London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. First edition. Keynes 102; NCBEL III, 1233. ¶ 22 essays by Hazlitt, mainly gathered from periodicals, preceded by a biographical preface, essays by Bulwer-Lytton, Sergeant Talfourd, Charles Lamb and six "Sonnets to the Memory of Hazlitt by a Lady."
London: Printed for William Hone, 1819. First edition. Keynes 49; NCBEL III, 1232. ¶ A collection of over 50 essays and examples of political journalism by William Hazlitt (1778-1830), written circa 1813-1818, with character sketches and a few earlier pieces added. Subjects include Coleridge's Statesman's Manual, Napoleon (a favorite of.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Keynes 89; NCBEL III, 1232. 32 essays on literary and cultural topics, many of which originally appeared in periodicals from 1818 to 1825. Contemporary bookplate of J.H. Ball on the front paste-downs. Contemporary ink signature on the front free endpapers.
Nouvelle Orléans: Imprimerie du Propagatetr [sic] Catholique, 1879. First edition. BAL 7910; OCLC records four copies (BL, two in France and UC Berkeley). A novella in French by Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette (1813-1887) about an idealized Louisiana Indian maiden. At the conclusion is an unsigned review of the work by the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition. BAL 7918; Wright III, 2620. ¶ Hearn’s first novel and his only major work of fiction set in Louisiana, where he resided for almost ten years. Chita is set on idyllic Last Island in the Gulf of Mexico and tells the tragic.....
Wrentham (Mass.): Printed and sold by the Author, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 641. An anthology of English and American verse and prose, which includes Phillip Freneau's "The Indian Student; or the Force of Nature" and John Maxcy's "Charge Delivered by the President to the Graduates of Rhode-Island College." From.....
(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia.....
London: Printed by Joseph Hartnell for N. Jones, 1806 [volume 1]; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Williams, 1803-1806 [volumes 2-4]. Fifth edition of volume one; fourth editions of volumes two, three and four. A popular series of 37 dialogues that deal with a variety of subjects: the evils.....
New York: Published by James Eastburn, Literary Rooms, 1821. First edition. BAL 8512. ¶ A vision poem about the final day of retribution, read by James Hillhouse (1789-1841) at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1812. This was an early work by the New York poet, predating.....
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving "taken from an original painting of" William Hogarth, depicting Tory leaders with flabby.....
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and.....
Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, one of 450 numbered copies; this one is designated "review copy." ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, number 37 of 50 numbered copies, signed by David Holman. ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas in its deluxe issue with the cloth samples. Prospectus laid in. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie.....
Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown, 1830. First editions. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, pages 14-17; Sabin 14407.; OCLC records nine copies. A complete run of a rare Harvard undergraduate literary magazine that contains 22 poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of his first substantial contributions to.....
London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. First edition. NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth.
San Francisco: (Press of Freygang-Leary Co.), 1903. First American edition. Not found in Unzelman, who does record the French edition of 1896. A complete translation of the second edition of Les Vignes Americaines by French viticulturists Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz, which appeared in 1896 in France and slightly later.....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records four copies (Duke, Columbia and London Library). ¶ An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about.....
[London:] In the Savoy, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1668. First and only edition. ESTC R19749, recording six copies in the British Isles (in four locations), 11 copies in the U.S. and one in Europe; Wing H2991; NCBEL II, 766. An allegorical poem, dedicated to George Villers, the Duke of Buckingham.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Second edition; first separate illustrated edition. BAL 9789. A handsome large format illustrated edition of Howells' famous Christmas story, one of the most popular and often read American Yuletide tales. Christmas Every Day was first published in 1893 with two other stories.....
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. ¶ The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes through the life.....
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1886. First edition. BAL 9622, first binding with “Ticknor & Co.” imprint on the spine. ¶ A scarce edition of Howells' Poems of 1873, but in a more elaborate format - similar to a gift book - and with the addition of three previously uncollected poems.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First edition. BAL 9685; Wright III, 2833. Howells' famous utopian novel about the guest from world of Altruria.
