The Butterfly Books: An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets.
London: Bertram Rota, 1987. First edition, one of 400 copies. The famous study of the Prokosch pamphlet forgeries.
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American Taste.
San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1929. First edition, number 169 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Mumford. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 115. An essay on (appalling) American taste in decoratvie arts and architecture by Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), historian, literary and art critic - tastefully printed by the Grabhorn Press. This is.....
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Found Among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker.
San Francisco: Printed by Charles H. Falk, 1930. First edition by Charles Falk, number 218 of 229 copies. OCLC records 15 copies. An unusual and elaborate fine press edition of Washington Irving's famous story. The obviously accomplished but obscure printer, according to OCLC, produced only one other work (a specimen.....
Albert the Good.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. First edition, one of ten copies (of 70). A popular biography of Prince Albert by the prolific and interesting writer Hector Bolitho (1897-1974), a New Zealander by birth who moved to England in the 1930s. His story of Albert is largely based on letters that Bolitho had.....
Marilyn a Biography . . . Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers.
(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.
Characteristics of Literature, Illustrated by the Genius of Distinguished Men.
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849. First edition. BAL 20656, binding B (no priority). Essays on Swift, Channing, Lamb, Keats, and others by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871), the American poet, travel writer and man of letters.
Journal of a Short Trip to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire and the Isle of Skye, with a Glimpse at other Places. July-October, 1947.
Oakland, California: Privately Printed, 1961. First edition, one of 25 copies only for private distribution. OCLC 6335963 records seven copies (six in California and one at Arizona). An almost day-by-day account of a voyage abroad by legendary San Francisco used and antiquarian bookseller, Harold C. Holmes (1877-1965), who went to.....
The Virgin Unmask'd: or, Female Dialogues, betwixt an Elderly Maiden Lady, and her Niece, on Several Diverting Discourses on Love, Marriage, Memoirs, Morals, &c. of the Times. The Fourth Edition.
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. Fourth edition; the first was published in 1709. NCBEL II, 1096; ESTC T57159. An interesting variation on the courtesy book in ten dialogues between Lucinda, the elderly spinster aunt, and Antonia, her niece, in which Bernard Mandeville explores matrimony, child bearing, women's sexuality and.....
A Horseman in the Sky, A Matcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1920. First Book Club of California edition, one of 400 copies. BAL 1133. ¶ Three stories reprinted from Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, handsomely printed by John Henry Nash. From the library of San Francisco book collector Morgan A. Gunst.
Empedocles on Etna: A Dramatic Poem.
(Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900). First Mosher edition, one of 450 copies. ¶ An attractive effort by Mosher to reprint this early poem by Arnold in the Kelmscott style.
Lamia’s Winter-Quarters.
London: Macmillan, 1898. First edition, “second thousand” on the title-page. NCBEL III, 609; not in Sadleir or Wolff, both of whom had numerous other titles by Austin. ¶ A novella by the Poet Laureate about the experiences of two English poets residing in Italy.
The Trial of the Wine-Brewers. With an Introduction and an Inquiry into Mr. Addison’s Drinking by Edward F. O’Day.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1930. First edition, one of 385 copies. Joseph Addison's humorous essay from The Tatler of 1709, preceded by Edward F. O'Day's introduction and followed by an imaginary conversation between O'Day and Samuel Johnson on the drinking habits of Addison and his contemporaries. From the library.....
Avowals.
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1919. First edition, number 623 of 1000 copies, signed by Moore. Gilcher, Moore, A38a; NCBEL III, 1016. An amusing and interesting series of imaginary conversations between George Moore, Edmund Gosse and an American writer named Balderston, all centered on English literature, its history and their.....
Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues.
London: Chatto & Windus, (1986). First edition. Platonic dialogues on art and religion by Irish novelist Irish Murdoch. Among the characters are Callistos, Acastos, Mantias, Plato and Socrates. Set in the late 5th century BC, they discuss how is morality related to religion. Should governments censor art? Is Tyranny preferable.....
The Duke and the Printer: An Improbable Conversation between John Ker, Third Duke of Roxburghe and Don Agustin Vicente Zamorano.
San Francisco: (Printed at the Grabhorn Press), 1953. First and only edition, one of 125 copies printed. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 542. Agustin Vicente Zamorano and the Duke of Roxburghe come down from heaven to visit the first joint meeting of the two California book clubs named for them. They gossip.....
L'Estrange's Case in a Civil Dialogue betwixt Zekiel and Ephraim. The Second Impression. With Additions.
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1680. Second edition; the first was published earlier in 1680. Wing L1217; ESTC R179467; NCBEL II, 1037. A dialogue between Zekiel and Ephraim about Roger L’Estrange himself, under the guise of a polite conversation about his opinions.
The Casuist Uncased, in a Dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter, with a Moderator between them for Quitnesse Sake.
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1681. Second edition; the first was published in 1680. Wing L1210; ESTC R2207; NCBEL II, 1037. A satire on controversial minister and theological writer Richard Baxter.
Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes and Providence of God . . . Collected and Compiled by the Care and Industry of F. P.
London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus.....
Plato's Symposium or Supper. Newly Translated by Francis Birrell & Shane Leslie.
(London:) The Nonesuch Press, [1924]. First Nonesuch Press edition and the first edition of this translation, number 398 of 1050 numbered copies. Dreyfuss, Nonesuch Press Bibliography, 19. An adventurous translation of the famous dialogue by Plato, in which he explored the nature of love. The Symposium is considered the great.....
Village Dialogues, Between Farmer Littleworth, Thomas Newman, Rev. Mr. Lovegood, and Others.
London: Printed by Joseph Hartnell for N. Jones, 1806 [volume 1]; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Williams, 1803-1806 [volumes 2-4]. Fifth edition of volume one; fourth editions of volumes two, three and four. A popular series of 37 dialogues that deal with a variety of subjects: the evils.....
An Essay on Mr. Pope's Odyssey. In Five Dialogues . . . The Second Edition.
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.....
Dialogues, Letters and Essays, on Various Subjects . . .
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke, 1810. First edition. American Bibliography 20174. Dialogues and letters between Crispus and Gaius on moral, theological and philosophical subjects, followed by essays and conversations between Peter and James on imputation, substitution and redemption.
The Universal Restoration, Exhibited between a Minister and His Friend.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1803. First Isaiah Thomas edition; the first edition was published in 1788. American Bibliography 5604. Four dialogues by Universalist preacher Elhanan Winchester (1751-1797) on theological matters as discussed between a minister and a layman. They were immensely popular as teaching tools and were frequently reprinted in America.....
A Dialogue Between a Lawyer and a Country Gentleman, Upon the Subject of the Game Laws, Relative to Hares, Partridges, and Pheasants, Wherein is Shewn, The Several Qualifications to Kill Game; The Penalties such Persons are Liable to Who Kill them Without such Qualifications . . . And being Punished as Trespassers . . .
London: Printed for J. Wilkie and P. Uriel, 1771. Third edition, enlarged from the first edition of the same year. ESTC N55642. A popular dialogue about the development of game laws in England, with three plates containing the laws as they separately relate to hares, pheasants and partridges. Gloucester bookplate.....
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The Complete Works of . . . Edited by Earle Welby [and Stephen Wheeler].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1927-36. First edition, one of 525 sets. NCBEL III, 1211. The essential collection of the works of Walter Savage Landor, with previously unpublished Imaginary Conversations, poetry, miscellaneous essays and highly useful bibliographical information. The first 12 volumes edited by Welby were published from 1927-1931 (Imaginary Conversations.....
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