[New York: The Lotos Club, 1920]. First edition. A classic example of the whimsical illustrated broadsides by Thomas Sindelar (1867-1923) for the Lotos Club of New York, which they commissioned for dinners honoring distinguished cultural and political figures. Sindelar was an artist member of the Club and to his credit.....
London: George Routledge, 1858. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir 21a; Wolff 60a; NCBEL III, 912. A quasi-autobiographical novel set in Ainsworth’s home town of Manchester, first published in parts by Chapman and Hall, beginning in December 1851, as The Life and Adventures of Mervyn.....
Wien und Prag: Berlag von F. Tempsky, 1899. A second or later printing (possibly edition); the first was published in Leipzig and dated 1898. A German edition of the second part of Little Women, published in English for use in schools, with a seven-page introduction about Alcott in German by.....
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ The second book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), a novel about the mystery behind a stolen necklace and the life of a struggling writer in New York. There are numerous references to.....
Boston: Shepard, Clark, & Brown; New York: Rudd and Carleton; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, etc., [1859]. First edition. OCLC records six copies. The sixth in the series of The Lady's Almanac. This one contains the poem "A Household Baby" by Sara Jane Lippincott under the pseudonym "Grace Greenwood." Pages 124-25.....
Boston: Damrell & Moore & G. Coolidge. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., [1857]. First edition. OCLC records six copies. Damrell & Moore, sometimes in collaboration with John P. Jewett and Crosby, Nichols, and others, began its attractive series of small almanacs in 1854. Though unsigned except for initials, many.....
Various publishers, 1825-1850. Contemporary notations on the front blanks, listing the plays present; notations in pencil and ink on several of the individual plays, with information about the cast of characters, where the play was performed, etc. The majority are American reprints of English plays, but they are contemporary plays.....
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New York: J. Sabin & Sons, n.d., but probably 1869 or 1875. A rare broadside announcement for the famous bookselling firm of Joseph Sabin & Sons. The provenance of the collection is not revealed, but the advertisement states that it includes "many volumes illustrated with EXTRA PLATES, Autographs, &c. It.....
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not in Rosenbach; OCLC records six copies of this first printing and three of the second. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to.....
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Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....
Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1798. First and only edition. ESTC W20737; Evans 33865; Sabin 61455. The memoirs a major general in the Continental Army, William Heath (1737-1814) of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who saw a great deal of action between Lexington and Concord and the conclusion of.....
New York, Los Angeles: Samuel French, 1932. First edition. A three-act play set during one night in Taos, New Mexico, in 1847 "among rebels fighting hopelessly to prevent Taos from being absorbed into the United States, as the rest of New Mexico had been. Anderson depicts the imperialism of the.....
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The.....
Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest.....
London: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. NCBEL IV, 770. One of the great historical and cultural accounts of Eastern Europe prior the Second World War, by author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer, Cicily Isabel Andrews (1892-1983), who famously wrote under the pseudonym Rebecca West. She was realistic about what was.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First edition, one of 146 copies. A handsomely produced collection of articles on American books, their bindings and binders by the American book collector par excellence, William Loring Andrews (1837-1920). From the library of Charles Walker Andrews, with his bookplate on the front paste-down...
Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such.....
[San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930]. See the Grabhorn Press Bibliography 138. Proof impression of one of the 37 woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo for the legendary fine press edition of Leaves of Grass by the Grabhorn Press. This image was used at the beginning of Book XVI, "Song of.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1783. First and only edition. ESTC T52283. A satire on the Lords Temporal and Spiritual, in which the anonymous author challenges the influence and secret dealings that take place in their high offices to their advantage and to the detriment of all others. Sir Robert.....
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1743. First and only edition. ESTC T36850. An amusing satire on gambling and card playing at London’s clubs and coffee-houses, centered on the famous White's, which remains today, and on Edmond Hoyle’s recently-published Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742). The prologue is by.....
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To.....