Boston

First edition.
Corner lacks to boards marginally sunned, manuscript library classification marking to upper left corner of first board, handsome interior condition.
Rare illustrated pamphlet with 15 figures in the text.

first edition.
Binding of the editor in full black calico, smooth back.
Rare autograph dated and signed Solomon Alhadef Rhodes, in French, to André Rolland Renéville: "... for his judex librorum prohibitorum ..." on guard.
Guards partially shaded.

First edition. Publisher's full burgundy cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, publisher's gilt cipher at foot.
Rare autograph inscription from Martha Perry Lowe Lowe to Etienne Coquerel.
Rare and handsome copy complete with publisher's catalogue at rear.

"Book Club Edition" copy. Published the same year as the first edition.
Black cloth publisher's binding, spine with gilt title.
Copy complete with its dust jacket, slight discoloration at the spine and rubbed edges.

Salinger's second book after The Cather in the Rye, Nine Stories is a compilation of short stories published in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.

Autograph letter signed by American impressionist painter John Singer Sargent
Fine autograph letter signed by John Singer Sargent to avant-garde singer Eva Gauthier after their first encounter, enthusiastically sharing his love of Javanese art.
A folded sheet on Copley-Plaza Boston stationery, 30 lines on 3 pages.
The painter made two charcoal portraits of the singer which "will even become, in the minds of the public, a part of her identity" (Normand Cazelais, Eva Gauthier, la voix de l'audace) widely used by the artist for her concert...

The Photo Album of a Belle époque American Heiress, Anna Gould
An album consisting of 46 original unpublished photographs, 30 in postcard format (10.7 x 16.5 cm), and the other 16 in visiting card format (6.2 x 10.4 cm). All pasted down on card from various photographic studios in America, principally New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

Brown grained leather, a little rubbed, spine with four imitation raised bands continued on covers as a black fillet, endpapers and pastedowns with gold motifs inside a gold dentelle frame, a.e.g, brass clasps. The...

Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices
S. G. Goodrich and Co | Boston 1829
| 12mo (11.5 x 18.7 cm) | xlviii | 353 pp and x | 408 pp and x | 406 pp | half shagreen
First edition.
Bound in half red shagreen coated on the corners. Spine in beautifully decorated compartments. Gilt title and volume labels. Gilt edges. Fillets on the boards. Two slight signs of wearing on the upper board of volume 1. Very beautiful copy.
Very important anthology of American poets from the beginning to the contemporary era with Longfellow and others.
The catalogue of American poetry lists all of the published editions (the first American...

Second edition.
Publisher's bicolored orange and green paper boards, smooth spine.
Handsome copy.

Third edition.
Full cloth binding in fir green, smooth spine slightly warped, boards decorated with floral motifs in blind.
Autograph inscription from H. Maidoz for the author. Some minor foxing, bookplate on verso of front board.