[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, this is a printer's proof, marked 'p.p.', 22" x 15", poetry broadside printed in red, blue, and black, excerpted from Warren's Audubon: A Vision, on the occasion of the appointment of Robert Penn Warren as the Nation's first Poet Laureate. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, [1996]. 11" x 15.5" prose broadside, signed by Wang Ping, and printed to announce the 1996 publication of Foreign Devil. More
London: printed by Samuel S. Palmer, 1728. First edition, 4to, pp. [50], 407, [1]; engraved vignette title page by Pine after Grison, handsome engraved headpieces, tailpieces and historiated initials, and the arms of Sir Robert Walpole on the dedication page, also by Pine after Grison, plus 12 folding engraved plates;... More
Pittsburgh: printed by W. S. Haven, 1866. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, [9]-182; light wear at spine ends otherwise a near fine copy in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover. "In form the society was a communistic theocracy, with Rapp the actual dictator. His religious teachings... More
Georgetown, D.C. printed by published by James C. Dunn, 1827. 12mo, pp. xii, [9]-116; removed from binding; first 3 or 4 leaves a little foxed; all else very good. By the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, "formerly chaplain to the King of Spain, in the Royal Chapel of Seville, fellow, and... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First edition, 12mo, pp.[iii]-viii, 9-356, 11, [1] Ticknor ads (dated June 1856); engraved frontispiece portrait (a bit foxed), 13 wood engraved plates; ex-Essex Institute with their bookplate and a paper sticker at the base of the spine; light wear at extremities; all else generally very... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 436; inserted wood-engraved frontispiece and pictorial title page; original red blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spine ends chipped level with text block, lower joint rubbed, text slightly toned; a good, sound copy. Inscribed to "Miss Clara Elmes with... More
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1866. 8vo, pp. xvi, [17]-483, [1], 32 (Henry Lea catalogue); spine faded, else a very good, sound copy in original brown cloth. Revised edition of On Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Disorders of the Mind, 1860. More
Boston: Richardson & Lord and Cottons & Barnard, 1828. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, as issued; 8vo, pp. vi, [3], 10-436; [5], 6-280; uncut; full complement of the plates, including the lithograph frontispiece portrait of the author plus 14 lithograph portraits of physicians by Pendleton; recent plain wrappers, added... More
Albany: printed for the editor, by E. & E. Hosford, 1815. 8vo, pp. [7], 8-248; 3 engraved plates; contemporary full calf; rubbed and worn, but sound. The first issue contains "Proposals for Publishing a Monthly Miscellany, to be Entitled The American Magazine." The publication ran till May of the following... More
London: printed for A. Baldwin, 1713. First edition, small 4to. pp. 63, [1]; not in Rothschild. Bound with: Steel, Richard. The Crisis: or, a Discourse Representing, from the Most Authentick Records, the Just Causes of the Late Happy Revolution... London: Sam Buckley, 1714. First edition, second issue; pp. vii, [1]... More
London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. First edition, folio, pp. [4], 13, [3]; half title reads "Of the knowledge and Characters of Men"; later half calf over boards, gilt arms of Sir Robert Abdy Baronet of Albyns in Essex on upper cover and his bookplate on upper pastedown; upper joint... More
London: Charles and James Ollier, 1822. First edition, 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xi, [1], 60; ca. 1970s full red goatskin, triple gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 3; the binding is signed on the turn-in "Ex Libris Brent Gration-Maxfield 1972." With the final leaf containing... More
London: printed for Benj. Tooke, 1712. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 48; recent calf-backed boards. gilt-lettered direct on spine; fine. Alston III, 219; Teerink 577; Rothschild 2032: "On 10 May 1712, Swift wrote to Stella: 'My letter to Ld Treasr about the Engl. Tongue is now printing, and I suffer... More
London: printed for John Morphew, 1713. Small 8vo, pp. 56; uncut; 20th century calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; fine. First edition of Swift's attack on Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury in answer to that writer's sensationalist Introduction to the long-delayed final volume of his History of the... More
London: printed by G. Croom, for Joseph Watts, 1692. Small 8vo, pp. [8], 238, [2] ads; later full blindstamped paneled calf, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, brown leather label in 1, edges stained red; text occasionally trimmed close at the top margin, but in all, a very good copy. ESTC... More
Brooklyn, NY: Society for Japanese Studies, 1947. 8vo, pp. 13, [3], plus 18 plates of gardens, printed paper self wrappers; light soiling to wrappers, else fine. Langdon Warner was curator of Oriental art at Harvard's Fogg Museum, and is thought to be one of the models of Indiana Jones. More
[Seattle]: Silver Quoin Press, 1950. First edition, 8vo, pp. [44]; original gray paper wrappers (attached backwards), yellow title labels; near fine. A collection of journal entries about a trip to Hiroshima to build houses in an attempt to make some small restitution for the atomic bombing. He also records a.... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. 9.5" x 16" quotation broadside, printed on the occasion of the Minnesota Humanities Commission's 1987 annual lecture. More
[Minneapolis: Coffee House Press], 1988. 11.5" x 17.5 event broadside, tricolor. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2008. 7.75" x 11.25" Announcement broadside featuring a quotation from Anna Quinden and relief print, artist unknown. Printed on the occasion of CHP's move to the Grain Belt building. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1986. 11" x 15" quotation broadside printed on the occasion of the establishment of the Upper Midwest Center for the Book, 1986. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2009. 11" x 15" commemorative broadside featuring a quotation from Marina Tsvetaeva, printed on the occasion of CHP's 25th anniversary, features a relief print, artist unknown. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2011. 7.5" x 11" Poetry broadside printed on the occasion of the leadership transition from Allan Kornblum to Chris Fischbach, without blue art/stamp. More
