Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Cambridge: Harvard Univ.Press, 1964-1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, Indexes in Vols. 2 and 4. The first four volumes cover the years January 1820 - December 1832.Bookplates. More
Biography
La Vie de Mr. Des-Cartes Contenant L'histoire de la Philosophie & de les autres Oevrages: Et aussi ce qui luy est arrive de plus narquable pendant le cours de se Vie
Paris: Chez la Veuve Maubry Cramoysi, 1693. leather_bound. 322 pages.16 x 9 cm, This edition "Reduite en abrege," the fuller and first edition of this work published 1691. Copper engraved frontispiece. The author, an erudite and assiduous compiler was born a year prior to Descartes death, and this work is..... More
Sacharissa Some Account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland Her Family and Friends 1617-1684
London: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More
The Lower East Side A Portrait in Time
New York: Crowell-Colllier, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages. Photographs by Leo Stashin. Index. Ex-library. More
Voice Offstage A Book of Memoirs
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 258 pages. Illustrated. More
Letters Joseph Conrad To Richard Curle; Edited With An Introduction And Notes by R.C.
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 151 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Typography by Bruce Rogers, printed by William Edwin Rudge. Three corners rubbed, clean and fresh copy. More
E.W. Dennison A Memorial
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 103 pages. 24. x 15.5 cm. 10 photographic plates with tissue guards, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, another tribute to an industrialist which later became Avery-Dennison, a major paper product company. More
Mr. Sherman and Mr. Sterling and How They Grew Being annals of their law firm, with biographical and historical highlights
Np: Shearman and Sterling, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 443 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Printed by Carl Purlington Rollins at the Yale University Press. More
Frank Lloyd Wright
New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 293 pages. 21 x 14 cm. 49 Illustrations. Index. Clean, fresh copy. More
John Henry Nash The Biography of a Career
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. illustrated. Bibliography.Index. University of California Publications in Librarianship: 7. Lovely, crisp copy. More
Mistress Nell A Merry Tale Of A Merry Time (Twixt Fact and Fancy)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Nell Gwyn from an engraving of the painting by Sir Peter Lely. Based on the life of Nell Gwyn, the Drury Lane favorite during the English Restoration. Printed by The Merrymount Press by..... More
Letters To A Pagan
Detroit: Robert Bruna Powers, 1933. First edition. Boards. 119 pages. 21 x 16 cm. Hearn's letters to Annetta Halliday [Countess Annetta Halliday Antona] beginning in 1871 when Halliday then a child was fascinated by the half-blind book agent who knew all about ghosts. Twenty-eight letters remain of this correspondence. Limited..... More
Lytton Strachey -- The Unknown Years 1880-1910 & The Years of Achievement 1910-1932
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 475 & 754 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Bibliography and extensive Index. More
The History, Antiquities And Topography Of The County Of Sussex
Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. leather_bound. 592 [15] & 274 [90] [XV] [VIII]. 33 x 26 cm. The Subscriber's Copy with label, priced at 4 pounds, 4 shillings, inside front cover paste down of Vol.I. Profusely illustrated: fifty-six copperplate engravings with tissue guards, eighty wood engravings, plus two folding maps..... More
The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. Cruikshank, George. First edition. leather_bound. 284 & 280 pages.19 x 13.5 cm. Extra-illustrated, 55 plates from other works, some tinted, most inlaid to size. This, in addition to the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, bright set bound..... More
The Best of all Good Company: A Series Of Daily Companions For The Pocket And The Pormanteau; Ashore And Afloat; In Town And Out Of Town; At Home And Abroad; Part I. A Day With Charles Dickens
London: The Useful Knowledge Company, 1871. First edition. leather_bound. 62 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Original yellow wrappers in fine condition bound-in, with Knife and Fork Advertisement,[devoted to the art of eating healthily] and sample of Dicken's handwriting. Bound by Birdsall, raised bands, spine richly gilt, triple gilt cover border..... More
The Life of Erasmus, More particularly that part of it, which He spent in England; Wherein An Account is given of his Learned Friends, And the State of Religion and Learning At that Time in both our Universities. With An Appendix Containing several Original Papers
Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. leather_bound. 8vo, 23 x 14cm, (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4, twenty copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p. 517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well appointed library, and bring considerable prices; merely because they..... More
Atlantic Brief Lives A Biographical Companion to the Arts
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 900 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Lovely gift copy of reference classic in a fine binding, or Wikipedia between two covers. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers. More
A*M*B Some Aspects Of His Life And Times Begun In Playful Mode For His Entertainment On His 75TH Birthday And Now Completed For His Sorrowing Friends As A Token Of Remembrance And Affection
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head. More
The Environs of London: Being An Historical Account Of The Towns, Villages, And Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of that Capital: Interspersed With Biographical Anecdotes
London: A. Strahan, For T. Cadell, 1792-1811. First edition. leather_bound. 28 x 23 cm. Vol. I, 593 pp. [Index of Names. General Index]. Vol. II, 598 pp. [Index of Arms]. Vol. III, 706 pp. [General Index]. Vol. IV, 724 pp. [General Table of Errata]. Vol. V, 316 pp. [Index of..... More
Remembering Kennedy One Brief Shining Moment
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 280 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 23 of 1585, signed by William Manchester. Profusely Illustrated with photographs. More
The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence
London: Heinemann, 1977. Hardcover. 1307 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. The definitive edition replacing Aldus Huxley's shorter selection first published in 1932. Index to Recipients of the Letters. General Index. More
Alice Freeman Palmer In Memoriam MDCCCLV-MDCCCCII
Np: 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career..... More
The Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of The New York Tribune
New York: Mason Brothers, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 442 pages. 12mo, two illustrations. First edition of Parton's first book. SABIN 58954. Worn covers, tight binding, interior clean and firm. More
Memoirs Of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary To The Admiralty In The Reigns of Charles II. And James II. Comprising His Dairy From 1659 to 1669, Deciphered By The Rev. John Smith, A.B. Of St. John's College, Cambridge, From The Original Short-Hand MS. In The Pepsyian Library, And A Selection of His Private Correspondence.; Edited by Lord Braybrooke
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. leather_bound. 498 [49], 309 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Eight engraved portraits, and six plates ( one a facsimile of Pepy's handwriting and short-hand cypher, one double page (folding map,) This diary, written in a very small hand in six volumes, was included among..... More