London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Andrew Millar, R. and J. Dodsley, and J. Leake, 1757. First edition. ESTC T140917; NCBEL II, 999. Two works of historical fiction, both written in the first person, based on the lives of two prominent women in classical history, Cleopatra (51-30 BC).....
London: Charles Tilt, 1832. First edition. Cohen 65. A fable about a humble bee who wanders too far from home, literally and figuratively, and is taken advantage of by a devious wasp, who encourages him to drink too much. Little is recorded about the author Richard Frankum, who apparently was.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme Brown, 1809, First edition. Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840; and see the ODNB. The first of three travelogues by Scottish writer and novelist Elizabeth Isabella Spence (1768-1832), a series of 55 letters about her excursions in the countryside and observations on what.....
New York: Published for the Triptych by Randolph R. Beam, 1902. First edition, number 111 of 400 numbered copies. One of several works by bibliophile Wilbur Macey Stone (1862-1941) on bookplate design, this one dedicated to women designers of ex-libris. "Stone was well known as an expert on children's books.....
Chaalons’ [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], ‘pour la Communauté des Libraires’, 1735. New edition, apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France (CCFr). By the late 17th century, the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686.....
La Haye: (Société Typographique de Bouillon), 1772. First edition. OCLC records nine copies: four in the US (UCLA, Harvard, Princeton and Vanderbilt) and five in European libraries. A philosophical novel, written in the tradition of Persian letters and the Oriental tale, by journalist and revolutionary Jean-Louis Carra (1742-93) who, among.....
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 117; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 260. The second of two books by Englishwoman Emily Emeline Lowe (b1835), a lively narrative about travels through Sicily with her mother, which they undertook unescorted – i.e., unprotected –.....
London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700. First edition, one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L." ESTC R223814 records nine copies (Durham, Oxford Bodleian, National Trust, Folger, UCLA, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Beinecke); Wing A226C. Informed and lively observations on.....
[London]: Reprinted for Thomas Evans, [1775]. First Evans edition. ESTC T138089; Jaggard, page 435 (“Perhaps edited by E. Cappell”); Lowndes, page 2308. An attractive 18th century edition of Shakespeare’s poems, printed in a style similar to E. Cappell's 1767-68 edition of the Works and sometimes thought to be intended as.....
[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleteer, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and the.....
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San Francisco: Printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864. First edition. BAL 7237; Cowan, page 595. An eight-stanza poem written for the 14th anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers that juxtaposes the calmness of California to the violence of the Civil War in the Eastern states.....
London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789. First edition. ESTC T71718; Rothschild 1551; Pine-Coffin 784-5; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 243. In 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), the famous friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson, married an Italian musician, Gabriel Mario Piozzi, and they soon set off for Europe.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1938. First edition. Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 2355. "A novel of California from 1837 to 1861 . . . unique among novels dealing with this period and setting in having a serious and philosophical point of view. Regional history is given considerable detail. Montery and.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916.".....
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, Printers, 1863. An early Bret Harte autograph document. Before he became famous as the author of short stories about the California Gold Rush and editor of Anton Roman's Overland Monthly, Harte worked in numerous other jobs in and around San Francisco, including as a secretary.....
Cambridge, Mass.: Dunster House Bookshop, 1931. First edition, number 42 of 250 numbered copies. Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title.
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. 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. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman.....
(Mt. Vernon, New York: Privately Printed by William Rudge for Bruce Rogers, 1924.), First separate edition, one of 223 copies. Jackson, Dibdin, 42; Windle & Pippin, Dibdin, A Bibliography, A30; Warde, Bruce Rogers, 185. An imaginary conversation between four characters, Lysander, Philemon, Lisardo and Almansa, who discuss merits of seven.....
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The.....
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. First edition. ¶ White’s second book, and like his first and many to follow, a novel of rugged Western life. ¶ Inscribed twice by White: on the front paste-down is a long presentation inscription: “My dear Colonel McClure: I want you to have this book.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. Smith, American Fiction 1900-1925, B-389. The first novel by one of the most popular American novelist from the turn of the century, Inscribed on the front free endpaper to collector John Stuart Groves: “To Mr. John Stuart Groves / A......
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She writes.....