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....
![[PUBLISHER’S PROSPECTUS / CANVASSING BOOK]. The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress; Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City’s Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author. Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain.](/pictures/thumb/3183.jpg?v=1525293630)
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 1596 edition of this work first published by Sessa in 1564. An important, early critical edition of the Divine Comedy, edited by Francesco Sansovino (1521–1583) who brought together in this volume the commentary of Christopher Landino, first published in Florence, 1481, with that of Alessandro Vellutello, published by Francesco...
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...
First edition, first issue of one of the greatest novels in American literature. With all first issue points, as follows: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "it's" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29; "sick in tired" on p. 205...
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...
A pamphlet printing of Victor Hugo’s impassioned letter on behalf of John Brown, accompanied by two letters of remonstrance by the American writer Ann S. Stephens, one addressed to the editors of the New York Express and the other to Hugo himself. Originally sent to the London Star, Hugo’s letter...
First American edition of Melville’s third book. His first two books, Typee and Omoo, were a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by his experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Mardi, on the other hand, marks Melville’s first wholesale excursion into fiction, following the protagonist, Taji, as he...
Large paper edition, signed by Milne and Shepard, limited to 250 copies, this copy being number 222. CONDITION: A very good copy with many uncut pages, lacking the original glassine, but retaining the original box; with recent repairs to the box including the replacement of the side panel of...
First edition of Reed’s first book. One of 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the flyleaf: “To darling Alice with the profoundest respect of the unworthy Author John Reed Jan. 12, 1916.” CONDITION: Very good, old pencil inscription on terminal endpaper.
![The Holy Bible : Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues [and with a Preface] (by Julia E. Smith). Julia Smith.](/pictures/thumb/3068_1.jpg?v=1426695165)
The first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (1792-1886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850’s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of woman’s rights by demonstrating what a woman might accomplish. However...
Handsomely bound edition of selected letters from Stevenson’s Student Days at Edinburgh, Life in Bournemouth, Winter in the Adirondacks, Pacific Voyages, Life in Samoa, etc. Edited by Stevenson’s friend, literary critic and print curator Sidney Colvin. CONDITION: Very good, some leaves slightly toned at edges, vol. 1 lacking tissue...
First edition of what was to be Chapter 48 of Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. One of 250 copies, this copy number 208. The publisher, Osgood & Co. of Boston, concluded that Twain’s views on “southern political slavery” might offend the southern book buyer, and the chapter was expunged...
First edition of the first book published by Random House, designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One of 1470 copies printed on French rag paper with hand set type, signed by Kent in the colophon. Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, publishers of the Modern Library series, chose Voltaire’s...
Editon limited to twenty-six lettered copies signed in pencil by the printer and the photographer, this copy letter B. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, with his label affixed to the lower left corner of the rear paste-down. Consider the Lobster, a favorite essay among Wallace devotees, first...
Limited to forty numbered copies; this copy number 5. With thirty-two superb etchings, beautifully complimenting Woolf’s essay on the fragility of life. In a lovely binding and tray case by Claudia Cohen. From the colophon: “Lepidoptera is a collection of moths largely found in the Northwestern United States, though a....