London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R. Dodsley, and W. Warner, 1737. First edition, second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year with the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains...

25 x 40 cm, signed "p.a. 71" in pencil in the lower left corner and on the verso also in pencil "Paul Alexander / Bolinas - 1971." ¶ A fine watercolor by artist Paul Alexander, who grew up in the East and migrated to Northern California in 1956 at the...

New York, July 9, 1937. ¶ A fine portrait of the poet Witter Bynner (1881-1968), taken in early middle age by his friend, the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Bynner had a life-long interest in photography and was friends with many well-known photographers.

San Francisco: Gabriel Moulin Photo, 153 Kearny Street, 1928. ¶ An album of original photographic prints by the legendary San Francisco photographer Gabriel Moulin (1872-1945) of rural landscapes and buildings along Westside Road in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, taken in the summer of 1928. The photographs are...

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1766 [&] London: Printed for J. Brotherton, 1766. First combined edition, printing two previously published works (of 1758 and 1759), bound with a third that was also first published in 1759. Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10183 and ESTC...

London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 16a. ¶ An anthology of almost 100 poems, compiled by Maria Riddell (1772-1808), a young Scottish woman who grew up in the Leeward Islands, which she wrote about in her...

London: J. Limbird, 1824. First edition. Wise, vol. 2, page 84; Lowndes, page 340. ¶ A spurious account of Byron's travels around the eastern Mediterranean on his yacht in 1821, published by J. Limbird in an attempt to capitalize on the Byron craze in the wake of the poet's death...

New York: Printed by Mott & Lyon for Fellows & Adam, Thomas Greenleaf, and Naphtali Judah, 1796. First collected edition. BAL 894; Evans 30025. The four treatises on the French Revolution by poet, businessman, and diplomat Joel Barlow (1754-1812), published together for the first time. Barlow lived in France during...

London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine...

[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. ¶ A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious...

Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of an Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be...

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Second edition; first separate illustrated edition. BAL 9789. A handsome large format illustrated edition of Howells' famous Christmas story, one of the most popular and often read American Yuletide tales. Christmas Every Day was first published in 1893 with two other stories...

Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968). First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition...