1st – 2nd Items: Two Copies of ALICE RAVENEL HUGER SMITH OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: AN APPRECIATION ON THE OCCASION OF HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, Privately Published by Her Friends, Charleston, 1956. Limited to 800 copies, 59pp.; listing of friends/donors laid in. Note: Charleston artist Smith was instrumental in the Charleston Renaissance along with friends Elizabeth […]

MICROBIBLION OR THE BIBLES EPITOME: IN VERSE, Simon Wastell, London: Printed for Robert Mylbourne, 1629. 12vo, 510pp in 18th or early 19th C. leather-covered wrappers; with printed dedication "To The Right Honorable his singular good Lord, Sir William Spencer"; Illegible signature on blank page opposite New Testament dated 1673. Originally published in 1623 as a […]

1st item: THE SCARLET LETTER, A ROMANCE by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 2nd Printing of the First Edition, with Preface to the Second Edition. Hardcover octavo, 322 pages, plus 4-page publisher''s advertisements dated May 1850 bound in at front. Title page printed in black and red-orange. Publisher''s full brown cloth boards, […]

THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS, by James Ferguson, London: J. Richardson And Co, et al., 1823. Second edition complete in 40 volumes; 12mo., bound in 1/2 leather and marbled paper covers, spines with gilt titles and raised ribs; each volume with bookplate of John Julius Pringle. A collection of essays from prominent 19th C. English magazines, including […]

POEMS by Robert Browning, London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. Inscribed by William Butler Yeats to his sister Lily (Susan Mary) Yeats, "Lily Yeats from WB Yeats. Xmas. 1897." Hardcover 8vo, original green boards with blind and gilt-stamped designs; gilt top edge, deckle edge fore and bottom. With a CDV of Browning pasted on FFEP, […]

LA SUCESION PRESIDENCIAL EN 1910, Francisco I. Madero, second edition, Mexico 1909. 8vo, 308pp. Black covers w/ leather spine; gilt stamping, marbled endpapers, and decorative diamond pattern to page edges. The second edition of this important book is considered the "true" edition, as Madero made numerous edits with additional writings, catapulting Madero and his ideas […]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, First Edition, Second Printing, by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner''s Sons, New York, 1940. Inscribed to Hemingway''s friends on ffep "For Martha Belle and Hall with love from Ernest /" (Martha Belle (Aikins) Smith and author Walton Hall Smith). Hardcover octavo, 471pp, hardbound in publisher''s tan cloth with red […]

A collection of 10 books by or about Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar), (1915-1983), best known for his Lew Archer detective novels. 1st Item: SELF-PORTRAIT: Ceaselessly Into The Past, by Ross Macdonald, with foreword by Eudora Welty; Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1981. Hardcover limited edition, signed and numbered by both Macdonald and Welty on rear limitation […]