[London:] In the Savoy, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1668. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 766; Wing H-2991; ESTC R19749, recording six copies in the British Isles (in four locations), 11 copies in the U.S. and one in Europe. An allegorical poem, dedicated to George Villers, the... More
London: Printed for Captain Inglefield, the Author: And Sold by J. Murray, 1787. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T111008, which records five copies: BL (2), Oxford, Cornell and UCB. Captain John Nicholson Inglefield (1748-1828) was the skipper of the Centaur, which encountered a massive hurricane when returning to England... More
Brussels: Printed for the Author by C. J. de Mat, 1832. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: Not found in OCLC, COPAC or the NUC. A short play about the final days of James Crichton, a.k.a. the Admirable Crichton (1560-1582), who tragically died by the sword of a jealous... More
London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620. Edition: Second edition in English; the first was published in 1610. Bibliographical References: STC 917; NCBEL I, 2180. Saint Augustine's seminal philosophical work in defense of Christianity in its second English edition. The translation by John Healey (1585-1618) was one of... More
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Richmond: News-Leader, (1912). Edition: First and only separate edition. Bibliographical References: Not found in BAL; OCLC records one copy (Library of Virginia). A letter written by the venerable Virginia author, Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), to his local newspaper about the state of politics in Virginia. The newspaper agreed with Page's... More
Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832. Edition: Second edition; the first was published in 1830. Bibliographical References: OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. An anthology-text book of English literature for... More
London: Printed for Dan. Brown, et al., 1699. Edition: First edition in English. Bibliographical References: Wing H-1150; ESTC R16918. The first English translation of Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt's De l'Art de la Verrerie, a detailed treatise on making and coloring glass, first published in French in 1697. It contains a.... More
Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
London: Printed for J. Dodsley and Sold by Mess. Fletchers, 1782. Edition: Second edition, published the same year as the first. Bibliographical References: Warren, pages 84-85; NCBEL II, 607 (Chatterton) & 691 (Warton); Bibliotheca Fictiva 437 (first edition). ¶ A rigorous examination of Thomas Chatterton's famous Rowley forgeries by the... More
Boston: The Arena Publishing Co., (1895). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wright III, 1650; Stoddard, B.O Flower's Arena Publishing Company, 58 (PBSA, Vol. 76., No. 3). Miss Will Allen Dromgoole's second collection of local color stories set in her native Tennessee, which were first published in B.O. Flower's Arena magazine... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 23472; Wright III, 6104. Six stories set in Italy, including one involving a murder, by Constance Fenimore Woolson. This was the first of two collections of stories she wrote during her sojourn there. Publisher's promotional leaflet about the... More
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New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., (1946). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Miller, Paul Bowles, A Descriptive Bibliography, E26; see Millicent Dillion’s Collected Writings of Jane Bowles, pages 282 and 772. A song by Jane Bowles written in Taxco, Mexico, circa 1941-42, and put to music by her prolific composer-husband, Paul... More
Boston: John P. Jewett; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. Edition: First edition, later printings, with "One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand" on the title-page of volume one and "One Hundred and Fifteenth Thousand" on the title-page of volume two. Bibliographical References: Cf. BAL 19343 and Wright II, 2401. An... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904. Edition: First edition. Mary Austin's second book, following The Land of Little Rain by one year, a collection of 14 stories set in the Sierra Nevada mountains south of Yosemite, centering on the Paiutes Indians. Inscribed on the half-title: “Mary Austin / Written... More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving by William Hogarth depicting Tory leaders with flabby bottoms, relieving... More
London: Printed and Published by J. Hunt; and Sold by J. Carpenter, 1811. Edition: First edition, all published. Bibliographical References: Brewer, My Leigh Hunt Library, pages 32-35; Roff, Bibliography of Charles Lamb, pages 215-217; NCBEL III, 1219. The second of several periodicals edited by Leigh Hunt and published by his... More
Bristol: Albion Press: Printed by Wansbrough and Saunders, 1821. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
London: Henry Washbourne; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; Dublin: Machen & Co., 1844. Edition: First English edition, preceded by the American edition of the same year. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 530. The first book of poetry by Fanny Kemble (1809-93), over 80 poems and sonnets, many of them set in America... More
Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1991. Edition: First Allen Press edition, one of 115 copies. A handsome edition of Hawthorne's clever story set in Italy about a "poisonous" young woman, written under the guise of a translation from the French of M. de l'Aubépine. The tale is accompanied by three contemporary... More
London: Published by W. H. Carpenter; Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. Edition: One of two rival editions to appear almost simultaneously in 1820, priority not established. The other was edited by Edmond Malone and published by John Murray, but this edition by Carpenter is the superior text. See the DNB. Bibliographical... More
Paris: Amyot, (1851). Edition: First edition. An interesting critical survey of American literature by the prominent French critic Philarete Chasles (1798-1873). Chasles covers the colonial purtians, the development of an American imagination, the literature of the Revolution, the rise of the American novel as seen in Charles Brocken Brown to... More
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1853. Edition: First edition of the first French translation of "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," together with the second French translation of "The Gold Bug." Translated by Alphonse R. Borghers. From the library of Edouard Avril with his stamp on the... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 17428; Sabin 78782. ¶ The memoirs and letters of the Massachusetts novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), whose recollections, like her fiction, present a vivid picture of contemporary New England and its history. More
New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 13662, first printing; Wright I, 1871. ¶ Inscribed on the front blank “To Barrel-pants Peterson / with the best wishes of the season / Papantonio Bookshop / Christmas 1941.” The Papantonio Bookshop was founded... More
