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No Binding. Fine. 1 TLS, 1 page, signed "John" to William F. McConnor, United States Senate, Washington, 13 July 1953. The letter reads in part: I want to thank you very much indeed for talking with Jack Kearns for me. I have written directly to him and have told him that if he would take the initial step, insofar as municipal or city jobs are concerned and he is successful in uncovering a vacancy, I shall be happy to write in his interest. There isnt too much one can do when there is so much involved as in this particular case. Pencil and ink annotations across the bottom, light folding marks, o/w Fine

Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV And Richard III. By various Persons of Rank or Consequence; Containing Many curious Anecdotes, relative to that turbulent and bloody, but hitherto dark, Period of our History; And Elucidating, not only Public matters of State, but likewise the Private Manners of the Age: Digested in Chronological Order; With Notes, Historical and Explanatory; And Authenticated by Engravings of Autographs, Paper Marks, and Seals. Edited by John Fenn. Illustrated with 3 engraved, hand-colored plates, a large folding table and numerous engraved facsimiles of the letters, seals, autographs, and marks. 4to. Original vellum-backed gray boards. London, Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1787. First Edition. Two volumes.
The Paston Letters are a collection of letters and papers consisting of the correspondence of members of the Paston family of Norfolk, and others connected with them, between the years 1422 and 1509. They also include various state papers and… Read More

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUEIn Six Volumes. 12mo. Bound in modern leather reminiscent of the style of the period. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First Edition. First Issue. The first edition consisted of 2000 copies, which were virtually all spoken for prior to the formal day of publication. The copies of the first edition are distinguished by the presence of the Errata Page after the Table of Contents in Volume I. The errata were corrected and the page taken over by the enlargement of the contents in the unmarked second edition of 1500 copies. The second edition was ordered after the first edition was exhausted. Both editions were in circulation on the formal publication day of 28 February. This set exhibits the usual cancels, with the rare cancel B5 unsigned in Volume VI. (Cross III: 317; Rothschild 850-1; Grolier English Hundred 48. ESTC T1947.)Tom Jones is regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. Coleridge acknowledged it as having one of the three great plots of all… Read More

WITH HAND-COLORED ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONSIllustrated with full colored aquatint frontispiece and 11 plates (8 full-page hand colored); 1 large folding engraved map of the seat of war in India with touches of hand coloring; 6 maps and plans, including a map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by the author to reach Alexandria. 4to. Contemporary ¾-calf leather, marbled boards, professionally & sympathetically re-backed using fine matching brown polished calf leather, gilt ruled spine with red & black gilt lettered morocco labels. London: John Murray 1819. First and only edition of this fascinating account of an overland journey from India to England, written by the eldest son of King William IV and Mrs. Jordan. (Abbey Travel 519; Tooley 222.)Fitzclarence served in Spain and France during the Napoleonic Wars before being sent to India, where he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Hastings, in which capacity he made the campaigns of 1816-17 against the Mahrattas.… Read More

Fowles, John. The Tree. The Nature of Nature. Two Essays. The Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo (1995). First Edition. Illustrated with 8 woodcuts by Aaron Johnson.One of 10 copies lettered A to J, signed by Fowles and Johnson; with an extra suite of 8 woodcuts, signed by Johnson, enclosed in linen portfolio.This is copy B. From an edition of 150 copies. Square 4to. Bound in decorated Belgian linen. Book and suite enclosed in folio Belgian linen clamshell box, with small woodcut on the cover. Box lightly faded along spine, front cover, and back cover. Book and woodcuts are in mint condition. Scarce.

1936. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Introduction by Henry Miller. 8vo. Original stiff printed wrappers. Carrefour, Paris, New York (1936). Limited to 400 numbered copies. This copy # 94. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Henry Miller, To Raymond Queneau from Henry Miller Paris 6/36. Raymond Queneau, the French novelist, poet and critic, was a friend of Miller in Paris in the 1930s. He was also acquainted with André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, Anais Nin, Blaise Cendrars, Lawrence Durrell, and others of the Paris scene. An important association copy. Wrappers slightly soiled; 1-inch tear at head and heel of spine; o/w fine.

Illustrated with 3 folding engraved plates. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf binding, leather label on spine, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations. Strasbourg: Jean George Treuttel; Paris: Cuchet 1787. First Edition in French of Ehrmann's work; First Edition of Lavoisier's Mémoires. "Friedrich Ludwig Ehrmann, professor of physics at Strasbourg, was one of Lavoisier's correspondents and one of the earliest converts to his new chemical theories. A series of experiments on which Ehrmann's work... is based were conducted at the same time as Lavoisier was working on the effects of high temperatures on various substances. The results that both obtained... were so similar that Lavoisier, who must have seen Ehrmann's manuscript before its publication, requested that his own memoirs on the subject be printed together with Ehrmann's essay" Binding slightly worn; the text block bright and clean; one plate with some extra vertical creases from mis-folding; o/w Fine.

Limited Signed First Edition,8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine and front cover, enclosed in incomplete glassine and damaged publisher's slipcase. Henry Holt and Company, New York (1947). First Edition. Limited to 751 numbered copies signed by Frost. This copy #554.Slipcase with 5-inch crack on top rear spine, 3-inch crack on top front spine, heal cracked; book is fine.