- 12VOL J.CHANDLER HARRIS BOOKS, INCLUDING
12VOL J.CHANDLER HARRIS BOOKS, INCLUDING 1ST ED. A lot of 12 books by Joel Chandler Harris, including some first editions. Daddy Jake The Runaway by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1898 by The Century. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. 8vo. 198pp.
A Little Union Scout by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1904 by McClure, Phillips. Green cloth boards with a floral design and gilt titling. 8vo. 181pp. Ex-library book with stamps and pockets. On The Wing of Occasions by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1900 by Doubleday, Page. Red cloth boards with illustration. 8vo. 310pp.
Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris. Published by George Routledge and Sons, London. Peach cloth boards with a turtle decoration and black titling. 8vo. 312pp. Free Joe by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1901 by International Association of Newspapers. Bound in tan boards with a green floral design and black titling. 8vo. 236pp. Balaam and His Master by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1891 by Houghton Mifflin. Tan boards with gilt titling. 12mo. 293pp. Gabriel Tolliver by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1902 by McClure, Phillips. Red boards with blind stamping and gilt titling. 8vo. 448pp. Evening Tales by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1893 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Red cloth boards with black and silver titling and decoration. 8vo. 280pp. Previous owner's bookplate as well as small newspaper articles pasted down on front and back boards. Told By Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris Published 1905 by McClure, Phillips. Red cloth boards with illustrated rabbit and gilt titling. 8vo. 295pp. Songs of the South: Selections From Southern Poets by Jennie Thornley Clarke with an Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1896 by Lippincott. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling. 8vo. Plantation Pageants by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1899 by Houghton, Mifflin. Light blue boards with gilt titling and decoration. 8vo. 247pp. Book has lost covering on spine. Daddy Jake The Runaway and Other Stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Published 1889 by Century Company. Bound with a pictorial cover and a brown leather spine with gilt titling. 4to. 145pp.
- 8VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND EDITIONS,
8VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND EDITIONS, 1880S/1890S A set of 8 bound editions of The Century Magazine. The date and volume numbers include: 1883 vol 4; 1885 vol 8; 1887 vol 11; 1890 vol 17; 1892 vol 21; 1894 vol 25; and January to June 1894. Bound in similar three quarter dark brown toned leather with marbled overlays and with gilt lettering of the periodical and the volume placed on the spine. Includes many great authors and poets such as Mark Twain.
- 7VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND EDITIONS
7VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND EDITIONS 1880S/1890S Seven volumes of The Century Magazine, bound. The date and volume numbers include, 1882 vol 2 & 3; 1883 vol 4; 1884 vol 6(2); 1885 vol 7 & 8. Bound in similar three quarter brown toned leather with marbled overlays and with gilted lettering of the periodical and the volume placed on the spine. Includes many great authors and poets such as Mark Twain's first appearance of Huckleberry Finn such as found in 1885 in volume 7: 1. Huck and the Grangerford Feud (pages 269-278); 2. Royalty on the Mississippi (pages 544-567); 3. Jim's Investment and King Sollermun (pages 456-458).with many interesting reads of many subjects of the time.
- 8VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND VOLUMES,
8VOL CENTURY MAGAZINE BOUND VOLUMES, PRINTED 1880S Eight volumes of The Century Magazine. The date and volume numbers include: 1882 vol 2; 1885 vol 8; 1887 vol 11(2) and 12; 1888 vol 13; 1893 vol 23; 1894 vol 25. bound in similar reddish toned leather with many great authors and poets such as Mark Twain and Sidney Lanier. Great interesting reads of many subjects of the time.
- 10VOL SAMUEL JOHNSON, LIVES OF ENGLISH
10VOL SAMUEL JOHNSON, LIVES OF ENGLISH POETS 1779 Ten volume set of Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, To The Works of The English Poets by Samuel Johnson. Printed 1779 by C. Bathurst, et.al. First edition set. Books are fully bound in tan leather with gilt decoration at the border. Books have gilt decoration and titling on the spine. 16mo. Provenance: Bookplate of Anne Manvers, wife of Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers is present.
- 3VOL S. JOHNSON, LIVES OF THE ENGLISH
3VOL S. JOHNSON, LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS, 1779 Three volume first edition set of The Lives of the English Poets; and a Criticism on Their Works by Samuel Johnson. Printed 1779 for Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson, Lynch, Jenkin, Walker, Burnet, Hallhead, Flin, Exshaw, Beatty, and White, Dublin. First edition. Books are fully bound in brown leather with raised bands on the spine. Gilt titling on the spine. 8vo.
- CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011): FIVE GREEK POETS
CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011): FIVE GREEK POETS AND A PHILOSOPHERThe set of six lithographs with embossing on Richard de Bas handmould, and the title page, 1978, all signed with initials and numbered 30/40, the numbered paper-covered portfolio; together with two Galleria La Tartaruga gallery announcements.
All 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (sheet), unframed.
Condition
The full sheets. In excellent condition.
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- UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (JAPAN, 1798-1861),
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (JAPAN, 1798-1861), TWO VIEWS FROM THE "ONE HUNDRED POETS" SERIES, CIRCA 1845., WOODBLOCK PRINTS, OBAN TATE-E, 14" X 10". FRAMED 21" X 15.5".UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI, Japan, 1798-1861, Two views from the "One Hundred Poets" series, circa 1845. Dimensions: Woodblock prints, oban tate-e, 14" x 10". Framed 21" x 15.5".
- "BOOK FOR SENSEI" ARTIST COPY, 1990
"BOOK FOR SENSEI" ARTIST COPY, 1990 Book for Sensei, book of poems designed and illustrated by Nancy Davis, 1990, published by Big Bridge Press, accordion folded paper, an artist's copy as noted on the limitation page, signed by Nancy Davis and the poets: Michael Rothenberg, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, Andrei Codrescu, and Jim Harrison. 9.25" H x 8.375" W.
- SPENCE'S POLYMETIS FOLIO BOOK Spence's
SPENCE'S POLYMETIS FOLIO BOOK Spence's Polymetis: or, an enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman Poets and the remains of the antient [sic] artists being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another, by the Rev. Mr. Spence, the second edition corrected by the author, printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall London, dated 1755, with engraving opposite title page of Joseph Spence, bound in brown leather with tooled and gilt details to the spine with marbled endleaf pages. Folio. Cover 16.75" H x 11" W x 2" D. Losses, front and back covers detached.
- FINE & SMALL PRESS, (10) VOLUMES, SOME
FINE & SMALL PRESS, (10) VOLUMES, SOME SIGNED Includes: 1) Tennessee Williams. It Happened the Day the Sun Rose. Sylvester & Orphanos, 1981, "Presentation Copy" of 330, signed by Williams, in slipcase; 2) Norman Mailer. Of a Small and Modest Malignancy... Lord John Press, 1980, #109/300 signed, in slipcase; 3) James Merrill. The Image Maker. Sea Cliff Press, 1986, #72/220 signed; 4) Alice Boughton. Photographing the Famous. Avondale Press, 1928; 5) Samuel Johnson & Horace Gregory. Critical Remarks on The Metaphysical Poets. Golden Eagle Press, 1945, illus. by Kurt Roesch; 6) Lytton Strachey. Ermyntrude and Esmeralda. Anthony Blond, 1969, illus. by Erte; 7) John Milton & Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. Nonesuch Press, 1937, #374/950, in slipcase; 8) and 9) two Christmas booklets from race car driver George Arents: "Miss Muffett's Christmas Party" by Samuel Crothers, illus. by Theodore Bolton, 1957, and "A Christmas Letter from Kate Greenaway", 1954; 10) Quattrocentisteria: How Sandro Botticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo and signed by him, Golden Cross Press, 1937, No. 23 of 175, in slipcase; 15.75"h x 10.5"w (largest)
- (13) BOOKS, 1872 BROWNING, WILLIAM BLIGH,
(13) BOOKS, 1872 BROWNING, WILLIAM BLIGH, OTHERS(lot of 13) Books including: (4 volumes) Robert Browning, 1872, Second Edition, marbelized boards and page ends, leather spine; (2 volumes) Ancients Egypt, 1886; (2 volumes) The Bligh Notebook, facsimile of the log of HMS Bounty, William Bligh (1786-1817) fold out pages; "The Blessed Damozel", Rossetti, drawings by Kenyon Cook with removable black and white plates,
others including autographed pamphlet "Poets Corner", Jenny Lind Porter, largest: 10"h, 8"w, 1"d, 14.5lbs **Provenance: From the Estate of University of Texas Professor, Scholar and Poet, Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth (1926-2017)**