Harry F. Marks

“ He holds that the grand subject—the Reproduction of the Human Race—which runs more or less through all the essays in this volume, is, in itself, most pure, and that the words which are necessary, adequately, and correctly to describe it in its various phases and ramifications, have acquired the stigma of obscene only in modern times, and, though an ultra-fastidiousness, which would hesitate to apply the word breech to a man's small clothes, but would rather designate them as unmentionables, indescribables, or femoral habiliments. ”

“ Privately printed for subscribers only. $15.00
Edition limited to 550 numbered copies only.
The feminine personage who occupies the principal place in this romance whose pages you are about to turn, is an antique courtesan, but be reassured, she will not convert herself.
She will be loved neither by a monk, a prophet or a God. In actual literature, this is an originality.
Rather she will be frankly a courtesan, the ardor and also the pride of every human being who has vocation and who holds in society a freely chosen place; she will have ambition to raise herself to the highest point ”

“ If Louise had lived at the time of Phryne, the philosophers would have characterized her as "an animal with long hair," if he had known her, the great Mirabean might have coined his pet phrase, "a human that dresses, undressed and talks" (or writes) for Louise; as a matter of fact, she is one of those "Jansenists" of love who believe in the utter helplessness of natural woman to turn down a good-looking man.
26 Another Copy of the same edition, printed upon a beautiful laid deckle-edge paper. UNEXPURGATED. Cloth, 8vo. gilt tops, New York, 1912. ”

“ Founded on historical facts, interspersed with most remarkable narratives. A faithful reprint of the very rare, literal, unexpurgated translation of 1822, from the Paris edition of 1821, choicely printed on antique deckle-edged paper, and delightfully illustrated with numerous charming plates, etched by Louis Monzies from drawings by Paul Avril, printed on special paper. Complete in 4 vols. Newly bound in 3⁄4 morocco extra, gilt tops and backs, uncut. Edition strictly limited to 100 sets only. Privately printed for Societe des Bibliophiles, 1898. ”

“ By Mitchell S. Buck. 8vo. boards, vellum backs, uncut. Philadelphia, 1916. $2.25
Edition limited to 750 copies printed entirely on Japan paper. The two series of antique sketches contained in this volume show the art of rhythmic prose, so successfully used in French by such writers as Baudelaire and Pierre Louys, presented directly in the English language.
A keen perception of beauty has not distorted a necessary faithfulness to subject-matter; and those who still admire the flowers of past ages will find them here, still fragrant. ”

“ With 276 beautiful full-page illustrations in color, 416 full-page half-tones, and 5,120 pages of fascinating text. The books, each written by an authority, are Bird-Neighbors, Game Birds, Flowers, Trees, Butterflies, Moths, Insects, Fish, Animals. 9 vols., finely printed on fine super calendared paper, bound in new flexible full morocco, gilt stamped sides and backs, silk headbands. ”

“ Embracing ANACREON, APULEIUS, APOLLONIUS of RHODES, CATULLUS, HORACE, LONGUS, LUCIAN, LUCIUS, MUSAEUS, OVID, PROPERTIUS, SAPPHO, TATIUS, THEOCRITUS, and VIRGIL. Translated into English by eminent scholar-poets, beginning with Sir Philip Sydney and including Marlow, Dryden, and Milton, among earlier writers, and Andrew Lang of the present day. Text is specially printed on Imperial Japanese vellum. With over two hundred beautiful illustrations. Limited edition de luxe, 12 volumes, top edges gilt. Printed for subscribers only. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons. ”

“ Numerous full-page photogravure illustrations, printed in two states, i. e.—one set on Japan vellum, the other on Whatman paper, of which one set of the frontispieces are finely colored by hand. 12 vols. 8vo. New 3⁄4 crushed green levant morocco extra, gilt paneled backs, with emblematic design inlaid in red levant, gilt tops, uncut. London: Grolier Society. Printed for subscribers only. $65.00
Connoisseur Edition. Unexpurgated, limited to 150 registered and numbered sets only. ”

“ A series of fifteen incidents, familiar to the life of Greek courtesans, told in the dialogue form of which Lucian was so thoroughly the master. Printed from type on a high-grade antique-laid paper, and bound in half parchment, stamped in gold, Fabriano sides. ”

“ A New Description of Merryland. Containing a Topographical, Geographical and Natural History of that Country. Post 8vo. 1⁄2 cloth, leather label. Bath (1741) . $10.00
Of this scarce re-issue only 200 copies have been printed for private subscription, each numbered.
151 Facetiae. The Monk. A Romance. By M. G. Lewis, 2 vols. 12mo. new half blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, n. d. $15.00
Unabridged reprint of the First Edition.
One of the most remarkable, powerful, and mystical novels ever written. ”

“ Scarce. The Satyricon shows more plainly than any other book, how abominably depraved human nature has become under the Social System that has been experimented with ever since the human race begun.
158 Facetiae. A Satyrical Dialogue; or, A Sharplye—Invective Conference between Alexander the Great and that truly woman-hater, Diogenes. [By Williams Goddard.] Edited by John S. Farmer. Small 4to. half leather (broken.) London: Privately printed for subscribers only, 1897. Very scarce, only one copy of the original (1615) being known (that in the British Museum) . ”

“ A very limited number of copies only printed.
"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.... The Greeks with their quick artistic instinct understood this, and set in the bride's chamber the statue of Hermes and Apollo, that she might bear children as lovely as the works of art that she looked at in her rapture or her pain."
100 Curiosa. Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions. By Frank Harris. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. cloth. New York: Privately printed, 1918. ”

“ Benjamin Disraeli. Complete Works. Illustrated with numerous finely executed photogravures printed on Japan vellum, and exquisite hand-colored frontispieces. 20 vols. 8vo.; 3⁄4 maroon morocco extra, elaborately gilt tooled back, gilt tops, uncut. New York and London. $97.50
The finely printed Chancellor's Edition, of which only a limited number of sets have been issued to subscribers only.
This Edition embraces Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories, and Great Speeches, with a Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse, and a Biographical Preface by Robert Arnot. ”

“ The modernism, mistakenly called Futurism, that in the Sonnets from the Patagonian sometimes merely amazed, in the present instance, stimulates and satisfies. The volume is a series of pitiless photographs of profligate men and women who fritter away life, seeking new pleasures, new sensations. It is a gallery of incurable poseurs. A curious little volume.
22A Amatory. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. (Scenes de la Vie de Boheme.) By Henri Murger. A literal translation into English. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. With portrait and several very fine etchings printed on Japan vellum. 8vo. ”

“ First Edition, in regard to Andrew Lang's Introduction. Scarce. Lang item.
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16 Amatory. The Thousand and One Days. Persian Tales. Edited by Justin Huntley McCarthy. Frontispiece. 2 vols. Post 8vo. original boards, vellum backs, uncut. London, 1892. $5.00
If the Thousand and One Days are not such splendid stories as The Thousand and One Nights, what stories in the world are so splendid? We may love the (The Thousand and One Nights) with all our hearts, and yet be willing to welcome The Thousand and One Days for the sake of that enchanted and enchanting Orient of which they tell. ”

“ The first complete edition ever published. The illustrations are by the celebrated artist, Mr. Gordon Grant.
The prince of short story writers—every story's a masterpiece—considered by many critics the greatest short story writer of modern time; his common sense and irresistible humor; the pathos; the richness of his style surpass all modern writers of the short story.
180 Henry (O.) Works. Comprising nearly 250 stories. 12 vols. 12mo. 3⁄4 brown morocco extra, gilt tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. ”

“ First State, Library Edition, limited to 1,000 sets only, printed entirely on Japanese vellum paper. The handsomest edition of Ainsworth's writings issued.
3 Aldus Classics. Consisting of:—The Works of Francis Rabelais, translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux, 2 vols.; The Decameron, or The Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio, completely done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne, 2 vols.; The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, translated from the Authentic Text, with an essay upon the Heptameron, by George Saintsbury, M.A., 2 vols. ”

“ With curious copper-plate engravings. 3 vols. 12mo. original half leather, gilt, board sides. London: Murray, 1806. $17.50
A new edition, with material alterations and additions.
The illustrious author of Flim-Flams is no more! He died of vexation—and laughter! The ingenuity of his critics and his own, afforded him a plentiful source of both.
The illustrations represent the following: "Baking a Wronghead," "My Uncle," "A Scale of Genius," "Virtue in Danger," "Lemons! Lemons!" "An Electrified Lover," "Greek Feeling," etc. ”

“ Royal 8vo. original half vellum, uncut. London: 1892. $7.50
One of only 50 numbered copies on Large Paper, signed by the publisher.
The scarce Bibliotheque de Carabas edition.
87A Curiosa. Curll. Miscellaneous in Verse and Prose. [By Richardson Pack.] Post 8vo. contemporary calf, with armorial crest in gilt on sides (rubbed and back broken.) London: Printed for E. Curll, 1719. Very scarce. $7.50
This volume contains some curious memoirs of Wycherley, and several translations from Ovid, which must have endeared the author to the disgraceful old publisher. ”