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London: Chancellor Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Various Illustratrors . A well done collection of works form the unique, brilliant Oscar Wilde. First edition of this illustrated collection featuring various artists including Aubrey Beardsley and Charles Ricketts. A light three inch scratch to front cover of dust jacket. Mild soiling to top-edge of text block. Tightly bound with no names or marks. 855 pages.

New York & London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1927. Cloth and Paper. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Charles Cullen. Early reprint in the same year of the original publication. Code C-C on copyright page. 89 pages of gifted American poetry. Age toning to paper. Offsetting to end papers from jacket. Price clipped dust jacket, protected in archival plastic, has fading to spine and light wear to edges. The jacket remains quite attractive with the stunning artwork. Includes "From the Dark Tower." Appealing black and white vignettes from the artist.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1972. Limited Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition of only 300 copies bound in hard covers of the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XXXIII Spring 1972 No. 3), devoted to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and especially the Library's Rossetti Collection of Janet Camp Troxell. Contributions from Troxell, E. Dudley H. Johnson, Robert N. Keane, Robert S. Fraser, R.W. Crump, Rosalie Glynn Grylls, and Virginia Surtees. 117 pp.(numbered 139-256). Five pp. of illustrations, plus several line cuts from pages in D. G. Rossetti's proofs and trial books. Rich blue cloth with title in silver on spine. Includes a very good glassine dust-jacket and is stored in an archival plastic storage bag.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1985. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited First Edition of British poet Stephen Spender's Journals. Personally SIGNED by Stephen Spender (1909 - 1995). Edited by John Goldsmith. 510 pp. with detailed index. Bound in rich, red leather with three raised hubs on spine. 22-karat gold titles and design accents. Decorative endpapers. A.e.g. Attached satin-ribbon page marker. Publisher's letter laid in. A beautiful copy.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. Leather and Paper. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Author's Edition." (Original copyright date was 1887.) Two volumes. Blue-green leather and marbled paper boards matched with identical marbled endpapers. Gilt rules on covers and gilt titles and decorations on spines. T.e.g. Printed at the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Frontispiece photograph of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Volume I. This item is a collection of the complete poems as prepared by the poet's brother William M. Rossetti, who has also written the preface and notes. Volume I xxx, 293 pp. Volume II xiv, 336 pp. Both volumes rubbed with loss at corner tips.Previous owner's bookplate in both volumes. Overall the gilt remains bright and both volumes are tightly bound. Volume one has some wear to the gilt top edge of text block. Quite an attractive set.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition . Paper Wraps. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This issue devoted to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and especially the University Library's Rossetti Collection of Janet Camp Troxell. Contributions from Troxell, E. Dudley H. Johnson, Robert N. Keane, Robert S. Fraser, R.W. Crump, Rosalie Glynn Grylls, and Virginia Surtees. 117 pp.(numbered 139-256). Five pp. of illustrations, plus several line cuts.Two items are laid in: a four page overview, with table of contents, to Volume XXXIII, which consisted of three publications, and a small announcement that there will be a 300 copy hardbound printing of this issue to be titled "Essays on the Rossettis." Light foxing to edges of text block; edgewear to edges of paper covers. Overall, a clean, bright, and tightly bound copy, sure to please any Rossetti or Pre-Raphaelite scholar or collector. Protected in an archival plastic bag.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation copy to Cecil Lang (? Cecil Y. Lang, a long time professor at Syracuse, Chicago, and Virginia who specialized in 19th century British literature as part of his doctoral studies at Harvard ?) SIGNED by Editor Janet Camp Troxell, daughter of Walter Camp. Troxell's collection of manuscripts and research materials relating to the Rossettis and their circle are held at the Princeton University Library. Illuminating study re-evaluating Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem and his various changes in the text from 1854-1881. Among the illustrations is a reproduction of part of the rare Dusseldorf Album for 1854 in which "Sister Helen" was first printed. 95 pp. Nine illustrations of some of Rossetti's changes from manuscripts, proofs and books, one of which is a fold-out measuring approximately 13 by 17 inches. Black cloth boards with very bright gilt title to spine. Tightly bound and very… Read More

Florence, Italy: G. Fattorusso. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. "Illustrated with 450 original drawings specifically executed for the divine comedy and 429 other reproductions of works of art of the old masters, views, etc. with a life of Dante, chronological survey of his age and a full index" Florentine Edition, edited and published by G. Fattorusso, Florence. Printed in Italy. Full custom leather binding by S. Luti of Firenze (Florence). Undated but perhaps 1930's (?). 511 pages Hubbed spine. Gilt titles and designs. Wear and some soiling to extremities and spine hubs. Previous owner's gift inscription on front, free end paper, barely readable and not offensive. "E.W.B." initials (previous owner?) printed in gilt on spine tail. A very attractive, full-leather Dante with a plethora of wonderful illustrations. Rare.

New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Off the wall or point on musings-stories, poems, and music from Abbie Hoffman. 153 well illustrated pages. Original price on cover. First Printing. Clean with no names or marks.