THOMAS PAINE: A Bibliographical Check List of COMMON SENSE With an Account of Its Publication.
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973. Reprint. 124 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More
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The ARKHAM HOUSE COMPANION: Fifty Years of Arkham House.; A Bibliographical History and Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House / Mycroft & Moran Including the Revised and Expanded Horrors and Unpleasantries.
Mercer Island WA: Starmont House Inc., 1989. 1st edition. xv, [1 (blank)], 184 pp (including Index). 4to. Pictorial composition hardback binding. Issued without jacket. More
HEREWARD The WAKE, "Last of the English". In Two Volumes.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1866. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 937). 2 volumes (viii, 365, [3]; viii, [2] pp). 2 pages of adverts conclude each volume. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth bindings with gilt stamping (professionally rebacked). Each volume with a tan cloth clamshell case. More
The EGOIST. A Comedy in Narrative.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1st trade edition (NCBEL III, 890; Sadleir 1692). Not in Wolff. 3 volumes: 8vo. Original publisher's olive-green morocco cloth with gilt stamped spine & decorative band stamped in black. More
DEATH COMES For The ARCHBISHOP.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 1st trade edition (Crane A16.i). [8], 303, [1 (publisher colophon)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green linen cloth binding with printed paper title labels to spine & front board. No dust jacket. The much-hyped typos [P. 20 & 57] touted as first edition issue... More
The AUTOBIOGRAPHY Of ARTHUR MACHEN.; With an Introduction by Morchard Bishop and with Three Portraits.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. 1st Edition thus (Goldstone & Sweetser 20j & 21g). 307, [1] pp. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. 8vo. Original publisher's brick red cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Red topstain. Printed grey paper dust jacket. Contains "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and... More
The RIME Of The ANCIENT MARINER.; With an Introduction by John Livingston Lowes.
New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). Reprint. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over printed pictorial green cloth boards. Lacks slipcase. More
SALOME. A Tragedy in One Act.; Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with a New Introduction by Holbrook Jackson.
New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). 1st edition thus, i.e., with the Angelo illustrations. Cf. VALENTIA ANGELO [BCC: 1976, pp. 64-65]. [3] - 51 pp. Printed french-fold. Each page with yellow & orange decorative border. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering... More
The WORKS Of BEN. JONSON. In Seven Volumes.; Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected; with Notes Critical and Explanatory.
London: Printed for D. Midwinter .... 1756. 1st edition thus (NCBEL I, 1655). 7 volumes. LIst of Subscribers in Volume I. This set adds "The Case is Altered" in Vol. VII. Copperplate frontis engraving of Jonson in Volume I. 10 copperplate engravings. 8vo. Period full brown calf bindings with maroon... More
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The FIRST [SECOND THIRD] TOUR Of DOCTOR SYNTAX, In Search of the Picturesque [of Consolation; of a Wife]; A Poem. Three Volumes.
London: Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, 1855. Later editions. [4], 272; [4], 277, [1 (blank)]; [4], 279, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated in color by T. Rowlandson. Volume I: frontis, engraved t.p. with vignette, 29 inserted & numbered plates, b/w tailpiece p. 272; Volume II: frontis & 23 inserted plates; Volume... More
The POETICAL WORKS. In Seven Volumes. A New and Revised Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Later edition. 7 volumes. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 12mo. Period maroon half-calf with marbled boards, edges & eps. Spines extra gilt, with maroon & dark green spine labels. More
The QUEEN Of The AIR:; Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm.
London: George Allen, 1900. Fifteenth Thousand. x, [2], 270, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. More
The PLAYS Of PHILIP MASSINGER, In Four Volumes.; With Notes Critical and Explanatory, by W. Gifford, Esq.
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F. and C. Rivington; ... By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleverland-Row, St. James's. 1805. 1st Edition. 4 volumes: clix, [1 (blank)], 343, [1 (blank)]; 520; 590, [2]; [2], 589, [1 (errata)] pp. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo. Original publishers green half-morocco, with marbled boards, edges & eps. More
The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order... In Two Volumes. [bound with] The PRINCIPAL CORRECTIONS And ADDITIONS to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of DR. JOHNSON.
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1791. 1st edition, 1st issue (Grolier 100 ENGLISH, #65; Pottle 79). 2 volumes: xii, [16], 516, [2 (blank)]; [4], 586, [2], 42 pp. Vol II, p 585 misnumbered 587; 586 as 588. Other mispaginations [see Pottle]. Vol I, p.... More
MISCELLANIES.; Articles and Stories Now First Collected by Albert Mordell.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. 1st UK edition (BAL 7985). 2 volumes. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale blue dust jackets printed in dark blue. "Miscellanies contains a collection of articles and stories written by Lafcadio Hearn before he went to... More
KOTTO. Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1902. 1st edition (BAL 7938; Perkins, pp. 45-46). vii, [3], 251, [3] pp. Adverts last two pages. Title page in 3rd state. Illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. 8vo. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering/cover device. TEG. Dust jacket, which replicates binding design. Uncommon in jacket. More
HISTORICAL SKETCH BOOK And GUIDE To NEW ORLEANS And Environs. With Map.; Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City. Edited and Compiled by Several Leading Writers of the New Orleans Press.
New York: Will H. Coleman, No. 70 Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885. 1st edition, Third Printing, State A (BAL 2340/7915; Howes C574; Perkins, pp 8 - 10). Per Perkins, "Second issue" [4], 324 pp. 2 page index at rear. Final gathering State A. Chapter XL, pp. 293 - 299 by... More
The MEDICI.
London: John Murray, 1930. Reprint, first published in 1909. 2 volumes: xxix, [3], 538; xii, 576 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
LETTERS Of A POET To A MUSICIAN. Lafcadio Hearn to Henry E. Krehbiel.; [as published in] The CRITIC And Literary World. April 1906. Vol. 48 No 4
New Rochelle: Published for The Critic Company by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. 1st printing. Pp 309 - 318. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8". Original publisher's buff paper covers printed in red & black. Krebhbiel was the dedicee for Hearn's work, "Some Chinese Ghosts" More
HEARN And His BIOGRAPHERS.; The Record of a Literary Controversy. Together with a Group of Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to Joseph Tunison Now First Published.
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press]. 1930. 1st edition (BAL 8015; Magee 133). Limited to 350 cc. [8], 110, [2] pp. Facsimile photograph, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, captioned tissue guards for each. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Green quarter cloth over burnt orangish boards. Printed paper title label to spine. More
FATHER And I. Memories of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. 1st edition (BAL Vol 4, p. 105). viii, [4], 208 pp. Frontispiece. 3 inserted plates. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Linen cloth binding with blue & red lettering/rules. Pale blue dust jacket. More
The ROMANCE Of The MILKY WAY and Other Studies & Stories.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. 1st edition (BAL 7943; Grolier Catalogue 124). xiii, [1], 209, [1] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brownish-grey cloth binding with yellow decorations [designed by Bruce Rogers]. Top edge stained yellow. More
The FATE Of VIRGIL as Conceived by Dante.; A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter Savage Landor and Willard Fiske.
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. 1st Edition (O'Day, p. 75). #92 / 350 cc. v, [1 (blank)], 19, [3] pp. Small folio. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4". Green cloth spine over blue-gray paper wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to spine & front cover. Per O'Day, "This imagined conversation... More
APPRECIATIONS Of POETRY.; Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922. Later printing of the UK edition, cf. BAL 7958n. xiv, [2], 408 pp (including Index). 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. More
"IT IS THE BRAIN THAT COUNTS, BUT IN ORDER THAT YOUR BRAIN MAY BE KEPT CLEAR, YOU MUST KEEP YOUR BODY FIT AND WELL. THAT CANNOT BE DONE IF ONE DRINKS LIQUOR."; Sons Of Temperance of Nova Scotia.
(n.p.). (n.d.). 1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette. 3-1/4" x 6-3/8". Thick, yellow card stock, letter press printed, black ink, now housed in a mylar sleeve. More