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
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American Melodies; Containing a Single Selection from the Productions of Two Hundred Writers.
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. ¶ An impressive anthology of American poetry that includes important early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad... More
The Waste Land. By T.S. Eliot.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Edition: First Arion Press edition, number 65 of 300 numbered copies. The 79th book of the Arion Press and an exemplary fine press edition of a classic American poem, with essays by Helen Vendler on the Waste Land and Marco Livingstone on Kitaj's painting... More
A Collection from the Prose and Poetical Writings of . . .
New York: Printed and Published for the Author by J. Winchester, 1843. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wright I, 1019. Essays, nine short stories and over 50 poems by Mary L. Gardiner, a resident of Sag Harbor, who, judging by the substantial list of subscribers, was well known on Long Island. More
Notes on Chinese Matters. By Robert Hart, Inspector General of Imperial Maritime Customs, with Comments by J. Ross Browne, Late United States Minister at Peking. Issued as a Supplement to Shanghai Recorder.
Shanghai: Shanghai Recorder, 1869. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records one copy of this supplement at the University of London, but certainly there are other copies included in runs of the Shanghai Recorder. Two perspectives on contemporary events in China vis-à-vis treaties agreed to following the Opium..... More
Jane Grabhorn’s Grandmother’s Diary . . .
San Francisco: Press of Andrew Hoyem for The Jumbo Press, 1974. Edition: First edition, one of 100 copies. A project to publish a diary by her grandmother that Jane Grabhorn began for her Jumbo Press, but was unfinished at her death. Andrew Hoyem, the successor of the Grabhorn Press, found... More
No More Mr. Nice Guy; or, How to Get Along When Roger's Not Around Any More: A Farewell Address to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America.
New York: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, 2005. Edition: First edition, one of 250 copies, designed by Alastair Johnston and printed at the Poltroon Press. Roger Stoddard's engaging and amusing memoirs given in the form of a talk before members of the ABAA in April, 2005. More
Engraved portrait of Washington Irving by Thomas Johnson after the portrait of Irving by Charles Robert Leslie, signed T. Johnson.
N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an..... More
Three Reliques of Ancient Western Poetry. Collected By Edmund Wilson From the Ruins of the Twentieth Century.
[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1964]. Edition: A reprint of a privately printed pamphlet which EW sent out as a Christmas and New Year’s greeting in 1954. More
The Residual Years.
(New York): New Directions, (1948). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Bartlett & Campo A9. ¶ Everson’s first major collection of poetry, a selection from previous volumes, with one unpublished poem and new 3-page preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For Dorothy Whitnah / with best wishes etc / Bill... More
Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument, in Concord, Mass.
Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, 1867. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Myerson D67; cf. BAL 5254 for an offprint of this. The published ceremonies of the dedication in Concord of a monument to those local citizens who lost their lives in the Civil War, with contributions by several central participants... More
Oscar Wilde Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Edition: First edition, number 182 of 800 numbered copies. Bibliographical References: Dreyfus, Nonesuch Press, 8a. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond, a fictional character, and Charles Ricketts, written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert... More
Remarks on the Two Last Chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a Letter to a Friend.
London: Printed for T. Payne and Son and J. Robson, 1776. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1724. An attack on Edward Gibbon's interpretation of the growth of Christianity in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chelsum (1738-1801), a clergyman and scholar, was one of the first... More
An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Ever-Memorable Mr. John Hales, Fellow of Eton College, and Canon of Windsor. Being A Specimen of an Historical and Critical English Dictionary.
London: Printed for R. Robinson, 1719. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1770. This biography of John Hales (1584-1656), the scholar and clergyman known as the “Ever Memorable,” is an early work in English (the first recorded in NCBEL) by the interesting Frenchman-turned-Englishman, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1672-1745), a journalist... More
Invisible Cities. Translated from Italian and Introduced by William Weaver. With Twelve Drawings of Sites and Artifacts by Wayne Thiebaud.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Edition: First Arion Press edition, one of 400 copies signed by Thiebaud. ¶ An ingenuously designed and handsomely produced illustrated edition of Calvino's famous novel centering on an imaginary dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublia Khan and their descriptions of the cities of the past. More
Notebook Poems: 1953. 3 Drawings by Jess.
San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley [for] San Francisco State University, 1991. Edition: First edition, letter "D" of ten lettered copies with an original signed drawing by Jess, of a total edition of 100 copies. Designed and printed by Peter Koch, with assistance from graduate students in the Department... More
Melancholy; As it Proceeds from the Disposition and Habit, the Passion of Love and the Influence of Religion . . . And in which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences and Cures of This English Malady.
London: Printed by T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, J. Walker, J. Sewell, Lackington, Allen [and others], 1801. Edition: First edition thus. Bibliographical References: NCBEL I, 2219. A popular truncated edition of Burton's influential work, which distills it down into five chapters relevant to the readers of modern... More
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Keynes 89; NCBEL III, 1232. 32 essays on literary and cultural topics, many of which originally appeared in periodicals from 1818 to 1825. Contemporary bookplate of J.H. Ball on the front paste-downs. Contemporary ink signature on the front free endpapers. More
The Alexandria Quartet . . . Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea.
London: Faber and Faber, (1962). Edition: First collected edition, limited issue, number 390 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Durrell. Durrell's famous masterpiece of fiction, here in its first collected, limited edition, the text of which was slightly revised by Durrell. More
Lady's Almanac for the Year 1858.
Boston: Damrell & Moore & G. Coolidge. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., [1857]. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records six copies. Damrell & Moore, sometimes in collaboration with John P. Jewett and Crosby, Nichols, and others, began its attractive series of small almanacs in 1854. Though unsigned except... More
Essays; Read to a Literary Society; At Their Weekly Meetings, within the College, at Glasgow . . .
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes." More
To Catch Customers: Grafton Tyler Brown's 1875 Lithographic Sample Sheets.
(San Francisco: Roxburghe-Zamarano Club Joint Meeting, 2014). Edition: First edition, one of 150 copies printed by Richard Seibert for Robert Chandler and friends. Samples, similar to type specimens, that African American lithographer Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) produced as a promotion for his lithography business in San Francisco. Professor Chandler provides... More
Holograph letter signed and dated May 14, 1945 on his Big Sur stationery with his photographc portrait as part of the letterhead.
Big, Sur, California, May 14, 1945. Henry Miller responds to an inquiry from a young collector, Jack Aldridge, who is serving in the Army, and in the course of his letter makes an interesting confession: "Dear Lieutenant Jack! I wish I were good enough to make the sort of water... More
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Bookseller & Author / Published by H. Brocas at No. 88 Dame Street Dublin / Engraved by H. Brocas [caption title].
Dublin: H. Brocas, [1784 or later]. Edition: An unauthorized issue. An Irish aquatint after the caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, first published in London Sept. 25, 1784, with the famous scene depicting the bookseller looking unsympathetically at the struggling author who is pleading his case, manuscript in hand. Brocas was a.... More
The Human Drift.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 11972. A collection of eight essays and sketches, including two dramatic sketches, published shortly after London's death in 1916. The title essay, "The Human Drift," is London's treatise on the history of civilisation as a search for food. More