30 free≤an’s fine books, manuscripts, prints & maps
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177 2 vols. Byron, Lord George Gordon. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, A Romaunt: and Other Poems. London: for John Murray, 1815-1818. 4 cantos in 2 vols. 8vo, contemp. 1/2 tan calf & marbled bds.; scuffed, occasionally rubbed. Scattered light foxing. Ownership signature on front blank of Cantos I-II & 1/2 title of Canto The Third. 10th edition of Cantos I-II; first edition, third issue [Wise] of Canto The Third [Randolph 1st ed., 2nd issue, 2nd variant]; first edition, second issue of Canto The Fourth. With fly titles for Cantos I-II; 1/2 title & fly title for Canto The Third; fly title for Canto The Fourth. Wise pp. 54, 56, 60; Randolph pp. 22, 59 $300-500 178 1 vol. Carlyle, Thomas. Life of John Sterling. London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. First edition. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; light wear. 32 pp. cat. dated 1851 at back. Bookseller’s ticket & bookplate on front paste-down. Tight attractive copy in custom 1/2 red morocco slipcase & cloth chemise. $80-120 179 1 vol. Cowley, Abraham. The Works. London: J.M. for Henry Herringman, 1668. First edition. Folio, modern paneled calf, raised bands. Some internal smudging & browning. Early owner’s ink signature at head of title page. First collected edition of Cowley’s work. Wing C-6649 $200-300 180 6 vols. Galsworthy, John. [The Works.] New York: Scribner’s, 1929. #136/500 signed by Galsworthy, Compact Edition. 12mo, orig. green pebbled cloth, gilt; occasional light edge wear, oil cloth d/j’s spines gilt (minor wear). First edition thus. $100-200
Keats’ Letters 181 2 vols. Keats, John. Life, Letters and Literary Remains of... London: Edward Moxon, 1848. First edition. Edited by Richard Monckton Milnes. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, edges untrimmed; light to moderate wear, edges & spine ends slightly frayed & worn, spine ends slightly frayed & worn, spine fading, vol. 1 hinges slightly stressed. Frontis. portrait & facsimile. Portrait detaching. With ink inscription date, Aug. 23, 1848 (possibly by Milnes) & green ink 20th-Century inscription on 1/2 title. Internally generally clean. First edition of the first biography of Keats, with his famous letters & posthumous poems. $300-500 182 6 vols. Kipling, Rudyard: The Day’s Work. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898. 1st ed. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; occasionally scuffed, rebacked, orig. spine laid down. With 8 plates. Livingston 169. * Kim. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. 1st Am. ed., 2nd issue. 8vo, orig. giltlettered pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, rebacked - most of original spine laid down, slightly scuffed, new endpapers. With 10 plates. Occasional internal spotting. Livingston 248. * Puck of Pook’s Hill. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906. 1st Am. ed. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; rebacked, orig. spine laid down, gilt on spine fading, extremities scuffed, new endpapers. With 4 color plates by Arthur Rackham. Lacking front blank. Livingston 300. * A Diversity of Creatures. London, 1917. 1st ed. 8vo, slightly later 3/4 red calf & marbled bds., gilt, gilt-paneled spine, t.e.g., dark green morocco spine labels; occasionally scuffed, joints occasionally rubbed. Lacking adverts. Livingston 411. * The Seven Seas. New York: D. Appleton, 1897. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt; rather scuffed. * Plain Tales from The Hills. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Revised ed. 8vo, orig. cloth; rebacked, new endpapers, moderately scuffed & slightly dust soiled. See Livingston 26. $200-300 183 2 vols. (1 wrappers). Kipling, Rudyard: Barrack-Room Ballads. London: Methuen, 1892. First edition. Sm. 8vo, orig. red cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; cloth fading to brown, rebacked, orig. spine laid down, new endpapers. With 16 pp. adverts. at back. Livingston 90 (calling for title page in black & red - this copy black only). * The pirated English [1904] edition of the preceding, 8vo, orig. self-wrappers, 16 leaves issue; slightly toned, in custom 1/4 red morocco case & cloth chemise. Livingston 92. $250-400