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.....
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.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First edition. A collection of over 35 stories set among the American Indians of the American west. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Joseph E. Foster / from / Mary Austin."
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 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.....
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.....
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;.....
London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1667. First edition. Wing N-853; Wither to Prior 151; NCBEL I, 2252. The famous biography of William Cavendish (1616-1684), the Earl of Newcastle, by his famous literary wife, Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-1673), the first English woman to publish extensively. Cavendish’s biography was widely read and.....
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.
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Los Angeles: Printed for Ernest Dawson by John Henry Nash, 1925. First separate edition. Cowan, page 142. A poem celebrating Los Angeles first published in Coolbrith's Songs of the Golden Gate (1895), here handsomely reprinted by John Henry Nash in two columns divided by triple green lines and adorned with.....
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[London:] Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. First appearance in print. Baker & Ross, A7.1; NCBEL III, 902. Only a few of the fine Leighton illuistrations were used in subsequent book editions, and Eliot made numerous changes and corrections in the text as it went through the serial printings. See Baker & Ross.....
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[Portland, Maine:] Southworth Press, 1932. First edition, an off-print from the New England Quarterly Review, volume V, number 2, 1932. BAL vol. 2, page 453; Myerson D42 (New England Quarterly appearance); OCLC records five copies (Harvard [2], Virginia, Wisconsin and Oxford). Six hitherto unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson. These were.....
Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Dodsworth, 1; OCLC records 12 copies; COPAC adds one. An accomplished collection of over 30 poems by Anna Dodsworth (1740-1801) of Kent, posthumously published by her husband, the Vicar of Dodington, in an edition of "a.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1806. First edition. Sadleir 773; NCBEL III, 667. An epistolary novel about a young English woman, Leonora, her marriage and friendship with another English woman, Olivia, who lived in France and was considered a coquette.
London: James Nisbet, 1844. First edition. Sadleir 1450; Wolff 4180. A novel with a contemporary religious theme aimed at the Tractarian movement - or Oxford Movement - of which Catharine Long (1797-1867), a rare evangelical from the upper classes, did not approve. See Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels.....
London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1811. First edition. Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 3620. The memoirs of the celebrated actress Mary Leah Wells Sumbel (circa 1769-1829), whose life off the stage was riddled with misfortunes, abusive husbands and regrettable choices, which she chronicles in her matter-of-fact autobiography. She also writes about.....
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. Block, The English Novel, page 74; 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.....