Sale 2478 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 15, 2018

16 17 18 16 c   BELLAMY, EDWARD. Looking Backward 2000-1887. 8vo, original orange cloth stamped in gilt and black, spine faded with some lettering rubbed, spine tips and corners bumped; library blindstamp to title, labels removed from front pastedown. first edition , first printing , with printer’s imprint on copyright page. BAL 956; Grolier Club One Hundred Influential American Books 90. (ESS) Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888 [400/600] 17 c   BESTER, ALFRED. Tiger! Tiger! 8vo, publisher’s dark blue cloth, spine gilt- lettered, fine; unclipped dust jacket, faint rubbing to spine panel tips and corner folds; contents with some uneven browning as often seen. first edition , with ( presumed ) inscription by the author reading: “Forgive my sins / as I forgive yours - / Al[?] [inked out] Alfie B.” (Additional image available online.) (ESS) London: Sidgwick and Jackson, [1956] [600/900] 18 c   (BINDINGS - KELLIEGRAM.) Jerrold, Douglas. Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Pictures. Illustrated by Charles Keene; publisher’s advertisements. Square 8vo, full burgundy crushed morocco gilt- extra by Kelliegram bound for Charles E. Lauriat of Boston, colored pictorial onlays to front cover depicting Mr. Caudle as seen in plate on p. 75, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn-ins gilt, silk endpapers, original cloth covers bound-in at end. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 1866 [400/600] 19 c   BOUCHER, ANTHONY. The Case of the Seven of Calvary. 8vo, publisher’s gilt- and blind-stamped black cloth, spine leaning; unclipped dust jacket, triangular chip to foot of spine panel, short closed tears, folds rubbed with some chips and abrading, dampstaining to verso. first edition . The author’s first book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937 [200/300]