Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
See Keller, Walker Evans, The Getty Museum Collection, page 85, for a variant of this image. In 1933 Evans was commissioned by publisher J. B. Lippincott to make photographic illustrations for Carlton's Beals' The Crime of Cuba, an exposé of the brutal Machado regime and an indictment of the American.....
Chicago: The Stein Company, 1902. First edition. OCLC records five copies (OSU, Chicago, Stanford, Northern Illinois and Penn). One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p., n.d., 1894]. First edition. OCLC 20150325, 20150203 & 12380909 record three copies: OSU, Chicago and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1897). First edition. OCLC 64100281 & 71848624 record three copies: Stanford, OSU and Chicago. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Paul James Duff, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Duff, other than that he.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1899). First edition, one of two imprints; the other was Chicago: Ross Pub. Co., issued as No. 4 in the Lyceum Series. OCLC 10244252, 64471423 and 199661009 record seven copies Chicago, Indiana, OSU (both imprints), UCLA, Penn and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by.....
New York: The Eagle Book Co., 1891. First edition. OCLC 57760704 & 720621672 record variant imprints with one holding each, both at Ohio State. A classic example of the pulp fiction produced at the end of the 19th century. This is the only title found in OCLC under the name.....
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
Various places and publishers, 1837-1976. Mostly first editions. The collection of primarily scholarly works on Joan of Arc (circa 1412-1431) assembled by antiquarian bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), who had an abiding interest in her story and times, which was one of his specialties as a bookseller. Joan of Arc.....
London: William Pickering, 1835. First edition. NCBEL III, 1276. A selection of the poetry of the interesting writer and book collector George Daniel (1789-1864), including his well-known version of Pope's famous satire, moderinized to lampoon the Romantics and their contemporaries: Byron, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Croker, Barrett, the Edinburgh Review, Cobbett.....
Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805]. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 8(a); NCBEL III, 364. An uncommon work by Scottish poet and playwright Joanne Baillie (1762-1851), the stories of several legendary historical figures told in verse, with extensive scholarly and historical notes. William Wallace.....
Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in Officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. First edition edited by Joseph Scalinger. Adams C1156; Schreiber, The Estiennes, 248. The celebrated and often reprinted edition of Catullus and his two fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by French scholar Joseph Justus Scalinger (1549-1609), one of the most.....
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii). First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. The first Aldine.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1766. First edition. ESTC T71399; Sabin 78356 (American edition); Raven, British Fiction 1750-1770, 1038. A sequel to the popular novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), the story of an ideal community run by hard-working women, written by Sarah Scott with her friend Barbara Montagu.....
Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, for Alexander Donaldson, and sold at his Shops [sic], and by all the Booksellers in Scotland, 1774. First edition with "Shops" in the imprint, second issue with the catchword "Lord" on page iv; "comparatively" on page 34; etc. Pottle 50 and see pages 98-101; Rothschild.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Sadleir 984; NCBEL III, 725; Loeber, Irish Fiction, G37; ODNB; not in Wolff, who had other titles by Glascock. Nine stories set around life in the navy by Captain William Nugent Glascock (1787-1847), the author of several works of nautical fiction.....
A fine, small amateur oil painting of a house on Orr's Island, Maine, that was the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Maine Coast, written when she lived in Brunswick in the 1850s; it was published by Ticknor and Fields in.....
London: George Routledge, 1858. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir 21a; Wolff 60a; NCBEL III, 912. A quasi-autobiographical novel set in Ainsworth’s home town of Manchester, first published in parts by Chapman and Hall, beginning in December 1851, as The Life and Adventures of Mervyn.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
Boston: James Munroe, 1858. First edition. BAL 3065. An introspective exploration of man and nature in an anonymously published free-verse poem by William Ellery Channing (1817-1901). Channing was a close friend of Henry David Thoreau. He assisted him in the construction of the legendary cabin at Walden Pond and later.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied.....
Frankfort: Printed for Charles Jugel, at the German and Foreign Library, 1837. First separate edition. NCBEL III, 1289; OCLC records three copies (Sutro, Harvard and Toronto); COPAC adds three (BL, Senate House and V. & A.). An interesting German edition of the chapters about Germany from Anna Jameson's Visits and.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First and only edition. Letters from France, Belgium and Germany between 1814 and 1816 by a highly cultivated and connected young lady who writes to various friends about adventures and intrigue in high places. The author of the letters is perhaps autobiographical or.....