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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797. First edition. BAL 14558; Evans 32512; Stoddard & Whitesell 581. ¶ The first and only published part of an ambitious verse history of the American Revolution, dedicated to "the Citizen-Soldiers who fought, conquered, and retired, under the banners of Washington...
New York: Printed by Mott & Lyon for Fellows & Adam, Thomas Greenleaf, and Naphtali Judah, 1796. First collected edition. BAL 894; Evans 30025. The four treatises on the French Revolution by poet, businessman, and diplomat Joel Barlow (1754-1812), published together for the first time. Barlow lived in France during...
Paris: Bibliothéque Nouvelle de la Jeunesse, [1884]. First edition of the first French translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. OCLC records three locations (BL, Illinois and Yale). ¶ A handsome French translation of Tom Sawyer, with fine original illustrations. Hughes also translated Huckleberry Finn, which was published in a......
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Second edition; first separate illustrated edition. BAL 9789. A handsome large format illustrated edition of Howells' famous Christmas story, one of the most popular and often read American Yuletide tales. Christmas Every Day was first published in 1893 with two other stories...
(New York: American Art Union), 1849. First American Art-Union edition. BAL 10340; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 603. ¶ One of several collaborations between the great American artist Felix O.C. Darley and the great American author Washington Irving, two of which were publications for the American Art Union of stories...
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. The scarce collected poems by the Concord minister and author David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887), one of the most highly regarded of the Transcendentalist writers, whose poems had previously only appeared in periodicals. This posthumous collection - Wasson's first and only book - was...
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition. BAL 3415, with the issue points in later state: title page state 3; page 13 state 2; page 57 state 2; page 283 state 4; page 155 state 3; frontis portrait state 3, etc.
New York: Redfield, 1853. First revised edition, and the first ediiton with illustrations by Darley. BAL 18140; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, I, 608. ¶ The Yemassee, first published in 1835, was the most popular of William Gilmore Simms’s border romances, an elaborate series of stories, in the manner of...
(London, Ontario: Printed for the Editor by A. Talbot) For Private Distribution Only, 1899. First edition, number 69 of 225 numbered copies, signed by Traubel. Myerson A17, binding B (there were only three copies in binding A); BAL 21451. A scarce and important collection of literary fragments left by Walt...
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.....
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on...
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1869). Second edition, with the addition of one unpublished ballad. BAL 11556. ¶ The second edition in book form of Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, Leland’s immensely popular humorous verse about the German-American, Hans Breitmann, who is full of fooling and philosophy and beer. There were.....
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First edition. BAL 21697; American Imprints 42466. An early narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891), based on the story of the legendary 17th century Indian warrior Mogg Hegon. Mogg Megone was first published in the spring of 1835 in two issues of The New...
Philadelphia: Published by Edward Earle; Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 924; American Imprints 21334; BAL volume 5, page 251 (Key). A substantial and varied collection of poetry and translations by John Shaw, a physician who traveled extensively before accepting a teaching position at the University...
(New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), author, local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on...
New York & London: Macmillan, 1902. First edition, first state with the numeral 546 in the upper left corner. Merle Johnson, American First Editions, page 24. A popular historical novel by Gertrude Atherton on the life of Alexander Hamilton, a figure she adored and considered an under-appreciated American hero. The...
(Pasadena): The Flame Press, 1930. First edition, one of 80 copies printed by Ward Ritchie, the majority of which were destroyed. Broomfield A11; Alberts 62. Two poems by Robinson Jeffers printed by Ward Ritchie with permission of the poet, but there were several typos in the text, and Ritchie destroyed...
(San Mateo, Calif.: The Quercus Press), 1940. First edition, one of 250 copies, of which 200 were for sale. Broomfield A30. A fine rendering of two unusually mellow poems by Robinson Jeffers that were inspired by a family visit to Kelmscott Manor in 1929, as described in the excerpt from...
(New York): New Directions, (1948). First edition. 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 Everson.” Dorothy Whitnah.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. First edition. 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.