A Traveler from Altruria: Romance.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9685; Wright III, 2833. Howells' famous utopian novel about the guest from world of Altruria. More
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The Rise of Silas Lapham.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his... More
A Woman's Reason: A Novel.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells. More
Jocko, Anecdote Détachée des Lettres Inédites sur L'Instinct des Animaux.
Paris: P. Persan, 1824. Edition: First edition. An interesting work of short fiction by French author and polymath Charles Pougens (1755-1833). A female orangutan on a jungle island encounters a Portuguese man, Fernandez, who gives her the name Jocko. They become friends and engage in numerous activities together, including having... More
A Chinese Mirror: Poems and Plays . . . Introduction by Manly Hall.
Los Angeles: The Phoenix Press, 1932. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: Mattila B77; not in BAL under Sterling. 24 poems and two short plays by Moon Kwan, a native of China who attended USC in Los Angeles and UC Berkeley. Along the way he befriended Witter Bynner (to whom... More
Robert Earle of Essex His Ghost, Sent from Elizian: To the Nobility, Gentry, and Communaltie of England.
Printed in Paradise, 1624 [for London: John Beale?], 1624. Edition: First edition, second issue with two typographical errors corrected. Bibliographical References: STC 22084a; ESTC S123283, which records four locations in the U.K. and six in the U.S. ¶ Fictitious letters from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1565-1601), defending his military... More
Woman and the Higher Education.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Edition: First edition. Seven essays on the education of women by Emma Willard, Emma Embury, and Anna Brackett, et al., collected by Brackett and published in Harpers "Distaff" series. Anna Callender Brackett (1836-1911) was an important activist and voice on behalf of equal opportunity... More
Fiammetta: A Summer Idyl.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1886. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 19309; Wright III, 5286. ¶ The only novel by William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), the greatly admired sculptor and art critic who Henry James wrote about in his admirable memoir William Wetmore Story and His Friends (1903). More
Sketch of the Life and Character of Rutherford B. Hayes . . .
New York: Hurd and Houghton; Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1876. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 9572. ¶ A campaign biography for the reform Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes by fellow Ohioian Howells. A similar work at the beginning of Howells’ career, the Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and... More
Correspondence of William Ellery Channing, D.D. and Lucy Aiken, from 1826 to 1842. Edited by Anna Letitia de Breton.
Boston: Boberts Brothers, 1874. Edition: First edition. A fine correspondence between the American clergyman W. E. Channing and the English author Lucy Aikin (1781-1864), the latter who was known as a voracious writer of letters and a perfect correspondent. More
Joanna of Naples, by the Author of “Miriam.”
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1838. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wright I, 1107. ¶ A historical drama based on Jameson's Lives of the Female Sovereigns, and one of two historical novels by Louisa Jane Hall (1802-1892), Massahcusetts poet. More
The Tin Trumpet; or, Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish; to Which are Added, Poetical Selections by the Late Paul Chatfield, M.D. Edited by Jefferson Saunders.
London: Whittaker & Co., 1836. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Sadleir 3109; Wolff 6437; NCBEL III, 767. More
The Captin's Death Bed and Other Essays.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1950). Edition: First American edition. More
Granite and Rainbow.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1958). Edition: First American edition. More
Shelley Memorials: From Original Sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. To which is added an Essay on Christianity by Percy Sysshe Shelley: Now First Printed.
London: Smith, Elder, 1859. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 315. ¶ An important collection of pieces about Shelley and his association with the other principle romantics. More
Memoirs of Hecate County.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. Edition: First edition. ¶ Edmund Wilson's second work of fiction published in book form, a series of stories about the imaginary Hecate County in Upstate, New York, that begins with the memorable story of Asa M. Stryker, the narrator's neighbor who shot snapping turtles. More
The Poems of . . . Edited by K. M. R. With an Introductory Notice of the Author by Paul H. Hayne.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1879. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 7873 (Hayne). ¶ The first collected edition of the poems of Frank O. Ticknor (1822-1874), a widely read Georgia poet and friend and contemporary of fellow Southern poet Paul Hayne, who praises Ticknor's poetry in the introduction. The editor... More
Orchard Songs.
London: Elkin Mathews, John Lane, 1893. Edition: First edition, large paper issue, one of 150 copies. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 627. More
Prairie Songs: Being Chants Rhymed and Unrhymed of the Level Lands of the Great West.
Cambridge and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 5. Hamlin Garland's poetic descriptions of American rural life, following closely his critically acclaimed realistic prose sketches on the same subject, Main Traveled Roads (1891) and Prairie Folks (1893). ¶ Pencil signature of "Freida... More
Life and Letters of . . . Edited By Mary E. Dewey.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 17428; Sabin 78782. ¶ The memoirs and letters of the Massachusetts novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), whose recollections, like her fiction, present a vivid picture of contemporary New England and its history. More
The Story of a Country Town.
Atchison, Kas.: Howe & Co., 1883. Edition: First edition, binding variant with the binder's name stamped in black at the foot of the spine. Bibliographical References: Wright III, 2802. ¶ Howe's first book and a landmark in the development of American realistic fiction. Initially Howe couldn't find a publisher and... More
The Belle of Washington. A True Story of the Affections.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, (1858). Edition: Second edition. Bibliographical References: Noted under Wright II, 1509. Nancy Polk Lasselle's popular novel Annie Grayson; or, Life in Washington, completely reset, with a frontis portrait of Annie and a new title. It was first published in 1853. More
The Minister’s Charge or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker.
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. Edition: First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. Bibliographical References: BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. ¶ The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes... More
Rosalynd. Euphues' Golden Legacie, Found after his Death in his Cell at Silexedra . . . Upon Which Shakespeare Founded his “As you Like It.” Reprinted from the Edition of 1592.
London: Thomas Rodd, 1841. Edition: The John Payne Collier-Thomas Rodd reprint for their series Shakespeare's Library. Bibliographical References: NCBEL I, 1435; Freeman & Freeman, John Payne Collier, pages 426-427. ¶ One in a series of eight reprints of Shakespeare source books, with an unsigned introduction by John Payne Collier. The... More
In the Garden of Dreams: Lyrics and Sonnets.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 14664. ¶ A collection of over 100 poems, lyrics and sonnets. More