The Writings
With an unpublished manuscript leaf by Mark Twain bound in
Rare, illustrated “Memorial Edition,” number 10 of only 90 sets, signed on the limitation page by the publisher and with an unpublished manuscript leaf of dialogue in Twain’s hand, a line from which later appears in Tom Sawyer, with frontispiece plates depicting scenes from the text as well as dozens of illustrated plates, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun. $36,500. | More...
The Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne
With a Custom House document signed by Hawthorne bound in
The Autograph Edition of Hawthorne’s Works, number 299 of only 500 copies signed by both Hawthorne’s daughter, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and the publisher. One of only a select number of sets issued with a Custom House document signed by Hawthorne bound into Volume I. This is also one of only five sets splendidly bound by the Riverside Press in an elaborate Roger Payne-style morocco-gilt binding, and one of a select number of sets with frontispieces in double suite, each one beautifully hand-colored and signed by the artist, including such noted illustrators as Jessie Willcox Smith, Howard Pyle and Childe Hassam. $18,000. | More...
The Writings
With a manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau bound in
Manuscript Edition, beautifully bound and illustrated, number 12 of 600 copies, with a remarkable manuscript leaf with over 900 words in Thoreau's hand from his first letter to Harrison Blake, arguably Thoreau's most important correspondent, echoing many of the themes of Walden. $37,500. | More...
The Works
Jane Austen
Lovely limited edition, one of 250 sets of Jane Austen's beloved novels. $8500. | More...
The Complete Works
Edgar Allan Poe
Limited "Book-Lover's Arnheim" edition of Poe's stories, poems and essays, number 332 of 500 sets, with 100 beautiful illustrations on Japan vellum paper—including 73 after paintings by Frederick Simpson Coburn—and lovely woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. $4500. | More...
The Works
Charles Dickens
Limited Edition de Luxe of the Gadshill Edition of Dickens Works, number 100 of only 130 sets with illustrations on Japanese paper, illustrated with full-page steel-engraved plates from the original illustrations by various artists including Cruikshank, Phiz, Graves, and Tenniel. Very handsomely bound. $4800. | More...
The Works
John Locke
Seventh edition, the first quarto edition, first four-volume edition, of Locke's collected Works, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait (I), a handsome set in beautiful contemporary calf gilt. $9000. | More...
