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.
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A Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times: To which is added an Address to Magistrates, Parents, Masters of Families, &c.
London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. 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 material lifestyle.....
The Reflector, a Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics, and the Liberal Arts. Conducted by the Editor of the Examiner.
London: Printed and Published by J. Hunt; and Sold by J. Carpenter, 1811. First edition, all published. Brewer, My Leigh Hunt Library, pages 32-35; Roff, Bibliography of Charles Lamb, pages 215-217; NCBEL III, 1219. The second of several periodicals edited by Leigh Hunt and published by his brother John Hunt.....
Readings for Railways; or, Anecdotes and other Short Stories . . .
London: C. Gilpin, [1849]. First edition. Brewer, page 238; NCBEL III, 1220. ¶ A selection of miscellaneous pieces - on topics as diverse as the uses of gutta percha and the existence of sea monsters - edited by Hunt and issued in yellowback-like format to be sold in railway stations.....
Papermaking by Hand in America.
Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. First edition, number 49 of 210 numbered copies (of which 180 were completed). The magisterial treatise by Dard Hunter on early American papermaking, from the establishment of the first paper mill in 1691 in Pennsylvania to the introduction of papermaking by machine in 1817.....
Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel; Considered as a Part of an English Gentleman's Education: Between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. By the Editor of Moral and Political Dialogues.
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.....
John Gabriel Borkman: Skuespil I Fire Aker.
København: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son), 1896. First edition. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Edwy and Elgiva; A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Performed at the New Theatre.
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.....
The Tourist's Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland with Numerous Engravings from Drawings by Cruikshank, Crowquill, Lover, Mahony, &c.
London: Printed for the Railway Companies . . . by John Cassell; Sold by M'Glashan, Dublin; Peat, Liverpool and by All Booksellers, 1853. Second edition, enlarged. A profusely illustrated guidebook to Ireland prepared and published to meet the needs of the expected hordes attending the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853.....
Engraved portrait of Washington Irving by Thomas Johnson after the portrait of Irving by Charles Robert Leslie, signed T. Johnson.
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.....
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Genius of Washington Irving . . .
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1860. First edition. BAL 1668, small paper edition.
Illustrations of Washington Irving's Dolph Heyliger Designed and Etched by John W. Ehninger.
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First illustrated edition. BAL 10353; not found in Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators. A popular tale of early Dutch settlers in New York by Washington Irving, which first appeared in Bracebridge Hall (1922). Here it is separately printed with ten lithographed plates after drawings.....
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. By the Author of the Sketch Book. With a Biographical Notice.
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. ¶ A collection of eight of Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited and.....
An oil portrait, signed by the artist, of Washington Irving.
New York, circa 1890. ¶ Charles A. Gray was born in Iowa in 1857. He painted portraits of presidents McKinley and Garfield and playwright Eugene O'Neil, among others. This copy of the popular image of Irving was undoubtedly made to sell in his gallery. Gray made similar copies of other.....
Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving.
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860. First edition, cloth issue. BAL vol. 5, page 94. ¶ A collection of over 30 tributes to Irving from contemporaries and literary colleagues, including Lowell, Curtis, Cozzens, Willis, Duyckinck, Longfellow, Tuckerman, etc. Contemporary stenciled ink ownership markings on the front free endpaper and title-page.....
The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-Diary.
New York: Random House, (1949). First American edition.
Roba Di Roma.
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,".....
Le Sort de Poynton. Traduit de l'Anglais par Madame David.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1929. First edition, limited issue, number 31 of 50 numbered copies. Edel & Laurence E15; OCLC records seven copies (Yale, UVa & five in Europe). ¶ The first French translation of The Spoils of Poynton,translated by Madame Simon David.
Tales of Three Cities.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
The Voice of the Valley . . . Introduction by Chas. Warren Stoddard. Illustration by William Keith.
San Francisco: William Doxey, (1897). First edition. Harlan, At the Sign of the Lark, 38; BAL 19005 (Stoddard). The second book by Japanese-American poet Yone Noguchi (1875-1947), a short collection of poems, mostly about Yosemite Valley and the surrounding Sierras. Noguchi moved to San Francisco from his native Japan in.....
Two Consolations . . . With an Excerpt from Una Jeffers’ English Journal.
(San Mateo, Calif.: The Quercus Press), 1940. First edition, one of 250 copies, of which 200 were for sale. Broomfield A30. A fine rendering of two unusually mellow poems by Robinson Jeffers that were inspired by a family visit to Kelmscott Manor in 1929, as described in the excerpt from.....
Visits to Ireland: Travel-Diaries of . . . Foreword by Robinson Jeffers.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers, the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers, recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland, where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed.....
The Bernard M. Rosenthal Collection of Works on Joan of Arc.
Various places and publishers, 1837-1976. Mostly first editions. The collection of primarily scholarly works on Joan of Arc (circa 1412-1431) assembled by antiquarian bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), who had an abiding interest in her story and times, which was one of his specialties as a bookseller. Joan of Arc.....
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, &c, &c. With Biographical Illustrations.
Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell and Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817. First edition. Fleeman 88.3L/6; Courtney, page 169. ¶ An collection of over 70 letters, compiled and edited by Rebecca Warner of Bath, who clearly had a scholarly interest in the literature of the 18th.....
The Works of Ben Johnson, Which Were Formerly Printed in Two Volumes, and are Now Reprinted in One. To Which is Added A Comedy called the New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published.
London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692. Third and last folio edition; the first in one volume, with new material. ESTC R15282; Pforzheimer 561; NCBEL I, 1655. An important edition of Ben Jonson's works, with the addition of.....