London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.
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.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. First edition, second issue, enlarged with the addition of a 70-page final chapter. BAL 9560; Smith, American Travellers Abroad, H143. Howells’ fourth book and his second travel narrative about Italy, both of which were based on experiences when he was the American consul at Venice.....
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). Ink inscription on the front free endpaper of Walter Sillman, Wolfe Hall, Griswold College, Davenport, IA, Mar. Fri 13 / 1885."
Stockholm: Zacharias Haggström, 1829. First edition of the first Swedish translation. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 71; OCLC records three copies in the US (Harvard, Kansas and NYPL) and three in Sweden. The first edition in Swedish, translated by Lars Arnell, of Washington's Irving's Tales of a Traveller, his continuation of.....
Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. First edition. BAL 14874; Wright I, 1943; American Imprints 2696. An unusual novel based on Neal’s experiences in England, where he lived and worked as a writer between 1824 and 1827. Always a vocal partisan for American language and ways, the story relies heavily on.....
Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated.....
Wien und Prag: Berlag von F. Tempsky, 1899. A second or later printing (possibly edition); the first was published in Leipzig and dated 1898. A German edition of the second part of Little Women, published in English for use in schools, with a seven-page introduction about Alcott in German by.....
Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown, 1830. First editions. Currier & Tilton, Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, pages 14-17; Sabin 14407.; OCLC records nine copies. A complete run of a rare Harvard undergraduate literary magazine that contains 22 poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of his first substantial contributions to.....
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.....
Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60]. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliiography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. BAL 6465, state 1, binding 1; Wright III, 2077. The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation, the skyscraper, and “the first important American novel with city life at its theme” - Andrews.....
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt.....
New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832. First edition. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, MDCCCLXIII [for 1843]. First edition in book form, preceded by an edition in parts. BAL 13632; Wright I, 1837; American Imprints 43-3398. The selected works of popular and respected Knickerbocker writer Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), editor, poet, novelist and collaborator with Evert Duyckinck in founding the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First edition. Wright I, 2276; Sabin 76442; American Imprints 26627. The selected writings of prominent member of the New York literati during the Knickerbocker era, Robert C. Sands (1799-1832), who, among other things, founded the Atlantic Magazine and edited the New York Review with.....
(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: Linen and Fennell, 1841. First edition. BAL 14357 (Morris), 997 (Park Benjamin), 1166 (Robert Montgomery Bird), etc.; American Imprints 41-3619. An important anthology of American poetry that includes early and first appearances by Emma Willard, Albert Pike, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Simms, ad infinitum - and the first.....
No place, no publisher, 1853. First edition. The only published volume of poetry by Andrews Norton (1786-1853), man of letters and conservative theologian from Cambridge, Mass., a slender volume of 16 poems. It was privately printed posthumously by Norton's family, and this copy bears a family inscription. Presentation on the.....
New York: Published by Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818. First collected edition. BAL 23331; Stoddard & Whitesell 1215; American Bibliography 46864. ¶ The scarce collected verse of Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), with a 10-page biographical sketch of the author by the publishers, Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, who state that.....
New York: William H. Clayton, 1824. First edition. BAL 10112; Wright I, 1429; Langfeld & Kleinfield, pages 26-27. A collection of eight of Washington Irving's earliest sketches and theatre reviews, all originally written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. They first appeared in 1802 in the Morning Chronicle, a newspaper edited.....
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1897. First Small, Maynard edition of the complete Leaves of Grass. BAL 21447; noted under Myerson B3. An interesting and uncommon edition of Leaves of Grass, which according to BAL contains the first appearance the 13 poems that comprise "Old Age Echoes" - though Myerson does not.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....