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Baldwin, James ANOTHER COUNTRY
$275.00
New York: Dial Press, 1962. . Hardcover first edition – A powerful novel set in New York City from Harlem to Greenwich Village – considered Baldwin’s masterpiece. 436 pp.
Condition: Very good to near fine in dark gray boards with white lettering in a fair only dustjacket with several small chips, especially at the ends of the spine, splitting along the front fold of dj flap with inconspicuous repair to interior. Original price of 5.95 on dj flap.
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Fine Binding by Riviere & Son
Moore, Thomas (1779–1852) Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance [Fine Binding by Riviere & Son – Illustrated by John Tenniel] Thomas Moore’s ‘Lalla Rookh’ was a defining text of 19th-century British Orientalism
$250.00A premier Victorian edition of Thomas Moore’s Orientalist epic, notable for containing 69 wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel. This copy is presented in a refined three-quarter morocco binding attributed to Riviere & Son, featuring their hallmark ‘bumblebee’ stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper. KEY FEATURES +++ Visuals: 69 illustrations on wood by John Tenniel, plus five ornamental pages of Persian design serving as section headers. +++ Binding: Three-quarter green morocco over ribbed matching cloth. Spine features five raised bands with elaborate gilt-tooled floral ornaments and titles. Top edge gilt (TEG). +++ Associated Names: Bears the ‘bumblebee’ device of Riviere & Son, a hallmark of one of the 19th century’s most respected London binderies. +++ Provenance: Small contemporary bookstore stamp in the gutter; contemporary gift inscription on the half-title page. +++ Imprint: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (dating this specific company name variation to 1859-1862). +++ Specs: Octavo, 8 inches tall / xxiv, [2], 3-390 pages. CONDITION Near Fine — A Collectible copy with tight, square bindings and minimal shelf handling. Text is generally clean with light, even age-toning. As pictured: The half-title page is heavily toned due to ink bleed from the contemporary gift inscription and the last page – 390. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Thomas Moore’s ‘Lalla Rookh’ was a defining text of 19th-century British Orientalism. This edition is particularly significant for the artistic contribution of John Tenniel, whose work here preceded his fame as the illustrator of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. The combination of Tenniel’s high-Victorian draftsmanship and the technical precision of a Riviere-style binding makes this a representative example of the luxury ‘Gift Book’ market that flourished in London during the 1860s. SUBJECTS : Orientalism, Persian Poetry, John Tenniel, Fine Bindings, Riviere & Son, Victorian Literature, Book Arts, Fine Binding, Illustrated Book, Poetry, Rare Books.
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Signed first edition of Towles' debut novel
Towles, Amor RULES OF CIVILITY
$350.00Edition: First printing. New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition – This highly praised and elegantly written debut novel opens with a chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year’s Eve 1938, an encounter that catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society. A nostalgic coming-of-age story about identity and the fleeting choices that shape lives. The first novel by the author of the bestselling “A Gentleman in Moscow.” SIGNED on the title page with the author’s green stamp of an orchestra playing at the top of the page. Includes an appendix with the 110 rules of civility and decent behavior, a book written for the young George Washington, which inspired the title. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022694. Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Book ID: 93193
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signed Saul Bellow
Bellow, Saul Mr. Sammler’s Planet
$260.00New York: The Viking Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. 316 pp. First edition. This book is from the collection of Peter Dzwonkoski, former Director of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Rochester, and previously of Yale’s Beinecke Library. Signed by author on full title page. Blue top stain. Blue cloth with embossed initials of author on front cover. Clean interior. Unclipped jacket in protective mylar. Square binding. Some rubbing to jacket and closed 1/8″ tear along spine edge.Â
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Boardinghouse Culture
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894) The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table [Fine Binding, H M Brock Illustrations, Temple Classics Era, Gift Book Leather] A turn of the century ‘breakfast table’ classic dressed like a jewel box, all gilt flowers and marbled panels.
$225.00A handsome 1902 illustrated edition of Holmes’s famous conversational essays, a book that reads like a series of bright table-talk performances, witty, humane, and sharply observed. This Dent and Houghton Mifflin issue is strengthened by H M Brock’s line drawings and offered here in an eye-catching leather binding with bold marbled inlays, the sort of small-format book that was meant to be handled, gifted, and kept. Physical description: Leather binding in green, with gilt ruled frame and gilt floral tools to spine compartments, large marbled inlay panels to front and rear boards framed by gilt rules, marbled endpapers, tope edge gilt, illustrated throughout by H M Brock, printed title page states London, J M Dent & Co, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co, dated 1902, text pagination reported as xxi, [1] 2-318 pp for this illustrated Dent issue, small format at approximately 7.5 × 4.5 in Condition statement: The bindings are tight and square, text is clean, light, even age-toning, modest shelf handling wear, gilt remains bright on the spine, marbled endpapers and board inlays present well, 1902 illustrated Dent and Houghton Mifflin issue Holmes frames the book as a series of morning conversations led by an ‘autocrat’ at the boarding-house table, then uses that setup to range widely, personality, education, medicine, literature, religion, reform, habits of mind, and the small vanities that make people both ridiculous and lovable. The voice is quick and companionable, closer to a brilliant magazine column than a formal essay, with sudden turns into tenderness and then back to satire. Brock’s illustrations reinforce the social comedy, giving the reader faces and gestures for the scenes Holmes keeps tossing across the table Contextual or historical significanceHolmes helped define a distinctly American mode of public intellectual writing for the mid 19th century, playful, moral without being heavy, and skeptical of fashionable certainty. This 1902 illustrated issue reflects the long afterlife of the book as a classic of reading culture, revived for gift and library shelves in a compact, decorative format, no major film tie-in applies Subjects: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, 19th century American essays, Boardinghouse culture, Conversation and manners, Satire, Boston intellectual history, Illustrated books, Fine bindings, H M Brock, Genres, American Literature, Essays, Humor, Social Commentary.
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