London, 2016. Edition: First edition, one of 200 copies. Seven years ago poet Robert Nye, commenting on QUITS, Arthur Freeman’s mini-collection of poems published by The Brick Row Book Shop (2009) wrote: “I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might... More
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
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. Edition: First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Bibliographical References: Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin... More
San Francisco: The Brick Row Book Shop, 2009. Edition: First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A slim volume of fifteen poems by the distinguished poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller whose first collection, Izmir, was published in 1959, and whose poetry has continually been published over the intervening fifty... More
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: MacGillivray 3; Hayward 233; NCBEL III, 346. The third and last book by John Keats and generally regarded as one of the finest books of poetry in the English language. In addition to the title poems, it includes... More
St. Thomas, D.W.I.: Published by the Author, at Taylor’s Book-Store, (1896). Edition: First edition, second issue, with a supplement about St. Croix not in the first issue. ¶ A charming book on the principal islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix in the Danish West Indies, with historical sketches, descriptions... More
Norwich: Printed by Russell Hubbard, 1816. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 17616; American Bibliography 37903; Sabin 34125. Lydia Huntley Sigourney's second book, a collection she compiled and edited of the writings of her classmate and friend, Nancy Maria Hyde (1792-1816), including essays, poems and sketches. Sigourney also... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1870. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL vol. 1, page 382; Sabin 30844. A handsome testimonial to the celebrated poet-editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) and his work, as viewed through his life in his hometown of Cummington, Mass., and its connections to the... More
![Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937. By Rebecca West [pseud]. CICILY ISABEL ANDREWS.](/pictures/thumb/25540.jpg?v=1500419765)
London: Macmillan, 1941. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL IV, 770. One of the great historical and cultural accounts of Eastern Europe just before the Second World War, dedicated "To My Friends in Yugoslavia Who are Now All Dead or Enslaved." More
[New York:] Printed, But Not Published, 1869. Edition: First edition. The most famous play (of many) by Tom Taylor (1817-1880) and arguably the most famous play of the 19th century: it was being performed at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, when midway through Act III John Wilkes... More
Cleveland: Printed for the Rowfant Club by the De Vinne Press of New York, 1894. Edition: First edition, number 53 of 90 numbered copies. Bibliographical References: BAL volume 8, page 283. The first bibliography of Thoreau, compiled by Thoreau enthusiast Samuel Arthur Jones, a resident of Detroit and author of... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. Edition: First English edition, second printing, of South-Sea Idyls, with the addition of a new preface, afterword and illustrations. Bibliographical References: Cf. BAL 18980 & Smith, American Travellers Abroad, S-180. ¶ An uncommon English version of Stoddard's classic about his travels in Hawaii and Tahiti... More
Ipswich: Printed and Sold by George Jermyn; Sold Also by F. and C. Rivington, 1798. Edition: First edition. An interesting look at post-revolutionary France, with other miscellaneous anecdotes, poems and antiquarian tid bits, including a poem "The Pleasures of Insanity," an "Anecdote of Witchcraft," "The Powers of Wine," etc. More
!["An Outpost of Progress" [in] The Ladysmith Treasury. Edited by J. Eveleigh Nash. JOSEPH CONRAD, CONTRIBUTOR.](/pictures/thumb/27466.jpg?v=1498686631)
London: Sands & Company, 1900. Edition: First edition. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South... More
![A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You [caption title]. HENRY COLE AND JOHN CALCOTT HORSLEY.](/pictures/thumb/27465.jpg?v=1498686631)
London: Published at Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, 12 Old Bond Street, [1843]. Edition: The first printed Christmas card with a proof of the card. Bibliographical References: See: Buday, George. The History of the Christmas Card. London, 1954; McLean, Ruari. Joseph Cundall, A Victorian Publisher. London, 1976; Elliot, Jock. Inventing Christmas... More
![Bookseller & Author / Published by H. Brocas at No. 88 Dame Street Dublin / Engraved by H. Brocas [caption title]. THOMAS ROWLANDSON.](/pictures/thumb/27318.jpg?v=1498686630)
Dublin: H. Brocas, [1784 or later]. Edition: An unauthorized issue. An Irish issue of 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
London: Smith, Elder, 1865. Edition: First illustrated edition. Bibliographical References: Noted under Clarke A23.8; noted under BAL 7622; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 242; OCLC records nine copies, but only two in the U.S. (Peabody Essex and Morgan). A reprint of the third English edition of Transformation... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Edition: First American edition, second printing; the first was dated 1903. Bibliographical References: Supino 58.9.0; cf. Edel & Laurence A58b & BAL 10656. More
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 96; not in Wolff, who had but one novel by Greg. A major work of Victorian science fiction, the story of "a flight, in a huge spacecraft powered by a force called apergy, to Mars... More
London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance of an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistlotary observations comparing British and French... More
Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey and Son, 1819. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: American Bibliography 50175; Wegelin, Early American Plays, page 82; Hill, American Plays, 334. The first book by Frances Wright (later D'Arusmont) (1795-1852), a play she began writing in Scotland, but did not publish until after she had... More
![Thomas Paine [caption title]. THOMAS PAINE, William Sharp, Artists George Romney.](/pictures/thumb/27416.jpg?v=1498081718)
London: Published by W. Sharp, April 20, 1793. A famous and often reprinted portrait of Thomas Paine by George Romney, handsomely engraved by William Sharp. The sitting for Romney was arranged by Paine's friend Clio Rickman, who wrote that it was "perhaps the greatest likeness ever taken by any painter."... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and C. Elliott, Edinburgh, 1784. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1784:12; ESTC N4372, recording six copies (BL, OX, Harvard, McMaster, Az, Penn). A story of unrequited love with a gloomy ending by novelist, playwright and poet George Monck Berkeley (1763-1792), grandson... More
London: Printed for W. Bickerton, 1745. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T111235; Haven, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, 1440. A collection of 170 letters to, from and about prominent English men and women from the 16th century to 1744, including Aphra Behn (with a poem), Jonathan Swift, Susanna Centlivre... More
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 698; Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1795:50; Summers, Gothic Bibliography, page 489. ¶ The only novel by Ann Yearsley (1753-1806), the interesting working class poet known as the “Bristol Milkmaid.” The Royal Captives, based on... More