“AN INDISPENSABLE AUTHORITY”
STANHOPE, Earl (Philip Henry). Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. London, 1861-62. Four volumes. First edition of Stanhope’s life of Pitt, with two engraved frontispieces, handsomely bound by Atelier. $1450.
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"DICKENS SEEMS TO HAVE READ WARREN'S FICTION… AND TO HAVE BORROWED IMAGES AND IDEAS"
WARREN, Samuel. Ten Thousand a-Year. New York, circa 1910. Three volumes.
Later edition of this classic 19th-century novel, popular in both England and the United States for much of the second half of the 19th-century, and a likely influence on Dickens, attractively bound. $225.
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“HIS WORK CAN STRIKE SPARKS”
RICHARDS, Eugene. Americans We. New York, 1994.
First edition of this exceptional collection by Richards, upholding “the gritty, documentary tradition of American photography” (Parr & Badger) with 95 powerful duotone plates (many double-page). $100.
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