Washington: [Privately Printed], 1907. First edition, privately printed. BAL 32. One of the most famous of all American autobiographies and the book for which Henry Adams is best known: a rich exploration of history and the writing of history told through Adams' life. Henry Adams published two great works of.....
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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.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. Smith, American Fiction 1900-1925, B-389. The first novel by one of the most popular American novelist from the turn of the century, Inscribed on the front free endpaper to collector John Stuart Groves: “To Mr. John Stuart Groves / A......
New York: A. F. Bradley, [circa 1905-06]. A fine photographic portrait of one of the great men of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920), by one of the prominent portrait photographers of New York society at the turn of the century, Alvin F. Bradley. Bradley (1862-1948) and his Bradley Studio.....
[Hellgate, East River, New York, circa 1835.], A remarkable holograph manuscript by New York writer and man of letters Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), written when he was a teenager and under the supervision and care of his famous grandfather, John Jacob Astor - many years prior to his first published.....
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1865. First edition, privately printed, one of 50 copies. BAL 109, binding B, no priority. A laudatory essay written in tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson on his birthday, May 25, 1865, by his friend and “the most transcendental of the transcendentalists” (Seven Gables Catalogue 34), Amos Bronson.....
[Boston], 1857. Myerson and Wilson, Picturing Emerson: An Iconography, Appendix A. Joseph Carew was active between 1840-1870 and worked in partnership with his brother Thomas Carew in the firm Carew & Brothers, Sculptors, at 143 Harrison Avenue, Boston, near the Common. His sculptures were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum on.....
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.....
Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883). First edition. BAL 6302, binding A. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and.....
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San Francisco: Printed at the Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864. First edition. BAL 7237; Cowan, page 595. An eight-stanza poem written for the 14th anniversary of the Society of California Pioneers that juxtaposes the calmness of California to the violence of the Civil War in the Eastern states.....
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1853. First edition of the first French translation of three of Hawthorne's tales: "David Swan," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe." OCLC records five copies (Bibliotheque Nationale de France and two others in France, Harvard and UVa); there is also a copy at Stanford. One.....
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.....
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 of.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
(Pasadena): The Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, number 41 of 110 copies. Broomfield A11b; Alberts 63. Two poems by Robinson Jeffers handsomely printed by Ward Ritchie. The first edition was issued earlier the same year in an edition of 80 numbered copies, the majority of which were said to have.....
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.
(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.....
