London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet, 1744. Second edition; first published in 1637. ESTC T51881. The story of a famous miser who operated a ferry boat on the Thames, near where the London Bridge eventually went. John Overs was frugal to a fault, and from his.....

(Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900). First Mosher edition, one of 450 copies. ¶ An attractive effort by Mosher to reprint this early poem by Arnold in the Kelmscott style.

New York & London: Macmillan, 1902. First edition, first state with the numeral 546 in the upper left corner. Merle Johnson, American First Editions, page 24. A popular historical novel by Gertrude Atherton on the life of Alexander Hamilton, a figure she adored and considered an under-appreciated American hero. The.....

Taunton: Printed by and for Thomas Norris; London: Sold by Carpenter, E. Newbery, Hurst and Co., [et al], (1800). First edition; there were two subsequent editions. ESTC T108778 records five copies in the British Isles (BL [2], Morrab, Oxford, Somerset; and five in North America (HEH, Columbia, Free Library of.....

New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that precisely meet the.....

N.p.: n.p., 1800. First edition, second issue with the watermark of 1804. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 15; Hazen, Strawberry Hill - Detached Pieces, 94: “certainly not printed at SH;” cf. ESTC T141564 for the first issue. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy.....

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....

London: Bertram Rota, 1987. First edition, one of 400 copies. The famous study of the Prokosch pamphlet forgeries.

San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1961. First edition, one of 165 copies printed. One of the last published books of San Francisco's Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press, founded in the late 1940s by Henry Evans and his wife Patricia, with assistance from their daughter Judith, who set the type for.....

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. A companion volume to Becker's earlier Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of Thirty-Seven Land Grants (1822-1846), and an important contribution to the scholarship of California before the Gold Rush.....

London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1928). First edition, number 520 of 750 numbered copies. NCBEL III, 409. A fine edition of Beddoes' works, with 35 pages of biographical and bibliographical information by Gosse.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First edition. One of many works by Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) on health, domestic science and education.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, limited issue, number 4 of 175 numbered copies. A delightful travel book, illustrated by the author’s watercolors, including his iconic depiction of the Plaza Independencia in Quito, one of the great plazas in South America. Bemelmans wrote that "The Donkey Inside is.....