(New York: American Art Union), 1849. Edition: First American Art-Union edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 10340; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 603. ¶ One of several collaborations between the great American artist Felix O.C. Darley and the great American author Washington Irving, two of which were publications for the American Art... More about Illustrations of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Designed and Etched by Felix O. C. Darley for the...

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. More about Photographic Portrait of American Poet Witter Bynner

Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968). Edition: First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bibliographical References: Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press... More about The Springing of the Blade

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol and Sold by G. and W. Nicol and by J. Booth, 1820. Edition: First edition. A consise treatise on the problems of the rural economy in England and how to solve them with an improved system of cultivation, which Alexander Beatson (1759-1830)... More about A New System of Cultivation without Lime, or Dung, or Summer Fallows, as Practiced at...

Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, et al., (1800). Edition: Third edition, revised, preceded by editions in 1795 and 1798. Bibliographical References: ESTC T185020 records six copies, none in North America. A manual for measuring and surveying land, particularly farm land, with a supplement containing a table for... More about The Gentleman & Farmer's Assistant

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1827. Edition: First edition. A thorough examination of the first 28 Odes by Anacreon in a scholarly edition for students. More about The First Twenty-Eight Odes of Anacreon, in Greek and in English; and in Both Languages in Prose...

Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. Sold by Paton, Symmer & Gordon, et al., 1743. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 7964; ESTC T137121; and see Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pages 20-21. A seminal and interesting work on Scottish agriculture by Robert... More about Select Transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in...

London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins and J. Balfour, 1769. Edition: Second edition, revised and expanded, with a new preface; the first edition was published in 1768. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1894; Cf. Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature 10407, and Printing and the Mind of Man 214;... More about A Six Weeks Tour Through the South Counties of England and Wales. Describing, Particularly . . ....

Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More about Principes de la Philosophie Morale; ou, Essai de M. S. sur le Mérite et la Vertu

London: Ward and Lock, 1862. Edition: First edition in English. Bibliographical References: Sadleir, vol. 2, page 5, which records this title, but notes that this one is not in his collection. One in a lengthy series of tales set in the Americas by Frenchman Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), who based the... More about The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico

(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services... More about Eight original art works for different versions of a theater poster advertising Oscar Serlin’s...

Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1905. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925, D-621. This is a rewriting the author's first novel "Captin Gray's Company" (1859), which was the first novel commercially published in Oregon. "Captin Gray's Company" and "From the West to the West" draw from the author's... More about From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon

London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More about The Metrical Miscellany: Consisting Chiefly of Poems Hitherto Unpublished