(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1963. Edition: First edition, one of 450 copies designed by Adrian Wilson and printed at his Press in the Tuscany Alley. Prospectus laid in. More
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Edition: Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. Bibliographical References: BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill... More
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Foxon, page 871; Hayward 169; NCBEL II, 689. The first collection of poetry by Joseph Warton (1722-1800), clergyman, poet, and literary critic, 14 odes preceded by the author's "advertisement" in which he states that... More
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Edition: Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Bibliographical References: Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that... More
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. Edition: First edition, number IV of 20 numbered copies, of a total edition of 165 copies, signed by Bishop on the colophon page. This copy is additionally inscribed on the half-title to American poet "S. Foster Damon / as always - / from Latimer / Jan 21/36." More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1869). Edition: Second edition, with the addition of one unpublished ballad. Bibliographical References: BAL 11556. ¶ The second edition in book form of Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, Leland’s immensely popular humorous verse about the German-American, Hans Breitmann, who is full of fooling and philosophy and..... More
(Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1791). Bibliographical References: OCLC records four copies, Newberry Library, NYPL and two in Europe. The official publication of a law issued by the newly established National Constituent Assembly that commended and awarded pensions to those, mainly commoners, who sacrificed their lives or were wounded in the... More
[Philadelphia: Public Ledger, 1857]. A handsome carrier's address celebrating the new extension of the Capitol Building in Washington, with commendatory verse on the edifice and the values it represents: "Our Nation's Capitol in all the pride / Of architecture, guards Potomacs tide / On yonder eminence it proudly stands /... More
Belfast: Printed by James Magee, 1774 [and] London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1775. Edition: First Dublin edition of Miscellaneous Pieces (first published in London by Johnson in 1773); first and only edition of Devotional Pieces. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 639 & Rothschild 18 (Miscellaneous Pieces); ESTC T101659 for Devotional Pieces... More
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and... More
London: Printed by H. Woodfall for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1744. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T70375; Lowndes, page 1002, noting this title, but not this first edition. ¶ The first published work by James Harris (1709-1780), philosopher, partron of the arts - particularly music - and author... More
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues... More
London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Rothschild 1421; Teerink 25 (1b, 2a & 3b-d); Griffin 184, 185 & 197; ESTC T39458. Volume one has the cancelled forms of K7-8 and L6-7; volume three is Teerink's 3b, but also includes the errata leaf usually found in... More
(Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018.), Edition: First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total... More
London: Printed at the Logographic Press, for Thomas Hookham, at His Circulating Library, 1785. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1785:38; ESTC T66880 (BL, Bibliothèque Nationale, Sorbonne, Brown, HEH, Ohio State, LC, Illinois, Michigan, Penn, UVa, Yale, Western Ontario); Hardy, Catalogue of English Prose Fiction, 630. All..... More
London: Printed for John Watts, 1728. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Cross vol. 3, 290; NCBEL II, 927. Fielding’s second book, his first play and his earliest realistically obtainable work. Love in Several Masques was quite the triumph for the 20-year-old Fielding. It opened on February 16, 1728, in Drury... More
London: Published by Wm. C. Hall, 1824. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Keynes, Hazlitt, 77; NCBEL III, 1232. A substantial anthology of English poetry that was several years in the making and notable for its inclusion of the younger generation - Leigh Hunt, Shelley and Keats - in addition to... More
London: Printed by T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, J. Walker, J. Sewell, Lackington, Allen [and others], 1801. Edition: First abridged edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL I, 2219; Jordan-Smith, Bibliographia Burtoniana, page 95. A popular edition of Burton's influential work, which distills it down into five chapters relevant to... More
London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826. Edition: First edition, second issue with Hazlitt's name on the title-page. Bibliographical References: Kenyes, Hazlitt, 92; Pine-Coffin 824-7; NCBEL III, 1232. William Hazlitt's lively and insightful descriptions of France (Paris is the place to be) and Italy, written during a tour there in... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Edition: Fourth edition. Bibliographical References: Wade 19; NCBEL III, 1917. Yeats's collected poems to date with his verse drama The Countess Cathleen and his play The Land of Heart's Desire. This edition incorporates the revisions of the 1901 third edition and contains a brief prefatory... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Edition: First edition. The final installment in the famous Arabian travels of Swiss explorer and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817), published posthumously by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa, and edited by the orientalist William Ouseley. Burckhardt's journals... More
London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. Edition: First Medici Society edition, number 705 of 1,000 numbered copies printed at the Riccardi Press. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 178, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 981. A fine, handsome edition of Hardy's poems. Two extra printed paper... More
London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774. Edition: Fourth edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 639; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 17. ¶ The first book by Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825), the poet, essayist, educator and early Romantic, whose impressive first collection of verse quickly went through several editions, all... More
Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position... More
Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1845. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: American Imprints 45-3179. A scarce collection of 50 poems and sonnets by Henry Beck Hirst (1813-74), lawyer, poet, musician, amateur ornithologist, conchologist and botanist. Hirst was a native of Philadelphia, where he practiced law and pursued many avocations. He published... More
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