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NEW ARRIVALS AND SOME IMPORTANT ACQUISITIONS

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s Great Trans-lationThe First “Library” Edition - Nichols and Smithers - London

Arabian Nights, [Burton , Richard, trans.]. THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT, translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R. F. Burton... (London: H.S. Nichols and Co., 1894) 12 volumes. First edition thus, the first Nichols/Smithers “Library Editon”, with all passages restored which had been omitted from Lady Burton’s edition of 1886. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth with extensive gilt decorations of Arabic design on upper covers. Gilt lettering to the spines in both English and Arabic. t.e.g., gilt Arabian designs to lower

covers. An especially bright and handsome set, pristine and exceptionally well preserved. A UNUSUALLY FINE SET OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT EDITION. Smithers published several different editions of this set in 1894 and 1897. This is the first of the library editions, published in 1894. The original edition was published in Benares in 1885 for private subscribers only. Lady Burton’s edition of 1886 omitted 215 pages from the original text. In this edition, the omitted material has been restored.

The Great Aldine Dante 1502 - Bound with Petrarca 1514Marking the Birth of the Pocketbook FormatItaly’s Two Greatest and Most Revered Authors

[Aldine Printing] Dante Alighieri [and] Petrarca, Francesco. LE TERZE RIME (Lo ‘Nferno E’L Purgatorio E’L Paradiso) [bound with Petrarca:] SONETTI E CANZONI (Venice: in Aedib. Aldi. Accuratissime men. [and] d’Aldo Romano, 1502 [and] 1514) Two books bound as one volume. The first Aldine printing of The Divine Comedy and the first Dante in Aldine “pocket book” (8vo) format, bound with the fine Aldine printing of Petrarca. ONE OF THE EARLIEST POCKET BOOKS EVER PRINTED. With the famous Aldine anchor device on the final leaf of Petrarca. Small 8vo, beautifully bound in full correct period style by Apparuti of Modena in full Italian calf, a fine binding in appearance much

Item Number: 1 Price: $8500.

The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night - 1894 Item Number: 2 Price: $2850.

like one that would have been original to an Italian volume of this time. A well preserved copy with some interesting period marginal notations and bracketing in an antique hand, occasional mellowing or typical evidence of age. The Petrarca is complete but for the non-textual a1 introductory leaf, which has been replaced in facsimile. RARE AND IMPORTANT AND ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN LITERARY AND PRINTING HISTORY. The first Aldine print-ing of Dante’s Divine Comedy; the first edition of Dante to appear in a more handy, portable format (all previous editions were folios).

Fine Books and Manuscripts

The King James Folio Holy Bible - 1706In a Stunning Bind-ing with Marvel-ous Giltwork of the Period

turn-ins gilt, edges finely gauffered, t.e.g., feathered endpapers. A splendid copy, the binding handsome and bright and inter-nally very fresh and clean. A BREATHTAKINGLY HANDSOME BIBLE IN STUNNING, UNUSUAL BINDING. This King James Bible is handsome without and within. The binding of this large, stately folio is marvelously decorated in extensive gilt tooling, intricate down to the gauffered edges.

Item Number: 3 Price: $6750. [Bible; King James Bible, Book of Common Prayer]. THE HOLY BIBLE... (London: Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, decease’d, printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, 1706) Engraved black and white woodcuts on title page and throughout text. Royal Folio, full contemporary black calf with superb and extensive parallel gilt and blind tooled orna-mentation on the spine and all covers, the spine in compartments separated by raised bands and lettered in gilt, board edges and


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A Beautifully Illustrated Lorna DooneWith Gordon Browne’s Fine Colourplates

foxing typical to this title is all but completely lacking but for a hint of it on the fore-edge only. AN UNUSUALLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY OF WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF BLACK-MORE’S ROMANTIC TALE. W. and R. Chambers spared no expense in the production of this book. A beautiful example from the golden age of illustrated books. Gordon Browne’s lovely colour plates and charming pen and ink drawings are the perfect compliment to Blackmore’s classic story.



The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - 1815-1816With the Inclusion of Very Early EditionsFinely Bound in Contemporary Regency Crimson Morocco

board edges and turn-ins tooled in blind and gilt, the fore-edges gilt. An unusually handsome and well-preserved set, internally clean and in a superb and beautiful binding. Light wear to front hinge of Vol. I and to the head cap of Vol. I. RARE AND UNIQUE. A beautifully bound collection of Byron first editions with additional poems and printings included. A very early and scarce collection of Byron’s works, many of the poems pub-lished for the first time and added to this grouping. The collection was originally produced in 1815 in two volumes as stated on the title pages of Volumes I and II, with the third volume added in 1816. The books were bound as a set in these fine Irish binding c.1817-1820.

Item Number: 8 Price: $2250. Byron, George Gordon, Lord. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON (London: John Murray, 1815-16) Together 3 volumes. A First Edition of the “Poems”, and with “Child Harold’s “Pilgrimage”, “The Corsair”, “The Bride of Abyidos”, “The Giaour”, “Lara”, “The Prisoner of Chillon”, “The Siege of Corinth”, “A Venetian Study”, “Hebrew Melodies”, “Manfred” and early editions of a number of the other works. 8vo, in a stun-ning binding of full contemporary crimson morocco of Regency style, the spines lettered and elaborately decorated in compart-ments gilt between blind-tooled raised bands, covers bordered and decorated with gilt floral patterned roll tools and gilt rules,

Lovely Flowers - Circa 1825 - A Scarce Early Children’s BookA Brightly Illus-trated Chapbook

Item Number: 9 Price: $500. [Chap Book]. LOVELY FLOWERS (USA: Fisher and Brother, n.d., circa 1825) First edition. RARE. 10 coloured illustrations. 12 mo, publisher’s original wraps with colour illustrated upper cover and printed advertisement to the lower cover. A bright and pleasing copy. This children’s book is called a chapbook, a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages, and at country fairs. In 1553, Edward VI proclaimed that chapmen must be licensed and Chettle, in Kind Hart’s Dreame (1592) wrote that “‘Chapmen are able to spred more pamphlets...then all the booksellers in town.’” Although they sold other

The Works of Robert Burns with An Account of His LifeHandsomely Bound Set in Five Volumes with SupplementPublished London - 1820

[Burns, Robert]. THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; With an Account of His Life... [with,] THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. (London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, Strand; A. Constable et. al. at Edinburgh; and G. Clark, at Aberdeen, 1820) 5 volumes. Portrait frontispiece in Volume I and many other fine full page engravings throughout. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter handsome polished morocco over marbled boards, spines decorated with gilt tooling between raised bands, ruled in blind, honey-tan morocco lettering labels

gilt lettered, marbled endpapers and red edges. An excellent set with the paper and plates fresh and clean, the bindings very fine. A scarce and beautiful set. A BEAUTIFUL COPY AND AN early issue of Currie’s edition of Burns. The first edition, in four volumes, was published in 1800. These five volume sets in contemporary bindings are quite elusive, especially so with the Supplement added. While Currie was a highly accomplished physician, he has long been regarded as the standard source for the works of the Scottish National Poet.

[Browne, Illus.] Blackmore, R. D. LORNA DOONE. A Romance of Exmoor (London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., [1915]) First edition thus, the largest deluxe printing. Illus-trated by Gordon Browne with 13 colour plates, including a colour titlepage and over 40 pen and ink drawings throughout. Large 8vo, publisher’s lovely royal-blue cloth lettered and with pictorial decorations in gilt on both the spine and upper cover, the upper cover also with paste-down colour illustration highlighted in gilt, t.e.g. A very fine copy, the blue cloth bright and beautiful, as fresh as one could honestly hope to find, the

wares, too, they always had cheap booklets, sometimes ballad sheets which eventually assumed the familiar form af a miniature booklet, with a paper cover that usually had a picture. Even Shakespeare, in Henry IV, mentioned the chapmen as did Urquhart’s Rabelais in 1653. With the growth of small printers, miniature editions of old favourites could be printed. While chapbooks were ostensibly designed to help children learn how to read, they often broached adult subjects and were the source of entertainment in families and villages. This small book is for children to learn manners, the value of prayer and good behaviour.

Beautifully Presented Figures of A Reclining NudeA Set of Art Deco BookendsAmerican - Circa 1920 - Cast in Bronze and Glazed in Green


Book Ends; Art Deco, Objects; Sculpture. A SET OF ART DECO BOOKENDS (American, ca. 1920) One of a limited number. Beautifully presented figures of a reclining nude. Cast in bronze with green glaze. The set of bookends is in a fine state of preservation.

A very attractive pair of figures in a sweeping backward pose draped in flowing cloth. The style is Art Deco at its finest. Though the artist is unknown to us, the figures are reminiscent of some of those created by Leo Lentelli.

Richard Burton - First Edition - A Very Fine CopySelected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Explora-tion

FIRST EDITION AND AN UNUSUALLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY. Here reprinted are some of the more scarce Burton writings, including the postscript to FALCONRY IN THE VALLEY OF THE INDUS, his GUIDE-BOOK TO MECCA, and several other papers, scarce and not readily available.

Item Number: 7 Price: $350. Burton, Richard F. SELECTED PAPERS ON ANTHROPOL-OGY, TRAVEL, AND EXPLORATION: Now Edited with an Introduction and Occasional Notes by N. M. Penzer. (London: A. M. Philpot, Ltd., 1924) First edition. 8vo, original sienna cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy, sturdy and clean.



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No chipping or damage to the bindings and just a bit of the typical browning to the materials used to cover the boards and to make the spine labels. Very clean internally with extremely little of the usual foxing encountered in these volumes. The plates and fold-outs are all in excellent condition. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF A COR-NERSTONE TEXT. One of the most sought after and most difficult to find first editions in the polar canon, this is a dramatic and splendidly written account of Scott’s 1910-1913 expedition.

Winston Churchill Writes About His MP FatherFirst Edition - Lord Randolph Churchill - 1906Scarce in the Original Publisher’s Cloth

Item Number: 11 Price: $1250. Churchill, Winston. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL (Lon-don: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1906) 2 volumes. First edition. With 18 illustrations including two fine photogravure frontis-pieces. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and upper covers. Quite handsome copies of both volumes, bright and clean and very well preserved throughout, just a tiny bit of spotting to

Sex Orationum Partes Ante Nostram... - Editio PrincepsCicero - The Very Rare First Edition of These Orations An Especially Fine Copy in Original Printer’s WrapsRarely Encountered

this copy. Illustrated with two folding plates at the end of the text. Royal 8vo, bound in the original printer’s wraps. Highly unusual in this state, untrimmed and unopened. A very fine copy of this very rare item. Beautifully preserved and very handsome indeed. THE FIRST PRINTING, THE FIRST EDITION, THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THESE NEW FOUND ORATIONS AND WRIT-INGS OF CICERO.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. SEX ORATIONUM PARTES ANTE NOS-TRAM AETATEM INEDITAE CUM ANTIQUO INTERPRETE ANTE NOSTRAM AETATE INEDITO QUI VIDETUR ASCO-NIUS PEDIANUS AD TULLIANAS SEPTEM ORATIONES... (Milan: Tipografia Regia , 1817) First Edition of these Orations, and the Editio Princeps of this Codex of Cicero found and translated in the beginning of the 19th century. A rare book, seldom seen and especially in the original wraps, unopened as

Rare First Edition of These Early English PoemsCharles Cotton - Poems on Several Occasions - 1689

Item Number: 13 Price: $2150. Cotton, Charles. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (Lon-don: printed for Thos. Basset, 1689) First edition. 8vo, bound in full contemporary calf. A desirable copy in this rare period binding.

Scarce First Edition - Thomas DeQuincyConfessions of An English Opium-Eater

to take opium and eventually increased the dosages, taking it over a period of eight years. In this work, he describes the effects of this addiction as well as his determination and eventual success in end-ing it. While on the drug, “he suffered from trememdous dreams, in which he sometimes seemed to live through a century in a night. He was haunted by the monstrous figure of a crocodile, or visions of Ann [an “outcast” girl he met while living on the streets] and early acquaintances, especially a certain Malay, whom he had found wandering in the Lakes and presented with a large dose of opium. The Malay was not found dead, but long continued to ‘run amuck’ through De Quincey’s dreams.”

Item Number: 14 Price: $3500.[DeQuincey, Thomas]. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER (London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1822) First edition. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf over pebbled green cloth boards, gilt lettering between raised bands gilt ruled and decorated on the spine, all edges marbled. A very clean and handsome copy, unusually well preserved. SCARCE. First published in London Magazine in 1821. “De-Quincy’s study of his own opium addiction and its psychological effects traces how childhood and youthful experience are transformed under the influence of opium.” This book established De Quincey’s literary reputation. Because of physical ailments, De Quincey began

the fore-edges and trivial mellowing or age evidence to the extremities. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Winston’s very successful biog-raphy of his MP father. William Manchester, Winston’s biographer, considered it, despite the son’s apparently ambivalent feelings toward his father, “a tribute to filial devotion.”

RARE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN 1689. Including, on page 14, a poem dedicated to “my dear and most worthy friend,” Isaac Walton. Cotton and Walton co-authored what is perhaps the most famous fishing book of all time, entitled THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.


First Edition - One of the Greatest Polar NarrativesThe Worst Journey in the WorldThe Account of Scott’s Last Worst Journey - Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s Cornerstone Text - 1922

Item Number: 10 Price: $7500. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD: Antarctic 1910-1913 (London: Constable and Company, 1922) 2 volumes. First edition, first issue. 73 panoramas, maps and illustrations, ten of them folding,a number in colours, by Dr. Edward A. Wilson and other members of the expedition. 8vo, publisher’s original linen backed blue paper boards with manila lettering labels on the spines. This set still retains the second set of paper labels as originally provided by the publisher. An especially nice set of this scarce book, looking essentially unused.

Pristine in Original Dust Wrapper and Publisher’s BoxThe Egyptian Book of the Dead - A Superb Folio PrintingWith 99 Plates Re-producing the Turin and Louvre PapyriA Wonderful Copy - 1895 - Davis’ Impor-tant Translation

covered boards retaining the original printed paper title label. An as mint, extraordinary copy, the book pristine, the very rare dustjacket with virtually no evidence of use or wear, absolutely complete, the very rarely seen protective box with some wear but still present and serving its original purpose. AN ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION, A BEAUTIFUL BOOK, THE ONLY COPY WE KNOW OF WITH THE DUSTJACKET AND PUB-LISHER’S BOX RETAINED. We can safely say there is no finer copy available. In this impressive work 20 plates reproduce the text of the Hieratic Ritual from the Louvre Papyrus, the remaining 79 plates are from the Turin Papyrus.

Item Number: 15 Price: $2850.[Egyptology; Egyptian Book of the Dead]; Davis, Charles H. S. M.D., PH.D. THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD... Edited, With Introduction, A Complete Translation and Various Chapters on Its History, Symbolism, Etc., Etc. (New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Son at the Knickerbocker Press, 1895) First Edi-tion, 1895 title-page. With 99 plates, several of which are fold-ing, reproduced in facsimile from the Turin Papyrus and the Louvre Papyrus, additional illustrations within the text. Folio, publisher’s original green cloth, the upper cover boldly lettered in gilt and decorated with a papyrus facsimile in earthen gray and dark brown, the spine lettered in gilt, IN THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET AND PUBLISHER’S BOX of red paper



Describing The Siege of Khartoum - First Edition - 1885 FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. During the siege of Khartoum, Gordon managed to hold the city for over three-hundred days. Daily he watched his compatriots die of war and disease. Left without aid or reinforcements for most of the siege, he was the last Englishman to die there. These are the last of his journals, which he managed to get out of Khartoum before the fall. His final entry: “I have done the best for the honor of my country. Good-bye.”

Item Number: 19 Price: $295.The Journals of Ma-jor-General Gordon at Kartoum

Gordon, Major General Charles George. THE JOURNALS OF MAJOR-GEN. C. G. GORDON, C.B. AT KHARTOUM. Printed from the original Mss. Introduction and Notes by A. E. Hake (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885) First edition. With a portrait frontispiece, maps, and 30 illustrations after sketches by General Gordon. 8vo, in original maroon cloth, gilt lettered on the spine and with gilt signature facsimile on upper cover. A very good and sturdy copy, handsome and strong, clean and fresh internally, the spine evenly mellowed as usual.

Thomas Gray’s Po-ems and LettersBeautifully Printed

Item Number: 20 Price: $1500.Gray, Thomas; [Chiswick Press]. POEMS AND LETTERS. With Memoirs of his Life and Writings by William Mason. (London: R. Priestley, 1820) With a fine fore-edge painting in colours of Eton College and an engraved frontispiece of Gray. 8vo, handsomely bound in fine full dark blue morocco of the period, the covers elaborately gilt in all over designs enclosing a central diamond panel decorated at the center with a dove in gilt, the spine richly gilt incorporating elaborate panel designs, the compartments separated by raised bands gilt ruled, one compartment lettered in gilt, finely tooled gilt turnovers, dentelles gilt and a.e.g., marbled

endleaves. A copy that is fresh and clean internally and with the binding very well preserved with some light evidence of age, the upper hinge sometime expertly and unobtrusively strengthened. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND WITH A FINE HAND-COLOURED FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF ETON COLLEGE. Included is Thomas Grays masterpiece, one of the best-loved eighteenth-century English poems, and certainly among the most influential single works of poetry -- “An Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard”.

In a Fine Binding Gilt With Fine Fore-Edge Painting

Signed by the Author - His First Book - First EditionCold Mountain - One of the Most Acclaimed Recent Novels

Item Number: 18 Price: $695.Frazier, Charles. COLD MOUNTAIN (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997) First Edition and First Printing, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLI-CATION. With the sticker and blurb by John Berendt. With cartographic end-papers showing the Blue Ridge Mountains. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in blue-black linen, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the original dustjacket. A very fine copy, essentially as mint and pristine.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST AC-CLAIMED NOVELS OF RECENT TIMES. COLD MOUNTAIN was the author’s first book and took the National Book Award honours for the year. It was said of the novel that it is “so magnificent---in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined--that...the shadow of this book, and the joy...in reading it, will fall over every other book...ever read.”

Emanuel’s Great Work on Diamonds and Precious Stones Item Number: 16 Price: $550.Emanuel, Harry. DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES: THEIR HISTORY, VALUE AND DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERIS-TICS. With Simple Tests for Their Identification. (London: John Camden Hotten, 1867) Best edition, the second, with a new table of the present value of diamonds. Beautifully lithographed full-page frontispiece in royal blue and gold, numerous full page lithographic illustrations, and with many illustrations in the text. 8vo, publisher’s full navy cloth handsomely lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover and spine. A very bright and

An Unusually Nice Copy of this Impor-tant Book

quite fresh copy, some wear to head and tail of spine. The author notes that his prediction in the first edition came true--that in spite of a commercial crisis and depression, the value of diamonds has only increased. He feels that this particular edition will aide honest merchants against unscrupulous ones and the general public will not only become more educated about jewels but also be put on its guard relating to its purchases. That is, Emanuel recognized the need for a compact and readable edition on jewels not only for the traders but also the consumers.

In the Elaborate Gilt Decorated Bindings - 1902 - Two Volumes

Item Number: 17 Price: $450.Francis, Claude de la Roche. LONDON Historic and Social (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1901]) 2 volumes. First Edition thus. A RARE, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. Wonderfully illustrated with the com-plete set of photogravure plates from original photographs in each volume and with a folding Rail Road Map of London. 8vo, publisher’s beautiful crimson cloth magnificently decorated in gilt, the upper covers featuring a shield, griffins and English roses, gilt lettered and similarly decorated on the spines, VERY RARE ORIGINAL GLASSINE WRAPPERS TO EACH VOLUME.

In the rare original red cloth dustjackets. A superb and as mint set, quite exceptional, the books pristine and perfect and es-sentially as mint and unused. RARE IN THIS CONDITION, AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTI-FUL SET IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH DUSTJACKETS AND GLASSINE PROTECTIVE WRAPS. LONDON serves as a exqui-site example of one of Thomas Coates’ fine productions of illustrated travel books. It shares, with Constantinople, the honor of being the only city to have two full volumes devoted to it.

London Historic and Social - Beautifully Illustrated

A Handsome Copy in Original Cloth

Item Number: 21 Price: $1500.Hardy, Thomas. WESSEX POEMS. And Other Verses (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1898) First Edition. With 30 illustrations by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original blue ribbed cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, upper cover with Hardy’s floral monogram device in gilt. A very handsome and pleasing copy, internally very fine and essentially pristine, the cloth very well

preserved, spine just a tad mellowed. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. A lovely copy of Hardy’s first significant publishing venture as a poet. Though better known now as a novelist, Hardy rated poetry above fiction. Like many of his novels, the landscapes of Dorset echoes throughout his writing. The poetry is scarce, unadorned and surprisingly modern.

First Edition - Thomas Hardy - Wessex Poems



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From The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 Biblediscoloration or staining. A large leaf a bit ragged along the inner edge from the sewing from the original binding. A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES. The King James Bible was described by W. A. Jackson as “perhaps the single most important influence upon the development of English prose style.”

Item Number: 24 Price: $550.[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From PSALMS containing part of Psalm LXXI, all of Psalms LXXII and LXXIII and a few lines of LXXIIII ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with three fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within wood-cut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, a single leaf. A very fine and well preserved leaf with only a hint of wear,

A Leaf from the “King James” BibleThe Book of Psalms LXXI - LXXIIII

Oeuvres Complettes de la Jean La Fontaine Item Number: 25 Price: $1250.La Fontaine, [Jean de]. OEUVRES COMPLETTES DE J. LA FONTAINE, Précédées D’Une Nouvelle Notice sur sa Vie. FABLES. (Paris: Che Lefèvre, Libraire, 1814) 6 volumes. First edition thus. With a profusion of fine copper plate engravings throughout. 8vo, contemporary French polished calf, the spines with wide decorated bands in gilt, separating compartments with quadruple fillet lined panels gilt, two maroon lettering labels gilt, marbled boards, marbled edges and end-leaves. A very hand-some and attractive set with fine engravings throughout, some

With Charming Engravings on CopperIn Handsome French Contemporary Bind-ings

minor evidence of age, very well preserved, clean, tight, and in lovely condition. A FINE PRESENTATION OF THE OEUVRES AND OF FON-TAINE’S GREAT FABLES AND OTHER WORKS ACCOMPA-NIED BY A PROFUSION OF FINE ENGRAVINGS. La Fontaine was famously known as one of the important literary group of the Rue du Vieux Colombier which included Racine, Boileau and Moliere.

[Horace] Stanley, E. H., Translator. A METRICAL VERSION OF THE ODES OF HORACE (London: Blades, East and Blades, 1889) First Edition of Stanley’s translation. AUTHOR’S PRE-SENTATION COPY, FIRST TO HIS WIFE AND THEN TO HIS DAUGHTER, Signed by the author and dated twice with separate inscriptions to both women. With handsome engraved head pieces. 8vo, handsomely bound, no doubt to the author’s personal taste as this was his wife’s copy, in full contemporary polished calf. The boards with triple gilt rules around a rolled border in blind, the gilt rules with gilt flower’s in each corner, gilt

Item Number: 22 Price: $495.The Odes of Hor-ace - E.H. Stanley’s Translation - 1889

stippled board-edges and gilt tooled turn-ins, the spines with very attractive gilt tooling between gilt tooled raised bands, two compartments with black morocco labels gilt ruled and lettered. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved, the binding with only the lightest of aging one would expect for calf. FIRST EDITION, A FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY, BEAU-TIFULLY BOUND AND SIGNED TWICE BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. A fine free-verse translation of the Odes of Horace, generally considered to be the greatest of the Classical Poets.

First Edition - Inscribed Presentation Copy - Finely Bound

The Dharma Bums - A Beat Generation ClassicJack Kerouac - First Edition - 1958 - Per-haps His Best Book

black paper as is usual. Unobtrusive, nearly imperceptible evidence of light crinkling at a lower corner. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC OF THE BEAT GENERA-TION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Arguably Kerouac’s best work, and his second best known, DHARMA BUMS largely introduced the world to poet Gary Snyder in the form of semi-fictionalized “Japhy Ryder”.

Item Number: 23 Price: $550.Kerouac, Jack. THE DHARMA BUMS (New York: Viking Press, 1958) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth with green metallic lettering on upper cover and silver and green let-tering on the spine, in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket designed by Bill English. A fine copy of the book, as pristine and apparently unused, very well preserved with only a touch of near invisible evidence of age to the black cloth; the jacket is complete and whole with only some very light expected rubbing to the

Jack London - First Edition - 1917- Original ClothJerry of the Islands


London, Jack. JERRY OF THE ISLANDS (New York: Macmillan, 1917) First edition, first issue. With a color frontispiece by Mountefort. 8vo, publisher’s original orange-brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, pictorially decorated on the upper cover in black and lettered in gilt. A near fine copy, clean, tight and very well preserved. FIRST EDITION. Jack London wrote this book while “stretched out

on Waikiki Beach”. In early 1915 Jack and Charmian left California for Hawaii, plagued by financial problems (he owned, and owed mortgages on, six houses for himself and for his dependents) - yet the financial problems were not so bad that the two of them couldn’t have four or five servants in Honolulu. London wrote this book and “Michael” to keep his skills in flow and food on the table.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French RevolutionMahan’s Clas-sic - 1893 - In the Original Cloth


Mahan, Capt. A[lfred] T[hayer]. THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE, 1793-1812 (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1893) 2 volumes. Second edition, though in fact second printing, the English issue from the same sheets as the American edition. With 13 maps and battle plans. 4to, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines, gilt pictorial decorations on upper covers. A very bright, fine and handsome set, the cloth unusually bright and clean with only a few spots of wear or rub-bing, the text quite fine.

A SCARCE WORK BY MAHAN. In this work, as well as through its predecessor entitled THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783, Mahan demonstrates the considerable ties between naval warfare and the history of the modern world. He was one of the first historians ever to seriously examine this correlation.



Joan Miró Engraver - Limited and Beautifully Producedon the upper cover and spine and in the original dust-jacket printed by Joan Barbarà and cut from wood by Joan Miró. A fine copy, the book essentially as new and pristine, the jacket in excellent, as pristine condition. BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE EARLY WORKS OF THE GREAT SPANISH SURREALIST, JOAN MIRó. WITH THREE ORIGINAL full-colour WOOD-BLOCK PRINTS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THIS EDITION.

Item Number: 31 Price: $495.[Miró, Joan] Dupin, Jacques. MIRÓ ENGRAVER I. 1928-1960 (Paris: Daniel Lelong, 1984) First and limited edition, one of 2700 numbered copies printed in English and including the three original woodcuts by Joan Miró. With three original full-colour woodcuts especially executed by Miró for this edition printed by Joan Barbarà’s Atelier in Barcelona, and with 290 photogravure reproductions of Miró’s works printed by Jean-Paul Vibert and with several other black and white illustrations from photo-graphs. Folio, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in white

With Three Original Woodcuts By the Artist

An Impressive Original Handcoloured Folio Plate Item Number: 32 Price: $850.[Native Americans]; Lewis, James Otto. [Plate] SUN-A-GET OR Hard-times, a Pottawatomie Chief [From Aboriginal Portfolio: A Collection of Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians ([Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1835]) Lithographed and coloured by Lehman and Duval. A beautifully lithographed colour plate reproduced from the original painting of James Otto Lewis done at the Treaty of Massinnewa, 1827. Fo-lio, image size roughly 9 by 8 inches, including captions beneath,

From the Aboriginal Portfolio: A Collec-tion of Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians

printed on a folio sheet measuring 19 by 12 inches. An original handcoloured PLATE FROM ONE OF THE RAR-EST OF All AMERICAN COLOURPLATE BOOKS. The work from which this plate originated was among the earliest grand colour printing projects taken up in the United States and was the first il-lustrated book on the native American Indians.

Miller, Henry. SUNDAY AFTER THE WAR (New York: New Directions, 1944) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s cream colored cloth with crimson lettering on spine, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy in a well preserved dustjacket with minimal wear at the edges. FIRST EDITION. “Iconoclast, prophet, poet, painter, philosopher, acute observer and recorder of the vagaries of his fellow humans, severe

Item Number: 29 Price: $295.A First Edition in Excellent Condition

critic of modern civilization, partisan of the underdog, champion of frank expression, explorer in new realms of feeling--Henry Miller is a writer like no other writing today.” [dustjacket] This is a collection of Miller’s previously unpublished writings and includes works that were in progress at the time, a long story, a critique of Hollywood, and critical analyses on various subjects such as Greece, D.H. Lawrence, art, and the work of Anaïs Nin.

Henry Miller’s Sunday After the War

A Fine Printing - The Poetical Works of John MiltonA Handsome Copy in Fine Period Morocco Binding GiltWith Engraved Il-lustrations by J.M.W. Turner and Vertue

partments, gilt lettered, finely gilt tooled turn-ins and board edges. A lovely copy, well preserved, internally fresh and fine. The binding is strong, attractive and very well cared for. SCARCE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE ISSUE. A fine printing of Milton’s great poetry with the steel engraved plates of J.M.W. Turner. It includes a long “Life of Milton” and Commendatory Verses by Dryden, Addison, Thomson, Gray, Mason and Cowpler. The volume contains all of Milton’s important works, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, sonnets, odes, miscellanies and all the others. The binding was likely done for one of the leading London booksellers of the period.

Item Number: 30 Price: $495.Milton, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON; To which is prefixed the life of the author. (London: William Tegg, 1847) A very early edition to contain the illustrations by J.M.W. Turner. With engraved frontispiece portrait by Vertue, an additional portrait fronting the ‘Life of the Author’ and 10 fine steel-engraved plates, seven of which are after J. M. W. Turner. 8vo, very handsomely presented in a fine contemporary binding of full red morocco, the covers with double gilt ruled frames sur-rounding an ornate gilt arabesque inner framework bordering an inner gilt tooled central motif, the spine with raised bands separating fully gilt panels in neoclassical style within the com-

With A Large Folding Map and Colour LithographLyons McLeod - Travels in Eastern AfricaFirst Edition - Lon-don - 1860 - Very Scarce

clean, unobtrusive minor ink numbers at the spines,light age evidence to the bindings, gilt bright, cloth solid. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. “Some account of the Cape Colony and of St Lucia, Zululand, Delagoa Bay, and the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa, together with a description of Mozambique and some details respecting the slave traffic. A full narrative is given of the seizure of the Charles et Georges, and of the subsequent attack of the Negroes on the British Consulate.”

Item Number: 28 Price: $1150.McLeod, Lyons. TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA; With the Narrative of a Residence in Mozambique (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860) 2 volumes. Rare first edition in original cloth. Illustrated in each volume including a portrait frontispiece, large folding map, coloured lithographic frontispiece in Volume II, engraved title-pages to each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth covered boards, decorated in blind on the covers, lettered in gilt on the spines. A very good and pleasing set, some occasional foxing confined primarily to the prelims, text-block solid and

Arithmetique Universelle - Sir Isaac NewtonThe Rare First Edi-tion in FrenchA Fine Copy in Con-temporary Calf Gilt


Newton, [Isaac]. ARITHMETIQUE UNIVERSELLE DE NEW-TON, Traduite du Latin en Francais; Avec Des Notes Explicatives, Par Noel Beaudeux. (Paris: Chez Bernard, 1802) 2 volumes bound as one. First French edition. Extensively illustrated with folding engraved diagrams of geometric problems. 4to, contemporary calf with gilt tooling on covers and spine. Red morocco lettering panel. Gilt stamp of the “Prix du College Royal D’Henry IV” on both covers. A fine, especially bright copy with a small tear to upper spine.

FIRST FRENCH EDITION of these algebraic lectures given by Newton at Cambridge, which were first published by William Whiston in England in 1707. It includes several new theorems on various points in algebra and the theory of equations. Later, with the idea of stimulating annotations to the work, Gravedsande published SPECIMIN COMMENTARII IN ARITHMETICAM UNIVER-SLAEM; and Maclaurins’s ALGEBRA seems to have been written in response to this.



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Sir Walter Raleigh - The History of the World - 1666A Copy with Fine Provenance in Excel-lent ConditionA Handsome Folio Printing with En-gravings and Maps

coat of arms, the spine with elaborate gilt tooling. This binding made for Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower. A grand and handsome copy in contemporary full calf, internally quite fine, the binding with expert, unobtrusive restoration by Bernard Middleton at the hinges and edges leaving it solid and sturdy. FINE ANTIQUARIAN FOLIO PRINTING, ONE OF THE MOST HANDSOME EDITIONS OF THIS CLASSIC WORK, BEAUTI-FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVED DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. This is the only volume published of the massive history Raleigh planned and began while in the Tower of London after the accession of James I.

Item Number: 35 Price: $4250.Raleigh, Sir Walter. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, In Five Books... (London: for Robert White, John Place, and George Dawes, 1666) A handsome early issue of this classic work, and a Copy with Fine Provenance. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Raleigh, title-pages in red and black, engraved ar-chitectural title-page, six finely engraved double-page maps, 2 double-page engraved plates of battle plans, 2 by William Hole, pedigrees, a chronological table, finely engraved head and tail pieces, engraved and decorated capital letters. Folio, full contemporary English mottled calf, blind-ruled borders to the boards, the upper cover with embossed baronial emblem with

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare Item Number: 36 Price: $1250.Shakespeare, William. THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE... (Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1818) 7 volumes. First Edition of the fine seven volume Whittingham’s Edition. With two hundred and thirty embellishments, being an engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare’s birthplace in Volume I, vignettes on each title-page and delightful engravings of scenes and char-acters all throughout the text. 12mo, handsomely bound in fine contemporary full crushed red morocco by Warren, extensively decorated all over in fine detailed gilt and blind, the boards a fanciful display of floral and chain motifs in alternating gilt and blind, the spines matching and with gilt lettering in two of the

compartments. A very handsome and fine set, internally clean and fresh and well preserved, the bindings are very lovely and in especially well preserved original state with only a bit of expected age evidence. A TRUE GEM OF A SET OF THE GREAT BARD’S DRA-MATIC WRITINGS COMPLETE IN SEVEN SMALL VOLUMES DELIGHTFULLY ILLUSTRATED. The set also includes the Preface of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and excellent glossarial index and a Life of Shakespeare and Remarks on the Writings written expressly for Whit-tingham’s edition by John Britton.

A Beautiful Set in Red MoroccoPrinted in Chiswick, England - Whitting-ham - 1818

William Shakespeare - A Study of Facts and ProblemsE. K. Chamber’s Great and “Reliable” Scholarship

Item Number: 37 Price: $375.[Shakespeare] Chambers, E. K. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Study of Facts and Problems (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1930) 2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with many plates and reproductions, most from contemporary sources including portraits, documents, letters and maps; several of the plates are folding. 8vo, publisher’s original sky blue cloth gilt lettered on the spines. A fine copy of this important work, the

bindings are solid and clean, the textblocks are very well pre-served indeed, just light mellowing to the spine panels. A CLASSIC, EXHAUSTIVE AND NOW INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE BY ONE OF THE GREATEST ELIZABETHAN SCHOLARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

The Works of Laurence Sterne - 1780A Scarce Dublin PrintingA Fine and Hand-some Set in Contem-porary Calf

Item Number: 38 Price: $1450.[Sterne, Laurence]. THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE (Dublin: np, 1780) 7 volumes. Early Dublin edition, presumed second such and one year after the first Dublin edition. Each volume with a handsome engraved titlepage, volume one with a portrait of Sterne by Reynolds and a frontispiece by Hogart, 4 additional engravings by Hogart and others as frontispieces to volumes 2 through 5. 12mo, simply but handsomely bound in full contemporary calf, the spines with raised bands and each with one red morocco label lettered in gilt. A fine and attrac-

tive set of these classic works, volume one expertly rebacked to match preserving the original morocco label, some volumes with a touch of wear to the joints but all holding firm. An early and important Dublin printing, this was the first edition to include the engraved title pages. It includes Sterne’s masterpiece volumes of TRISTRAM SHANDY as well as THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, THE LETTERS and THE SERMONS. Also, prefixed to TRISTRAM SHANDY is an account of the life and writings of the author.

Arthur Rackham’s Rip Van Winkle Item Number: 34 Price: $750.[Rackham, illus.] Irving, Washington. RIP VAN WINKLE (Lon-don [and] New York : William Heinemann for Doubleday, Page, 1909) A very early printing. 50 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, bound in rear as issued. 4to, original olive green cloth, letterd in gilt on the spine and lettered and pictorially illustrated in gilt on the upper cover. A very handsome copy, internally uncommonly clean with fresh and bright plates. The green cloth in bright and with only a bit of minor mellowing by time.

With 50 Tipped-In Coloured Plates

Rackham’s RIP VAN WINKLE was originally issued in 1905 to great critical acclaim. Many compared his style to the German illus-trators and The Times called it a “ marvel of his Dureresque detail.” Like the first edition, this copy contains the aggregate of illustrations at the back of the book mounted on thick green paper. The story is essentially told twice, first in Irving’s five thousand words, and then in Rackham’s 50 evocative illustrations.

The Ibibio Tribe of Nigeria - First Edition, ClothExploring the Magi-cal and the Sacred

Item Number: 39 Price: $175.Talbot, P. Amaury. LIFE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA; The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe (London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1923) First edition. Illustrated with 51 black and white plates and folding map at the end of volume. 8vo, publisher’s original medium blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION. Talbot lived closely for a number of months with the Ibibio tribe of Southern Nigeria and termed their religious

and social beliefs and customs “a fascinating study.” Indeed, his book exhaustively explores their religious legends and supernatural beliefs, funerary and marriage rites, secret societies, etc. It is a continuation of the series begun by the author’s wife with her work about the women’s mysteries of the Ibibio people. This volume was originally intended for publication in 1914 but was delayed because of the outbreak of World War I.



The First Edition, First Issue in Original ClothMark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper

Item Number: 40 Price: $2500.Twain, Mark. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co, 1882) First edition, first issue, with the “Franklin Press” imprint on the copyright page and the first state of the binding with ro-sette at 1/8” below the horizontal. With 192 illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, with pictorial decoration in gilt and black on upper board, stamped and lettered in gilt and black on the spine. A very good and pleasing copy, inter-nally solid and quite clean with only a bit of the expected age evidence here and there. The binding still very attractive and

well preserved with some typical evidence of shelving to the extremities and shoulders. THE RARE FIRST ISSUE. Twain’s timeless tale of two little boys who switch places to see how the other half lives. Very scarce in unsophisticated original cloth. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER was quite unlike anything Twain had done up till that time. It is a fine adventure with a delicate vein of “Twainian” humor running throughout.

Von Höhnel’s Discovery of the Lakes...First Editions in English - In the Rare Blue Cloth

Item Number: 41 Price: $2450.Von Höhnel, Ludwig. DISCOVERY OF LAKES RUDOLF AND STEFANIE: A NARRATIVE OF COUNT SAMUEL TELEKI’S EXPLORING AND HUNTING EXPEDITION IN EAST EQUA-TORIAL AFRICA... (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894) 2 volumes. First edition. Scarcest variant. With 179 original illustrations and 5 colored maps on two large fold-out plates. Tall 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt pictorial designs on top covers and spines. A handsome and quite nice set with a few old and occasional but discreet library markings . Stamped library numbers in the lower quadrant of the spines sometime coloured

over in pigment matching the binding colour but with only light aging to the volumes. A surprisingly attractive pair. THIS IS THE SCARCE ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLORING AND HUNTING EXPEDITION OF COUNT SAMUEL TELKI VON SZEK AND LIEUTENANT LUDWIG VON HÖHNEL TO EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. Although the narrative was produced for the general reader and therefore deals more with the adventures and experiences then with the scientific work it contains considerable information of value.

Robert Ward’s Anima’dversions of Warre - 1639One of the Greatest Military Treatises Ever PrintedReplete with Im-pressive Woodcut Illustrations

Item Number: 42 Price: $12,500.Ward, Robert. ANIMA’DVERSIONS OF WARRE... (London: Printed by John Dawson and are to be sold by Francis Eglesfield, 1639) First edition. With a handsome engraved additional title by Marshall, two large folding plates, additional bifolium with one plate and a plethora of spectacular woodcut illustrations throughout as well as handsome engraved initials and head and tail pieces. Folio, very handsomely bound in full original and contemporary calf. The boards with blind-stamped double-ruled fillets, the spine paneled with six raised bands also double ruled

in blind. A wonderful copy, large and handsome and in superb contemporary state, very crisp and clean. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the celebrated ‘encyclopaedia’ of the military arts, the issue that bears Francis Eglesfeld’s name in the imprint with Dawson’s. All aspects of military preparation and conduct are covered in this key book, one of the most complete treatises on military discipline. Ward’s remarkably well-informed treatise makes reference to the most up-to-date sources.

H.G. Wells - First Edition - In The Rare Dustjacket 1922 - Secret Places of the Heart

Item Number: 43 Price: $350.Wells, H. G. THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART (London: Cassell and Company, 1922) First edition and Rare First Issue. 8vo, original blue-green cloth lettered and framed in blind on the upper cover and gilt lettered on the spine, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy of this book with just a hint of the age toning common with books of the period, the jacket with some very minor edge wear and a little darkening to the spine but as close to fine as one is likely to see.

UNCOMMON IN THE ORIGINAL JACKET. Although best remembered now for his science fiction, Wells’ novels of English life and culture were very popular in his own day. In SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown goes on a vacation with his psycharitrist and on the way he rediscovers his zest for life with the help of a young woman.

Oscar Wilde’s Last and Most Poignant WorkThe Ballad of Read-ing GaolOne of 800 Copies Only - The True First Edition - 1898

Item Number: 44 Price: $2950.[Wilde, Oscar]. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL BY C.3.3. (London: Leonard Smithers, 1898) First edition, one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter buff cloth over mustard coloured cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy, only a hint of mellowing to the buff cloth. THE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON FINE, HANDMADE PAPER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison

and written while in exile in France, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde’s last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering posi-tion at the time, the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work. “Had [it] been written a hundred years ago, it would have been printed as a broadside and sold in the streets by the balladmongers; it is so common as that, and so great as that” (Jackson, The Eighteen-Nineties, p. 99).

N.C. Wyeth’s Most Famous IllustrationsTreasure Island - A Timeless ClassicRobert Louis Steven-son’s Most Beloved Work

Item Number: 45 Price: $350.[Wyeth, N.C illus.] Stevenson, Robert Louis. TREASURE ISLAND (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1911] 1931) An early edition in the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics series. With 9 colour plates, illustrated titlepage and endpapers by N.C. Wyeth and a map as from the first printing of the work. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a colour pictorial paste-down by N.C. Wyeth on the upper cover. A very nice copy indeed, beautifully preserved and much fresher

than is usually encountered. The black cloth rich and unfaded, front pastedown in excellent order, internally fine and clean, the gilt very bright. WITH SUPERB ILLUSTRATIONS, Stevenson’s great adventure at sea is brought vividly to life through the evocative paintings of N.C. Wyeth. A must-read book for boys of every generation, Wyeth’s is the best and most recognized of all the many editions. Early issues of the book are difficult to find in nice condition.

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