A Woman's Reason: A Novel.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. ESTC T12472. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her.....
London: Printed by W. B. for A. Millar; Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, 1764. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC N3140; not found in NCBEL. An entertaining imaginary conversation between Anthony Ashley, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on.....
Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins . . . H. Maxwell, Printer, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 700; Hill, American Plays, 144. The first book by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), a Philadelphian who later became a prominent congressman and lawyer. Edwy and Elgiva was successfully performed at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Theater.....
N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an.....
Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated.....
Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated.....
Stockholm: Zacharias Haggström, 1829. First edition of the first Swedish translation. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 71; OCLC records three copies in the US (Harvard, Kansas and NYPL) and three in Sweden. The first edition in Swedish, translated by Lars Arnell, of Washington's Irving's Tales of a Traveller, his continuation of.....
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Second edition, published shortly after the first. BAL 19258; cf. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S200, which records an 1887 edition. A popular travel narrative about Rome by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), who was a talented writer, as well. The title of "Roba,".....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). First edition edited by Roger Lonsdale. The definitive edition of Johnson's famous Lives of the English Poets, issued 225 years after its original publication. This edition, edited by 18th century English literature scholar Roger Lonsdale, has been celebrated as a great achievement in textual scholarship in.....
Boulogne: Le Roy -Berger, Bookseller; Calais: Le Roy Jun., Bookseller, 1822. A French edition, printed in a small pocket format. Not found in Fleeman; OCLC records three copies (Yale, St. Andrews, and Bibliotheque Nationale de France). A rare edition of Johinson's famous novella. The slipcase states on the spine that.....
London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808. First edition. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom.....
London: Printed for Thomas Bennet, 1694. First edition. ESTC R8939; Wing K-461; NCBEL II, 767. Poetic and prose meditations written towards the end of the life of Sir William Killigrew (bap. 1606-1695), playwright and courtier, whose career flourished almost the entire span of the 17th century. Inscribed on the front.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes.....
(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on.....
Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and the.....
Paris: Jules Gay, Editeur, 1863. First edition, number 75 of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper (of a total of 317 copies). An interesting compilation by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author, of the library of Marie Antoinette that was housed at her estate, Petit Trianon. The.....
Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob,".....
London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1812. First edition. Wise & Wheeler 12; NCBEL III, 1211. The first published play by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain. This famous event.....
First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore, a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....