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1874Best.-Nr. 7227London: George Routledge and Sons 1874. First UK edition. Fine. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco with double gilt rules on the boards and spine compartments. Top edges gilt marbled end papers. A Fine copy complete with all half-titles. Clean and fresh throughout. A few leaves in volume 3 a little bent at the lower margin. Otherwise an exceptional copy inside and out. "The Gilded Age a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in US history during the 1870s gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington DC and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians" Britannica. Among these notable "robber barons" were recognizably John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan. Fine. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 86009London: Bodley Head 1953. First edition. 189 pp. Some light offsetting to the first leaf fine in very near fine dust jacket. London: Bodley Head, unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 84290London: Bodley Head 1967. First edition. 263 pp. Very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to spine. London: Bodley Head unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 85127NY: Viking 1927. First edition. 241 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. Young 4000. NY: Viking, unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 83924London: Collins 1958. First edition. 317 pp. A few marks to bottom edge and light soiling to others. In all near fine in near fine dust jacket. London: Collins, unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 80514Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1985. First edition. 256 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Small US distributor sticker on title page and front flap else fine in very near dust jacket. Features the sequence “Experimental Sonnets” out of print for twenty years. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 79682London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1977. First edition. 250 pp. Some light soiling to page edges else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Previous owner has inked “CORRECTION: p4” on the front free endpaper and crossed out “London Review of Books” and added “The Albion Review” to the margin. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 79828London: Jonathan Cape 2006. First edition. 389 pp. Slight lean to spine else near fine in fine dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 79681London: Chatto & Windus 1988. First edition. 277 pp. Pages toned cheap paper else near fine in near fine dust jacket. London: Chatto & Windus unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 80107NY: Viking 1982. First US edition. 177 pp. Hard erasure to first leaf else very near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. NY: Viking unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 78589London: Chatto & Windus 1998. First edition. xii 435 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. London: Chatto & Windus unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 81459bdMontgomery Alabama: River City Publishing 2001. Large octavo softbound stiff slick full-color illus. white wrappers 302 pp. Fine As New. From lower cover: For most people Florida means palm trees beaches and Mickey Mouse. But there’s another more timeless Florida of places like Crescent City and the St. Johns River where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s books Cross Creek and The Yearling come alive; of places like Eatonville where Zora Neale Hurston lived and St. Petersburg where Jack Kerouac died; of places like Cassadaga where you can have your fortune told; and Tallahassee where the presidency -- and our nation’s fortunes -- were twice decided. This is David Warner’s Florida. Vanishing Florida. River City Publishing, (2001). paperback books
1997Best.-Nr. 73396London: Jonathan Cape 1997. First edition. 214 pp. Pages toned cheap paper else very near fine in like dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 71841London: Jonathan Cape 1997. First trade paperback printing. 214 pp. Pages toned else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Warner on the title page. London: Jonathan Cape paperback books
2001Best.-Nr. 71137London: Harvill 2001. First edition. xiv 193 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Setinman. Foreword by William Maxwell. London: Harvill unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 5020bdBoston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1892. Royal octavo illustrated gold cloth hardcover 126 pp. Good with minor soiling and edgewear to covers. Photographs gladly provided upon request. Contents: Some Dogs’ Opinions of the Dog Show; Woggie’s Wonders; Mother’s Cousin Nathan; Jenny Ring; May’s Musical Bars; The Broom Fairies; Mr. and Mrs. Flyaway “At Home;” Old Tyler; “Who Lives in Mamma’s Work Bag; The Clothes-Line Imps. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1892. hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 1225111966. The University of Texas 1966. 8vo 120 pp. Original white cloth lettered in brown on the upper board and backstrip illustrated endpapers pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a lightly toned dust-jacket. § Limited to 1000 copies. With entries for over 400 items from the Texas University collections including many manuscripts and letters. unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 64996London: Jonathan Cape 2012. First edition. 375 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 1089901984. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1984. 8vo xx 211 pp 106 black and white illustrations. Near Fine in original yellow cloth with a color illustrated dust-jacket in protective acetate cover. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.672: "A useful book arguing that 'Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary'.". unknown books
Best.-Nr. 4302bdLouisiana State University Press 1965. Set of two volumes in slipcase. Octavo gray cloth hardcover gilt letters and decorations xxvii 420 pp xxiv 679 pp. Fine in Near-Fine mylar protected dust jackets in a Very Good slipcase with lightly rubbed edges. hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 1025021984. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1984. 8vo xx 211 pp. 106 illustrations. Yellow cloth in yellow printed dust-jacket. Very good. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement page 672: "A useful book arguing that 'Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary'.". unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 17653scsBerkeley: University of California Press 1979. First Edition. Octavo orange cloth hardcover gilt letters 204 pp. Fine in a Fine mylar protected dust jacket. Recent American literature is a survivors’ literature suggests Warner Berthoff in this summary characterization of American writing since the Second World War.A chapter looking back to Henry Miller in prose and Wallace Stevens in poetry as major forefunners of these postwar developments leads to final questions of where and how for literature the creative impulse can still find effective expression. University of California Press, [1979]. First Edition. hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 30372Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press 1977. First edition. 154 pp. Very near fine in dust jacket. Edited and with a preface and essay by Tim Prentki. A collection of critical essays concerning the poetry and dramatic work of Francis Warner including essays by Harold Hobson Paul Hewison Lesly Burnett and Robert Burchfield. Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 68092Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo and Co 1855. First edition. 23.5 cm. Frontispiece of Caldwell viii 17 - 454 pp. 2 blank 8 pp. publishers ads for new and valuable medical books and a 46 pp. publishers catalogue of other valuable books. Original embossed publisher's brown cloth. Some foxing else very good. "The chief source of Caldwell's life is the caustic Autobiography. which has been called 'the choicest repository of medical scandal in existence'."--DAB. Caldwell was a proponent of polygenism. Chapter XV includes an extensive catalogue of Caldwell's writings. With a pencilled presentation inscription from Warner. Sabin 9893. Lippincott, Grambo, and Co unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 020942Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. Hardcover. Library bookplate on the front pastedown with gift label below and small ink stamp of donor on front endpaper; unobtrusive blindstamp on front blanks title page and several pages following; contents very clean. Binding is tight and but for very minor fraying at the spine tips and a small section of the spine discolored is in very nice condition. About Fine. Original gilt-decorated black cloth. Early but not first printing of Mark Twain's first novel its title giving name to the peculiarly American era it describes. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3357. Issue without ads at rear. Though the title page is dated 1874 it otherwise matches with all of BAL's first issue points but for two: pages 352 and 353. This copy also with the first issue of page vii Eschol Sellers page 246 and page 280; other points are later issue. Both hinges cracked but tight the front reinforced internally with binder's tape. American Publishing Company hardcover books
