Washington: [Privately Printed], 1907. First edition, privately printed. BAL 32. One of the most famous of all American autobiographies and the book for which Henry Adams is best known: a rich exploration of history and the writing of history told through Adams' life. Henry Adams published two great works of.....
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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.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas and 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 by W. Bulmer and Sold by J. Bell, 1801. First edition. Summers, Gothic Bibliography, pages 525-26; and see Richard Garnett, Original Poetry By Victor & Cazire (John Lane, 1898). An anonymously compiled collection of 20 tales in verse which parody M. G. Lewis' popular Tales of Wonder (1801).....
Chaalons’ [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], ‘pour la Communauté des Libraires’, 1735. New edition, apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France (CCFr). By the late 17th century, the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686.....
Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, for Alexander Donaldson, and sold at his Shops [sic], and by all the Booksellers in Scotland, 1774. First edition with "Shops" in the imprint, second issue with the catchword "Lord" on page iv; "comparatively" on page 34; etc. Pottle 50 and see pages 98-101; Rothschild.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First edition, limited issue, number 36 of 40 numbered copies on Japanese Vellum (of 225 copies), signed by Cather. Crane A14a. Willa Cather's famous novel about Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his new house.
Bristol: Printed by George Routh, for the Author, n.d. [circa 1800]. First edition. ESTC T222838, which records two copies: BL and South Hampton; JISC adds four: National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews, and Wellcome; OCLC adds one, NYPL (Phforzheimer, apparently the only copy in America); and see Jackson, Romantic Poetry.....
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London: Sands & Company, 1900. First edition. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa.....
San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Louise Genest. First edition. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford.....
[Boston], 1857. Myerson and Wilson, Picturing Emerson: An Iconography, Appendix A. Joseph Carew was active between 1840-1870 and worked in partnership with his brother Thomas Carew in the firm Carew & Brothers, Sculptors, at 143 Harrison Avenue, Boston, near the Common. His sculptures were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum on.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied.....
See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172; ESTC T20784; T20781; T20780; T20726 and T45401; NCBEL II, 812. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the “Proprietors' Dispute” - a......
London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman’s visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic.....
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.....
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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.....
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. 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, and Yale) and.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and the.....
London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35.....
First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore, a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection.....
London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on.....
Olympia: Murphy & Harned, (1872). First edition. Streeter 3258; Graff 2936; Howes M910. The first business directory to Puget Sound, printed in Olympia by R. H. Hewitt's Excelsior Job Printing. The directory is divided into two parts. The first contains a general sketch of Washington Territory, with descriptions of the.....
[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleteer, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....
Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in 1650.....
London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its.....