![Item #3644 [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3644.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675190103)
London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with..... More
![Item #3345 [WOMAN AUTHOR]. A Woman's Error. Bertha M. Clay, pseud. of Charlotte Mary Brame](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3345.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1609701123)
Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Company, 1914. 8vo. [2], 247 pp. Textblock weak and age-toned as is true of all copies on account of the cheap quality of the paper. Original publisher's green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and red (worn and somewhat soiled at head and tail, but generally in..... More
![Item #3080 [LITERARY ARCHIVE]. [SOCIAL REFORM]. Large archive of more than 1,000 pages of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3080.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591574771)
Together seven three-ring binder notebooks (binders worn, boards on vol. VI broken off) -- retained by us as out of "respect du fonds" -- containing approximately 876 typescript and manuscript pages. TOGETHER WITH: 29 file folders of articles, ideas, proposals, and miscellaneous publishing materials, consisting of approximate 300 typescript and..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. (28 cm). 14 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled (front cover detached and partially defective). Mimeographed typescript. Preserved in a mylar L-Sleeve. Very early account of the then-neglected field of Southern Amateur Fiction, still valuable. The author..... More
![Item #3660 [HENRY JAMES]. The Tender Recollections of Irene Macgillicuddy. Laurence Oliphant](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3660.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642554474)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 32mo. 94 pp. (including integral 4-page advertisements for Harper's Half-Hour Series) + 2 pp. at end (advertisements for Wilkie Collins and Thackeray). Contemporary brown linen cloth, leather spine label (defective); paper stock toned; browning on first page of advertisements from offsetting of..... More
![Item #3079 [NATIVE AMERICANA / AMERICAN WEST OUTDOORS - ARCHIVE OF LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS]. "El...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3079.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591118292)
Seattle (et al.): 1912-1925. 14 vols., large 4to., ca. 29 cm (tall) x 22 cm (wide) x 36 cm (linear), mostly in 3-hole side-stiched black leatherette covers, preserved in very good condition. Large and interesting literary archive of typescript stories and novels by "El Comancho," a popular author who specialized..... More
![Item #4078 [TAMERLANE]. The North American Review (Volume XXV) containing a notice for "Tamerlane...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4078.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975697)
Boston: Frederick T. Gray, 1827. First Edition. Large 8vo. [6], 491, [1] + "Proposals for publishing by Subscription the Works of George Washington" by Jared Sparks. Waterstains throughout, some of which are ugly (SEE IMAGES) but the paper is strong. Contemporary American sheep, dry and worn, upper joint cracked and..... More
![Item #331 [NEW YORK BINDING?]. The Course of Time: a poem. Robert POLLOK](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/331.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284705)
New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. Bound by Charles Well of New York (?) ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York..... More
![Item #1165 The Ides of March [SIGNED]. Rene](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284483)
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 85, [1] pp. With 43 black and white macabre plates by the author. Original black cloth, original dust wrapper illustrated by the author. ¶ First and only appearance of these curious quatrains (ballad stanzas and clerihews) written by an otherwise unknown American author..... More
![Item #1698 [CALIFORNIA NOVELIST - TYPESCRIPT]. "Manila Galleon" / "That Year's Galleon" (early...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1698.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600272730)
S.l. (probably Santa Barbara, CA): 1936 (or after). Unbound. Large 4to. (8 1/2 x 11"). Unpaginated: 23 chapters + Epilogue, each individually paginated. Typewritten on "Superior Manifold - Esleeck Mfg Co." Preserved in a protective cloth case. This appears to be the only significant Cameron Rogers manuscript still in private..... More
![Item #4102 [FIRST ITALIAN REFERENCE TO SHAKESPEARE 1726]. Il Cesare tragedia. Con alcune cose...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4102.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697395782)
Faenza: Archi, 1726. First Edition. 8vo (227-172 mm). 185, [1] pp. Collation: A-Y4 Z6. With a printer's mark on title-page and p. 76 (Apollo with lyre) plus a large woodcut of Hercules and the Nemean Lion on final page. Contemporary "carta rustica" covered with brocade paper (somewhat chipped along the..... More
![Item #3483 [FETISHIZING BREASTS IN MEXICO 1918]. Manzanas Del Paraiso. Libro de Pasion y de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3483.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620152711)
Mexico City: [Escalante], 1918. Second edition. 8vo. [14], 11-61, [2] pp. Contemporary neat green cloth, with the monogram "J.R.R." (Jose Ruben Romero) at the foot of spine. Lacking wrappers. Text evenly browned, upper margins of a few leaves with short tears (not affecting text). NOT ex-library! Scarce and little-known erotic..... More
![Item #3249 [Scotland]. Letter Signed, to John Adam, Esq. concerning repairs to Dumbarton Castle....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3249.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604252893)
Dumbarton, Scotland: 1790. Folio half-sheet, 1 p. (20 lines), name of the recipient on verso, 2 vertical and 4 horizontal folds, evidence of wax seal on verso, old tape repair at top margin (not affecting text), ink gall corrosion on outer margin, affecting one word. Preserved in mylar sleeve. An..... More
