First Editions of classic books
London: J. Johnson, 1789. First Edition. Octavo, 608, [20] pages, period full leather with gilt bands and lettering to spine. Illustrated with a fold-out plate. The Analytical Review is an important late eighteenth-century English literary and intellectual periodical, created to survey the world of new books, ideas, and scholarship for.....
Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1847. First Edition. 12mo, vi, [4], 168 pages, bound in the original gilt-decorated and blind-stamped blue cloth covered boards, with the binder's stamp "From Bradley's" in the corner of the front free endpaper. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Christmas Blossoms, and New-Year’s Wreath, for 1847 is a......
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Richmond, VA: William F. Ritchie, 1862. First Edition. Octavo, 182, 34, 11, 15, [1] pages, period leather over marbled boards. Composite Civil War-era Virginia government volume containing four works: 1. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed in 1861–2; in the Eighty-Sixth Year of the Commonwealth.....
London: B. Crosby and Co., 1807. First Edition. 24mo, xx, 595, [9] pages, period quarter leather over marbled boards. Illustrated with two fold out maps.
New York: Henry White, 1859. First Edition. Containing the first six monthly issues, January–June 1859. Octavo, ii, 416 pages, period blue cloth covered boards with ornate gilt decoration to spine and blind-stamped decoration to boards. Scarce first volume of Ladies’ American Magazine, containing the January through June 1859 numbers of.....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, 1796. First Edition. Two octavos, 7-494, [1] p.; 576 pages, bound in full leather with gilt lettered red spine labels. The Laws of the United States of America is an important early American legal and governmental publication, comprising the first authorized collected printing of the laws enacted.....
Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1852. First Edition. 12mo, 15 pages, bound in modern red cloth with paper label. Mesmerism Considered is a scarce mid-Victorian pamphlet on mesmerism, animal magnetism, trance, and the controversial powers attributed to mesmeric influence. Published in Glasgow by William Mackenzie in 1852, the work belongs to the.....
Ephrata, PA: Johann Baumann, 1806. First Edition. 24mo, 32 pages, original decorative wraps. An early American German-language manual of domestic and maternal instruction, Nützliches und sehr bewarht befundenes Weiber-Büchlein ("Useful and Well-Proven Little Book for Women") was printed in 1806 by Johann Baumann at Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and is believed to.....
Albany: Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1829. First Edition. Slim octavo, 84 pages, finely bound in full green leather, both boards ruled in gilt. All edges gilt, with gilt decoration along the fore edges of the boards, gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Obituary Notices of the Rev. John Chester, D.D., Late.....
Lisboa: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 1945. First Edition, Limited Edition of 200 copies, of which this is number 4. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Also, with a signed inscription by the author on the half title page. Quarto, 63 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Laid in is a......
St. Louis: Eureka Publishing Company, 1876. First Edition. Octavo, 208 pages, paper wraps. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 additional black-and-white plates. Augustus C. Appler’s The Guerrillas of the West; or, The Life, Character and Daring Exploits of the Younger Brothers is a scarce and sensational 1876 account of the Younger.....
London: Robert Triphook and Thomas Rodd, 1822. First Edition Thus. First Thomas Taylor translation. Octavo, xxiv, 400 pages, rebound in red buckram with gilt-lettered spine label and new endpapers. This copy is without the final “Passages Suppressed” leaves, if called for. Thomas Taylor’s 1822 translation of The Metamorphosis; or, Golden.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. First Edition Thus. Presentation copy, out of series. One of 15 presentation copies, this example marked “G.M.” rather than numbered, likely for George Macy, founder of the Limited Editions Club; signed by the illustrator René ben Sussan on the colophon. Quarto, xv, 317.....
New York: Antonio Barili, 1867. First Edition. Quarto, 253, [1] pages, original full black leather with ornate gilt lettering and decoration. All edges gilt. Antonio Barili’s Vocal Album for 1868 is a scarce and substantial nineteenth-century vocal music collection by Antonio Barili, an Italian-born composer, conductor, and singing teacher active.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1957. First Edition. Octavo, viii, 128 pages plus 4 maps, publisher's original dust jacket. Publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Saburi O. Biobaku’s important study of the Egba people of Yorubaland and the rise of Abeokuta as a major nineteenth-century West African center. Covering.....
Honolulu, Hawaii: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo, 95 pages, publisher's original tapa-cloth covered boards. Signed and inscribed by both Duke Kahanamoku and Sam Kahanamoku, each dated April 21, 1936. Sam Kahanamoku’s inscription appears on the inside of the front board, while Duke Kahanamoku’s signature is placed.....
London: The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited, 1889. First Edition. Small quarto, xii, 310, ii, xiv pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth covered boards. The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky is one of the foundational texts of modern Theosophy and Western esotericism, presenting the ethics, science, philosophy.....
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1890. First Edition. Two small slim quartos, 64; 47 pages, bound in quarter leather over pebbled boards. Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society: Discussions on the Stanzas of the First Volume of The Secret Doctrine is an important early Theosophical publication preserving.....
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1932. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 178 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Bella Bella Tales, edited by Franz Boas and issued as Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. 25, is an important 1932 contribution to Native American folklore, anthropology, and Northwest.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First American Edition. First English-language Edition. Folio, xvi, xxviii, 470 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated red cloth covered boards. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout in black-and-white. France Under Louis XIV (Le Grand Siècle): Its Arts and Ideas is an illustrated study of 17th-century France.....
London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1906. First Edtiion. Tall octavo, xxxiv, 767 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. A personal archive comprising an author-inscribed copy of Indian Trees (1906), the privately printed leaflet A Walk Through Kew Gardens in April (1900), and two contemporary Elliott & Fry.....
Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1796. First American Edition. 12mo, viii, [1], 10–348 pages, bound in period full leather with spine label. John Brown’s The Christian Journal; or, Common Incidents, Spiritual Instructors is a late 18th-century devotional work arranged as a series of meditations on ordinary scenes and recurring rhythms of life.....
Boston: Holman Brothers, 1885. First Edition. Octavo, iv, 212, 194, 94 pages, publisher's original gilt decorated red cloth covered boards. First edition of Joseph Rodes Buchanan’s major work on psychometry, psychic perception, and 19th-century occult science. Buchanan, an American physician, reformer, and early theorist of psychical faculties, coined and popularized.....
London: John Murray, 1830. First Edition Thus. Octavo, civ, 411 pages, bound in full red crushed morocco with gilt embellishments, signed by the binder, “Bayntun Binder Bath Eng,” with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, and gilt dentelles. Illustrated with three hand-colored copper-engraved plates, including the portrait frontispiece, and numerous black-and-white.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. First Edition. Limited Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, of which this is number 86. Signed by the illustrator Valenti Angelo on the limitation page. Six octavo volumes, each in the publisher's original quarter leather binding with blind-stamped spine decoration over decorative boards, housed.....