Rare Books & First Editions for Sale
W. Godziemba-Maliszewski
Maître Ébéniste ~ Master Cabinetmaker
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English Literature: The More Deserving Cases, poems by Robert Graves, signed by the author. Limited edition, number 678 of 750 copies, buckram cloth. Printed for the author by Marborough College Press.
$ 350.00 | ||
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English Literature: A. E. Housman, A Shropshie Lad; appears to be of the first, or subsequent limited leather edition of the same, American edition of 1897, leather unlike the general issue of boards with vellum spine. Some minor tear to top of leather page fold, repairable
$ 750.00 | ||
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Irish Literature: James Joyce, Ullysses, Shakespeare and Company, 12 Rue De L'Odeon, Paris. 10th printing, type re-set, November 1928.
Printed on the square four, many pages have not been slit open. There is damage to the spine paper, but not the sewn threads. May be expertly conserved. A book marker was found [included with the sale], apparently a torn envelope address with the text "Yeates & Son Ltd. 2 Grafton Street Dublin" -in Joyce's works, one of his characters [?] looks into the window of this shop. $ 1,150.00 plus shipping | ||
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English Literature: The Polish author, Joseph Conrad, Collected Works to 1916; 18 volumes published 1914 - 1916. Doubleday, Page, and Company, Garden City New York. In excellent condition.
Includes Lord Jim, Romance, Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent, Youth, Victory, Nostromo, Falk, Typhoon, Almayer's Folly, A Set of Six, Within the Tides, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Chance, Tales of Unrest, An Outcast of the Islands, Twixt Land and Sea, Mirror of the Sea. $ 1,975.00 plus shipping | ||
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English Literature Biography: Boswell's Life of Johnson, L.L.D. Ten volumes, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1835. In excellent condition, many fine illustrations. Sale includes a charming little marker entitled "One of Dr. Johnson's Jests" -"Boswell, said Dr. Johnson, meeting the biographer in the street, I have been reading some of your manuscripts. There is a great deal about yourself in them. They seem to me to be Youmoirs rather than Memoirs". "-[Puck"
$ 2,100.00 | ||