Boston: John Smith, 1874. 32mo, 16 pages, publisher's original blue printed wraps. Scarce Civil War veterans’ appeal booklet centered on the emblematic image of the “empty sleeve,” a phrase widely associated with Union amputees and disabled soldiers after the war. The Empty Sleeve, or, Soldier’s Appeal belongs to the poignant.....
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1868. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. 12mo, 524 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated green cloth covered boards. The Southern Poems of the War, collected and arranged by Emily V. Mason and first published in 1867, is a post-Civil War anthology preserving verse written by Southern poets.....
Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, xi, 102 pages, plus 19 black-and-white plates. Publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Enmerkar and Ensuhkesdanna: A Sumerian Narrative Poem is a scholarly study and edition of an important work of ancient Mesopotamian literature, in which Adele Berlin examines a Sumerian narrative centered.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Octavo, v, 351, 21, [2] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and blind stamped brown cloth covered boards. This copy bears important provenance, featuring the ownership signature of Sarah Wister, mother of Owen Wister, along with a ‘Butler Place’ bookplate that further confirms the authenticity of the.....
Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. First Edition. Limited Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is number 1,157. Signed by the illustrator Carl Schultheiss on the limitation page. Two tall octavos, publisher's original quarter red leather over paper covered boards. Publisher's original black cloth slipcase. The Ring.....
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. First Edition. Octavo, 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements at front, xv, [1], [33]–312, [16] pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Publisher’s original black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. First edition of this posthumous collection of the poems of Lucretia Maria Davidson, gathered and.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Eighth Edition. 12mo, xii, [4],152 pages, publisher's original green cloth covered boards with gilt-lettering and decoration. Beveled edges. Top edge gilt. An early posthumous edition of Emily Dickinson’s first published collection, originally issued by Roberts Brothers in 1890 and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T......
Dallas, Texas: Royal Publishing Company, 1961. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Roberta Coldren Dyer to Dean Peerman, noted theologian, editor, and longtime member of the editorial staff of The Christian Century. Octavo, 70 pages, publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original pictorial grey cloth covered boards. Message.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Limited Edition of 1,250 sets, this copy is unnumbered. Two octavos, xxviii, 389; 397-777 pages, finely bound in three-quarter brown leather over cloth-covered boards, signed by the binder, “Bound by Stikeman & Co., N.Y.” Spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, and gilt-decorated compartments. Boards.....
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1914. First Edition. Signed by the author. Octavo, 85 pages, publisher's original cloth over paper covered boards. Also included is a small printed piece headed “Hymn” and several newspaper clippings. John Mills Gilbert’s Christmas Eve in the City is a scarce 1914 Gorham Press collection of.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. First American Edition. Octavo, 46, [1] pages, publisher's original green wraps. First American edition of H.D.’s scarce early modernist poetry collection, published by Henry Holt in 1921. Written in the spare, imagistic style that made Hilda Doolittle one of the central poets of.....
New York: Partridge and Brittan, 1854. First Edition. 12mo, 256, [2], 5 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated purple cloth covered boards. A Lyric of the Morning Land is an early and characteristic work of American Spiritualist literature by Thomas Lake Harris, published in New York by Partridge and Brittan.....
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition, Second Issue with plain endpapers. Octavo, viii, 90, 16 pages, publisher's original decorative green cloth covered boards with ornate gilt decoration. Illustrated in black-and-white. Green Arras by Laurence Housman is an attractive fin-de-siècle volume of poetry and book art, first published.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1849. A New Edition. Octavo, 539 pages, publisher's original red cloth covered boards with ornate gilt decoration. With the binder's stamp "From Bradley's" in the corner of the front free endpaper. All edges gilt. Now in a protective clear mylar jacket. The Poetical Works of.....
Philadelphia: Published for Private Circulation by J. Hampton Moore, 1898. First Edition. Octavo, 128 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered brown leather over gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates. Fiveoclockiana and Other Poems was produced in 1898 as a commemorative volume for the Five O’Clock.....
München: Friedrich Bruckmann's Verlag, 1880. First Edition. Large folio, 32 leaves printed on the rectos only, publisher's original decorative binding. All edges gilt. White silk moire endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout. Text in German. Aus den vier Jahreszeiten is a large and beautifully illustrated German art book combining the imaginative drawings.....
London: Fulgur Esoterica, 2014. Illustrated by Marjorie Cameron. First Edition. Limited to 1,560 copies, of which this is one of 1,390 copies bound in cloth. The edition also included 156 copies bound in quarter morocco and 14 copies bound in full morocco. Folio, vii, 174 pages, publisher's original color pictorial.....
London: George Bell & Sons, 1892. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Five 12mos, lxxxii, 322; 244; 245; 299; viii, 493 pages. Finely bound by Root & Son in full red morocco, the boards framed with gilt-ruled borders, the spines decorated in gilt, with gilt-tooled board edges and gilt.....
Philadelphia: Press of I.W. Klopp & Co., 1916. First Edition. Octavo, 59 pages, publisher's original pictorial brown wraps with cover Illustration by the Author. Mammy’s Cracklin’ Bread and Other Poems is the scarce 1916 first edition poetry collection by Theodore Henry Shackelford, an African American poet whose work reflects the.....
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 1927. First Editon. Octavo, 45 pages, publisher's original green cloth covered boards with pastedown label to top board. G. C. Moore Smith’s Thomas Randolph is a scholarly study of the seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist Thomas Randolph, a younger contemporary.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First Edition. 12mo, viii, 229, [12] pages, publisher's original brown cloth covered boards. Sides blind stamped with an arrangement of double rules with a single leaf at the corners. Publisher's catalog in the rear dated April 1857. Songs of Summer (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867).....
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1892. First Edition, Limited Edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 47. Signed by both William Strang and the printer, Frederick Goulding, on the limitation notice. From the library of J. A. Fuller Maitland (1856–1936), the prominent British music critic and historian.....
London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. With Illustrations by Eleanor F. Brickdale. First Edition Thus. Octavo, x, 402 pages, bound in quarter red leather over red cloth covered boards. Spine with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with illustrations by Eleanor Fortescue.....
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1904. First Edition. 12mo, viii, 68 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. Edges remain uncut and unopened. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated into English Verse is a 1904 rendering of one of the great tragedies of classical Greek literature, translated by Edward.....
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Middletown, Conn. Printed for I. Riley, 1808. 12mo, [8], 120, [2], v, [3], 10–59 pages, with frontispiece. Bound in period full leather with gilt-lettered label and bands to spine. With the ownership label of Joshua B. Sharpless, likely Joshua Baldwin Sharpless (1789–1866), of the prominent Sharpless family of Chester County.....