London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he was.....
(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.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781. First edition. ESTC T42730 records eight locations: Birmingham, British Library (four copies), Cambridge (two copies), Harvard, Kent State, New York Public, Chicago, and Yale; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 129. An impressive work of Biblical scholarship by poet and classics scholar Ann Francis.....
London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712. First edition translated into English, issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a French Benedictine.....
London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1667. First edition. Wing N-853; Wither to Prior 151; NCBEL I, 2252. The famous biography of William Cavendish (1616-1684), the Earl of Newcastle, by his famous literary wife, Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-1673), the first English woman to publish extensively. Cavendish’s biography was widely read and.....
[London: Privately printed by John Murray, 1824.], First edition. NCBEL III, 297; Chew, Byron in England, page 211. A rare privately printed pamphlet by Byron's publisher John Murray, compiled and written in response to Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron at Pisa (1824), which was notorious for.....
New York: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. An important anthology of American poetry that includes early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the first.....
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. Second edition, one of 122 copies printed at the Peregrine Press. ¶ The third book of the Peregrine Press, a substantially revised and expanded edition of Evans' earlier work issued under the prolix title A Contribution Toward a Check List of Bibliographies and Reference.....
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(New York: The Poets' Guild, n.d., but circa 1920). First edition. OCLC records two copies (Brown and Kansas). A playlet for children about a ceremony involving the drinking of milk and fairies: "This ceremony is founded on the old tradition that the child who brings home a sprig of rowan.....
London: Printed for William Hone, 1819. First edition. Keynes 49; NCBEL III, 1232. ¶ A collection of over 50 essays and examples of political journalism by William Hazlitt (1778-1830), written circa 1813-1818, with character sketches and a few earlier pieces added. Subjects include Coleridge's Statesman's Manual, Napoleon (a favorite of.....
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(Berkeley: University of California General Library, 1960). First edition, one of 200 copies printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, 1960. Bartlett & Campo A17. One of several early poems written by William Everson that remained unpublished until years.....
Boston: David R. Godine, in Association with Dartmouth College Library, (1977). First edition. Joseph Blumenthal's survey of the American printed book from 1640 through the latter part of the 20th century. Among those in the later period that Blumenthal writes about are several prominent presses and printers from California, including.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First edition. Myerson A24.1.a; BAL 5226. Emerson’s impressions of England, based on his trips there in 1833 and 1847, with interesting chapters on contemporary English literature, the aristocracy, the Times newspaper, Stonehenge, etc. From the library of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, with the Blairhame bookplate on.....
San Francisco: J. R. Brodie & Co., Printers, 403 Sansome St., [for] Briggs, Fergusson & Co., Real Estate Agents and Auctioners, 314 California Street, 1889. A flyer announcing the public auction of lots in San Mateo, where the "streets are graded and lined with shade and ornamental trees, 12 years.....
San Francisco: (The Grabhorn Press), 1933. First edition, one of 50 copies privately printed for the author. Grabhron Press Bibliography 183. Reflections on Shakespeare by the San Francisco attorney and book collector Oscar Sutro (1874-1935).
Philadelphia, 1820-28. Theophilus Ransom Gates (1787-1846) was a self-styled visionary, itinerant preacher, author, utopian and advocate for free love and birth control, who published his memoirs and collected writings by age 30. Driven by unconventional religious beliefs, Gates collaborated with Philadelphia printer Joseph Rakestraw in 1820 to establish a radical.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.
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.".....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 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."
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. 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 themselves on a......
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San Francisco: Mason-McDuffie Company, General Agents, [circa 1912]. This is the smaller of two versions of this map; this one was most likely for pocket or portable use; the other larger version for display on a wall. OCLC records one copy of this version (CHS) and two of the larger.....
Los Angeles: Printed for Ernest Dawson by John Henry Nash, 1925. First separate edition. Cowan, page 142. A poem celebrating Los Angeles first published in Coolbrith's Songs of the Golden Gate (1895), here handsomely reprinted by John Henry Nash in two columns divided by triple green lines and adorned with.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Second edition; first separate illustrated edition. BAL 9789. A handsome large format illustrated edition of Howells' famous Christmas story, one of the most popular and often read American Yuletide tales. Christmas Every Day was first published in 1893 with two other stories.....