Boston: Small, Maynard, (1908). Third Edition. 12mo, pp. 217. Enlarged, with a total of 148 poems. Frontis portrait. Uncut. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover illustration stamped "MLP". TEG. Contemporary ownership stamp on the e.p., o/w VG. The author's first book. A collection of poems first issued in..... More
NY: Brentano's Literary Emporium, 1880. Second American edn. 8vo, pp. [ii], 162. Bound in brown limp cloth, rubbed at the extremities of the spine, front flyleaf clipped out, name on end paper. Scarce. First issued the previous year. This edition includes 2 pages of press notices. Blackwell (1821-1910) was born..... More
NY: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1993. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 6. Sewn into printed wrappers, untrimmed. Number 46 of an edition of just 50 copies.This copy signed by publisher Barry Magid. Fine in wrappers. Two letters: one in the collection Bob Wilson of Phoenix Bookshop, the other in the collection..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1901. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 298. Bound in blue cloth stamped in green and gilt, signed MLP. Little rubbed along the edges of the spine, but a VG copy. Issued 2 months after the first. NAW: In her time, she was certainly the leading intellectual of the..... More
Philadelphia: Leary & Getz. 8vo, pp. (504) + 44 pages of adv. Bound in original full calf, stamped in gilt and blind (well worn along the top edge of the spine and at the top of the hinge), illustrated with engravings, some of them crudely hand colored. Pages marbled on..... More
London: T. Cadell, 1788. Third edition. 8vo, pp.134. Bound in the publisher's original wraps, title written in ink on the worn paper spine, half title chipped and torn, water mark on the cover, untrimmed. A very good copy. Dramatist, poet, Christian moralist and pioneer in universal education, More (1745-1833) was..... More
Smithfield: J. Evans & Son, also sold by J. Hatchard, London and Binns, Bath; Bulgin, Bristol, [1815?]. Bewick? First Edition. Folio, broadside, 15 x 9 in. printed in 2 columns inside a decorative boarder with an unsigned woodcut vignette of two men sitting next to a table (by Bewick?) A...... More
London: J. Watson, 1844. First UK Edn? 8vo, pp. 220 4 pages of adv. Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind on the cover, gilt title on the spine. Part of the letterpress under the author's name obscured, o/w a near fine copy. The text includes the supplemental speeches..... More
NY: Harper, Row, (1988). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 232. Fine in dj. The author's first book. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. E. Boyd Smith. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 371. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Bound in olive cloth-covered bds, stamped in black, red, white and gilt. A very good clean tight copy. Adams is best remembered for his The Log of a Cowboy. This novel is about..... More
NY: Van Winkle & Wiley, 1816. First US Edition. 8vo, pp. 102 with the half title and 2 leaves of adv. Bound in some worn original printed boards (lacks some of the paper above the decorative border, paper chipped along the spine, untrimmed. Shaw & Shoemaker 37141 locates the AAS..... More
London: Arch, 1830. Second edn. 8vo, pp. xii, 495 + adv. Name and date stamp on the end paper, bound in contemporary rubbed leather backed marble boards, a good tight copy. See Smith: II, 957. Margaret Woods was a member of the Society of Friends. Margaret Woods was the eldest..... More
London: Henry G Bohn, 1851. Peter lely. Third edition, enlarged. Large 8vo, pp. 350. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 20 full page engraved portraits(based on original paintings housed now at Hampton Court Palace.) Bookplate on the end paper, all edges gilt, Bound in contemporary 3/4 morocco with heavily tooled..... More
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1813. 12mo, pp. 196. Illustrated with a frontis portait of De Clermont and 4 engraved plates designs by Alexandre Desenne and engraved by Adr. Godefroy. Bound in full calf (couple of small cuts to the hinge at the extremities of the front board,) with leather label... More
Dublin: R. Jackson, 1792. First Irish edn. 8vo,pp. 435. Contemporary calf, contemporary name on end paper (Joseph Trimble 1793), some foxed and toned, a VG copy. See Sabin 86577; Morsch, New Jersey g, 275. Quaker Sarah Grubb travelled through the North and West of Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Holland. Her..... More
Washington, IA: Mills Seed Co, 1912. 4to, pp. 56. Color illustrated paper wraps (some chips out of the corner of the cover and the first 14 pages). Illustrated throughout, some color. A good copy. Offer retail offerings of fruits, vegetables and flowers. More
Milano Italy: Bompiani, (2002). Ninth printing. 8vo, pp. 394. Bibliography, index. In Italian. Illustrated in black and white by various artists. Paper, with dj. About as new. More
Hibbing, Minnesota: Wimp Press, (ca 1966 ?). First Edition (Pirated). 4to, stapled wraps,pp. 54, Stapled wraps, mimeographed. A near fine copy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Accumulation of prose and poetry from a musician and personality of the 60s. In 1964 Dylan signed with Macmillan to write a book called Tarantula..... More
London: Edward Churton, 1834. First English edition thus. Large folio (21 inches tall), pp. 94, illsutrated with 15 (of 16 engraved portraits). Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather and paper boards with leather label. Some minor foxing, the front blanks had been folded and show creases. but a very good copy..... More
London: Smith, Elder, 1850. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 307, 329. Bound in 3/4 calf and marble boards by Henderson & Siebert, teg. A very good clean set. Biographical notices of important French women including feminists Mdm. Pompadour, Mdm. de Genlis, Mdm. de Stael, Charlotte Corday, etc. More
[South Hadley, MA]: Mt. Holyoke College(?), January, 1897. This is an interesting clutch of manuscript items probably created by a student at Mt. Hoyoke college, ca 1897. Included is a partially disbound "Renaissance Log" which is 35 stiff sheets (partially sewn with ribbon) with edges cut in half circles, the..... More
NY: Walker, (1977). First Edition. 4to, pp.72. With B & W and color illustrations. A very good clean copy in dj. A selection of owls in art and folklore. More
Norwalk, CT: Silvermine, (1967). First American edn. Large 8vo, pp. 93. Includes index and bibliography. Rust cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. A nice copy in price-clipped and little chipped and soiled dj. More
San Antonio: Naylor, (1958). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 61. Printed yellow cloth, a very good copy. More
