London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood, for Eleazer Edgar and Samuel Macham, 1608 [Hall]; London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1718 [Budgell]. Edition: First edition of the Hall; third edition of the Budgell. Bibliographical References: STC 12648a, the second of three printings [Hall]; Murphy, Bibliography of English Character Books, pages 11-12; and... More

Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Edition: Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. Bibliographical References: 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... More

New York & London: Macmillan, 1902. Edition: First edition, first state with the numeral 546 in the upper left corner. Bibliographical References: Merle Johnson, American First Editions, page 24. A popular historical novel by Gertrude Atherton on the life of Alexander Hamilton, a figure she adored and considered an under-appreciated... More

London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, Edition: First edition under this title, one of 50 large paper copies; this one out of series, but see below. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 1427. A combined edition with revisions and omissions of Proverbs in Porcelain and Vignettes in Rhyme. Inscribed on the... More

New York: Published by David Huntington, 1814. Edition: Later American edition. Bibliographical References: American Imprints 32251. Inscribed on the front blank of volume one to "Catharine (teacher) / Gibson / Presented by / Franklin Pierce / (Pupil)". Pierce (1804-1869), the fourteenth president of the US, would have given this two-volume... More

[Paris, n.p., 1932]. A famous bookplate by French artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) for collector and author Edward Wassermann. It is the only recorded bookplate by Laurencin. More

Boston: Two Tales Publishing Company, 1892. Edition: First appearance in print. Bibliographical References: BAL 3242; OCLC 20849607 records four copies (Grand Rapids PL, Carroll Univ., Utah and UVa) and BAL locates copies at Boston Athenæum and Harvard. One of the earliest appearances in print by Kate Chopin of her famous... More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Edition: First edition, one of 450 copies designed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. A wonderful account of Louis J. Stellman, a San Francisco photographer and journalist and devotee of photographer Arnold Genthe. Stellman sought to continue Genthe's... More

London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 544. ¶ A poem about the life of the Countess de la Garaye, who with her husband dedicated their assets and lives to helping the poor. Mrs Norton's poem on the Countess helped to popularize the story. More

San Francisco: Herbert and Peter Fahey, 1951. Edition: First edition. A handsome manual for those interested in fine bookbinging, written, printed and published by the Faheys of San Francisco. This set of unbound sheets was purchased by a local San Francisco binder, who did not get around to binding it. More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 18834; Mattila A31. A charming portrait of the young Robinson Jeffers by his fellow poet, friend and devotee, George Sterling. More

Carmel: Pine Cone Press, 1941. ¶ An advertisement for the second dramatic production of Jeffers’ Tower Beyond Tragedy, which was first produced at the University of California in 1932, but changed considerably for this production - which featured a star of the screen, Judith Anderson. There were four performances only... More

New York: Henry Holt, 1938. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 2355. "A novel of California from 1837 to 1861 . . . unique among novels dealing with this period and setting in having a serious and philosophical point of view. Regional history is given considerable... More