NY: Three Sirens Press, 1933. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Charles H. Bennett. In a corner-worn slipcase. 222pp; 24 plates on text stock. The anthropomorphic illustrations are imaginative and humorous. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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Philadelphia: Spangler & Davis, Printers, 1882. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 26pp. Delivered on the day of Emerson's burial, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Here, the Philadelphia Unitarian minister wants not only to honor Emerson but also "to seek the great secret of his life," although this tract exmaines Emerson's transcendental philosophy more than his life. Ames concludes that Emerson's "life appears like something complete. His work was done: we have it; the world will keep it. (more information)

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NY: Covici, Friede, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 274pp; frontispiece, 16 plates from photographs. Anderson went to Chicago in 1908, became a book critic under Floyd Dell, and by 1914 had launched her monthly "Little Review." Her magazine published the works of the Chicago poets, the Imagist poets including Amy Lowell, the anarchist writings of Emma Goldman, etc. Once the magazine moved to New York in 1917, it published the writings of T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and others, with Ezra Pound as a regular contributor. The serialization of ULYSSES led to a trial for obscenity and subsequent fines. The magazine folded in 1929. 9.25" x 6". (more information)

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Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1981. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 384pp, index; illus from photographs. This work spans 200 years of dissident literature, starting with Thomas Paine, and focusing on underground publications of the 1960s. 9.25" x 6.25". (more information)

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NY: John Day, 1946. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good/Good. pp: xi, 366, index. Contributions are arranged by region and tribe, from the Chippewa to the Incas. 7" x 4.75". (more information)

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Oxford Clarendon Press 1933., 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Spine cloth sunned; else in very good, unopened condition. 7.25" x 4.75" pp: ix, 140 Has a preface by R.W. Chapman. Illustrated by extra spine label tipped in. First Edition. Binding is cloth/boards. (more information)

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London: British Council, 1950. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 44pp. Following an essay on the lives of the Brontes is a narrative bibliography of the works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY & London: George Routledge/Sampson Low, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial cloth. pp: xvi, 216; mounted portrait, 172 illustrations. The mounted portrait is a sepiatone photograph. This close look at Caldecott's life and early work is based partly on his letters (many with accompanying sketches) and his diaries. 8.75" x 6". (more information)

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Cambridge, England University Press 1966., 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine condition in a price-clipped dust jacket. 8.75" x 5.5" printed dj pp: xii, 228 Comprises 20 essays from Caxton through De Quincey, including Swift, Defoe, Ben Franklin, Webster, Samuel Johnson, and others. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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London: Baynes & Son, 1826. First Edition. Full leather. Very Good. Four volumes; engraved portrait, foldout plate. "With Malone's Notes and Illustrations; and, for the first time, Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson." Bound in straight-grain morocco, contemporary with the books, dyed olive, paneled spines with gilt designs and leather labels, marbled endpapers and edges, dentelles. Bindings lightly rubbed along edges as usual. On the blank flyleaf of Volume III is a pencilled signature: "General C.W. Hervey, C.B., 1885, Torquay." 8.75" x 5.25". (more information)

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Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott 1877., 1877. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped binding and contents in very good condition. 7" x 4.5" pp: (ix), 174 Comprises extracts of Demosthenes speeches, translated into English, with much biographical and historical background. Illustrated by folding map of Greece. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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NY: Sol Lewis, 1981. Limited. Original Cloth. Fine. Two volumes in cloth slipcase. (301)pp, indices; illus from title-pages of works described. First published at London in 1935-1936, and here reprinted in an edition limited to 500 copies. Describes first editions of English authors whose books were first published in America before their publication in England, and first editions of American authors whose books were first published in England. 9" x 5.75". (more information)

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London A.C. Fifield 1919., 1919. Hardcover. Prize binding and contents near fine condition. 7.5" x 5" pp: xii, 438 Index. Handsomely bound by Bickers & Son in 3/4 tan morocco and cloth, gilt-ruled spine, Latin inscription on cover, a.e.g. Includes a chronology of Butler's life. On the front pastedown is a Lancing College gift plate, printed in red and black, accomplished by hand by A.T. Bowlby, Headmaster, on S. Nicolas' Day, 1921. Illustrated by frontispiece portrait. 5th Printing edition. Binding is leather/cloth. (more information)

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NY Kraus 1974., 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stiff-paper covers and contents in fine condition. 10.5" x 7.75" 20pp Filled with short articles about Samuel Langhorne Clemens and the influence of his work on American life and letters. Inscribed and signed at the top of the cover: "F.J. Fahrenbach / Editor's Greetings / Cyril Clemens.". First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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NY: Corner Book Shop, 1929. First Edition. Self-wraps. Good. Some chipping along spine. 32pp. Offers a complete set of the first and limited editions of Dreiser, including SISTER CARRIE: 30 volumes for $650. 9" x 6". (more information)

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NY: Derby & Jackson, 1857. 2nd printing. Decorative Cloth. Good. Corner of first few leaves dampmarked. 328pp; frontispiece illustrations. Written by a wine merchant and one of the original members of the Century Club, and first published in 1856, this is the humorous account of a city man setting up a rural home for himself at "Chestnut Cottage" (actually Cozzens' summer home in Yonkers). This edition also includes "Captain Davis, A Californian Ballad" and "Captain Belgrave." 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Revised Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. 2 volumes, pp: 287 + 333; 15 plates. Some of Sterne's manuscripts are shown here. Both volumes are signed at the front by anthropologist Ashley Montagu. 9.25" x 6". (more information)

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NY: New Directions, 1957. First Edition. Original boards. Very Good. Ben Shahn. 119pp, colophon; 41 line drawings in sepia. Limited to 150 copies, this is the "Artist--out of series" copy, signed by Dahlberg and by Shahn. Laid in is an original lithograph used in this book, signed in pencil by Ben Shahn. 10.5" x 7". (more information)

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Wesel: W. Dums, 1890. First thus. Hardcover. Very Good. W. Schafer. Original cloth-backed boards, with color plate mounted on cover. 71pp; 5 chromolitho color plates. In this version for German children, Robinson Crusoe is seen as a "Hausmann in Hamburg" as his tale begins. 7" x 4.25". (more information)

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London Faber and Faber (1936)., 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Faint dampmark to lower part of boards, else very good condition. 7.5" x 4.75" 190pp. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Chicago Thunder's Mouth Press 1977., 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents near fine condition. 8.5" x 6.75" (56)pp The scarce second issue of this long-running little magazine contains work by a variety of contributors. Illustrated by 17pp illus, most from photos. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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NY Spiral Press March 1951., 1951. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Few tiny brown spots, else near fine condition. 9.75" x 6.25" 3pp, colophon This is one of 1500 copies, printed for friends of Random House and The Spiral Press. Illustrated by printed in red and black. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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Boston: Arena Publishing, 1896. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. Few pages jammed at top. pp: viii, 160; portrait. An adoring life of Whittier, who "preserved from youth to silver age the soul of a child" and led a "pure Quaker life." 8.25" x 5.25". (more information)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Illus from Photographs. Two volumes; engraved armorial bookplates. pp: 351 + 296, index. Considered "the greatest of Shakespeare's editors," the Philadelphia-born Furness was an ardent abolitionist. He "helped spirit the body of John Brown through Philadelphia," served as an agent for the Sanitary Commission in the War between the States, etc. Illustrated by 6 photo-plates, 4pp facs ms. 8" x 5". (more information)

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NY: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: (xvi), 330, index; 8 plates. Gilbertson offers a new biography of the woman who "embodied the thoughts and emotions of 19th-century America," noting that previous works on Stowe were either uncritically adulatory or coldly analytical. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First US Edition. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. pp: vi, 284; index. Gladstone connects internal evidence from THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY with other accounts of contemporary "events and personages" and archaeological finds to create an early "history of our race." Includes sections on "Homer's Egyptian and Other Foreign Knowledge," "Homer and the Egyptian Monuments," etc. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: 77, (3)ads. Goethe's short novel in epistolary form, his first great popular success, is here issued by a collectible publisher. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. First Edition. Original wraps. Good. 64pp; 3 portraits. Goldberg views Mencken's life to age 44 and his roles as "the anarch," "anti-academe," "anti-Christian", "aristocrat," &c. 5" x 3.5". (more information)

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Windsor, England: Gaby Goldscheider, 1977. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 40pp. Laid into this bibliography is Goldscheider's catalog #11, offering 189 Doyle items, priced from one to 500 pounds. 8.25" x 5.75". (more information)

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Haldeman-Julius, 1937. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Approx 256pp. Contents: "Ohio, the Buckeye State" by Carl Willard Smith; "New York, This Whale of A City" by Paul Eldridge; "Problems, Puzzles and Brain-Teasers" by E. Haldeman-Julius; "`Asleep!' The Complete Story of What Happened at Pearl Harbor" by Owen J. Roberts & others; "Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis, A Digest." by Miriam Allen deFord; "The Value of Free Thought" by Bertrand Russell; "The Strange Story of Lafcadio Hearn" by Arthur S. Tolliver; "Is Life Worth Living?" by William James; and "Essays in Criticism and Guidance" by E. Haldeman-Julius. 8.5" x 5". (more information)

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