[San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930]. See the Grabhorn Press Bibliography 138. Proof impression of one of the 37 woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo for the legendary fine press edition of Leaves of Grass by the Grabhorn Press. This image was used at the beginning of Book XVI, "Song of.....
Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885. First Daniel Press edition, number 45 of 150 numbered copies. NCBEL I, 1699. An interesting later edition of a play originally entitled A Cure for the Cuckhold: A Pleasant Comedy, published by bookseller Francis Kirkman in 1661 and perhaps speciously.....
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not in Rosenbach; OCLC records six copies of this first printing and three of the second. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to.....
[New York: The Lotos Club, 1920]. First edition. A classic example of the whimsical illustrated broadsides by Thomas Sindelar (1867-1923) for the Lotos Club of New York, which they commissioned for dinners honoring distinguished cultural and political figures. Sindelar was an artist member of the Club and to his credit.....
London: Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. Fourth edition. ESTC R219623 (six in the UK and five in North America); Wing E3940A; Keynes, Evelyn, 16a. An anonymously written pamphlet under the guise of being a dairy of a Frenchman’s visit to England and his shock at the dirty, chaotic.....
London: Hamilton, Adams; Liverpool: Marples, 1834. First English Translation. OCLC records about 15 copies. The first translation into English of the poetical work of German poet and soldier Theodor Körner (1791-1813), a romantic and popular figure in German literature and lore. He heroically died in battle at the young age.....
"This Indenture witnesseth that Arthur Pulsford of Lyme Regis doth put himself Apprentice to Frederick Dunster, Bookseller, Stationer, Printer, &c., of Lyme Regis, County of Dorset to . . . Apprentice in the Art of Bookselling, Stationery and Printing . . . from the 21st day of November, 1864.” The.....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1979. First edition of this translation, number 100 of 250 numbered copies. A handsome fine press edition of poet Charles Martin's translation of the poetry of Catullus.
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition. Keynes 33; NCBEL III, 1232. The first collection of William Hazlitt's famous lectures on English writers and literature, delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818-1819. This one begins with a lecture "On Poetry in General," and proceeds through Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son for Longman & Rees, and J. Wright, London, 1800. First and only edition. ESTC T115459; Sabin 30010 (Hamilton) & 38570 (Lafayette); Jackson, La Fayette, a Bibliography, page 199 (mis-attributes the poem to Anne Bannerman). A 457-line poem by George Hamilton (1757-1832), set at the.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. First edition, one of 175 copies. An attractive and amusing work on mushrooms, the history of their uses in cooking, how to choose and clean them, etc., with several recipes of the ideal mushroom dishes, including beouf stroganoff, oeufs aux champignons and creole mushroom.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....
London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T91685; Rothschild 1338 (Horace Walpole’s copy). The letters of poet Henrietta Knight (1700-1756) to poet William Shenstone (1714-1763), written over a twenty year period during which she was sequestered by her husband at their Warwickshire country home, Barrells. Lady Luxborough and.....
Carl Van Vechten: Bilignin, France, 1934. Iconic photograph of Gertrude Stein in her garden in Bilignin, France. This is one of several photographic images of Stein by her friend and collaborator Carl Van Vechten.
Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance.....
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
[Rouen: Machuel?], 1764. Second edition, according to Bengesco, but this is one of several continental editions without an imprint that were published in 1764, soon after the first edition of 1763. Several catalogue records record the place of publication as Rouen and the printer/publisher as Machuel. Bengesco II, 1693.2. An.....
Boston: George W. Light, 1834. First edition. American Imprints 23586; not in Smith, American Travelers Abroad. A thorough account of the Canary Islands by Daniel Jay Browne (1804-1867), a naturalist from Boston who traveled there for several months in 1833 apparently for the specific purpose of exploring all aspects of.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum, as noted in one OCLC record. An essay on Shelley's faith, which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds, dogmas and.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-1865. First edition, parts issue. Sadleir, Trollope, 19; Wolff 6769; NCBEL III, 882; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 103. The second of Trollope’s “Palliser” novels, which chronicles the history of Plantagenet Palliser and his wife, Lady Glencora. This is only the second work by Trollope to.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Second edition, published shortly after the first. BAL 19258; cf. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S200, which records an 1887 edition. A popular travel narrative about Rome by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), who was a talented writer, as well. The title of "Roba,".....
N.p., n.d., but circa 1826-30. Apparently unpublished. A poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) written when he was a young man and keen suitor, perhaps when he was a student at Yale (class of 1827) or soon after. Willis was well known for such occasional verses written to young ladies.....
Paris: Chez Nyon I'ainé, Libraire, 1787. First edition. Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 2429; Brunet 23212. A study of the social and legal status of women in Europe from the Roman period through the 18th century. In 22 brief chapters, Barthélemy-Gabriel Rolland D'Erceville writes about the education of women, their.....