English Literature from AARDWOLF Fine Books

A. L. Burt, New York, (circa 1899); 8vo, 634 pages; half leather; gilt titles; frontispiece illustration plate with guard tissue. Charles Kingsley’s absorbing adventure novel based upon the life of swashbuckling privateer Amyas Preston, who in 1595 joined forces with George Somers to capture Caracas, Venezuela during the Anglo-Spanish War. First published in 1855, the book was an… Read more about this item

James Bookman Associates, New York, 1957; First Edition; 8vo, 143 pages. A critical analysis of the short novel form as developed by Henry James. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind, in a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket that has two small closed edge tears.

James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1877; Author’s Edition From Advanced Sheets; 8vo, 170 pages; illustrated; tan cloth; gilt titles and decorations; colored end papers. Tennyson’s second play, which followed "Queen Mary," published the year previous. At first harshly received by the critics, "Harold" was withheld from production and not publicly staged until over fifty years later, in… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, 1934; First Edition; 8vo, 141 pages plus a four page Methuen catalog of books relating to Lamb at the back. A collection of sixteen writings on Charles Lamb authored by literary prodigy and Lamb biographer E.V. Lucas. Illustrated with four b&w plates. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Clean,… Read more about this item

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1963; copy #984 of a limited edition of 1600; 4to, 344 pages. George du Maurier’s immensely popular first novel, which moved John Masefield to remark that, "its effect upon that generation was profound... I can think of no book that so startled and delighted the questing mind." Informative nine-page introduction by granddaughter Daphne… Read more about this item

M. Clark for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain, John Martyn, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, and Henry Herringman, in the New Exchange, London, 1680; 12mo; blank flyleaf, title page, A1-7, 1-222, 3 pg. index, Q1-9, blank, 1-28, blank, title page, I-X, 1-110, blank, 2 pg. index, page 111. The 1680 edition, containing three additional essays: "A Fragment Of An… Read more about this item