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.....

Paris: Bibliothéque Nouvelle de la Jeunesse, [1884]. First edition of the first French translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. OCLC records three locations (BL, Illinois and Yale). ¶ A handsome French translation of Tom Sawyer, with fine original illustrations. Hughes also translated Huckleberry Finn, which was published in a......

Dublin: The Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. First edition. ¶ An epistolary dystopian novel about Germans ruling Ireland during War World I, written as a warning to Irish citizens who might be sympathetic with the Germans. It was first published in a Cork Newspaper in 1916. For decades.....

(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.....

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.

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.....

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......

(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.....

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: 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 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.

(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: 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.