London: Printed for the Author and Sold by R. & J. Dodsley, J. Newbery, etc., 1761. First edition. NCBEL II, 655; Eddy and Fleeman, Preliminary Handlist of Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed, 25. The first and only collected edition of the works of poet, translator and curate Francis.....
New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832. First edition. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels.....
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2005. First Arion Press edition, number 278 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Ferlinghetti and Kitaj. One of the landmarks of Beat Generation poetry and antidotes to Eisenhower's America, first published in 1958 by New Directions. This handsomely produced edition by Andrew Hoyem of the.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. ESTC N10381; Cross, page 325; Rothschild 856; NCBEL II, 929. One of the great works in the literature of roguery - a satirical novel written under the guise of the biography of a famous criminal. Fielding's account of Wild (1682-1725) first.....
London: Printed for J. Watts, 1732. First edition, first state of signatures B and C-F. ESTC T89776; Cross, pages 294-5; NCBEL II, 927. A satirical comedy by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) about a destitute couple who plot to defraud a wanton nobleman. It had an initial run at Drury Lane of.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition. ESTC T115675; NCBEL II, 995. The first novel by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the sister of novelist Henry Fielding. In her Advertisement to the Reader, Fielding justifies her authorship - a profession not considered suitable for a well-bred woman - as necessary because.....
Boston: James Munroe, 1840. Third American edition; the first edited by Eliza Follen. American Imprints 40-2799; OCLC 19921008 records five copies (Yale, Houghton, Free Library of Philadelphia, Penn State, Brigham Young). The third American edition of the famous tales by the Brothers Grimm, preceded by editions in 1826 and 1828.....
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Kirkpatrick A9c; NCBEL IV, 438. Sketches and short stories about Alexandria and Alexandrian characters, new and old. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1848. First edition. One of the many publications on phrenology by Lorenzo Niles Fowler and Samuel Robert Wells, with their famous phrenology head on the front wrapper. Among the subjects studied in this almanac are Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau.
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition. BAL 6282; Kramer 69; Wright III, 2013. One of the great American realistic novels to emerge from the 1890s. Harold Frederic (1856-1898) traces the fall of a contemporary upstate New York Methodist minister without the brutality found in more naturalism-driven works of the.....
London, 2016. First edition, one of 200 copies. Seven years ago poet Robert Nye, commenting on QUITS, Arthur Freeman’s mini-collection of poems published by The Brick Row Book Shop (2009) wrote: “I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might not.....
San Francisco: The Brick Row Book Shop, 2009. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A slim volume of fifteen poems by the distinguished poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller whose first collection, Izmir, was published in 1959, and whose poetry has continually been published over the intervening fifty years.....
London, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own.....
Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883). First edition. BAL 6302, binding A. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and.....
(Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1791). OCLC records four copies, Newberry Library, NYPL and two in Europe. The official publication of a law issued by the newly established National Constituent Assembly that commended and awarded pensions to those, mainly commoners, who sacrificed their lives or were wounded in the storming of.....
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke, 1810. First edition. American Bibliography 20174. Dialogues and letters between Crispus and Gaius on moral, theological and philosophical subjects, followed by essays and conversations between Peter and James on imputation, substitution and redemption.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. BAL 6465, state 1, binding 1; Wright III, 2077. The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation, the skyscraper, and “the first important American novel with city life at its theme” - Andrews.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous.....
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman.....
London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from.....
London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767. First edition. Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay and Goldsmith himself.....