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Rubbing

Wear, often to the edges, caused to a book or dustjacket that is the result of friction, often from being removed and replaced upon a shelf with other books. There is no truth to the rumor that the books themselves refer to this process as “scoring.” This first edition copy of Mickey Spillane's The Long Wait, offered in our Catalog 122, had some modest rubbing on the jacket where parts of the original illustration are no longer present.

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Cover Image: A View of South-America and Mexico by a Citizen of the United States by A Citizen of the United States [John Milton Niles].

$175.00

A Citizen of the United States [John Milton Niles].

A View of South-America and Mexico by a Citizen of the United States

New York: H. Huntington 1825. First edition. Two volumes in one. Full calf, spine decorated and titled in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Simon Bolivar. Light stains... more>>

Cover Image: Comus

$35.00

MILTON, John

Comus "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634"

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1903. Reprint. Tape shadows to the pastedowns else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. more>>

Cover Image: Four Etchings of John Milton by MILTON, John

$500.00

MILTON, John

Four Etchings of John Milton

London: (no publisher) 1760. Four Etchings of John Milton. Each etching is beautifully framed by Braxton of New York City. Some images very lightly foxed in... more>>

Cover Image: L'Allegro / Il Penseroso by Milton, John

$170.00

Milton, John

L'Allegro / Il Penseroso

New York: The Limited Editions Club 1954. Limited edition. Illustrated by William Blake. Fine without dustwrapper as issued, housed in a very good slipcase with light soiling.... more>>

Cover Image: L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by MILTON, John

$95.00

MILTON, John

L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

New York: The Limited Editions Club 1954. Limited edition. The two poems are printed dos-a-dos, both with paintings by William Blake. Fine in black cloth without a dustwrapper,... more>>

Cover Image: Prose of Milton by MILTON, John

$15.00

MILTON, John

Prose of Milton

London: Walter Scott (no date-circa1894). Edited with an introduction by Richard Garnett. Green cloth with paper label on spine. Good only with pencil underlining on some... more>>

Cover Image: The Masque of Comus and The Airs by Henry Lawes by MILTON, John

$250.00

MILTON, John

The Masque of Comus and The Airs by Henry Lawes

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club 1954. First edition thus. Small quarto. Illustrated after watercolors by Edmund Dulac. Prefaces by Mark Van Doren and Hubert Foss. Fine in... more>>

Cover Image: The Poems of John Milton: Two Volumes by MILTON, John

$500.00

MILTON, John

The Poems of John Milton: Two Volumes

New York: Brentano's (no date-circa1900). First thus edition. Preface by H.J.C. Grierson, F.B.A. Two volume set. Maroon cloth cover with gilt decoration and letters. Top edges... more>>

Cover Image: The Poetical Works of John Milton. Reprinted from the Best Editions with Biographical Notice, etc. by MILTON, John

$125.00

MILTON, John

The Poetical Works of John Milton. Reprinted from the Best Editions with Biographical Notice, etc.

New York: John Wurtele Lovell (no date - circa 1870). Reprint. Gold cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt. All edges gilt. A lovely, very near fine copy. more>>

Cover Image: Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the First and Second Editions collated. The Original System of Orthography Restored; The Punctuation corrected and Extended. With Various Readings: and Notes; Chiefly Rhythmical by MILTON, John. Capel Lofft

$300.00

MILTON, John. Capel Lofft

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the First and Second Editions collated. The...

Bury St. Edmund's: Printed and Sold by J. Rackham 1792. First edition. Sewn in contemporary blue paper wrappers. Xlviii, lix-lix, xlix-lxii, [33]pp. Spine perished, rear wrap lacking, some... more>>

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