Daisy’s Necklace: and What Came of It. (A Literary Episode).
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ Aldrich’s second book and his first novel. More
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Un Écolier Américain . . . Traduit de L’Anglais par Th. Bentzon . . . Dessins par J. Davis.
Paris: Bibliothéque d’Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel, [1882]. Edition: First edition of the first French translation of The Story of a Bad Boy. Bibliographical References: OCLC records six copies (Harvard, Connecticut College and four in Europe). Aldrich’s most enduring work here in its rare French translation, attractively illustrated and... More
A New Guide to the English Tongue . . .
Boston: Printed and Sold by William M'Alpine in Marlborough Street, 1771. Edition: About the tenth American edition and the second by the Boston publisher William M'Alpine, who first published this in 1770; this is possibly a reprint of that; they both contain 154 pages, as does another Boston edition of... More
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The Bride's Tragedy [bound with three other contemporary plays].
London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Tinker 221; NCBEL III, 409. ¶ The second published work by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), a famous tragedy written when he was 16 which was praised by several of the principal participants in the Romantic movement... More
The Complete Works of . . . Edited with a Memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse.
London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1928). Edition: First edition, number 520 of 750 numbered copies. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 409. A fine edition of Beddoes' works, with 35 pages of biographical and bibliographical information by Gosse. More
The Beggar Boy: A Novel in Three Volumes. By the Late Mr. Thomas Bellamy.
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his... More
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; By . . . The Supposed Author of the Poems Published Under the Names of Rowley, Canning, &c.
London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Warren 5; NCBEL II, 606. 43 writings culled from Bristol and London newspapers, which constitute the first collection of Thomas Chatterton's "non-Rowlean" works. They were compiled by John Broughton of Bristol, who explains in the preface the rationale... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian, and the Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Robert Jennings and John Major, 1829. Edition: Second edition. Bibliographical References: Windle A38b; Jackson 49. More
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Anabasis: A Poem by St.-J. Perse [pseud]. With a Translation into English by . . .
London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Edition: First edition, number 56 of 350 numbered copies, signed by Eliot. Bibliographical References: Gallup A16b; NCBEL IV, 160. Eliot's translation from the French of the epic poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger (who wrote under the pseudonym Saint-John Perse), which Eliot wrote is... More
The Confidential Clerk. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller. More
The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England, in the Eschequer Chamber, touching the Post-nati.
London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1609. Edition: First edition, second impression with the errata on the verso of the title-page. Bibliographical References: 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... More
Autograph letter signed, dated 72 Regent Street, London, July 14, 1853.
“My Dear Percy / I cannot thank you enough for yr. letters. They are filled with good things and I only wish I had / the writer here to pay him with a hug. Lord, Lord, Lord, what a time I am having and how I wish you were here... More
High-Ways and By-Ways; or, Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces. By a Walking Gentleman. Third Series.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 728; not in Wolff or Sadleir, both of whom had other titles by Grattan. ¶ The final installment in Grattan's Irvingesque tales of France, sketches that were in fact inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to... More
The Works of . . . With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by William Mason. To Which are Subjoined Extracts Philological, Poetical and Critical from the Author's Original Manuscripts. Selected and Arranged by Thomas James Mathias.
London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Press, for John Porter, 1814. Edition: First Bulmer edition. Bibliographical References: Northup 18; NCBEL II, 577. ¶ The fine Bulmer Shakespeare Press edition of Gray's works, which includes a considerable amount of previously unpublished material. More
Christmas in the Elgin Room. British Museum: Early Last Century.
(Dorchester: Printed Privately by Hy. Ling Ltd, January 1928). Edition: First edition, second issue. Bibliographical References: See Purdy, pages 251-252 and 349, who does not record this issue. One of over 15 works by Thomas Hardy privately published all in a similar pamphlet format by his wife, Florence Hardy. The... More
A Group of Noble Dames.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 67, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 982. ¶ Purdy does not note variants on the American edition, but there are at least two. This one is printed on thicker paper and the decorations on the spine are... More
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The Hand of Ethelberta [in] The Cornhill Magazine, July, 1875 - May, 1876.
[London:] Cornhill Magazine 1875-1876. Edition: First appearance in print. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 22; NCBEL 981. ¶ The 11 vignettes by Du Maurier were not used subsequent book editions. More
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman. Faithfully Presented by . . .
London: Osgood, McIlvaine, (1892). Edition: First one-volume edition, called the "Fifth Edition," with a new preface by Hardy, dated July 1892. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 77, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 982. More
The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California. An Essay on Early California Winemaking . . . First Published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885. Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pinney and a Foreword by Robert Mondavi.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. Edition: First edition, one of 400 copies printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. ¶ An outstanding and handsome work on the California wine industry in the 19th century. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch. More
Winter Words: In Various Moods and Metres.
London: Macmillan, 1928. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Purdy, pages 252-262; NCBEL III, 984. ¶ A posthumous collection of 105 poems. More
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Far from the Madding Crowd [in] The Cornhill Magazine, January - December, 1874.
[London:] Cornhill Magazine, 1874. Edition: First appearance in print. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 14; NCBEL III, 981. ¶ A landmark Victorian novel, here in its first appearance in print, published anonymously. Only the plates were used in subsequent book editions; the vignettes were never reproduced, even though Hardy was very... More
Reliquiæ Bodleianæ: or Some Genuine Remains of Thomas Bodley. Containing His Life, the First Draught of the Statues of the Publick Library at Oxford (in English) and a Collection of Letters to Dr. James, &c. Published from the Originals in said Library.
London: Printed for John Hartley, 1703. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1700; Lowndes 1022. ¶ Over 200 letters from Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) to the his first librarian, Thomas James (1572-1629), on matters pertaining to the establishment, plan, design and mission of the library, including methods of cataloging, types... More
A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, In Mr. Hobbes's Book, Entitled Leviathan.
[Oxford:] Printed at the Theater, 1676. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wing C-4420; ESTC R23248; NCBEL II, 1679. ¶ A famous and detailed rebuke to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan by the Earl of Clarendon. Macclesfield bookplate on the front paste-down; bookplate of Robert S. Pirie on the front free endpaper. More
Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Translated from the Original Latin M.S. Under the Immediate Inspection of the King, by John Brown, Esq.
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. Edition: First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Bibliographical References: Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds... More
National Tales.
London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth. More