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London: Harper & Bros., 1904. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. F. Strothman. Title page reads: London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers : : MCMIV. Red cloth boards with yellow title and full color printing of Adam at his journal with 2 monkeys. Seven gatherings with printer's signature marks. Covers soiled from handling. Sunning to spine. Heavy paper with mild foxing on a few pages. 89 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall. A comic short story of what it might have been like for Adam when the world was new.
The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis: adorn'd with a hundred sculptures by Virgilius Maro Publius [Virgil]; John Dryden, trans - 1697
by Virgilius Maro Publius [Virgil]; John Dryden, trans
The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis: adorn'd with a hundred sculptures
by Virgilius Maro Publius [Virgil]; John Dryden, trans
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London: Jacob Tonson, 1697. First Illustrated Edition. Full leather. Very good/none as issued. M Vander Gucht; Cleyn; Holler; Lambart. A good plus, presumed complete, small paper copy of the First Illustrated edition. Full older red leather with bright gold tooling on cover and bright gold titling on spine. Five raised bands. Rebound. Full leather binding is tight and square. Starting mild red rot at joints. Shelfwear to covers. Untrimmed. Frontis backed onto art paper plus 101 plates. Some waved pages beginning at pg. 45. Moderate to heavy toning and foxing throughout. Multiple pages with loss not affecting text or plates. One long closed tear to page 61. Three short strike through corrections inked by hand to page 35 and page 133, otherwise clean.Three misprinted page numbers, but text is complete (224 for 220, 448 for 484, and 503 for 493) page 638 bound in last (out of order). 640 pp. plus errata, unpaginated dedications, [102] plates, and reviews. Folio, 8 & 3/4 x 14 & 1/2 inches tall (text block). This is very large and heavy and will require extra shipping charges, billed at cost.Contents:To the Lord CliffordThe Life of VirgilPreface to the PastoralsTo Mr. Dryden [Five reviews] ErrataThe Names of the First Subscribers The Names of the Second Subscribers Pt. I: Pastorals (1-10)To the Right Honorable PhillipAn Essay on the GeorgicsPt. II: The Georgics (1-4)To the Most Honorable John of NormandyPt. III: Virgil's Æneis (1-12)Post ScriptNotes and Observations Same edition as copy held by the British Library [Wing V-616].Barnard, John. "The Large- and Small-Paper Copies of Dryden's "The Works of Virgil" (1697): Jacob Tonson's Investment and Profits and the Example of "Paradise Lost" (1688)." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 92, no. 3 (1998): 259-71."This magnificently illustrated book is the first edition of John Drydens translation of Virgil, the ancient Roman poet. The collection includes the Pastorals or Eclogues, a source for the Renaissance Arcadian ideal; Georgics, an agricultural poem in four parts; and Virgils masterpiece the Aeneid, an epic poem chronicling the adventures of Aeneas, legendary ancestor of the Romans.The Works of Virgil (169497) was conceived, created and circulated by Dryden and the publisher Jacob Tonson. Their successful partnership established publishing methods and an aesthetic movement that shaped and defined literary production in the 18th century.TranslationDryden did not translate Virgils work directly or literally into English. Instead, he revised, added to and reworked the classical Latin to make the poetry vivid and relevant to late 17th-century readers. In his Dedication to John, Lord Marquess of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Dryden explains that his alterations were done with great reverence, and were only ever intended to extend and expand upon Virgils poetry: They will seem (at least I have the vanity to think so), not struck into him, but growing out of him (sig. E4v).This translation technique was immensely popular. It sparked a new, more intuitive appreciation for classical literature and its translation which, in turn, grew into the clever, confident literary movement of the early 18th century known as the English Augustan Age, a period characterised by the poetry of Alexander Pope, the drama of John Gay and Jonathan Swifts satire.SubscriptionDrydens work translating the text and the overall publishing costs were funded in advance by private subscribers, all of whom are named and acknowledged at the opening of the book (Sig. 1r2v) and within cartouches at the bottom of the intricate illustrations that appear throughout. This innovative way of financing a large and lavish text was, like Drydens approach to translation, adopted with great success in the 18th and 19th centuries." --- The British Library
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- Date Published 1697
Extracts from Adam's Diary: translated from the original MS
by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
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Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts
by Walt Whitman; Clifton Furness, ed
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. First printing. Very Good. This edition is limited to 750 copies and the type has been distributed. Unnumbered copy. Quarter cloth leather spine with grey paper boards. Corners wearing, leather missing 1/8" at head of spine. Leather has a long thin indentation on front. Raised bands. Pp. 1-10 have small, uniform chip on lower right. Cream endpapers. Pages clean and sound. Thick paper. Embossed English department stamp, no other markings, not ex-library. 265 pp. including notes. Small quarto, 8 x 11 inches tall. Includes fascimiles of Whitman's original MS and letters.
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The Black-Man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend:, including an Analysis of Tales Recorded and Translated by Robert M. Laughlin
by Sarah C. Blaffer; Robert M. Laughlin
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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Brown pictorial cloth boards. Orange endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages clean and bright. Sunning to dust jacket spine, no other flaws. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with black and white photos, drawings and tables. 194 pp. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. A black, winged, super-sexed demon also figured in ancient Maya mythology. He was the bat deity known in Nahuatl as Tlacatzinacantlithe source of the name Zinacantan. This bat was associated with blood and death and with other sacrificing creatures, the buzzard and the hummingbird.
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Gridley Girls: A True-Life Novel
by Meredith First
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Brainerd, Minnesota: Gridley Girls, LLC, 2013. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. As new/as new. An as new (fine), unread, first edition, first state which includes the original fine dust jacket, plus the corrected fine second state jacket. SIGNED by the author in Gridley, California, where it all started. Pink boards with gold title stamping on cover and spine. 358 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. Reviewed in Parade Magazine as one of the Top 10 Beach reads of the year 2016, this hardcover edition has content and stories not included in the trade paperback expanded edition. They are the Gridley Girls, now and forever. Meg Monahan is hosting the wedding of her best friend, Anne Calzaretta, while still keeping a secret she's not prepared to face, let alone share.Meg, Anne, Jennifer, and Tonya were known as The Group in their rural town of Gridley, California, in the 1970s. Now living professional lives in Sacramento, they discover that in many ways they are still trapped by…
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History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records.
by [Lowery, F.W.]
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[np]: [Privately Printed], 1933. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good + / near fine. A very good plus / near fine first edition limited to 100 copies, as stated. 1/4 brown cloth over brown paper boards with gilt title-stamping on cover. One light short scuff to front cover with a few light scuffs on the back. Minor rubbing and miniscule loss at head and tail of spine. Wear to edge of front cover. Mild toning to pastedowns and page edges. 130 pp., including appendix. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall, octavo. A lovely and entertaining story and beautiful piece of prose about a salmon fishing trip on Anticosti.
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Extracts from Adam's Diary: translated from the original MS
by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
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London: Harper & Bros., 1904. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. F. Strothman. Title page reads: London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers : : MCMIV. Red cloth boards with yellow title and full color printing of Adam at his journal with 2 monkeys. Seven gatherings with printer's signature marks. Covers soiled from handling. Sunning to spine. Heavy paper with mild foxing on a few pages. 89 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall. A comic short story of what it might have been like for Adam when the world was new.
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Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts
by Walt Whitman; Clifton Furness, ed
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. First printing. Very Good. This edition is limited to 750 copies and the type has been distributed. Unnumbered copy. Quarter cloth leather spine with grey paper boards. Corners wearing, leather missing 1/8" at head of spine. Leather has a long thin indentation on front. Raised bands. Pp. 1-10 have small, uniform chip on lower right. Cream endpapers. Pages clean and sound. Thick paper. Embossed English department stamp, no other markings, not ex-library. 265 pp. including notes. Small quarto, 8 x 11 inches tall. Includes fascimiles of Whitman's original MS and letters.
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The Black-Man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend:, including an Analysis of Tales Recorded and Translated by Robert M. Laughlin
by Sarah C. Blaffer; Robert M. Laughlin
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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Brown pictorial cloth boards. Orange endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages clean and bright. Sunning to dust jacket spine, no other flaws. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with black and white photos, drawings and tables. 194 pp. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. A black, winged, super-sexed demon also figured in ancient Maya mythology. He was the bat deity known in Nahuatl as Tlacatzinacantlithe source of the name Zinacantan. This bat was associated with blood and death and with other sacrificing creatures, the buzzard and the hummingbird.
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SGD 48.20
Gridley Girls: A True-Life Novel
by Meredith First
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Brainerd, Minnesota: Gridley Girls, LLC, 2013. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. As new/as new. An as new (fine), unread, first edition, first state which includes the original fine dust jacket, plus the corrected fine second state jacket. SIGNED by the author in Gridley, California, where it all started. Pink boards with gold title stamping on cover and spine. 358 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. Reviewed in Parade Magazine as one of the Top 10 Beach reads of the year 2016, this hardcover edition has content and stories not included in the trade paperback expanded edition. They are the Gridley Girls, now and forever. Meg Monahan is hosting the wedding of her best friend, Anne Calzaretta, while still keeping a secret she's not prepared to face, let alone share.Meg, Anne, Jennifer, and Tonya were known as The Group in their rural town of Gridley, California, in the 1970s. Now living professional lives in Sacramento, they discover that in many ways they are still trapped by…
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History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records.
by [Lowery, F.W.]
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[np]: [Privately Printed], 1933. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good + / near fine. A very good plus / near fine first edition limited to 100 copies, as stated. 1/4 brown cloth over brown paper boards with gilt title-stamping on cover. One light short scuff to front cover with a few light scuffs on the back. Minor rubbing and miniscule loss at head and tail of spine. Wear to edge of front cover. Mild toning to pastedowns and page edges. 130 pp., including appendix. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall, octavo. A lovely and entertaining story and beautiful piece of prose about a salmon fishing trip on Anticosti.
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SGD 1,514.70