London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852. One of two editions in English published in 1852. Cf. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 25 and Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 332. An early travel narrative by Austrian Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858), “the first full-time woman traveller of all, and one of the very few.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1811. First trade edition, second edition overall. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Tighe, 1(b); NCBEL III, 405. The popular poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love by Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was first privately printed in 1805 in an edition.....
Villefranche en Beaujolais: Chez Jean Guillermet, Libraire-Editeur, 1929. First edition. A fine and entertaining treatise on Beaujolais. Text entirely in French.
(London: Printed and Published by Villiers Publications for Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1961.), First edition. OCLC records five holdings (SFPL, Cal State LA, Yale, LC, Montana Historical Society). A collaborative novella about college life in Helena, Montana, during the 1930s, and the social interactions among a group of students.....
(Pasadena): The Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, number 41 of 110 copies. Broomfield A11b; Alberts 63. Two poems by Robinson Jeffers handsomely printed by Ward Ritchie. The first edition was issued earlier the same year in an edition of 80 numbered copies, the majority of which were said to have.....
Santa Fe, N. M.: Privately Printed by The Rydal Press, 1935. First edition. A poem by Western author Mary Austin (1868-1934) about "what I shall do when I am dead." Small stamp of the "Bender Coll" on the rear blank.
Fallbrook, CA.: The Weather Bird Press, 1986. First edition, one of 150 copies. Butcher, Weather Bird Press Bibliography, 81. A history of the Southern California San Pasqual Press, charmingly told and finely printed by Vance Gerry of the Weather Bird Press.
(New York: New Directions, circa 1950). The first edition as issued in New Directions "The New Classics" series. Inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: "From the books of / Robert McAlmon." The inscription is in the hand of Victoria McAlmon (1879-1969), the older sister of writer and publisher.....
Stanford, California: Nathan Van Patten, 1949. First edition, one of 50 copies privately printed. Not found in NCBEL. An article by Arthur Machen (1863-1947) lamenting the poor quality of English food, particularly as found in pubs and coffee houses: "The average man who likes a decent meal has, through long.....
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not found in Rosenbach. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to the advancement of Jewish culture and religion in America, founded in Philadelphia.....
London and New York: Macmillan, 1895. First edition. NCBEL III, 1412. Ten essays on literature and art, all previously published in periodicals, preceded by a valuable checklist of Pater's writings - books and periodical appearances - compiled by Charles L. Shadwell, his literary executor, friend and fellow at Oriel College.....
London: John Henry Jackson, 1854. First edition. OCLC and Library Hub record the same later printing dated 1855 at BL. An essay on courtesy addressed by an anonymous author to his cousin, "The Hon. Henry H." who apparently had written a popular novel which received "large circulation" and many public.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To.....
(San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1927). First edition, one of 250 numbered copies, this one out of series. Magee, Grabhorn Press Bibliography, 91, which does not describe this binding. A translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes - the Book of Kohelet - by Orientalist Morris Jastrow, first published.....
London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus.....
New York [&] London: The Macmillan Co., 1897. First edition. Howes I-57. A nostalgic portrait of the original Santa Fe Trail as it developed from eastern Kansas to New Mexico, with an introduction by W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," and wistful illustrations by Frederick Remington and Thompson Willing. Henry Inman.....
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of Thomas Bellamy's picaresque novel about young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives through numerous "calamitous vicissitudes" as a......
London: Printed for J. and T. Tonson, 1756. First edition. ESTC T97706. A clever collection of maxims, interwoven with short character sketches (Camilla, Melissa, Praxiteles, Flora, etc.) and reflections, written in collaboration by Fulke Greville and his wife, the poet Frances Macartney Greville. Fulke Greville (1717-1806) was handsome dandy, an.....
London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilford and J. Clarke, 1734. First edition. ESTC T56391; NCBEL II, 798: "Doubtfully attributed to Ralph." A detailed travel guide to London's architecture, monuments, fashionable squares, and statues from "mere Gothic heaps of stone, without form or order" to the stately works of.....
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.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1728-1730. First collected edition, preceded by the edition in seven parts, published over four years. ESTC T113649; Foxon Y169; NCBEL II, 494. The first collected edition of seven popular satires by Edward Young, exploring the nature of the love of praise. They were originally published.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and A. and J. Churchil, and R. Simpson, 1700. First edition. ESTC R14603; Wing T461; Teerink 469. The first substantial published work by Jonathan Swift, preceded only by an ode in fifth volume of John Dunton's Athenian Gazette (1692). Swift spent nearly ten years as.....
London: Printed by J. B. for James Boler, 1630. First edition. ESTC S117734; STC 23725; Pforzheimer 1006. The collected works of a colorful member of the London literary scene in the late 16th and early 17th centuries – not a major figure, but an extraordinary one. John Taylor (1578-1653) moved.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1698. First edition, first issue without the advertisement and errata. ESTC R18926; Wing C5844; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 298. A famous response to clergyman Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), in which Collier cited aspects of four.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. Second edition, the same year as the first which was issued in an unwieldy large, think single-volume quarto format; this second edition was reset in a two-volume octavo format and thus is the first practical edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 290-91;.....