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Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company: 1901
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe12555
Condition: Very Good
First Printing 1901. A near fine copy in red cloth and gilt lettering on decorations to front board and spine. This copy came from the personal collection of a famous collector--M. B. Goldstone--whose brother was also connected with Steinbeck (his biographer/bibliographer). One of Goldstone's books recently sold at auction for $180,000 (The Great Gatsby). This copy is signed in pencil by Goldstone on the front free endpaper with his annotation for a first edition. Red cloth with gilt top edge and uncut fore edge. A tight and square copy that is lightly tattered at the heel of the spine and has... View more info
Price: $245.00
Publisher: London, Charles Tilt: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: cfe15278
Condition: Very Good
Patterned Burgundy cloth boards with darker burgundy leather strip on spine with gold lettering and decorations. Gold gilt page edges all around. 12mo. Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith--in a series of 41 plates designed and engraved by George Cruikshank-famed illustrator of Dickens. Each plate is accompanied by descriptive extracts--fully explaining the subject. Cruikshank, even at the time of this publication, had his many loyal fans and collectors--of which many did not want to purchase Roscoe's complete Library of 10 volumes in order to obtain the engravings--so this book... View more info
By: Gray, Thomas
Price: $165.00
Publisher: London, Limited Editions Club: 1938
Edition: First LEC
Seller ID: cfe14255
Condition: Fine
An exquisite copy of the 1938 Limited Editions Club copy of this very famous Elegy--this is copy 1165 of only 1,500 copies produced. This edition is designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and printed at The Raven Press at Alperton Middlesex. This copy is signed by the illustrator Agnes Miller Parker--and the illustrations were taken from drawings first done at the same Churchyard where Thomas Gray sat and mused over the Elegy in the 18th Century. This copy is in fine condition with the original plastic like covering protected the cover and enclosed in a slipcase. The slipcase is in near fine condit... View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York, Scribner's: 1881
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe13257
Condition: Very Good
From the recently auctioned collection of Adrian Homer Goldstone (Steinbeck's bibliographer) and M. B. Goldstone--with the auction tag laid in. Goldstone's penciled signature and comments on the front free endpaper. Red cloth richly decorated in black and gilt to the front board and spine. Overall moderate uniform age toning. A couple of small stains to the rear board and some dustiness to the page edges. Interior is clean and the spine and hinges are tight. The author's first book and collectable thus. View more info
By: Johnston, Mary
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1902
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: cfe12605
Condition: Fine
First Printing. From the recently auctioned collection of the Goldstone brothers--this one from M.B. Goldstone--with his custom gold bookplate lightly attached to the front pastedown and his small penciled signature to the top corner of the ffep. A handsome fine copy in red cloth boards with paper label to the spine. This copy is signed by Johnston on the free endpaper after the title and copyright page. An early work and quite successful--although not even close to the success of "To Have and To Hold" which was published in 1900. "Audrey" combined romance and history and was made into a silen... View more info
By: Johnston, Mary
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1898
Edition: First
Seller ID: cfe12662
Condition: Fine
From the recently auctioned collection of M. B. and Adrian Goldstone. A fine copy in blue cloth with darker blue lettering to front board decorations and spine. Signed by Johnston on the title page--signature only. No fading and no discoloration whatsoever. Tight binding, no interior markings except front free endpaper that has previous owner's last name in ink. The front free endpaper also shows some signs of discoloration due to a newspaper clipping. Remarkable condition for a book this old. Johnston went on to author "To Have And To Hold" which was the top selling book of 1900. View more info
By: Johnston, Mary
Price: $375.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1914
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe12648
Condition: Very Good
First Printing--Published "October 1914". From the recently auctioned collection of well known collector M. B. Goldstone. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 442 pp. with illustrations by famed illustrator N. C. Wyeth. This copy is signed by Mary Johnson on the front endpaper. Near Fine condition without DJ-- Fading to the spine lettering or would be fine. A tight sturdy and unmarked copy. In the early 1900's--Johnston was one of the most popular authors of fiction. A very collectable copy. View more info
Price: $1,995.00
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent: 1894
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe14216
Condition: Very Good+
This is the very scarce first J. M. Dent printing of 1893-1894--one of only 300 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper with Full Vellum boards and 1500 ordinary copies. This set is one of the 1500 "ordinary copies". Beige-light tone cloth boards with elaborate gilt lettering and designs to front boards and spines--full gilt top edge with ribboned place marker and tissue guards covering frontispiece. Dated on bottom of the spine (MDCCCXCIII) Aldine House--with Dent logo in gilt to the rear boards. Uncut handmade paper with over 300 Beardsley illustrations. Preface by John Rhys dated November 7,... View more info
Price: $160.00
Publisher: New York, Scribner's: 1907
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe13241
Condition: Fine
From the recently auctioned collection of M.B. Goldstone, with the auction tag laid in. A superb and very fine copy in green cloth with gilt, white and blue decorations elaborately used on the front board and spine. Gilt top page edge--like new, uncut paper fore edge and bottom edge--307 handmade paper pages. 7 illustrations and frontispiece beautifully done by noted illustrators and artists--Schoonover, N. C. Wyeth and J. Marchand--very early in their careers--where they went from magazines and books to portraits. Thomas Nelson Page in the 1910's was among the most popular authors in America.... View more info
By: Stockton, Frank
Price: $80.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1900
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe13255
Condition: Fine
From the recently auctioned collection of noted collector M. B. Goldstone. A fine copy in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. A tight and clean copy with only mild age toning to the extremities and a little dustiness to the page edges. A beautiful example of bookart of the early 20th Century. Stockton was, in his time, a major bestselling author. A very collectable copy. Will be shipped Priority mail at media mail pricing. View more info
Price: $195.00
Publisher: New York, Scribner's: 1897
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: cfe13297
Condition: Near Fine
From the recent auction of famed collector M. B. Goldstone, with the auction tag tipped in. A handsome near fine copy in blue cloth with gilt and sea green lettering and decorations to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt with uncut fore edge pages. From the golden age of book cover designs. Frontispiece by Peter Newell, with 15 other illustrations by many other illustrators--all protected by the original tissue guards. At the turn of the century, Stockton was one of the most published and successful authors of western fiction, This copy has a spectacular front board with a spine and back... View more info
