London: Smith, Elder, 1865. Edition: First illustrated edition. Bibliographical References: Noted under Clarke A23.8; noted under BAL 7622; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 242; OCLC records nine copies, but only two in the U.S. (Peabody Essex and Morgan). A reprint of the third English edition of Transformation... More
London, 2016. Edition: First edition, one of 200 copies. Seven years ago poet Robert Nye, commenting on QUITS, Arthur Freeman’s mini-collection of poems published by The Brick Row Book Shop (2009) wrote: “I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might... More
New York: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, 2005. Edition: First edition, one of 250 copies, designed by Alastair Johnston and printed at the Poltroon Press. Roger Stoddard's engaging and amusing memoirs given in the form of a talk before members of the ABAA in April, 2005. More
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. Edition: First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Bibliographical References: Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin... More
San Francisco: The Brick Row Book Shop, 2009. Edition: First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A slim volume of fifteen poems by the distinguished poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller whose first collection, Izmir, was published in 1959, and whose poetry has continually been published over the intervening fifty... More
![Florence & Kate or Love's Vicissitudes. By Marianne. Illustrated by Harry. Complete in Two Vols. Not Yet. NB: The Authoress of this work reserves the right of Translating it. [manuscript title]. ANONYMOUS.](/pictures/thumb/27463.jpg?v=1498002482)
No place, no date, but UK, 1820 or afterwards. Edition: Not published; it is probable there was a second volume as stated on the title-page and at the conclusion of the text (“End of First Volume”), but there is an intriguing notation in contemporary hand also on the title-page under... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Edition: First American edition, second printing; the first was dated 1903. Bibliographical References: Supino 58.9.0; cf. Edel & Laurence A58b & BAL 10656. More
![Steel Engravings from Godey’s Lady’s Book [cover title]. GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK.](/pictures/thumb/27429.jpg?v=1498506359)
Philadelphia: J. H. Haulenbeek & Co., 1885. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC 896936236 records one copy (Winterthur). A promotional brochure celebrating 55 years of Godey's Lady's Book, with poetry, extracts from reviews of the periodical, statistics, etc. Founded in 1830 as The Lady's Book, Godey's was one of the... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 96; not in Wolff, who had but one novel by Greg. A major work of Victorian science fiction, the story of "a flight, in a huge spacecraft powered by a force called apergy, to Mars... More
London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistlotary observations comparing British and French society... More
Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey and Son, 1819. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: American Bibliography 50175; Wegelin, Early American Plays, page 82; Hill, American Plays, 334. The first book by Frances Wright (later D'Arusmont) (1795-1852), a play she began writing in Scotland, but did not publish until after she had... More
![Thomas Paine [caption title]. THOMAS PAINE, William Sharp, Artists George Romney.](/pictures/thumb/27416.jpg?v=1498081718)
London: Published by W. Sharp, April 20, 1793. A famous and often reprinted portrait of Thomas Paine by George Romney, handsomely engraved by William Sharp. The sitting for Romney was arranged by Paine's friend Clio Rickman, who wrote that it was "perhaps the greatest likeness ever taken by any painter."... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and C. Elliott, Edinburgh, 1784. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1784:12; ESTC N4372, recording six copies (BL, OX, Harvard, McMaster, Az, Penn). A story of unrequited love with a gloomy ending by novelist, playwright and poet George Monck Berkeley (1763-1792), grandson... More
London: Printed for W. Bickerton, 1745. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T111235; Haven, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, 1440. A collection of 170 letters to, from and about prominent English men and women from the 16th century to 1744, including Aphra Behn (with a poem), Jonathan Swift, Susanna Centlivre... More
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 698; Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1795:50; Summers, Gothic Bibliography, page 489. ¶ The only novel by Ann Yearsley (1753-1806), the interesting working class poet known as the “Bristol Milkmaid.” The Royal Captives, based on... More
Bath: Printed and Sold by R. Cruttwell, for the Benefit of a Worthy Clergyman, in Distress, [1777]. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T106176, recording three locations in the UK and ten in the US; NCBEL II, 676 (R. Polwhele). A rare literary festschrift for author and historian Catharine Macaulay... More
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 531; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 193. ¶ An early collection of poetry by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), much of which is based on tales of the troubadours and chivalry, as was her previous collection. More
London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby; T. Payne; and J. Robson, 1794. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 46. ¶ A poem based on classical sources, mainly Xenophon, about the battle of Thymbra near Troy. Lady Sophia Burrell (1753-1802) was an interesting minor poet and... More
London: John Murray, 1817. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 383; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 152. A scarce and early work by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835), an interesting long poem on Greek independence, à la Byron's Childe Harold. In her poem Hemans defends the acquisition of the... More
London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC N9868. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts... More
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 772; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; ESTC T68679. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings... More
![The Congress Canvassed: or, An Examination into the Conduct of the Delegates, at Their Grand Convention, Held in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1774. Addressed to the Merchants of New York. By A. W. Farmer [pseud]. SAMUEL SEABURY.](/pictures/thumb/27397.jpg?v=1498501987)
New York, Printed: London Reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, 1775. Edition: First English edition. Bibliographical References: Sabin 78563; Adams, American Controversy, 74-69b; ESTC T13510, recording four copies in the UK and seven in the US. One of several pamphlets by Samuel Seabury (1729-1796), clergyman, controversialist and pamphleteer, in which he... More
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll], 1714. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 987; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 227; ESTC T65369. The fictionalized memoirs of novelist, playwright and journalist Delarivier Manley (c.1670-1724). The story, written under the guise of a translation and in part a roman à clef about... More
Philadelphia, 1820-28. Theophilus Ransom Gates (1787-1846) was a self-styled visionary, itinerant preacher, author, utopian and advocate for free love and birth control, who published his memoirs and collected writings by age 30. Driven by unconventional religious beliefs, Gates collaborated with Philadelphia printer Joseph Rakestraw in 1820 to establish a radical... More
Boston: James Munroe, 1840. Edition: Third American edition; the first edited by Eliza Follen. Bibliographical References: American Imprints 40-2799; OCLC 19921008 records five copies (Yale, Houghton, Free Library of Philadelphia, Penn State, Brigham Young). There was a printing or edition by Monroe dated 1841, as well. OCLC 19871027 records four... More