New York: The Century Co., 1913. First edition. BAL 11946, printing 1; Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925; L-445. Jack London's autobiographical novel, whose main character is named for the famous English folk song - "John Barleycorn" - and like his English namesake, struggles with alcohol.

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.....

Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious use" according to.....

Bristol: Albion Press: Printed by Wansbrough and Saunders, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 262. Poems centering on the ancient history of Bristol and its surroundings by a woman who was apparently a local. The Albion Press flourished in Bristol for about 12 years, circa 1818-1830. Attractive.....

London: James Nisbet, 1844. First edition. Sadleir 1450; Wolff 4180. A novel with a contemporary religious theme aimed at the Tractarian movement - or Oxford Movement - of which Catharine Long (1797-1867), a rare evangelical from the upper classes, did not approve. See Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels.....

London: Published by B. J. Holdsworth, 1824. First edition. NCBEL III, 1087. A posthumous collection of over 75 essays and sketches "shrewdly designed to appeal to the intellectual and ethical interests of teenagers" (DNB) by Jane Taylor (1783-1824), author of several popular works for children, which were often written with.....

No place, no publisher, 1853. First edition. The only published volume of poetry by Andrews Norton (1786-1853), man of letters and conservative theologian from Cambridge, Mass., a slender volume of 16 poems. It was privately printed posthumously by Norton's family, and this copy bears a family inscription. Presentation on the.....

Boston: Light & Stearns, 1837. First edition. BAL 498 (Allston) & 3135 (Child), etc; Thompson, American Literary Annuals, page 112; Faxon, Literary Annuals, 79. Though not as long-lived as a few of the other literary annuals (there were only four issues, 1836, ’37, ’41 & ’50), The Boston Book was.....

[London:] Cornhill Magazine, 1861-1862. First appearance in print. Noted under Van Duzer 2; NCBEL III, 858. ¶ Thackeray’s last novel - a sequel to his slightly earlier A Shabby Genteel Story (1852) - about the career and life of Philip Firmin, a young journalist who learns through many difficulties about.....

[London:] Cornhill Magazine, 1860-61. First appearance in print. Noted under Sadleir 11; NCBEL III, 882.

Gouverneur, New York: Brothers of the Book, 1901. First edition, number 27 of 350 numbered copies. OCLC records 12 copies. An attractive and informative work on bookplates designed for children. Wilbur Macy Stone was a collector of children's books and toys. Inscribed by Stone on the front free endpaper and.....

San Francisco: Cranium Press, (1971). First edition, one of 750 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Holbrook Teter of the Cranium Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1955). First edition. ¶ 28 drawings which originally appeared in the New Yorker, collected here with a foreword by Thurber and issued as a keepsake by his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton. There was no equivalent American edition. Hamish Hamilton issued A Thurber Garland without a dust jacket.....