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44. BONE (GERTRUDE). The Furrowed Earth. With woodcuts by Stephen Bone. Small 4to, boards, linen back, gilt top, un

cut.

45.

FIRST EDITION. One of 50 signed and numbered copies.

Mr. Paul. Illustrations by Stephen Bone.
One of 750 copies, autographed by author and artist.

London, 1921

12mo, uncut. London, 1921

46. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Black Letter. Folio, full morocco. (Badly defective at front and many leaves repaired.) [1586]

RARE. The Calendar commences at 1580. Bound at the end: "The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others."' London: Printed by John Wolfe, for the Assigns of Richard Day, 1586. Imperfect at end, and some leaves damaged.

47. BOOK OF SAINT ULTAN (THE). A Collection of Pictures and Poems by Irish Writers. Illustrations. 4to, boards, unDublin: Candle Press, [1920]

cut.

FIRST EDITION.

48. BORROW (GEORGE).

The Turkish Jester; or, Pleas

Ipswich, 1884

antries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi. Translated from the Turkish. 12mo, wrappers, uncut.

THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. One of 150 copies.

49. BOTTOMLEY (GORDON). Chambers of Imagery. First and Second Series. 2 vols., 16mo, wrappers, uncut.

FIRST EDITIONS.

London, 1907-12

50. The Riding to Lithend. With drawings by James Guthrie. Small 4to, boards, uncut. Sussex: Pear Tree Press, 1909

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy to W. B. Yeats. Laid in is a fine 2 pp., 4to, A. L. s. from the author to Mr. Yeats, presenting the volume to him, and asking his opinion of it.

51. King Lear's Wife, and other Plays. Small 4to, gilt decorated cloth, uncut. London, [1920]

FIRST EDITION. One of 50 signed and numbered copies.

52. Gruach and Britain's Daughter. Small 4to, white gilt decorated cloth, gilt top, uncut. London, 1921

FIRST EDITION. One of 50 copies numbered and autographed by the author.

53. BOYLE (WILLIAM). The Building Fund. A Comedy in Three Acts. 12mo, wrappers, uncut.

FIRTS EDITION. Vol. VII of the Abbey Theatre Series.

Dublin, 1905

54. BRIDGES (ROBERT). Poems. 12mo, uncut.

FIRST EDITION.

London, 1873

55. BRONTE (THE SISTERS). Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Illustrations by H. S. Creig and ornaments by

F. C. Tilney. 12 vols., 12mo, buckram, uncut (some bindings stained). London, 1893

One of 250 copies. From the library of F. R. Halsey.

56. BROOKE (RUPERT). Lithuania. A Drama in One Act. 12mo, pictorial wrappers. The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915

FIRST EDITION.

57. BROWNE (EDGAR). Phiz and Dickens as they appeared to Edgar Browne. With original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. 4to, white buckram, gilt top, uncut.

FIRST EDITION.

London, 1913

58. [BROWNING.] Cookesley (G. G.). Selecta e Catullo. 16mo. Etonae, 1845 Editor's presentation copy to Walter Savage Landor, with inscription and two lines in Greek, dated April 20, 1856. Beneath is inscribed: "From W. S. L. to R. W. B. B. 1863," in Browning's hand.

59. BURKE (THOMAS). Chinatown. 12mo, uncut.

60.

FIRST EDITION. Scarce.

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The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. 12mo,

original wrappers.

61. uncut.

FIRST EDITION. EXTREMELY RARE.

London, n. d. [1920]

Whispering Windows. Tales of the Waterside. 12mo,

FIRST EDITION.

London, 1921

62. BUCHANAN (ROBERT) AND SWINBURNE (A. C.). The Fleshly School of Poetry and other Phenomena of the Day. London, 1872; Under the Microscope. By A. C. Swinburne. London, 1872. In one vol., 12mo, half calf (rubbed), original wrappers bound in. London, 1872

FIRST EDITIONS.

63. BURGESS (GELETT). The Purple Cow! With "The Chewing-Gum Man. 8vo, sewn, uncut. San Francisco, 1895 FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, consisting of nonsense excerpts from "The Lark."

64. BURTON (RICHARD F.). The Highlands of the Brazil. Frontispieces. 2 vols., 8vo, uncut.

65.

London, 1869

FIRST EDITION. With a full account of the gold and diamond mines.

illustrations. 2 vols., 8vo, uncut.

Ultima Thule; or, a Summer in Iceland.

Maps and London, 1875

FIRST EDITION.

66.

Etruscan Bologna. Illustrations. 12mo.

FIRST EDITION.

London, 1876

67.

The Land of Midian (revisited). Map and illustrations on wood and by chromo-lithography. 2 vols., 8vo.

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London, 1879

Portrait. 4to, half vellum, uncut.

Portland: Mosher, 1905

One of 125 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper.

69. BURTON (ROBERT). The Anatomy of Melancholy. Engraved title-page. Folio, old calf, rebacked (the argument of the frontispiece is defective).

London, 1660

70. BUTLER (SAMUEL). Evolution, Old and New. 12mo, uncut. London, 1879

71.

FIRST EDITION.

A Lecture on the Humour of Homer, delivered Jan. 30,

1892. 8vo, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. RARE.

72.

Cambridge, 1892

Essays on Life, Art and Science. 12mo.

FIRST EDITION.

London, 1904 73. CABELL (JAMES B.). Branch of Abingdon, being a partial account of the Ancestry of Christopher Branch. and the founder of the Branch Family in Virginia. Illustrations and facsimile. 8vo, buckram, gilt top, uncut. Richmond, 1911

74.

75.

FIRST EDITION. One of 100 copies, authographed by the author.

Another copy.

Richmond, [1911]

The Majors and their Marriages, 8vo, buckram, uncut.
Richmond, [1915]

FIRST EDITION. One of 100 copies autographed by the author.

76. The Art of James Branch Cabell. By Hugh Walpole. With an Appendix of Individual Comment upon the Cabell Books. Portrait. 12mo, original wrappers, unbound. New York, 1920

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FIRST EDITION. One of 25 copies issued with uncut edges, and with autograph of the author.

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The Jewel Merchants. A Comedy in One Act. 12mo,
New York, 1921

FIRST EDITION. Limited, and autographed by the author.

Joseph Hergesheimer. An Essay in Interpretation. 8vo, Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1921 LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, one of 99 copies.

boards, uncut.

82.

Another copy on small paper. 12mo, wrappers, uncut.
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1921

83.

Jurgen. A Comedy of Justice. Colored frontispiece and many charming illustrations and decorations by Frank C. Papé. Introduction by Hugh Walpole. 8vo, uncut.

84.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

London, 1921

Taboo. A Legend, etc. 8vo, uncut. New York, 1921 FIRST EDITION. Limited issue.

85. CAINE (HALL). A. L. s., 2 pp,. small 4to. St. Moritz, Christmas Eve. To Mr. Maxwell. On literary and other matters.

86.

Typewritten Manuscript, no caption, but on the late War. Written on 22 pages 4to, signed. Together with a 4 pp. A. L. s., Sept. 13, 1893. To Mr. Maxwell.

This is Hall Caine's powerful paper on the War.

"America is master of its own destinies and sovereign of its own soul. It is not for any foreigner, however closely related by blood, to tell America what it ought to do in this great hour of humanity's need . But it may be forgiven a friend of America, who loves it and its people to ask it if its neutrality is possible or right while humanity is being outraged"; etc.

...

87. CANNAN (GILBERT). Noel. An Epic in Ten Cantos. 3 parts (to Canto V). 8vo, wrappers, uncut. London, n. d.

FIRST EDITION.

88. CARMAN (BLISS). A Vision of Sappho. Royal 8vo, original blue wrappers, uncut.

ONE OF 60 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR.

N. p., [1903]

VERY SCARCE.

89. Typewritten Manuscript, signed, of "A Christmas Reverie," written on 15 pp., 4to, with author's manuscript corrections. Together with an A. L. s., 1 p., 4to, dated April 4, 1904. 90. The Gate of Peace. 8vo, original gray wrappers. New Canaan, 1909

One of 60 copies privately printed, and autographed by the author. 91. CARR (JOHN). The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western parts of that Country in the Year 1805. With numerous aquatint plates. 4to, old diced calf (covers loose). London, 1806

FIRST EDITION.

92. CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY, 1914-15; Some Poems of Roger Casement, 1918; Deborah (Abercrombie), 1913; Wade's Boat (Meyerstein), 1921; Character and Opinion (Santayana), 1920; Songs of the Dead (Napier), 1920. 6 vols., various sizes and bindings.

FIRST EDITIONS.

93. CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike. The Povrtraictvre of His Satered Maiestie in his Solitvdes and Svfferings. Engraved frontis

piece by Marshall (mounted). 12mo, old calf, rebacked (name cut from title, and a few wormings). [London], 1648

94.

The Life and Raigne of King Charles, From his Birth to his Death. By Lambert Wood. Small 8vo, half calf (pp. soiled, sold w. a. f.).

London, 1659

95. CHESTERTON (G. K.). Original Autograph Manuscript: "Open Letter: the set-back to English Socialism.' signed. With corrections in blue pencil and ink.

5 pp., 4to,

96. ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, "The Childish Talk about Children.' Written on 10 pp., 4to (three of the pages are in another's hand). Signed at the top, with caption.

97. CHURCHILL (WINSTON). A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to. Cornish, N. H., September, 1916, together with a short A. N. s. relating to the first, which is a message on the late War.

98. CLEMENS (S. L.). Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Illustrations. 8vo, boards, cloth back. Privately Printed [1897]

99.

One of 195 copies printed for private distribution.

1601. Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the time of the Tudors. Facsimile acknowledgment of authorship by Clemens, as frontispiece. 4to, boards, cloth back, uncut. Privately Printed, 1920 Facsimile of the practically unobtainable First Edition, and the equally rare West Point, or authorized edition. One of 110 copies.

100. Mark interviews himself on Why Lipton failed to Lift the Cup. Portrait. 8vo, stitched. Privately Printed, 1920

One of 109 copies. Printed on one side of the leaf only.

N. p., n. d.

101. Autobiography. 7 pp., 8vo, folded. Scarce. Not to be confounded with the Burlesque Autobiography published in 1871.

102. 4 pp., 8vo.

The Suppressed Chapter of "Life on the Mississippi." N. p., n. d. One of 250 copies. The chapter suppressed in the printing from the original MS.

103. CLOUGH (ARTHUR HUGH). Letters and Remains. For Private Circulation only, London, 1865; Poems and Prose Remains, 2 vols. London, 1869. Together 3 vols., 12mo, uncut.

London, 1865-69

FIRST EDITIONS. Edward Dowden's copies. The first volume contains the author's autograph inscription to Dowden; the two latter, Dowden's autograph.

104. COBURN (ALVIN LANGDON). Men of Mark. Fine portraits (33) with facsimile signatures. 4to. London, 1913

The finest published_collection of modern portraits, including Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Edward Carpenter, Henry James, Arthur

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