Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers, the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers, recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland, where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed...
New York: Random House, (1954). First trade edition. ¶ From the library of Burton Weiss.
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations...
Various publishers, places and dates of publication, 1655-1900. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years, beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture, flowers are found in religious texts, poetry, heraldic, and emblematic literature from the classical period...
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...
London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R. Dodsley, and W. Warner, 1737. First edition, second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year with the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains...
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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. ¶ The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of Washington...
25 x 40 cm, signed "p.a. 71" in pencil in the lower left corner and on the verso also in pencil "Paul Alexander / Bolinas - 1971." ¶ A fine watercolor by artist Paul Alexander, who grew up in the East and migrated to Northern California in 1956 at the...
San Francisco: Printed & Published by Chas. F. Robbins, 1862. Lithography of George H. Baker. First edition, "2nd Thousand" printed above the title. OCLC records two copies (HEH & BYU). ¶ A song by San Francisco poet, journalist and chronicler Franklin Soulé (1810-1882) about the rescue of a little girl...
New York, July 9, 1937. ¶ A fine portrait of the poet Witter Bynner (1881-1968), taken in early middle age by his friend, the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Bynner had a life-long interest in photography and was friends with many well-known photographers.
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San Francisco: Nahl Bros. Lith., L. Nagel Print, Sept. 20th 1859. Peters, California on Stone, 175; Morland L. Stevens, Charles Christian Nahl, Artist of the Gold Rush, #80. ¶ A rare example of the grand certificate of membership in the Society of California Pioneers, the first organization of its kind...
San Francisco: Gabriel Moulin Photo, 153 Kearny Street, 1928. ¶ An album of original photographic prints by the legendary San Francisco photographer Gabriel Moulin (1872-1945) of rural landscapes and buildings along Westside Road in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, taken in the summer of 1928. The photographs are...
London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins and J. Balfour, 1769. Second edition, revised and expanded, with a new preface; the first edition was published in 1768. NCBEL II, 1894; Cf. Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature 10407; and Printing and the Mind of Man 214; and G. E....
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1766 [&] London: Printed for J. Brotherton, 1766. First combined edition, printing two previously published works (of 1758 and 1759), bound with a third that was also first published in 1759. Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10183 and ESTC...
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[London, 1795?]. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804, recording a single copy at Cambridge, which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud, Folk Song Index, V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library, which also notes the apothecary's stamp. A typical doggerel...
London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 16a. ¶ An anthology of almost 100 poems, compiled by Maria Riddell (1772-1808), a young Scottish woman who grew up in the Leeward Islands, which she wrote about in her...
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. First edition. Tchemerzine, Bibliographie d'Editions Originales ou Rares d'Auteurs Francais II, 916; and see P.N. Furman, Diderot, A Critical Biography. ¶ The first book by the great French philosopher, writer, and polymath Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a translation of An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1699)...
London: J. Limbird, 1824. First edition. Wise, vol. 2, page 84; Lowndes, page 340. ¶ A spurious account of Byron's travels around the eastern Mediterranean on his yacht in 1821, published by J. Limbird in an attempt to capitalize on the Byron craze in the wake of the poet's death...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1877. First edition. BAL 8; Howes A-51. ¶ A major historical work by Henry Adams (1838-1918), and a precursor to his famous histories of the United States. Documents of New England Federalism is a remarkable chronicle of the events and correspondence involving the rise and fall of...
New York: Printed by Mott & Lyon for Fellows & Adam, Thomas Greenleaf, and Naphtali Judah, 1796. First collected edition. BAL 894; Evans 30025. The four treatises on the French Revolution by poet, businessman, and diplomat Joel Barlow (1754-1812), published together for the first time. Barlow lived in France during...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781. First edition. ESTC T42730 records eight locations: Birmingham, British Library (four copies), Cambridge (two copies), Harvard, Kent State, New York Public, Chicago, and Yale; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 129. An impressive work of Biblical scholarship by poet and classics scholar Ann Francis...
London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine...
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...
[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. ¶ A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious...
Paris: Bibliothéque Nouvelle de la Jeunesse, [1884]. First edition of the first French translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. OCLC records three locations (BL, Illinois and Yale). ¶ A handsome French translation of Tom Sawyer, with fine original illustrations. Hughes also translated Huckleberry Finn, which was published in a......