Cloth backed boards. No. 910 of 1000 copies signed by illustrator.   LITERATURE, FRENCH, LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB  (Book ID 148)  $47.50 Gay, John  The Poetical Works of John Gay.  Suttaby, Evance & Fox.  London.  1811.  xxiii, 371 pages, engraved frontispiece and illustrated title page, full leather with elaborate gilt tooling and marbled edges, 5 1/4 x 2 3/4". Nice copy, clean and tight, a few page corners creased, front free end leaf removed. Begins with a biographical sketch of the author.   English Literature; Literary Works; Poetry; Leather Bindings  (Book ID 5853)  $50.00 Genung, John Franklin  Stevenson's Attitude to Life; With Readings from His Essays and Letters  Thomas Y. Crowell and Company Publishers.  New York.  1901.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Gilt decorations and lettering front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Offsetting to pages 22-23. Ink notation front end paper. In the Prefatory Note mention is made: "What was first read aloud by the author he now gives, to those who care for the theme, opportunity to read for themselves". The marks of an oral presentation have been retained for this book. "The readings are taken from the Thistle Edition of Stevenson's works".   English Literature. Robert Louis Stevenson. Literary Works. Writings. Correspondence. Philosophy.  (Book ID 4475)  $25.00 Gibson, William Hamilton  Autograph Letter Signed  Two pages. Brooklyn. 1889. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Written to a Dr. Lewis, Gibson sends along a picture of "The Buzzard" (not present) and describes its creation. Gibson (1850-1896) was an American naturalist, artist and author.   Condition: Fine.  American Authors and Naturalists. Artists.  (Book ID 8072)  $47.50 Gilbert, W. S.  More "Bab" Ballads, Much Sound and Little Sense.  George Routledge & Sons.  London.  First Edition.  No date. viii, (13)-224 pages, illustrated by the author, 4 pages of ads at rear, green cloth with gilt stamping, all edges gilt, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4". Shelf worn, with bookplate and a gift inscription dated Christmas 1872. Poetry for young people with titles such as: The Two Ogres; Little Oliver; The Captain and the Mermaids; Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo; Phrenology; The Fairy Curate; The Way of Wooing, etc.   Literature. Poetry. Childrens Books  (Book ID 6874)  $75.00 Glyn, Elinor  Autograph Letter Signed  One page. 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches. Tear to corner of paper with loss, but not affecting written protions of letter. Dated Jan. 9, 1932. Written to a Mr. Marriott, she invites him and a friend to visit, but tells him that she has injuredherkneea monthprevious and is unable to walk.   British Literature.  (Book ID 5216)  $75.00 Goethe, Johann Woflgang Von  Songs and Scenes from Geothe's Faust, Illustrated from Designs By A. Liezen Mayer and Ad. lalauze, Engraved By George T. Andrew and Others  H.M. Caldwell Co..  New York and Boston.  First Edition Thus.  (1882) Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Cover illustration in color on panel of paper over boards. Light wear at corners and a small barely noticable stain on front cover, but a very clean and bright copy. 20 black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrated end papers. Part of the publisher's "Songs from the Great Poets" series. Unpaginated.   Condition: Very Good.  19th Century Illustrated Books. Opera.  (Book ID 8434)  $37.50 Goethe, Johann Woflgang Von, Translated By Bayard Taylor  Faust a Tragedy By Johann Wolfgant Von Geothre, the First part, Translated in the Original Metres By Bayard Taylor  James R. Osgood and Comapny, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co..  Boston.  1871.  Together with: "Faust A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Second Park...." Boston. James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor Y& Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co. 1871. Two volumes comples. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Professionally rebacked in the distant past. Bibliography of American Literature numbers 19720 and 19722. Second printing of both volumes. Light dampstain volume one, extreme outter margin only for the first 12 leaves, volume two inner margin of last 100 pages. . 405 and 536 pages   Condition: Very Good.  German Poetry in Tranlsation  (Book ID 8346)  $60.00 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang  Poems and Ballads of Geothe, Translated By W. Edmondstoune Aytourn, D.C.L. And Theodore Martin  Delisser & Procter.  New York.  1859.  First American Edition.  Publisher's patterned brown cloth with gilt lettering and blindstamped decorations. Slight wear at top and bottom of spien. Moderate foxing. 240 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  German Poetry in Translation.  (Book ID 8345)  $37.50 Goldsmith, Oliver  Essays of Oliver Goldsmith  The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1928..  Vellum backed decorative cloth in slip case. 2 volumes, complete. 400 copies printed. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Vol. I has small stains to spine. Spotting to rear cover of slip case. Unopened pages. Some of the author's writings include: The Arrival of the Chinese Philosopher in London; The Chinese Philosopher Deceived; The Licentiousness of the English with Regard to Women; On the Great Number of Old Maids and Bachelors in London -- Some of the Causes; The Absurd Taste for Obscene and Pert Novels, such as "Tristram Shandy"; A Description of the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall; A Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap; On Quack Doctors; The Characteristics of Greatness; An Account of the Augustan Age of England; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Essays. Opinions. Musings. Writings. Short Stories.  (Book ID 155)  $50.00 Goldsmith, Oliver  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an Account of His Life and Writings. Stereotyped from the Paris Edition, Edited By Washington Irving.  J. Crissy.  Philadelphia.  1837.  527 pages, double columns, engraved portrait, full leather, 9 x 5 3/4". Leather a little scuffed, still a nice copy, very tight, scattered light foxing. Letters with such titles as "The licentiousness of the English with regard to women", "The ardour of the people of London in running after sights and monsters", "The Chinese deceived by a prostitute in the streets of London", and much more.   English literature; Literary Works  (Book ID 5954)  $50.00 Goodman, Luci  Vitamins  Privately Printed.  1981.  Number 29 in an edition of 40 copies. [20] pages; bound in off white cloth (4 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. A finely printed and artistic book of advice relating to nutrition and health. Inscribed by the author in pencil: "David, you are a musical m a g i c i a n ! Luci".   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press, Poetry, Health. DK-62  (Book ID 11246)  $100.00 Googe, Barnabe, Edward Arber, Editor  Eglogs, Epytaphes, & Sonnettes, 1563  None.  London.  1871.  Illustrated Paper Boards.  Three Copies Only at Present Known. From the Copy in the Possession of Henry Huth, Esquire. Uncut page edges. Unopened pages. Slight chipping to top and bottom spine. Chipping to rear cover outside edge. Contents include: First Lines; Notes of the Life and Writings of Barnabe Googe; Bibliography; Googe's prose dedication to William Lovelace, Esq., Reader of Gray's Inn; Eclogues -- Egloga fecunda, Dametas; Egloga quinta, Mopsus and Egon, etc.; Epitaphs -- Of Lord Sheffield's death, Of Master Thomas Phaer, etc.; Sonnets -- To Master Alexander Nowell, To Doctor Bale, etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Bibliography. Prose. Eclogues. Epitaphs. Writings.  (Book ID 4442)  $37.50 Goris, Jan-Albert  Belgian Letters; A Short Survey of Creative Writing in the French and Dutch Languages in Belgium  Belgian Government Information Center. 1946. New York..  Wrappers. Illustrations. Slight ink smudge on page 42.   EUROPEAN LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. PUBLICATIONS. BELGIAN WRITINGS.  (Book ID 2102)  $10.00 Graham Winston  The Renegade: A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787  Doubleday & Company, Inc.  Garden City, New York.  1951.  First American Edition.  Dust wrapper lacking about 1/4 inch on bottom of spine and with slight wear at extremities. Former owner's stamp on front pastedown. The first "Poldark" novel in this series by Graham, made famous by the PBS Masterpiece Theatre multi-year presentation. 344 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Television Series. Masterpiece Theatre. Poldark.  (Book ID 7432)  $47.50 Graham, Effie  The "Passin'-On" Party.  A. C. McClurg & Co..  Chicago.  1912.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Dulin, Dorothy.  183 pages, 10 plates by Dorothy Dulin, green cloth with printed labels on spine and front cover, 7 x 4 3/4". Very good or better, spine label slightly edge worn, all letters and decorations intact, some leaves roughly opened. First edition. Stories in Negro dialect, including "004&, 'An House..Made with Hands'", and "De White Folks I Circles Wif".   Literature; Negro Dialect; Illustrated Books  (Book ID 6073)  $37.50 Grahame, Kenneth  Fun O' The Fair  J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd..  London.  1929.  First edition. Wrappers. An Aldine Chapbook. Illustrated by Roberta F. C. Waudby. The author describes the many attractions to be found at an English country fair.   ENTERTAINMENT. CARNIVALS. COUNTRY FAIRS. Lit  (Book ID 2084)  $30.00 Gran, Gerhard (editor)  Henrik Ibsen Festskrift I Anledning Af Hans 70th Fodselsdag Udgivet Af Samtiden  John Griegs Forlag.  Bergen, Stockholm & Kjobenhavn.  1898.  First Edition.  Original wrappers with small chip from spine slightlyaffecting name of publisher. Some cover soikling and creases. Contributions by Ibsen and his contemporaries on his 70th birthday. 304 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Henrik Ibsen, Nobel Prize  (Book ID 5143)  $75.00 Grant, Robert  Autograph Letter Signed  1899.  Boston, March 15, 1899. Handwritten note on page one of four-page folded personal stationery with imprinted address, 4 1/4 x 6 3/4, six lines. Grant (1852-1940) was a popular American novelist. In this brief note, he says that while one of his books, "Face to Face", was at first published anonymously, he has never written under a pseudonym.   American Novelist. Author. Writer. Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Publications.  (Book ID 5070)  $25.00 Gray, Barry  Matrimonial Infelicities, With an Occasional Felicity, by Way of Contrast; by an Irritable Man; To Which Are Added, as Being Pertinent to the Subject, My Neighbors, and Down in the Valley  Hurd and Houghton. New York. 1865..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Gilt lettering on spine. Small splits to spine. Wear to bottom corners. Ink notation front end paper. 269 pages. Contents include: My Books and Papers; Domestic Government; My Wife Wants Money; House-Cleaning; My Wife has a Headache; Where Shall We Pass the "Fourth"?; My Wife Returns Home; Mr. and Mrs. Potts have a Little Discussion; etc. Down in the Valley: The Community; Missionary Friends; Historical Society; The Pony; "The Golden-Rule Society"; A Famous Pie; The New Church; Orphan Asylum; etc.   American Literature. Literary Works. Recollections. Short Stories. Writings. Marriage.  (Book ID 158)  $25.00 Gray, Thomas  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  None.  (San Francisco).  1928.  Vellum Backed Boards.  No. 37 of 250 copies. Johnck & Seeger. Presswork by Lawton R. Kennedy. Color frontispiece. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Title on cover and spine: "The Anthem of the Obscure". Also contains a Critique and Comment by David Anderson which states: "It deals with the last great tragedy that affects every human being, and colors the last resting place of all with the homely images and scenes that flash before our imagination".   LITERATURE. ENGLISH. POETRY. RHYMES. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 159)  $47.50 Gray, Thomas  The Poems of Mr. Gray. With Notes By Gilbert Wakefield, B.A.  Printed for G. Kearsley.  London.  1786.  xxvii, 207 pages, leather with some gilt detailing, 8.5 x 5". Very good, bookplate at front and at rear, interior quite clean and fresh. Ode on Spring, On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode to Adversity, his well known Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, and others.   Literature; Poetry; Early Printed Books  (Book ID 5825)  $150.00 Gray, Thomas and Dr. J. L. Williams  Gray's Elegy and Its Author: Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard with an Introduction and Illustrations from Orignal Photographys.  Nims and Knight.  Troy, New York.  1891.  Illustrated by Dr. J.L. Williams..  Gray's 18th century 'classic' accompanied by printed photos and a brief introduction to the "elegy" covering Gray's life and family.Oblong 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Bound in publishers green cloth and gilt edging. Light extremity wear. Internally clean and nice. Tissue papers overlaying the photogravuers. 41 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, Elegy, Eton College, Stoke Pogis  (Book ID 8791)  $37.50 Greene, Joseph and Elizabeth Abell, Editors  Stories of Sudden Truth.  Ballantine Books.  New York.  First Edition.  (1953). 255 pages, black and grey boards, dust jacket, 7.5 x 5". Fine copy but for darkened paper. Twenty short stories by John Hersey, William Saroyan, Eudora Welty, Arthur Miller, Truman Capote, and others.   Modern First editions; Short Stories  (Book ID 6100)  $37.50 Greenslet, Ferris  James Russell Lowell, His Life and Work  Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1905..  First Edition.  Cloth.  Illustrations. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Sun fading spine and top edge front cover. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 309 pages. Ink notation front cover. Contents include: The Youth of a Poet; Poet and Abolitionist; Professor and Editor; Public Man and Critic; Diplomatist; Last Years; Lowell's Poetry; and Lowell's Prose.   American Literature. Biography. Poet. Prose. Professor. Teacher. Abolitionist. Diplomat.  (Book ID 267)  $15.00 Grey, Zane  The Call of the Canyon  Harper and Brothers, Publishers.  New York and Boston.  First Edition.  Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering and decorations. Slight hand soiling back cover, otherwise a very nice copy. Four black and white illustrations by Henry Russell Ballinger. 291 pages, plus one leaf of advertising for other books offered by the publisher.   Condition: Very Good.  Western Fiction. California Authors  (Book ID 8721)  $17.50 Grey, Zane  The Young Pitcher.  Musson Book Co., Limited.  Toronto.  (March, 1911, first Canadian edition). v, 249 pages, 4 plates, pictorial tan cloth, cover illustration stamped in black and white, spine stamped in black and gilt, 7.5 x 5". Very good or better, two small brown spots on back cover, a gift inscription on free end paper. A story of college baseball players.   Baseball; Sports; Literature  (Book ID 5946)  $175.00 Gronovius, Joannes Fredericus  Lectiones Plautinae, quibus non tantum fabulae Plautinae (et) Terentianae verum etiam Caesar, Cicero, Livius, Virgilius, Ovidius  Apud J. Haffman.  Amstelaedami.  1740.  Vellum.  In Latin. 398 pages. Spine label. Small card with hand written note dated 7-12-1930 affixed to front end paper. Contents include: Praefatio Clariss, Auctoris; Lectiones Plautinae; Asinaria; Curculio; Cistellaria; Epidicus; Mostellaria; Poenulus; Persa; Truculentus; etc.   Literature. Literary Works. Classics. Ancient Writings. Latin. Italian.  (Book ID 3945)  $125.00 Gruber, Frank  The Honest Dealer  Rinehard & Company.  New York.  1947.  First Edition.  Publisher's dark gray cloth with orange lettering. A nice, clean copy but without dust wrapper. Rinehart insigna on copyright page. Baird & Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction number 982: "Slueths Johnn Fletcher and Sam Cragg track down crime on the fambling scene. Death Valley and Las Vegas." 188 pages   Condition: Very Good.  Detective Fiction. Mystery Fiction. Novels Set in California and Nevada. Gambling Fiction  (Book ID 8457)  $25.00 Guedalla, Philip  Bonnet and Shawl; An Album  Crosby Gaige. New York. 1928..  First Edition.  Cloth backed patterned boards. No. 454 of 571 copies printed by Wm. Edwin Rudge. Signed by the author. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Book plate front end paper. Contents include: Real -- Jane Welsh Carlyle, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Arnold, Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily Tennyson and Emily Palmerston; Ideal -- Lady Muriel James, Sophia Swinburne and Julie De Goncourt.   LITERATURE. ENGLISH. PROSE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 163)  $22.50 Habberton, John  Autograph Letter Signed  1899.  New Rochelle, New York, June 10, 1899. Handwritten letter on one page, 4 1/2 x 7, five lines. Habberton (1841-1921) was an American editor, author, and drama critic. In this short letter he declines to give out his pen name.   American Editor. Author. Drama Critic. Writer. Publications. Pen Name. Opinions. Theatre. Stage. Theatrical Productions.  (Book ID 5076)  $25.00 Habington, William; Edward Arber, Editor  Castara  None.  London.  1870.  Illustrated Paper Boards.  The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier ones of 1634, 1635. English Reprints. Large Paper Edition. Uncut page edges. Unopened pages. Chipping to front edges and spine. Contents include: Bibliography, with First Lines, etc., of the three first editions. showing the growth of the work; Castara, The first part, A Character, A Mistress, Fifty-seven Poems, chiefly on Love and Courtship; Castara, the Second Part, A Character, A Wife, Fifty Poems, chiefly on Wedded Happiness, Eight Elegies, the Funerals of the Honourable my best friend and Kinsman, George Talbot, Esquire; etc.   English Literature. Literary Works. Bibliography. Poems. Poetry. Elegies.  (Book ID 4441)  $37.50 Hagedorn, Herman  This Darkness and This Light: Harvard Poems, 1907-1937  Privately Printed for the Class of 1907.  Cambridge, Massachusetts.  1938.  First Edition.  One of 750 copies printed. Signed by the author. Hagedorn was a member of the Harvard class of 1907. This collection consists of his poems done for the class reunions. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. 41 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Harvard University. American Poetry  (Book ID 8116)  $25.00 Haggard, H. Rider  King Solomon's Mines (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. 4 in the series, dated January 28, 1893, with illustrated wrappers. .   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Paperback Books. 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