London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1775. Second London edition, preceded by the first edition of 1774. ESTC T33641; NCBEL II, 1891. Joseph Priestley critiques - and criticizes - the work of three other contemporary philosophers over their positions on human nature, truth and reason, and challenges them to an exchange.....

New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt.....

(San Francisco: Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1915). First and only edition. OCLC 44411941 records two copies (NYPL & UVa). A five-stanza, 92-line poem on the opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in February 1915, which inspired numerous local San Francisco poets to commemorate the occasion. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923), politician.....

Dublin: Printed for C. Lewis, [1805]. Stated "Third Edition" on the title-page. See Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 1809-1828; not in NCBEL. In 1804, Miss Sydney Owenson (1775/6-1859), aspiring Irish novelist, poet and socialite (and later Lady Morgan) became embroiled in pamphlet war that began with the publication of Familiar Epistles.....

New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843]. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the.....

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1849. First edition. BAL 21765, binding A. The handsomely produced first collected poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one of the great American poets of the 19th century. This edition includes all of his poetical work to date, organized by narrative poems based on American legends.....

Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First edition. BAL 21710, binding A; American Imprints 53638. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891). The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems, collected for the first.....

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al., 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse.....

London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins and J. Balfour, 1769. Second edition, revised and expanded, with a new preface; the first edition was published in 1768. NCBEL II, 1894; Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10407; Printing and the Mind of Man 214; and G. E. Fussell.....

London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First edition. ESTC T138559; NCBEL II, 693. Fables in verse by the poet William Wilkie (1721-1772), followed by a dialogue between "The Author and Friend." The engravings are well executed.

Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position at the University.....

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First edition. 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.