General Literature
Note: Each listing below has a Lorson Number (LN #); please include the book title andthis number when inquiring about or ordering a book.
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| Agustan Reprint Society Publications | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA | paperbound reprints of rare literary publication of the 17th and 18th century from copies in the library's collection, copies generally clean, domestic media mailing cost included in the price. |
| | Æsop Dress'd; Mandeville, Bernard | London, 1704 | LN
#55 | $5.00 |
| | Account of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal; Defoe, Daniel et al | London, 1706 | LN
#47 | $5.00 |
| | After the Tempest, four versions; anon | London, 1670/1674/1675/1756 | LN
#79 | $20.00 |
| | Are These Things So?, together with
The reat Man's Answer to Are These Things So?; anon | London, 1740 | LN
#69 | $5.00 |
| | Art of Architecture, The; anon | London, 1742 | LN
#57 | $5.00 |
| | Artaxerxes; Arne, Thomas Augustine | London, 1761 | LN
#29 | $5.00 |
| | Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees, A; Defoe, Daniel | London, 1709 | LN
#38 | $5.00 |
| | Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men, A; Patrick, Simon | London, 1662 | LN
#43 | $5.00 |
| | Case of Mrs. Clive, The; Clive, Catherine | London, 1744 | LN
#65 | $5.00 |
| | Citt and Bumpkin; L'Estrange, Roger | London, 1680 | LN
#52 | $5.00 |
| | Clarissa; Richardson, Samuel | London, 1768 | LN
#37 | $5.00 |
| | Covent Garden Theatre or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir; MacKlin, Charles | London, 1752 | LN
#53 | $5.00 |
| | Cursory Observations on the Poems Attribuuted to Thomas Rowley; Malone, Edmond | London, 1782 | LN
#36 | $5.00 |
| | Deformities of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Selected for His Works; Kolb & Congleton | Edinburgh, 1782 | LN
#28 | $20.00 |
| | Democritus Platonissans; More, Henry | Cambridge, 1646 | LN
#49 | $5.00 |
| | Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing; Collins, Anthony | London, 1729 | LN
#59 | $5.00 |
| | Discourse of the Causes, Natures and Cures of Phrensie, Madness or Distraction; Tryon, Thomas | London, 1689 | LN
#64 | $5.00 |
| | Empress of Morocco and Its Critcs: Settle, Dryden, Shadwell, Crowne, and Duffet; various | London, 1673/1674 | LN
#80 | $20.00 |
| | Englishman from Paris, the; Murphy, Arthur | London, 1756 | LN
#60 | $5.00 |
| | Enthusiasmus Triumphatus; More, Henry | London, 1662 | LN
#50 | $5.00 |
| | Essay Concering Critical and Curious Learning, A anon | London, 1698 | LN
#41 | $5.00 |
| | Essay on Criticism, An; Oldmixon, John | London, 1728 | LN
#39 | $5.00 |
| | Essay on Fables, An; Dodsley, Robert | London, 1764 | LN
#40 | $5.00 |
| | Essay on Satire particulary on te Dunciad, An; Harte, Walter | London, 1730 | LN
#46 | $5.00 |
| | Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients; Ogilvie, John | London, 1762 | LN
#30 | $5.00 |
| | Fables of Æsop, The; Ogilby, John | London, 1668 | LN
#78 | $25.00 |
| | Fables; Gay, John | London, 1727/1738 | LN
#77 | $20.00 |
| | Female Wits, The; anon | London, 1704 | LN
#31 | $5.00 |
| | Fragments of Ancient Poetry; MacPherson, James | Edinburgh, 1760 | LN
#35 | $5.00 |
| | Grave, The; Blair, Robert | London, 1743 | LN
#72 | $5.00 |
| | Historical and Critical Account of the Living Authors of Great Britain; Rider, William | London, 1762 | LN
#73 | $5.00 |
| | History of Sabatai Sevi; Evelyn, John | London, 1669 | LN
#48 | $5.00 |
| | Hypochondriasis: Practical Treatise; Hill, John | London, 1766 | LN
#44 | $5.00 |
| | Le Lutrin: An Heroic Poem; anon | London, 1682 | LN
#33 | $5.00 |
| | Learned Dissertation on Dumpling, together with
Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot; anon | London, 1726/1727 | LN
#56 | SOLD |
| | Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, A; Cibber, Colley | London, 1742 | LN
#66 | $5.00 |
| | Letter from a Clergyman to His Friend, A; anon | London, 1726 | LN
#58 | $5.00 |
| | Life and Death of Doctor Faustus; Mountfort, William | London, 1697 | LN
#67 | $5.00 |
| | Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation; Traherne, Thomas | London, 1717 | LN
#51 | $5.00 |
| | Methodist, The; Lloyd, Evan | London, 1766 | LN
#70 | $5.00 |
| | Modest Defence of Publick Stews, A; Mandeville, Bernard | London, 1724 | LN
#74 | $5.00 |
| | Of the Sister Arts: An Essay; Jacob, Hildebrand | London, 1734 | LN
#62 | $5.00 |
| | Poems; Headley, Henry | London, 1786 | LN
#54 | $5.00 |
| | Poeta de Tristibus or the Poet's Complaint; anon | London, 1682 | LN
#71 | $5.00 |
| | Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson; Courtenay, John | London, 1786 | LN
#45 | $5.00 |
| | Scribleriad, The, together with
The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue; anon, Lord Hervey | London, 1742 | LN
#32 | $5.00 |
| | Selection of Emblems, A; various | 1624/1635/1686 | LN
#75 | $10.00 |
| | Selections from the Observator; L'Estrange, Roger | 1681-1687 | LN
#34 | $5.00 |
| | Sonnets of Thomas edwards, The; Edwards, Thomas | London, 1765/1780 | LN
#63 | $5.00 |
| | Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost, The, together with
Catalogue of Dr. Arbuthnot's Library, A; anon | London, 1712/1779 | LN
#68 | $5.00 |
| | Tutor to Tchygraphy or Short-Writing, A, together with
Tachygraphy; Shelton, Thomas | London, 1642/1647 | LN
#76 | $20.00 |
| | Two Poems Against Pope; Welsted, Leonard and anon | London, 1730/1740 | LN
#42 | $5.00 |
| | Will and No Will, together with
New Play Criticiz'd, The; MacKlin, Charles | London, 1746/1747 | LN
#61 | $5.00 |
 | Bleak House; Dickens, Charles | Bradbury & Evans, London, 1853 | First one volume edition, with forty etchings, rebound in full calf with AEG and gilt spine and dentelles by Morrell of London with binder's lable present | LN
#4 | $850.00 |
| Collection of Engraved Portaits; Rose, James Anderson | Marcus Ward, London, 1874 | large paper edition, bound in full morroco, 100 photographic plates | LN
#10 | $300.00 |
| Gay's Works: Poems on Several Occassions; Gay, John | Printed for Jacob Tonson, London, 1720 | first edition, handsome rebound, rust color full leather leather, gold lettering, a couple of light scratches, marbled end papers, text pages very good condition | LN
#25 | $400.00 |
| Glossary or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names. . . in the Works of English Authors; Nares, Robert | Robert Triphook, London, 1822 | first edition, bound in full contemporary morroco, slight foxing to title page and endpapers | LN
#12 | SOLD |
| Haveth Children Everywhere; Joyce, James | Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1930 | paper wrappers with glassine protector, original slipcase, no 191 of 600 | LN
#19 | $500.00 |
| Headlong Career and Woful Ending of Precocious Piggy, The Hood, Thomas | Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1863 | 28 pp, printed paper wrappers, illustrations hand-colored throughout | LN
#23 | $175.00 |
| History of the Worthies of England, The; Fuller, Thomas | F. G. W. L. and W. G., London, 1662 | first edition, re-bound in reverse calf, frontis portrait re-mounted, title and dedication pages damaged (not affecting text) and repaired with old discolored tape, text otherwise clean and includes the first biography of Shakespeare, sold as is | LN
#11 | SOLD |
| Hyperion, A Romance; Longfellow, Henry | Samuel Coleman, 1839 | two vol. set, red leather bound, some wear, some chipping on spine good condition | LN
#15 | $425.00 |
| Maine Woods, The; Thoreau, Henry D. | Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864 | second edition, full cloth with some fading to spine, otherwise tight and clean | LN
#21 | $250.00 |
| Milton Poetical Works; Bush, Douglas editor | Oxford University Press, 1970 | leather bound, lightly worn, good condition | LN
#16 | $125.00 |
| Odes and Sonnets Illustrated | Brothers Dalziel Printers, 1863 | gold decoration on cover, leather bound, slightly wear on corners, good condition | LN
#26 | $120.00 |
| Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles | Chapman & Hall, London, 1865 | The two-part first edition bound in 19th century half morroco leather with modest wear, lacks all half titles, all the ads for volume 2 and the protective tissues for three plates (other tissues appear later), the plate listed as facing page 30 has been relocated to page 18 | LN
#5 | $650.00 |
| Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, The; Thomas Hood | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 | printed gold decoration on red leather bound cover, good condition | LN
#14 | $225.00 |
| Pliocene Skull, The; Harte, Bret | Washington DC, 1871 | first edition, second issue with the extract from The Preceedings of the California Acadamey of Natural Sciences, July 16th 1866 at page ii, BAL 7424 | LN
#8 | SOLD |
| Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; Burns, Robert | William Creech, Edinburgh, 1787 | Second edition, mixed issue with Boxburgh misspelled on page xxxvii; no addenda to the subscription list and "stinking" reading on page 263 | LN
#1 | $2000.00 |
| Poetical Works of Longfellow | Oxford University Press, 1973 | green leather bound, lightly worn, good condition | LN
#27 | $125.00 |
| Shropshire Lad, A; Housman, A. E. | John Lane, New York, 1897 | the first American edition with most of the "B" issue label missing; 150 of the 500 first edition copies were ready bound and exported for sales in New York with a cancel title-page bearing the Lane imprint. A clean copy and more uncommon than the English issue. | LN
#2 | $1200.00 |
| Slovenly Peter or, Cheerful Stories and Funny Pictures, For Good Little Folk; Hoffman, Heinrich | Porter and Coates, Philadelphia, nd (c 1875) | 102 pp., pictorial gilt green cloth binding, two varient title pages, profusely illustrated with hand-colored drawings on every page, fine bright copy | LN
#24 | SOLD |
| Specimens of the British Poets; Campbell, Thomas (ed) | John Murray, London, 1841 | two volumes in one "Extended to two volumes with 200 choice illustrations", bound in 3/4 morocco | LN
#9 | $250.00 |
| Storiella as She is Sung; Joyce, James | Corvinus Press, 1937 | original gilt and orange vellum boards with water glass ring damage, no 37 of 175 | LN
#18 | $2000.00 |
| Ulysses; Joyce, James | Odyssey Press, Hamburg-Paris-Bologna, 1932 | two volumes, paper wrappers with original tissues present, the definative standard edition specially revised at the author's request by Stuart Gilbert | LN
#17 | SOLD |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin; Stowe, Harriet Beecher | John P. Jewett, Boston, 1852 | first edition, first printing, 2 volumes bound in late Victorian 3/4 morocco, together with a matching third volume The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Clarke, Beeton & Co, London, [1853], second English edition, preceeding the first American | LN
#6 | $5,000.00 |
| Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, A Thoreau, Henry D. | Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1862 | 3/4 leather binding, a tight, clean copy with light foxing to title page, BAL 20104 | LN
#20 | $2000.00 |
| Wishing Horse of Oz; Thompson, Ruth Plumly | Reilly & Lee & Co., Chicago (1935) | first edition with twelve color plates by John R. Neill | LN
#7 | SOLD |
| Works of Benjamin Franklin consisting of his life...; | Tiebout & Obrian for H. Caine, New York (1894) | Two volumes in one; issue 2 with binding instructions at bottom of the last page with adv. above: Reference Howes 327; skillfully rebound in contemporary fashion; this copy with early signatures of David Noble & later family members (noted Massachusetts family) | LN
#3 | $950.00 |
| Works of Lord Byron | John Murray, London, 1835 | 17 volumes, original green cloth bindings | LN
#13 | $450.00 |
| Yankee in Canada, A; Thoreau, Henry D. | Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866 | first edition, full cloth with a clothe chemise, BAL 20117 | LN
#22 | $1200.00 |
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