New York: Published by David Huntington, 1814. Edition: Later American edition. Bibliographical References: American Imprints 32251. Inscribed on the front blank of volume one to "Catharine (teacher) / Gibson / Presented by / Franklin Pierce / (Pupil)". Pierce (1804-1869), the fourteenth president of the US, would have given this two-volume... More
London: H. Meyer, n.d., A fine engraving of the famous portrait that hangs at the Stationers' Company of the great 18th century English bookseller and publisher Thomas Cadell (1742-1802). The engraver, Henry Meyer (1782-1847), was himself a distinguished artist. See the DNB. More
[Paris, n.p., 1932]. A famous bookplate by French artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) for collector and author Edward Wassermann. It is the only recorded bookplate by Laurencin. More
![At the 'Cadian Ball [in] Two Tales. KATE CHOPIN.](/pictures/thumb/27816.jpg?v=1532375041)
Boston: Two Tales Publishing Company, 1892. Edition: First appearance in print. Bibliographical References: BAL 3242; OCLC 20849607 records four copies (Grand Rapids PL, Carroll Univ., Utah and UVa) and BAL locates copies at Boston Athenæum and Harvard. One of the earliest appearances in print by Kate Chopin of her famous... More
(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1963. Edition: First edition, one of 450 copies designed by Adrian Wilson and printed at his Press in the Tuscany Alley. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Edition: First edition, one of 450 copies designed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. A wonderful account of Louis J. Stellman, a San Francisco photographer and journalist and devotee of photographer Arnold Genthe. Stellman sought to continue Genthe's... More
New York: Published by the Longworths, 1812. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 1130; American Bibliography 25271. Slightly later note on the advertisement page by a previous owner and actor. More
London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 544. ¶ A poem about the life of the Countess de la Garaye, who with her husband dedicated their assets and lives to helping the poor. Mrs Norton's poem on the Countess helped to popularize the story. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1968. Edition: First edition, one of 400 copies. ¶ A wonderful compilation of the whimsical work of San Francisco printer and publisher Jane Grabhorn. This set of unbound sheets was purchased directly from Grabhorn-Hoyem by a local aspiring binder, who never got around to binding it. More
San Francisco: Herbert and Peter Fahey, 1951. Edition: First edition. A handsome manual for those interested in fine bookbinging, written, printed and published by the Faheys of San Francisco. This set of unbound sheets was purchased by a local San Francisco binder, who did not get around to binding it. More
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Edition: Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Bibliographical References: Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 18834; Mattila A31. A charming portrait of the young Robinson Jeffers by his fellow poet, friend and devotee, George Sterling. More
![Phrenological and Physiological Almanac for 1848 [cover-title]. LORENZO NILES FOWLER.](/pictures/thumb/24145.jpg?v=1530389520)
New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1848. Edition: First edition. One of the many publications on phrenology by Lorenzo Niles Fowler and Samuel Robert Wells, with their famous phrenology head on the front wrapper. Among the subjects studied in this almanac are Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau. More
Carmel: Pine Cone Press, 1941. ¶ An advertisement for the second dramatic production of Jeffers’ Tower Beyond Tragedy, which was first produced at the University of California in 1932, but changed considerably for this production - which featured a star of the screen, Judith Anderson. There were four performances only... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Edition: First edition, second printing, earliest issue of the advertisements with the May date; a second issue of this edition contained advertisements dated August, 1862. Bibliographical References: Borst A2.1.b; cf. BAL 20106 for the first printing. Thoreau's famous work, here in its second printing published... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1938. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1902. Edition: First edition, adding several previously uncollected poems. Bibliographical References: BAL 13853. ¶ Inscribed on the front blank by Miller to his friend Herbert Heron, the proprietor of Carmel's Seven Arts bookshop. The Inscription begins "My Dear H.H. . . ." and is, like... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. Edition: First edition. A collection of over 35 stories set among the American Indians of the American west. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Joseph E. Foster / from / Mary Austin." More
Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2053 (Hailes); ESTC T67787. ¶ A polite response, with some deferential corrections, to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland, published earlier in 1773. More
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. Edition: The earliest recorded likeness of Thomas John Dibdin. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age. Thomas John... More
![The Whirls of Time . . . A Novel by Stuart Bennett [cover title]. STUART BENNETT, COOPER.](/pictures/thumb/27288.jpg?v=1529367554)
N.p., n.d., (2006). Edition: An early draft of the novel A Perfect Visit (Northampton, 2011). A privately issued version of Stuart Bennett's first novel, a cleverly written time-travel story set in Regency England, Elizabethan England and the future year 2060. This early version was circulated among friends of the author... More
London, 2016. Edition: First edition, one of 200 copies. Seven years ago poet Robert Nye, commenting on QUITS, Arthur Freeman’s mini-collection of poems published by The Brick Row Book Shop (2009) wrote: “I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might... More
