London: John Murray, 1864. First edition. Gimbell, Dickens, B288. In 1863, Michael T. Bass (1799-1884), a member of Parliament and a famously successful brewer of beer, introduced legislation in the House of Commons to regulate street musicians and organ grinders in particular. His bill was not voted on, but it.....
San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990.
The note and poem are written, as usual, in Sigourney's fine, neat hand.
Gwalior, India, 1892-93. Documents permitting and taxing the movement of opium by the Government of Gwalior. The name of the trader on one of the documents has been identified as "Bhakim Chand Pijara." These documents were sold in a single lot at Superior Galleries, Los Angeles, January, 16, 2001, Session.....
[France, Italy, Switzerland and Britain, circa 1880-1925].
First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore, a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection.....
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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.
Various places and publishers, 1837-1976. Mostly first editions. The collection of primarily scholarly works on Joan of Arc (circa 1412-1431) assembled by antiquarian bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), who had an abiding interest in her story and times, which was one of his specialties as a bookseller. Joan of Arc.....
See Keller, Walker Evans, The Getty Museum Collection, page 85, for a variant of this image. In 1933 Evans was commissioned by publisher J. B. Lippincott to make photographic illustrations for Carlton's Beals' The Crime of Cuba, an exposé of the brutal Machado regime and an indictment of the American.....
Mostly London, various imprints and dates, 1750-1800. First editions, with a few exceptions. ¶ A fine representative collection of published plays from the London stage, 1750 to 1800, including works by several playwrights who remain well known and others who have been relegated by time and fashion to theatrical by-paths.....
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed for the Writer and sold by J. Bell, British Library, Strand, [1785]. Third and final edition, issued in close proximity to the prior two editions and in an identical format. ESTC N10835 records four locations of this edition: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Harvard, MIT, LC; three locations of the.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services.....
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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.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. The first book by literary critic Meyer Howard Abrams (1912- ), a study of the opium addiction of four famous romantic poets and its effect on their creative processes. This pioneering work was published in the series Harvard.....
(New York: Printed for Stern & Rushmore, Attorneys, July 18, 1894). A printed notice sent to the creditors of Charles L. Webster & Co. about the bankruptcy of the publishing firm. Webster & Co., was founded in 1885 by Clemens and his nephew, Charles L. Webster, in part so that.....
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play by William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire and romp of manners centering on a......
[London]: Printed Anno, 1690. First edition, the issue for private distribution without the commercial imprint on the title-page; the regular issue has the full imprint: "London: Printed for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, 1690." Pforzheimer 793 (regular issue with the full imprint); Wing P-1450. ¶.....
London, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own.....