London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831 - 1836. 1st printings. Association copy. 10 volumes: [iv] 436, 180 (ads); [iv] 456, 128 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 440, 136 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 448, 128 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 448, 128 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 432, 144 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 448... More about The METROPOLITAN.; A Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts. Volume I, V-VIII, XI-XV
[Chicago]: Printed by the Friends of J. H. N. for Friends of Henry Miller [Ben Abramson], [1941]. 1st edition (Shifreen & Jackson A25a). Stated limitation of 250 cc. 88, [4 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Red, gold & black mottled... More about The WORLD Of SEX
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway, 1864. 1st Edition (BAL 8657). vi, [7] - 384 pp. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Pale blue eps. More about DARKNESS And DAYLIGHT. A Novel
Oxford: Published by William Pickering, London; and Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford. 1826. 1st edition thus (Kelly 1826.2; Keynes, p. 54; NCBEL II, 1214). 4 volumes. Engraved portrait of Boswell (V1) & two facsimile letters. 8vo. 19th C. tan half-calf with deep maroon spine labels; marbled boards & edges. One of... More about The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LLD. From the Oxford English Classic Series
Boston: Published by Joshua V. Himes, 1855. 1st Edition. viii, [13] - 316, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. More about MESSIAH'S THRONE And MILLENIAL GLORY
Norristown, Pa. The Norristown Press. 1928. 1st Edition. 23 pp. 6" x 3-1/2". Blue wrappers stapled with blue ink. Inscription reads "Complimentary Geo. Kilpatrick, 824 Ford St., Bridgeport, Pa." More about PROHIBITION And The BIBLE
Wilkinsburg, PA: Printed by Tip Type for Caliban Book Shop, [2017]. 1st printing, SIGNED by the author, and LIMITED to 25 cc, this #8. Broadside, hand printed in black & orange on gray card stock. 20" x 13". Now housed in an archival sleeve. Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor... More about TWENTY LESSONS From The TWENTIETH CENTURY
Wilkinsburg, PA: Printed by Tip Type for Caliban Book Shop, [2017]. 1st printing. Broadside, printed in black & orange on gray card stock. 17" x 11". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University. Remarks from the publisher John Schulman, Caliban... More about TWENTY LESSONS From The TWENTIETH CENTURY
Wilkinsburg, PA: Printed by Tip Type for Caliban Book Shop, [2017]. 1st printing, SIGNED by the author, and LIMITED to 100cc, this #79. Broadside, printed in black & orange on gray card stock. 17" x 11". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of... More about TWENTY LESSONS From The TWENTIETH CENTURY
Ohio and Vermont. (1801 - 1903). 74 unnumbered album leaves. 8-1/4" x 7". Original navy blue cloth wrapped boards, stamped in sliver and black on upper board, ornamental design on backstrip stamped in silver, white moire endpapers, AEG. A friendship/autograph album that apparently belonged to a Ms Birchard, whose barque... More about PARAGON AUTOGRAPHS ALBUM
New York / Cincinnati: Robert H. Johnston & Co. / Robert Clarke & Co., 1868. 1st Edition. IV, [5] - 30, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Original publishers green pebbled cloth card stock boards with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Later black cloth spine duplicating the original. A parody of... More about The SONG Of HIGHER - WATER
Newburyport. Thomas & Whipple. 1811. 3rd Edition (American Imprints 22837; Wright 988), first published in 1797. 242, [8 (adverts)] pp. 8vo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Full modeled calf with a red leather label stamped in gilt on the back strip. More about The COQUETTE; Or The HISTORY Of ELIZA WHARTON.; A Novel: Founded on Fact
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (1871). 1st edition thus (BAL 11718). 4, [209] - 291, [1 (blank)] pp. Cut of Breitmann to front cover. 8vo. Original publisher's paper covers, printed in red & black. More about HANS BREITMANN In EUROPE With Other New Ballads.; Fifth Series of the Breitmann Ballads
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1921. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper wrappers. None recorded on OCLC. More about The CASE Of The ISLAND TRADER.; A Romance of Thrilling Adventure and Detective Work in the East...
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca 1921. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper wrappers. None recorded on OCLC. More about THIRTY YEARS AFTER.; Or, The Case of the Prospector's Legacy. The Sexton Blake Library No. 180. 4d
London: The Almagated Press, Limited, [1921]. 1st Printing. 64 pp. Text double column. 7" x 5-1/2". Color pictorial paper covers, with artwork by Arthur Jones. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Author & date of publication from OCLC, which records two holdings for this title, both in Australia. More about The MAN WHO FORGOT.; A Tale of Sexton Blake & Dr. Ferraro. The Sexton Blake Library No. 185....
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1970. 1st Edition. vi, 90 pp. 8vo, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". In original decorative dust jacket with original green and blue cloth boards (publisher's stamp on upper board), spine with gilt stamping. Green endpapers. More about The WHISPERING ROOTS And OTHER POEMS
[The Weatherbird Press], 1969. 1st Edition. [2], 10, [2] pp. 3 plates printed in purple, with one large purple initial. 9-3/4" x 6-1/2". Quarter maroon cloth with decorative purple and white boards, in original beige dust jacket, light peach Strathmore Pastel endpapers. 1 of 75 copies. More about BAHLOUL & HAMDOUNA.; Or How the Sultan's Daughter Learned the Jester was a Contemptible Man....
Tavistock Square, London. Published by Leonard & Virgina Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1936. 1st Edition. 59 pp. 8vo, 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Original yellow cloth in original dust jacket with gilt stamping to spine. More about NOAH And The WATERS
London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paernoster-Row. 1811. The Second Edition. (Stated). Two vol., [xii] 261; [4] 215 pp. 8vo, 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Half red morocco, marbled paper covered boards, back strip stamped in gilt, all edges speckled red, marbled end papers. More about The CURSE Of KEHAMA.; Curses are Like Young Chicken, They Always Come Home to Roost
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. First Edition. [viii] 218 [4 ads] pp. Title printed in red and black within decorative border, numerous b/w plates. 8vo., 6-1/4" x 4-1/2" Publisher's yellow buckram with rules and lettering in dark blue, floral decoration on light blue ground to upper board... More about MORE FABLES.; Illustrated by Clyde J. Newman
[San Francisco]: Calhoun, Printer. 1860. 1st Printing. Broadside leaflet. 7-3/8" x 4" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The headline production presumed to be inspired by Mrs Hofland's 1842 novel, "The CZARINA: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia." A scarce early San Francisco playbill for the Lyceum Theatre... More about The CZARINA!; Third Week of the Engagement of Miss Davenport. Thursday Evening, June 7th, 1860....
London: E. Rimmel, [1874]. 1st printing (presumed). Bolton, BL no. 25. Single leaf folded vertically to form (4) pp. Elaborate pictorial title-page. Folded: 9-3/8" x 7-5/8" Printed self wrappers. The Gaiety Theatre, The Strand, London, was where Dickens saw his last play in 1869. This production of The Battle of... More about THE GAIETY PROGRAMME: AT 7 FIZ - GIG. AT 7:30 THE BATTLE OF LIFE.; To Conclude With Guy Fawkes
(n. p.): 1879. 1st printing (presumed). Broadside on thin peach colored paper. 11-1/4" x 5" Printed self wrappers. A "programme" for a reception of dramatic scenes from "Old Curiosity Shop", "David Copperfield" and Mr. Pickwick. Very scarce indeed, no library holdings found. More about DICKENS PARTY.; To-Night! Thursday, Feb. 27, 1879. By the Unitarian Society
Boston: Loring, Publisher, (n. d.). Reprint (1870), BAL 1, 158. 148 pp. 4 plates including frontis. 8vo, 6-3/4" x 4-1/2". Publisher's green peppled cloth, stamped in gilt to upper board and back strip, brown endpapers. More about THREE PROVERB STORIES.; Kitty's Class-Day, Aunt Kipp, Psyche's Art. Illustrated by Augustus Hoppin
