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Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) Autograph Letter, Signed (ALS) to Frederic Lefevre at the office of his literary journal, "Les Nouvelles Letteraires," dated at Paris, 23 Fevrier 1930: In French.
Original manuscript Very Good Signed
1-1/2 pages, written on card stock, 3.5" x 4.5", with the original stamped envelope. Bergson apologizes for his tardiness in thanking Lefevre for sending the last installment of his "Une heure avec...." Bergson blames his lag on a resurgence of his ailment, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to use a pen. He mentions his pleasure in reading Lefevre's interesting, lively pieces, penetrating Picasso's privacy, etc. Signed, H. Bergson. [Lefevre edited "Les Nouvelles Letteraires," an artistic and literary journal, from 1922 to 1949.]
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Binyon, Laurence, editor THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF MODERN LYRICS
London Macmillan 1927 Gold Treasury Edition Full Leather Very Good
pp: xi, 369, indices. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in red morocco, paneled spine with gilt devices and leather label, dentelles, all edges gilt; tops of several leaves jammed. 6" x 3.75" Includes the work of some World War I poets.
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Bolton, W.F., editor THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839.
Cambridge England University Press 1966 First Edition Original Cloth Near Fine Very Good Jacket
pp: xii, 228. Comprises 20 essays from Caxton through De Quincey, including Swift, Defoe, Ben Franklin, Webster, Samuel Johnson, and others. 8.75" x 5.5"
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Boosey, Thomas ANECDOTES OF FISH AND FISHING.
London Hamilton, Adams 1887 Second edition Leather Bound Near Fine
251pp, index. Bound in half blue morocco and marbled boards, panelled spine with elaborate gilt stamping, top edges gilt; paper lightly rubbed on front board. 8" x 5.5" This is the second edition of "Piscatorial reminiscences and gleanings, by an old angler and bibliopolist," published in 1835. Boosey gathered these anecdotes from a wide variety of sources.
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Brodribb, W.J. DEMOSTHENES
Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott 1877 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good
pp: (ix), 174; folding map of Greece. 7" x 4.5" Comprises extracts of Demosthenes speeches, translated into English, with much biographical and historical background.
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Browning, Robert POETICAL WORKS: With Portraits. In Two Volumes.
NY Macmillan 1896 First US Edition Pictorial Cloth Good
pp: 748+786, indices; frontispieces; front free-endpapers gone, some pencil marks in text. 7.75" x 5.25" Complete edition, including Asolando (1889), with an editor's note by Augustine Birrell. Laid into Volume I is a two-page printed reading guide to Browning, ca. 1900.
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Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849) Autograph Letter Signed (ALS), datelined at Edgeworth's Town, Sept. 20, 1813, to a Mrs. Miles
Original manuscript Good Signed
Three pages, 12mo. In part: Thanks the recipient for her letter and for "the readiness with which you have executed my various troublesome commissions. I think I had better wait until I see the things before I send you a draft for the amount of the bills....Tell Mr. Miles that Mrs. E. thanks him for paying the L1-16-0 to Miss Sorrell....Do you know whether she has made my gown with a train or not. If she has not I think I must trouble you to buy me another yard & 1/4, as trains might come into fashion before my gown is gone & I might find it impossible as you say to match the color....The grateful smell of the Padre tea is now perfuming the room....The glass bowl has a piece broken out of the edge...Mr. E. thinks Vancouver's glue can set it all to rights. Please don't let Mr. Miles ride tumble-down horses....Yours sincerely, Maria Edgeworth." Remnants of seal. Upper corner worn away from final leaf with loss of two words; repairable separation at one fold. 8" x 4.75" Irish writer and early feminist.
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Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Typewritten Letter, Signed (TLS) on letterhead of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, to the Archbishop of York, November 9, 1948
Original manuscript Very Good Signed
One-half page on quarto letterhead, with five emendations in Eliot's hand, signed as T.S. Eliot. In part: "...Your Grace's kind letter...has been forwarded by my secretary, as I have been at this Institute since the beginning of October....I feel greatly honored by your Grace's attention and am most happy to have received this letter....Your Grace's humble ("obedient" written in) servant, T.S. Eliot." Eliot had converted from Unitarian to Anglican in 1927, but identified himself as "Anglo-Catholic." He was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study after winning the Nobel Prize in 1948.
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Flower, B.O. WHITTIER: PROPHET, SEER AND MAN
Boston Arena Publishing 1896 First Edition Original Cloth Good
pp: viii, 160; portrait; tops of few pages jammed. An adoring life of Whittier, who "preserved from youth to silver age the soul of a child" and led a "pure Quaker life." 8.25" x 5.25"
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Furness, Horace Howard THE LETTERS. Edited by H.H.F.J.
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1922 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good
Two volumes. pp: 351 + 296, index; 6 photo-plates, 4pp facs ms; engraved armorial bookplates. 8" x 5" Considered "the greatest of Shakespeare's editors," the Philadelphia-born Furness was an ardent abolitionist, "helped spirit the body of John Brown through Philadelphia," served as an agent for the Sanitary Commission in the War between the States, etc.
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Gane, Gill and others WOMEN AND LITERATURE An Annotated Bibliography of Women Writers
Cambridge, MA Sense and Sensibility Collective 1973 First edition Original Wraps Very Good Martha Jane Mount
pp: ii, 58, index; occasional illus in text. Contains 399 extensively annotated entries. "We believe that this bibliography will be useful to women wanting to study the female experience as it has been portrayed in literature, to women teaching literature, and to individual women simply looking for good reading." (foreword) 9.5" x 6.75"
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Gilbertson, Catherine HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
NY D. Appleton-Century 1937 First Edition Original cloth Very Good
pp: (xvi), 330, index; 8 plates. 8.25" x 5.5" Gilbertson offers a new biography of the woman who "embodied the thoughts and emotions of 19th-century America," noting that previous works on Stowe were either uncritically adulatory or coldly analytical.
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