Vailima Edition of Stevenson’s Works, number 144 of 1000 sets for sale in the United Kingdom, an exceptional 26 volumes handsomely bound by Brentano's in three-quarter crimson morocco gilt. $9500. | More...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Richard F. Burton
Illustrated “Library Edition” of Sir Richard Francis Burton’s lively (and often daring) translation of The Arabian Nights—the enduring, irresistible folk tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba and many more heroes and heroines of adventure, romance, mystery and magic—with 71 lush and lovely plates after the iconic paintings of Albert Letchford, handsomely bound in morocco-gilt using Arabic designs. This is among the earliest complete editions of Burton’s famed translation. Housed in the original wooden box with hinged lid, upon which the title in Arabic is gilt-stamped: Alf Laylah wa Laylah, “Thousand Nights and a Night.” $9000. | More...
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Third English octavo edition, preceded by the same year's first quarto and first octavo editions, featuring the first three parts of Franklin's Autobiography as originally written by him, along with one of the first printings in any form of the third part (1731-57) and his grandson's continuation to 1790, also containing Franklin's extensive correspondence and posthumous writings. With engraved frontispiece plates (I, II), folding facsimile of Franklin's handwriting (III), and seven engraved plates (five folding) including folding map of the Gulf Stream (VI). A splendid set, rarely found complete, bound in contemporary calf gilt by White of London. $5200. | More...
The Family Shakespeare
Edited by Thomas Bowdler
Fourth edition of Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare, famously edited to make the plays more appropriate for children, beautifully bound. $3200. | More...
Novels
Jane Austen
Turn-of-the-century set of Austen novels illustrated with splendid line drawings by Charles Brock and Hugh Thomson, beautifully bound in contemporary full brown tree calf gilt by Mudie. $4800. | More...
The Complete Writings
Walt Whitman
"The Book-Lover's Camden Edition," number 259 of only 500 numbered sets, with 40 striking photogravures and etchings with printed tissue guards, including 22 portraits. $4500. | More...
The Works
Charles Paul de Kock
Five exemplary volumes from the renowned limited “Bibliomaniac Edition” of De Kock’s Works, number four of only 10 sets produced, these being two volumes each of Frère Jacques and The Gogo Family, and one volume of Friquette, all printed on French-folded vellum, illustrated with six original works by John Sloan (a watercolor and five signed etchings), three by William Glackens (a watercolor and two drawings, one signed) and two by Frederic Gruger (a watercolor and a drawing), as well as signed original works by Louis Meynell, Elmer Boyd Smith, and W.J. Sinnott— 22 works altogether. Ornately bound by the Harcourt Bindery with inlaid Art Nouveau iris motifs, superb inlaid leather doublures, with richly illuminated initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout each volume. $8000. | More...
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