(Austin, Texas: Printed by David Holman of the Wind River Press for Roger Beacham, 1981). First edition, one of twelve copies (of an edition of 100 copies) hand-colored by Barbara Holman. OCLC records ten copies, eight of which are in Texas libraries; the two other wayward copies are in Missoula.....
Guatemala: Impresas en la Tip. Nactional, 1900. First Guatemalan edition. There was a volume published under the same title in Tegucigalpa in 1882, but this edition contains additional material. OCLC records eight copies. The collected poetry of Cuban poet Jose Joaquin Palma (1844-1911), who lived the latter part of his.....
London: Printed by J. Hart and Sold by J. Lewis, 1745. First edition. ESTC T115907 records two copies (John Rylands and Yale). A dialogue about antinomianism by the prolific English theologian William Cudworth (?1717-1763). Contemporary ink signature of Wm. Rainsdon above the title.
Boston: Published by Perkins & Marvin, 1829. First edition. BAL 4424; American Imprints 38327. An early work by Richard Henry Dana, Senior, a poem about man's soul.
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. First edition. BAL 4422; American Imprints 28656. Dana’s first book, preceded by several pamphlets. It includes celebrated poems, The Buccaneer, a long verse narrative of the supernatural. Presentation inscription on the front blank for a school prize dated December 31, 1827.
London: William Pickering, 1835. First edition. NCBEL III, 1276. A selection of the poetry of the interesting writer and book collector George Daniel (1789-1864), including his well-known version of Pope's famous satire, moderinized to lampoon the Romantics and their contemporaries: Byron, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Croker, Barrett, the Edinburgh Review, Cobbett.....
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1953. First edition, one of 200 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. From the library of David and Valerie Belch, stalwart members of the Roxburghe Club.
London: (Vine Books), 1923. First edition, number 85 of 200 numbered copies signed by de la Mare. NCBEL IV, 259. A short story about a firm of silk merchants, Lispet, Lispett and Vaine, and their downfall. Handsomely printed by the Moreland Press and issued as the third volume in the.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810. First edition. NCBEL II, 1591. The extensive correspondence from the famous French hostess and patron of the arts Mme du Deffand (1696-1780) to Horace Walpole and François-Marie Voltaire, edited by Walpole’s literary executrix Mary Berry (1763-1852). The Walpole correspondence, which began.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1951). First edition. A splendid and appropriate association copy of Bernard Devoto's amusing history of the American cocktail hour: Inscribed on the front free endpaper "This gospel for the spiritual and moral enlightenment of Cleveland Amory - Benny." DeVoto was an impassioned defender of the traditional cocktail.....
(Mt. Vernon, New York: Privately Printed by William Rudge for Bruce Rogers, 1924.), First separate edition, one of 223 copies. Jackson, Dibdin, 42; Windle & Pippin, Dibdin, A Bibliography, A30; Warde, Bruce Rogers, 185. An imaginary conversation between four characters, Lysander, Philemon, Lisardo and Almansa, who discuss merits of seven.....
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age.....
New York: Published by the Longworths, 1812. First American edition. NCBEL III, 1130; American Bibliography 25271. Slightly later note on the advertisement page by a previous owner and actor.
London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, First edition under this title, one of 50 large paper copies; this one out of series, but see below. NCBEL III, 1427. A combined edition with revisions and omissions of Proverbs in Porcelain and Vignettes in Rhyme. Inscribed on the front blank "For.....
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. First edition. Keynes, John Donne, 1; ESTC S109984; STC 7048; Pforzheimer 298. John Donne's first book, a polemical treatise on the supremacy of the King, which some Donne scholars have maintained was written specifically at the behest of King James. Donne.....
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Napolo: Luigi Pierro, Printers, 1906. First edition, one of 250 copies. Woolf A10. Three studies, privately distributed, on Capri: "The Lost Literature of Capri," "Tiberius" and "Saracens and Corsairs in Capri." From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, one of 325 copies, signed by Duncan. Five essays and addresses on the art of printing by the printer and typographer, Harry Duncan, most famous as the founder of the Cummington Press. A handsome production, designed by Carol Blinn, printed by Daniel Keleher.....
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1913. First Merrymount Press edition. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books, 24. A fine edition, issued in the Merrymount Press series The Humanist's Library, of Albrecht Dürer's account of his travels to Venice and the Netherlands.
London: Printed for J. Mathews, 1791. First English edition. Noted under BAL 5041 and Wegelin 129. A long poem dedicated to Voltaire and written as a Calvinist orthodox response to what Dwight states in his dedication is the negative influence on religion of Voltaire, Hume and Priestley: “Reasoning is an.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and Sold by M. Cooper, 1744. First edition. ESTC T32861. In 1744, William Warburton made uncomplimentary comments about Mark Akenside's popular poem "The Pleasures of Imagination," published earlier the same year, and here that criticism is responded to by Akenside's friend Jeremiah Dyson, a response.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1948). First edition. Gallup D619. The first Swedish translation of Four Quartets, a collaborative effort by three translators. Inscribed on the half-title by one of them, Thomas Warburton, and dated Nov. 26, 1948.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. First edition, number 459 of 580 numbered copies of the "ordinary" issue. Gallup B7b. Two dialogues on poetry by two great poets, separated by 260 years. In the preface, Eliot writes that his purpose is to "throw the dialogue of Dryden into a......
London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1609. First edition, second impression with the errata on the verso of the title-page. STC 7540.5; ESTC S100270. A plea on behalf of the rights of Scots to own property and share the same citizenship rights as English. Lacking the first blank (A1).....
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[London, 1795?]. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804, recording a single copy at Cambridge, which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud, Folk Song Index, V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library, which also notes the apothecary's stamp. A typical doggerel.....