Boston: Printed by E. Edes & Sons, 1784. First edition. Evans 18319; Sabin 208; ESTC W37176. The first book by Hannah Adams (1755-1831), an interesting dictionary to the religions and sects of the world written in a remarkably objective scholarly manner. There were subsequent editions, entitled A View of Religions.....
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.....
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.....
London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, [et al.], 1717. The eighth edition in English, preceded by editions beginning in 1691; all the 17th century English editions are very scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of.....
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
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.”. A separately printed epilogue to Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends, a comedy Miss Berry said was “found amongst Walpole’s.....
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.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774. Fourth edition. NCBEL II, 639; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 17. ¶ The first book by Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825), the poet, essayist, educator and early Romantic, whose impressive first collection of verse quickly went through several editions, all published by her.....
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.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. In 1783, Mary Berry (1763-1852), author and friend and editor of Horace Walpole, went on the Grand Tour of Europe with her father and sister Agnes, and returned there, particularly to France, many times. Her richly woven Comparative View represents.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
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.....
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(New York: The Poets' Guild, n.d., but circa 1920). First edition. OCLC records two copies (Brown and Kansas). A playlet for children about a ceremony involving the drinking of milk and fairies: "This ceremony is founded on the old tradition that the child who brings home a sprig of rowan.....
London: Henry Washbourne; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; Dublin: Machen & Co., 1844. First English edition, preceded by the American edition of the same year. NCBEL III, 530. The first book of poetry by Fanny Kemble (1809-93), over 80 poems and sonnets, many of them set in America where she lived.....
London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1834. Second edition, published the year following the first. Sabin 10937; Ragatz, Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, page 221; Colbert, Women Travel Writers, 1780-1840; Robinson, pages 297-298. A "remarkably unsentimental" (Robinson) account of life in St. Vincent and Trinidad between the years 1820 to.....
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937-41. First collected edition, first issue, number 416 of 970 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane AA1. ¶ The Autograph Edition of Willa Cather's fiction, designed by Bruce Rogers, and issued over four years.
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.
Bristol: Printed for the Author, 1786. Second edition, revised; the first was published in Winchester in 1783. ESTC T42670 (BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Florida State, Lilly NYPL, UCLA, Colorado, Spencer Library-Kansas); see Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Woman, pages 378-79, who records five other editions of this title, but not this one;.....
Boston: Boberts Brothers, 1874. First edition. A fine correspondence between the American clergyman W. E. Channing and the English author Lucy Aikin (1781-1864), the latter who was known as a voracious writer of letters and a perfect correspondent.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. First and only edition. COPAC and OCLC between them record only a handful of copies. ¶ An unusual work which combines an imaginary conversation between Augustine and Aimée on the philosophy of Auguste Comte, with essays on the rights of animals, Madame de Staël, the.....