First edition, first state (no ad on back wrapper). Includes such works as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, The Undertaker’s Chat, and ten other stories. The upper wrapper, featuring an illustration of the Jumping Frog seated beneath a......
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A rare salesman’s dummy for the best-selling of Twain’s books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber’s forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.
The personal narrative of a British-American sailor who was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned by the French during the ongoing Peninsular War. Stephen Clubb—born in England and not yet a naturalized citizen of the U.S.—was serving as second mate on the American ship Hyades when he was arrested by the.....
First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who—“Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of.....
First edition of Coburn’s second volume of portraits of eminent men of the early twentieth century. Among the subjects included are Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Anatole France, Augustus John, Georges Clemenceau, and Coburn himself. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton.....
First American edition. An appealing copy of Conrad’s 2nd book, inspired by his experience as mate of the steamer Vidar. Appleton’s Town and Country Library series, No. 198. REFERENCES: Keating 6; Cagle A2(b)2. CONDITION: Very good, with early ownership inscription in ink at head of chapter one.
An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre.....
A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
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An intact and appealing sammelband of eleven pamphlets including two orations by army officer, congressman, and secretary of war Henry Dearborn, of Gardiner, Maine, as well as an interesting pamphlet on the Louisiana Purchase. This sammelband was evidently compiled by Dearborn’s son-in-law Joshua Wingate, who served under Dearborn: three presentation.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....
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Ticknor and Fields published a series of extracts of Dickens’s works, as edited and read by the author on his 1867–1868 tour of America. Included in this volume are A Christmas Carol; Bardell and Pickwick; Doctor Marigold; Bardell and Pickwick [duplicate]; Nicholas Nickleby; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; David Copperfield;.....
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First Swedish edition of Douglass’s last book, exemplifying the author’s abiding international reputation long after the fight to end slavery in America had ended. It concludes with chapters mainly devoted to his role as Consul General to Haiti, and records his death on February 20, 1895, the year this edition.....
First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
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A pair of African shipwreck/captivity narratives, both published as part of no. 3, vol. II of the publisher's [New] Voyages and Travels (1819–1823), but also sometimes found as separate pamphlets or bound together, as here. “Dumont was wrecked in Oct. 1782, on the coast between Oran and Algiers. He was captured.....
A scarce jail cell catalogue by one of the world’s largest wire and iron works manufacturers. Established 1866, E. T. Barnum Wire and Iron Works of Detroit custom-made cells and cages in various sizes and numbers to meet a wide range of needs. This catalogue announces: “we make a......
Second edition of this important regimental history, first published in 1891, revised and corrected, with an appendix on the treatment of African American POWs. An account of the first regiment consisting entirely of free black volunteers from the North, and the most renowned of the African American units to fight.....
First edition. "A protest against the careless destruction of England’s forests to fuel the furnaces of the glass and iron industries. The work was influential in establishing a much-needed programme of reforestation that had a lasting effect on the British economy. This was the first official publication of the newly.....
A delightful 1884 travel guide that includes chapters on Greenville, Mt Kineo, The Ascent of Mount Katahdin, Camping Out Advice, Game and Fish Laws, Lists of Hotels, Rail and Steamboat Routes, Table of Fares and more. The fine fold-out map by M. M.Tidd, dated 1884, is entitled Farrar’s Map of.....
The scarce autobiography of the first African American to graduate from West Point, primarily chronicling his four years there, with the ownership inscription of Otelia Cromwell, the first black woman to graduate from Smith College and the daughter of early civil rights activist John Wesley Cromwell, as well as the.....
Third and best edition. "One of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form "--Streeter. The first and second editions were published in 1848, and included only a small woodcut map. Included here is a larger folding map entitled “Map of the United States Mexico &c Showing.....
First edition. A work of didactic fiction chronicling the demise of a young atheist. It was evidently popular. Wright records four editions. Mary Anna Fox's only other recorded work is The Discontented Robins (1842). OCLC records eight copies. REFERENCES: Wright 999. CONDITION: Very good, early ownership inscription dated.....
Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter “K.” With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed.....
Archaeologist William Gell’s marvelous volume of hand-colored etchings and aquatints depicting “that part of the Troad, which is more particularly connected with the Iliad of Homer.” The introduction includes Gell’s account of his journey, and is followed by the plates and maps, each of which is accompanied by descriptive text.....
A powerful account of William Wilberforce’s introduction of the motion to immediately abolish the English slave trade in the British House of Commons, and a response to objections and counter-proposals, including “gradual abolition.” English Anglican priest, poet, and natural philosopher Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846) was a central figure in the.....
The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of “Graham bread,” known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and.....