Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First American [i.e. "Author's"] edition, from the second London editon, issued with American sheets (the book was also issued with imported sheets). 8vo, pp. 338; original green cloth stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt; light edge wear, else very good. Pye 9b.1. More about The Aeneids of Virgil done into English verse by William Morris
Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, 1808. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 104; contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in rust cloth, boards rubbed, joints reinforced with white cloth; a good, sound copy with bookplate to front pastedown and old ownership inscription on front free endpaper. An abridgement of the author's An Essay on the... More about An essay on the management and feeding of infants
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First edition; 8vo; pp. [6], vii-xii, [6], 3-316, [4] pages of publishers advertisements; original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover; near fine. BAL 15394. Thomas Nelson Page was influential in ante-bellum literature for shaping the perception of the Old... More about The Negro: the southerner's problem
London: James Nisbet, 1878. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 320, 16 (ads); 4 wood-engraved plates (the frontispiece appears to have been reinserted); original green cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine; edges rubbed and worn; a good, sound copy. More about Four years in Ashantee ... with an introduction by Rev. Dr. Gundert, and preface by Professor...
[Middletown, Conn. Robin Price, 1999. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 11) signed by Pepe Romero; oblong 8vo, pp. 57, [11]; die-cut title page revealing a small palladium print of a guitar by James W. Pitts, signed by him; long-stitch binding, hand-sewn into black paper covers co-designed by Daniel... More about The journey of the guitar: a portrait of Pepe Romero, in his own words. Selected and edited by...
Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, 1820. 4to, pp. [2], iv, xxvi, 197, [3]; tables, compass roses, and a few small illustrations in the text; original blue paper-covered boards, spine perished but not the printed spine label; the binding sound, corners and edges worn. Text volume only, without the atlas containing 27 plates. More about Entdeckungsreise Unter Den Befehlen Der Britischen Admiralität Mit Den Königlichen Schiffen...
Madison: Bieler Press, 1978. Broadside (approx. 13" x 9¾"), edition limited to "150 copies designed and hand printed by Gerald Lange in celebration of the third anniversary of the Bieler Press," (this, no. 68), printed in green and black, and with an embossed lizard; signed by the author; fine. Smith, Bieler, 7. More about Typefoundry
Liverpool, England: 1823. Broadside circular approx. 9¾" x 8"; central fold, a couple of short marginal tears, but overall very good. A Prices Current circular for cotton in Liverpool. The top half consists of a list of sales, "all for consumption" which "constitute the entire business of the week...." There... More about Liverpool, 1st February, 1823. The frost having broken up, the buyers have been aanxiously...
H. Langlois fils et Cie, 1828. First edition, 16mo, pp. [4], ii, 387, [1]; large folding map showing the course of the Rhine, 5 folding city plans plus tables in the text; original lithographed pictorial paper-covered boards (with illustrations on both the front and back covers, and a decorative lithographed... More about Nouvel itinéraire portatif des bords du Rhin, depuis Schaffhouse jusqu'en Hollande, â Bade, à...
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. 8vo, pp. xii,622, plus 2pp. ads, frontis.; very good in original green cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g, the very slightest of wear to extremities. A scholar of Oriental languages and the Old Testament, Smith served as coeditor and editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica..... More about Lectures & essays of William Robertson Smith. Edited by John Sutherland Black and George...
Spafford Settlement, Venango County, PA: 1819. 4to, integral leaf attached, address panel onverso of second leaf; small loss not affecting text, else very good. A long and detailed letter from the author of A Gazetteer of the State of New-York in which he requests that Dutton send him a small... More about 3-page ALS addressed to Salmon Dutton of Cavendish, Vermont
New York: Town Topics Publishing Co., September, 1893. 12mo, pp. 255, [1]; ads on versos of last 6 leaves; original pictorial lithograph wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 9 in the in the publisher's Tales from Town Topics series. Besides the title novelette there are, beginning on p. 151, a.... More about The skirts of chance. Tales from Town Topics
New York: Macaulay, [1933]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 10, [2], 11-310; spine of jacket faded with a tear in tail, else a fine copy. A narrative of a life spent administering medicine to natives of the jungle. More about Junglemania
New York: Knopf, 1990. First trade edition, 8vo., fine in jacket. More about Rabbit at rest
New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition, 8vo., fine in jacket. More about S
