Shanghai: Shanghai Recorder, 1869. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records one copy of this supplement at the University of London, but certainly there are other copies included in runs of the Shanghai Recorder. Two perspectives on contemporary events in China vis-à-vis treaties agreed to following the Opium..... More

(New York): New Directions, (1948). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Bartlett & Campo A9. ¶ Everson’s first major collection of poetry, a selection from previous volumes, with one unpublished poem and new 3-page preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For Dorothy Whitnah / with best wishes etc / Bill... More

London: Printed for T. Payne and Son and J. Robson, 1776. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 1724. An attack on Edward Gibbon's interpretation of the growth of Christianity in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chelsum (1738-1801), a clergyman and scholar, was one of the first... More

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Edition: First Arion Press edition, one of 400 copies signed by Thiebaud. ¶ An ingenuously designed and handsomely produced illustrated edition of Calvino's famous novel centering on an imaginary dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublia Khan and their descriptions of the cities of the past. More

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Keynes 89; NCBEL III, 1232. 32 essays on literary and cultural topics, many of which originally appeared in periodicals from 1818 to 1825. Contemporary bookplate of J.H. Ball on the front paste-downs. Contemporary ink signature on the front free endpapers. More

Boston: Damrell & Moore & G. Coolidge. Published by Crosby, Nichols & Co., [1857]. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records six copies. Damrell & Moore, sometimes in collaboration with John P. Jewett and Crosby, Nichols, and others, began its attractive series of small almanacs in 1854. Though unsigned except... More

(San Francisco: Roxburghe-Zamarano Club Joint Meeting, 2014). Edition: First edition, one of 150 copies printed by Richard Seibert for Robert Chandler and friends. Samples, similar to type specimens, that African American lithographer Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) produced as a promotion for his lithography business in San Francisco. Professor Chandler provides... More

Dublin: H. Brocas, [1784 or later]. Edition: An unauthorized issue. An Irish aquatint after the caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, first published in London Sept. 25, 1784, with the famous scene depicting the bookseller looking unsympathetically at the struggling author who is pleading his case, manuscript in hand. Brocas was a.... More

New York: The Century Co., 1913. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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. More

London: Printed for J. and T. Tonson, 1756. Edition: First edition. A clever collection of maxims, interwoven with short character sketches (Camilla, Melissa, Praxiteles, Flora, etc.) and reflections, written in a semi-stream-of-consciousness style. Fulke Greville (1717-1806), a handsome dandy and "accomplished and tonish young man in society" (DNB) wrote this... More

Amsterdam: Engraved by J. Houbraken for J. & P. Knapton, London, 1747. Bibliographical References: Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 66.15. One of many famous portraits of the great poet of the Augustan age, Alexander Pope. This truncated engraved version of Van Loo's oil portrait is surrounded by an elaborate allegorical... More

London: Printed for J. Payne, 1767. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Scott, pages 197-98; Tinker 1115; Rothschild 1029. An anthology of mostly 18th century poems suitable for ladies, anonymously compiled and with an introduction by Oliver Goldsmith. Included are works by Pope, Addison, Moore, Parnell, Thomson, Dryden, Swift, Collins, Gay... More

London: Printed for C. Bathurst, 1739. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Teerink 771; Foxon S-920; NCBEL II, 1064. One of Swift's most enduring and entertaining poems, a satire in verse on the reaction of friends and foes upon the news of his death. "What Poet would not mourn to see... More