- NATHANIAL HAWTHORNE, THE SCARLET LETTER,
NATHANIAL HAWTHORNE, THE SCARLET LETTER, 1850 The Scarlet Letter: A Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne. Published 1850 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. Second edition. Metcalf imprint. Bound in the original publisher's cloth with blind stamping. Gilt titling on spine. The classic American novel, in a very early printing. 8vo. 322pp.
- (22) EASTON PRESS & OTHER LEATHER-BOUND
(22) EASTON PRESS & OTHER LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS(lot of 22) Books published by Easton Press and other fine publishers, some signed first editions (SFE), leather binding, gilt page ends, many appear unread, titles: (1) O-Zone, Theroux (SFE); (1) Lee & Grant, Smith; (1) Nimitz, Potter; (1) The Great Fake Book, Bourjaily (SFE); (1) Roger's Version, Updike, (SFE), (1) The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne; (1) The Dispossessed, Le Guin; (1) Waterloo, The Hundred Days, Updike; (1) 2001 Space Odyssey; (1) The Rommel Papers, Rommel; (1) Great Expectations, Dickens; (1) The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton (SFE); (1) Journals, 1939-1983, Spender (SFE); (1) Empire, Vidal; (1) The Sinter Soldiers, Ketchum; (1) The Magic Mountain, Mann; (1) At Dawn We Slept, Prange; (1) The 900 days, Salisbury; (1) A Fantastic Heart, O'Brien (SFE); (1) The Long March, Salisbury; (1) Wuthering Heights, Bronte; (1) Mysteries of Winterthrun, Oates (SFE); 49lbs total
- GROUP OF LEATHER EASTON PRESS BOOKS
GROUP OF LEATHER EASTON PRESS BOOKS (56 VOLUMES) 56 Volumes to include Last of the Mohicans, Of Mice and Men, The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, Divine Comedy, Doctor Zhivago, Brothers Karamazov, Two Plays (Moliere), Aesop's Fables, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Sons & Lovers, The Aeneid, Three Musketerrs, Candide, Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, Little Women, On The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, Brave New World, Fathers and Sons, Scarlet Letter, Two Plays (Chekov) Paradise Lost, The Prince, The Red Badge of Courage, Goethe, She Stoops to Conquer, Oedipus the King, Essays (Emerson), Oresteia, The Birs & The Frogs, The Iliad of Homer (Pope), Don Quixote, Walden, Berlin Diary, End of a Berlin Diary, Leaves of Grass, Tale of Two Cities, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Politics & Poetics, Jungle Books, Pride and Prejudice, The Republic, Great Expectations, Cancer Ward, Sea Wolf, David Copperfield, The Red and the Black, The Mill on the Floss, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Shakespeare- Comedies, tragedies, and Histories. Condition: All excellent, most apparently unread, most/all with former owner's Easton Press bookplate
- 79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80
79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
- 33 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, INCUDING CLASSICS
33 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, INCUDING CLASSICS OF MEDICINE LI...Grouping of 33 Easton Press Books, titles include 1: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 2: Chekhov, Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard - Three Sisters, 3: Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, 4:Bronte, Jane Eyre, 5: Conrad, Lord Jim, 6: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 7: Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, 8: Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 9: Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 10: Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 11: Lewis, Sherman Fighting Prophet (Volume II), 12: Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, 13: Shaw, Two Plays for Puritans, 14 & 15: Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants A Study In Command (Volume I), 16: Voltaire, Candide, 17: Conner, Comeback (signed) , 18: Alden, The American Revolution , 19: The Poems of John Donne, 20: White, A Puritan in Babylon, 21: Ohrelius, Vasa - The King's Ship, 22: Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson, 23:Harvey's De Motu Cordis, 24 - 33: Classics of the Medicine Library - The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M. D., An Account of the Foxglove, Cellular Pathology, Diseases of theMind, William Harvey's De Motu Cordis, The Pituitary Body, The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, The Collected Papers of Joseph Lister (Volumes I and II),
Condition:
All books overall very good to excellent condition.
- PORTFOLIO OF 24 PEN AND INK LITERARY
PORTFOLIO OF 24 PEN AND INK LITERARY ILLUSTRATIONSBuchanan, Jack (American, twentieth century) Portfolio of 24 Pen and Ink Literary illustrations. Circa 1930s. Group of twenty four different and well executed images, including frontispiece illustrations for various classics, likely published by the Peopleês Book Club, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlet Letter, Vanity Fair, Rip Van Winkle, and many others. The majority 14 x 11 inches. Very good, some have small notations in lower margin.
- A GROUP OF THIRTY-NINE FRANKLIN LIBRARY
A GROUP OF THIRTY-NINE FRANKLIN LIBRARY BOOK TITLES, PO...A GROUP OF THIRTY-NINE FRANKLIN LIBRARY BOOK TITLES, POEMS AND FICTION, 20TH CENTURY, gilt tooled leather bound books with gilt edges, comprising selected titles, "Collected Poems," Auden; "War and Peace," Tolstoy; "Seven Gothic Tales," Dinesen; "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money," Keynes, Easton Press; "The Mill on the Floss," Eliot; "T.S. Eliot Poems 1909-1962," 1979; "A Farewell to Arms," Hemingway; "Madame Bovary," Flaubert; "Canterbury Tales," Chaucer; "Satyricon," Petronius; "The Trial," Kafka; "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain; "The Prince," Machiavelli; "Two Years Before the Mast," Dana; "Jane Eyre," Brontë; "Wuthering Heights," Brontë; "A Fable," Faulkner; "The Sun Also Rises," Hemingway; "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne; "Gulliver's Travels," Swift; "Peasants and Other Stories," Chekhov; "Candide," Voltaire; "Selected Plays," Williams; "Vanity Fair," Thackery; "A Military History of the Western World," Vols. I-III, Fuller; "Ulysses," Joyce; "David Copperfield," Dickens; "Gone with the Wind," Mitchell; "The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald," 1977; and other titles.
Condition:
One with water exposure, most with mild surface wear, occasional scuffs, applied collector plates to some. Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS."
- Hugh Thomson illustrated books: 'Merry
Hugh Thomson illustrated books: 'Merry Wives of Windsor', 'She Stoops to Conquer', The Scarlet Letter', 'The School for Scandal' and 'The Admirable Crichton', all 4to, orig. cloth bindings, all c1910-20 WITH Spielmann & Jerrold's 'Hugh Thomson, His Art…', a very good copy in dust jacket (6)/Provenance: The Estate of Anthony J Beeson
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER COLLECTOR'S
FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER COLLECTOR'S EDITION BOOKSFranklin Library Leather Collector's Edition of 26 Books, all having gilt edging, marble end papers and silk ribbon, comprising the following: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott; Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Don Quixote De La Mancha by Cervantes; Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; Twenty-Two Years; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Guy de Maupassant Selected Stories; Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Pere Goriot by Honore' de Balzac; Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; The Red and the Black by Stendhal; Romantic Poets William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe; My Antonia by Willa Cather. Books do not appear to have seen usage. No marks or blemishes. Books will be shipped Media Mail.
- EASTON PRESS BOOKS (7) LEATHERIncludes
EASTON PRESS BOOKS (7) LEATHERIncludes American classics Last of the Mohicans, Scarlet Letter, Lord Jim and others. All but The Federalist are still shrink-wrapped. shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
- (88) FRANKLIN LIBRARY LIMITED LEATHER-BOUND
(88) FRANKLIN LIBRARY LIMITED LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS(lot of 88) Books: The Limited edition Franklin Library, most of "The 100 Books of All Time," multi-color leather bindings, some with raised spine bands, gilt page edges, most volumes appear as unopened, includes "Notes from the Editors" booklet for each volume, several titles are "War and Peace," "The Scarlet Letter," "Pride and Prejudice," "The Last of the Mohicans," "Jane Eyre," "David Copperfield," largest book: approx 9.5"h, 6.5"w, 2.75"d; 209lbs total
- TWO SMALL ETCHINGS BY H. GROSS AND P.W.M.
TWO SMALL ETCHINGS BY H. GROSS AND P.W.M. 5"H X 3 1/2"W (SIGHT, SCARLET LETTER), 11"H X 9 7/8"W (FRAME)Two small etchings by H. Gross and P.W.M., H. Gross, (American, 20th Century), Scarlet Letter, color etching: Titled lower left, numbered 6/50 Lower middle, signed lower right. P.W.M., Naomi Two, 1971, etching: Numbered 12/125 lower left, titled lower middle, signed and dated lower right. Dimensions: 5"H x 3 1/2"W (sight, Scarlet Letter), 11"H x 9 7/8"W (frame)
- 25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND BOOKSEaston
25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND BOOKSEaston Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition", including Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Paradise Lost, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Red Badge of Courage, The Scarlet Letter, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Prince, The Legend of Sleepy hollow and Other Stories, Huckleberry Finn, Great Expectations, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Farewell to Arms, The Devil's Dictionary, The Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, The History of the Indians of The United States, The Talisman, Dracula, The Three Musketeers, Faust, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, The Analects of Confucius; together with Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", London: The Folio Society, 2003; various sizes Condition:
- 34 EASTON PRESS COLLECTOR'S EDITION
34 EASTON PRESS COLLECTOR'S EDITION LEATHER BOOKS: A collection of 34 Collector's Edition Easton Press books. Each leatherbound w/ distinctive gilt cover designs, silk moire endpapers, gilt page edges, and silk page markers. Titles include ''''Ivanhoe'', ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Treasure Island'', ''Great Expectations'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''Jane Eyre'', ''Wuthering Heights'', ''The Scarlet Letter'', ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', ''The Arabian Nights'', and three volumes of Shakespeare including ''The Comedies'', ''The Histories'', and ''The Tragedies''. Accompanied by many more, all in excellent condition.
CONDITION: Small spot towards base of ''Wuthering Heights'' spine.
- (11) BOOKS: ROBERTSON 'HISTORY OF AMERICA'
(11) BOOKS: ROBERTSON 'HISTORY OF AMERICA' & OTHER(lot of 11) Library shelf books: literature, history, and Americana subjects, all with leather spine, gilt embossed lettering, some with gilt page ends, including: (3 vols) "The History of America," by William Robertson (Scottish, 1721-1793), Fifth Edition, published by A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and J. Balfour, in 1788, all with coat of arms and monogram plate to interior front cover, (two) with fold-out maps, (1) "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary," Second Edition, published by G. & C. Merriam Company, in 1959, (1) "The Presidency: A Pictorial History of Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman," by Stefan Lorant, published by MacMillan Company, in 1952, numbered 60/250, (1) "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with lithographs by Henry Varnum Poor, published by The Limited Editions Club, in 1941, accompanied by slip cover, (1) "Gunner's Dawn," by Roland Clark, published by Premier Press, in 1983, numbered 180/3000, (4) published by Premier Press, in 1984, numbered 180/3000, "My Health is Better in November," by Havilah Babcock, "A Book of Trout Flies," by Preston J. Jennings, "Wildfowling in the Mississippi Flyway," edited by Eugene V. Connett, "De Shootinest Gent'man," by Nash Buckingham, largest: approx 10.25"h, 7.75"w, 1.5"d, 26lbs total **Provenance: A prominent Houstonian's River Oaks Estate**
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S WORKS.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S WORKS. 1860 TO 1864. 11 VOLUMESNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S WORKS. 1860 TO 1864. 11 VOLUMES, [Sets] Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne's Works. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1860 to 1864. 11 volumes of Hawthorne's works, owner's bookplate pasted to front board and card from Ursula Morgan to Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan. Titles include Mosses from an Old Manse (1863), Scarlet Letter (1864), Snow Image (1861), Marble Faun (1860), Our Old Home (1864), Twice-Told Tales (1863), Blithedale Romance (1863) and House of Seven Gables (1863), quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers (11) Provenance: Estate of Nina Rodale Houghton, wife of the late Arthur A. Houghton, President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Carmichael Farm, Queenstown, Maryland
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOKS, 19 Nineteen leather-bound American literature books with gilt lettering published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania comprising Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan's "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and "The Reivers," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Eudora Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter," John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays," Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomattox," and Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Largest: 9.5" H x 6.5" W x 1.5" D.
- GROUP OF LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS
GROUP OF LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS BOOKS, 27 Group of twenty-seven leather bound Easton Press Books from 'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written' collection comprising "Mobydick", "The Portrait of a Lady", "Ivanhoe", "The Odyssey of Homer", "The Sea Wolf", "Father & Sons", "Twenty thousand leagues under teh Sea", "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland", "Great Expectations", "Lady's Chaterley's Lover", "The mill on the Floss", "Vanity Fair", "Women in Love", "The Republic", "Brave New World", "The Scarlet Letter", "Grimm's Fairly Tales", "The Prince", "The red badge of courage", "A portrait of the artist as a young man", "Faust", "The Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters", "Robinson Crusoe", "Sons and Lovers", "A tale of two cities", "Crime & Punishment" and "Leaves of Grass". Largest: 10.75" H x 7.5" W x 1.75" D.
- BRONZE ROUNDEL OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
BRONZE ROUNDEL OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE FOR THE GROLIER CLUB, NYC Designed by Jean-Desire Ringel d'Illzach (FR, 1849-1916), a quarter turned bust with the author's name at top centered on 'The Scarlet Letter', flanked by 'The House of Seven Gables' and a view of his grave, with his birth and death dates, dated 1892, the Grolier seal at bottom, 7" diam., light wear. mounting posts removed from back.
- (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound
(FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center various dates. The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne 1978. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain 1975. Plays. By Anton Chekov 1976. A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway 1976. Four Plays. By Eugene O'Neill 1978. Tales of Edgar Allen Poe 1974. Stories. By Rudyard Kipling (1980). Black Beauty. By Anna Sewell (1982). Moll Flanders. By Daniel Defoe 1978. Humboldt's Gift. Saul Bellow (1983). Tom Jones. By Henry Fielding 1979. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson 1975. Poems. By John Donne 1978. The Reivers. By William Faulkner 1983. The Return of the Native. By Thomas Hardy 1978. The Red and the Black. By Stendhal 1979. The Aeneid of Virgil 1975. Faust. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1979. Vanity Fair. By William Makepeace Thackeray (1977). The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. By Francois Rabelais 1978.
- (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 21 leather-bound
(FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 21 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center various dates. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (1984). Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (1979). George Eliot The Mill on the Floss (1981). Plato Selected Dialogues (1983). Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (1975). William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1979). Honore de Balzac Pere Goriot (1980). Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass (1979). Anton Chekov Greatest Plays (1979). James Joyce Ulysses (1979). Edgar Allan Poe Tales (1979). Henrik Ibsen Four Plays (1979). Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment (1982). Romantic Poets (1982). Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice (1980). Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1982). Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1979). Stendhal The Red and the Black (1981). Tacitus Annals (1982). The Confessions of Saint Augustine (1982). Michel de Montaigne Twenty-Nine Essays (1982).
- (BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes bound
(BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes bound in green or blue-toned leather. The Great Short Novels of Henry James. New York: Dial (1948). The Divine Comedy of Dante. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1919). 3 vols. Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. New York: Rinehart (1950). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. New York: Rinehart (1949). The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Rinehart (1949). Moby Dick. By Herman Melville. New York: [Rinehart n.d.]. Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. New York: Rinehart (1948). American Statesmen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1888. 3 vols. Collector's Editions - Dickens Roget Shakespeare. New York: Pocket Books 1948. 3 vols.
- (EASTON PRESS) A group of 15 books published
(EASTON PRESS) A group of 15 books published by the Easton Press. Norwalk CT: Easton Press various dates. The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (1976). The Three Musketeers. By Alexandre Dumas (1978). The Last of the Mohicans. By James Fenimore Cooper (1979). Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte (1980). Brave New World. By Aldous Huxley (1978). The Decameron. By John Boccaccio (1980). Rights of Man. By Thomas Paine (1979). The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1975). A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens (1975). The Alhambra. By Washington Irving (1969). The Red Badge of Courage. By Stephen Crane (1980). The Portrait of a Lady. By Henry James (1978). Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott (1977). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain (1975). Madame Bovary. By Gustav Flaubert (1975).
- NEW YORK NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL. Eliza
NEW YORK NEEDLEWORK MEMORIAL. Eliza McMillan 1820-1825 Albany Albany County silk chenille paint and ink on silk. Mourning piece for Cornelia McMillan who died July 1 1819 worked by her daughter. Two airy trees one a willow drape over the black clad figures their hands resting on an obelisk and a monument with the inked plinth. A church rises in the background and well-detailed town can be seen behind one of the trees. An elaborate fence defines the churchyard. In an old frame 34''h. 39 1/2''w. Featured in the 1994 antique sampler calendar published by Publishers Studio and The Scarlet Letter. This needlework belongs to a group of well-documented Albany mourning embroideries produced in the early 19th century. See Ring's Girlhood Embroidery pgs. 320-327. Eliza was born November 10 1805 in Albany to John McMillan (1754-1832) and his second wife Cornelia Van Woert (1762-1819). On November 26 1826 she married Isaac Watkins (b.1802) in Albany. Eliza died in Schoharie County New York on January 5 1837 leaving two young children. She is buried in Menands Albany County New York. Two tears in the sky area one 3 1/2'' the other 2 1/4''. Another 1/2'' in the fence near the urn. The figure nearest the obelisk face is painted and has some flaking. ''In memory of Cornelia the wife of / John McMillan who departed / this life July 1st 1819 aged 56 years / 7 months and 16 days.''
- 6 vols. Leather Bindings - Belles-Lettres:
6 vols. Leather Bindings - Belles-Lettres: Wordsworth, (William). Poems. London: Macmillan, 1886. Edited by Matthew Arnold. Sm. 8vo, early 20th-Century 3/4 brown morocco & marbled bds., spine gilt, t.e.g., raised bands; occasionally slightly scuffed, by Riviere & Son. Vignette title portrait. * Morris, William. Poems by The Way. London, etc.: Longmans, 1896. 2nd ed. Sq. 8vo, early 20th-Century full double-gilt fillet paneled crushed blue niger morocco, richly gilt decorated & lettered spine, a.e.g., raised bands; occasionally scuffed, by Stikeman. Bright bdg. * Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. London, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Canterbury Poets series. 24mo, contemp. full tan calf, gilt, spine gilt, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g.; scuffed, lacking morocco spine label. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. 8vo, early 20th-Century full crushed niger morocco, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, inner dentelles gilt, scarlet morocco "A" with gilt border inlaid in front & back covers, raised bands; occasionally scuffed, joints & raised bands often rubbed, by Stikeman. Frontis. * Boccaccio, (Giovanni). The Decameron. London: Villon Society, 1886. #15 of ltd. ed. 2 vols. Sq. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 red morocco & marbled bds., gilt, spines gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, raised bands; scuffed, joints & spine ends rubbed.
- 5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Works.]
5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Works.] Boston, 1874-1884. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 tan calf, marbled bds. & edges, gilt-decorated spines, brown & green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers; occasionally slightly scuffed, spines fading. Frontispieces. Incomplete & mixed set in uniform bdgs. Titles included: The Scarlet Letter; The Blithedale Romance; The House of The Seven Gables; The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; The Marble Faun. Sound, bright & attractive bdgs.