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19113764London/Philadelphia: William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott Co 1911. First Thus. First U.K. Robinson-illustrated Deluxe edition a Heinemann "Xmas Art Book" that originally sold for 15 shillings. Publisher's deluxe binding of full vellum over boards front cover and spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt pictorial end-papers top edge gilt. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket with just some very minor rubbing at extremities. Small neat and inoffensive ink stamped signature on half-title and title-page. Quarto 10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in; 264 x 195 mm. Collating xii 4 17-127 1. Eighteen full color tipped-in plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards. Small color halftone or black and white some full page illustrations to each page. Housed in the original green cardboard slipcase with the color illustration from page 61 on front panel. A tight bright and Fine copy of this generously produced volume.<br/><br/>"No more tastefully illustrated book of verse could be desired than the elaborately artistic edition of Shelley's Sensitive Plant edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse illustrated with much richness of coloring and gracefulness of design by Mr.<br/>Charles Robinson and imported by the Lippincott Co. Mr. Gosse's introduction throws new light on the ' Lady the wonder of her kind' who played the part of 'an Eve in this Eden ' where grew the sensitive plant. Drawing upon Medwin's notes to a never-published second edition of his life of the poet he tells us that this paragon of her sex was a certain Countess of Mountcashell an Irish lady about fifty years of age of sufficient unconventionality to be welcomed by Shelley and his company as a congenial spirit. The notes on this lady and the editor's gleaning of facts concerning the mimosa pudica or sensitive plant celebrated bythe poet are interesting. The illustrations large and small accompanying the slender thread of text form the conspicuous feature of the book and make it one of the most sumptuous gift volumes of the year. The cover design is a thing of beauty"The Dial 1911. William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott Co unknown books
1973149800Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1973 film. Eight photographs with the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso one photograph additionally SIGNED by the photographer. Five with holograph annotations on the verso identifying either the film the subjects or location of the photograph one bearing the annotated date "1972." <br/><br/>Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br/><br/>A high-powered divorce attorney struggles with the end of his own marriage after he is caught having an affair only to discover his still in love with his ex-wife. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized between 11.75 x 9.25 and 13 x 10 inches with most being 13.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1821114154London: Clark 1821. First. hardcover. near fine. Later 1/2 brown morocco over marbled boards spine gilt with five raised bands g.t. London: W. Clark 1821. First published edition after a privately printed edition in 1813. Pirated edition printed in 1821 by Clark -- who spent 4 months in prison for it -- without Shelley's authorization.<br/><br/> Title page expertly repaired; although it lacks the advertising leaf and has the bowdlerized text with words being replaced by hyphens on several pages the rare dedication page in verse to Harriet his first wife who had committed suicide in 1816 usually missing is present as is Clark's imprint on the final page of text.<br/><br/> Clark unknown books
188660258London: Reeves & Turner 1886. Second edition with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Thick 8vo. 2 volumes: xcvii 3 572; xiv 2 580 14 publisher's catalogue pp. Frontispiece to each volume. Noted lawyer Clarence Darrow's copy with his signature in both volumes bookplate in volume one and library stamp in volume two. Darrow 1857-1938 was best known for his defense of John Scopes in what became known as the Scopes "Monkey" Trial Eugene Debs arrested during the Pullman strike and Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb tried and convicted of murdering a 14-year old boy as well as for his work with the American Civil Liberties Union. Dark blue cloth some wear to spine ends particularly at the head of volume one with beautifully gilt illustrated covers. Front joint of volume one split approximately 3 inches at the top and 1 inch at the bottom short split to upper joint of volume two and some separation at hinge of several signatures but a very good copy with a wonderful association. <br/><br/> Reeves & Turner hardcover books
181834239London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier 1818. First edition revised issue of "Laon and Cythna" with the cancels and new title this copy with the 1818 date. With leaf d1 bearing the Pindar quote and "Revolt of Islam" title lacking blank b2 as usual and the errata leaf at end. Pp. ii v-xxxii 2 270 errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half black morocco marbled boards. Some rubbing upper joint starting some offsetting and spotting else very good from the library of James Lorimer Graham with his bookplate. First edition revised issue of "Laon and Cythna" with the cancels and new title this copy with the 1818 date. With leaf d1 bearing the Pindar quote and "Revolt of Islam" title lacking blank b2 as usual and the errata leaf at end. Pp. ii v-xxxii 2 270 errata. 1 vols. 8vo. James Lorimer Graham was the fourth Duke and seventh Marquis of Montrose. At this time he was the Marquis of Graham. He was a statesman serving as privy councillor a commissioner of the India board lord steward of the queen's household chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster postmaster-general where he was involved in several important changes including the Electric Telegraphs Bill which put the telegraphic communication system in the hands of the post office and also Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Granniss 43-44; Ashley 5:68 Printed for C. and J. Ollier unknown books
192338513Officina Bodoni Montagnola 1923. First Edition. Small 4to 38. Ivory paper over boards. Uncut and Unopened. One of 220 copies printed on vellum paper. Cover slightly warped o/w a nice copy. Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V.Now Imprisoned in the Convent. Officina Bodoni Montagnola unknown books
1888260925London: Printed for private circulation for the Shelley Society 1888. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Polished tan calf gilt spine front hinge started but holding by Tout. Bookplate of Edwin B. Holden. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Printed for private circulation [for the Shelley Society] unknown books
1892318687Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1892. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901. 8vo. Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels some foxing to endpapers uncut and largely unopened else fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901." 8vo. Centenary Edition. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
03823London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. History is a Cyclic Poem Written by Time Upon the Memories of Man"<br/>A Superb Example of Ramage's Remarkably Delicate Careful and Elaborate Gilt Work<br/><br/>RAMAGE binder. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. Poems of Shelley. Selected and Arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. London: Macmillan and Co. 1926. <br/><br/>Golden Treasury Series. Sixteenmo 5 13/16 x 3 7/8 inches; 148 x 97 mm. lxvi 2 340 pp. Title-page with vignette of Field Place - Shelley's birth place. <br/><br/>Beautifully bound ca. 1926 by Ramage of London stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco covers paneled in gilt surrounding a very intricate design in gilt spine with five raised bands decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board-edges wide decorative gilt turn-ins cream watered silk liners and end-leaves all edges gilt. Neat early ink presentation dated 1927 on front blank. A superb example of a later Ramage binding.<br/><br/>Born in London in 1836 John Ramage served an apprenticeship with John Wright then went to Paris where he was able to work with the distinguished Marcellin Lortic 1822-1892 who opened his shop on the Rue St. Honoré in 1840. In 1860 Ramage purchased the binding business of Alexander Banks Jr. in Edinburgh then returned three years later to London where he was in business at various locations into the 20th century. Though the range of their designs is broad Ramage bindings are celebrated for their remarkably delicate careful and elaborate gilt work.<br/><br/>Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric as well as epic poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein.<br/><br/>Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark Music When Soft Voices Die The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama The Cenci 1819 and long visionary poems such as Queen Mab later reworked as The Daemon of the World Alastor The Revolt of Islam Adonaïs Prometheus Unbound 1820 - widely considered to be his masterpiece - Hellas: A Lyrical Drama 1821 and his final unfinished work The Triumph of Life 1822. London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1926 unknown books
1832000649London: Edward Moxon 1832 1832. FIRST EDITION FIRST BINDING COMPLETELY UNRESTORED. 1 vol. 12mo bound in the original tan boards the secondary binding was cloth printed paper spine label partially present uncut as issued outer hinges starting inner hinges fine internally clean and bright a VERY GOOD UNSOPHISTICATED COPY. Housed in a full green straight grained morocco solider slipcase gilt lettered spine. <br /><br />Written to denounce the state of things that occasioned the notorious 'Peterloo Massacre' at Manchester in 1819 for publication in The Examiner but turned down by the editor Leigh Hunt ".because he thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse." London: Edward Moxon, 1832 hardcover books
04935London: Essex House Press Edward Arnold 1904. Essex House Press Prometheus Unbound<br/>In a Fine Designer Binding by Marie-Louise Farge<br/><br/>SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. ASHBEE C.R. artist. FARGE Marie-Louise binder. Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama. Printed at Essex House Campden Gloucestershire under the care of C.R. Ashbee. London: Edward Arnold 1904. <br/><br/>Limited to 200 copies on paper of which this is no. 96.<br/><br/>Folio 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 293 x 213 mm. iv 96 pp. Printed in 'Prayer Book' type in black and red. Woodcut frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee lettered in red.<br/><br/>Specially bound ca. 1925 by Marie-Louise H. Farge stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full maroon crushed levant morocco covers multi-bordered in blind and richly decorated in a fine gilt design front cover lettered in gilt. Smooth spine decorated and lettered in gilt wide decorative gilt turn-ins hand-made marbled endpapers top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in the original fleece-lined beveled-edge brown cloth slipcase. A very fine copy.<br/><br/>Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1820. It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus. It is inspired by the classical Prometheia a trilogy of plays attributed to Aeschylus. Shelley's play concerns Prometheus' release from captivity but unlike Aeschylus' version there is no reconciliation between Prometheus and Jupiter Zeus. Instead Jupiter is abandoned by his supportive elements and falls from power which allows Prometheus to be released. Shelley's play is a closet drama meaning it was not intended to be produced on the stage. In the tradition of Romantic poetry Shelley wrote for the imagination intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers. However the play is filled with suspense mystery and other dramatic effects that make it in theory performable.<br/><br/>"On 11 March 1818 the Shelleys and Claire left England to take Claire's daughter Allegra to her father Byron who had taken up residence in Venice.He then began the long verse drama Prometheus Unbound a re-writing of the lost play by the ancient Greek poet Aeschylus which features talking mountains and a petulant spirit who overthrows Jupiter. The Shelleys moved between various Italian cities during these years; in later 1818 they were living in Florence in a pensione on the Via Valfonda. Shelley completed Prometheus Unbound in Rome and he spent mid-1819 writing a tragedy The Cenci in Leghorn Livorno." Wikipedia.<br/><br/>Charles Robert Ashbee 1863-1942 was a British architect and designer who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris. Ashbee set up his Guild and School of Handicraft in 1888 in London while a resident at Toynbee Hall one of the original settlements set up to alleviate inner city poverty in this case in the slums of Whitechapel. The fledgling venture was first housed in temporary space but by 1890 had workshops at Essex House Mile End Road in the East End with a retail outlet in the heart of the West End in fashionable Brook Street Mayfair more accessible to the Guild's patrons. The School closed in 1895 which Ashbee blamed on "the failure of the Technical Education Board of the L.C.C. to keep its word with the School Committee and the impossibility of carrying on costly educational work in the teeth of state aided competition." The following year the L.C.C. opened the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1902 the Guild moved to Chipping Campden in the picturesque Cotswolds of Gloucestershire where a sympathetic community provided local patrons but where the market for craftsman-designed furniture and metalwork was saturated by 1905. He was a member of the Order of Chaeronea a secret society founded by penal reformer and poet George Cecil Ives in 1897 for the cultivation of a homosexual ethos. To conceal his sexuality at a time when homosexuality was illegal Ashbee married the accomplished musician Janet Forbes in 1898 and had a rather progressive atypical marriage resulting in four daughters. The pair wrote a collaborative journal and Janet became a valued member of the Arts and Crafts community embracing the wider socialist concepts of the movement by setting up a craft cooperative with her husband. Ashbee also espoused the work of Edward Carpenter philosopher of the simple life and early gay rights campaigner who he considered his mentor. V & A. <br/><br/>Marie-Louise Farge fl. 1890-1939 was quoted first by Crauzat as a young woman bookbinder and then by Fléty in the Decorators and Bookbinders section as an amateur who participated in exhibitions between 1890 and 1939 so we can conclude that Marie-Louise Farge was already active from 1925. In a 1937 issue of the journal Arts et Métiers Graphique Alphonse-Jules Gonon former publisher and having become a bookbinder himself we learn that Madame Farge does everything in her studio from papers to gilding. Her style elegantly combines a certain fin-de-siècle archaism with a very modern sensibility that perfectly suits this "lyrical drama".<br/> <br/>Tomkinson. A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses. p. 75 Essex House Press # 43; Ransom Essex House Press #43; Franklin. The Private Presses p. 200. London: [Essex House Press] Edward Arnold , 1904 unknown books
1821226038Livorno Italy: C. and J. Ollier 1821. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of only 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half red morocco spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut. Fine copy. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of only 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ashley Library V p. 69; Wise: A Shelley Library p.51 C. and J. Ollier unknown books
19023497London: Hacon and Ricketts The Vale Press 1902. First editions thus. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles five total volumes two Keats three Shelley. A superb set of both Vale Press titles sold here together since bound similar and obviously stored safely together by the same owner as all five volumes in fine condition. Bound in publisher's original beige smooth buckram cloth. Borders initials and decorations including a full-page decorative title in each volume of the Shelley and double-page title spread in the Keats by Charles Ricketts. Spine as near to original hue as ever seen. Browning to prelims in the Keats but no browning in the three Shelley volumes amazingly. Shelley all three volumes unopened.The finest set of all five we have ever seen and thus selling as a unit. Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press unknown books
03824London: Robt. Rivière & Son 1910. Percy Byshhe Shelley's The Sensitive Plant<br/>Handsomely Bound by Rivière & Son<br/><br/>RIVIÈRE & SON binders. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. The Sensitive Plant. London: Robt. Rivière & Son 1910. <br/><br/>Square sixteenmo 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm. 46 2 blank pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. <br/><br/>Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins cream paper liners and end-leaves top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. A fine example.<br/><br/>Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822. In The Sensitive Plant Shelley has separated his poem into three separate parts and a conclusion. In the first part of the poem Shelley portrays a wondrous beautiful garden full of life and luminosity. Shelley uses several realistic depictions of flowers and plants to provide the reader with a detailed insight into the garden. These stanzas are full of details which helps one picture the garden that Shelley so beautifully illustrates through his words. As part one continues Shelley introduces a contradiction into the garden The Sensitive Plant. Unlike the other flowers this floweret is not vivid in color or shape and lacks the beautiful odor flowers are characterized for. Percy Shelley goes on to say in The Sensitive Plant.<br/><br/>"For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;<br/>Radiance and odour are not its dower;<br/>It loves even like Love its deep heart is full<br/>It desires what it has not the Beautiful! London: Robt. Rivière & Son, 1910 unknown books
1843245808London: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd Great Newport Street Compton & Ritchie Printers Middle Street Cloth Fair 1843. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn as issued. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'Liberty is dead!' - Political Tract by Shelley. According to Wise: "In 1843 when advertising the present pamphlet for sale Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd's own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth and that Rodd's so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual princeps of the Address."<br/>Political essay arguing that the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth was "a private grief" while the execution of three weavers for high treason in Derbyshire was a national tragedy.<br/>"The execution of Brandreth Ludlam and Turner is an event of quite a different character from the death of Princess Charlotte . It is a national calamity that we endure men to rule over us who sanction for whatever ends a conspiracy which is to arrive at its purpose through such a frightful pouring forth of human blood and agony . Liberty is dead!"<br/>Uncommon. Ashley V p. 64; Granniss Shelley pp. 43-44; Wise Shelley p. 46 Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street (Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair) unknown books
1835170915004New York: Wallis and Newell 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Following the three volume British edition. Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper margin of first 60 pages or so of Lodore. Crease down middle of spine wear to edges. Some textual foxing and spotting heaviest at Naval Officer title page and facing last page of Lodore; wrinkling to pages of Naval Officer. Published as part of the Franklin Library series but fortunately unlike most surviving copies not an institutional copy. The rare first American appearance of a proto-feminist novel by Mary Shelley best-known as the author of Frankenstein also known as The Beautiful Widow. Wallis and Newell hardcover books
19253079Seattle et al. 1925. 14 vols. large 4to. ca. 29 cm tall x 22 cm wide x 36 cm linear mostly in 3-hole side-stiched black leatherette covers preserved in very good condition. Very large and interesting literary archive of typescript stories and novels by "El Comancho" a very popular author who specialized in stories of Native American lore and folktales the American West and Western Expansion the Pacific Northwest Hunting and Fishing and much more. Includes typescripts of "Three Boys in the Hills" and many stories published in "Outdoor Life" often with corrections and annotations SEE FINDING AID BELOW. This appears to be the only substantial collection of "El Comancho" manuscripts in private hands. The archive which is preserved in excellent condition easily contains more than 3000 typescript leaves. Some of the works appear to be unpublished. <br/><br/>¶ Walter Shelley Phillips 1867-1940 also known as "El Comancho" was a self-educated and self-trained naturalist geologist newspaper reporter free-lance writer and author of numerous books. In his early life Phillips became familiar with the Sioux Blackfeet and Crow Indians devoting himself to recording Indian life and lore. All of the tribes he encountered welcomed him and referred to him as some variation of "Lone Man." As a child he spent much of his time with the Otoes and often lived for weeks at a time with the tribe's chief and the chief's family in their lodge and accompanied them on buffalo hunts. Phillips was given the name "Comanche" by Chief High Horse of the Sioux Tribe. He began writing about outdoor life and his experiences in the West around 1887 and worked for midwestern newspapers as a cartoonist and journalist. In 1891 he worked for the Press Telegraph and Post-Intelligencer in Seattle. Phillips became a founding member of the Washington State Game and Fish Protective Association; in 1904 he began Pacific Sportsman magazine which became Outdoor Life in 1907. Phillips wrote thousands of articles on outdoor life lore and his own personal experiences growing up in the age of covered wagons cowboys and western expansion including the syndicated newspaper features "Teepee Tales" and "Sign Talk." He also wrote books and illustrated his own and others' from the 1890s to 1920s including juvenile works Indian legends and more. SOURCE: University of Washington Walter Shelley Phillips Papers Finding Aid. <br/><br/>¶ SCOPE OF ARCHIVE: Typescripts and related material by "El Comancho" including unpublished books all from Phillips's own collection. <br/><br/>FINDING AID of all 14 volumes:<br/><br/>1. Typescript. Poems of an Optimist. 1921. A Philosophic Appreciation. - Apparently unpublished <br/><br/>2. Typescript. A String of Brass Beads A Novel. 1917. Bound March 1918. 26 Chapter Serial. -- Apparently unpublished <br/><br/>3. Typescripts. Short Stories - in Manuscript. 1912-1914. Index. Blackfoot Words and Names. Schultz. M.S.S. 1916. Blackfoot Names. Hofer. M.S.S. 1916. Notes: The Old North Trail. McClintock. M.S.S. 1916. Blackfoot Names: Old North Trail. McClintock. M.S.S. 1916. What a Totem is and Why. Westerner. 1912. The Big Winter Storm. Westerner. April 1914. How Nature Waters the Earth. Westerner. May 1914. What the Water Does For Us. Westerner. June 1914. The Story of Ice and Fire. Westerner. 1914. Real Stories of the West: The Winter Counts. Westerner. 1914. The Man Who Ran the Ferry. Westerner. 1912. The Case of Pete Czarvich. Westerner. Nov. 1911. The Man Who Got Tired of Work. Westerner. 1912. Concerning a Blue Eyed Woman and Some Others. Westerner. Dec. 1911. Emil: The King of Little Sweden. Westerner. Jan. 1912. The Failure. Westerner. Feb. 1912. Lars The Chicken Man. Westerner. 1912. Industrial: The Berry Patch and What Came of It. Westerner. Aug. 1914. The Story of the Hop Vine. Westerner. Sep. 1914. Consider the Wheatfield. Westerner. Oct. 1914. Just Oil. Westerner. Dec. 1914. Bends In the Trail: The Man I Found in the Valley. Westerner. Aug. 1914. Bob Heckathorn. Westerner. Sep. 1914. A Citizen in the Making. Westerner. Oct. 1914. My Friend joe. Westerner. Nov. 1914. How Christmas Came to the Nesters. Westerner. Dec. 1914. Reddy. Westerner. Jan. 1915. Shore Bird Shooting on the West Coas. Pac Motor Boat. Sep 1914. With the Upland Birds. Pac Motor Boat Oct. 1914. Deer Hunting for the Motorboat Man. Pac Motor Boat. Nov. 1914. Camping for Pleasure. Westerner. May 1913. Camping and Tramping. Seattle Argus. May 1913. Where to go and How to Get There for Outdoor Sport. Seattle Argus. 1910. When We Go A-Fishing. Seattle Argus. June 1912. The Time of Scarlet and Gold. M.S.S. The Tale of Ten Percent. Sold to W.W. Trust Co. 1917. "And the Cat Came Back" - Comedy. M.S.S.<br/><br/>4. Typescripts. Mixed Short Stories. 1918. Contents. 1. Moving Picture Synopsis by Chapters of "The Green Opal Ring". 2. Moving Picture Synopsis- short form- of "The Green Opal Ring". 3. The Girl Who Didn't Care. 4. The Girl Who Changed her Mind. 5. The Girl from the River Bogueshiel. 6. The Great Service Syndicate. 7. The Swede. 8. Bull Hawkins. 9. How the Big Boss Went to War. 10. The House in the Sage. 11. When the Red Gods Listen. 12. Bends in the Trail: A Tale of Early Railroad Days. 13. An Adventure in Advertising. 14. Original Comedy Scenario: "And the Cat Came Back". 15. Revise of "And the Cat Came Back". 16. Second Revise of "And the Cat Came Back". 17. Original M.S.S. Perkins' Cat. 18. Revise of Perkins' Cat. 19. Original: A Tale of Ten Percent. 20. Revise of A Tale of Ten Percent. 21. Re-revise of A Tale of Ten Percent. Bound March 1918. <br/><br/>5. Typescripts. 1922 NY Stuff & Motorboat Stuff File Copy. File Copies. 1922 NY Stuff. Bob Davis Stuff. Geological Note. Spanish Words etc. The Symbol. Indian Fortune Telling Cards. In the Open with El Comancho. That Daughter of Mine. Outdoor Negatives Reprinted. <br/><br/>6. Typescripts. Outdoor Recreation 1924-25. Covered Wagon Days. Index. 1. Crossing the River. 2. A Million Acre Fire. 3. Blizzards and Indians. 4. Buffalo Hunts and Hunters. 5. Hot Winds and Grasshoppers. 6. Politics and Poker. 7. Over the Hump and Back. 8. Riding Wide. 9. The Ragged Edge of Things. 10. The Last of the old Plains. 11. Desert Days. 12. Trying to Stay Put. <br/><br/>7. Typescripts. Outdoor America. Little River- David- Series. 1924-1925. 12 Stories.<br/><br/>8. Typescripts. Outdoor America. Other than Little River- David Series. 1924-25. Series of Stories Written for the "Isaac Walton Monthly". Chicago 1923. 1. The Friendly Wilderness. 2. "Boy Page Henry Ford": A Letter. 3. The Little People of the Wilderness. 4. A Bit About Woodcraft. 5. Spring Woodcraft. 6. The Story of the Twentynine. 7. I Hobnob with Some Cavemen. 8. I'll Tell You About a River. 9. Springtime Along the Little River. 10. The Moon of H'Nash-ka The Jumping Frog. 11. When September Comes to the Little River.<br/><br/>9. Typescripts. Outdoor Life. Copies of Original MSS for 1924. Sign-Talk. 1924. Index. 1. An Appreciation: January 1924. 2. Roads That Run to the Sky. February 1924. 3. The Old Freighters. March 1924. 4. How the Trees Came to the Plains. April 1924. 5. Merchants of the Short-grass Range. May 1924. 6. The Railroad Builder. June 1924. 7. Desert Rats. July 1924. 8. Fish in the Desert. August 1924. 9. Pleasurable Hardships. September 1924. 10. When the Hot Winds and Grasshoppers Came. October 1924. 11. A Little Story of Sodhouse Days. November 1924. 12. Circus Day. December 1924. Various Letters of Comment. <br/><br/>10. Typescripts. Short Stories. Outdoor and Others. Bound 1918. Contents. 1. Camp Eats. 2. Some More Camp Eats. 3. About Camp Grub. 4. Practical Woodcraft. 5. April Woodcraft. 6. May Woodcraft. 7. Fur Trapping Near Home. 8. Mouse and Bighorn Sheep Hunting for the Motorboat Man. 9. The Time of Scarlet and Gold. 10. Bear Hunting for the Motorboat Man. 11. Right Around Home. 12. When the Woods are Russett Sic and Gold. 13. Just April. 14. Something You've Always Wanted. 15. Fishing in the Pacific Northwest. 16. Stock Letter Answering Fishing Questions for above. 17. What Snow does for the Forests. 18. Why is a Tree 19. Story of the Teepee. 20. Indian Boy- Games and How to Play Them. 21. Jim Poynes Sermon. 22. The Voice of the Prophet. 23. Index to Series of 37 Short Outdoor Articles. <br/><br/>11. Typescript. Three Boys in the Hills. Published by The Page Company Publishers. #53 Beacon St. Boston. 1918. 27 Chapters Forward by the author. <br/><br/>12. Typescripts. After All It's a Good Old World. 1919. Subtitles Index. 1918-1919. 1. The Woman in Overalls- God Bless Her! 2. Consider the Ships of the Seas. 3. Concerning One Hohenzollern. 4. The Man With the Grouch. 5. The Man Who Went to France. 6. The Passing of a Rose. 7. A Certain Girl and Jimmy Grunwell. 8. A Man Called The Aryan. 9. Belle Wheeler's Rose. 10. The Man with the Rivet Gun. 11. The Coward. 12. The Story of Marie. 13. About a Little Half-Forgotten Town. 14. About a Flag. 15. Cap'n Barkus' Story. 16. She-Who-Is-Always-On-The-Job. 17. When Johnnie Yank Comes Home Again. 18. A Word to Everyman's Boy. 19. The Story of the Unlucky Boy and the Busy Man. <br/><br/>And a Complete Index of the Outdoor Encyclopedia together two volumes:<br/><br/>13. Vol. 1: Outdoor Encyclopedia File Copy 1922. The Outdoor Man's Handbook. A Complete Encyclopedia of the Practise Sic of Living Next to Nature. What to do Outdoors and How to Do It. "Look in the book and see." Contains: Forward Index Plan Index A-Sheet 1-11 to C-Sheet 8-69-P137<br/><br/>14. Vol. 2: Encyclopedia File Copy 1922. Contains Index D-Sheet 9-70 to N-Sheet 18-155A-P27. Partial Contents: 70- Dishwashing: With moss and sand; how to clean greasy pots and pans without soap. 71- Daily Routine: System in camping habits. See Doing Things. 72- Dope: For mosquitoes flies etc.; how to make; how to use. 73- Drugs: See first aid. 74- Dirty Bag: For odds and ends; see personal outfit; see equipment; see one-man outfit. 75- Desert Travel: Equipment for; usages; character of country; water; sun; sandstorms; cold; lost; snow; inhabitants; ways. 76- Devil Clubs: fatsia horrida. Where found; uses etc.; see naming the plants. 77- Dandelions: Where found; habits used for medicine; for greens. See naming the plants. 78- Decoy Ducks: How to use; how to paint; how to make. 79- Don't Go to the Wilderness Alone. 79A- Don'ts: In camp and on the trail; common sense. 80- Dogs: Their place in the scheme of things. 81- Daredeviltry Sic: A few facts for tenderfeet. 82- Doing Things: System applied to life in the open. <br/><br/>PROVENANCE: Estate of Russell Johanson Ravenna Rare Books Seattle WA. unknown books
182254896London: Charles and James Ollier 1822. First edition 8vo pp. 7 viii-xi 1 60; ca. 1970s full red goatskin triple gilt rules on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 3; the binding is signed on the turn-in "Ex Libris Brent Gration-Maxfield 1972." With the final leaf containing "Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon." A fine copy. Hellas was the last work Shelley published since three months later on 8 July 1822 he drowned in the Bay of Spezia. Ashley Library V pp. 84-85; Tinker 1902. <br/><br/> Charles and James Ollier unknown books
1822146161822. in original boards London: Printed and Published by R. Carlile 1822. Original drab paper-covered boards. First Published Edition second issue -- which is to say the sheets of William Clark's 1821 pirated edition with the 1822 cancel title leaf of radical publisher Richard Carlile. "Queen Mab a Philosophical Poem in Nine Cantos with Seventeen Notes" -- Shelley's first major poetic work -- was first privately-printed in 1813. Since it was a radical and revolutionary vision of a utopian world from an atheistic viewpoint Shelley never intended it to go beyond his friends. But in 1821 a stash of the undistributed sheets was discovered by London bookseller William Clark and the result was an 1821 pirated edition with the help of the infamous book pirate Thomas Moses whose monogram also appears here on the final page of text. Shelley tried to suppress this Clark/Moses edition but was unsuccessful because the courts ruled that "books liable to conviction for blasphemy or sedition are not entitled to legal protection." Clark spent four months in prison courtesy of the Society for the Prevention of Vice; Clark's sheets ultimately fell into the hands of his former employer Richard Carlile who issued this edition with his own title leaf in 1822 -- Shelley having just drowned off the coast of Italy in July 1822. This copy includes at the rear Shelley's dedicatory poem "To Harriet which had appeared in his 1813 copies but which Shelley had ever since tried to suppress -- and for good reason. In 1811 19-year-old Shelley had eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook under her threat that she would otherwise take her own life; in July 1814 -- after the 1813 QUEEN MAB was printed with its dedication -- Shelley fled pregnant Harriet for the Continent with Mary Godwin and after Harriet did in fact take her own life married Mary at the end of 1816. In 1818 Mary's FRANKENSTEIN was published. This copy is still remarkably in the original drab paper-covered boards albeit without spine label; the leaves are uncut and the original endpapers are intact. There is minor edge-wear and one small patch of the spine has chipped away but this is certainly near-fine condition. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with leather label. Incidentally in the legendary eight-day Jerome Kern sale of January 1929 the highest price achieved today just over $1 million was by a copy of QUEEN MAB annotated by Shelley -- thanks to Lee Biondi for this tidbit. unknown books
1824140941633London: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt 1824. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. xi iii 415 1 pp. bound with the errata leaf. Later green calf gilt smooth spine gilt brown decorative morocco lettering-pieces gilt all edges gilt blue marbled endpapers stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClurg. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine some minor rubbing to extremities. From the collection of Louis V. Ledoux 1880-1948 poet and Japanese print collector with his bookplate. An attractive copy. One of only 500 copies. Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt unknown books
1904122526Oxford: Clarendon Press 1904. Octavo bound in full crushed morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun-Riviere. Front and rear panels with single gilt filler border upper cover set with an oval miniature painting of Percy Bysshe Shelley spine in six compartments with five raised bands a decorative panel in the rest gilt tooling to the front and rear panels board edges gilt dotted turn-ins gilt doublures and free endpages of watered silk all edges gilt. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. In fine condition. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language and one of the most influential. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron Leigh Hunt Thomas Love Peacock and his own second wife Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein. Cosway bindings named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway were popularized if not invented in the early 1900s by the renowned London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran. The earliest Cosway bindings were created by Miss C.B. Currie who faithfully imitated Cosway's detailed watercolor style of portraiture from designs by J.H. Stonehouse Sotheran's manager. These delicate miniature paintings often on ivory were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass. Clarendon Press hardcover books
181927381Livorno Italy: printed for C. and J. Ollier London 1819. First edition 8vo in 4s pp. xiv 104; bound without the initial blank leaf in later full blue straight-grain morocco double gilt-ruled borders on covers enclosing a blindstamped roll gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 a.e.g.; nice copy. Printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Shelley had been fascinated by the lurid story of Beatrice Cenci and Guido's portrait of her as seen in the Columna palace at Rome and originally intended the latter to be copied as a frontispiece for this book. He worked exceptionally fast on his version of the tragedy starting in May and ending in August of his annus mirabilis the same year he wrote Prometheus Unbound The Masque of Anarchy and the 'Ode to the West Wind.' The book is excellently produced well printed on thick laid paper: "It has a few errors of the press incidental to the Italian compositors' ignorance of English . but on the whole it seems to me a preferable text to the second edition -- a text more like the absolute production of Shelley" Foreman. This is the only book of Shelley's to reach a second edition in his lifetime. It is dedicated to Leigh Hunt. Forman p. 56; Wise p. 51; Ashley Library V p. 69. <br/><br/> printed for C. and J. Ollier, London unknown books
1819219217Livorno Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street 1819. First edition one of 250 copies without initial blank. 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches: 232 x 146 mm. Bound in full green morocco gilt spine t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons professionally rebacked in invisible fashion spine gilt very slightly sunned else fine. Bookplate of Robert Hoe and Blairhame. First edition one of 250 copies without initial blank. 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches: 232 x 146 mm. Hoe Copy of Shelley's verse drama. First edition of Shelley's dramatization of this dark tale of parricide child abuse and incest - based on actual events - and arguably the most enduring Romantic verse-play. Only 250 copies were printed according to Shelley himself. According to Granniss "With the exception of Queen Mab The Cenci is the only one of Shelley's works which reached a second edition during his lifetime ." On the other hand the play was never staged until the Shelley Society produced it on the occasion of Robert Browning's birthday on May 7 1886. Granniss 50; Ashley V 69; not in Tinker Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street, Bond Street unknown books
1823117880London: G. and W.B. Whittaker 1823. Rare first edition of Shelley's second novel which has been called "a meditation on political psychological and sexual power" and is considered by many to be her finest work. 12mo. bound in 19th century three quarter calf over marbled boards by Bumpus gilt titles and tooling to the spine morocco spine labels raised bands. In very good condition contemporary name. A very sharp example. Valperga "was a novel surprisingly long in its gestation " and possibly concurrent with Frankenstein . "Although not published until 1823 its inception actually dates from six years earlier. 'I first thought of it in our library in Marlow' Mary Shelley wrote as she was completing it in 1821." See: Curran Stuart. Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley". The preface details some literary sources for this historical tale of the fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani. In terms of historical fiction it represents a feminine counterpart to the male romanticism of Sir Walter Scott. Ref: Block p 213; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p. 541. G. and W.B. Whittaker hardcover books
18803782London: Reeves and Turner 1880. First Thus. First edition edited by H. Buxton Forman. Together eight octavo volumes 214 x 136 mm. Uniformly bound by Bayntun Rivière of Bath stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in in mid twentieth-century dark brown crushed levant morocco. Covers with gilt triple fillet border spines decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands board edges with gilt-dotted rule gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Frontispieces and plates. A spectacular set. Volume I of The Poetical Works is set with a fine oval portrait miniature 81 x 62 mm of Shelley surrounded by an inner oval band of onlaid russet morocco within single gilt fillets and an outer decorative intertwining gilt border which is set with sixteen semi-precious stones. A superb example. From the library of William A. Foyle with his bookplate on front pastedown.<br/><br/>"It would be difficult indeed to over-estimate the gains which have accrued to the lovers of Shelley from the strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman C.B. He too has enlarged the body of Shelley's poetry Mr. Forman's most notable addition is the second part of The Daemon of the World which he printed privately in 1876 and included in his Library Edition of the Poetical Works published in the same year.but important as his editions undoubtedly are it may safely be affirmed that his services in this direction constitute the least part of what we owe him. He has vindicated the authenticity of the text in many places while in many others he has succeeded with the aid of manuscripts in restoring it. His untiring industry in research his wide bibliographical knowledge and experience above all his accuracy as invariable as it is minute have combined to make him in the words of Professor Dowden ‘our chief living authority on all that relates to Shelley's writings.' His name stands securely linked for all time to Shelley's by a long series of notable words including three successive editions 1876 1882 1892 of the Poems an edition of the Prose Remains as well as many minor publications—a Bibliography The Shelley Library 1886 and several Facsimile Reprints of the early issues edited for the Shelley Society" Oxford Edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.<br/><br/>Granniss 89. Reeves and Turner unknown books
