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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 Some of the works appear to be unpublished.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
FORT922810George Routledge and Sons. Used - Acceptable. Published in 1891. Rare binding variant. 12mo. Half-bound in beige cloth. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Blue cloth covered boards with white floral pattern. Top edges gilt. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
193140563<p>New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1931. First Photoplay Edition illustrated with scene from the Universal Film starring Boris Karloff and directed by James Whale at front jacket panel. Uncommon. Almost Near Fine some shadowing at endpapers perhaps from an old jacket protector in Very Good dustjacket some light soiling chips at spine ends and flap corners less than dime sized chip at mid front spine edge.</p> Grosset and Dunlap hardcover
3269London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier 1818 for 1817. FIRST EDITION of Shelley's longest and most spiritually revolutionary work. xxxii 270 pp. COMPLETE WITH THE DEDICATION LEAF THE FLY-TITLE with a quotation from Pindar in the original Greek AND THE ERRATA LEAF. This copy is from the COLLECTION OF ROBERT HOE the greatest of all American book collectors with his small finely gilt leather bookplate on front pastedown his auction catalogue volume IV part 2 lot 2917. TEXT CORRECTED in accordance with the errata leaf IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Printed on fine wove paper. Large 8vo. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND surely for Hoe IN FULL HAVANA MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY RIVIERE signed. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Traces of wear to joints else FINE AND BRIGHT. For an interesting account of the publication of this volume see Buxton Forman's Shelley Library pp. 71-87. An outstanding copy of an important book. <br/><br/> London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818 (for 1817) hardcover
1835002398New York: Wallis & Newell 1835 1835. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1 vol. 7-11/16" x 4-3/4" 228pp. bound in contemporary original floral grained mauve cloth gilt title to spine. Occasional minor foxing throughout inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss lacking rear blank endleaf bookplate to front pastedown matching ownership signature to front blank endleaf overall still a GOOD copy. Auction records locate only 3 copies EVER appearing at auction. Mary Shelley's most autobiographical work also published under the title of "The Beautiful Widow". "Lodore" follows the fortunes of Cornelia Lord Lodore's estranged wife and his daughter Ethel as they navigate societal expectations and personal struggles after Lodore's death with a focus on the relationships between women and the exploration of gender roles. New York: Wallis & Newell, 1835 hardcover
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
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
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. 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
63939London: Edward Moxon 1839. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 vols. 8vo. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Handsomely bound by Morrell in contemporary straight-grained citron morocco sides ruled with two gilt fillets spines with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments each stamped with central fleuron device complementary red and green morocco labels gilt inner dentelles blue-coated endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece in first volume. An excellent set in superb bindings. First collected edition of Shelley's complete poems compiled by his wife Mary. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. Pirate editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father Sir Timothy that all hope of obscurity had passed and Mary was allowed to prepare a proper edition provided she included only a minimal amount of biographical information. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. London: Edward Moxon, 1839. hardcover
MWS006New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1983 With approximately 45 full-page black and white illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Introduction by Stephen King. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson this being number 322 an additional 26 lettered copies were produced for private distribution. Publisher's black cloth with front board stylistically lettered in blue foil and gilt spine lettered in gilt and navy-blue endpapers; housed in publisher's blue slipcase. Fine book; fine slipcase with just a touch of soiling to panels. With parts of the original glassine wrapper laid in. Overall a marvelous strikingly illustrated copy. First published anonymously by 20-year-old Mary Shelley in 1818 Frankenstein is recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language and a foundational text in the horror and science fiction genres. Mary Shelley famously devised the story during a stay at a mansion in Switzerland with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley her stepsister Claire Clairmont Lord Byron and John Polidori after the five of them began a game to see who could write the best ghost story. The story is told through a series of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister beginning in the middle of his voyage to the North Pole when Walton and his crew happen upon the lone emaciated Victor Frankenstein in need of shelter. They take the stranger on board and Walton slowly learns of his tortured past from a tragic childhood to scientific experiments that eventually resulted in the creation of a monster who threatens his life. For this edition of Frankenstein American artist Bernie Wrightson worked on the illustrations based directly on the 1831 text on and off for seven years. He wasn't paid for the project saying "I've always had a thing for Frankenstein and it was a labor of love. It was not an assignment it was not a job.". Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Wrightson Bernie. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, hardcover
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. <p>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
1829042<p><strong>Octavo A beautiful Contemporary full decorative dark blue morocco binding elaborately gilt decorated spine and boards raised bands All edges gilt. No previous ownership inscriptions. Housed in green clamshell box with a marbled interior and a black morocco label. FIRST EDITION of this collection of works by these three Romantic poets. Comprises the first collected edition of Shelley the first collected edition of Keats and only the second collected edition of Coleridge with many poems published for the first time. With frontispiece portrait of the three poets. This edition was published in Paris because the poets lacked international copyright protection and no royalties needed to be paid. However Galignani in fact worked closely with friends and relatives of the poets to create these three exhaustive collections. The frontispiece portrait is the first printed portrait of Shelley. MacGillivray B1. Peck ii 440. A scarce and desirable copy in a beautiful and very appropriate period binding.</strong></p> A. and W. Galignani hardcover
200282747Museum. New. 2002. Paperback. 0940717735 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ASIN: B002J7P3T0 and ISBN: B002J7P3T0. X 86 pages 89 illus. 4 in color appendices sm. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
200282746Museum. New. 2002. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- x 86 pages 89 illus. 4 in color appendicies sm. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
016593Pennyroyal West Hatfield 1983. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 14" x 10 1/2". . Book only lacks slipcase and portfolio of prints. Quarter leather with red cloth over boards 5 raised bands three volumes in one illustrated with woodcuts by Barry Moser. This book is number 142 of a limited edition of 350. Dampstain on spine corners rubbed spots of damage on gilded top text block edge some minor staining at bottom text block edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 lbs 7 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016593. . Pennyroyal hardcover
188312512London: John Dicks. London John Dicks n.d. c1883. First Edition. Paperback. A good copy only. Uncommon. In the 19th century Frankenstein was adapted most famously by Richard Brinsley Peake. His adaptation included many Frankenstein tropes such as the hunch-bakced assistant Fritz later to be Igor and the immortal line "He's Alive" which here is rendered "It Lives." It could be argued that without Peake's adaptation Frankenstein would have held less popular culture cachet though it would still surely have been respected literature regardless 16pp. Condition is good only the wrappers are detached and have been taped to fix a large tear. Fixed with tape internally too to the left hand margin where there appears to be water damage. Each leaf has been fixed thus. Some pencil underlining. Still it's pretty rare. 12512 Hyraxia Books. n.d. c1883 . Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1883. John Dicks paperback
19106404London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1910. A fine example. 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. 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. <br /> <br /> Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems 1820 here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. <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!"<br /> <br /> "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown
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
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 we have seen in some time. Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press unknown
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
1826322393London: William Benbow 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. Bound in Twentieth Century brown levant elaborately gilt with flower devices on the spine and front cover stamped by Riviere & Sons uncut fine. With the bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints the poems from the earlier volume omitting the longer poems and translations but adding "Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples" with the fifth line of the first stanza with the correct reading "earth" for "air" which did not appear in the authorized editions until 1870. In Watt's "Poetical Album" 1829 this line is entirely omitted. Only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years. It was through this work that Browning first became acquainted with his first poetic hero. Grannis 87 William Benbow unknown
1839191840London: Edward Moxon 1839. Giving the productions of a sublime genius to the world First collected edition uniformly bound by Root & Sons. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. The appearance of pirated editions of Shelley's works persuaded his father Sir Timothy that hope of obscurity had vanished and Mary was permitted to prepare a proper edition provided she kept biographical detail to a minimum. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. 4 vols octavo 165 x 104 mm. Bound with half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I as issued. Near-contemporary polished calf by Root & Sons for Charles E. Lauriat Boston twin spine labels compartments decorated in gilt covers with triple gilt rule borders and fleur-de-lis cornerpieces gilt roll to turn-ins marbled endpapers top edges gilt orange silk bookmarkers. Christmas gift inscription to Anne Lockwood Putnam Jr 1926-2015 from her grandmother Elizabeth Lowell Putnam 1862-1935 dated 1927 on first blanks. Spines uniformly browned shallow wear to vol. IV spine head couple of partial splits to inner hinges light foxing to outer leaves splash mark to edges. A very good set. Dunbar Shelley Studies 345; Granniss 88; Wise p. 87. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family 1989. unknown
1818163729London: for C. and J. Ollier 1818. Fear not the future weep not for the past First edition revised issue with new title and cancels and the 1818 date as usual. This is a very nice copy of Shelley's poem dedicated to Mary Shelley with the errata leaf at the rear. In 1817 the publishers C. and J. Ollier agreed to publish Shelley's long poem Laon and Cythna. Shelley's new father-in-law William Godwin recommended a master printer for the job Buchanan Millan who made minor alterations to the text without consulting the poet. Shelley wrote to the Olliers complaining about these liberties whereupon the Olliers read the work for the first time and realised what they had agreed to publish. In the original version the titular lovers were brother and sister. London was alive with gossip about Shelley living with both Mary Godwin and her half-sister Claire Clairmont and in contemporary usage such a ménage was termed incest St Clair p. 432. Shelley therefore made alterations removing any hint of incest and gave the book a new title The Revolt of Islam by which it is still known. The book is made up from original sheets of Laon and Cythna with 26 cancelled leaves and a new title leaf. A few copies were issued with the title misdated 1817; this is the second issue as usual with the correct date. Octavo 223 x 144 mm. Early 20th-century red crushed morocco spine with five raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt turn-ins richly gilt blue endpapers top edge gilt others trimmed. Binding a little rubbed a couple of corners lightly worn short closed tear to title page skilfully repaired a few small marginal stains to contents otherwise clean internally. A very good copy. Ashley V pp. 67-8; Forman Shelley 50; Granniss 44; Tinker 1895. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family 1991. hardcover
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
183537723New York: Wallis and Newell Publishers 1835. First American Edition. Original purple cloth with gilt title at spine octavo. Novel of a mother and daughter who navigate difficulties after their father and husband Lord Lodore is killed in a duel. Nearly Very Good contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper stain to first half of pages at lower inside corner fading to cloth Wallis and Newell Publishers hardcover
