(New York: American Art Union), 1849. First American Art-Union edition. BAL 10340; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 603. ¶ One of several collaborations between the great American artist Felix O.C. Darley and the great American author Washington Irving, two of which were publications for the American Art Union of stories...
Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968). First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1992. First edition, one of 400 copies, an unknown number of which were lost in shipping when the book was first distributed. The collected articles by William Everson on the art of printing, at which he was famously accomplished.
Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, et al., (1800). Third edition, revised, preceded by editions in 1795 and 1798. ESTC T185020 records six copies, none in North America. A manual for measuring and surveying land, particularly farm land, with a supplement containing a table for measuring thatcher's work...
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable and for Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, London, 1810. First edition. An exhaustive - 646 pages - guide to gardening, including vegetable and fruit gardens, gardens for pleasure, green houses and the keeping of exotic plants, etc. Walter Nicol (1769-1811) was a designer of gardens...
London: Printed by A. J. Valpy for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1827. First edition. A thorough examination of the first 28 Odes by Anacreon in a scholarly edition for students.
Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. Sold by Paton, Symmer & Gordon, et al., 1743. First edition. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 7964; ESTC T137121; and see Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pages 20-21. A seminal and interesting work on Scottish agriculture by Robert Maxwell (1695-1765), a....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was...
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1905. First edition. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925, D-621. This is a rewriting the author's first novel "Captin Gray's Company" (1859), which was the first novel commercially published in Oregon. "Captin Gray's Company" and "From the West to the West" draw from the author's experiences on the...
New York: Redfield, 1853. First revised edition, and the first ediiton with illustrations by Darley. BAL 18140; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, I, 608. ¶ The Yemassee, first published in 1835, was the most popular of William Gilmore Simms’s border romances, an elaborate series of stories, in the manner of...
London: Printed by C.H. Reynell for R. Hunter and C. and J. Ollier, 1817. First edition. Keynes 17; NCBEL III, 1231. ¶ One of Hazlitt's major collection of essays, a study of the primary characters in Shakespeare’s plays, with chapters on sonnets, poems and doubtful plays. It was a popular...
London: Edward Lacey; Liverpool: Henry Lacey, [1837]. Second printing; the first was dated 1830, issued by the same publisher. OCLC records four locations for the 1830 issue (Florida, Indiana, BL, UBS) and one for this 1837 issue (Toronto). A scarce work of fiction for young adults, with a dual moral...
London: Printed by John Davison for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Randolph, page 55; Tinker 551; NCBEL III, 281. Two typically Byronic poems, the first a tale of conflict between Christians and Muslims, and the second based on the dramatic lives of Niccolo Ill d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1383-1441), and...
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1819. First edition. Keynes 44; NCBEL III, 1232. Eight lectures delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818-1819, on Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Cowley, Butler, Sucking, Wycherley, Congreve, English Novelists, Hogarth, etc.
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1949. First Greenwood Press edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Jack Stauffacher on the colophon page. Prospectus laid in.
(London, Ontario: Printed for the Editor by A. Talbot) For Private Distribution Only, 1899. First edition, number 69 of 225 numbered copies, signed by Traubel. Myerson A17, binding B (there were only three copies in binding A); BAL 21451. A scarce and important collection of literary fragments left by Walt...
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. An impoirtant anthology of American poetry that includes important early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the...
New York: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, 2005. 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.
N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an.....
Portage, Indiana: The Compulsive Printer, (1978). First editon, number 13 of 50 copies. From the library of David and Valerie Belch.
[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1964]. A reprint of a privately printed pamphlet which EW sent out as a Christmas and New Year’s greeting in 1954.
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on...
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. First edition. Foxon, page 871; Hayward 169; NCBEL II, 689. The first collection of poetry by Joseph Warton (1722-1800), clergyman, poet, and literary critic, 14 odes preceded by the author's "advertisement" in which he states that his collection is...
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that precisely meet the...