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.....
New York: Published by S. Colman, 1839. First edition. BAL 556; Wright I, 218; Sabin 7801; American Imprints 54087. The second book by Delia Bacon (1811-59), an historical tale set during the early days of the American Revolution, told in a series of dialogues, that includes among its principle characters.....
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: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 8(a); NCBEL III, 364. An uncommon work by Scottish poet and playwright Joanne Baillie (1762-1851), the stories of several legendary historical figures told in verse, with extensive scholarly and historical notes. William Wallace.....
Paris: Mercvre de France, 1939. First edition, one of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 220). A continuation of Barney's Pensées d'une Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon), a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, poems and brief sketches on political, cultural and sexual subjects. From the inventory of Burton Weiss.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First edition. One of many works by Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) on health, domestic science and education.
London: Printed for Humfrey Lownes, 1595. The first edition as edited by Gervase Markham; revised from the first edition of 1486. STC 3314; ESTC S103621; NCBEL I, 689 (Berners) & 2011 (Markham). A famous 15th-century courtesy book and instructional manual on hunting, hawking and coats of arms, traditionally attributed to.....
New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., (1946). First edition. Miller, Paul Bowles, A Descriptive Bibliography, E26; see Millicent Dillion’s Collected Writings of Jane Bowles, pages 282 and 772. A song by Jane Bowles written in Taxco, Mexico, circa 1941-42, and put to music by her prolific composer-husband, Paul Bowles. It is.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Salesman's dummy of the first volume of The Autograph Edition of the Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. See Crane AA1. The contents consists of a frontis portrait, title, dedication, contents pages and four pages of text, followed by a blank book. Prospectus laid in. This.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, limited issue, number 502 of 520 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane A22.a.i.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. First and only edition. COPAC and OCLC record only a handful of copies. An unusual work which combines an imaginary conversation between Augustine and Aimée on the philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798-1857), with essays on the rights of animals, Madame de Staël, the novels of.....
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Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, 1821 [&] Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green, 1808. First editions, albeit only the second volume of the second title is present. American Imprints 4963 (Miscellaneous Selections); Sabin 12173. Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces is a commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
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.....
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife.....
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: 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: 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).
Various publishers and locations, including London, Edinburgh, New York and Philadelphia, 1803-1903. Grant was famous her works on Scottish lore and history, especially Letters from the Mountains; Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1803; and her account of life in New York, where she.....
London: Printed for J. and T. Tonson, 1756. First edition. A clever collection of maxims, interwoven with short character sketches (Camilla, Melissa, Praxiteles, Flora, etc.) and reflections, written in a semi-stream-of-consciousness style. Fulke Greville (1717-1806), a handsome dandy and "accomplished and tonish young man in society" (DNB) wrote this in.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English. ESTC T61467; Norton, Some Uncollected Authors, Book Collector, Winter, 1959, 2. One of the earliest works by Elizabeth Griffith (1727-93), the interesting English playwright and novelist, who resorted to translation at the beginning in her career to support.....
Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....
