LES AMOURS DE PSYCHÉ ET DE CUPIDON
First Didot stereotype edition of the classical love story of Psyche and Cupid, retold by master of fables La Fontaine — strikingly bound, with delicate engraved illustrations.
First Didot stereotype edition of the classical love story of Psyche and Cupid, retold by master of fables La Fontaine — strikingly bound, with delicate engraved illustrations.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever.
Special cloth-bound edition, the first hardcover edition, of this sensation novel by one of the most popular women writers of dime novels, who specialized in romances and dramas for working-class girls and women.
First editions of two volumes of the Edinburgh detective's tales of Victorian crime and punishment.
Unique copy of the first edition of Machen's impossibly eerie episodic novel, in an eerie handmade vernacular dust jacket, from the library of actor Wyndham Goldie.
Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé.
First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture.
Signed Kraken Edition of Melville's psychological epic, heavily redacted and reconstructed by editor Herschel Parker to approximate its original 1852 form, spectacularly illustrated by longtime Melville admirer Sendak, and signed by both editor and illustrator.
First printing of this study of the Victorian reception of Romantic writers, with a warm note from the author to contemporary poet and Keats biographer Stanley Plumly.
First Centipede Press edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by Moser, McGrath, and Alfrey.
Limited edition of Pater's short work, diabolically illustrated and signed by Alastair.
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
Rare first printing of this selection of Poe's tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Limited critical edition of this pseudonymous 1842 response to Charles Dickens, here attributed to Poe by Dickens collector Joseph Jackson but later reclassified as the work of poet Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin.
Beautifully bound set of the works of the French playwright, from the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, who was among the most celebrated book collectors of her era.
Uncommon and stylish French edition of the ur-Gothic novel, with the finest paperback cover illustration ever offered to Ann Radcliffe in any language.
Early Republic American edition of an altered version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's work, featuring a happy ending not present in the original.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
Gorgeously bound 9-volume set of Shakespeare, all uniformly bound in early 19th-century full tree calf with elaborately gilt-stamped spines.
First edition thus of the striking movie-tie in edition, in beautiful condition.
First edition of arguably the most influential novel in US history, in the scarce publisher's extra gilt binding.
First book edition of this humorous tale of the romantic (mis)adventures of two generations of the Pringle family, an ambitious clan with a love of hunting — with Leech's beautiful hand-colored plates.
First book edition of this countryside romp featuring the smooth-talking, fox-hunting Mr. Sponge's among a hilarious cast of characters, with beautiful hand-colored engravings by John Leech.
Limited deluxe issue of the Thomson edition, illustrating the popular historical novel about the Irish actress from the Georgian era, one of 200 large-paper copies on handmade paper.
Early US edition of Tolstoy's immense panoramic novel of love and trains.