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
Biography
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
Correspondence Of Ernest Caylus 1836-1874
Paris: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 107 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Frontispiece of Caylus who was a French journalist during his days in America. Ernest Caylus (1813-1878) was a young Frenchman forced to flee political unrest at home, coming to America in 1835. Most of the letters are..... 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
Farmington
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Second edition. Hardcover. 277 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Signed presentation copy. "In remembrance of my one night stand in Yoho Valley" from Clarence S. Darrow to my friends JW Barker/Gladys Barker. Yoho Valley situated in British Columbia, Canada. In a later biography Darrow..... 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
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz"
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Cruikshank, George. First edition, second issue. leather_bound. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half–titles, EXTRA–ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank, many hand–colored and folding (including a play bill from the Drury Lane Theater announcing his last public appearance, Friday, June..... 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
Autobiography
London: Cape, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 283 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Eight full page illustrations. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Early owner inscription free front endpaper. More
Memoirs of a Geisha
New York: Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 434 pages. 24 x 16,5 cm. Type in Fairfield, the first typeface by Rudolph Ruzicka. 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
Letters Of Mary W. Shelley (Mostly Unpublished) With Introduction And Notes
Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 191 pages. Limited edition, one of 150 copies. Mostly unopened. "Printed by the Bibliophile Society for the owner of the originial manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members." The first few letteres in this collection were written after..... 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
Stories From The Italian Poets: With Lives Of The Writers
London: Chapman And Hall, 1846. First edition. leather_bound. 415, 515 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Commentary on Dante, Bolardo, Ariosto, Tasso, et al. Clean, fresh copy, raised bands, double gilt cover panels, spine panels richly decorated win floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, nicks to backstrip heads. 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 Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. Cruickshank, George. First edition. Hardcover. 284 & 280 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, very bright copy partly unopened. Bookplates free front endpapers of both volumes. 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
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