(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.....
Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press, 1968. First edition, one of 180 copies, signed by Everson on the front blank. Bartlett & Campo A30. Seven previously unpublished poems by William Everson, originally written in 1947 and printed by Kenneth and Patricia Carpenter of the Black Rock Press in a edition.....
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.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was.....
(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.....
London: Printed by John Davison for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Randolph, page 55; Tinker 551; NCBEL III, 281. Two typically Byronic poems, the first a tale of conflict between Christians and Muslims, and the second based on the dramatic lives of Niccolo Ill d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1383-1441), and.....
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.
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1949. First Greenwood Press edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Jack Stauffacher on the colophon page. Prospectus laid in.
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.
N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an.....
[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1964]. A reprint of a privately printed pamphlet which EW sent out as a Christmas and New Year’s greeting in 1954.
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. First edition. Foxon, page 871; Hayward 169; NCBEL II, 689. The first collection of poetry by Joseph Warton (1722-1800), clergyman, poet, and literary critic, 14 odes preceded by the author's "advertisement" in which he states that his collection is.....
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, 1849. Probably the first edition of the text, but this is a work highly derivative of earlier works. Block, Baseball Before We Knew it, page 212; not in Rosenbach "Early American Children's Books," which does describe similar titles, but none that precisely meet the.....
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1869). Second edition, with the addition of one unpublished ballad. BAL 11556. ¶ The second edition in book form of Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, Leland’s immensely popular humorous verse about the German-American, Hans Breitmann, who is full of fooling and philosophy and beer. There were.....
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New.....
London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. First edition. Rothschild 1421; Teerink 25 (1b, 2a & 3b-d); Griffin 184, 185 & 197; ESTC T39458. Volume one has the cancelled forms of K7-8 and L6-7; volume three is Teerink's 3b, but also includes the errata leaf usually found in Teerink 3d. A.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904. Fourth edition. Wade 19; NCBEL III, 1917. Yeats's collected poems to date with his verse drama The Countess Cathleen and his play The Land of Heart's Desire. This edition incorporates the revisions of the 1901 third edition and contains a brief prefatory comment by Yeats.....
Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position at the University.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Wolff 5605; Garside & Schöwerling 1824:77; NCBEL III, 758;. A historical romance set in 17th-century Balkan Peninsula about the Duke Christian of Luneburg's efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats and others from domination by the Turks.
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1822, First edition. One of many instructional and educational works for children and young adults by Elizabeth Sandham, who flourished between 1799 and 1825. In this tale, two young ladies visit Brighton and witness "the evils attendant on an uncultivated and covetous mind" of.....
London: Printed for J. Robson, Bookseller, 1783. First edition. Sabin 1258; ESTC T162394; Smith, American Travellers Abroad, A34. ¶ An entertaining travelogue under the guise of letters to a lady written between 1776-1777 by a prosperous, well-educated and Casanova-like American (Sabin describes the author as a "Loyalist refugee”) who recounts.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1853. Second edition, second printing. Sabin 42808. ¶ The first book by Anne C. Lynch, later Anne C. Lynch Botta (1815-1891), a minor but important figure in the New York literary scene, circa 1850-1880. She was a friend and supporter of many writers, editors and.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. Frist edition. NCBEL III, 1211; Wise and Wheeler 27; Block, The English Novel, page 133. An exchange of letters between fifth-century B.C. Athenians that sets a framework for a commentary on the literary and political world of that era and the relevance of that on.....
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. First edition. NCBEL II, 798. ¶ An interpretation by the American-born James Ralph (d. 1762) of Sarah Churchill's Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, and one of several popular works of journalism and contemporary history by Ralph, an interesting Grub.....