Category: Belles Lettres

A Christmas greeting from Porter Garnett to Edmund Geiger Gress

Price: $3,250.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Laboratory Press : 1925

Seller ID: Books014780

Condition: Very Good

An exceptional memento, from the founder of the Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology to the noted typographer. Three items including the cover letter dated Dec. 21, '25 : "Dear Gress: I'm sending you two copies of our Xmas card. One is of the regular "edition" on 18th century French paper, the other is one of only five copies on 15th century paper. Two of these I am keeping one goes to the author of the poem [Leon Josiah Richardson, former Professor of Latin UC Berkeley] and another to a student who helped me at the press. There is no one I know who would be more interested...
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Catalogue of the Green Hill Library, including the books of the late William Nelson Green

Price: $723.51

Publisher: [Worcester, Mass.], Privately Printed : 1887

Seller ID: Books013068

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

71, 31, [3] pages, with a blank ruled leaf bound between each leaf of text. Six additions to the catalogue penned in the same hand. The second sequence of 31 pages is titled WM. N. Green's Division. Upper joint split but sound on cords; spine with vertical creasing and loss to head and foot.
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Papua New Guinea Writing / Kovave

Price: $188.50

Publisher: Port Moresby, Literature Bureau: Department of Information / Jacaranda Press : 1971

Seller ID: Books014238

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Five periodicals. New Guinea Writing: Number 4, September 1971: 22 pages. Papua New Guinea Writing: Numbers 6, 7, 8: June, September, December 1972: 24 pages each. Kovave: Volume 3 Number 1: November 1971: 64 pages. Light wear to covers; stapled bindings sound. No inscriptions.
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Image for The Letter Writer : containing a great variety of letters on the following subjects: relationship, business, love, courtship and marriage, friendship, and miscellaneous letters, law forms, &c.&c. Selected from judicious and eminent writers.

The Letter Writer : containing a great variety of letters on the following subjects: relationship, business, love, courtship and marriage, friendship, and miscellaneous letters, law forms, &c.&c. Selected from judicious and eminent writers.

Price: $117.14

Publisher: Boston, Charles Gaylord : 1835

Seller ID: Books013770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

144 pages. Leather backstrip; most paper worn off boards. Endpapers grubby; considerable stain to first leaves, diminishing throughout the volume. Leaves toned.; binding sound. 6 x 3.75 inches.
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The Monthly List of New Macmillan Books [No. 126: November 1909]

Price: $103.36

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1909

Seller ID: Books014239

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

33 pages. Clean and unmarked, with no rust to staples. 9 x 6 inches.
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Image for The Philosophy of Elocution; elucidated and exemplified by readings of the liturgy of the church : for the use of young clergymen and students who are preparing for Holy Orders

The Philosophy of Elocution; elucidated and exemplified by readings of the liturgy of the church : for the use of young clergymen and students who are preparing for Holy Orders

Price: $475.45

Publisher: Oxford, Munday and Slatter : 1818

Seller ID: Books014081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xvi, xxxiii, [35]-376 pages, with erratum slip laid in. Good only, with paper peeled off spine and boards; upper board loose; front endpapers detached; D2 (page 35/36) detached. Textblock otherwise sound. 1819 signature of Edward Elton Chaundy to head of title page.
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Image for Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; with Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By Mr. Tickell

Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; with Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By Mr. Tickell

By: Addison, Joseph

Price: $344.54

Publisher: London, Jacob Tonson : 1726

Seller ID: Books014655

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxxv, 267; 321; 328 pages. Complete in three volumes. A handsome unsophisticated example in contemporary binding. 6.7 x 4 inches.
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Image for Sketches of a History of Literature: containing lives and characters of the most eminent writers in different languages, ancient and modern, and critical remarks on their works. Together with several literary essays. The whole designed as a directory, to guide the judgment and form the taste in reading the best authors. To which is prefixed, a short biographical account of the author

Sketches of a History of Literature: containing lives and characters of the most eminent writers in different languages, ancient and modern, and critical remarks on their works. Together with several literary essays. The whole designed as a directory, to guide the judgment and form the taste in reading the best authors. To which is prefixed, a short biographical account of the author

By: Alves, Robert

Price: $975.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Alex. Chapman and Co. : 1794

Seller ID: Books015094

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

xii, 298 pages. Three pages of manuscript notes at rear: "great authors omitted". Bookplate of Anthony Macmillan, with motto Prosecute or Perish to front pastedown. Upper joint split but board secure. "Alves died suddenly on 1 June 1794, while seeing through the press the work which appeared in the same year as 'Sketches of the History of Literature, containing Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers in different languages, ancient and modern, and critical remarks on their works. Lord Gardenstone, a literary Scottish judge, seems to have superintended its issue from the press, and he ...
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Essays and Apothegms of Francis, Lord Bacon [inscribed]

By: Bacon, Francis ; John Buchan intro.

Price: $656.25

Publisher: London, Walter Scott : 1894

Seller ID: Books014687

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxiii, 244, and 24 pages of ads. First issue of Buchan's "first formal appearance in print, completed at the age of nineteen" [Hillier & Ross 189]. With the 1895 ownership inscription of his Brasenose College friend B.C. Boulter to front free endpaper; above which: "With love from John Buchan". Spine faded, and rubbed at head and heel. A few leaves unopened, no marginalia; binding is sound. The Scott Library advert lists to number 89; this volume is number 88. 7 x 5 inches.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...

By: Boswell, James

Price: $682.17

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1793

Seller ID: Books013293

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xviii, [*1]-*xxii, [*xxiv]-*xxvi, *xxvi (sic)-*xxxvi, [1], [1]-603; [1]-634; [xvii]-[xl], [1]-711 pages, complete with frontispiece, two folding plates, and the leaf of Additional Corrections. Spines darkened and dry, labels chipped. Hinges of i and ii reinforced with cloth tape. Upper board of i detached, lower a little tender; upper joint of ii split but board secure; iii was at some point rebacked using original spine. John Le Marchant signature dated 1794 and bookplate (Me Minerva Ducit) to front pastedown of each. Plate of W. Morton Webb, and his 1910 signature in each. Foxing to first fe...
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Golden Gems from Various Authors

By: Bradley, Maria G. (compiled by)

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Boston / Dover, N.H., D. Lothrop & Co. / G. T. Day & Co. : 1873

Seller ID: Books013401

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

114 pages. Cloth rubbed at extremities; binding sound. Original green slate endpapers; gift inscription to first white leaf. Fairly heavy foxing up to page 21, final few leaves, and occasionally within.
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Image for Ferdinand and Ordella, a Russian story, with authentic anecdotes of the Russian court after the demise of Peter the Great. To which is added, a prefatory address to the satirist, upon patrons and dedications, reformers and reformations [Volume 1 of 2 only

Ferdinand and Ordella, a Russian story, with authentic anecdotes of the Russian court after the demise of Peter the Great. To which is added, a prefatory address to the satirist, upon patrons and dedications, reformers and reformations [Volume 1 of 2 only

By: Bradshaw, Mrs. Cavendish [Mary Anne Jeffereys Cavendish-Bradshaw; Priscilla Parlante]

Price: $1,722.66

Publisher: London, Samuel Tipper : 1810

Seller ID: Books013298

Binding: Quarter Cloth

Condition: Good

lxii, 274 pages. Second edition. Volume one of two only, and good only: fore-edge untrimmed and grubby, foxing and offsetting, lacks front blank (half title present with ad for the author's previous novel on verso). Hallings' Circulating Library terms of subscription to front pastedown. Binding is sound. Particularly notable for the 62 page prefatory address. "The lords of the creation in general, whether justly or otherwise I shall not pretend to determine, nourish so superlative a contempt for the abilities of the softer sex, that it requires more courage and resolution than is generally tho...
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The Old in Their Knowing

By: Bringhurst, Robert

Price: $130.92

Publisher: Berkeley, Editions Koch : 2005

Seller ID: Books013674

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

43, [1] pages. Number 33 of 200 signed and numbered copies issued. This copy also inscribed by Bringhurst to Joe (Stevens) at the 2006 Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose. As new.
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The Oeconomy of Human Life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin; WITH: Volume the Second

By: Dodsley, Robert; John Hill (attrib.)

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley / W. Owen, L. Davis, Leigh and Sotheby : 1787

Seller ID: Books013423

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xxvi, 94; viii, 110 pages: two volumes bound in one, the first: A New Edition; the second: the Eighth Edition. Old horizontal strap repair to spine that is holding the upper board loosely. Lacking free blanks at front; the first leaf is the frontispiece; two blanks at rear.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: Hawkins, John

Price: $227.39

Publisher: London, for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, et al. : 1787

Seller ID: Books013355

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

605, [15] pages. Second edition, revised and corrected. Upper board nearly detached; rear hinge starting. Marbled endpapers; light stains to first few and final few leaves. Textblock sound.
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Sayings and Doings, or Sketches From Life. First, Second, Third Series. [complete in nine volumes]

By: Hook, Theodore

Price: $482.35

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn : 1828

Seller ID: Books014235

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

The three Series in nine volumes, issued 1824, 1825, 1828. Each book with pictorial motto to front pastedown: virtus in arduis, and small stamp to title page: Melchet Court, Romsey. Edges rubbed; foxing to first few and final few leaves, and occasional stains within. All bindings sound. 7.5 x 4.8 inches.
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

By: Johnson, Samuel

Price: $1,998.29

Publisher: Oxford / London, Talboys and Wheeler / W. Pickering : 1825

Seller ID: Books013278

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Originally to comprise nine volumes, this set includes the two supplementary volumes on parliamentary debates. Full tree calf; all edges and endpapers marbled; with superficial crackling to some covers, edges rubbed, top edge dusty, light foxing to first few and final few leaves, and occasionally within. A handsome set, with contents clean; binding and hinges secure.
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The Adventurer [complete in two volumes]

By: Johnson, Samuel, et al. John Hawksworth, ed.

Price: $888.89

Publisher: London, J. Payne : 1754

Seller ID: Books013354

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

The 140 issues, from 7 November 1752 through 9 March 1754; bound in two volumes. NB: Volume I lacks title page. Two blanks front and rear of each save for front of II: one only (first front and rear of I detached). Contemporary leather scuffed and all joints weak; foxing to pastedowns and blanks. Mid 19th century bookplate of Rev. Daniel Capper to front pastedown of each.
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The Idler

By: Johnson, Samuel; et al.

Price: $613.26

Publisher: London, For J. Newbery : 1761

Seller ID: Books012924

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[5], 294; [3], 285, [3] pages. Contemporary calf. Both boards of II and upper of I detached; textblocks secure. Top right corner of front free endpaper excised from each; typical offsetting to edges of first few and final few leaves. Malo mori quam foedari bookplate to front pastedown of I. 6.6 x 4.2 inches.
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The Rambler

By: Johnson, Samuel; et al.

Price: $792.42

Publisher: London, for J. Payne : 1752

Seller ID: Books012926

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

[8], 300; [8], 294; [8], 276; [8], 324; [8], 311; [8], 288. Complete in six volumes. Imprint of each: Printed for J. Payne, at Pope's Head ... MDCCLII. The eight preliminary pages in each consist of an index, and translations of the mottos and quotations (with p.8 of VI publisher's ads). Boards on three volumes somewhat splayed, with Volume I being the most affected: rear board warped, final 8 leaves and pastedown stained, front joint split (board still attached). Other volumes very good, with customary offsetting to edges of first few and final few leaves, some toning throughout, brief notati...
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Category: Belles Lettres