rare book catalog 2012 - Weller Book Works

102. Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Introduction by Robin Chapman.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Folio Society, 2005. 4th printing,
#608 of 1250 copies. 769 pages. Large thick octavo. Full brown decorated
goat skin. In fine condition. Published to commemorate the 400th
anniversary of Cervantes manuscript. Handsomely bound and illustrated,
and housed in a red buckram clamshell case. Includes 15 page staple-bound
reading guide. RCERDON00jn $1150
103. Cleave, Chris. Little Bee. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. 1st
edition. 271 pages. 8vo. Half black cloth with black paper covered boards.
Fine, in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Cleave on the title page. RCLELIT00jn
$80
104. Dante Alighieri. Divine Comedy. 3
volume set. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
translation. Boston: Ticknor and Fields,
1867. 413, 410, 452 pages. Small quarto.
Green cloth with gilt lettering. Very good
with light rubbing to extremities and a
few tiny tears and bumps in cloth at spine ends. Front endsheet of volume I has a
short tear at the head of the hinge, but binding is still tight. Light marginalia in pencil
on the first 35 pages of The Inferno. A very nice first edition set of Longfellow’s
translation. RDANDIV00jn $500
105. Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. First American appearance of this title, serialized
in Harpers New Monthly Magazine. 4 volumes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851-
1853. 1st American printing. 864, 864, 864, 864 pages. Thick 8vo. 3/4 brown leather
with brown cloth boards and marbled endsheets. Very good condition with light
rubbing and fabric coming loose from front cover of volume VII. Marbled endsheets.
Contents very good, clean and tight. Bound volumes IV, through VII of New Harpers
Monthly Magazine, each volume
containing 6 monthly Beginning in the
April 1852 issue in volume IV, Dickens'
Bleak House was serialized here in its
entirety, prior to publication in book form. It was published in 20 parts in
England, beginning in March 1852. These American serial installations were
realeased almost immediately after . Also included in these 4 volumes are
other stories by Dickens and works by Thomas Carlyle, Sir Edward Bulwer-
Lytton, W. M. Thackeray, and an anonymous article on Joseph Smith and
the Mormons. Nice looking series in matching bindings. RDICBLE00jn
$200
106. Dinesen, Isak. Babette's Feast. Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press,
1997. #222 of 225 copies. 51 pages. 4to. Quarter navy cloth with
decorated paper covered boards. Fine condition. Written in 1949
and published in a collection in 1958, Dinesen's classic story was
faithfully adapted into an award-winning movie of the same title
in 1987. This is the first time it has appeared in a fine press edition.
Illustrated with 19 original woodcuts by Karin Wikstrom, several
of which are printed here in color; afterword by Richard Olney.
Olney and Wikstrom have both signed the colophon page.
Original Prospectus in a sleeve included. Handsome.
RDINBAB00jn $1100
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