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Sleeping Beauty & a Bear to Boot

•  Title woodcut vignette of a girl holding a bird in a cage out of reach of a cat, & a tail-piece. A version of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant". The story is followed by "The Moral" in verse and by the story of "Paddy and the Bear", pp. 21-24. Very scarce edition. We were unable to locate another copy. No. "52" at foot of title.

•  Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17581)

“Bravo, Old Cupid!” . . . I Think I'll Be a
Stockbroker, Myself.”

•  Gossamer, Bonus, Mortimer, and Delville attempt to hoax each other in various romantic schemes.

•  Fair; disbound from a nonce volume. Title-page stamped with shelving number; inked ownership inscription at top of dramatis personae listing with additional annotations reflecting cast changes. One leaf torn in half without loss; others with edge chips or tears.  (1832)

Dun Emer for theBusted Bibliophile

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•  Limited to 200 copies. Printed chielfly in black, but colophon, prelude, and Dun Emer Press device in red. 10 poems had appeared previously.

•  Miller 9. Publisher's quarter off-white linen with blue-green paper sides in the Kelmscott style. Ex-library with call number tag on front cover, library name blind-stamped into covers, perforation stamp of library in blank area of title-page and in blank area of lower margin of last leaf. Dust soiled binding; corners bumped; top of spine pulled . (2682)
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On the BEAUTIES ofHertford on the Lee

•  Flowery praise, with footnotes, of the picturesque area in which Scott spent his childhood—which happens to have beenone of Izaak Walton's favored fishing sites. This is the first Irish edition, printed in the same year as the London first. Click the interior image for an enlargement.

•  ESTC T2712. Marbled paper wrappers. Half-title very lightly stamped by a now-defunct institution. Small ink blot touching outer page edges, otherwise very clean.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1921. 8vo.
$50.00

•  The first English edition; preceded by the New York edition, which Shaw condemned for its numerous misprints.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges. Residue of sticky substance on back cover.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1922. 8vo.
$18.00

•  The second English edition, containing a considerable number of alterations.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. The doctor's dilemma, Getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. London: Constable, 1924. 8vo.
$15.00

•  First published in German in 1908, and in English in 1911. This claims to be the "Seventh Impression."

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A108 (for first edition in English). Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

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The Irish Bar — “The Catholic Question”

•  Early (and very uncommon) printing of these anecdotes of legal and political life in Ireland, written by an experienced lawyer and moderately successful playwright. The stories originally ran in The New Monthly magazine, and were first printed in book form in New York in 1854; they do not seem to have ever been printed collectively in Ireland. The Rt. Hon. Sheil, a prominent supporter of the Catholic emancipation movement, includes a great deal of information on political events connected to contemporary religious dissent.

Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with blind-stamped decorative devices between raised bands and with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges marbled.

•  Bound as above; fore-edges of the two inside, touching boards as the volumes stand on the shelf, bumped hard at centers (one can’t quite imagine how); otherwise, only very minor wear. Front free endpaper with inked inscription dated 1865. Nice on shelf and in hand.

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A VARIETY ofRip-Snortin' Offerings

•  Title woodcut vignette of two gesticulating gentlemen. Also with engraved decorative border on title. The first tale includes an example of forensic investigation when two shoemakers are brought in to help identify the murderer by his footprint. In “The Soldier's Wife”, soldiers from a British battalion are being chosen by lot to embark for Bengal, India. A young Irishman volunteers to take the place of a soldier whose pregnant wife is distraught at the idea of his departure. In the last story, two men from families who have long been at enmity, meet at a narrow pass near Bendearg in the Highlands. Each man refuses to give way to the other. As they wrestle, both lose their footing and hang by their hands over the precipice. McPherson, who manages to save himself, watches his enemy plunge to his death and returns home a changed man. “[No. 80]” printed at the foot of the title.

Rare. Not located in RLIN.  

•  There is a tiny hole in the top margin of 1 leaf, obliterating 1 page number, else very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed).  (17582)

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