[London:] In the Savoy, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1668. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 766; Wing H-2991; ESTC R19749, recording six copies in the British Isles (in four locations), 11 copies in the U.S. and one in Europe. An allegorical poem, dedicated to George Villers, the... More

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620. Edition: Second edition in English; the first was published in 1610. Bibliographical References: STC 917; NCBEL I, 2180. Saint Augustine's seminal philosophical work in defense of Christianity in its second English edition. The translation by John Healey (1585-1618) was one of... More

Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832. Edition: Second edition; the first was published in 1830. Bibliographical References: OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. An anthology-text book of English literature for... More

Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious... More

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., (1946). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Miller, Paul Bowles, A Descriptive Bibliography, E26; see Millicent Dillion’s Collected Writings of Jane Bowles, pages 282 and 772. A song by Jane Bowles written in Taxco, Mexico, circa 1941-42, and put to music by her prolific composer-husband, Paul... More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904. Edition: First edition. Mary Austin's second book, following The Land of Little Rain by one year, a collection of 14 stories set in the Sierra Nevada mountains south of Yosemite, centering on the Paiutes Indians. Inscribed on the half-title: “Mary Austin / Written... More

London: Printed and Published by J. Hunt; and Sold by J. Carpenter, 1811. Edition: First edition, all published. Bibliographical References: Brewer, My Leigh Hunt Library, pages 32-35; Roff, Bibliography of Charles Lamb, pages 215-217; NCBEL III, 1219. The second of several periodicals edited by Leigh Hunt and published by his... More

London: Henry Washbourne; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; Dublin: Machen & Co., 1844. Edition: First English edition, preceded by the American edition of the same year. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 530. The first book of poetry by Fanny Kemble (1809-93), over 80 poems and sonnets, many of them set in America... More

Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1991. Edition: First Allen Press edition, one of 115 copies. A handsome edition of Hawthorne's clever story set in Italy about a "poisonous" young woman, written under the guise of a translation from the French of M. de l'Aubépine. The tale is accompanied by three contemporary... More

Paris: Amyot, (1851). Edition: First edition. An interesting critical survey of American literature by the prominent French critic Philarete Chasles (1798-1873). Chasles covers the colonial purtians, the development of an American imagination, the literature of the Revolution, the rise of the American novel as seen in Charles Brocken Brown to... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 17428; Sabin 78782. ¶ The memoirs and letters of the Massachusetts novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), whose recollections, like her fiction, present a vivid picture of contemporary New England and its history. More

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

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915. Edition: First American edition, preceded by the London edition of the same year; this American issue uses the English plates with a new title-page. An explanation of Japanese art for the English reading audience by the prolific cross-cultural Japanese author Yone Noguchi (1875-1947). More