New York: Published by the Author, 1905. First edition, signed, one of 500 copies, this copy with enclosed typed letter signed in ink by the author enclosing the book. Page size: 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches; 77pp; including frontispiece half-tone portrait of Whitman after the "Lear" photograph drawn by Julia Greene... More about Whitman The Poet-Liberator of Woman
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First Edition, one of 550 copies on pur fil lafuma. 8vo; 203pp; + Acheve d'imprimer, + errata. Original salmon pink wrappers printed in black, spine and edges a bit sunned, edges of pages a bit age toned, but generally very good with the ex-libris of French... More about Le Grand Ecart Roman
Cleveland and New York: World, [1960]. First trade edition. 8vo; 618pp; including index, red cloth, pictorial dj; book shows some light wear, jacket rubbed chipped at edges with several closed tears, chip about 2" x 1/2" to top of back panel, about very good in lightly used price-clipped jacket. This... More about Rosenbach, A Biography
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First edition. Page size: 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches; i-xxxi, 201pp; 7pp. folded facsimile. Bound: original blue wrappers printed in black, white sticker showing price of 12'6 net at bottom of front cover, stamp on back cover "Revised prices on application," minor wear to covers and... More about Codex climaci rescriptus. Frangments of Sixth Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the Gospels, of...
Boston: Privately Printed Thomas Todd, 1900. First Edition, inscribed on ffe by the author to Samuel Bowles and dated May 1, 1900, one of 50 (or 57) copies (notation on AAS copy cites 57 copies printed but colophon states 50), of this privately limited edition, a memoir of the author's... More about "Alongside;" being notes suggested by "A New England Boyhood" of Doctor...
Camden, N.J. Victor Talking Machine, February 3, 1916. Original shellac recording made February 3, 1916, labeled as "rural comedy" on the label of the record (not so funny if you were a woman!), with Old Country Fiddler at the Party on the second side, record housed in original brown paper... More about Old Country Fiddler on Women's Suffrage
Paris: Felix Juven, 22 Mai 1915. Single issue of French humor magazine, this issue "Dan Les Ruines" with a color chromotypograph caricature by Abel Faivre of Edith Wharton and Walter Berry in the back of their chauffeur-driven car, touring the front with the caption "Ce n'est que ca!" Single Page... More about Le Rire Rouge, No. 27 "Dans Les Ruines"
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. First edition, inscribed by the author, on the front blank, "Henry Wilder Foote / from his friend / O. B. Frothingham." Page size: 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 inches; 396pp; including Index + 2 pp. ads. Bound: green cloth stamped in gold with author's name... More about Transcendentalism In New England A History
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside press, 1884. First edition, with leaf excised that has list of illustrations as in copyright deposit copy, Binding A with publisher's monogram at foot of spine, BAL cites 1518 copies of the printing. Page size: 8-3/8 x 5-7/8 inches; 153pp. Bound: blue cloth... More about Poems for Children...With Illustrations by Miss A. G. Plympton
Boston: James Monroe and Company, 1845. First edition, binding A (no priority), inscribed on the front flyleaf, "Marshall P. Wilder / From the Author". [iv, ads], iv, 319pp; blue cloth with blind vignette on front panel and gilt-stamped spine with author and title. vine-like ornaments, page size: 6-12/16 x 4-7/16... More about Scenes in My Native Land
Chicago: Published by the Author. Chicago: A.B. Case, 1868. First edition, both books as issued, bound together. 8vo; 346pp; and 140pp; + 1p. ads of other titles by Mrs. Packard. Bound: original brown blind and gilt-stamped cloth with title on spine, corners bumped and edges rubbed but still a very... More about The Prisoners' Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled: As Demonstrated by the Report of the...
Shanghai: World Book Co, 1922. Modernized version of an ancient Chinese classic being the second volume of "One Hundred Beauties" with 50 full-page portraits and pictorial titlepage and colophon, text in Chinese, original green printed front wrapper and tan back wrapper, hand-sewn. Wrappers a bit soild and worn at edges... More about Accurate Portraits of Female Beauties
New York Chicago: Sheldon, Blakeman and Company S. C. Griggs and Company, 1857. First Edition of author's first book. 342pp; + 10 full page engravings; original brown blind and gilt-stamped cloth with title and publisher in gilt on spine, corners bumped and a bit rubbed, spine with a bit of chipping, text... More about Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota. Early Sketches, Later Settlements, and Further...
Syracuse New York and Auburn: William T. Hamilton / Miller, Orton and Muiligan [sic], 1856. First edition. 8vo; 409pp; + 6pp. ads for other publications by Miller, Orton & Mulligan, (including a quote from Lydia Maria Child urging reading ARCHY MOORE, THE WHITE SLAVE by Richard Hildreth, one by Fanny... More about The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife...
Baltimore, Maryland: Enoch Pratt Free Library Poetry Broadside, 1935. Broadside, sea-green/blue paper, size: 22 x 16-3/4 inches, designed by Norman T. A. Munder, using Munder Types. Printed in blue ink with triple rules at either side in grey and blue, image by Rockwell Kent of woman dancing in front of... More about Dunbar Broadside Containing My Little Dreams. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
London: Macmillan, 1910. First edition, first printing, first English issue, inscribed by the author on the front blank, "L. Belugou / from his friend / Edith Wharton (with a flourish) Oct 26th 1910." 8vo; 438pp; + 8pp. ads, publisher's blue cloth blind and gilt stamped; ex-libris of Leon Belugou on... More about Tales of Men and Ghosts
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1902]. Broadside advertising THE VALLEY OF DECISION, single leaf, printed on both sides, printed in brown ink with photograph of the author. Page size: 6-1/2 x 3-7/8 inches, fine. More about Promotion Broadside for The Valley of Decision
New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. First edition. Page size: 7-3/4 x 5 inches; 288pp; Bound: blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine ends shipped, bottom edge rubbed, tips bumped and rubbed, dampstain at bottom of pages of front matter though p. 85, about 3 inches long... More about Notes of Travel and Life. By Two Young Ladies
[NP]: December 1904. Card size: 4-3/8 x 4-5/8". The quote reads "Julia Ward Howe / Pres' New England Women's / Club / Ex-pres' of the Association for / the Advancement of Women. / Mine eyes have seen the glory" and is all in Howe's hand. On the verso is the... More about Autograph Quotation Signed
Boston and London: Crosby, Nichols, and Company.. Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856. First and only edition, first printing. 12mo, 468pp, including a page of ads for other books by Fuller; dark grey-green cloth, triple-ruled border, tips worn, spine sunned and stained, lacking both flyleaves, traces of label removed from... More about At Home and Abroad, or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by her Brother, Arthur...
Hartford, Conn: [American Publishing Co.], 1877. First Edition. 8vo, 94pp; buff printed wrappers. Frontispiece engraving of Miss Smith and her cows. The delicate wrappers are very goodl , but generally intact, spine starting to split with about 1" lost at each end, small hole at center of front wrapper at... More about Abby Smith and Her Cows, with a report of the law case decided contrary to law
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition, copy #117 of 250 copies specially bound and inserted in a sllipcase and signed by the author, Nicholas A. Basbanes. Page size: 9 x 6-1/8 inches; 360pp; + 2pp. of Notes on Type and Colophon, which is where the author has signed... More about Every Book Its Reader. The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
[Salt Lake City, UT]: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Page size: 8l-12 x 5-1/4 inches, 8pp + colophon. Bound: balck cloth over boards, no dj as issued, fine. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by the author, CharlesBowden. Book design and letterpress printing by Jason Davis... More about Book Collecting The Last Refuge of the Illiterate
Canton, NY: Caliban Press & Wake Robin Press, 2015. Artist's book, one of 41 copies, all on papers that were contact printed using materials from autumnal gatherings, including fruits, nuts, seeds, flowers, leaves, twigs, fungi, and various metals by artist and poet, Velma Bolyard, signed by the artist / author... More about November, A Map. Poem by Velma Bolyard
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. One of 200 copies, all on mould-made St. Armand paper (white for the text and tomato for the covers, hand-made aqua for envelope), signed and numbered by the printer / artist, Mark McMurray. Page size: 5-3/8 x 4-3/8 inches; 8pp. Bound: accordion-style fold out with... More about The Jumblies from THE BOOK OF NONSENSE
