London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1811. First trade edition, with substantial additions. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Tighe, 1(b); NCBEL III, 405. The first trade edition of the work of Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810), whose popular poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love, was privately.....
N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960]. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one.....
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
London: Printed for J. Williams, 1768. First edition. ESTC T79464; NCBEL II, 1585; and see Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, page 56. A slim collection of 21 poems by Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), published six years after her death. Though famously well-traveled, active in social causes (she was instrumental in the.....
London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1761. First collected edition. Fleeman 58.4Id/2a; Rothschild 1248; Chapman & Hazen, page 142. The 104 sketches and essays that first appeared between April 15, 1758 and April 5, 1760 in the weekly newspaper Universal Chronicle; all but 12 were written by Samuel Johnson. The other.....
London: Printed for J. Booth, 1799. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 213, 2; ESTC T106175. The second of two works by Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a clever poem addressed to "a" son (she had several) on the history and beauty of poetry, from the ancients to.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English. ESTC T61467; Norton, Some Uncollected Authors, Book Collector, Winter, 1959, 2. One of the earliest works by Elizabeth Griffith (1727-93), the interesting English playwright and novelist, who resorted to translation at the beginning in her career to support.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843]. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. First edition. BAL 17758; American Imprints 41-4751. A substantial collection of verse by Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), beginning with a long poem on the legend of Pocahontas, followed by almost 100 other shorter poems.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with.....
London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Nourse, R. and J. Dodsley; D. David and C. Reymer, 1757. First edition. ESTC T89805; Fleeman 57.3LMM/1. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), written by Madame Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773), and one.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780. First separate English edition and the first English edition of this translation. ESTC T142635, records ten locations (BL, Oxford, University College, William and Mary, Houghton, McMaster, LC, HEH, Chicago and Kansas). Philosophical treatises on friendship and old age by the Marchioness de Lambert (1647-1733).....
London: Printed by John Bell, British Library, 1793. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 212, 1 (a); ESTC T96857. The first book by Irish-Anglo writer and aristocrat Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a collection of 25 poems, mostly Irish in theme, that went through at least two more.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Baker and Leigh, J. Walter, T. Cadell and J. Wilkie, 1769. ?First edition. Rothschild 1449; NCBEL II, 1597. A critical study of Shakespeare by 18th century literary hostess and famous "Blue-Stocking" Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800). Her first and only book, it boldly took to task other.....
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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789; London: Printed for John Bell, 1788; London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797. Fifth edition of the first volume of Elegiac Sonnets; first edition of volume two of Elegiac Sonnets; the first edition of The Poetry of Anna Matilda. NCBEL II.....
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1849. First edition. BAL 21765, binding A. The handsomely produced first collected poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one of the great American poets of the 19th century. This edition includes all of his poetical work to date, organized by narrative poems based on American legends.....
Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....
(San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921. First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by Sterling. Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32. A popular poem by San Francisco poet George Sterling (1869-1926), privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the San Francisco patron-of-the-arts Albert Bender. Inscribed.....
Boston: various imprints but mostly published by the Society, 1826-1941. An interesting small archive of material that chronicles the life of a benevolent society devoted to printers in and around Boston. The Franklin Typographical Society was active from its founding in 1824 well into the 20th century. Isaiah Thomas was.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. Third edition overall; the first edition edited by Thomas Rymer; the first edition to bear Rochester's name on the title-page; and the first edition to include Rochester's play Valentinian. Wing R1756; ESTC R1390; NCBEL II, 464 (Rochester) and 1704 (Rymer). The first properly edited.....
25 x 40 cm, signed "p.a. 71" in pencil in the lower left corner and on the verso also in pencil "Paul Alexander / Bolinas - 1971." ¶ A fine watercolor by artist Paul Alexander, an Easterner who migrated to Northern California in 1956 at the encouragement of fellow classmates.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1886. First edition. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S4. ¶ Guatemala, Panama, and Mexico as seen by the daughter of James B. Sanborn of Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company. Helen Sanborn accompanied her father on a business trip in search of coffee, during which she recorded her.....
Pacific Grove, California: Pacific Biological Laboratories, 1929-1930. First edition, first issue, of the second specimen catalogue issued by Ed Ricketts. OCLC records three copies of this issue (Monterey PL, Moss Landing Marine Lab & UC Santa Cruz) and does not record any other edition or issue; however, this is one.....
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers, the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers, recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland, where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed.....
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[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his.....