Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Third edition, expanded. BAL 6975; American Imprints 45-2974. A collection of 21 poems by Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with one previously unpublished poem.
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Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems.
New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Second edition, expanded. BAL 6971; American Imprints 37878. A collection of 20 poems by the important Knickerbocker poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), with three previously unpublished poems. An interesting association copy: from the library of fellow Knickerbocker James Lawson (1799-1880), an author, journalist, and a friend.....
A Collection of the Political Writings of . . . Selected and Arranged, with a Preface, by Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt.....
The Literature of Labour; Illustrious Instances of the Education of Poetry in Poverty.
London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852. Second edition, "Materially Enlarged." One of several works by Edwin Paxton Hood (1820-1885), son of Thomas Hood and "a restless, quixotic and inspirational activist, [who] wrote books, popular biographies, temperance and peace literature, textbooks for young people, and appreciations of his own age" - ODNB.....
Life of Mrs. Siddons.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition, preceded by the London edition of the same year. NCBEL III, 263; American Imprints 23679; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 3542. The English poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) on Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), the great English actress, who was from the distinguished theatrical Kemble.....
Poems.
New York: Published by E. Bliss, 1832. First edition. BAL 1603; American Imprints 11544. Bryant’s second substantial collection of verse, which reprints the eight pieces from Poems, 1821 (including minor revisions to “Thanatopsis”) and adds 82 poems. An interesting copy: laid in is a manuscript note, probably in the hand.....
Photographic Portraits of Six 19th Century American Authors, circa 1870.
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In a Yellow Wood.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. First edition. ¶ Gore Vidal's second novel. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Annae Comnenae Porphyrogenitae Caesarissae Alexias, sive de rebus ab Alexio Imperatore vel eius tempore gestis, libri quindecim. E Bibliotheca Barberina nunc primùm editi, et à Petro Possino Soc. Iesu Presbytero Latinâ Interpretatione, Glossario, & Notis illustrati. è quibus Glossarium nunc datur: Notæ mox opportunius edentur, vnà cum Sinnamo Continuatore Annae, & aliis quibusdam ad Alexiadem spectantibus. Accesserunt Præfationes ac Notæ Dauidis Hoeschelii Augustani, ex Editione anni MDCX. [Bound with another contemporary title by the same publisher. See below.]
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
Elogio del Principe Raimondo Montecuccoli.
(Bologna: Dalla Stamperìa di Lelio dalla Volpe, 1776). First edition. A treatise in praise of Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680), the professional soldier from Modena who saw few equals on the battlefield during his life. He later served as a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Melfi in.....
A Dialogue between a Preacher of Inherent Righteouness, and a Preacher of God's Righteousness . . . Being an Answer to a Late Dialogue between an Antinomian and his Friend [cover title].
London: Printed by J. Hart and Sold by J. Lewis, 1745. First edition. ESTC T115907 records two copies (John Rylands and Yale). A dialogue about antinomianism by the prolific English theologian William Cudworth (?1717-1763). Contemporary ink signature of Wm. Rainsdon above the title.
Astrea: The Balance of Illusions. A Poem Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1859.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition. BAL 8757, second printing, State A (B?), binding D.
Of Dramatick Poesie. An Essay 1668 by John Dryden. Preceded by a Dialogue on Poetic Drama by T. S. Eliot.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. First edition, number 459 of 580 numbered copies of the "ordinary" issue. Gallup B7b. Two dialogues on poetry by two great poets, separated by 260 years. In the preface, Eliot writes that his purpose is to "throw the dialogue of Dryden into a......
Dialogues of the Dead. The Third Edition.
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. Third edition, published shortly after the first and second editions. ESTC T78376; NCBEL II, 556. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (sometimes spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). Like the first and second editions of the same year, this edition contains 28 dialogues.....
Dr. Trueman's Visit to Edinburgh in 1840. His Introduction to the Religious World, So Called; A Series of Dialogues.
Edinburgh: W. Innes; London: Hamilton, Adams, 1841. First and only edition. OCLC records six copies (National Library of Scotland, NYPL, BL, Ox, Edinburgh Univ., National Library of Australia); COPAC adds one. A series of ten dialogues between a Dr. Truman and several ladies of Edinburgh, which introduce him to their.....
Dialogues of the Dead. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. Second edition, published shortly after the first. ESTC T79409; NCBEL II, 556. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (sometimes spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). Like the first edition, this edition contains 28 dialogues, 25 by Lyttelton and three by his friend Elizabeth.....
Lunch: A Short Story . . . Woodcut by Antonio Frasconi.
N. p.: Turkey Press, 1986. First edition, one of 140 copies, signed by Reese. From the library of D. Steven Corey, with his small posthumous bookplate (designed and printed by Kathy Acker) inside the front wrapper.
Dialogues of the Dead.
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, “Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead,” Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773).....
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries . . . Edited by Roger Fry.
Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1913. First Merrymount Press edition. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books, 24. A fine edition, issued in the Merrymount Press series The Humanist's Library, of Albrecht Dürer's account of his travels to Venice and the Netherlands.
A Time to Keep Silence.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1953. First edition, one of 450 (of 500) numbered copies, this one out of series. The second book by the great travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), three essays based on personal experience of life in three famous monasteries: the Abbey at St. Wandrille de.....
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The Day / By Edward Robeson Taylor / Saturday February Twentieth / 1915 [caption title].
(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....
Lithographed portrait of Daniel Webster after the oil portrait by Chester Harding.
Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.
The Seasons . . . To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author by P. Murdoch . . . and an Essay on the Plan and Character of the Poem, by J. Aikin.
London: Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, Cadell and Davies, [et al.], 1811. A later edition. An attractive and handsomely printed edition of the famous series of poems by James Thomson (1700-48). This edition includes the life of the poet by Murdoch, that was first published with the Works.....
Histoire Ecclesiastique . . . Tome Vingt-Troisiéme.
Paris: Chez Emery, Saugrain, Pierre Martin, 1730. Volume 23 of 36 of a famous and relatively common work (i.e., a doorstop) of 18th century French theology. This odd volume is of interest because it has been made into a "Book Safe," which is described by Sidney E. Berger in the.....
Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland . . . Selected, with an Account of the Writers, by G. Colman and B. Thornton . . . A New Edition.
London: Printed for T. Beckett and T. Evans, 1773. "New" edition, probably the second London edition; the first was published in 1755 as Poems by Eminent Ladies, and again in Dublin in 1757. ESTC T144911. An important English poetical miscellany that brings together the works of 18 English and Irish.....