London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1871. 1st edition. viii, [2], 340 pp. Contents: A Wedding Story; A Stupid Story; A Scotch Story; A Man's Story. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Publisher's original terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine; light brown eps. Barker [later Broome] was a.... More about SPRING COMEDIES
New - York / New - London: Re-printed by S. Green, 1802. 1st printing by this New London printer (American Imprints 2546); first published in 1745 (cf. Sabin 41694). 80 pp. 8vo, in 4s. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". Tan leather spine over period marbled paper boards. Pemberton was Mrs Lloyd's son. More about MEDITATIONS On DIVINE SUBJECTS. By Mrs. Mary Lloyd.; To Which is Prefixed, An Account of Her...
London: H. J. McClary, 32, Saint James Street, 1853. 1st Edition. 125, [3] pp. 2 page advert for this title follows text. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. "The mental eye beholds by comparison, without a microscope, the... More about The BODY, MIND, And SPIRIT; or, The Life of Nature, of Reason, and of Heaven, Separately Traced...
Glasgow: R. & J. M'Intyre, 1853. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to one Allen Osborne. [8], 146, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding. Pale yellow eps. More about PROSE & RHYME
Smithfield / London / Bath: Sold by J. Evans, Printer to the Cheap Repository... and J. Hatchard ... By S. Hazard, [n. d.]. 1st printing, issue with trade price schedule (ESTC N505684). Cf. AFRO-AMERICANA 1553 - 1906 entry 6794 for a later US edition from 1800. 16 pp. Printed on... More about The BLACK PRINCE, A True Story; Being An Account of the Life and Death of Naimbanna, an African...
[Oakland?]: Grand Entrances Press, (1988). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. 23, [3] pp. 8-1/2" x 7". Black & white glossy covers, stapled. "My experiences in Oakland bars provide the inspiration for the poems that follow." The author is "a Black gay poet who lives in Oakland, California. A native of Chicago... More about At The CLUB. Poems
Berkeley: Twowindows Press, (1974). 1st edition. Ltd to 520cc. Unpaginated. 5" x 8". Lt brown wrappers printed in violet. More about LETTER [1973
Madrid: Coleccion Juan Ruiz, 1956. 1st Edition. [5] - 104, [6] pp. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Marbled full brown leather binding with green & maroon leather labels to spine. Marbled eps. More about PAISAJE Con FIGURAS
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, 1720. 2 volumes. 590, [14]; 527, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of Milton in each volume. T.p. & internal copperplate vignettes. 4to. 11-1/2" x 9-3/8". Modern speckled brown quarter calf bindings, with marbled paper boards. Deep maroon & black leather spine labels. More about The POETICAL WORKS Of MR. JOHN MILTON
New York: Robert M McBride & Co., 1938. 1st edition. 371, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5" Grey cloth binding. Dust jacket. A survey of the literature of the time. More about The VICTORIANS And AFTER. 1830 - 1914.; With a Chapter on Economics by Guy Chapman
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 1st edition thus, i.e., with the Abbey illustrations. xxvi, [2], 119, [1] pp. Illustrated by Edwin A. Abbey R.A. Royal 8vo. Publisher's red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. AEG. Goldsmith's famous pastoral poem, first published in 1770, and here sympathetically illustrated by Abbey. More about The DESERTED VILLAGE
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1911. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 840). xxx, 243, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. TEG. A collection of Chesterton's introductions used in the Everyman publications of Dickens' works. More about APPRECIATIONS And CRITICISMS Of The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS
London: Printed for J. Johnson, C. Dilly, ... 1799. The Eighth Edition, Corrected and Revised (Courtney 58; Fleeman 55.4D/12). 2 volumes. Unpaginated, triple column. Frontis of Johnson in Volume I. 4to. 11-5/8" x 9-1/8". Modern brown quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Red & green leather spine labels. More about A DICTIONARY Of The ENGLISH LANGUAGE: in Which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals...;...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition. [12], 351, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about The POPULAR BOOK. A History of America's Literary Taste
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1891. 1st Edition (Wright 3877). Text unpaginated, though 102 pp. 4 page publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated by Frost. 8vo. 9" x 6". Green cloth spine over green patterned paper boards, with title embossed to front board. Per Wright, "Of a city man trying to farm." More about FARMING
London: Printed for T. Hartley, 1703. 1st Edition. [16], 440 pp. P. 223 misnumbered 232. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 4-7/8". Modern dark brown quarter leather binding, with marbled paper boards. Dark maroon leather labels to spine. Savage, an author & priest, was an individual described as "very jolly". The DNB tells... More about A SELECT COLLECTION Of LETTERS Of The ANTIENTS ...; Written Originally by ... Socrates,...
New York: The Modern Library, 1927. 1st ML ed. xxvii, [1], 308 pp. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-3/8" Blue leatherette (style #4). Dust wrapper. More about EREWHON Or Over the Range. No. 136.; Introduction by Lewis Mumford
New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. 1st Edition, #4 / 300 cc SIGNED by the author, and with Kent's heart-shaped 'mark'. 64, [2] pp. 12mo. 8-1/2" x 4-1/4". Green cloth spine over grey patterned-paper boards. Paper title label to spine. Slipcase. More about CITY CHILD. Poems
Chicago: S. C. Andrews, (1898). Minnehaha Edition. 188, [6] pp. Illustrated 8vo. Pale green cloth with gilt stamped lettering & a floral/pastoral design to front board. TEG. More about The SONG Of HIAWATHA
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1942). 1st US Edition. [6], 40, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with yellow lettering. Printed buff paper dust jacket. More about VIRGINIA WOOLF
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. 1st Edition, 1st issue (Ahearn APG 008a; Johnson AFE 4th, p. 25). [6], 371, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Blue cloth binding with light blue topstain. Printed yellow dust jacket. More about POOR WHITE. A Novel
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. 1st printing. [65] - 128, 4 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Color frontis by Bobbitt & Hooper. Cuts throughout the issue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Original printed orange wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More about The OLD LIFE - BOAT [as published in] OUR YOUNG FOLKS. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and...
Charlottesville, Virginia: University Printing Office, 1975. 1st Edition. #87 of 100 hardback copies. SIGNED by the compiler, with her corrections throughout. With a PRESENTATION card laid-in. [6], 142, [2] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Crane was the UVa curator of the... More about MAN COLLECTING. Manuscripts and Printed Works of WILLIAM FAULKNER in the University of...
London: Smith Elder and Co., Cornhill. 1842. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to one "Captain Aurthur" iv, 115, [1 (blank)], 24 pp. Errata slip tipped-in after the blank page, followed by a 24 page July 1842 publisher catalogue. Frontispiece map. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with... More about DAYS In The EAST. A Poem
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1854. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1387). INSCRIBED by the author [as "the author"] on the ffep. vi, [2], 276 pp. 24 page January 1854 publisher catalogue [6-7/8" x 4-1/4"] tipped-in at rear. Cut adorns top of p. 1 of the publisher catalogue. 8vo. 7-3/4" x.... More about SATIRE And SATIRISTS. Six Lectures
