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2. Author Name: Carroll, Lewis and Illustrated by Marie Laurencin
Title: Alice In Wonderland [Illustrated by Marie Laurencin]
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine/No jacket as issued.
Edition: Limited
Publisher: Paris The Black Sun Press 1930
Illustrator: Marie Laurencin
Seller ID: INTERLOC006426
Quarto, 114pp., Original paper wrappers. Illustrated with six colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. This is copy
#182 of 300 copies of the European edition printed on Rives Paper. This book comes in a slipcase which is a little
bit worn. The pink chemise that covers the book is a little darkened on the spine, and shows some splitting at the
ends of the joints. Extremely rare edition of Alice in Wonderland. About as nice a copy of the book that can be
found, despite the slight wear to the chemise.
Menihan Copy Childrens Books, Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Illustrated Books Children's
Price = 2500.00 USD

3. Author Name: Poe, Edgar Allan
Title: The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe [Complete Collected Writings] Ten Volume Set
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good Set
Publisher: New York Harper and Brothers ca. 1920's
Illustrator: Illustrated
Seller ID: INTERLOC025131
Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated spines with ravens and bells. Just a few minor signs of age and wear. A clean
and solid set. Handsome set of this classic American author includes: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven,
The Bells, Lenore, Eldorado, The Devil in the Belfry, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Black
Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe's literary criticisms and much more. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January
19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American
Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American
practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited
with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to
earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. In January 1845 Poe published
his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. Sadly, on October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of
his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease,
rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. Poe was found delirious in the streets and was never coherent long
enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own.
Price = 325.00 USD

4. Author Name: Flaubert, Gustave; Edited by Robert Arnot and Illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins
Title: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert [Ten Volume Set] Editor Signed Limited Edition 1/750
Sets
Binding: Leather
Book Condition: Near Fine Set
Edition: Limited
Publisher: New York M. Walter Dunne 1904
Illustrator: Illustrated
Seller ID: INTERLOC025126
Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edge is gilt. Deckled outside edges. Marbled endpapers.
Limited edition set 519/750 signed by Arnot. Signed by Robert Arnot on a beautiful limitations page, in the Art
Nouveau style. Bound in black leather with intricate gilt decorations to front covers & spines; gilt lettering to spines.
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest
Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857),and for his
scrupulous devotion to his art and style. His first finished work was November, a novella, which was completed in
1842. In September 1849, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
Madame Bovary, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856. The government
brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the
following year, but both were acquitted. When Madame Bovary appeared in book form, it met with a warm
reception. He spent the remainder of his life toiling on the unfinished Bouvard et Pécuchet, which was posthumously
printed in 1881. It was a grand satire on the futility of human knowledge and the ubiquity of mediocrity. He believed
the work to be his masterpiece, though the posthumous version received lukewarm reviews. Flaubert was a prolific
letter writer, and his letters have been collected in several publications.
Price = 750.00 USD

5. Author Name: Bronte, Charlotte, Bronte, Emily, and Bronte, Anne Editor: Scott, Temple
Title: The Novels of the Sisters Bronte: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall...[12 Volume Set]
Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good Set Publisher: Edinburgh John Grant 1911
Seller ID: INTERLOC025133
Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edges are gilt. Charlotte (April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855),
Emily (July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849), were English writers of the
1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted
into the canon of great English literature. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and
were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The
book attracted little attention, selling only two copies. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each in the
following year. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were released in 1847
after their long search to secure publishers. The novels attracted great critical attention and steadily became best-
sellers, but the sisters' careers were shortened by ill-health. Emily died the following year before she could complete
another novel, and Anne published her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in 1848, a year before her death.
Upon publication Jane Eyre received the most critical and commercial success of all the Bronte works, continuing to
this day. Charlotte's Shirley appeared in 1849 and was followed by Villette in 1853. Her first novel, The Professor,
was published posthumously in 1857. The first biography of Charlotte was written by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell
and published in 1857. A most handsome set.
Price = 1250.00 USD

6. Author Name: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine and Published by
Gabriel Wells
Title: The Writings of Mark Twain [35 Volume Set] The Definitive Edition of His Complete Collected
Works
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good Condition
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New York Gabriel Wells 1922
Seller ID: INTERLOC025134
Octavo, Paper covered boards with blue cloth spines. Printed paper spine labels. Some of the volumes have chipped
edges. Some of the spine labels show wear and fading. Three volumes have discolored areas at the base of the spine.
Some mild foxing on the preliminary pages of a few volumes. The fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in
anticipation of the publication of this edition which did not appear until after his death. It is double-signed as Mark
Twain/Samuel Clemens and is additionally by Mark Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Twain was born
during a visit by Halley's Comet which appears every 75 years, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as
well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the " greatest American humorist of
his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." The Definitive Edition, limited to
1,0 2 4 numbered sets, each signed "S L Clemens / Mark Twain". Clemens planned a definitive and complete edition
of his works before his death and, to that end, in 1906 signed 1,024 sheets with both forms of his name to be inserted
in the first volume of the planned edition. The set was delayed for many years.
Price = 5000.00 USD

7. Author Name: Fielding, Henry
Title: The Complete Works of Henry Fielding [12 Volume Set] History of Tom Jones; Amelia; Adventures
of Joseph Andrews; Misc....
Binding: Leather Book Condition: Very Good Set Publisher: New York F. Collier and Son 1903
Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated spines. Marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers. Top edges are
gilt. Minor chips on a few spine ends. Includes: History of Tom Jones; Amelia; Adventures of Joseph Andrews; Life
of Late Mr. Jonathan Wild; and Miscellaneous Writings. Henry Fielding ( Sharpham, 22 April 1707 - near Lisbon, 8
October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as
the author of the novel Tom Jones. Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of
law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London' s first police force,
the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate. Fielding never stopped writing political satire and
satires of current arts and letters. Fielding took to writing novels in 1741 and his first major success was Shamela, an
anonymous parody of Richardson's melodramatic novel. It is a satire that follows the model of the famous Tory
satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and John Gay, in particular). He followed this up with Joseph
Andrews (1742), an original work supposedly dealing with Pamela's brother, Joseph.[3] Although begun as a
parody, this work developed into an accomplished novel in its own right and is considered to mark Fielding's debut
as a serious novelist.
Price = 850.00 USD

8. Author Name: Ibsen, Henrik
Title: The Works of Henrik Ibsen [13 volume set]
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good/No Jacket
Publisher: New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1911
Illustrator: Illustrated
Seller ID: INTERLOC019870
Octavo, Light wear to covers. Old Bookplate.Some spine ends torn and some spines stained. Gilt lettered spines.
Includes: Lady Inger of Ostrat/The Feast at Solhoug/ Love's Comedy; The Vikings at Helgeland/The Pretenders;
Brand; Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem; Emperor and Galilean: A World-Historic Drama; The League of Youth Pillars
of Society; A Doll's House Ghosts; An Enemy of the People/The wild Duck; Rosmersholm/The Lady From the Sea;
Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder; Little Eyolf/John Gabriel Borkman/When We Dead Awaken; From Ibsen's
Workshop: Notes, Scenarios, and Drafts of the Modern Plays; Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse: With Essays on
Ibsen by Edward Dowden and James Huneker.
Sets
Price = 125.00 USD

9. Author Name: Baum, L Frank, Illustrated by Barry Moser
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Illustrated by Barry Moser]
Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Fine/Fine clamshell case Publisher: Pennyroyal Press 1985
268pp., Nice clean crisp book. Just one of 350 in the limited edition signed by Barry Moser. Illustrated with 62
wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in 5 colors by Harold McGrath. Calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge. Bound
in beige cloth boards gilt lettered. House in cloth clamshell tray case. One of 350 copies signed by the illustrator,
this being #243. Fabulous woodcuts, including Nancy Reagan as the Wicked Witch, make this edition a classic.
Includes an appreciation by Justin G. Schiller.
Price = 2500.00 USD

10. Author Name: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Title: Sketches of Vassar College, 1915
Book Condition: Very Good Set Edition: First Edition Illustrator: Illustrated Woodcuts
Folio, 12pp., Original case is split along the spine. Contains 12 colored woodcuts by Rudolph Ruzicka. Amongs his
earliest work Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator,
typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel
Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype
Company for fifty years. He designed a number of seals and medals, including the American Institute of Graphic
Arts (AIGA) and the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association. Ruzicka emigrated to the United States
from Bohemia at age ten, living first in Chicago where he took drawing lessons at the Hull House School before
becoming an apprentice wood engraver. From 1900 to 1902 he attended further classes at the Chicago Art Institute.
In 1903, he moved to New York to work as an engraver at the American Bank Note Company. In subsequent years
he attended classes at both the Art Students League of New York and the New York School of Art. In 1910, Ruzicka
received his first major art commission from System magazine. Many exhibitions followed,including such venues as
the Societe de la Gravure, Paris, the Grolier Club, and the Century Association, New York. In 1935 Ruzicka was
awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in that same year began work with the
Typographic Development staff at Mergenthaler Linotype Company, for which he was to produce typeface families.
He moved to Massachusetts in 1948 and eventually settled in Vermont. Vassar holds a major collection of his work
and ephemera
Price = 3500.00 USD