New York: Printed and Published for the Author by J. Winchester, 1843. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wright I, 1019. Essays, nine short stories and over 50 poems by Mary L. Gardiner, a resident of Sag Harbor, who, judging by the substantial list of subscribers, was well known on Long Island. More
N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an..... More
(New York): New Directions, (1948). Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Bartlett & Campo A9. ¶ Everson’s first major collection of poetry, a selection from previous volumes, with one unpublished poem and new 3-page preface. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “For Dorothy Whitnah / with best wishes etc / Bill... More
Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, 1867. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Myerson D67; cf. BAL 5254 for an offprint of this. The published ceremonies of the dedication in Concord of a monument to those local citizens who lost their lives in the Civil War, with contributions by several central participants... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 11972. A collection of eight essays and sketches, including two dramatic sketches, published shortly after London's death in 1916. The title essay, "The Human Drift," is London's treatise on the history of civilisation as a search for food. More
Providence: H. Fuller; Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1841. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 1355 (Brooks) and 21355 (S.H. Whitman). More than 70 poems, sketches and short tales by 50 or so writers from Rhode Island, most notably Sarah Helen Whitman with seven contributions and Timothy Brooks with two. The editor/compiler... More
Richmond: News-Leader, (1912). Edition: First and only separate edition. Bibliographical References: Not found in BAL; OCLC records one copy (Library of Virginia). A letter written by the venerable Virginia author, Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), to his local newspaper about the state of politics in Virginia. The newspaper agreed with Page's... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 23472; Wright III, 6104. Six stories set in Italy, including one involving a murder, by Constance Fenimore Woolson. This was the first of two collections of stories she wrote during her sojourn there. Publisher's promotional leaflet about the... More
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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: John P. Jewett; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. Edition: First edition, later printings, with "One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand" on the title-page of volume one and "One Hundred and Fifteenth Thousand" on the title-page of volume two. Bibliographical References: Cf. BAL 19343 and Wright II, 2401. An... 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
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
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1853. Edition: First edition of the first French translation of "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," together with the second French translation of "The Gold Bug." Translated by Alphonse R. Borghers. From the library of Edouard Avril with his stamp on the... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 13662, first printing; Wright I, 1871. ¶ Inscribed on the front blank “To Barrel-pants Peterson / with the best wishes of the season / Papantonio Bookshop / Christmas 1941.” The Papantonio Bookshop was founded... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: BAL 19780. A substantial biographical treatment of one of the great American travelers, travel writers and poets, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878). More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Edition: First edition, second printing, earliest issue of the advertisements with the May date; a second issue of this edition contained advertisements dated August, 1862. Bibliographical References: Borst A2.1.b; cf. BAL 20106 for the first printing. Thoreau's famous work, here in its second printing published... More
San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1902. Edition: First edition, adding several previously uncollected poems. Bibliographical References: BAL 13853. ¶ Inscribed on the front blank by Miller to his friend Herbert Heron, the proprietor of Carmel's Seven Arts bookshop. The Inscription begins "My Dear H.H. . . ." and is, like... More
Paris & Neuchatel: Attinger Frères, [1919]. Edition: First edition of the first French translation of The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Bibliographical References: OCLC records three copies, all in Europe. ¶ Translated by Fanny Guillermet. More
