![The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. Autograph Edition [general title]. WILLA CATHER](/pictures/thumb/28457.jpg?v=1613775790)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937-41. First collected edition, first issue, number 416 of 970 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane AA1. ¶ The fine Autograph Edition of Willa Cather's fiction, designed by Bruce Rogers, and issued over four years.
![American Poems, Selected and Original. Vol. 1 [all published]. AMERICAN POETRY, Elihu Hubbard...](/pictures/thumb/27050.jpg?v=1613775787)
Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....
Atchison, Kas.: Howe & Co., 1883. First edition, binding variant with the binder's name stamped in black at the foot of the spine. Wright III, 2802. Howe's first book and a landmark in the development of American realistic fiction. Initially Howe couldn't find a publisher and resorted to printing it.....
![The Fiend’s Delight. By Dod Grile [pseud]. AMBROSE BIERCE](/pictures/thumb/23412.jpg?v=1613418879)
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. First edition. BAL 1096; Starrett 1. The first book by Ambrose Bierce, a collection of his San Francisco journalism published by agreement - an agreement he would soon regret - with the infamous London publisher John Camden Hotten.
New York, circa 1890. ¶ Charles A. Gray was born in Iowa in 1857. He painted portraits of presidents McKinley and Garfield and playwright Eugene O'Neil, among others. This copy of the popular image of Irving was undoubtedly made to sell in his gallery. Gray made similar copies of other.....
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.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.
New York: D. Appleton, 1877. First edition. BAL 23455. ¶ The third book by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), a long poem contrasting a maiden and a lady, with obvious references to the pitfalls of marriage and the plight of unmarried women. Two Women was originally serialized in two issues of.....
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
![Letters to Various Persons. [Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson.]. HENRY DAVID THOREAU](/pictures/thumb/20720.jpg?v=1607366943)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116, binding A. ¶ Unpublished letters and nine poems by Henry David Thoreau, edited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. ¶ The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes through the life.....
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827. First edition. BAL 4422; American Imprints 28656. Dana’s first book, preceded by several pamphlets. It includes celebrated poems, The Buccaneer, a long verse narrative of the supernatural. Presentation inscription on the front blank for a school prize dated December 31, 1827.
London: Printed for J. Mathews, 1791. First English edition. Noted under BAL 5041 and Wegelin 129. A long poem dedicated to Voltaire and written as a Calvinist orthodox response to what Dwight states in his dedication is the negative influence on religion of Voltaire, Hume and Priestley: “Reasoning is an.....
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860. First edition, cloth issue. BAL vol. 5, page 94. ¶ A collection of over 30 tributes to Irving from contemporaries and literary colleagues, including Lowell, Curtis, Cozzens, Willis, Duyckinck, Longfellow, Tuckerman, etc. Contemporary stenciled ink ownership markings on the front free endpaper and title-page.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1853. First edition, second printing. The first book by Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873), a collection of Irvingesque essays and gossip that originally appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine's "The Editor's Table" column, a precursor to the Talk of the Town in the New Yorker. At the time.....
New York: Published by Baker & Scribner, 1848. First edition. Sabin 65546. ¶ The first book by William Cowper Prime, a collection of sketches and tales. Prime was a young lawyer in New York City at the time this work was published; he later went on to become president of.....
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1860. First edition. BAL 1668, small paper edition.
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. ¶ A collection of eight of Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited and.....
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition. BAL 6282; Kramer 69; Wright III, 2013. One of the great American realistic novels to emerge from the 1890s. Harold Frederic (1856-1898) traces the fall of a contemporary upstate New York Methodist minister without the brutality found in more naturalism-driven works of the.....
New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ The second book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), a novel about the mystery behind a stolen necklace and the life of a struggling writer in New York. There are numerous references to.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. First edition. BAL 19780. ¶ A substantial biographical treatment of one of the great American travelers, travel writers and poets, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878).
Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
Chicago: The Stein Company, 1902. First edition. OCLC records five copies (OSU, Chicago, Stanford, Northern Illinois and Penn). One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p., n.d., 1894]. First edition. OCLC 20150325, 20150203 & 12380909 record three copies: OSU, Chicago and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
