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19549027888London: Folio Society 1954. Hardcover. Fine Condition. <br/><br/> Folio Society hardcover books
19109141Boston: Bibliophile Society 1910. Hardcover. Very good condition. One of 483 copies. Quarter vellum and cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine uncut and unopened 4 250 pp. frontispiece portrait. Scattered light foxing covers lightly soiled. <br/><br/> Bibliophile Society hardcover books
194771030New York: Farrar Straus and Company. Very Good. 1947. Hardcover. 458 pages navy boards with gilt printing. From the library of Richard Daniel Altick 1915 - 2008 American literary scholar of the Victorian Age and Regents Professor of English at Ohio State University from 1945 - 1982. "He was a scholar and historian who brought the Victorian Age back to life." Michael Slater in the Guardian April 5 2008. With his bookplate. Very Good in a chipped and torn dust jacket. . Farrar Straus and Company hardcover books
199449706London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1994. Hardcover. B001A4ENX0 . Introduction by Marilyn Butler. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover 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
189128181London: J. M. Dent & Co 1891. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies on large paper 8vo pp. 192; decorative title-p. printed in red and black engraved frontispiece woodcut ornaments throughout; original beige buckram gilt-lettered direct on spine; spine a little darkened else near fine. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Co 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
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
1861220588London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First. hardcover. poor. 8vo green pebbled cloth extremities of spine chipped; corners rubbed cocked; some signatures loose. London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First Edition.<br/><br/> Worn copy of an uncommon first edition Peacock's first work of fiction after a hiatus of 30 years.<br/><br/> Parker, Son & Bourn unknown books
1997275601Columbia: Camden House 1997. First. hardcover. near fine. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. 76pp. light blue cloth. Columbia SC: Camden House 1997. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> The text is a facsimile reprint. One of 500 copies this one is unnumbered. End-paper rubber-stamped "Review Copy.<br/><br/> Camden House unknown books
200374650Doylestown:: Wildside Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 159224758X . A reprint edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Wildside Press, hardcover books
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
1947165257London: Hamish Hamilton 1947. Small octavo pp. 228 cloth-backed boards. First printing of this edition. Collects NIGHTMARE ABBEY 1818 and CROTCHET CASTLE 1831 two classic parodies of the Gothic novel with a 4-page introduction by J. B. Priestly. A very good copy. #165257 Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1837122465London: Richard Bentley 1837. Hardcover. VG- Some wear to extremities; Front hinge cracked. Color marbled paper over boards; Brown leather at corners and spine; 402 pp.; 2 bw illustrations. Includes the following stories by English satirist Thomas Love Peacock: Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle. Richard Bentley hardcover 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
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
1989250213Boulder: Westview Press 1989. Paperback. 350p. softbound in flexible maroon cardstock a clean sound unmarked copy. Westview Press paperback books
198730641Washington DC: Center For Maya Research 1987. Paperback. Very good. 16pp in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Center For Maya Research paperback books
1990264163Routledge Kegan & Paul 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A couple of pages only have some underlining. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Routledge Kegan & Paul unknown books
1987281518Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name on the verso of the front cover; there are some scattered underlining in the book. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
1987281517Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name on the top of the front cover; there are no marks in the book. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
1987281511Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Previous owner name on the verso of the front cover; otherwise a clean copy. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
1987281514Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name on the top of the front cover; a few names are lightly underlined. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
1987281516Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name on the top of the front cover; there is scattered underlining in the book. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
1987281520Springfield VA: Genealogical Books in Print 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name stamp on the top of the front cover; otherwise a clean copy without marks. Very Good binding. Genealogical Books in Print unknown books
