San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1961. First edition, one of 165 copies printed. One of the last published books of San Francisco's Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press, founded in the late 1940s by Henry Evans and his wife Patricia, with assistance from their daughter Judith, who set the type for.....

London: Printed for J. Bew, 1784. First edition. ESTC N11038; Garside, Raven and Shöwerling 1784:14; NCBEL II, 648; and see Doctor Syntax, A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq., by Harlan Hamilton (Kent State, 1969). A rare novel by prolific writer, satirist, comic poet and imitator, William Combe (1742-1823), written under.....

London: Printed and Sold by J. Robert . . . And by Booksellers and Pamphletsellers of London, 1731. First edition of this translation. ESTC T99896 (BL, Cambridge, Bodleian, Duke, Harvard); Foxon R118. The only surviving work of Colluthus, the epic poet from Lycopolis in Egypt who flourished in the 5th.....

London: Printed by David, Wilks, and Taylor for J. Mawman, 1801. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1801: 57; JISC (Copac) records four copies in the British Isles; OCLC records three copies in North America. A scarce and clever epistolary novel by Annabella Plumptre (1761-1838), the younger sister of novelist.....

London: Printed for Charles Mearne and Sold by Henry Bonwick, 1684. First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page; the first issue was dated 1683. ESTC R9918; Wing B5152; Keynes, Bibliography of Browne, 128; NCBEL I, 2230. 13 tracts by Thomas Browne (1605-1682), posthumously compiled and edited by Thomas Tenison.....

London: Trübner & Co., 1887. First edition. Wolff 7188; Sadleir 3020a; NCBEL III, 1076. The third of six novels that William Hale White (1831-1913) wrote under the dual pseudonyms of Mark Rutherford and his imaginary editor Reuben Shapcott. White was fairly well known under his actual name as a journalist.....

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918. First authorized American edition, preceded by a Boston piracy. Slocum & Cahoon A6. Joyce's first book, first published in 1907, a collection of 36 lyrics greatly influenced by his reading of Elizabethan poetry.

New York: The Grove Press, (1970). First collected edition, limited issue, number 115 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Beckett. The collected works to 1970 of the legendary and influential modernist Irish author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). This set, issued in both a trade and limited edition, is sometimes referred to.....

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1897. First Small, Maynard edition of the complete Leaves of Grass. BAL 21447; noted under Myerson B3. An interesting and uncommon edition of Leaves of Grass, which according to BAL contains the first appearance the 13 poems that comprise "Old Age Echoes" - though Myerson does not.....

[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.....

Frankfort: Printed for Charles Jugel, at the German and Foreign Library, 1837. First separate edition. NCBEL III, 1289; OCLC records three copies (Sutro, Harvard and Toronto); COPAC adds three (BL, Senate House and V. & A.). An interesting German edition of the chapters about Germany from Anna Jameson's Visits and.....

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First and only edition. Letters from France, Belgium and Germany between 1814 and 1816 by a highly cultivated and connected young lady who writes to various friends about adventures and intrigue in high places. The author of the letters is perhaps autobiographical or.....

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in.....