Ken Sanders Rare Books

London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. Good / good. Item #56646 A first edition of Ayn Rand's dystopian fiction novella, one of her earliest works.

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first issue. 166pp. Two pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Brown boards. Rebacked with original backstrip laid over. Corners repaired. All edges gilt. The green pastedowns and free endpapers have been washed. Unbroken "D" in Dickens. Half title printed in blue. Title page in red and blue with a color frontispiece. "Stave I" present. Uncorrected text. A previous owner's name at the head of the free endpaper; discreet ink stamp on the title page. Eckel p. 110-115. Very good. Item #56728 With four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by John Leech. A first edition of one of the most famous Christmas stories of modern literature. The story was conceived and written over the period of just six weeks. The original manuscript for the story is housed in J. Pierpont Morgan's Library and is displayed every Christmas.

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. John Tenniel. Second (First Published) Edition. 192pp. Duodecimo [22 cm] rebound in gilt-stamped dark red morocco with raised spine bands. Binding pristine. Includes original pale blue free endpapers, now serving as flyleaves. Calligraphic ink name dated May 1st, 1866 on original front free endpaper, reinforcements to the edges of several leaves, light to moderate foxing throughout. Very good. Item #56650 With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. The first published edition, re-set from a copy of the recalled first issue. Williams, Madan, Green 46. The publication of Carroll's work appeared at a time when children's literature was produced primarily to teach moral lessons. Carroll's tale was, by contrast, wonderfully fantastical and nonsensical, and the book baffled critics at first. By the close of the 19th century, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" had become the most popular children's books in England. Two decades later, the Alice story grew to be one of the most celebrated works of fiction in the English language throughout the world.

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London: Printed for George Nicol. Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1790. First edition. 88pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Rebound in 3/4 sheep over gray boards with new endpapers. A few tissue repairs to the first fold-out. The pages are quite bright. Folding frontispiece, 3 charts (2 fold-out). Very good. Item #56835 William Bligh served under James Cook on Cook's third and final voyage to the South Seas, and many fond references are made to Cook in Bligh's harrowing account of the intense voyage he and his men undertook in order to survive. In 1787, Bligh's Bounty voyage set sail for the purpose of acquiring Tahitian breadfruit for the slaves of Caribbean plant owners. In late April of 1789, Bligh's first mate, Christian Fletcher, along with a number of supporters, mutinied. Bligh and 18 men, including an acting surgeon, a carpenter, two cooks, and a butcher were permitted to leave the overtaken ship and descend into a small boat, without any weapons being supplied to them. Almost nothing but complete misery ensues. The men, who if they managed to sleep, slept in wet clothes, and often ate only spoiled bread, washed down with a teaspoon of rum. In "Narrative of the Mutiny,"...

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition. 91pp. Slim duodecimo [19 cm] Green boards. "First Published May 1945" on copyright page. With a couple of minor chips to the free endsheets along the bottom edge, and a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In a handsome dust jacket, with subtle restoration work to the edges. "An Early List for 1945" is printed on the rear panel, and the "Searchlight Books" theme is printed in blue on the reverse. The price of 6s is on the front flap. Reginald 11040. Bleiler Checklist, p. 152. Negley 114. Tuck, p. 49. Currey, "Into the Unknown" (Catalogue 77), #4295. Very good / very good. Item #56735 A first edition of Orwell's dystopian fable, targeting Stalinist Russia, and written in the tradition of a moral animal fable, aimed at adults and children alike.

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Liverpool: Thomas Ward; P. P. Pratt; Orson Hyde; Orson Pratt; F. D. Richards; Samuel W. Richards; Asa Calkin; Amasa Lyman; George Q. Cannon; Daniel H. Wells; A. Carrington; Horace S. Eldredge; Joseph F. Smith; John Henry Smith; George Teasdale; William Budge; D, 1840-1898. First Edition. Octavo [22 cm] Bound in various different bindings, most contemporary, some cloth, some leather. The spines and hinges have had periodic restoration work. The extremities are rubbed to varying degrees. The backstrips have occasional losses and chips. There are cracks to the hinges, joints, and text blocks here and there. The brief markings to the pages are hardly worth mentioning, often only filling in errors in printed pagination (occasionally the pages are misnumbered or bound in out of order). The front board and preliminary pages of the combined volume, containing 1, 3, 4, and 5 are detached, but present. Pp. 269-272 of volume 16, number 17 have been cut out. There are tears to the beginning pages of volume 18. Volume 23 is ex-library (just a stamp on the Preface page). Volumes 1, 4, 11, 26, and 27 are missing the title and/or index and preface pages. Volume 30 has some dark staining, the result...

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