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Wharton, Edith
A Backward Glance
A Backward Glance
Bound in black leather with gilt-stamped decorations (Wharton's signature) on the cover. Tipped in at the front, there is a list of "Misprints" in Wharton's hand. However, none of the listed corrections were successfully incorporated into subsequent…
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye my Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
Inside front cover bears the inscription "'Who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are from the present hour.' Washington April 1898," which Ramsden attributes to Walter Berry. Book appears to be in delicate condition, with water stains…
Roosevelt, Theodore
The Winning of the West
This is the third volume of six volumes in three. This is a New Library Edition. This work is published by G. P. Putnam's Son's Knickerbocker Press. Lithographic reproduction of a water-color by C. M. Russell on verso of fly, showing Native…
Racine,
Phèdre et Hippolyte
Phèdre et Hippolyte
Binding by Gruel, in full crimson morocco with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. The book is kept in a fleece-lined slip case. Ramsden's catalog includes this footnote, a quotation from Wharton's A Backward Glance, p. 292: “I happened to one day…