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The Literature of Society.

Wharton, Grace

The Literature of Society.

London : Tinsley Brothers, 1862.

First edition of this collection of observations on the literature of European historical figures. Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide tripleContinue reading "The Literature of Society."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-145231
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Waverley Novels. Woodstock.

Scott, Walter [Ulysses S. Grant]

Waverley Novels. Woodstock.

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

Two volumes from the library of Ulysses S. Grant, published the same year The Civil War was raging. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown of bothContinue reading "Waverley Novels. Woodstock."

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$3,200.00
Item Number: RRB-119455
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Stable Secrets; and Puffy Doddles, His Saying and Sympathies.

Mills, John

Stable Secrets; and Puffy Doddles, His Saying and Sympathies.

London : Ward and Lock, 1863.

First edition of Mills’ humorous work on horse racing. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignette to the front panel, frontispiece and two additional plates by Phiz, publishers advertisements. In very good condition.

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$250.00
Item Number: RRB-124083
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter Turkey morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with two illustrations by J. NoelContinue reading "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-151108
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton. In near fine condition. BookplatesContinue reading "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby."

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-151121
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Dramatis Personae.

Browning, Robert

Dramatis Personae.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran & Co. laid in.

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$600.00
Item Number: RRB-124109
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The Small House at Allington.

Trollope, Anthony

The Small House at Allington.

London : Smith, Elder, and Co, 1864.

Finely bound edition the fifth novel in Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, with eighteen illustrations by J.E. Millais including tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to volume one. In veryContinue reading "The Small House at Allington."

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$300.00
Item Number: RRB-112301
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Dramatis Personae.

Browning, Robert

Dramatis Personae.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt ruling to boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, “Robert Browning wishes all happinessContinue reading "Dramatis Personae."

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$7,500.00
Item Number: RRB-147759
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed.

1864.

Autograph letter signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The letter reads, “Concord 8 Feb. 1864 Dear Mrs. Botta, In obedience to your request sent to me through my daughter, I enclose this paper. Yours faithfully, R.W. Emerson.” Double matted and framed with a photograph of Emerson. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. AContinue reading "Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed."

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$2,500.00
Item Number: RRB-64045
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Our Mutual Friend.

Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of this classic novel that explores effects of capitalism and the arbitrary nature of social hierarchy. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turnins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece, engraved vignette titles, illustrations done by MarcusContinue reading "Our Mutual Friend."

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149951
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Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources.

[Grant, Ulysses S.]

Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources.

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1865.

First edition of the second series of Hymns of the Ages, from the library of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. From the library of UlyssesContinue reading "Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources."

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$1,600.00
Item Number: RRB-138284
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Our Mutual Friend.

Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of Dickens’ final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates.Continue reading "Our Mutual Friend."

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$2,800.00
Item Number: RRB-130506
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The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

Lane, Edward William; Edited by Edward Stanley Poole [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865.

Second volume of the new edition of Lane’s annotated translation of The Arabian Nights, edited by his nephew; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, bound in half leather over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled,Continue reading "The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-145597
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Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.

Dodge, Mary Mapes

Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.

New York : James O'Kane, 1866.

First edition of the author’s second and best known work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Presented to Robert Dale Owen by the author January, 1866.” The recipient Robert Dale Owen was responsible for introducing the legislation to establish the Smithsonian. HeContinue reading "Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland."

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$12,500.00
Item Number: RRB-76002
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Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers.

Wilbur, Homer. [James Russell Lowell].

Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers.

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

Sixth edition of James Russell Lowell’s first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-139745
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Felix Holt: The Radical.

Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First editions of this classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, half-title to each volume, 4 pp publisher’s ads at rear of volume 3. Publisher’s orange-brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, yellow endleaves. A mixed set, volume 1 Carter variant A, volumes 2 and 3 Carter variant B. In fine condition. Housed in a customContinue reading "Felix Holt: The Radical."

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-148184
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Felix Holt: The Radical.

Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First edition of this classic political work. Sextodecimo, three volumes, half-calf bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with rubbing to the hinges and extremities, light toning.

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$800.00
Item Number: RRB-147727
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At The Bar: A Tale.

Collins, Charles Allston

At The Bar: A Tale.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1866.

First edition of Collins’ ambitious novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Embossed library stamp. Rare.

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$400.00
Item Number: RRB-123135
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Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.

Howitt, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer]

Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.

London : Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.

First edition of Howitt’s work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. ScarceContinue reading "Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden."

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$2,500.00
Item Number: RRB-124150
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Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter byContinue reading "Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl."

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-137359
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Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter byContinue reading "Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl."

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$400.00
Item Number: RRB-139441
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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. [Fore-edge Painting]

Burns, Robert

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. [Fore-edge Painting]

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1867.

Finely bound example of the poetical works of Robert Burns decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,Continue reading "Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. [Fore-edge Painting]"

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$1,150.00
Item Number: RRB-138654
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches.

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches.

New York : C.H. Webb, 1867.

First edition, first printing of the author’s rare first book. Octavo, original cloth, first issue lacking the leaf of ads facing the title page but with unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. In very good condition with light wear to the extremities. A sharp example.

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$18,500.00
Item Number: RRB-125145
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Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

Tennyson, Alfred

Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London : Edward Moxon & Co., 1867.

Finely bound example of one of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Duodecimo, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting of twoContinue reading "Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting]."

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-151178
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