Literature from R & A Petrilla

San Francisco: Bonhams, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Quarto, pp: 74, (6); describes 271 lots, illustrated throughout. Bound in color-pictorial. stiff wrappers, 10.5" x 8.25" The sale featured modern fiction, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, Carl Sandburg's guitar, &c.

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 19pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25" George Villiers, second Duke of. Buckingham, wrote "The Rehearsal" to satirize John Dryden and the genre of heroic drama.

London: J. Wenman, 1778. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 23pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 22pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 20pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 20pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 22pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: vii, 324; frontispiece and two more plates from photographs. Bound in pictorial red cloth, stamped in white, black, and gilt. 7.75" x 5". Prior owner's address label on pastedown endpaper. Utopian novel of a lost African race, ruled by a white queen, raising ostriches as a… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Wm. W. Moore, 1860. First Editions. Softcover. Good. 14 issues, each numbering 16 pages, printed on rag paper, drop-title. In addition to some religious content and memorials to Quakers who passed, these issues present a variety of topics: Trench's Lectures on Words; Children's Literature; On "Skeletonizing"; Cuttle Fish; Fresh Water Sponges; Chemical Affinity; Household Science--Tea; Presidential Election… Read more about this item

Lillington, NC: Edwards Brothers Malloy, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: x, 596 with index; dvd of the catalogue placed inside rear cover. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 8.75" x 5.5

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1969. Second printing, with corrections. Hardcover. Fine. pp: (xiv), 568 with index; 4pp illustrations from title-pages and manuscripts. Bound in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 9.5" x 6.25

Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xxiii, 369 with index; illustrations from title-pages, dust jackets, etc. Bound in black and blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, blue endpapers, top edges stained blue. 9.5" x 6.5

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xv, 486, index; 11 plates. Contains full bibliographical entries and annotations. Bound in red and tan cloth, gilt-decorated spine, top edges gilt. 9.5" x 6

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xxi, 294; frontispiece and 31 plates of illustrations from Harding's published works. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine and cover lettering. top edges gilt. 9.25" x 6" Limited to 1,000 copies, type distributed.

NY / Cambridge: Edgar H. Wells / Harvard U Press, 1938. First Editions. Original Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes. pp: xviii, 523; xv, 333. Facsimiles of Kipling title-pages; index in each volume. Bound in brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 8.5" x 5.75" Prior owner's address label and name in both volumes.

Fitchburg [MA]: Printed at the Fitchburg Sentinel Office, 1868. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 26pp. Bound in printed green wrappers, sewn. 8.5" x 5.5

London: Vanity Fair, 1871. First Edition. Very Good. Full-color print, published as Men of the Day, No. 32, in the September 23, 1871 issue of "Vanity Fair". Image is 12" x 7.5". Includes the leaf of biographical text.

London: Harrison & Co. and J. Wenman, 1778. Early edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 22pp, double-column format. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

New York: Sarony & Co, 1860. Original document. Very Good. Head and shoulders sepiatone image of Lowell in woolen cloak, looking directly at the camera. Printed on the verso in red ink: "Sarony & Co., Photographers, 630 Broadway, New York. Napoleon Sarony, Alfred S. Campbell." Written in pencil above the imprint, "JR Lowell" [not an authentic signature]. Lowell… Read more about this item

Boston: Warren, 1860. Original document. Very Good. Head and shoulders sepiatone image of Holmes in coat, vest, starched collar and bow tie, looking slightly to his left. Printed on the verso: "Warren, Boston and Cambridgeport, Mass." Written in pencil, "OWHolmes" [not an authentic signature]. Holmes (1809-1894) was a New England medical reformer and author, perhaps best known for… Read more about this item