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TRESSELL, Robert [pen name of Robert Philippe NOONAN] [1870-1911].
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
New York: Frederick A.Stokes Company Publishers, [1914]..
12mo. pp. [ix], 385. cloth (bit rubbed, cloth puckered on spine & inner portion of rear cover). First American Edition of a classic of working class literature. The illegitimate son of an inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary, Noonan (who was baptized with the name Croker) spent ten years in South Africa, after which time he settled in Hastings. "Working in the building trade at subsistence wages, he contracted tuberculosis, was influenced by socialist writers such as Robert Blatchford, and became an active member of the unusually large Hastings branch of the Social Democratic Federation, whose banner he painted. He spent his spare time during the last ten years of his life writing by hand the 1800-page manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which brought posthumous fame". (ODB) On the title-page of the first edition, which was substantially abridged from the original manuscript, his pen-name is incorrectly spelled 'Tressall'. Writing in the Manchester Evening News in April, 1946, George Orwell praised the book's ability to convey without sensationalism "the actual detail of manual work and the tiny things almost unimaginable to any comfortably situated person which make life a misery when one's income drops below a certain level." He considered it "a book that everyone should read" and a piece of social history that left one "with the feeling that a considerable novelist was lost in this young working-man whom society could not bother to keep alive."
$750 USD Book Number: elala4542 Order / Enquire
TROLLOPE, Anthony [1815-1882].
Orley Farm.
London: Chapman And Hall, 1862..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. viii, 320; viii, 320. with half-titles. 40 wood-engraved plates after drawings by pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. contemporary half cloth (worn, spine labels chipped, light foxing & a little minor creasing and finger-soiling). First Edition, Mixed Issue, bound from the parts. The book became Trollope's personal favourite and George Orwell deemed it to contain "one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English history." "Millais's main effort is to do justice to the characters of Trollope's wonderfully rich and varied novel and to the situations in which they find themselves, yet the comfort, even elegance, of Victorian existence on the right side of the social line is nowhere more attractively presented than in his forty drawings for this novel. Trollope thought that Millais's illustrations were the best he had seen "in any novel in any language"." (Ray) Sadleir 13. Ray, The llustrator And The Book in England From 1790 To 1914, 168.
$750 USD Book Number: elala4484 Order / Enquire
WALLER, Edmund [1606-1687].
Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, And to several Persons...Eighth Edition, with Additions. To which is Prefix'd The Author's Life.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1711..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., lxxxii, [6], 423. 10 engraved plates (incl. 10 portraits - 2 on 1 plate). woodcut ornaments & initial. contemporary calf (corners worn, joints partly cracked, some foxing & browning throughout). First Illustrated Edition and the First to contain the Life.
$275 USD Book Number: elala4869 Order / Enquire
WALLER, Edmund [1606-1687].
Poems, &c. Written upon several Occasions, And to several Persons.The Eighth Edition, with Additions. To which is Prefix'd The Author's Life.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1711..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., lxxxii, [6], 423. 10 engraved plates (incl. 10 portraits - 2 on 1 plate). woodcut ornaments & initial. contemporary calf (corners worn, joints partly cracked, some foxing & browning thoughout). First Illustrated Edition and the first to contain the Life.
$288 USD Book Number: ELLemWAL70 Order / Enquire
WARREN, Samuel [1807-1877].
Ten Thousand A-Year.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1854..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., iv, 381; iv, 369. 2 etched frontis. & 1 full-page wood-engraved text illus. text in double columns. contemporary half roan, gilt backs (rubbed, scattered foxing & dampstaining to margins). NCBEL III 970.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3024 Order / Enquire
[WARTON, Thomas] [1728-1790] (Contributing Editor).
The Union: Or, Select Scots and English Poems.
London: Printed For R.Baldwin, 1766..
small 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 184. late 18th century sprinkled calf, gilt back (small piece torn from lower margin of title). Third Edition. Including Gray's Elegy on pp. 65-69. cfNCBEL II 690. [BOUND WITH:] [WARTON, Thomas] (Editor). The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the most Celebrated Wits Of The University Of Oxford. A New Edition. small 8vo. pp. x, 11-224. numerous woodcut text illus. (incl. frontis. portrait). (foxing to last leaf). Oxford: Printed for G.Robinson and F.Newbery, London, and J.Lister, Oxford, 1772. NCBEL II 690.
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WATTS, Alaric A[lexander] [1797-1864] (Editor).
The Literary Souvenir.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833..
12mo. pp. [2]ads, xiv, 306, [2]ads. with half-title. 10 engraved plates by Charles Rolls, S.Sangster, William Greatbatch & others after paintings by G.S.Newton, Thomas Uwins, Fragonard, &c. original bottle green roan (dampstain to upper covers, upper inner margins of first leaves & frontis., hardly noticeable on covers). Faxon p. 105.
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WATTS, Isaac [1674-1748].
Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts In Prose and Verse, On Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects; Written chiefly in Younger Years.
London: Printed for Richard Ford, and Richard Hett, 1734..
12mo. pp. xx, 350 + [2]ads. engraved dedication headpiece. woodcut ornaments & initials. modern quarter sheep (scattered light foxing, a few small stains). former owner's small rubberstamp on verso of title. First Edition. Including an epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton. Foxon p. 874. NCBEL II 572.
$450 USD Book Number: elala3025 Order / Enquire
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinford A Conversation Piece.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1957..
12mo. pp. vii, 184. blue. A fine copy in very good dw. (few short tears to dw. edges). First Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: dola178 Order / Enquire
WELLS, H[erbert] G[eorge].
Tales of Space and Time.
London & New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900..
12mo. pp. 3 p.l., 358, [2]ads. tan cloth, lettered in gilt & decorated in dark brown (slight spotting/soiling to cloth, otherwise very good). J.E.Barton bookplate. ownership entry on title of Desmond Crichton. First Edition.
$900 USD Book Number: dola180 Order / Enquire
WELLS, H[erbert] G[eorge].
The First Men In The Moon.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901..
12mo. pp. vii, 342. 12 plates (incl. frontis.). A very good copy in dark blue cloth. J.E.Barton bookplate. First Edition, secondary binding.
$600 USD Book Number: dola179 Order / Enquire
WILDE, Oscar [1854-1900].
The Works.
New York: 1909..
14 Volumes. 8vo. 58 plates. original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed (several spines darkened, spine labels badly chipped). Sunflower Edition, Limited to 1000 numbered copies.
$1281 USD Book Number: ELDeWILD35 Order / Enquire
[WILSON, John] [1785-1854].
Recreations Of Christopher North A New Edition In Two Volumes.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1865..
8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 440; 1 p.l., iv, 433. frontis. portrait engraved by Armytage. original blind-stamped cloth (insitutional markings on front paste-downs & lower margins of 2 leaves, inner hinges starting to crack). cfNCBEL III 1309.
$125 USD Book Number: elala3033 Order / Enquire
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Barmy In Wonderland.
London: Herbert Jenkins, [1952]..
12mo. pp. 221. cloth. dw (dw worn with few short tears in upper edge). First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: aly454 Order / Enquire
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Joy In The Morning.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [nd]..
12mo. pp. 256. cloth. dw (edges lightly worn). First Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: aly455 Order / Enquire
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