San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1984. First edition, one of 30 copies only. OCLC records two copies (Stanford and USF). ¶ A rare privately published and lavishly produced work of 25 rhymes for children, printed by Peter Koch at the Black Stone Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie.....
New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that.....
London: Printed for F. Fayram and W. Meadows, 1731. First edition. ESTC T166155 (six locations, two in North America). ¶ A grammar of the Portuguese language for English speakers and writers, with interesting American provenance: On the front paste-down is the bookplate of William Hickling and on the front free.....
London: Printed for S. Wilmot and sold by S. Birt and T. Longman, 1737. Second edition; the first edition was published in two parts, 1726-27. ESTC N9342; NCBEL II, 1748. A critical analysis of Pope's translation of Homer in a dialogue between two friends, Antiphaus and Philypsus, over the course.....
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:) Grosset & Dunlap, (1973). First edition, first printing, limited issue with a special leaf signed by Mailer and Lawrence Schiller, who assembled the photographs. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Random House, (1967). First edition, limited issue, number 279 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Styron.
New York: Random House, (1969). First edition, limited issue, number 75 of 200 numbered copies signed by O'Hara. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
N.p.: n.p., n.d. [but San Francisco, 1926]. First edition, one of 150 copies. BAL 18827; Mattila A29. ¶ A narrative poem that H. L. Mencken rejected as "unfit" for his magazine subscribers because of its "lesbian" leanings. There was apparently some discussion of the Grabhorns printing it for Sterling, but.....
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London: Reprinted, December 1928, from the Sunday Dispatch, November 25, 1928. First edition, privately printed. Roberts A44. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition, one of 125 specially bound copies, signed by Morris and with an original photograph by him used as the frontispiece. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Random House, (1977). First edition, special issue, one of 300 copies signed by Welty. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. First edition, number 182 of 800 numbered copies. Dreyfus, Nonesuch Press, 8a. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond, a fictional character, and Charles Ricketts, written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San.....
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922. First edition, second binding. Wilson A5b. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1742. First edition. ESTC T132396; NCBEL II, 1870. ¶ A spirited defense by William Warburton (1698-1779) of Alexander Pope's famous poem Essay on Man. Warburton first published a similar work on the same subject entitled Vindication of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man (1740).....
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1878. Second edition, with additions. NCBEL III, 1307; Chew, Byron in England, page 266. ¶ Trelawny's memoirs of his famous fellow romantics are considered invaluable and colorful, but to be treated with caution. Records was first published in 1858 as Recollections of the Last Days of.....
London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, “Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead,” Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773).....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Cf. Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1817: 49 & Wolff 5606. ¶ An historical romance that begins in Lindisfarne shortly after the first Jacobite uprising. Porter’s popular novels served as one of the models.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First American edition, first printing. BAL 12122. ¶ Longfellow's famous account of the story of Miles Standish, told in verse. Neat ownership signature of Mary S. Dwight, dated October 1858, on the title-page.
Edinburgh: W. Innes; London: Hamilton, Adams, 1841. First and only edition. OCLC records six copies (National Library of Scotland, NYPL, BL, Ox, Edinburgh Univ., National Library of Australia); COPAC adds one. A series of ten dialogues between a Dr. Truman and several ladies of Edinburgh, which introduce him to their.....
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Third edition. ESTC T144079; NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded third edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan, and.....
London: Printed for R. Robinson, 1719. First and only edition. ESTC T36304; NCBEL II, 1770. This biography of John Hales (1584-1656), the scholar and clergyman known as the “Ever-Memorable,” is an early work in English (the first recorded in NCBEL) by the interesting Frenchman-turned-Englishman, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1672-1745), a journalist.....
London: Printed for T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1725. First edition. ESTC T36305; NCBEL II, 1770. A biography of the 17th century free-thinking English clergyman, William Chillingworth (1602-1644), who made significant contributions toward the advancement of religious tolerance in England. The biographer, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1673-1745), a journalist who came.....
(London:) Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Moran, 1761. Second edition, “Revised and Corrected, with Large Additions”. ESTC T74956; NCBEL II, 687. ¶ The first of several works by Edward Thompson (1737-1786), a naval officer, poet and friend of many in the literary circles, including Garrick (mentioned here).....
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. First edition. ¶ White’s second book, and like his first and many to follow, a novel of rugged Western life. ¶ Inscribed twice by White: on the front paste-down is a long presentation inscription: “My dear Colonel McClure: I want you to have this book.....