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1817250494London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy Paternoster Row 1817. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. Dark blue green textured cloth over boards printed paper spine labels minor chipping bottom edge slightly trimmed others uncut. Fine. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding. "ANTHELIA MELINCOURT at the age of twenty-one was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year and of a very ancient and venerable castle in one of the wildest valleys in Westmoreland." <br/>The opening line of Melincourt is indisputably a rejoinder to Austen's celebrated gambit in Pride and Prejudice 1813 and Peacock's sharpest satire of wealth fortune-hunting and politics recounts the fortunes of the heiress and her social climbing friends as well as the bon-vivant Sir Telegraph Paxarent his philosophical friend Mr. Forester and the career of Sir Oran Haut-ton - a "specimen of the natural and original man" and an orang-utan of high fashion "heightened by a pair of enormous whiskers and the folds of a vast cravat" - who is elected as one of the MPs for the venerable rotten borough of Onevote.<br/>A rare work that is almost invariably seen in worn half leather bindings the present copy of Melincourt is in a nicely preserved near contemporary binding of dark green cloth with printed spine labels the publication date is too early by a few years for this to to be publisher's cloth a very handsome triple-decker with good provenance. A note from Esther Potter to Marilyn Butler quotes Victor Schulderer of the British Museum who called Meyerstein 1889-1952 a "poet novelist and musician outstandingly gifted and eccentric". Sadleir 1957e; not in Wolff; Garside & Schöwerling 1817:46. Provenance: English scholar and collector E.H.W. Meyerstein his monogram and date of acquisition 1944 "from J.R.T. E-" ; bookseller and bibliographer Graham Pollard 1903-1976; given to Marilyn Butler wife of his nephew David author of Peacock Displayed 1976 For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row unknown books
1730047144London 1730. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary sheep rebacked new endpapers added while retaining the old pastedowns refreshed one with a small tear. Scattered foxing old signature to title. Tear to edge of A2 in the dedication touching a catchword. 7 v 4 237 3pp. With the three page bookseller catalog at rear.<br/><br/>The rare first English edition - a second edition was published in 1732. Both are rare this first less often seen in commerce. It is I'm pretty sure intended as satire but the misogyny of the time and the misogyny of the satire have over time blurred together so that it is difficult to separate the two. François Bruys condemned women for their taste for "prize-fighters" "hackney coach-men" and "rope-dancers". Damnable rope-dancers! Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Women & Feminism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 047144. hardcover books
17012506"A Gringuenaude i.e. Paris: chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant rue du Gros Visage a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil attenant l'Hôtellerie de la Fleur" 1701. 12mo 129 x 76 mm. viii 64 pp. Half-title. Expressive woodcut vignette on title a chamber pot and its contents. Occasional very light spotting else fine. 19th-century citron morocco sides gilt panelled spine gilt lettered longitudinally turn-ins gilt gilt edges pair of vellum flyleaves by Koehler with his signature on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition of a silly scatological spoof. Farts excrement latrines and their Rabelaisian synonyms provide characters' and place names and an endless supply of windy jokes in this ultimately tragic love tale. The hero Prince Croqu'Etron Sht-eater son of the sneaky Roi de Vesse Silent-But-Deadly-Fart falls in love with the lovely Princess Foirette Diarrhea daughter of his father's enemy the open-hearted Roi Petaut Loud Fart. Abetted by King Vesse's minister Constipati whose secret liaison with one of Foirette's governesses Lady Clisterine Enema makes him take the Prince's side Croqu'Etron persuades his father to replace war with dynastic marriage a gentler path to territorial aggrandizement. Love vanquishes all King Petaud gives Prince Croqu'Etron a handsome commode chair and the Kingdom of Caca finds peace but the newly married lovers meet their demise at the hands of the evil Prince Gadouard Manure who drowns them in vats of perfume and is punished by the king with the opposite fate being buried alive in you know what. This clever extended dirty joke complete with satirical preface and facetious printing permission dated from Laval 1 Sept. 1701 and a final selection of verses sung at the royal marriage at some point became associated with the fairy tale author Mlle. de Lubert ca. 1702-ca. 1779 whose style it appears to parody. Either through a misunderstanding or as a joke the book was even sometimes attributed to her notwithstanding both its contents and the date of the permission d'imprimer. This is the only 18th-century edition but the book's publishing history was garbled by Gay who describes two 18th-century editions dating the supposed first ca. 1701 based on the facetious permission and a second edition from ca. 1790; according to Gay only the second edition contains the section titled Contes et devis. which appear in this edition on pp. 56-64. Confused library cataloguers have thus dated this edition to ca. 1790. Its typography however points to an earlier date. Stanford University holds a manuscript of the text from the Phillipps collection with textual variants dated 1716. Reprints appeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. OCLC lists 4 copies in N. American libraries. Jannet Bibliotheca scatologica 1850 28; Gay-Lemonnyer II:581-2; Barbier II:833; Quérard La France Littéraire V: 382; Cioranescu 18. s. 40961. Cf. note in the Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire vol. 14 p. 645; D. Haase ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales 2008 I:590-91. chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant, rue du Gros Visage, a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil, attenant l' hardcover books
1831300966London: T. Hookham 1831. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green polished calf spine gilt. Joints repaired. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1957; not in Wolff T. Hookham unknown books
1893300969London: J.M. Dent 1893. First collected edition. 10 vols. 12mo. Half brown morocco spine gilt marbled boards. Near fine textblock faintly toned. Book plates on front paste downs. First collected edition. 10 vols. 12mo. Handsome set of the writings of Peacock. Volumes are 1. Headlong Hall. 2 & 3. Melincourt 2 volumes. 4. Nightmare Abbey. 5. Maid Marian. 6. The Misfortunes of Elphin. 7. Crotchet Castle. 8 & 9. Gryll Grange 2 volumes. 10. Calidore & Miscellanea. With "Recollections of Thomas Love Peacock" by Sir Edward Strachey. <br/><br/>Previous owners include H. Walter Webb American railway entrepreneur and later his wife Leila Howard Codman. <br/><br/>Thomas Love Peacock was a satirist novelist poet and official of the East India Company. Peacock's place in literature is preeminently that of a satirist with most of his works featuring the same setting in which his characters are set a table criticizing contemporary philosophical opinions. Peacock was a very close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced one another's' works throughout their shared journeys and close lodgings. J.M. Dent unknown books
180125262Paris: Chez Giguet 1801. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Depuis son origine jusqu'ê la retraite du Duc de Brunswick; Imprimés sur le manuscrit original revu et corrigé par l'auteur peu de tems avant sa mort augmenté de notes et pièces essentielles qui ne se trouvent pas dans l'édition anglaise. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf richly gilt spines with black leather labels marbled endpapers. Upper joints starting but sound corner a little rubbed else very good. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Depuis son origine jusqu'ê la retraite du Duc de Brunswick; Imprimés sur le manuscrit original revu et corrigé par l'auteur peu de tems avant sa mort augmenté de notes et pièces essentielles qui ne se trouvent pas dans l'édition anglaise. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 12mo. Bouillé was a French general who served in the West Indies and distinguished himself as a commander of French forces in the American Revolution; he was the cousin of La Fayette. He was also Lieutenant-General of the Royal forces in the days of the French Revolution and remained loyal to the King playing a major role in the plan for Louis XVI's escape which ended in the King's arrest at Varennes. Bouillé escaped to England where he supported the royalist cause and where he died in 1800.<br/>These Memoires were first published in London in 1794 in translation; they were then re-translated from the English into French and published there in 1798. According the publisher of this edition Bouillé's family which consigned the original manuscript to him claims that the English translation was faulty filled with errors incomplete and disavowed by Bouillé himself. Chez Giguet unknown books
165427380London: Printed by T.R. & E.M. for J. Rothwell 1654. First edition. Modern cloth. A very good copy; rebound in cloth with new endpapers faint institutional blind-stamp to title page tiny deaccession stamp to rear endpaper occasional faint dampstain or foxing but quite clean. 8 291 5 pp. 8vo. Does not contain 'The Christians directory' Wing L3145 which may have been issued separately in 1653. Christopher Love 1618-1651 clergyman converted to evangelical Christianity in 1633 when he heard William Erbury preach. Later he was appointed chaplain to the regiment at Windsor Castle; but from 1646 on believed that heretics in the army were the greatest threat to Presbyterianism and so became a central figure in an attack on the republic. In 1649 Love became involved in a plot to return the exiled Charles II to the throne of England for which act he was condemned to death and beheaded three years before this volume was printed. "The volumes of posthumously published sermons show that Love was an able preacher whose method was to apply Calvinist doctrine to both comfort and humble his flock before God" DNB. This volume was the property of Rev. William De Loss Love Jr most probably of Hartford CT. ESTCR202772. Wing 2nd ed. L3149 Variant. Printed by T.R. & E.M. for J. Rothwell hardcover books
1875045515London: Richard Bentley and Son 1875. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in early full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with inner dentelles spines edges and some of the boards gently toned to brown light rubbing to hinges. Clean and bright internally - an attractive in fine Harcourt bindings. Size: Octavo 8vo. 3-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 045515. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley and Son hardcover books
1980150594N.p.: N.p. 1980. Collection of seven vintage matte-finish borderless reference photographs from the 1980 French hardcore film.<br/><br/>A man injured in a brawl with his lover's husband is taken to an erotic clinic. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Bier p. 187. N.p. unknown books
1960150600N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of The Beach Boys posing in front of the Eiffel Tower on what appears to have been a very foggy day circa 1960s. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a short diagonal tear to the the bottom right corner repaired with paper tape on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1652234901London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell at Sun and Fountain in Paul's Church-yard 1652. Second edition after the first of the same year. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Cross. 6 217 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 19th-century quarter calf and boards. Binding worn and scuffed upper cover detached; ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown; 19th-century inscriptions on flyleaf and an early owner' signature on the title page: "Ann Clarke. Second edition after the first of the same year. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Cross. 6 217 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The last sermons of this Welsh presbyterian minister who was executed in 1651 for treason and plotting to restore the Stuart monarchy. Wing 2nd ed. L3156 printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, at Sun and Fountain in Paul's Church-yard unknown books
1731223283London: Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch . and W. Innys 1731. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf red leather spine label. Boards missing else clean. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... and W. Innys unknown books
1875862521875. PEACOCK Thomas Love ed. Henry COLE. THE WORKS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 3 VOLUMES. London: Richard Bentley and Son 1875. Preface by Right Lord Houghton. Biographical notice by Edith Nicolls his granddaughter. var pp. 8vo. 3/4 navy blue morocco binding by Bartlett. A little rubbing but a lovely set. Fine internally. Scarce. unknown books
1969230716New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. First edition. xxv iii 767 pp. 1 vols. Thicck 8vo. Black cloth. Fine in VG dj. First edition. xxv iii 767 pp. 1 vols. Thicck 8vo. Author's Own Copy. Author's copy marked up for Second Edition with most notes for index on last white page of book with notes also on title-page and throughout the text. On Dj signed "Kenett Love's Copy"<br/>Love was the NY Times correspondent in the Middle East from 1953-1956. Love was an associate professor at Princeton University's School of Oriental Studies from 1964 to 1968. Between 1971-1973 he was a professor of journalism at the American University in Cairo and served as a Cairo correspondent for ABC News. In 1974 Love began to pursue a career as a free lance writer editor and photographer. For the past two years he has engaged in research and interviews for a history of the 1953 coup in Iran. Love's major published work is the ' Suez: The Twice Fought War. He has produced many articles reviews broadcasts and taken photographs which have appeared nationally and internationally. McGraw-Hill unknown books
1979149671N.p.: N.p. 1979. Collection of five vintage matte finish reference photographs from the 1979 French hardcore film.<br/><br/>A nurse conducts a series of erotic visits with her patients. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/>Bier p. 336. N.p. unknown books
1993144326N.p.: Alpha Agency 1993. Original publicity photograph of a beleagured baby bottle carrying Kurt Cobain along with his wife Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain at the MTV Video Music Awards 1993. <br/><br/>11.5 x 8 inches Near Fine. Alpha Agency unknown books
185759421Mexico City: Imprenta de Vicete G Torres Calle de San Juan de Letran num. 3 1857. Second edition first published Mexico 1847 but first with the Villa-Amor contribution. 12mo. 35 pp. Originally published at the end of Santa-Anna's participation in the Mexican American War after he had failed to defend his country from invasion; the second part was updated to include a brief history of his last disastrous two-year reign as the head of the Mexican government 1853-1855. Sabin 76747. Very good. Original printed tan wrappers a little chipped around the edges.#7551. <br/><br/> Imprenta de Vicete G Torres, Calle de San Juan de Letran num. 3 unknown books
1985WRCLIT43168Portland ME: Romulus Editions / Coyote Love Press 1985. Small folio. Cloth and decorated boards paper spine label. Illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. One of twenty- six lettered copies printed on Fabriano Roma and specially bound signed by the author illustrator and printer from a total edition of 326. Romulus Editions / Coyote Love Press hardcover books
186134556London: Parker Son and Bourne 1861. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and edges. Lower joint starting spine a little darkened; lacking final two leaves of ads. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Peacock's final novel. Wolff 5479 Parker, Son, and Bourne unknown books
192418762ELondon: Constable & Co 1924. This was the personal copy of the great American humorist author and screenwriter S.J. Perelman and was presented to him by his friend Heywood Hale Broun. Inscribed by Broun: “Happy Birthday from H.H. and J. LL. J. Jane Lloyd-Jones Broun’s wife This work by a man who would have liked to have met you. Feb. 1960.†With a document providing provenance laid in. Thin split to the front hinge otherwise a very good copy with some slight use and edge wear without dust jacket. Broun met Perelman when he was a guest on his radio show “Author Author!†and the two became fast friends. Sidney Joseph Perelman popularly known as S. J. Perelman 1904 – 1979 was one of the most widely read literary icons of the Golden Age of American Humor. His New Yorker pieces fiction and collected essays are legendary for their biting wit and mastery of caricature and language. Off and on throughout his career he worked in film notably as a contributing screenwriter on such Hollywood comedy classics as Monkey Business and Horse Feathers with the Marx Brothers Mike Todd’s Around the World in 80 Days for which he won an Oscar co-creator of the hit Broadway musical comedy One Touch of Venus starring Mary Martin as well as many publishing including twenty-one books radio television and travel writing ventures. He was the brother-in-law of the writer Nathanael West with whom he shared a close relationship up until West’s death in a car accident in 1940 at age thirty-seven and whose memory and literary reputation he devoted himself to maintaining. His inner circle of literary and show-business friends and associates included F. Scott Fitzgerald the Marx Brothers Mike Todd Harold Ross T.S. Eliot Al Hirschfeld Bennett Cerf Lillian Hellman Dashiell Hammett Dorothy Parker Fred Allen Kaufman and Hart Ogden Nash Ernest Hemingway W. Somerset Maugham etc. S.J. Perelman was a gifted man with conflicting desires living and working in complex times. While his writing brought much laughter to the world his personal life reflected his restless spirit and inner struggles with his relationships to his family friends and intimates. Dorothy Herrmann ends her wonderful biography of Perelman with these insights: “…his genius was unique…highly literate and inventive yet cranky and irreverent…perhaps no other modern writer was willing to match his commitment to words…Whether this was a rare gift or a feverish obsession is unimportant in the last analysis. For he made us forget for a brief time our own pain and sorrows – and enter a wild wonderful realm of fantasy that was sublime.†Constable & Co unknown books
201617870Viking 2016. First Edition first printing. The bestselling second novel by the author of RULES OF CIVILITY the story of a Count who is sentenced to house arrest by the Bolsheviks during some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history. Fine/Fine but for incidental crimping at the foot of the spine. Inscribed along with his "castle/Kremlin" stamp on the opposing page by Towles on the title page as follows: "To Donna Amor Towles." . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Viking Hardcover books
196847744New York: The Viking Press 1968. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: The Viking Press 1968. Introduction by Robert Graves. Signed by the author. 121 full color plates. 64 pp. Hardcover. Large 4to. Light blue cloth. Bumped and rubbed at head heel and corners; soiling from decayed tape to front and rear free endpapers; else interior tight clean and bright. Dustjacket rubbed and chipped at head and heel. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. The Viking Press hardcover books
1986147140N.p.: N.p. 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film here under the working title "Gaby Brimmer." <br/><br/>Based on the true story of Gaby Brimmer a young woman born with cerebral palsy and near-total body paralysis who became an acclaimed artist author and activist. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Norma Aleandro. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Mexico City. <br/><br/>Black untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1/86 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters MARTIN SALINAS and MICHAEL JAMES LOVE. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Good tidemarked to the upper edges wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
11625Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A series of five French hand-tinted postcards ca. 1900 approx. 3.5" x 5.5" 9 x 14 cm detailing the outlines of a musical relationship taking place at a piano with a male violinist and female pianist. The tableaus proceed from Prélude to Duo d'amoureux to Légere dissonnance to Douce harmonie and finally to Accord parfait. In fine condition. unknown books
1894292328London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. very good. Edited with Notes by Edmund Gosse. 8vo vellum backed cloth spine darkened with 1 inch vertical stain. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of only 25 large paper copies. Armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Thomas.<br/><br/> Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
