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 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...
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....