[New York: Harry H. Hall, Manager, Gabrielle Elliott, Associate, 1920.]. Single leaf folded to thirds. Season program with photo portraits of the dancers and musicians involved in Ted Shawn’s company. [With: ]Shawn, Ted, and Ruth St. Denis.Photo postcard of Shawn and St. Denis in Coronado, signed by Shawn. Coronado, California.....
[Kernville]: Sierra Trails Press, [1968]. One of 107 copies, numbered in ink on the colophon. 35 folded sheets (unbound, as usual). Thirty-two tipped-in wood-engravings by Kirk Martin, a student of Paul Landacre, depicting the beauty and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, each signed by the artist. Additionally inscribed by.....
London: Printed, and sold by G. Strahan... 1724. Second edition of Mandeville’s first prose work in English and his first foray into social commentary. Originally published in 1709. The second edition was the last published during Mandeville’s lifetime. All editions are scarce in commerce. Slight edgewear. Marbled endpapers. Two contemporary.....
Washington, D.C. United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Government Printing Office, 1954. First edition of the official AEC transcript of its 1954 hearing, which included over thirty hours of testimony by Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, George Kennan, and many others. The hearing resulted in Oppenheimer being stripped of his security.....
London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1846. Third edition. First published by Seeley in 1832. With ten lithographed plates of shells. Preface by Charles Mayo, the author’s brother. Also, with the author’s preface to the second edition. Dustsoiling to cloth and some chipping to head and tail of spine. Very.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Second edition, as stated. First published in 1816. The present work uses the format of a conversation between a teacher and her young pupil Caroline. In the Oxford DNB, Elizabeth J. Morse writes, “Conversations on Political Economy utilized Ricardian principles before the.....
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega/Boston: David R. Godine, [1991]. First American edition of this facsimile, printed for members of Hoc Volo. One of 400 copies letterpress printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine in the matching red board slipcase. Facsimile bound in full red leather with gilt spine and covers, all edges gilt.....
Paris: Chez Marcilly, 1822. First edition. Seemingly intended as an annual, but no other issues appeared. With eight hand-colored full-page illustrations. Some rubbing and some chipping to spine. Two small holes (seemingly made by a needle) at fore-edge, presumably for closure ties. Red armorial wax stamp to lower pastedown. A......
London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1821. Second edition of this compiled work and the first from this publisher. First published by Walker and Edwards in 1816. All editions are uncommon. OCLC records only seven copies of the 1816 edition and five copies of this edition in North America. With an.....
Cambridge, Mass. Printed for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, at the Riverside Press, 1903. One of four hundred copies for sale. Nineteen hors commerce copies were also produced. Text in red and black printed in ruled borders. With engraved initial letters and tailpieces printed in red. Toning to edges of endpapers.....
London: W. Darton, 1818. First edition. With a frontispiece and two engraved plates. Ink ownership signature, dated 1819, to preliminary blank. Some dampstaining and dustsoiling to leaves. A very good copy. Rebound in modern quarter morocco over marbled boards. Twelvemo. [4], 176 pp. A collection of stories “by a mother”.....
[Oakland, California:]: Jane Eayre Fryer, 1913.]. First edition. This edition, with no publisher named on the title-page, is scarce, with only five copies recorded on OCLC (only four in the United States). Later published by the John C. Winston Co. under the title The Mary Frances Sewing Book; or, Adventures.....
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1911. First edition. Not of Her Race follows the romance of Ruth Hastings, a white American woman, and Esteban Ybarrando, a mixed-race Mexican man living in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sonoratown. Though a white man, General Woodbridge, attempts to usurp Hastings’ affections.....
[ Philadelphia: Women’s Committee to Oppose Conscription, 1945-1947]. The documents include a mimeographed letter on Women’s Committee to Oppose Conscription letterhead calling for support for an anti-conscription constitutional amendment (dated December 3, 1945); and four letters (dated between June 1946 and April 1947) opposing the Selective Service System and proposed.....
London: Printed by S. Richardson, 1758. First edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Epictetus. This esteemed work was the standard English version prior to Oldfather’s translation (1925-8). (See Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, Oxford: 2002.). Some edgewear. Joints tender. Contemporary ink.....
London: H. Hering, [n.d., 1857]. First edition. Undated, but the December 12, 1857 issue of Bent’s Literary Advertiser lists the book as recently published. The identity of the poet is unclear, though a children’s phonic reading book published in 1876 reprints the poem and attributes it to a Frances S......
New York: Redfield, 1852. First edition, second issue of the author’s first book. The title page states in small type “second edition,” but this is clearly printed from the same sheets of the first edition. Frontispiece and pictorial title. Some rubbing to cloth. Free endpapers missing, removed at gutter. Strip.....
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809. First octavo edition. A two-volume quarto edition appeared the previous year. Contemporary tree calf. Four volumes, octavo. xvi, [2], 374; vi, [2], 395; vi, [2], 386; vi, [2], 373, [1], [16, index] pp. Elizabeth Carter (1717 – 1806) was, to quote Priscilla.....
[Notasulga, Alabama: The Armstrong Press. Fairhope, Alabama: The Slow Loris Press, 1988. One of 125 copies. Printed throughout, in black and in color, with specimens of nineteenth century American wood types and borders. With more than twenty typefaces represented. Text and descriptions printed in Caslon Oldface. Set, printed, and bound.....
London: W.S. Orr & Co., [1847]. First edition. Folding hand-colored frontispiece. Some wear and chipping to wrappers. A very good copy of a rare and fragile item. Original paper wrappers chromolithographed in blue and gold. Sixteenmo. 16 pp. A collection of patterns for fiber craft designs, as follows: “Elizabethan Collar,”.....
New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition of the author’s only work of fiction, a semi-autobiographical novel inspired by the time he spent at his grandfather’s Montvale Springs resort hotel in Tennessee in 1860. State B, with the title-leaf an integral part of its gathering (BAL 11241).....
London: Published by T. Hamilton, 1816. First edition. Offsetting to preliminary blank. Remarkably fresh throughout. A fine, bright copy. Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine. Ink ownership signature (dated 1841); early nineteenth century bookplate of collector Frances, Viscountess Norton (1755 – 1841); and modern bookplate of bookseller.....
London: Joseph Cundall, 1846, First edition. Illuminated in gold and color with elaborate chromolithographed borders and three full-page miniatures by John Brandard after manuscripts in the British Museum. Chromolithographed by Hanhart. Minor rubbing to extremities. Front hinge reinforced with strip of red leather. Some foxing to endpapers and dampstaining to.....
[London:]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. Frontisportrait. Half reddish-brown morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, dark blue-green cloth boards. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Light shelfwear. Very good. First edition. One of 350 copies. Octavo. 87 pp. [Together with:] Scott, Walter Sidney, editor. Shelley at Oxford. the Early Correspondence of P. B......
[Sherman Oaks, California:]: Ninja Press, 1984. One of 275 copies in paper wrappers. Signed by Betty Andrews. Forty deluxe copies in linen were also produced. With two linocut bone designs printed in gray. Handset in Centaur and Arrighi and letterpress printed on Nideggen paper. Some foxing to front wrapper and.....
