![The Faerie Queene [The Fairy Queen]; Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues....](/pictures/thumb/CNJS07_1.JPG?v=1593445323)
Oxford: Printed for The Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press [Design by John Johnson], 1953. Austen, John; Parker, Agnes Miller. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 370 of 1500 copies, two volumes (complete) with original dustjackets and slipcase, quarto size, 1018 pp., signed by Agnes Miller Parker. Edmund..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [The Riverside Press], 1913. Early printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 86 pp., association copy (Jules Eichorn). John Muir (1838-1914) remains well-known and beloved today for his work on environmental issues over 100 years ago, and wrote extensively on the west, including Yosemite and the Sierras. He helped..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [The Riverside Press], 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, duodecimo size, 86 pp., with original dust jacket and publisher's prospectus. John Muir (1838-1914) remains well-known and beloved today for his work on environmental issues over 100 years ago, and wrote extensively on the..... More
London and Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company [Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh], 1895. Richards, Frank; Bedford, F.D. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Twelve volumes (complete), octavo size, total pp. approximately 3,100, one of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Tobias George Smollett (ca.1721-1771), a Scottish author, was known for his..... More
New York: Random House [Pynson Printers], 1932. Kent, Rockwell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 272 of 950 copies, folio size, 152 pp., with thumbprint of Rockwell Kent. Believed to the the earliest European vernacular epic poem, "Beowulf", although composed likely in the early 8th century CE, came to us today through..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the first American edition, sixmo size, 384 pp. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), penned this sequel two years after "Little Women" which was popular immediately upon publication. Alcott, an abolitionist and feminist, grew up surrounded by many of the 19th-century literary..... More
![Waverley Novels [Victoria Edition]. Sir Walter Scott](/pictures/thumb/CNSZ06_1.JPG?v=1591053965)
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1897. Hardcover. The "Victoria Edition", twenty-five volumes (complete), duodecimo size, approx. 11,800 pp. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was an amazingly talented man, serving daily in the law profession and politics while at the same time writing a large body of work. In addition to the..... More
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. Paget, Sidney. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 367 pp. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson via "A Study in Scarlet" which was published to "enthusiastic review". More stories would follow, and although Doyle "most..... More
[San Francisco]: Designed and printed by Lemoncheese Press, [2019]. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 16 of 50 copies, folio size. Printed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth in 1819 in edition of 50 copies, this no. 16. The Lemoncheese Press is owned and operated by Li..... More